Today I have an interview with the Dryden academy.

今天我去德顿学院进行一场面试。

If the flights of Dryden are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing.

如果说德登能飞得更高的话，那么伯更注重的是翅膀能扑扇得更久。

There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, more certainty in that of Pope.

德登的认识体系更严谨，伯的认识带有更多的确定性。

The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, those of Pope by minute attention.

德登的观念源于综合推断，而伯的观念成因于细微的观察。

If, of Dryden's fire, the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant.

如果说德登的章绽放出的火焰更明亮的话，那么伯的章所散发出的炽热更有规律、更持久。

Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition.

德登恪守自己内心的活动，而伯则将内心活动置于自己的创作原则之下。

He's a simpleton, is what my more than 100-year-old Dryden translation calls him.

在我那超过百年的德顿译本中，他被称为一个“傻瓜”。

Later, Henryson, Shakespeare and Dryden also took the subject and rewrote it.

后来，亨利森、莎士亚和德顿也接受了这个主题并重写了它。

Unfortunately, Dryden's artificial rule only created confusion in the language.

不幸的是，德赖登的人造规则只给语言带来了混乱。

And since you can't end a sentence with a preposition in Latin, Dryden apparently thought English should follow the same rule.

既然在拉丁语中不能以介词结尾来结束句子，德顿显然认为英语也应该遵循同样的规则。

And interestingly, when Dryden formulated that rule in 1672, he specifically cited a line in a play by Ben Johnson which he found objectionable.

有趣的是， 当德赖登在1672年制定那条规则时，他特别引用了本·琼森的一部戏剧中的一个句子， 他认为那个句子令人反感。

To bring this prose to perfection (and Dryden's prose is very near perfection) only the discipline of the stage was necessary and the growth of self-consciousness.

为了使这篇散达到完美（德顿的散非常接近完美），只需舞台的纪律和自我意识的成长。

Because of this, Samuel Johnson, who followed Dryden, applied the term" metaphysical" to Donne and others in derogation of their excessive use of philosophy and deliberate show-off of their cleverness and learning.

正因为如此，追随德顿的塞缪尔·约翰逊 （Samuel Johnson） 将“形而上学”一词用于多恩等人，以贬低他们对哲学的过度使用和故意炫耀他们的聪明才智和学识。

There was a volume of Pope, with the Rape of the Lock in it, and another of the Tatler, and an odd one of Dryden's Miscellanies, all with tarnished gilding on their covers, and thoughts of tarnished brilliancy inside.

还有另一本《闲谈家》， 还有一本奇怪的德顿杂记， 封面上的镀金都失去了光泽， 里面的思想也失去了光泽。

Jim Dryden of member station KWMU in St. Louis reports.

下面请听我台记者吉姆·屈顿从圣路易斯下属县城为您发回的报道。