结合下文看,“父亲”这句意犹未尽的话是在告诉“我”:
你天生就有的那些道德感别人不一定有,所以就对别人宽容
一点吧,不要去批评别人。是宽容的问题,不是“资格”的
问题。
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.