Mercy for Leopold and Loeb -- Clarence Seward Darrow

Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the war.

现在，法官大人，我已经谈到了战争。

I believed in it.

我相信它。

I don�t know whether I was crazy or not.

我不知道我是否疯了。

Sometimes I think perhaps I was.

有时我想也许我是。

I approved of it; I joined in the general cry of madness and despair.

我同意了；我加入了疯狂和绝望的普遍呼喊。

I urged men to fight.

我敦促人们去战斗。

I was safe because I was too old to go.

我很安全，因为我太老了，不能去。

I was like the rest.

我和其他人一样。

What did they do?

他们做了什么？

Right or wrong, justifiable or unjustifiable -- which I need not discuss today -- it changed the world.

对或错，合理或不合理——我今天不需要讨论——它改变了世界。

For four long years the civilized world was engaged in killing men.

在漫长的四年里，文明世界一直在杀人。

Christian against Christian, barbarian uniting with Christians to kill Christians; anything to kill.

基督徒对抗基督徒，野蛮人联合基督徒杀害基督徒；任何可以杀死的东西。

It was taught in every school, aye in the Sunday schools.

每所学校都教授它，是的，主日学校也是如此。

The little children played at war.

小孩子们在打仗。

The toddling children on the street.

街上蹒跚学步的孩子们。

Do you suppose this world has ever been the same since?

你认为这个世界从那时起就一直是一样的吗？

How long, your Honor, will it take for the world to get back the humane emotions that were slowly growing before the war?

法官大人，世界需要多长时间才能恢复战前缓慢增长的人道情感？

How long will it take the calloused hearts of men before the scars of hatred and cruelty shall be removed?

人们冷酷无情的心灵需要多久才能消除仇恨和残酷的伤痕？

We read of killing one hundred thousand men in a day.

我们读到一天杀死十万人。

We read about it and we rejoiced in it -- if it was the other fellows who were killed.

我们读到了这件事，并为此感到高兴——如果是其他人被杀的话。

We were fed on flesh and drank blood.

我们吃的是肉，喝的是血。

Even down to the prattling babe.

甚至到那个喋喋不休的宝贝。

I need not tell you how many upright, honorable young boys have come into this court charged with murder, some saved and some sent to their death, boys who fought in this war and learned to place a cheap value on human life.

我不需要告诉你有多少正直、可敬的年轻男孩被指控犯有谋杀罪进入这个法庭，有些被拯救，有些被送去死亡，这些男孩在这场战争中战斗并学会了对人的生命给予廉价的重视。

You know it and I know it.

你知道，我也知道。

These boys were brought up in it.

这些男孩就是在其中长大的。

The tales of death were in their homes, their playgrounds, their schools; they were in the newspapers that they read; it was a part of the common frenzy -- what was a life?

死亡的故事存在于他们的家中、操场上、学校里；他们出现在他们读的报纸上；这是普遍狂热的一部分——什么是生活？

It was nothing.

没什么。

It was the least sacred thing in existence and these boys were trained to this cruelty.

这是世上最不神圣的事情，而这些男孩就被训练得如此残忍。

It will take fifty years to wipe it out of the human heart, if ever.

如果有的话，也需要五十年的时间才能将其从人心中抹去。

I know this, that after the Civil War in 1865, crimes of this sort increased, marvelously.

我知道，1865 年内战之后，此类犯罪数量惊人地增加。

No one needs to tell me that crime has no cause.

没有人需要告诉我犯罪是没有原因的。

It has as definite a cause as any other disease, and I know that out of the hatred and bitterness of the Civil War crime increased as America had never seen before.

它和任何其他疾病一样有明确的病因，而且我知道，由于内战的仇恨和痛苦，犯罪增加了美国以前从未见过的情况。

I know that Europe is going through the same experience today; I know it has followed every war; and I know it has influenced these boys so that life was not the same to them as it would have been if the world had not made red with blood.

我知道欧洲今天正在经历同样的经历；我知道每次战争都会发生这种情况；我知道这影响了这些男孩，他们的生活与如果世界没有被鲜血染红的话会有所不同。

I protest against the crimes and mistakes of society being visited upon them.

我抗议社会对他们犯下的罪行和错误。

All of us have a share in it.

我们所有人都有份。

I have mine.

我有我的。

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

我无法说出，也永远不会知道，我的言语中有多少可能会产生残酷，而不是爱、仁慈和慈善。

Your Honor knows that in this very court crimes of violence have increased growing out of the war.

法官大人知道，在这个法庭上，暴力犯罪因战争而不断增加。

Not necessarily by those who fought but by those that learned that blood was cheap, and human life was cheap, and if the State could take it lightly why not the boy?

