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DavidWhyte_2017-_过去，现在，未来之间的诗歌的桥梁_
The youthful perspective on the future, the present perspective on the future and the future, mature perspective on the future -- 用年轻人的眼光来看待未来, 用当前的眼光来看待未来, 用成熟的眼光来看待未来
youthful:adj.年轻的; perspective:n.观点;远景;透视图;adj.透视的; mature:v.成熟; adj.明白事理的;
I'd like to try and bring all those three tenses together in one identity tonight. 今天晚上,我会尝试去把这三个时态放在 同一个个体上
identity:n.身份;同一性,一致;特性;恒等式;
And you could say that the poet, in many ways, looks at what I call "the conversational nature of reality." 你可以用很多不同的方法说那是一个诗人, 看到了“现实的对话本质”
conversational:adj.对话的;健谈的;
And you ask yourself: 你可以问自己
What is the conversational nature of reality? 什么是现实的对话本质
The conversational nature of reality is the fact that whatever you desire of the world -- whatever you desire of your partner in a marriage or a love relationship, whatever you desire of your children, 事实上,现实的对话本质是 不论你对这个世界有何渴望-- 不论你对婚姻或者爱情对你的伴侣有何渴望, 不论你对你的小孩有何渴望,
whatever you desire of the people who work for you or with you, or your world -- will not happen exactly as you would like it to happen. 不论你对跟你工作或者为你工作的人有何渴望 或者是你的世界 不会跟你想像的完全一样地实现
But equally, whatever the world desires of us -- whatever our partner, our child, our colleague , our industry, our future demands of us, will also not happen. 但公平地说 世界对我们的渴望 我们的伴侣,小孩,同事 工作, 未来对我们的需求 也并不会都得到实现
colleague:n.同事,同僚;
And what actually happens is this frontier between what you think is you and what you think is not you. 其实真正发生的 是一个前沿,是“你认为的你” 和那个“你认为不是你的你”的边界地
And this frontier of actual meeting between what we call a self and what we call the world is the only place, actually, where things are real. 这个边境的相遇 我们所谓的自我, 所谓的世界 两者相交的边界才是唯一真实的地方
But it's quite astonishing , how little time we spend at this conversational frontier, and not abstracted away from it in one strategy or another. 但非常惊人的是 我们在这个对话边界上话的时间太少了 没有用这样那样的策略来从中抽取什么
astonishing:adj.令人十分惊讶的;v.使十分惊讶;使吃惊;(astonish的现在分词) abstracted:adj.心不在焉的;出神的;分离出来的;抽出的; strategy:n.策略;行动计划;部署;战略;
I was coming through immigration , which is quite a dramatic border at the moment, into the US last year, and, you know, you get off an international flight across the Atlantic , and you're not in the best place; you're not at your most spiritually mature. 我是移民来的 当时是很富有戏剧化的边境 去年到了美国 及想必你也知道,当由国际航班起程 飞越大西洋 你不是在最好的地方 你的心智也不是处于最佳状态
immigration:n.外来移民;移居; dramatic:adj.突然的;巨大的;令人吃惊的;激动人心的; international flight:n.国际航班;国际班机; Atlantic:adj.大西洋的;巨人阿特拉斯的;n.大西洋; spiritually:adv.在精神上地;
You're quite impatient with the rest of humanity , in fact. 事实上你没耐心关心他人
impatient:adj.焦躁的;不耐心的; humanity:n.人类;人道;仁慈;人文学科;
So when you get up to immigration with your shirt collar out and a day's growth of beard, and you have very little patience , and the immigration officer looked at my passport and said, "What do you do, Mr. Whyte?" 所以当你衣领不整地去见移民官 一天都没刮胡子 你有点不耐烦 移民官看了你的护照 问: Whyte先生,你是从事什么工作的？
collar:n.衣领;领子;箍;(动物,尤指狗的)颈圈;v.抓住;捉住;揪住;逮住; patience:n.耐性,耐心;忍耐,容忍;
I said, "I work with the conversational nature of reality." 我回答: 我是搞现实的对话本质工作的
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And he leaned forward over his podium and he said, "I needed you last night." 他向前靠了一下 说:“我昨晚需要你。”
