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That opinion, which úrsula understood only some months later, was the only sincere one that Aureliano could express at that moment, not only with respect to marriage, but to anything that was not war.这句话的含义是乌苏娜几个月以后才理解的,不仅就结婚来说,而且就其他任何事情来说(只有战争除外),它都是奥雷连诺那时能够表达的唯一真实的见解。
He himself, facing a firing squad, would not understand too well the concatenation of the series of subtle but irrevocable accidents that brought him to that point. The death of Remedios had not produced the despair that he had feared. It was, rather, a dull feeling of rage that grades ally dissolved in a solitary and passive frustration similar to the one he had felt during the time he was resigned to living without a woman. He plunged into his work again, but he kept up the custom of playing dominoes with his father-in-law. In a house bound up in mourning, the nightly conversations consolidated the friendship between the two men. "Get married again. Aurelito," his father-in-law would tell him. "I have six daughters for you to choose from." On one occasion on the eve of the elections, Don Apolinar Moscote returned from one of his frequent trips worried about the political situation in the country. The Liberals were determined to go to war. Since Aureliano at that time had very confused notions about the difference between Conservatives and Liberals, his father-in-law gave him some schematic lessons. The Liberals, he said, were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests, to institute civil marriage and divorce, to recognize the rights of illegitimate children as equal to those of legitimate ones, and to cut the country up into a federal system that would take power away from the supreme authority. The Conservatives, on the other hand, who had received their power directly from God, proposed the establishment of public order and family morality. They were the defenders of the faith of Christ, of the principle of authority, and were not prepared to permit the country to be broken down into autonomous entities. Because of his humanitarian feelings Aureliano sympathized with the Liberal attitude with respect to the rights of natural children, but in any case, he could not understand how people arrived at the extreme of waging war over things that could not be touched with the hand. It seemed an exaggeration to him that for the elections his father-in--law had them send six soldiers armed with rifles under the command of a sergeant to a town with no political passions. They not only arrived, but they went from house to house confiscating hunting weapons, machetes, and even kitchen knives before they distributed among males over twenty-one the blue ballots with the names of the Conservative candidates and the red ballots with the names of the Liberal candidates. On the eve of the elections Don Apolinar Moscote himself read a decree that prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages and the gathering together of more than three people who were not of the same family. The elections took place without incident. At eight o'clock on Sunday morning a wooden ballot box was set up in the square, which was watched over by the six soldiers. The voting was absolutely free, as Aureliano himself was able to attest since he spent almost the entire day with his father-in-law seeing that no one voted more than once. At four in the afternoon a roll of drums in