不一定是那些参加战斗的人，而是那些知道血液是廉价的，人的生命是廉价的，如果国家可以掉以轻心，为什么不能是这个男孩呢？

There are causes for this terrible crime.

这种可怕的犯罪是有原因的。

There are causes as I have said for everything that happens in the world.

正如我所说，世界上发生的一切都是有原因的。

War is a part of it; education is a part of it; birth is a part of it; money is a part of it -- all these conspired to compass the destruction of these two poor boys.

战争是其中的一部分；教育是其中的一部分；出生是其中的一部分；金钱是其中的一部分——所有这些都共同导致了这两个可怜男孩的毁灭。

Has the court any right to consider anything but these two boys?

除了这两个男孩之外，法庭还有权利考虑其他事情吗？

The State says that your Honor has a right to consider the welfare of the community, as you have.

国家表示，法官大人有权像您一样考虑社区的福祉。

If the welfare of the community would be benefited by taking these lives, well and good.

如果夺取这些生命能够造福社会，那就太好了。

I think it would work evil that no one could measure.

我认为这会带来无人能估量的邪恶。

Has your Honor a right to consider the families of these defendants?

法官大人有权考虑这些被告的家属吗？

I have been sorry, and I am sorry for the bereavement of Mr. And Mrs. Frank, for those broken ties that cannot be healed.

我一直很抱歉，对于弗兰克先生和夫人的丧亲之痛，对于那些无法愈合的破裂关系，我感到抱歉。

All I can hope and wish is that some good may come from it all.

我所能希望和希望的是，这一切可能会带来一些好处。

But as compared with the families of Leopold and Loeb, the Franks are to be envied -- and everyone knows it.

但与利奥波德和勒布家族相比，法兰克家族令人羡慕——这是每个人都知道的。

I do not know how much salvage there is in these two boys.

不知道这两个小伙子还有多少挽救的余地。

I hate to say it in their presence, but what is there to look forward to?

我不想当着他们的面说这些，但是有什么值得期待的呢？

I do not know but what your Honor would be merciful to them, but not merciful to civilization, and not merciful if you tied a rope around their necks and let them die; merciful to them, but not merciful to civilization, and not merciful to those who would be left behind.

我不知道法官大人会对他们仁慈，但对文明不仁慈，如果你把绳子套在他们的脖子上让他们死，那就不仁慈了；对他们仁慈，但对文明不仁慈，对那些将被抛在后面的人也不仁慈。

To spend the balance of their days in prison is mighty little to look forward to, if anything.

如果有的话，在监狱里度过余下的日子是非常不值得期待的。

Is it anything?

有什么吗？

They may have the hope that as the years roll around they might be released.

他们可能希望随着岁月的流逝，他们可能会被释放。

I do not know.

我不知道。

I do not know.

我不知道。

I will be honest with this court as I have tried to be from the beginning.

我将从一开始就努力对法庭诚实。

I know that these boys are not fit to be at large.

我知道这些男孩不适合逍遥法外。

I believe they will not be until they pass through the next stage of life, at forty-five or fifty.

我相信，直到他们进入人生的下一个阶段，即四十五岁或五十岁时，他们才会成为这样的人。

Whether they will then, I cannot tell.

到那时他们是否会这样做，我不知道。

I am sure of this; that I will not be here to help them.

我确信这一点；我不会在这里帮助他们。

So far as I am concerned, it is over.

就我而言，一切都结束了。

I would not tell this court that I do not hope that some time, when life and age have changed their bodies, as they do, and have changed their emotions, as they do -- that they may once more return to life.

我不会告诉法庭，我不希望有一天，当生活和年龄像他们一样改变他们的身体，像他们一样改变他们的情感时，他们可能会再次回归生活。

I would be the last person on earth to close the door of hope to any human being that lives, and least of all to my clients.

我将是地球上最后一个对任何活着的人关闭希望之门的人，尤其是对我的客户。

But what have they to look forward to?

但他们还有什么可期待的呢？

Nothing.

没有什么。

And I think here of the stanza of Housman:

我想到了豪斯曼的诗节：

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.

现在，空心的火焰烧成黑色，灯光低垂：挺起你的肩膀，背起你的背包，离开你的朋友，走吧。

O never fear, lads, naught�s to dread,

噢，别害怕，小伙子们，没什么可害怕的，

Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There�s nothing but the night.

不要向左或向右看：在你走过的所有无尽的道路上除了黑夜什么也没有。

I care not, your Honor, whether the march begins at the gallows or when the gates of Joilet close upon them, there is nothing but the night, and that is little for any human being to expect.