leaned:v.前俯后仰;倾斜;倚靠;使斜靠;(lean的过去分词和过去式) podium:n.乐队指挥台;矮墙;墩座墙;
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And I said, "I'm sorry, my powers as a poet and philosopher only go so far. 我说:“对不起, 诗人和哲学家的能力是有限的
philosopher:n.哲学家;深思的人;善于思考的人;
I'm not sure I can --" 恐怕我帮不上忙。。。”
But before we knew it, we were into a conversation about his marriage. 但不知不觉 我们聊起了他的婚姻
Here he was in his uniform , and the interesting thing was, he was looking up and down the row of officers to make sure his supervisor didn't see that we was having a real conversation. 他穿着制服 有趣的是 他不停打量着整排的移民官们, 确保他的上司没看见他 正在进行一次真实的交流
uniform:adj.统一的;一致的;相同的;始终如一的;n.制服;v.使穿制服;使成一样; supervisor:n.监督人,[管理]管理人;检查员;
But all of us live at this conversational frontier with the future. 但我们所有人都生活在这个 与未来的交谈边界上。
I'd like to put you in the shoes of my Irish niece , 我希望在座各位想象成是我的爱尔兰侄女
niece:n.外甥女,侄女;
Marlene McCormack, standing on a cliff edge on the western coast of Spain, overlooking the broad Atlantic. 站在西班牙西岸的悬崖边, 眺望着广大的大西洋
cliff:n.悬崖;绝壁; overlooking:v.忽略;不予理会;俯视;眺望;(overlook的现在分词)
Twenty-three years old, she's just walked 500 miles from Saint Jean Pied de Port on the French side of the Pyrenees , all the way across Northern Spain, 她二十三岁,刚走了500英里 从位在庇里牛斯山法国那一面的圣让皮耶德波尔, 一路走到西班牙北部,
Saint:n.圣人;圣徒;道德崇高的人;adj.神圣的;v.成为圣徒; Pied:adj.杂色的;斑驳的;穿花衣服的; Pyrenees:n.庇里牛斯山(欧洲西南部最大山脉);
on this very famous, old and contemporary pilgrimage called the Camino de Santiago de Compostela -- the Path to Santiago of Compostela. 这是一趟非常着名、古老、现代的朝圣之旅 西班牙文叫「Camino de Santiago de Compostela」 意思是:通往康波斯特拉之圣雅各的道路
contemporary:n.同时代的人;同时期的东西;adj.当代的;同时代的;属于同一时期的; pilgrimage:n.漫游;朝圣之行;vi.朝拜;漫游; Santiago:n.圣地亚哥(智利首都);
And when you get to Santiago, actually, it can be something of an anticlimax , because there are 100,000 people living there who are not necessarily applauding you as you're coming into town. 事实上当你到了圣雅各, 你可能感到有些扫兴 因为这里有100,000人居住 他们不会对你夹道欢迎
anticlimax:n.突降法;虎头蛇尾;令人扫兴的结尾; necessarily:adv.必要地;必定地,必然地; applauding:v.鼓掌;称赞;赞许;赞赏(applaud的现在分词)
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And 10,000 of them are trying to sell you a memento of your journey . 其中10000人会向你推销这趟旅行的纪念品
memento:n.纪念品,引起回忆的东西; journey:n.旅行;行程;vi.旅行;
But you do have the possibility of going on for three more days to this place where Marlene stood, called, in Spanish, Finisterre, in English, Finisterre, from the Latin , meaning "the ends of the earth," 但你很有机会在未来三天继续 去到这Marlene站立的地方,在西班牙文称为菲尼斯泰尔, 英文称作菲尼斯泰尔, 拉丁文意思为 地球的尽头
Latin:adj.拉丁语的;用拉丁语写成的;n.拉丁语;
the place where ground turns to ocean; the place where your present turns into the future. 一个由陆地连接到海洋的地方; 一个帮你从现在转变为未来的地方。
And Marlene had walked this way -- she just graduated as a 23-year-old from the University of Sligo with a degree in Irish drama. 而玛琳走过了这段路– 她23岁, 刚从斯莱戈大学毕业, 取得了爱尔兰戏剧学位。
And she said to me, "I don't think the major corporations of the world will be knocking on my door." 她对我说:我不认为世界上的大企业 会找上我的门来。
corporations:n.[贸易]公司,[经]企业(corporation的复数形式);
I said, "Listen, I've worked in corporations all over the world for decades; a degree in drama is what would most prepare you for the adult -- 我说:听着,我数十年来曾在全世界的 大企业中工作; 戏剧的学位为你进入成人世界做好了最好的准备
