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英语演讲:鲍勃.迪伦诺贝尔获奖感言
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令人遗憾的是,万众期待的文学奖得主鲍勃?迪伦上台领奖发表感言的画面并没有出现。
虽然缺席典礼,但他亲笔写了一篇演讲稿,由美国驻瑞典大使(US ambassador to Sweden)代为朗读。
今年10月,瑞典皇家学院宣布鲍勃?迪伦获得诺贝尔文学奖,引来一片喝彩声和质疑声,很多人都问:
"Is Bob Dylan literature?"
“鲍勃?迪伦写的东西算文学吗?”
在获奖感言中,冷静的迪伦直面了这个质疑,以同样为舞台写作(writing for the stage)的莎士比亚为例,做了类比:
When he was writing Hamlet, I’m sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: ‘Who’re the right actors for these roles? How should this be staged? Do I really want to set this in Denmark?’ ... I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare’s mind was the question: ‘Is this literature?’
当他在写《哈姆雷特》时候,他一定在想这些问题,“谁适合演这些角色?”“这段要怎么在舞台上展现出来?”“故事背景真的应该设在丹麦吗?”……我打赌莎士比亚最不可能思考的问题就是:“这是文学吗?”
鲍勃?迪伦诺贝尔获奖感言
鲍勃?迪伦获奖感言全文,来感受一下。
Good evening, everyone. I extend my warmest greetings to the members of the Swedish Academy and to all of the other distinguished guests in attendance tonight.
各位晚上好。我向瑞典学院的成员和今晚所有出席宴会的尊贵来宾致以最热烈的问候。
I'm sorry I can't be with you in person, but please know that I am most definitely with you in spirit and honored to be receiving such a prestigious prize. Being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature is something I never could have imagined or seen coming.
很抱歉我没能到现场与诸位共享此刻,但请相信,在精神上,我绝对与你们同在,我深感荣幸能获得如此声望卓著的奖项。 被授予诺贝尔文学奖,是我从未想象过也没有预见到的事情。
From an early age, I've been familiar with and reading and absorbing the works of those who were deemed worthy of such a distinction: Kipling, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Pearl Buck, Albert Camus, Hemingway. These giants of literature whose works are taught in the schoolroom, housed in libraries around the world and spoken of in reverent tones have always made a deep impression. That I now join the names on such a list is truly beyond words.
从小,我就熟悉、阅读并充分汲取那些被认为值得获得该项殊荣的人的作品,如吉卜林、萧伯纳、托马斯?曼、赛珍珠、加缪、海明威。这些文学巨匠的著作在学堂上被讲授、在世界各地图书馆中陈列、被被人们虔诚地谈论着,它们给我留下了深刻的印象。如今能加入这样的名列,我的心情无以言表。
I don't know if these men and women ever thought of the Nobel honor for themselves, but I suppose that anyone writing a book, or a poem, or a play anywhere in the world might harbor that secret dream deep down inside. It's probably buried so deep that they don't even know it's there.
我不知道,这些作家是否想过自己能获得诺奖,但我猜想世界上任何一个著书写诗、或创作戏剧的人,内心深处都怀揣着这个秘密的梦想。这梦想埋藏得如此之深以至于他们自己都没意识到它的存在。
If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I'd have about the same odds as standing on the moon. In fact, during the year I was born and for a few years after, there wasn't anyone in the world who was considered good enough to win this Nobel Prize. So, I recognize that I am in very rare company, to say the least.
如果有人告诉我,我有那么一丝希望能获得诺奖,那我会认为这跟我能站在月球上的概率差不多。事实上,我出生的那一年和随后的那些年,世界上几乎没有人是完全值得诺贝尔奖的,所以,我想,至少可以说我现在属于一个非常少数的群体。
I was out on the road when I received this surprising news, and it took me more than a few minutes to properly process it. I began to think about William Shakespeare, the great literary figure. I would reckon he thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing literature couldn't have entered his head. His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read.
我是在世界巡演的过程中得知这一令人惊讶的消息的,我花了好一会儿去消化它。然后,我联想到了莎士比亚这位文学伟人。我想他是把自己当一个写剧本的来看待的,他怎么也不会想到自己是在创作文学。他的文字是为舞台而生的,是为了言说而不是阅读。
When he was writing Hamlet, I'm sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: "Who're the right actors for these roles?" "How should this be staged?" "Do I really want to set this in Denmark?" His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt at the forefront of his mind, but there were also more mundane matters to consider and deal with. "Is the financing in place?" "Are there enough good seats for my patrons?" "Where am I going to get a human skull?" I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare's mind was the question "Is this literature?"
