Question

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly sugges

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.
请把这句话解释一下，同时分析一下句式。

Answer 1

我爸爸曾经“自负”地宣称过，后来我也“自负”地重复过一个观点，那就是，人们的善恶感一生下来就有差异。假如忘记了这一点，我惟恐会失去某些东西。
I am still a little afraid of missing something 主句
If I forget that a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.假设条件状语从句
that a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. 为forget的宾语从句
as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat 状语从句的方式状语从句

追问

请帮我翻译一下中间那句if then

successful gestures 是什么意思？

追答

如果说个性是一系列连续不断的成功姿态，那么他身上确有某种不同凡响的东西，某种对人生中显露的各种可能性的高度的敏感，仿佛他和某个可以监测到一万英里开外的地震的精密仪器联接着。