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corporate world." 企业世界。
corporate:adj.公司的;组成公司(或团体)的;法人的;社团的;
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But she said, "I'm not interested in that, anyway. 但她说:反正我对那也没有兴趣。
I don't want to teach drama, I want to become a dramatist . 我不想要教戏剧,我想要成为剧作家。
dramatist:n.剧作家,剧本作者;
I want to write plays. 我想要写剧本。
So I walked the Camino in order to give myself some courage, in order to walk into my future." 所以我走了圣雅各的道路,想给我自己一些勇气, 才能走入我的未来。
And I said, "What was the most powerful moment you had on the whole Camino, the very most powerful moment?" 我说:在圣雅各的道路上,你经历到最强大 的时刻是什么？
on the whole:基本上,大体上;就全体而论;
She said, "I had many powerful moments, but you know, the most powerful moment was post-Camino, was the three days you go on from Santiago and come to this cliff edge. 她说:有许多强大的时刻, 但,最强大的时刻是在走完圣雅各的道路之后, 是从圣雅各到那悬崖边缘的那三天。
And you go through three rituals. 你要经过三个仪式。
The first ritual is to eat a tapas plate of scallops " -- or if you're vegetarian , to contemplate the scallop shell . 第一个仪式是要吃一小盘扇贝肉 如果你吃素, 那就凝视着扇贝壳就好。
tapas:n.(西班牙餐馆的)餐前小吃; scallops:n.扇贝;扇形饰边;v.给…加上扇形饰边;(scallop的第三人称单数和复数) vegetarian:n.素食者;食草动物;adj.素食的; contemplate:v.沉思;注视;思忖;预期; shell:n.壳;炮弹;壳层;骨架;v.脱壳;剥壳;采集贝壳;用壳体包被;short.shewill;
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Because the scallop shell has been the icon and badge of your walk, and every arrow that you have seen along that way has been pointing underneath a scallop shell. 因为扇贝壳是你这段步行的象征和标记, 而你一路上所见到的每一个箭头, 都是放在一个扇贝壳的下方。
badge:n.徽章;证章;标记;v.授给…徽章; underneath:prep.在…的下面;在…的支配下;n.下面;底部;adj.下面的;底层的;
So really, this first ritual is saying: 所以,其实第一个仪式在说的是:
How did you get to this place? 你怎么到达这个地方的？
How did you follow the path to get here? 你怎么循着路到达这里的？
How do you hold the conversation of life when you feel unbesieged, when you're unbullied, when you're left to yourself? 当在没有被人围绕时,没有被欺负时,独自一人时, 你如何跟自己进行 人生的谈话？
How do you hold the conversation of life that brings you to this place? 你如何跟那个把你带到此地的人生谈话？
And the second ritual is that you burn something that you've brought. 而第二个仪式,是你要把你带来的某样东西烧掉。
I said, "What did you burn, Marlene?" 我说:“玛琳,你烧掉了什么？”
She said, "I burned a letter and two postcards ." 她说:“我烧掉了一封信和两张明信片。”
postcards:n.明信片;(postcard的复数)
I said, "Astonishing. 我说:“好惊人。
Twenty-three years old and you have paper. 23 岁的人会带纸。
I can't believe it." 我都不敢相信。 ”
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I'm sure there's a Camino app where you can just delete a traumatic text, you know? 我相信一定有圣雅各道路 app, 让你可以删除创伤性文字,你知道吗？
traumatic:adj.外伤的;创伤的;n.外伤药;
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It will engage the flashlight, imbue it with color and disappear in a firework of flames. 它会配上闪光, 充满了颜色, 在火焰中当中消失。
engage:v.吸引,占用;使参加;雇佣;使订婚;预定; imbue:vt.灌输;使感染;使渗透; disappear:v.消失;失踪;不复存在; firework:n.烟花;烟火表演;激烈的言辞;令人激动的行动;
But you either bring a letter or you write one there, and you burn it. 但你若没有带信到那里,你可以在那里写一封, 然后烧掉它。
And of course we know intuitively what is on those letters and postcards. 当然,我们凭直觉都知道信上和明信片上写的是什么。
intuitively:adv.直观地;直觉地;
It's a form of affection and love that is now no longer extant , yeah? 是现在已经不复存在的感情与爱的一种形式,对吗？