在写《哈姆雷特》的时候,他一定在想这些问题,“谁适合演这些角色?”“这段要怎么在舞台上展现出来?”“故事背景真的要设在丹麦吗?”他富于创造的想象与野心毫无疑问是他思维最活跃的部分,但也有很多世俗琐事要考虑和处理。 “资金到位了吗?”“赞助人都能安排到好座位吗?”“到哪里能弄到人的头骨啊?”我打赌莎士比亚最不可能思考的问题就是:“这是文学吗?”
When I started writing songs as a teenager, and even as I started to achieve some renown for my abilities, my aspirations for these songs only went so far. I thought they could be heard in coffee houses or bars, maybe later in places like Carnegie Hall, the London Palladium. If I was really dreaming big, maybe I could imagine getting to make a record and then hearing my songs on the radio. That was really the big prize in my mind. Making records and hearing your songs on the radio meant that you were reaching a big audience and that you might get to keep doing what you had set out to do.
我少年时代开始写歌时,甚至当我因自己的才能而小有知名度时,我对这些歌曲的期待都十分很有限。我希望它们能在咖啡厅或酒吧被人听到,或者将来能在卡内基音乐厅,伦敦帕拉斯剧院这些地方被演唱。如果梦做得再大胆些,我希望我的音乐能被制作成唱片在电台播放,这真是我心目中最好的奖赏了。录唱片在电台播放意味着你能接触到更庞大的听众群体,而你也能按照自己的理想继续走下去。
Well, I've been doing what I set out to do for a long time, now. I've made dozens of records and played thousands of concerts all around the world. But it's my songs that are at the vital center of almost everything I do. They seemed to have found a place in the lives of many people throughout many different cultures and I'm grateful for that.
现在,我已经朝着自己规划的路走了很久了。我发行了几十张唱片,在全球举办了上千场演唱会。但我的歌曲才是我所做一切的核心,它们似乎在不同文化的各类人群中产生了影响,对此我无限感激。
But there's one thing I must say. As a performer I've played for 50,000 people and I've played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a singular persona, not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. Your honesty and how it relates to the depth of your talent is tried. The fact that the Nobel committee is so small is not lost on me.
但有件事我必须要说,作为一个表演者,我为5万人演唱过,也为50人演唱过,而为50个人表演难度更高。因为5万人会融成单一人格,但50人不会。他们每个人都是一个鲜明的个体,不同的身份,自成一体。他们能更加清晰地感知事物。你的真诚以及它如何反应出你的才华和深度,都在经受考验。诺奖评委会的人数之少,我是清楚的。
But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years.
然而,与莎士比亚一样,我常常被音乐创作和日常杂事占据了大部分时间精力,“谁最适合演唱这些歌?”“这个录音室录音效果好吗?”“这首歌的调子定对了吗?”就算过了400年,有些事也不会变的。
Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?"
但我从来没有时间问过自己:“我的歌算文学吗?”
So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer.
所以,我真的要感谢瑞典文学院,不仅花时间思考这个问题,还最终给出了一个精彩的回答。
My best wishes to you all,
致以最好的祝福,
Bob Dylan
鲍勃?迪伦
迪伦没时间考虑自己的创作是否算是文学,所以只能由诺贝尔官方来为他辩护了。
在颁奖词中,诺贝尔皇家学院的Horace Engdahl教授用一篇充满力量、极尽赞誉的演讲回击了那些批评质疑的声音。
不愧是诺贝尔文学奖的颁奖词!这篇演讲稿文采斐然,如诗一般的语言,读来极有韵味,值得细品。
What brings about the great shifts in the world of literature? Often it is when someone seizes upon a simple, overlooked form, discounted as art in the higher sense, and makes it mutate.
什么会带来文学世界的巨变?通常,是一种简单、被人忽视,从更高意义来说被贬低为技艺的一种形式被某个人所掌握,并令其蜕变的时候。
Thus, at one point, emerged the modern novel from anecdote and letter, thus arose drama in a new age from high jinx on planks placed on barrels in a marketplace, thus songs in the vernacular dethroned learned Latin poetry, thus too did La Fontaine take animal fables and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales from the nursery to Parnassian heights. Each time this occurs, our idea of literature changes.
于是,当代小说从奇闻轶事与日常通信脱颖而出,戏剧从站在市集木桶板上表演的杂耍发轫,拉丁诗文渐被方言歌谣取代,同样地,拉?方丹将动物寓言、安徒生把童话,从育婴室升华到高蹈派诗歌的高度。每一次变化的出现,我们对于文学的看法就随之发生改变。
In itself, it ought not to be a sensation that a singer/songwriter now stands recipient of the literary Nobel Prize. In a distant past, all poetry was sung or tunefully recited, poets were rhapsodes, bards, troubadours; 'lyrics' comes from 'lyre'.
