Chapter 11 temperament

temperament Chekhov According to the latest scientific conclusions [Sanctuary] All impressions are always easy and quick to act on such a person: from this, according to Goufeland, rashness arises. ... He was a bebe and a spitzbube in his youth.He was rough with the teachers, didn't cut his hair or shave, wore glasses, and scribbled on the walls.He doesn't study hard, but he always graduates.He doesn't respect his parents.When he has money, he pays attention to clothing, but when he is poor, he lives like a pig.He didn't get up until twelve o'clock in the noon, but the time to go to bed was not fixed.When he wrote something, he was full of mistakes.Nature sent him to earth for the purpose of making love: and he was only for making love.

He always liked to get very drunk.In the evening he kept drinking, so drunk that he saw a group of little green devils, but when he woke up in the morning, he was as if nothing had happened, but his head was slightly heavy, and he didn't need it, "similia similibus curantur"④.He got married by chance.He was always at war with his mother-in-law.He is at odds with his relatives.He has no qualms about lying.He is very troublesome and participates in amateur performances.In the band, he is the first violinist.He acted rashly and believed in liberal ideas. He either didn't read any books at all, or he couldn't put down the book.He likes newspapers and periodicals, and even writes articles for newspapers and periodicals by himself.Humor magazine mailboxes were invented for sanguine people.What is fixed in him is his change.In the agency, he is a special civil servant or something like that.In middle school, he taught Chinese.When he is an official, he rarely rises to the fourth rank. If he rises to the fourth rank, he will become a phlegmatic person, and sometimes a choleric person.Prodigal sons, scoundrels, and idiots are all sanguine people.I'm not advocating that you sleep in the same room as a sanguine: he'll tell you ridiculous anecdotes all night long, and if he doesn't have such anecdotes to tell, he'll berate friends or make nonsense.He often died of diseases of the digestive organs and premature aging.

Sanguine women are often very good women, if not stupid. [Choleric person] This kind of person is easily angered, and his face turns yellow and blue.The nose is a little crooked, and the eyeballs are constantly moving around in the eye sockets, like a hungry wolf in a small cage. He loses his temper easily.If a flea stung him or a pin pricked him, he would have torn the whole world to pieces.When he opened his mouth to speak, he spit all over, showing his deep yellow or very white teeth.He deeply believes that in winter "the devil knows how it can be so cold" and in summer "the devil knows how it can be so hot". . . . every week he changed the cook employed by the family.When eating, he was always in a bad mood because everything was either burnt or too salty. ... Most of these people are bachelors, and if they marry, they lock their wives in the house.He was extremely jealous.He doesn't know how to joke.He can't stand anything.He reads newspapers only to scold the newspaper workers.He believed all the newspapers were lies from his mother's womb. ... This kind of person is terrible as a husband and friend. It is almost unthinkable to be a subordinate, but it is unbearable to be a boss. It is very unpopular.Unfortunately, he tended to be a schoolteacher, teaching arithmetic and Greek.I wouldn't advise you to sleep in a room with a man who coughs all night, spits, and yells at fleas.At night, when he heard a cat meowing or a rooster crowing, he would cough unceasingly, and with a gong-like voice, he would send the servants up to the roof to catch the singer and strangle him to death.Often he dies of tuberculosis or liver failure. Choleric women are devils in skirts, crocodiles.

