Justine 淑女的眼泪 Chapter 49

"Oh, Monsieur," I said to him, "to what limits you do carry your villainy!", ,"To the ultimate periods," Roland answered; "there is not a single extravagance in the world in which I have not indulged, not a crime I have not committed, and not one that my doctrines ² do not excuse or legitimate ³; unceasingly, I have found in evil a kind of attractiveness which always redounds ⁴ to my lust's advantage; crime ignites my appetites; the more frightful ⁵ it is, the more it stimulates ⁶; in committing it, I enjoy the same sort of pleasure ordinary folk taste in naught ⁷ but lubricity, and a hundred times I have discovered myself, while thinking of crime, while surrendering to it, or just after having executed it, in precisely ⁸ the same state in which one is when confronted by a beautiful naked woman; it irritates my senses in the same way, and I have committed it in order to arouse myself as, when one is filled with impudicious designs, one approaches a beautiful object.", ,"Oh, Monsieur! 'tis frightful, what you say, but I have beheld ⁹ examples of it.", , ,These words gone out of his mouth, Roland went away and left me to ponder thoughts which, as you may well believe, presented him in no favorable aspect., ,I had been six months in this household, from time to time serving the villain ¹'s disgraceful debauches, when one night I beheld him enter my prison with Suzanne., ,The man who played the villain acted very well.扮演恶棍的那个男演员演得很好。,To modern eyes, such doctrines appear harsh, even cruel. 从现代的角度看，这样的教义显得苛刻 ，甚至残酷 。 来自《简明英汉词典》