 The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the...  Complete Works - 第 51 頁Joseph Conrad 著 - 1903完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 頁
...complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea. • — something you can set up, and bow... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 404 頁
...complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it ; not a sentimental pretense but an idea ; and an unselfish belief in the idea — something you can set up, and bow down... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 366 頁
...complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back...sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in/the idea — something you can set up, and bow down bfefore, and offer a sacrifice to. . . ." He... | |
 | N J Loftis - 1973 - 132 頁
...complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it, not a sentimental belief in the idea — something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to. ...... | |
 | Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 頁
...obviously even more in need of justification than the merchant seaman. But what justification can there be? 'What redeems it is the idea only... An idea at the...back of it; not a sentimental pretence, but an idea - something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to.' This seems to be a return... | |
 | Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 頁
...once more he has to qualify what he has said by conceding that imperial conquest can be redeemed by "An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence...up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to." Unselfish belief in the idea, and a devotion to efficiency, constitute a rather weak and asymmetrical... | |
 | George Levine - 1981 - 368 頁
...passage, moreover, sustains the intensity of romance by almost contradicting itself. For, says Marlow, "What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the...up and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to" (p. 51). Here again is the incompatibility between human consciousness and the evolutionary forces... | |
 | Alfred J. Lopez - 2001 - 292 頁
...complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller - 2001 - 300 頁
...conquest of the earth ... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much," Marlow goes on to add: "What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental [ms: mouthing] pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea — something you can set... | |
 | Stephen Regan - 2001 - 594 頁
...complexion or slightly flatrer noses than ourselves, is not a pretry thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimenral prerence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea — something you can set up,... | |
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