本来,一位歌手或作曲家成为诺贝尔文学奖得主并不应该成为一个耸人听闻的事件。在久远的过去,所有的诗都是唱出来或是带着音调起伏诵读出来的。史诗吟诵者、游吟诗人、行吟诗人,他们就是诗人;而“歌词”一词就来源于“里尔琴”。
But what Bob Dylan did was not to return to the Greeks or the Proven?als. Instead, he dedicated himself body and soul to 20th century American popular music, the kind played on radio stations and gramophone records for ordinary people, white and black: protest songs, country, blues, early rock, gospel, mainstream music. He listened day and night, testing the stuff on his instruments, trying to learn. But when he started to write similar songs, they came out differently.
但鲍勃?迪伦所做的并非要回到古希腊或中古的普罗旺斯。相反,他全身心地投入于20世纪的美国流行音乐中,这些都是为普通人创作的音乐,不分人种,它们在广播电台和留声机唱片中播放:抗议歌曲、乡村音乐、蓝调、早期摇滚乐、福音音乐和主流音乐……他日夜聆听,用乐器弹奏,试着学习创作。当他开始写出类似的歌曲时,它们呈现出来的却是另一片天地。
In his hands, the material changed. From what he discovered in heirloom and scrap, in banal rhyme and quick wit, in curses and pious prayers, sweet nothings and crude jokes, he panned poetry gold, whether on purpose or by accident is irrelevant; all creativity begins in imitation.
在他的手中,这些素材发生了变化。从别人的传家宝与废弃之物中、从陈腐的韵律与机灵妙语中、从邪恶的诅咒和虔诚的祷告中、从甜言蜜语和粗鄙玩笑中,他淘出了诗歌的黄金。是有心还是无意,都无关紧要。所有的创作都始于模仿。
Even after fifty years of uninterrupted exposure, we are yet to absorb music's equivalent of the fable's Flying Dutchman. He makes good rhymes, said a critic, explaining greatness. And it is true. His rhyming is an alchemical substance that dissolves contexts to create new ones, scarcely containable by the human brain.
即使在50年的不断聆听之后,我们还未能完全领悟迪伦那些在音乐领域能与《漂泊的荷兰人》相媲美的歌曲。“他的旋律朗朗上口,”一位评论家如是解释他的伟大。没错。他的韵律就像是一剂炼金秘方,溶解现有的语境创造出人类大脑所难以容纳的新内容。
It was a shock. With the public expecting poppy folk songs, there stood a young man with a guitar, fusing the languages of the street and the bible into a compound that would have made the end of the world seem a superfluous replay.
多么震撼。当大众在期待着流行民谣的时候,一个年轻人手持吉他站在那儿,把街头俗语与圣经语言熔在一起,让世界末日看起来都像是多余的再现。
At the same time, he sang of love with a power of conviction everyone wants to own. All of a sudden, much of the bookish poetry in our world felt anaemic, and the routine song lyrics his colleagues continued to write were like old-fashioned gunpowder following the invention of dynamite. Soon, people stopped comparing him to Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams and turned instead to Blake, Rimbaud, Whitman, Shakespeare.
与此同时,他以一种人人想拥有的、令人信服的力量来歌颂爱。突然间,世间那些书面的诗词变得如此苍白无力,而他的同行们那些按部就班创作的词曲也仿佛成了随着炸药诞生而过时了的火器。很快,人们不再把他与伍迪?格思里和汉克?威廉姆斯这些音乐人相比,而是将他与威廉?布莱克(英国浪漫主义诗人)、阿蒂尔?兰波(法国象征主义诗人)、沃尔特?惠特曼(美国世人)和莎士比亚相提并论。
In the most unlikely setting of all - the commercial gramophone record - he gave back to the language of poetry its elevated style, lost since the Romantics. Not to sing of eternities, but to speak of what was happening around us. As if the oracle of Delphi were reading the evening news.
在商业化的黑胶唱片这一最不可能的条件中,他重新赋予诗歌语言以高昂的姿态,这是自浪漫主义时代之后便已失掉的风格。不为歌颂永恒,只在叙述我们的日常,好似德尔斐的神谕正向我们播报着晚间新闻。
Recognising that revolution by awarding Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize was a decision that seemed daring only beforehand and already seems obvious. But does he get the prize for upsetting the system of literature? Not really. There is a simpler explanation, one that we share with all those who stand with beating hearts in front of the stage at one of the venues on his never-ending tour, waiting for that magical voice.
通过授予鲍勃?迪伦诺奖来认可这一革命,初时似乎会觉得过于大胆,但现在已然觉得理所应当。但他获得文学奖是因为颠覆了文学系统吗?并不是。还有个更简单的解释,这个解释所有看过迪伦演出的观众都懂,他们都怀着一颗跳动的心站在迪伦那永不停歇的巡演舞台前,等待着那魔力般的声音响起。
Chamfort made the observation that when a master such as La Fontaine appears, the hierarchy of genres - the estimation of what is great and small, high and low in literature - is nullified. “What matter the rank of a work when its beauty is of the highest rank?" he wrote. That is the straight answer to the question of how Bob Dylan belongs in literature: as the beauty of his songs is of the highest rank.