法官大人，我不在乎行军是从绞刑架开始，还是从乔伊莱特的大门关闭时开始，除了黑夜什么也没有，而这对任何人来说都是微乎其微的。

But there are others to consider.

但还有其他因素需要考虑。

Here are these two families, who have led honest lives, who will bear the name that they bear, and future generations must carry it on.

这两个家庭过着诚实的生活，他们将继承他们的名字，子孙后代必须将其传承下去。

Here it Leopold�s father -- and this boy was the pride of his life.

这是利奥波德的父亲——这个男孩是他一生的骄傲。

He watched him, he cared for him, he worked for him; the boy was brilliant and accomplished, he educated him, and he thought that fame and position awaited him, as it should have awaited.

他注视着他，关心着他，为他工作；这个男孩才华横溢，多才多艺，他教育了他，他认为名誉和地位正在等待着他，正如它应该等待的那样。

It is a hard thing for a father to see his life�s hopes crumble into dust.

对于一个父亲来说，眼睁睁地看着自己一生的希望化为泡影是一件很难受的事情。

Should he be considered?

应该考虑他吗？

Should his brothers be considered?

应该考虑他的兄弟吗？

Will it do society any good or make your life safer, or any human being�s life safer, if it should be handled down from generation to generation, that this boy, their kin, died upon the scaffold?

如果代代相传，这个男孩，他们的亲人，死在断头台上，这会对社会有什么好处，或者让你的生活更安全，或者任何人的生活更安全吗？

And Loeb�s the same.

勒布也是一样。

Here are the faithful uncle and brother, who have watched here day by day, while Dickie�s father and his mother are too ill to stand this terrific strain, and shall be waiting for a message which means more to them than it can mean to you or me.

这里是忠实的叔叔和兄弟，他们日复一日地守候在这里，而迪基的父亲和母亲病得太重，无法承受这种可怕的压力，他们将等待一条对他们来说比对你我更重要的消息。

Shall these be taken into account in this general bereavement?

在这种普遍的丧亲之痛中应该考虑到这些吗？

Have they any rights?

他们有权利吗？

Is there any reason, your Honor, why their proud names and all the future generations that bear them shall have this bar sinister written across them?

法官大人，有什么理由让他们骄傲的名字以及所有继承他们的子孙后代在他们身上写上这道邪恶的字条吗？

How many boys and girls, how many unborn children will feel it?

有多少男孩和女孩，有多少未出生的孩子会感受到它？

It is bad enough as it is, God knows.

天知道，事情已经够糟糕了。

It is bad enough, however it is.

不管怎样，这已经够糟糕了。

But it�s not yet death on the scaffold.

但这还不是断头台上的死亡。

It�s not that.

不是那样的。

And I ask your Honor, in addition to all that I have said to save two honorable families from a disgrace that never ends, and which could be of no avail to help any human being that lives.

除了我所说的一切之外，我还请求法官阁下将两个光荣的家庭从永无休止的耻辱中拯救出来，而这对任何活着的人来说都无济于事。

Now, I must say a word more and then I will leave this with you where I should have left it long ago.

现在，我必须再说一句话，然后我会把它留在我早就该放的地方。

None of us are unmindful of the public; courts are not, and juries are not.

我们没有人不关心公众；法院不是，陪审团也不是。

We placed our fate in the hands of a trained court, thinking that he would be more mindful and considerate than a jury.

我们把自己的命运交给了训练有素的法庭，认为他会比陪审团更细心、更体贴。

I cannot say how people feel.

我无法说出人们的感受。

I have stood here for three months as one might stand at the ocean trying to sweep back the tide.

我在这里站了三个月，就像站在海边试图卷走潮水一样。

I hope the seas are subsiding and the wind is falling, and I believe they are, but I wish to make no false pretense to this court.

我希望海平面正在消退，风正在减弱，我相信它们确实如此，但我不希望向法庭做出任何虚假的借口。

The easy thing and the popular thing to do is to hang my clients.

最简单也是最流行的事情就是绞死我的客户。

I know it.

我知道这。

Men and women who do not think will applaud.

不思考的男人和女人都会鼓掌。

The cruel and thoughtless will approve.

残酷和轻率的人会赞同。

It will be easy today; but in Chicago, and reaching out over the length and breadth of the land, more and more fathers and mothers, the humane, the kind and the hopeful, who are gaining an understanding and asking questions not only about these poor boys, but about their own -- these will join in no acclaim at the death of my clients.

