Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

—To Kill a Mockingbird， Novelist， Harper Lee

今晚，你侮辱了一位完全陌生的人，而你對他的情況一無所知，你對此感到自豪嗎？

——《殺死一只知更鳥》哈珀·李，小說家

詞匯

insult v./ n.辱罵，侮辱，冒犯

I have never been so insulted in my life!

我這輩子從沒受過這樣的羞辱！

feel insulted感覺受到了侮辱

add insult to injury雪上加霜，更糟糕的是......

They were already stranded in the middle of nowhere， then， to add insult to injury， it started to rain.

他們被困在了偏僻的地方，結果偏偏天又開始下雨，真是雪上加霜。

circumstance n.境況，環境

拓展

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls， a broken watch and chain， a pair of good-luck pennies， and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing， and it made me sad.

街坊鄰居之間，要是誰家里死了人，大家會送去吃的；誰家里有人生病，大家會送上鮮花；遇上不大不小的事情，大家會送些小禮物。怪人也是我們的鄰居。他送給了我們兩個用香皂刻成的娃娃、一只壞了的懷表外加表鏈、兩枚吉祥幣，還有我們的生命。鄰居之間總是要禮尚往來的，可我們只是從那個樹洞里取出一件又一件禮物，卻沒有往里面放過什么東西作為回報——我們沒有給過他任何東西，這讓我心里泛起一絲傷感。

——《殺死一只知更鳥》哈珀·李

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

你永遠不可能真正了解一個人，除非你穿上他的鞋子走來走去，站在他的角度考慮問題。

——《殺死一只知更鳥》哈珀·李