法国剧作家尚福尔评论说,当诸如拉?方丹这类文学巨擘诞生时,文学类型的等级——对文学高低贵贱的价值估量——便再无约束力。他曾写到:“当一部作品自身的美达到了巅峰时,等级还有什么意义呢?”这也是对鲍勃?迪伦如何属于文学范畴这一问题最直白的解答:他的音乐之美已达到最崇高的地位。
By means of his oeuvre, Bob Dylan has changed our idea of what poetry can be and how it can work. He is a singer worthy of a place beside the Greeks' ?οιδ?ι, beside Ovid, beside the Romantic visionaries, beside the kings and queens of the Blues, beside the forgotten masters of brilliant standards. If people in the literary world groan, one must remind them that the gods don't write, they dance and they sing. The good wishes of the Swedish Academy follow Mr. Dylan on his way to coming bandstands.
迪伦的毕生作品已经改变了我们对诗的认知——诗是什么,该如何创作。鲍勃?迪伦作为一名歌手,值得与希腊声乐家、古罗马的奥维德、浪漫主义空想家、蓝调歌王歌后、和以及诸多以高标准来衡量而被遗忘的大师共享盛名。如果文学界的人对此不满,那他应该记得:神并不写作,他们只歌唱舞蹈。瑞典学院的美好祝愿将一路跟随迪伦先生的音乐之路前行。
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2016年诺贝尔奖颁奖仪式10日在瑞典首都斯德哥尔摩(Stockholm, Sweden)举行。
令人遗憾的是,万众期待的文学奖得主鲍勃?迪伦上台领奖发表感言的画面并没有出现。
虽然缺席典礼,但他亲笔写了一篇演讲稿,由美国驻瑞典大使(US ambassador to Sweden)代为朗读。
今年10月,瑞典皇家学院宣布鲍勃?迪伦获得诺贝尔文学奖,引来一片喝彩声和质疑声,很多人都问:
"Is Bob Dylan literature?"
“鲍勃?迪伦写的东西算文学吗?”
在获奖感言中,冷静的迪伦直面了这个质疑,以同样为舞台写作(writing for the stage)的莎士比亚为例,做了类比:
When he was writing Hamlet, I’m sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: ‘Who’re the right actors for these roles? How should this be staged? Do I really want to set this in Denmark?’ ... I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare’s mind was the question: ‘Is this literature?’
当他在写《哈姆雷特》时候,他一定在想这些问题,“谁适合演这些角色?”“这段要怎么在舞台上展现出来?”“故事背景真的应该设在丹麦吗?”……我打赌莎士比亚最不可能思考的问题就是:“这是文学吗?”
鲍勃?迪伦诺贝尔获奖感言
鲍勃?迪伦获奖感言全文,来感受一下。
Good evening, everyone. I extend my warmest greetings to the members of the Swedish Academy and to all of the other distinguished guests in attendance tonight.
各位晚上好。我向瑞典学院的成员和今晚所有出席宴会的尊贵来宾致以最热烈的问候。
I'm sorry I can't be with you in person, but please know that I am most definitely with you in spirit and honored to be receiving such a prestigious prize. Being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature is something I never could have imagined or seen coming.
很抱歉我没能到现场与诸位共享此刻,但请相信,在精神上,我绝对与你们同在,我深感荣幸能获得如此声望卓著的奖项。 被授予诺贝尔文学奖,是我从未想象过也没有预见到的事情。
From an early age, I've been familiar with and reading and absorbing the works of those who were deemed worthy of such a distinction: Kipling, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Pearl Buck, Albert Camus, Hemingway. These giants of literature whose works are taught in the schoolroom, housed in libraries around the world and spoken of in reverent tones have always made a deep impression. That I now join the names on such a list is truly beyond words.
从小,我就熟悉、阅读并充分汲取那些被认为值得获得该项殊荣的人的作品,如吉卜林、萧伯纳、托马斯?曼、赛珍珠、加缪、海明威。这些文学巨匠的著作在学堂上被讲授、在世界各地图书馆中陈列、被被人们虔诚地谈论着,它们给我留下了深刻的印象。如今能加入这样的名列,我的心情无以言表。
I don't know if these men and women ever thought of the Nobel honor for themselves, but I suppose that anyone writing a book, or a poem, or a play anywhere in the world might harbor that secret dream deep down inside. It's probably buried so deep that they don't even know it's there.
