Herbert Butterfield, History and Man's Attitude to Past, in Listener, 21 September, 1961: “But if the oriental student may gain hints from Western historiography, the Western student can never learn the profundity of the East. It is when we try to transcend our own circle of ideas, and see, standing side by side, the two great systems of historical scholarship—the Western and the Chinese— that the basic issues become apparent. These two civilizations are remarkable for their tremendous preoccupation with history and tradition: yet two vastly different historical mentalities are involved, and two complicated systems (vastly different systems) of ideas.＂
杜先生的翻譯：
「如果東方學者能從西方史學獲得啟示，那麼西方學者非到他了解東方，否則將永遠不能領悟到重要問題的神奧處。一旦我們試著超越我們自己的思想界，等量齊觀地看中西兩大史學系統，主要的分歧，便暴露無遺。此兩文化對歷史與傳統皆有其可怕的成見；兩者歷史精神太不相同，兩者思想系統(太不相同的系統)太複雜。」
我的翻譯：
英國史學家赫爾伯特·巴特菲爾德1961年刊在《聆聽者》的著作＜「歷史」與「人類對過去的看法」＞中提到：「【前面有文被省去】，假如東方學者能受到西方史學【技巧】的提示，西方學者將永遠無法體會東方【史學】的深奧。當我們【西方學者】嘗試跳出我們的思想圈，將兩大史學系統—西方史學及中國史學—齊平地觀看，基本的問題便變得明顯。兩文明文的卓越是建立在歷史與傳統背後巨大的思想，然這涉及兩者之間大大不同的歷史心態和複雜的思想系統(非常複雜的系統)。【後面亦有文被省去】」
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Attitude (N)：A feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused by this.
Oriental (N)：The countries of East and Southeast Asia.
Transcend (V)：To go further, rise above, or be more important or better than something, especially a limit.
Civilizations (N)：Human society with its well developed social organizations, or the culture and way of life of a society or country at a particular period in time.
Mentalities (N)：A person's particular way of thinking about things.
Complicated (Adj)：involving a lot of different parts, in a way that is difficult to understand.
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