extant:adj.现存的;显著的;
And then the third ritual: between all these fires are large piles of clothes. 接着,第三个仪式: 在这些火当中的是大堆大堆的衣物。
piles:n.痔疮;痔;
And you leave an item of clothing that has helped you to get to this place. 你留下一件帮你抵达 这个地方的衣着物品。
item:n.条款,项目;一则;一件商品(或物品);adj.又,同上;
And I said to Marlene, "What did you leave at the cliff edge?" 我对玛琳说:“你在悬崖边缘留下了什么？”
She said, "I left my boots -- the very things that I walked in, actually. 她说:我留下了我的靴子– 就是我穿着走到那里的靴子。
They were beautiful boots, I loved those boots, but they were finished after seven weeks of walking. 那双靴子很漂亮,我很爱它, 但经过七周的行走之后,它已经没用了。
So I walked away in my trainers, but I left my boots there." 所以我穿着运动鞋离开, 把我的靴子留在那里。
She said, "It was really incredible . 她说:那真的很难以置信。
incredible:adj.难以置信的,惊人的;
The most powerful moment was, the sun was going down, but the full moon was coming up behind me. 最强大的时刻是太阳西下, 但满月却从我后面升起。
full moon:n.满月;圆月;
And the full moon was illuminated by the dying sun in such a powerful way that even after the sun had dropped below the horizon , the moon could still see that sun. 而满月被落日用一种很强大的方式给照亮, 即使太阳已经落到地平线之下, 月亮仍然能够看见太阳。
illuminated:adj.被照明的;v.照明;启发;兴奋(illuminate的过去分词); horizon:n.地平线;(欲望、知识或兴趣的)范围;
And I had a moon shadow, and I was looking at my moon shadow walking across the Atlantic, across this ocean. 而我有个月影, 我看着这个被月亮照出的影子走过大西洋, 走过这海洋。
And I thought, 'Oh! That's my new self going into the future.' 我心想: 『喔！那就是我的新自我,走入未来。 』
But suddenly I realized the sun was falling further. 但,突然间,我发现到,太阳又落下更多。
The moon was losing its reflection , and my shadow was disappearing . 月亮失去了它的反射, 而我的影子消失了。
reflection:n.反映;沉思;映像;深思; disappearing:v.消失;不复存在;灭绝;丢失(disappear的现在分词)
The most powerful moment I had on the whole Camino was when I realized I myself had to walk across that unknown sea into my future." 我在这整段道路上经历到最强大的时刻, 就是当我了解到,我自己需要走过这个未知的海洋, 走入了我的未来。
Well, I was so taken by this story, 我对这个故事非常着迷,
I wrote this piece for her. 我为她写了这个作品。
We were driving at the time; we got home, I sat on the couch , 当时我们在开车, 我们回到家,我坐在沙发上,
couch:n.睡椅,长沙发;床;卧榻;v.蹲伏,埋伏;躺着;
I wrote until two in the morning -- everyone had gone to bed -- and I gave it to Marlene at breakfast time. 我一直写到半夜两点– 每个人都入睡了– 我在早餐的时候把它给了玛琳。
It's called, "Finisterre," for Marlene McCormack. 它叫做 ”菲尼斯特雷“,献给玛琳马可麦克。
'"The road in the end the road in the end taking the path the sun had taken the road in the end taking the path the run had taken into the western sea the road in the end taking the path the sun had taken into the western sea and the moon the moon rising behind you as you stood where ground turned to ocean: no way to your future now no way to your future now except the way your shadow could take, “道路到了尽头, 道路到了尽头,走过了太阳的旅程, 道路到了尽头,走过必经的途径, 进入西方的海洋, 道路到了尽头,走过了太阳的旅程, 进入西方的海洋, 而月亮, 月亮从你身后升起, 当你站在陆地海洋交界的地方 现在没了通往你未来的道路, 现在没了通往你未来的道路, 除了你的影子能走上的路,
walking before you across water, going where shadows go, no way to make sense of a world that wouldn't let you pass except to call an end to the way you had come, to take out each letter you had brought and light their illumined corners; 走在你前面,跨越水面,去到影子所去之处, 无法了解一个不让你通过的世界, 除了宣称你所走过的路到了尽头, 只能取出你带来的信件 点燃它们的发光的一角
