He was known to us all as Dickie and his eccentricity had become legendary long before he died.

大家都管他叫迪基。早在他去世前很久，他的古怪行为就成了传奇故事了。

Dickie left the shop without a word and returned carrying a large cloth bag.

迪基二话没说就走了。一会儿，他带着一个大布口袋回到店里。

Dickie disliked snobs intensely

迪基极端厌恶势利小人。

Dickie disliked snobs intensely.

迪基痛恨势利小人。

The assistant asked him to leave, but Dickie Paid no attention to him and requested to see the manager.

店员让迪基走开，他置之不理，并要求见经理。

When Dickie was given the fur coat, he presented the assistant with the cloth bag.

店员为迪基拿出了那块手表，迪基把布口袋递给他

He was known to us all as Dickie and his eccentricity had become legendary long before he died.

我们都叫他迪基，他的怪僻性格在他死前很久就成为传奇性的了。

This exhibition received a great deal of attention in the press, for though the pictures were supposed to be the work of famous artists, they had in fact been painted by Dickie .

这次展览引起报界广泛注意，因为这些画名义上是名家的作品，事实上是迪基自己画的。

||1:In this account, however, Mr Dickie veers away from celebrity biography to focus on the broader membership.||2:His characters are idealists and misfits—political exiles and refugees, traumatised soldiers, addicts who have overcome their vices.||3:Their organisation, says Mr Dickie , is essentially a network of patronage.||4:But he emphasises how many Masons treat its values of friendship, respect, integrity and charity as genuine anchors in their lives, not simply as window dressing for a practical agenda.

||1:然而，迪基先生在自己的书中避而不谈名人传记，转而关注广大会员。||2:他笔下的人物有理想主义者，也有与之格格不入的政治流亡者和难民，还有遍体鳞伤的士兵和戒毒的瘾君子。||3:迪基表示，共济会本质上是一个资助网络。||4:但是他还强调，有很多的美生真正将友谊、尊重、政治和慈善视为自己生活的锚，而不只是视之为实际的议题而装腔作势。

||1:It is tempting to see the Masons as an elite clique of white, male, middle-class gatekeepers.||2:And that has often been true.||3:But the outfit described in “The Craft” is more diverse.||4:In early modern Europe, Mr Dickie writes, the Lodges were among the few places where men from different classes could socialise.||5:The Masons wore (and still wear) gloves during their meetings “so that no Brother can tell the difference between the hands of a Duke and the hands of a dustman”.||6:Slaves were forbidden to join, but several American branches, such as that led by Prince Hall, a black leatherworker from Boston, played a role in the abolitionist struggle.||7:In theory the Masons do not accept females, yet Mr Dickie meets Olivia Chaumont, who in 2007 became the order’s first transgender member.

||1:人们很容易认为美生是由白人、男性、中产阶级把关者组成的精英集团。||2:这也经常会是事实。||3:但是《TheCraft》书中描绘的组成人员要更加多样化。||4:迪基写道，现代早期的欧洲，共济会会所是为数不多的可供来自不同阶级的男性社交的地方。||5:美生们在开会时会带着手套（现在仍然带着），“这样就没有兄弟能够辨别出是公爵的手还是清洁工的手”。||6:奴隶们禁止入内，但是有几个美国分会在废奴主义斗争中发挥了作用，比如说由波士顿的一名黑人皮革工人普林斯·霍尔创立的共济会王子堂。||7:理论上，共济会不吸收女性。但是迪基看到了奥利维亚·乔蒙特这个例外，她在2007年成为该组织的第一位变性会员。

||1:Conspiracists have long speculated that these individuals are part of a secret “world order”, with ties to the Illuminati and satanic cults.||2:Debunking these theories is relatively easy, but in his new book John Dickie goes much further.||3:Based on years of research into the archives of the Grand Lodges, he has produced a global history of the organisation, explaining how the brand spread far beyond Europe.||4:“The Craft” is a fascinating tale of imperial trade, warfare and scientific progress which presents the Masons as a response to the broader development of the modern world.

||1:阴谋论者长期以来一直猜测共济会的会员们参与策划秘密“世界秩序”，而且与光明会和撒旦邪教有关联。||2:揭穿这样的阴谋论相对容易，但是约翰·迪基在自己的新书中进行了更加深入的研究。||3:基于多年对总会档案的研究，约翰撰写了共济会的全球历史，解释该组织是如何在欧洲以外的地方进行传播。||4:《TheCraft》这本书讲述了帝国贸易、战争和科学技术的进步，情节引人入胜，书中将美生视为对现代社会更广泛发展的回应，娓娓道来。

Most books about the Masons speculate on the extent to which they have shaped history. Mr Dickie is more interested in the opposite question. He shows how reactionaries have consistently projected their darkest fears onto the society.

大多数描写美生的书籍都在推测其对历史的塑造程度。迪基却对相反的问题更有兴趣。他在书中展示了反动派是如何不断地将共济会笼罩在最黑暗的恐惧之下。

By John Dickie .

作者：约翰·迪基

In the corner Dickie and his cooks are enveloped in steam rising from vats of boiling water and broth.

Dickie和他的厨师被笼罩在一个充满蒸汽的角落里，大桶的开水和肉汤就是这蒸汽的来源。

Dickie offers good food at aprice recession-hit Hong Kongers can afford.

Dickie为遭受了经济不景气的香港人提供了他们能负担得起的好食物。

The assistant asked him to leave, but Dickie paid no attention to him and requested to see the manager.

店员叫他走开，但Dickie不理睬他，只是要求见经理

Mr Dickie correctly points out that China’s per capita GDP at market prices is less than one tenth of Japan’s.

王明正确地指出，以市场价格计算，中国人均GDP还不到日本的十分之一。