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The Lord of the Rings Temperament Test / 指环王气质测试

A temperament test about burden, mercy, kingship, memory, oath, counsel, and the private cost of carrying power. / 一个关于重负、怜悯、王者责任、记忆、誓言、谏言与权力私人成本的气质测试。

A dangerous object must be carried through hostile country. What part of the task do you instinctively take on? / 一件危险之物必须穿越敌境送达。你本能地承担哪一部分？

The inward burden. Someone has to keep walking when the meaning of walking has gone dark. / 内在的重负。即使前路的意义已经变暗，也必须有人继续走下去。The person carrying it. A task that destroys the bearer has already begun serving the enemy. / 承担那个人本身。如果任务毁掉了承担者，它已经开始替敌人做事。The route, the allies, and the political consequences if the burden reaches the wrong hands. / 路线、盟友，以及重负落入错误之手后的政治后果。The chance to use the object before destroying it. Refusing useful power can look like vanity in moral costume. / 在毁掉它之前使用它的机会。拒绝有用的力量，有时像披着道德外衣的虚荣。

A wretched creature who has done real harm falls into your power. What decides your treatment of him? / 一个造成过真实伤害的可怜生物落到你手里。你如何决定怎样对待他？

Judgment can wait. If he is still capable of turning the story, mercy has not become sentimental yet. / 审判可以等。如果他仍可能改变故事的走向，怜悯还没有变成滥情。The living victim in front of you matters more than the elegant moral theory around him. / 眼前活着的受害者，比围绕他的漂亮道德理论更重要。You bind him, watch him, and use him if necessary. Mercy without structure becomes another road to ruin. / 你约束他、观察他，必要时利用他。没有结构的怜悯会变成另一条毁灭之路。You remove him from the board. The old world survives only when pity does not outrank necessity. / 你把他从棋盘上清除。旧世界能活下来，是因为怜悯不能高于必要。

A council argues for hours while the threat grows. What finally moves you? / 会议争论了几个小时，而威胁正在逼近。最终推动你行动的是什么？

A quiet offer made without drama. The smallest person in the room may be the only one not bargaining with pride. / 一个安静、不带戏剧性的承担。房间里最小的人，也许是唯一没有和骄傲谈判的人。The moment when words stop clarifying and begin protecting reputations. Then someone must lead. / 当语言不再澄清事实，而开始保护名声。那时必须有人领路。The old pattern behind the quarrel. You wait until the deeper fear becomes visible, then speak once. / 争论背后的旧模式。你等到更深的恐惧显形，然后只说一次。The insult hidden inside caution. If everyone hesitates, you would rather be wrong in motion. / 谨慎里隐藏的羞辱。如果所有人都犹豫，你宁可在行动中犯错。

You inherit a failing realm, household, or project. What do you repair first? / 你继承了一个正在衰败的王国、家族或项目。你先修复什么？

The line of responsibility. People must know who answers when the gate breaks. / 责任线。城门破裂时，所有人必须知道谁来回应。The hearth. A world that cannot protect ordinary life has no victory worth naming. / 炉火。一个不能保护普通生活的世界，没有值得命名的胜利。The counsel chamber. Bad decisions do more damage than broken walls. / 谏言之室。坏决策造成的伤害，比破墙更深。The symbols of greatness. A frightened people need to see power return before they remember duty. / 伟大的象征。恐惧中的人需要先看见力量回来，才会想起义务。

Someone offers you a vision of what you could become if you accepted greater power. What frightens you most? / 有人让你看见，如果接受更大的力量，你可能成为什么。最让你害怕的是什么？

That you would begin by saving others and end by arranging them. / 你会从拯救他人开始，最后变成安排他人。That the beautiful version of yourself would still be a form of command. / 那个美丽版本的自己，仍然是一种支配。That you would refuse the vision too quickly and mistake fear for humility. / 你会太快拒绝它，把恐惧误认成谦逊。That you would stop wanting home and start wanting a monument. / 你会不再想要家，而开始想要一座纪念碑。

A friend is walking into despair and no argument reaches him. What do you do? / 一个朋友正走向绝望，任何道理都无法抵达他。你会怎么做？

Stay close enough that he does not have to believe in himself alone. / 你贴近到足以让他不必独自相信自己。Give him a task that makes tomorrow concrete. Despair weakens when the next step has a shape. / 给他一个能让明天具体起来的任务。下一步有了形状，绝望就会变弱。Name the shadow without flattering it. Some darkness feeds on being treated as depth. / 说出阴影的名字，但不奉承它。有些黑暗靠被当成深度来喂养。Force movement. Waiting for inner readiness can become surrender with better language. / 强迫局面移动。等待内心准备好，有时只是更好听的投降。

Your old home is safe for now, but you have seen too much to return unchanged. What becomes sacred? / 你的旧家暂时安全，但你已经见过太多，无法原样回去。什么变得神圣？

The small customs that evil could never understand because they do not look strategic. / 那些邪恶永远无法理解的小习俗，因为它们看起来一点也不战略。The right to leave quietly when your work is done. Not every wound must be converted into public identity. / 完成任务后安静离开的权利。不是每个伤口都必须变成公共身份。The duty to rebuild institutions before memory becomes only private grief. / 在记忆只剩私人悲伤之前，重建制度的义务。The record of what happened. If memory softens too much, the same hunger returns in cleaner clothes. / 对发生之事的记录。如果记忆过度柔化，同一种贪欲会穿着更干净的衣服回来。

You are offered praise after a victory that cost others more than it cost you. What do you do with it? / 一场胜利后，别人赞美你，但这胜利让他人付出的代价比你更大。你如何处理这种赞美？

Accept only the part that belongs to the office, then redirect the rest to the dead and the unseen. / 只接受属于职位的那一部分，其余归还给死者和无人看见的人。Let it pass. Public honor is less real than whether the people you carried can sleep. / 让它过去。公共荣誉不如你扶过的人能不能睡安稳真实。Use it while it lasts. Reputation can buy time, obedience, and safer roads. / 趁它还有效时使用它。名声可以买来时间、服从和更安全的道路。Distrust it. The Ring is gone, but the appetite for shining has many replacements. / 不信任它。魔戒消失了，但人对发光的渴望有很多替代品。

A sworn path now looks foolish, dangerous, and politically inconvenient. What keeps you bound? / 一条已经许下的路现在显得愚蠢、危险，并且政治上很不方便。是什么让你继续受它约束？

The oath itself. A promise does not become decorative when weather changes. / 誓言本身。天气变了，承诺也不会变成装饰。The person beside you. Abandonment would be a deeper defeat than death. / 你身边的人。抛弃比死亡更像失败。The hidden necessity only you can see. Others may call it madness until the pattern closes. / 只有你看见的隐藏必要性。别人会称之为疯狂，直到模式合拢。Nothing sacred binds a bad plan. You would break it and bear the blame openly. / 糟糕计划没有神圣性。你会打破它，并公开承担责备。

When evil appears most persuasive, what form does it usually take for you? / 当邪恶显得最有说服力时，它通常以什么形式出现？

A shortcut that promises to spare the weak by concentrating power in one clean hand. / 一条捷径，承诺通过把权力集中到一只干净的手里来拯救弱者。A wounded pride that calls itself duty because humiliation needs a noble costume. / 受伤的骄傲自称义务，因为羞辱需要一件高贵外衣。A beautiful retreat into wisdom while others still need someone to act. / 一种漂亮地退入智慧的姿态，而别人仍然需要有人行动。A desire to keep one precious thing so tightly that love becomes possession. / 想把一件珍贵之物抓得太紧，以至于爱变成占有。