make sense of:搞清…的意思; illumined:v.启发;照亮;使发亮;明亮起来;(illumined是illumine的过去分词);
and to read them as they drifted on the late western light; to empty your bags to empty your bags; to sort this and to leave that to sort this and to leave that; to promise what you needed to promise all along to promise what you needed to promise all along, and to abandon the shoes that brought you here right at the water's edge, not because you had given up not because you had given up but because now, you would find a different way to tread , and because, through it all, part of you would still walk on, no matter how, over the waves." 借夕阳掠过的光芒再一次阅读上面的文字 清空你的袋子, 清空你的袋子; 把这个分类、把那个留下, 把这个分类、把那个留下; 承诺你所需要的,打从开始就一直承诺, 承诺你所需要承诺的,一如既往地承诺, 丢弃那带你来到这里的鞋子, 丢弃在水的边缘, 不是因为你已经放弃, 不是因为你已经放弃, 而是因为现在, 你会找到一条不同的归途 也因为,透过它, 你的一部份将会继续走下去, 不论如何, 走过波浪。 “
drifted:v.漂流;漂移;缓缓移动;缓慢行走;(drift的过去分词和过去式) abandon:n.狂热;放任;v.遗弃;放弃; tread:n.踏;胎面;步态;鞋底;踏板;梯级;v.踏;踩;践踏;跳;踩出;
'"Finisterre." 「菲尼斯特雷」。
For Marlene McCormack -- 献给玛琳马可麦克–
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who has already had her third play performed in off-off-off-off-Broadway -- in Dublin . 她已经有三部戏剧作品上演了 在远离百老汇的剧界, 在都柏林。
performed:v.表演;执行;履行;演出;工作,运转(好/不好)(perform的过去分词和过去式) Dublin:n.都柏林(爱尔兰共和国的首都);
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But she's on her way. 但她在向前进了。
This is the last piece. 这是最后一件作品。
This is about the supposed arrival at the sum of all of our endeavors . 它说的是在我们努力的顶点,应当的抵达。
supposed:adj.误信的;所谓的;v.认为;假设;设想;(suppose的过去分词和过去式) endeavors:尽力;
In Santiago itself -- it could be Santiago, it could be Mecca , it could be Varanasi, it could be Kyoto , it could be that threshold you've set for yourself, the disturbing approach to the consummation of all your goals. 在圣雅各本身– 可以是圣雅各, 可以是麦加, 可以是瓦拉纳西, 可以是京都, 可以是你为你自己设定的门槛, 用让人不安的方法,用来完成你所有目标。
Mecca:n.麦加(沙特阿拉伯一座城市);众人渴望去的地方; Kyoto:n.京都(日本城市); threshold:n.入口;门槛;开始;极限;临界值; disturbing:adj.引起烦恼的;令人不安的;v.打扰;干扰;搅乱;使不安;(disturb的现在分词) approach:n.方法;路径;v.接近;建议;着手处理; consummation:n.圆满成功;完成;成就;达到极点;
And one of the difficulties about walking into your life, about coming into this body, into this world fully, is you start to realize that you have manufactured three abiding illusions that the rest of humanity has shared with you since the beginning of time. 要走入你的人生,要来到这身体内, 完全进入这世界, 困难点之一就是 你开始了解到 你已经制造出了三个持久的幻觉, 打从一开始,其他的人类就与你共享这些幻觉。
manufactured:adj.制造的,已制成的;v.制造,加工(manufacture的过去式); abiding:adj.持久的,永久的;不变的;v.遵守;容忍;继续存在(abide的现在分词); illusions:n.幻想;错觉;幻觉;幻影(illusion的复数)
And the first illusion is that you can somehow construct a life in which you are not vulnerable . 第一个幻觉就是你可以以某种方式建立一个人生, 且你身在其中不会脆弱。
somehow:adv.以某种方法;莫名其妙地; construct:v.建造;创建;建筑;修建;n.概念;构筑物;结构体;建造物; vulnerable:adj.易受攻击的,易受…的攻击;易受伤害的;有弱点的;
You can somehow be immune to all of the difficulties and ill health and losses that humanity has been subject to since the beginning of time. 你可以对所有的困难、病痛和失去的东西 有免疫能力 这些都是人类从一开始就会要遭受的。
immune:adj.免疫的;免于…的,免除的;n.免疫者;免除者; ill health:n.(身心)健康状况差;生病;
If we look out at the natural world, there's no part of that world that doesn't go through cycles of, first, incipience , or hiddenness, but then growth, fullness , 如果你向外看看自然世界, 那个世界的每一部份 都会要经过循环,从最初, 或隐藏, 然后成长、健全