我不知道,这些作家是否想过自己能获得诺奖,但我猜想世界上任何一个著书写诗、或创作戏剧的人,内心深处都怀揣着这个秘密的梦想。这梦想埋藏得如此之深以至于他们自己都没意识到它的存在。
If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I'd have about the same odds as standing on the moon. In fact, during the year I was born and for a few years after, there wasn't anyone in the world who was considered good enough to win this Nobel Prize. So, I recognize that I am in very rare company, to say the least.
如果有人告诉我,我有那么一丝希望能获得诺奖,那我会认为这跟我能站在月球上的概率差不多。事实上,我出生的那一年和随后的那些年,世界上几乎没有人是完全值得诺贝尔奖的,所以,我想,至少可以说我现在属于一个非常少数的群体。
I was out on the road when I received this surprising news, and it took me more than a few minutes to properly process it. I began to think about William Shakespeare, the great literary figure. I would reckon he thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing literature couldn't have entered his head. His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read.
我是在世界巡演的过程中得知这一令人惊讶的消息的,我花了好一会儿去消化它。然后,我联想到了莎士比亚这位文学伟人。我想他是把自己当一个写剧本的来看待的,他怎么也不会想到自己是在创作文学。他的文字是为舞台而生的,是为了言说而不是阅读。
When he was writing Hamlet, I'm sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: "Who're the right actors for these roles?" "How should this be staged?" "Do I really want to set this in Denmark?" His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt at the forefront of his mind, but there were also more mundane matters to consider and deal with. "Is the financing in place?" "Are there enough good seats for my patrons?" "Where am I going to get a human skull?" I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare's mind was the question "Is this literature?"
在写《哈姆雷特》的时候,他一定在想这些问题,“谁适合演这些角色?”“这段要怎么在舞台上展现出来?”“故事背景真的要设在丹麦吗?”他富于创造的想象与野心毫无疑问是他思维最活跃的部分,但也有很多世俗琐事要考虑和处理。 “资金到位了吗?”“赞助人都能安排到好座位吗?”“到哪里能弄到人的头骨啊?”我打赌莎士比亚最不可能思考的问题就是:“这是文学吗?”
When I started writing songs as a teenager, and even as I started to achieve some renown for my abilities, my aspirations for these songs only went so far. I thought they could be heard in coffee houses or bars, maybe later in places like Carnegie Hall, the London Palladium. If I was really dreaming big, maybe I could imagine getting to make a record and then hearing my songs on the radio. That was really the big prize in my mind. Making records and hearing your songs on the radio meant that you were reaching a big audience and that you might get to keep doing what you had set out to do.
我少年时代开始写歌时,甚至当我因自己的才能而小有知名度时,我对这些歌曲的期待都十分很有限。我希望它们能在咖啡厅或酒吧被人听到,或者将来能在卡内基音乐厅,伦敦帕拉斯剧院这些地方被演唱。如果梦做得再大胆些,我希望我的音乐能被制作成唱片在电台播放,这真是我心目中最好的奖赏了。录唱片在电台播放意味着你能接触到更庞大的听众群体,而你也能按照自己的理想继续走下去。
Well, I've been doing what I set out to do for a long time, now. I've made dozens of records and played thousands of concerts all around the world. But it's my songs that are at the vital center of almost everything I do. They seemed to have found a place in the lives of many people throughout many different cultures and I'm grateful for that.
现在,我已经朝着自己规划的路走了很久了。我发行了几十张唱片,在全球举办了上千场演唱会。但我的歌曲才是我所做一切的核心,它们似乎在不同文化的各类人群中产生了影响,对此我无限感激。
But there's one thing I must say. As a performer I've played for 50,000 people and I've played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a singular persona, not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. Your honesty and how it relates to the depth of your talent is tried. The fact that the Nobel committee is so small is not lost on me.
但有件事我必须要说,作为一个表演者,我为5万人演唱过,也为50人演唱过,而为50个人表演难度更高。因为5万人会融成单一人格,但50人不会。他们每个人都是一个鲜明的个体,不同的身份,自成一体。他们能更加清晰地感知事物。你的真诚以及它如何反应出你的才华和深度,都在经受考验。诺奖评委会的人数之少,我是清楚的。
But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years.
然而,与莎士比亚一样,我常常被音乐创作和日常杂事占据了大部分时间精力,“谁最适合演唱这些歌?”“这个录音室录音效果好吗?”“这首歌的调子定对了吗?”就算过了400年,有些事也不会变的。
Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?"
但我从来没有时间问过自己:“我的歌算文学吗?”
So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer.
