원서 읽기: Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground p.13-15

Such a gentleman simply dashes straight for his object like an infuriated bull with its horns down, and nothing but a wall will stop him.

-with 분사구문

-nothing but: only

-infuriated: enraged

 

By the way: facing the wall, such gentlemen—that is, the “direct” persons and men of action—are genuinely nonplussed. For them a wall is not an evasion, as for us people who think and consequently do nothing;

-nonplussed: puzzled, confused

-evasion: equivocation(얼버무리기)

-evade: 회피하다, 얼버무리다

 

No, they are nonplussed in all sincerity. The wall has for them something tranquillising, morally soothing, final—maybe even something mysterious … but of the wall later.

-tranquillising에서, tranquillize는 보통 진정제로 안정시키다는 뜻.

 

… the man of acute consciousness, who has come, of course, not out of the lap of nature but out of a retort …

-retort: answer, return, riposte. 말대꾸와 같은 대답

 

L'homme de la nature et de la verite: the man of nature and truth

 

The base and nasty desire to vent that spite on its assailant rankles perhaps even nastily in it than in l’homme de la nature et de la verite.

-assailant: 폭행범, 공격을 가한 사람

-rankle: 마음을 괴롭히다, 마음에 맺히다

*흔히 국어에서 '한이 맺히다'라는 말에 상응하는 영어 표현이 없다고들 한다. 어쩌면 rankle에 무엇인가를 덧대 그 정서를 표현해볼 수 있는가? 다른 예문이 보이면 적어둘 것. (rankle deeply...)

 

 

For through his innate stupidity, the latter looks upon his revenge as justice pure and simple;

-look on: ~을 구경하다

-look on ~ as …: ~을 …라고 보다

 

Apart from the one fundamental nastiness the luckless mouse succeeds in creating around it so many other nastinesses in the form of doubts and questions, adds to the one question so many unsettled questions that there inevitably works up around it a sort of fatal brew, a stinking mess, made up of its doubts, emotions, and of the contempt spat upon it by the direct men of action who stand solemnly about it as judges and arbitrators, laughing at it till their healthy sides ache.

-arbitrator: 중재자

 

Of course the only thing left for it to dismiss all that with a wave of its paw, and, with a smile of assumed contempt in which it does not even itself believe, creep ignominiously into its mouse-hold.

-paw: (동물)발, (비격식으로) 사람의 손

-ignominiously: dishonorable, shameful, infamous

 

There in its nasty, stinking, underground home our insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse promptly becomes absorbed in cold, malignant and, above all, everlasting spite.

-malignant: 1. 악성의(benigh) 2. 악의에 찬(malevolent)

 

Maybe it will begin to revenge itself, too, but, as it were, piecemeal, in trivial way, from behind the stove, incognito, without believing either in its own right to vengeance, or in the success of its revenge, knowing that from all its efforts at revenge it will suffer a hundred times more than he on whom it revenges itself, while he, I daresay, will not even scratch himself. On its deathbed it will recall it all over again, with interest accumulated over the years and …

-as it were: 말하자면, 이를테면

-piecemeal: 조금씩의 (약간 못마땅한 태도의 어조)

-incognito: covert; secret; nameless; disguised; undercover

-knowing 이하*

-revenge oneself on somebody: ~에게 복수하다. (revenge something의 형태로는 쓸 수 없다.)

-deathbed: 임종