incipience:n.初期;起初,发端; fullness:n.充满;丰富;完全;成熟;
but then a beautiful, to begin with, disappearance , and then a very austere , full disappearance. 接着,首先,是一个美好的消失, 然后是非常朴素的完整消失。
disappearance:n.消失;不见; austere:adj.严峻的;简朴的;苦行的;无装饰的;
We look at that, we say, "That's beautiful, but can I just have the first half of the equation , please? 我们看着它,我们说: 那真美 但能不能只给我这个公式的前半部分？
equation:n.方程式,等式;相等;[化学]反应式;
And when the disappearance is happening, 当消失发生时,
I'll close my eyes and wait for the new cycle to come around." 我会闭上眼睛等待新的循环再次开始。”
Which means most human beings are at war with reality 50 percent of the time. 这意味着,大部份的人类都和现实交战, 50% 的时间都是如此。
The mature identity is able to live in the full cycle. 而成熟的人, 能走过完整的循环。
The second illusion is, 第二个幻觉是,
I can construct a life in which I will not have my heart broken. 我可以建立一个人生,且身在其中我的心不会碎。
Romance is the first place we start to do it. 我们最先开始这么做的地方是恋爱。
Romance:n.爱情;恋爱;风流韵事;传奇故事;
When you're at the beginning of a new romance or a new marriage, you say, "I have found the person who will not break my heart." 当你在一段新恋情或新婚的开始, 你说:“ 我找到了不会让我心碎的人。”
at the beginning of:在…的开始;
I'm sorry; you have chosen them out unconsciously for that exact core competency . 很抱歉; 你在无意识中,就是根据那让你心碎的核心能力而选中他们的。
unconsciously:adv.不知不觉;无意识地; core:n.核心;要点;果心;[计]磁心;vt.挖...的核; competency:n.能力(等于competence);资格;
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They will break your heart. 他们会让你心碎。
Why? 为什么？
Because you care about them. 因为你在乎他们。
You look at parenting, yeah? 来看看养育子女的过程吧？
Parenting: "I will be the perfect mother and father." 养育子女时,大家以为 “ 我会是个完美的父母亲。”
Your children will break your heart. 你的孩子会让你心碎。
And they don't even have to do anything spectacular or dramatic. 他们甚至不用做什么出格或戏剧性的事,就可以办到。
spectacular:adj.壮观的;壮丽的;令人惊叹的;n.壮观的场面;精彩的表演;
But usually, they do do something spectacular or dramatic -- 但,通常他们会做些出格或戏剧性的事–
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to break your heart. 来让你心碎。
And then they live with you as spies and saboteurs for years, watching your every psychological move, and spotting your every weakness. 接着,他们会以间谍和蓄意破坏者的身份与你同住数年, 监看你的每一项心理对策, 发现你的每一个弱点。
saboteurs:n.破坏者(saboteur的复数形式); psychological:adj.心理的;心理学的;精神上的;
And one day, when they're about 14 years old, with your back turned to them, in the kitchen, while you're making something for them -- 有一天, 当他们大约 14 岁时, 当你背对他们时, 在厨房中, 当你在为他们做食物时
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the psychological stiletto goes in. 心理的短剑就会插入
stiletto:n.匕首;小剑;细高跟女鞋;
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And you say, "How did you know exactly where to place it?" 你说:「你怎么知道要把它插在哪？」
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And they say, "I've been watching you for -- 他们说: 「我一直在看着你,已经有–
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a good few years." 好多年了。 」
And then we hope that our armored , professional personalities will prevent us from having our heart broken in work. 接着,我们希望武装起来的职业素养 能让我们避免在工作时心碎。
armored:adj.装甲的; professional:adj.专业的;职业的;职业性的;n.专业人员;职业运动员; personalities:n.性格;个性;人格;气质;名人;(personality的复数)
But if you're sincere about your work, it should break your heart. 但如果你对你的工作是真诚的, 它应该会让你心碎。