所以,我真的要感谢瑞典文学院,不仅花时间思考这个问题,还最终给出了一个精彩的回答。
My best wishes to you all,
致以最好的祝福,
Bob Dylan
鲍勃?迪伦
迪伦没时间考虑自己的创作是否算是文学,所以只能由诺贝尔官方来为他辩护了。
在颁奖词中,诺贝尔皇家学院的Horace Engdahl教授用一篇充满力量、极尽赞誉的演讲回击了那些批评质疑的声音。
不愧是诺贝尔文学奖的颁奖词!这篇演讲稿文采斐然,如诗一般的语言,读来极有韵味,值得细品。
What brings about the great shifts in the world of literature? Often it is when someone seizes upon a simple, overlooked form, discounted as art in the higher sense, and makes it mutate.
什么会带来文学世界的巨变?通常,是一种简单、被人忽视,从更高意义来说被贬低为技艺的一种形式被某个人所掌握,并令其蜕变的时候。
Thus, at one point, emerged the modern novel from anecdote and letter, thus arose drama in a new age from high jinx on planks placed on barrels in a marketplace, thus songs in the vernacular dethroned learned Latin poetry, thus too did La Fontaine take animal fables and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales from the nursery to Parnassian heights. Each time this occurs, our idea of literature changes.
于是,当代小说从奇闻轶事与日常通信脱颖而出,戏剧从站在市集木桶板上表演的杂耍发轫,拉丁诗文渐被方言歌谣取代,同样地,拉?方丹将动物寓言、安徒生把童话,从育婴室升华到高蹈派诗歌的高度。每一次变化的出现,我们对于文学的看法就随之发生改变。
In itself, it ought not to be a sensation that a singer/songwriter now stands recipient of the literary Nobel Prize. In a distant past, all poetry was sung or tunefully recited, poets were rhapsodes, bards, troubadours; 'lyrics' comes from 'lyre'.
本来,一位歌手或作曲家成为诺贝尔文学奖得主并不应该成为一个耸人听闻的事件。在久远的过去,所有的诗都是唱出来或是带着音调起伏诵读出来的。史诗吟诵者、游吟诗人、行吟诗人,他们就是诗人;而“歌词”一词就来源于“里尔琴”。
But what Bob Dylan did was not to return to the Greeks or the Proven?als. Instead, he dedicated himself body and soul to 20th century American popular music, the kind played on radio stations and gramophone records for ordinary people, white and black: protest songs, country, blues, early rock, gospel, mainstream music. He listened day and night, testing the stuff on his instruments, trying to learn. But when he started to write similar songs, they came out differently.
但鲍勃?迪伦所做的并非要回到古希腊或中古的普罗旺斯。相反,他全身心地投入于20世纪的美国流行音乐中,这些都是为普通人创作的音乐,不分人种,它们在广播电台和留声机唱片中播放:抗议歌曲、乡村音乐、蓝调、早期摇滚乐、福音音乐和主流音乐……他日夜聆听,用乐器弹奏,试着学习创作。当他开始写出类似的歌曲时,它们呈现出来的却是另一片天地。
In his hands, the material changed. From what he discovered in heirloom and scrap, in banal rhyme and quick wit, in curses and pious prayers, sweet nothings and crude jokes, he panned poetry gold, whether on purpose or by accident is irrelevant; all creativity begins in imitation.
在他的手中,这些素材发生了变化。从别人的传家宝与废弃之物中、从陈腐的韵律与机灵妙语中、从邪恶的诅咒和虔诚的祷告中、从甜言蜜语和粗鄙玩笑中,他淘出了诗歌的黄金。是有心还是无意,都无关紧要。所有的创作都始于模仿。
Even after fifty years of uninterrupted exposure, we are yet to absorb music's equivalent of the fable's Flying Dutchman. He makes good rhymes, said a critic, explaining greatness. And it is true. His rhyming is an alchemical substance that dissolves contexts to create new ones, scarcely containable by the human brain.
即使在50年的不断聆听之后,我们还未能完全领悟迪伦那些在音乐领域能与《漂泊的荷兰人》相媲美的歌曲。“他的旋律朗朗上口,”一位评论家如是解释他的伟大。没错。他的韵律就像是一剂炼金秘方,溶解现有的语境创造出人类大脑所难以容纳的新内容。
It was a shock. With the public expecting poppy folk songs, there stood a young man with a guitar, fusing the languages of the street and the bible into a compound that would have made the end of the world seem a superfluous replay.
多么震撼。当大众在期待着流行民谣的时候,一个年轻人手持吉他站在那儿,把街头俗语与圣经语言熔在一起,让世界末日看起来都像是多余的再现。
At the same time, he sang of love with a power of conviction everyone wants to own. All of a sudden, much of the bookish poetry in our world felt anaemic, and the routine song lyrics his colleagues continued to write were like old-fashioned gunpowder following the invention of dynamite. Soon, people stopped comparing him to Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams and turned instead to Blake, Rimbaud, Whitman, Shakespeare.