the square announced the closing of the polls and Don Apolinar Moscote sealed the ballot box with a label crossed by his signature. That night, while he played dominoes with Aureliano, he ordered the sergeant to break the seal in order to count the votes. There were almost as many red ballots as blue, but the sergeant left only ten red ones and made up the difference with blue ones. Then they sealed the box again with a new label and the first thing on the following day it was taken to the capital of the province. "The Liberals will go to war," Aureliano said. Don Apolinar concentrated on his domino pieces. "If you're saying that because of the switch in ballots, they won't," he said. "We left a few red ones in so there won't be any complaints." Aureliano understood the disadvantages of being in the opposition. "If I were a Liberal," he said, "I'd go to war because of those ballots." His father-in-law looked at him over his glasses.站在行刑队面前的时候,他自己也不大明白,一连串不可捉摸的、难以避免的偶然事件如何使他到了这个地步。雷麦黛丝之死使他受到的震动,比他担心的事情还小一些。她的死在他心中引起的狂乱感觉,逐渐溶化成了孤独的、消极的失望感,就象他决定不再跟女人来往时的那种感觉,他一头扎进工作,但是保持了跟岳父玩多米诺骨牌的习惯。在这座充满哀悼气氛的房子里,夜间的交谈增强了两个男人的感情。“再结婚吧,奥雷连诺!”岳父向他说。“我还有六个女儿,任你挑选一个。”有一次,在选举之前不久,马孔多镇长公务旅行回来,对国内的政治局势非常忧虑。自由党人准备发动战争。由于当时奥雷连诺时保守党人和自由党人的观念十分模糊,岳父就向他简单地说明了两党之间的区别。他说,自由党人是共济会会员,是坏人,他们主张绞死教土,实行自由的结婚和离婚,承认婚生子和非婚生子的平等权利,并且打算推翻最高政权,把国家分割开来,实行联邦制。相反地,保守党人直接从上帝那儿接受权力,维护稳定的社会秩序和家庭道德,保护基督——政权的基础,不容许国家分崩离析。奥雷连诺出于人道主义精神,同情自由党人有关非婚生子权利的主张,但他不明白的是,由于双手都摸不到的东西,为什么需要走上极端、发动战争。他觉得岳父过于热心了,因为选举期间,在这毫无政治热情的市镇上,他的岳父竟调来了一个军士率领的六名带枪的士兵。士兵们到了这儿,就挨家挨户没收猎枪、砍刀、甚至菜刀,然后向二十一岁以上的男人分发选票:写有保守党候选人姓名的蓝票和写有自由党候选人姓名的红票。选举前一天——星期六,阿·摩斯柯特先生亲自宣读了一项命令:从午夜起,在四十八小时内,禁止出售酒类,如果不是一家人,还禁止三人以上聚在一起。选举之前没有发生事故。星期天上午八时,广场上安了个木制的投票箱,由六名士兵守卫。投票是绝对自由的,奥雷连诺自己就相信这一点,因为他几乎整天站在岳父身边,没有看见任何人多投一次票。午后四时,咚咚的鼓声宣布投票结束,阿·摩斯柯特先生给投票箱贴上了他署名的封条。晚上,跟奥雷连诺玩多米诺骨牌时,他命令军士撕去封条,统计选票。红票跟蓝票几乎相等,可是军士只留下十张红票,加多了蓝票。然后,他们给选票箱贴上新的封条,第二天拂晓,就把它送到省城去了。“自由党人就要发动战争啦,”奥雷连诺说。阿·摩斯柯特先生甚至没从自己的筹码上拍起眼来。“如果你以为原因是偷换选票,那就不会发生战争,”他说。“因为选票箱里留下了一些红票,他们就无从抱怨了。”奥雷连诺明白反对党的处境是不利的。“如果我是自由党人,”他说,“我就会由于这种选票的把戏发动战争”岳父从眼镜上方瞥了他一眼。
"Come now, Aurelito," he said, "if you were a Liberal, even though you're my son-in-law, you wouldn't have seen the switching of the ballots."“哎,奥雷连诺,”他说,“如果你是自由党人,你就看不到掉换选票的事了,即使你是我的女婿。”
What really caused indignation in the town was. not the results of the elections but the fact that the soldiers had not returned the weapons. A group of women spoke with Aureliano so that he could obtain the return of their kitchen knives from his father-in-law. Don Apolinar Moscote explained to him, in strictest confidence, that the soldiers had taken the weapons off as proof that the Liberals were preparing for war. The cynicism of the remark alarmed him. He said nothing, but on a certain night when Gerineldo Márquez and Magnífico Visbal were speaking with some other friends about the incident of the knives, they asked him if he was a Liberal or a Conservative. Aureliano did not hesitate.引起全镇愤怒的不是选举结果,而是士兵们拒绝归还收走的刀子和猎枪。妇女们请求奥雷连诺向岳父说说情,哪怕把菜刀还给她们也成。阿·摩斯柯特先生十分机密地向他说,士兵们已经运走了没收的武器,拿去当作自由党人准备打仗的物证。这种说法的可耻使奥雷连诺吃了一惊。他没吭声,可是有一天晚上,格林列尔多·马克斯和马格尼菲柯·维斯巴尔跟其他几个朋友谈论菜刀的事情时,问他是自由党人还是保守党人,他一分钟也没犹豫。
"If I have to be something I'll be a Liberal," he said, "because the Conservatives are tricky."“如果非要是个什么人不可,那我宁愿做一个自由党人,因为保守党人是骗子。”

That opinion, which úrsula understood only some months later, was the only sincere one that Aureliano could express at that moment, not only with respect to marriage, but to anything that was not war.
