defiled, in him your great contempt can go under

人很容易遺忘，必須常溫故。昨天談胡適之先生引魯迅譯的尼采。
今天查一下我1977年在英國買的企鵝版，發現我在引文處有畫線，寫記號：
In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea, to receive a polluted river and not be defiled.
Behold, I teach you the Superman: he is this sea, in him your great contempt can go under.

......我又願中國青年都只是向上走，不必理會這冷笑和暗箭。尼采說：

「真的，人是一個濁流。應該是海了，能容這濁流使他乾淨。

「咄，我教你們超人：這便是海，在他這裡，能容下你們的大侮蔑。」(《札拉圖如是說》的《序言》第三節)

縱令不過一窪淺水，也可以學學大海；橫堅都是水，可以相通。幾粒石子，任他們暗地裡擲來；幾滴穢水，任他們從背後潑來就是了。

 in him your great contempt can "go under"非下一意思：

go under

1(Of a business) become bankrupt.

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2(Of a person) die or suffer an emotional collapse.

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• I would think it was a very tearful and desperate time for him and I think this has probably been the closest he has come to going under.