지금 기말고사 공부중인데 문장 해석이 되게 아리까리하게 되네요...내용은 아래와 같아요
Self-interest, caution, or even a certain common sense might well suggest to those on top that all men were not equally capable of deciding the great questions of government, the illiterate less than the university graduates, the superstitious less than the enlightened, the feckless poor less than those who had proved their capacity of rational behavior by the accumulation of property.
대충 이기심, 경고,또는 심지어 특정한 상식은 모든 사람들이 정부의 뛰어난 질문을 결정하는 능력에 있어 동등하지 않다고 생각하는,이를테면 문맹인은 대학 졸업자보다,미신은 계몽보다,무능한 거지는 그들의 이성적 행동의 능력을 부의 축적으로서 증명한 사람들보다 떨어진다고 생각하는 상류층 사람들에게 있어 많은것들을 시사할 수 있다.
이런 내용인거 같은데 이게 맞는지도 모르겠고..문장이 너무 길어서 헛갈리네요;;
아래는 계속 이어지는 내용인데...첫문장보다 더어려운거 같네요;애초에 첫문장부터 이해가 제대로 안되서인지 도무지 뒤에도 이해가 제대로 안되네요...
However, quite apart from the lack of conviction such arguments other than the most conservative, they had two major weaknesses. Legal equality could not make such distinctions in theory. What was considerably more important, they became increasingly hard to make in practice, as social mobility and educational progress, both essential to bourgeois society, blurred the division between the middles strata and their social inferiors. Where, in the great and increasing mass of the 'respectable' workers and lower middle classes who adopted so much of the values and, in so far as their means allowed, the behavior, of the bourgeoisie, was the line to be drawn? Wherever it was drawn, if it included any large number of them, it was likely to include a substantial body of citizens who did support several of the ideas which bourgeois liberalism regarded as essential to the prospering of society, and who might well oppose them passionately.
제발 도와주세요ㅜ너무 어렵네요;;