今天会很容易；但在芝加哥，遍及全国各地，越来越多的父亲和母亲，人道的，善良的和充满希望的，他们正在获得理解，并提出问题，不仅是关于这些可怜的男孩，而且是关于他们自己的问题——他们不会在我的客户去世时加入欢呼。

These would ask that the shedding of blood be stopped, and that the normal feelings of man resume their sway.

这些人会要求停止流血，并恢复人类的正常感情。

And as the days and the months and the years go on, they will ask it more and more.

随着日复一日、月复一月、年复一年，他们会问得越来越多。

But, your Honor, what they shall ask may not count.

但是，法官大人，他们提出的要求可能不算数。

I know the easy way.

我知道简单的方法。

I know the future is with me, and what I stand for here; not merely for the lives of these two unfortunate lads, but for all boys and all girls; for all of the young, and as far as possible, for all of the old.

我知道未来就在我身边，也知道我在这里所代表的是什么；不仅为了这两个不幸的小伙子的生命，而且为了所有男孩和所有女孩；为所有年轻人，并尽可能为所有老年人。

I am pleading for life, understanding, charity, kindness, and the infinite mercy that considers all.

我祈求生命、理解、慈善、仁慈和考虑一切的无限仁慈。

I am pleading that we overcome cruelty with kindness and hatred with love.

我恳求我们用仁慈战胜残酷，用爱战胜仇恨。

I know the future is on my side.

我知道未来就在我这边。

Your Honor stands between the past and the future.

法官阁下站在过去与未来之间。

You may hang these boys; you may hang them by the neck until they are dead.

你可以绞死这些男孩；你可以掐住他们的脖子，直到他们死为止。

But in doing it you will turn your face toward the past.

但在这样做的过程中，你将把脸转向过去。

In doing it you are making it harder for every other boy who in ignorance and darkness must grope his way through the mazes which only childhood knows.

在这样做的过程中，你让其他每个男孩都变得更加困难，他们必须在无知和黑暗中摸索着穿过只有童年才知道的迷宫。

In doing it you will make it harder for unborn children.

这样做会让未出生的孩子变得更加困难。

You may save them and make it easier for every child that sometime may stand where these boys stand.

你可以拯救他们，让每个孩子更容易站到这些男孩站的地方。

You will make it easier for every human being with an aspiration and a vision and a hope and a fate.

你将使每个有抱负、有远见、有希望、有命运的人变得更容易。

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men.

我为未来祈求；我恳求有一天，仇恨和残忍将不再控制人们的心。

When we can learn by reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.

当我们能够通过理性、判断、理解和信仰了解到所有生命都值得拯救，并且怜悯是人类的最高属性时。

I feel that I should apologize for the length of time I have taken.

我觉得我应该为我花费的时间道歉。

This case may not be as important as I think it is, and I am sure I do not need to tell this court, or to tell my friends that I would fight just as hard for the poor as for the rich.

这个案子可能没有我想象的那么重要，我确信我不需要告诉法庭，或者告诉我的朋友，我会像为富人一样为穷人而奋斗。

If I should succeed, my greatest reward and my greatest hope will be that for the countless unfortunates who must tread the same road in blind childhood that these poor boys have trod -- that I have done something to help human understanding, to temper justice with mercy, to overcome hate with love.

如果我成功了，我最大的回报和最大的希望将是，对于无数不幸的人来说，他们必须在盲目的童年中走上这些可怜的男孩所走过的道路——我已经做了一些事情来帮助人类理解，以仁慈调和正义，以爱克服仇恨。

I was reading last night of the aspiration of the old Persian poet, Omar Khayyam.

昨晚我读到了波斯老诗人奥马尔·海亚姆的愿望。

It appealed to me as the highest that I can vision.

它对我来说是我所能想象到的最高境界。

I wish it was in my heart, and I wish it was in the hearts of all:

我希望它存在于我的心中，我希望它存在于所有人的心中：

So I be written in the Book of Love, I do not care about that Book above.

所以我就写在爱情之书里，我不在乎上面那本书。

Erase my name or write it as you will, So I be written in the Book of Love.

擦掉我的名字或者写下你想要的名字，这样我就会被写进爱之书。

Book/CDs by Michael E.

Michael E. 的书籍/CD

Eidenmuller, Published by McGraw-Hill (2008) Page Updated : 12/16/21 U.S. Copyright Status : Text & Image = Public domain.

Eidenmuller，由 McGraw-Hill 出版 (2008) 页面更新日期：21 年 12 月 16 日美国版权状态：文本和图像 = 公共领域。

� Copyright 2001-Present.

� 版权所有 2001 年至今。

American Rhetoric.

美国修辞学。

HTML transcription by Stephanie Worley.

HTML 转录由 Stephanie Worley 完成。