与此同时,他以一种人人想拥有的、令人信服的力量来歌颂爱。突然间,世间那些书面的诗词变得如此苍白无力,而他的同行们那些按部就班创作的词曲也仿佛成了随着炸药诞生而过时了的火器。很快,人们不再把他与伍迪?格思里和汉克?威廉姆斯这些音乐人相比,而是将他与威廉?布莱克(英国浪漫主义诗人)、阿蒂尔?兰波(法国象征主义诗人)、沃尔特?惠特曼(美国世人)和莎士比亚相提并论。
In the most unlikely setting of all - the commercial gramophone record - he gave back to the language of poetry its elevated style, lost since the Romantics. Not to sing of eternities, but to speak of what was happening around us. As if the oracle of Delphi were reading the evening news.
在商业化的黑胶唱片这一最不可能的条件中,他重新赋予诗歌语言以高昂的姿态,这是自浪漫主义时代之后便已失掉的风格。不为歌颂永恒,只在叙述我们的日常,好似德尔斐的神谕正向我们播报着晚间新闻。
Recognising that revolution by awarding Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize was a decision that seemed daring only beforehand and already seems obvious. But does he get the prize for upsetting the system of literature? Not really. There is a simpler explanation, one that we share with all those who stand with beating hearts in front of the stage at one of the venues on his never-ending tour, waiting for that magical voice.
通过授予鲍勃?迪伦诺奖来认可这一革命,初时似乎会觉得过于大胆,但现在已然觉得理所应当。但他获得文学奖是因为颠覆了文学系统吗?并不是。还有个更简单的解释,这个解释所有看过迪伦演出的观众都懂,他们都怀着一颗跳动的心站在迪伦那永不停歇的巡演舞台前,等待着那魔力般的声音响起。
Chamfort made the observation that when a master such as La Fontaine appears, the hierarchy of genres - the estimation of what is great and small, high and low in literature - is nullified. “What matter the rank of a work when its beauty is of the highest rank?" he wrote. That is the straight answer to the question of how Bob Dylan belongs in literature: as the beauty of his songs is of the highest rank.
法国剧作家尚福尔评论说,当诸如拉?方丹这类文学巨擘诞生时,文学类型的等级——对文学高低贵贱的价值估量——便再无约束力。他曾写到:“当一部作品自身的美达到了巅峰时,等级还有什么意义呢?”这也是对鲍勃?迪伦如何属于文学范畴这一问题最直白的解答:他的音乐之美已达到最崇高的地位。
By means of his oeuvre, Bob Dylan has changed our idea of what poetry can be and how it can work. He is a singer worthy of a place beside the Greeks' ?οιδ?ι, beside Ovid, beside the Romantic visionaries, beside the kings and queens of the Blues, beside the forgotten masters of brilliant standards. If people in the literary world groan, one must remind them that the gods don't write, they dance and they sing. The good wishes of the Swedish Academy follow Mr. Dylan on his way to coming bandstands.
迪伦的毕生作品已经改变了我们对诗的认知——诗是什么,该如何创作。鲍勃?迪伦作为一名歌手,值得与希腊声乐家、古罗马的奥维德、浪漫主义空想家、蓝调歌王歌后、和以及诸多以高标准来衡量而被遗忘的大师共享盛名。如果文学界的人对此不满,那他应该记得:神并不写作,他们只歌唱舞蹈。瑞典学院的美好祝愿将一路跟随迪伦先生的音乐之路前行。
英语演讲:我有一个梦想 I Have a Dream (双语)
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Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
100年前,一位伟大的美国人——今天我们就站在他象征性的身影下——签署了《解放宣言》.这项重要法令的颁布,对于千百万灼烤于非正义残焰中的黑奴,犹如带来希望之光的硕大灯塔,恰似结束漫漫长夜禁锢的欢畅黎明.
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
然而,100年后,黑人依然没有获得自由.100年后,黑人依然悲惨地蹒跚于种族隔离和种族歧视的枷锁之下.100年后,黑人依然生活在物质繁荣翰海的贫困孤岛上.100年后,黑人依然在美国社会中间向隅而泣,依然感到自己在国土家园中流离漂泊.所以,我们今天来到这里,要把这骇人听闻的情况公诸于众.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
从某种意义上说,我们来到国家的首都是为了兑现一张支票.我们共和国的缔造者在拟写宪法和独立宣言的辉煌篇章时,就签署了一张每一个美国人都能继承的期票.这张期票向所有人承诺——不论白人还是黑人——都享有不可让渡的生存权、自由权和追求幸福权.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
然而,今天美国显然对她的有色公民拖欠着这张期票.美国没有承兑这笔神圣的债务,而是开始给黑人一张空头支票——一张盖着“资金不足”的印戳被退回的支票.但是,我们决不相信正义的银行会破产.我们决不相信这个国家巨大的机会宝库会资金不足.