He himself, facing a firing squad, would not understand too well the concatenation of the series of subtle but irrevocable accidents that brought him to that point. The death of Remedios had not produced the despair that he had feared. It was, rather, a dull feeling of rage that grades ally dissolved in a solitary and passive frustration similar to the one he had felt during the time he was resigned to living without a woman. He plunged into his work again, but he kept up the custom of playing dominoes with his father-in-law. In a house bound up in mourning, the nightly conversations consolidated the friendship between the two men. "Get married again. Aurelito," his father-in-law would tell him. "I have six daughters for you to choose from." On one occasion on the eve of the elections, Don Apolinar Moscote returned from one of his frequent trips worried about the political situation in the country. The Liberals were determined to go to war. Since Aureliano at that time had very confused notions about the difference between Conservatives and Liberals, his father-in-law gave him some schematic lessons. The Liberals, he said, were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests, to institute civil marriage and divorce, to recognize the rights of illegitimate children as equal to those of legitimate ones, and to cut the country up into a federal system that would take power away from the supreme authority. The Conservatives, on the other hand, who had received their power directly from God, proposed the establishment of public order and family morality. They were the defenders of the faith of Christ, of the principle of authority, and were not prepared to permit the country to be broken down into autonomous entities. Because of his humanitarian feelings Aureliano sympathized with the Liberal attitude with respect to the rights of natural children, but in any case, he could not understand how people arrived at the extreme of waging war over things that could not be touched with the hand. It seemed an exaggeration to him that for the elections his father-in--law had them send six soldiers armed with rifles under the command of a sergeant to a town with no political passions. They not only arrived, but they went from house to house confiscating hunting weapons, machetes, and even kitchen knives before they distributed among males over twenty-one the blue ballots with the names of the Conservative candidates and the red ballots with the names of the Liberal candidates. On the eve of the elections Don Apolinar Moscote himself read a decree that prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages and the gathering together of more than three people who were not of the same family. The elections took place without incident. At eight o'clock on Sunday morning a wooden ballot box was set up in the square, which was watched over by the six soldiers. The voting was absolutely free, as Aureliano himself was able to attest since he spent almost the entire day with his father-in-law seeing that no one voted more than once. At four in the afternoon a roll of drums in the square announced the closing of the polls and Don Apolinar Moscote sealed the ballot box with a label crossed by his signature. That night, while he played dominoes with Aureliano, he ordered the sergeant to break the seal in order to count the votes. There were almost as many red ballots as blue, but the sergeant left only ten red ones and made up the difference with blue ones. Then they sealed the box again with a new label and the first thing on the following day it was taken to the capital of the province. "The Liberals will go to war," Aureliano said. Don Apolinar concentrated on his domino pieces. "If you're saying that because of the switch in ballots, they won't," he said. "We left a few red ones in so there won't be any complaints." Aureliano understood the disadvantages of being in the opposition. "If I were a Liberal," he said, "I'd go to war because of those ballots." His father-in-law looked at him over his glasses.
"Come now, Aurelito," he said, "if you were a Liberal, even though you're my son-in-law, you wouldn't have seen the switching of the ballots."
What really caused indignation in the town was. not the results of the elections but the fact that the soldiers had not returned the weapons. A group of women spoke with Aureliano so that he could obtain the return of their kitchen knives from his father-in-law. Don Apolinar Moscote explained to him, in strictest confidence, that the soldiers had taken the weapons off as proof that the Liberals were preparing for war. The cynicism of the remark alarmed him. He said nothing, but on a certain night when Gerineldo Márquez and Magnífico Visbal were speaking with some other friends about the incident of the knives, they asked him if he was a Liberal or a Conservative. Aureliano did not hesitate.
"If I have to be something I'll be a Liberal," he said, "because the Conservatives are tricky."