sincere:adj.真诚的;诚挚的;真实的;
You should get to thresholds where you do not know how to proceed . 你应该会达到你 不知该怎么进行下去的那个槛。
thresholds:n.阈值;[建]门槛;临界值值(threshold的复数); proceed:n.收入;卖得金额;收益;v.继续;接着做;行进;前往;
You do not know how to get from here to there. 你不知道要如何从这里到那里。
What does that do? 那会有什么影响？
It puts you into a proper relationship with reality. 它会让你与现实有个适当的关系。
Why? 为什么？
Because you have to ask for help. 因为你必须寻求帮助。
Heartbreak . 心碎。
Heartbreak:n.心碎;伤心事;
We don't have a choice about heartbreak, we only have a choice of having our hearts broken over people and things and projects that we deeply care about. 心碎不是我们能选择要不要的。 心碎是我们唯一的选择 人们都会为他们深深在乎的人、事物、项目而心碎。
And the last illusion is, 最后一个幻觉是,
I can somehow plan enough and arrange things that I will be able to see the path to the end right from where I'm standing, right to the horizon. 我能够做足够的计划与安排, 让我能够看见从现在到未来 一路通往终点的路, 一路到达地平线。
arrange:v.安排;排列;整理;
But when you think about it, the only environment in which that would be true would be a flat desert, empty of any other life. 但当你仔细想想, 只有在一个环境中,这个说法会成立, 那就是平坦的沙漠, 没有其他生命的空旷之地。
But even in a flat desert, the curvature of the earth would take the path away from you. 但即使在平坦的沙漠, 地球的曲度也会让你看不见路。
curvature:n.弯曲,[数]曲率;
So, no; you see the path, and then you don't and then you see it again. 所以,不; 你会看见路, 接着又看不见, 然后又会再看见。
So this is "Santiago," 所以,这是「圣雅各」,
the supposed arrival, which is a kind of return to the beginning all at the same time . 所谓的抵达, 仿佛是同时返回到最初。
at the same time:同时;另一方面;与此同时;
We have this experience of the journey, which is in all of our great spiritual traditions, of pilgrimage. 我们拥有旅程的经历, 在所有我们伟大的朝圣灵性 传统当中。
But just by actually standing in the ground of your life fully, not trying to abstract yourself into a strategic future that's actually just an escape from present heartbreak; the ability to stand in the ground of your life and to look at the horizon that is pulling you -- in that moment, you are the whole journey. 但实际上完全地坚守你人生的阵地, 不试图将你自己抽象化成策略性的未来, 那其实是种逃避当前心碎的方式; 坚守你人生阵地的能力, 看着拉着你的地平线 在那一刻, 你就是整个旅程。
strategic:adj.战略上的,战略的;
You are the whole conversation. 你就是整个交谈。
'"Santiago." 「圣雅各」。
'"The road seen, then not seen the road seen, then not seen the hillside hiding then revealing the way you should take the road seen, then not seen the hillside hiding then revealing the way you should take, the road dropping away from you as if leaving you to walk on thin air, then catching you, catching you, holding you up, when you thought you would fall, catching you, holding you up, when you thought you would fall, and the way forward the way forward always in the end the way that you came, the way forward always in the end the way that you came, “ 看见的道路,接着便消失了 看见的道路,接着便消失了 山坡隐藏了你应该走的路,接着又揭示了它, 看见的道路,接着看不见了, 山坡隐藏了你应该走的路,接着又揭示了它, 道路离开了你, 仿佛让你独自在走在稀薄的空气上, 然后接住你, 接住你, 在你以为你会落下的时候,扶住你, 接住你, 在你以为你会落下的时候,扶住你, 而向前的路, 向前的路最后总是 你来的路, 向前的路最后总是 你来的路,
hillside:n.山坡,山腹;山腰; revealing:adj.暴露的;发人深省的;v.揭示;露出;显示;展示;(reveal的现在分词)
the way that you followed, the way that carried you into your future, that brought you to this place, that brought you to this place, no matter that it sometimes had to take your promise from you, 你遵循的路,带你进入未来的路, 带你来到这个地方的路, 带你来到这个地方的路, 尽管它有时必须要夺去你的承诺,