[Clime] These are lovely people (I'm talking, of course, not English but Russian phlegm).His appearance is very ordinary, thick eyebrows and big eyes. His face is always serious, because he is too lazy to smile.He ate, whatever he had, and at any time.He doesn't drink because he is afraid of cerebral congestion.He sleeps twenty hours a day.He was a permanent member of various committees, conferences, and special sessions, where he understood nothing, dozed off without shame, and waited patiently for the meeting to end.He didn't get married until he was thirty years old with the help of his uncle and mother Yong.It is most suitable to marry this kind of person: he agrees to all conditions, never complains, and is easy-going everywhere.He called his wife "Baby".He eats suckling pig and horseradish, he loves singers, he loves everything sour, and he loves cold. The phrase "vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas"⑤ (the boredom of boredom, everything is boredom) was conceived by the phlegmatic.He suffered only when he was chosen to be a juror.When he saw a fat woman, he cleared his throat, moved his fingers, and tried to smile.He subscribed to the magazine "Field" and was angry because the magazine did not include pictures and did not publish comic works.He believes that writers are the most intelligent people and at the same time the most harmful people.He regrets that his child was not beaten in middle school, and he himself sometimes beats the child himself.exist

① Gooferland (1762-1836), a German medical scientist. ——Russian text editor's note ② French: baby. ③ German: naughty. ④Latin: fight poison with poison (here refers to hangover with alcohol). ⑤Latin: the emptiness of emptiness, everything is emptiness.In the office, he has a prosperous official career.In the band he played double bass, bassoon, and trombone.In the theater, he worked as a conductor, as a waiter, as a prompter, and sometimes as a pour manger①and an actor.He often died of apoplexy or edema and phlegm. The women were often Germanic, weeping, with bulging eyes, plump, with thin skin and white flesh, limp.She is like a big sack full of flour.

She was born to be a mother-in-law in the future.Being a mother-in-law is her ideal. [Melancholic person] This kind of person has gray-blue eyes and tears easily.Fine lines on the forehead and next to the nose.Mouth crooked, teeth blackened.He was always melancholy.He was always complaining of heartache, backache, and indigestion.There's nothing he likes to do more than look at his limp tongue in the mirror.He thought that his lungs were weak and his nerves were sick, so instead of drinking tea, he took decoction every day, and instead of white wine, he took longevity water.In mournful and tearful tones he informed his relatives that cherry leaf water and valerian tincture were of no avail to him. . . . He thought it might be a good idea to take a laxative once a week.He had already decided that the doctors did not understand him. The witches, witch doctors, drunken healers, and occasionally midwives were all his number one benefactors.He wore a fur coat in September and took it off in May.He suspects that every dog ​​has rabies.

Ever since his friend told him that cats can kill sleeping people, he has regarded cats as the sworn enemy of man.He had already written his will.He swore never to drink.He drank hot beer now and then.He married an orphan girl.If he has a mother-in-law, he keeps saying that she is the most beautiful and intelligent woman.He always tilted his head slightly to listen to his mother-in-law's teachings, and kept silent; he considered it his most sacred duty to kiss her sweaty, fat hands that smelled of pickled cucumber soup. He often corresponded with his uncle, aunt, godmother, and childhood friends.He doesn't read newspapers.He secretly read the works of Derby and Josan.During Veteran's plague⑤ he was vegetarian five times.He suffers from lacrimal leakage and often has nightmares.His official career is not very prosperous: at most he can be promoted to deputy section chief.He likes "Lovely Songming"⑥.In the band, he plays the flute and the cello.He moans all the time, so I don't advise you to sleep in the same room with him.He often had premonitions of floods, earthquakes, wars, total moral collapse, and that he himself would die of a terrible disease.

He often died of heart disease and witch doctor's treatment, and often of suspicious and melancholy women were the most unbearable and most restless people.As a wife, she tortured her husband to the point of numbness, discouragement, and suicide.The only good thing about her was that it was easy to get rid of her: give her some money and send her on a pilgrimage. ① French: For a small piece of bread. ②A drink dreamed up by ancient alchemists that seems to prolong life. ③ are sedatives. ④Derby and Ruosang wrote many works on physiology and marital hygiene. The Russian translations of these books were popular in Russia in the 1860s and 1870s. ——Russian text editor's note

⑤ This plague occurred in 1878 in the village of Vetrian in Astrakhan Province, Russia, far away from Petersburg and Moscow. ——Russian text editor's note ⑥A Russian folk song.