这句话的含义是乌苏娜几个月以后才理解的,不仅就结婚来说,而且就其他任何事情来说(只有战争除外),它都是奥雷连诺那时能够表达的唯一真实的见解。
站在行刑队面前的时候,他自己也不大明白,一连串不可捉摸的、难以避免的偶然事件如何使他到了这个地步。雷麦黛丝之死使他受到的震动,比他担心的事情还小一些。她的死在他心中引起的狂乱感觉,逐渐溶化成了孤独的、消极的失望感,就象他决定不再跟女人来往时的那种感觉,他一头扎进工作,但是保持了跟岳父玩多米诺骨牌的习惯。在这座充满哀悼气氛的房子里,夜间的交谈增强了两个男人的感情。“再结婚吧,奥雷连诺!”岳父向他说。“我还有六个女儿,任你挑选一个。”有一次,在选举之前不久,马孔多镇长公务旅行回来,对国内的政治局势非常忧虑。自由党人准备发动战争。由于当时奥雷连诺时保守党人和自由党人的观念十分模糊,岳父就向他简单地说明了两党之间的区别。他说,自由党人是共济会会员,是坏人,他们主张绞死教土,实行自由的结婚和离婚,承认婚生子和非婚生子的平等权利,并且打算推翻最高政权,把国家分割开来,实行联邦制。相反地,保守党人直接从上帝那儿接受权力,维护稳定的社会秩序和家庭道德,保护基督——政权的基础,不容许国家分崩离析。奥雷连诺出于人道主义精神,同情自由党人有关非婚生子权利的主张,但他不明白的是,由于双手都摸不到的东西,为什么需要走上极端、发动战争。他觉得岳父过于热心了,因为选举期间,在这毫无政治热情的市镇上,他的岳父竟调来了一个军士率领的六名带枪的士兵。士兵们到了这儿,就挨家挨户没收猎枪、砍刀、甚至菜刀,然后向二十一岁以上的男人分发选票:写有保守党候选人姓名的蓝票和写有自由党候选人姓名的红票。选举前一天——星期六,阿·摩斯柯特先生亲自宣读了一项命令:从午夜起,在四十八小时内,禁止出售酒类,如果不是一家人,还禁止三人以上聚在一起。选举之前没有发生事故。星期天上午八时,广场上安了个木制的投票箱,由六名士兵守卫。投票是绝对自由的,奥雷连诺自己就相信这一点,因为他几乎整天站在岳父身边,没有看见任何人多投一次票。午后四时,咚咚的鼓声宣布投票结束,阿·摩斯柯特先生给投票箱贴上了他署名的封条。晚上,跟奥雷连诺玩多米诺骨牌时,他命令军士撕去封条,统计选票。红票跟蓝票几乎相等,可是军士只留下十张红票,加多了蓝票。然后,他们给选票箱贴上新的封条,第二天拂晓,就把它送到省城去了。“自由党人就要发动战争啦,”奥雷连诺说。阿·摩斯柯特先生甚至没从自己的筹码上拍起眼来。“如果你以为原因是偷换选票,那就不会发生战争,”他说。“因为选票箱里留下了一些红票,他们就无从抱怨了。”奥雷连诺明白反对党的处境是不利的。“如果我是自由党人,”他说,“我就会由于这种选票的把戏发动战争”岳父从眼镜上方瞥了他一眼。
“哎,奥雷连诺,”他说,“如果你是自由党人,你就看不到掉换选票的事了,即使你是我的女婿。”
引起全镇愤怒的不是选举结果,而是士兵们拒绝归还收走的刀子和猎枪。妇女们请求奥雷连诺向岳父说说情,哪怕把菜刀还给她们也成。阿·摩斯柯特先生十分机密地向他说,士兵们已经运走了没收的武器,拿去当作自由党人准备打仗的物证。这种说法的可耻使奥雷连诺吃了一惊。他没吭声,可是有一天晚上,格林列尔多·马克斯和马格尼菲柯·维斯巴尔跟其他几个朋友谈论菜刀的事情时,问他是自由党人还是保守党人,他一分钟也没犹豫。
“如果非要是个什么人不可,那我宁愿做一个自由党人,因为保守党人是骗子。”
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