Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 해석본.

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THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

서기 2081년, 만인은 마침내 평등해졌다. 하나님이나 법 앞에서만 평등해진 것이 아니라, 사실상 모든 면에서 완벽한 평등을 누리게 되었다. 다른 사람들보다 더 똑똑한 사람도 없어졌고, 심지어 다른 사람들보다 더 잘 생긴 사람도 없었다. 아무도 다른 이들보다 더 힘이 세거나 더 민첩하지 않았다. 이처럼 인류 역사상 유래없는 평등 세상은 미합중국 수정헌법 제 211조, 제 212조 및 제 213조에 의거하여 실현된 것으로서, 오로지 <미합중국 평등 유지 관리국> 요원들의 끊임없는 감시 활동으로 지탱되고 있었다.

Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April, for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away.
It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap

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