no matter that it always had to break your heart along the way: the sense the sense of having walked from deep inside yourself out into the revelation , to have risked yourself 尽管它必然要在过程中让你心碎; 这感觉, 这已经走过自己内在深处, 走出来后得到启示的感觉, 已经自己冒过险,
revelation:n.披露; adj.暴露的;
for something that seemed to stand both inside you and far beyond you, and that called you back in the end to the only road you could follow, walking as you did, in your rags of love walking as you did, in your rags of love 为了某样东西冒险,它似乎同时在你内在以及远在你之外, 最终呼唤你回来 到你可以遵循的唯一道路, 像你之前那样行走,穿着爱的褴褛衣衫, 像你之前那样行走,穿着爱的褴褛衣衫,
rags:n.破布;抹布;
and speaking in the voice that by night became a prayer for safe arrival, so that one day one day you realized that what you wanted had actually already happened one day you realized that what you wanted had actually already happened and long ago 说话的声音在晚上变成安全抵达的祈祷, 所以,有一天, 有一天你了解到 你所想要的其实已经发生了, 有一天你了解到 你所想要的其实已经发生了, 很早就发生了,
and in the dwelling place in which you lived before you began, and that and that every step along the way, every step along the way, you had carried the heart and the mind and the promise that first set you off and then drew you on, and that and that you were more marvelous in your simple wish to find a way 在有你之前就存在的你居住过的地方, 以及 以及路上的每一步, 路上的每一步, 你都可以带着那心、那精神、那承诺, 最初是它们让你启程的,吸引你靠近的, 而且 而且你想要找到一条路的简单愿望, 让你更显非凡,
dwelling place:n.住处; marvelous:adj.了不起的;非凡的;令人惊异的;不平常的;
you were more marvelous in your simple wish to find a way than the gilded roofs of any destination you could reach you were more marvelous in that simple wish to find a way 你想要找到一条路的简单愿望,让你更显非凡, 比起你所能到达之任何目的地的镀金屋顶还要更非凡, 你想要找到一条路的简单愿望,让你更显非凡,
gilded:adj.镀金的,装饰的;富有的;v.给…镀金(gild的过去分词);
than the gilded roofs of any destination you could reach: as if, all along, you had thought the end point might be a city with golden domes , and cheering crowds, and turning the corner at what you thought was the end of the road, you found just a simple reflection, 比起你所能到达之任何目的地的镀金屋顶还要更非凡; 仿佛,自始至终, 你认为终点可能是个有着黄金圆屋顶以及 欢呼群众的城市, 就在你认为是 道路尽头的地方,转过转角, 你发现的只是一个简单的反射,
domes:n.[建]穹顶;拱形结构;西班牙域名;
and a clear revelation beneath the face looking back and beneath it another invitation , all in one glimpse all in one glimpse: like a person like a person or a pl ace yo u had sought forever like a person or a pl ace yo u had sought forever, 以及那回望的面孔底下的清楚启示, 在它底下有着另一项邀请, 全都在一瞥之间, 全都在一瞥之间: 就像一个人, 就像你永远在寻找的一个人或一个地方, 就像你永远在寻找的一个人或一个地方,
beneath:prep.在…之下;adv.在下方; invitation:n.邀请,引诱 glimpse:v.瞥见;[诗]闪现;n.领悟;概况;见识;一睹;
like a bold field of freedom that beckoned you beyond; like another life like another life, and the road the road still stretching on." 就像一个英勇的原野,在更远处召唤着你; 就像另一个人生, 就像另一个人生, 以及道路, 仍然在延续下去的道路。
bold:adj.大胆的,英勇的;黑体的;厚颜无耻的;险峻的; beckoned:vt.召唤;吸引;vi.吸引;(招手或点头)示意;n.表召唤的点头;手势; stretching:v.拉长;撑大;有弹性;拉紧;拉直;(stretch的现在分词)
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Thank you. 谢谢。
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Thank you. 谢谢。
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Thank you very much. Thank you. 非常谢谢,谢谢。
You're very kind. Thank you. 你们真好,谢谢。
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