这场戏：钻进奴隶箱做演示
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威尔伯福斯钻进一个照贩奴铺位定做的箱子，管家一走才肯出来，自嘲说大家都觉得他疯了。他 I had this box made up（特意定做）这个箱子，是给废奴演示用的；可读完牙买加来信，他崩溃了：I was chosen for this task and I failed（这个使命选中了我，我却辜负了它）。想聊使命感，这两句很扎心。
❝ 独白 · 4 句 克拉克森的牙买加报告
用冷静的细节罗列惨状，最后以糖收尾，控诉最重。
「就好像……一样」英语说 as if
as if 就好像……一样given up 放弃、认输for this cause 为这个事业付出
威尔伯福斯让人照贩奴船铺位的尺寸 have a box made up（特意定做了一个箱子），想拿它做废奴的现场演示，还自嘲说下议院大多数人也会觉得他疯了。可当他读了詹姆斯从牙买加寄来的信，情绪彻底崩了：信里写孩子被烫死、有人累死，他一睡着就 as if I were living inside it（就好像自己活在里面一样）。他崩溃地说 I was chosen for this task and I failed（使命选中了我，我却辜负了它），心里总有一部分不肯承认自己已经 give up（放弃）。亨利安慰他，说该让别人来试试。想学「定做」「仿佛身临其境」「放弃」怎么说，这几句都很典型。
A1–C2 是欧标等级。点一个等级后，比它高的卡片会变淡，播放到那里不会自动暂停。
“I was chosen for this task and I failed.”
我被选中来担这件事，可我失败了。
把使命和失败并排放进一句，不找借口，只有承担。
I was chosen for X and I failed.
对信任你的人承认搞砸时能用，别拿它当推卸责任的挡箭牌。
They picked me for it and I let them down. ／ I was given this job and I blew it.
literary
重音落在 chosen 和 failed，中间的 and 轻轻带过。
I was chosen to lead the launch and I failed. 我被选中负责上线，可我失败了。
“When I fell asleep, it was as if I were living inside it.”
我一睡着，就好像活在信里写的地方。
用 as if 把读信的冲击变成亲历，梦醒之间没有界线。
it was as if I were living inside it
向别人描述被某事缠住、虚实不分时能用，正式场合也自然。
it felt as if I were there ／ as though I had stepped into it
literary
as if I were 连读，live 重读，inside it 收轻。
I closed the book, yet it was as if I were still living inside it. 我合上书，却好像还活在里面。
“Some part of me does not accept the idea that I've given up.”
我有一部分始终不肯承认，自己已经放弃了。
用 some part of me 把理智与不甘拆开，承认里带着不服。
Some part of me does not accept ...
向朋友坦白纠结、口是心非时能用，正式场合少用。
Part of me still won't accept it. ／ There's a part of me that refuses to believe it.
中性
重音在 some part 与 does not accept，give up 收沉。
Some part of me does not accept that the job is really over. 我有一部分始终不肯承认，这份工作真的结束了。
“It's time to let someone else try.”
该让别人来试试了。
不是劝自己放弃，而是把接力棒递出去，一句话说清退场的体面。
It's time to let someone else X.
想交棒、退出或承认该换人时用，语气克制；对正需要鼓励的人说别用，容易像泼冷水。
Time to hand it over to someone else. ／ Let someone else take a turn.
中性
It's time 连读，someone else 轻快，try 收尾降调。
I've led this for years; it's time to let someone else try. 这事我带头好多年了，该让别人来试试了。
Wilberforce, conditions in Jamaica are far more brutal than I could have imagined. Many children are scalded to death by the molten lava. Others die of exhaustion or roll into the fires in their sleep. The result in the morning is a few pounds of pure, refined sugar.
威尔伯福斯，牙买加的情况比我能想象到的还要残酷得多。 很多孩子被滚烫的岩浆活活烫死。 还有人累死，或者睡着时滚进火里烧死。 到早上，换来的只有几磅纯净的白糖。
下一章 · 07died of kindness被好意害死这场戏：假装吵架却越聊越真指特意定做、按尺寸打造。威尔伯福斯说 I had this box made up，就是让人专门照贩奴船铺位的尺寸做了一个箱子。
as if。它用来讲并不真实、只是想象的情形，比如 it was as if I were living inside it（就好像我活在里面一样）。
give up，口语里最常用。give up on something 是对某事死心，give up 单用就是认输、撒手不干。
die of 是「死于……」，die of exhaustion 就是累死、过劳而死，也可以说 die from exhaustion。
scald 是用滚烫的液体烫，scalded to death 就是被活活烫死。信里说糖厂的孩子被滚烫的岩浆烫死。