我们来到这块圣地还为了提醒美国:现在正是万分紧急的时刻.现在不是从容不迫悠然行事或服用渐进主义镇静剂的时候.现在是实现民主诺言的时候.现在是走出幽暗荒凉的种族隔离深谷,踏上种族平等的阳关大道的时候.现在是使我们国家走出种族不平等的流沙,踏上充满手足之情的磐石的时候.现在是使上帝所有孩子真正享有公正的时候.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.
忽视这一时刻的紧迫性,对于国家将会是致命的.自由平等的朗朗秋日不到来,黑人顺情合理哀怨的酷暑就不会过去.1963年不是一个结束,而是一个开端.
Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
如果国家依然我行我素,那些希望黑人只需出出气就会心满意足的人将大失所望.在黑人得到公民权之前,美国既不会安宁,也不会平静.反抗的旋风将继续震撼我们国家的基石,直至光辉灿烂的正义之日来临.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
但是,对于站在通向正义之宫艰险门槛上的人们,有一些话我必须要说.在我们争取合法地位的过程中,切不要错误行事导致犯罪.我们切不要吞饮仇恨辛酸的苦酒,来解除对于自由的饮渴.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
我们应该永远得体地、纪律严明地进行斗争.我们不能容许我们富有创造性的抗议沦为暴力行动.我们应该不断升华到用灵魂力量对付肉体力量的崇高境界.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
席卷黑人社会的新的奇迹般的战斗精神,不应导致我们对所有白人的不信任——因为许多白人兄弟已经认识到:他们的命运同我们的命运紧密相连,他们的自由同我们的自由休戚相关.他们今天来到这里参加集会就是明证.
We cannot walk alone.And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
我们不能单独行动.当我们行动时,我们必须保证勇往直前.我们不能后退.有人问热心民权运动的人:“你们什么时候会感到满意?”只要黑人依然是不堪形容的警察
So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
因此,我们来兑现这张支票.这张支票将给我们以宝贵的自由和正义的保障.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
暴行恐怖的牺牲品,我们就决不会满意.只要我们在旅途劳顿后,却被公路旁汽车游客旅社和城市旅馆拒之门外,我们就决不会满意.只要黑人的基本活动范围只限于从狭小的黑人居住区到较大的黑人居住区,我们就决不会满意.只要我们的孩子被“仅供白人”的牌子剥夺个性,损毁尊严,我们就决不会满意.只要密西西比州的黑人不能参加选举,纽约州的黑人认为他们与选举毫不相干,我们就决不会满意.不,不,我们不会满意,直至公正似水奔流,正义如泉喷涌. 查看全部
马丁·路德·金(公元1929—1968年),美国黑人律师,著名黑人民权运动领袖.一生曾三次被捕,三次被行刺,1964年获诺贝尔和平奖.1968年被种族主义分子枪杀.他被誉为近百年来八大最具有说服力的演说家之一.1963年他领导25万人向华盛顿进军“大游行”,为黑人争取自由平等和就业.马丁·路德·金在游行集会上发表了这篇著名演说.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
100年前,一位伟大的美国人——今天我们就站在他象征性的身影下——签署了《解放宣言》.这项重要法令的颁布,对于千百万灼烤于非正义残焰中的黑奴,犹如带来希望之光的硕大灯塔,恰似结束漫漫长夜禁锢的欢畅黎明.
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
然而,100年后,黑人依然没有获得自由.100年后,黑人依然悲惨地蹒跚于种族隔离和种族歧视的枷锁之下.100年后,黑人依然生活在物质繁荣翰海的贫困孤岛上.100年后,黑人依然在美国社会中间向隅而泣,依然感到自己在国土家园中流离漂泊.所以,我们今天来到这里,要把这骇人听闻的情况公诸于众.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
从某种意义上说,我们来到国家的首都是为了兑现一张支票.我们共和国的缔造者在拟写宪法和独立宣言的辉煌篇章时,就签署了一张每一个美国人都能继承的期票.这张期票向所有人承诺——不论白人还是黑人——都享有不可让渡的生存权、自由权和追求幸福权.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
然而,今天美国显然对她的有色公民拖欠着这张期票.美国没有承兑这笔神圣的债务,而是开始给黑人一张空头支票——一张盖着“资金不足”的印戳被退回的支票.但是,我们决不相信正义的银行会破产.我们决不相信这个国家巨大的机会宝库会资金不足.
我们来到这块圣地还为了提醒美国:现在正是万分紧急的时刻.现在不是从容不迫悠然行事或服用渐进主义镇静剂的时候.现在是实现民主诺言的时候.现在是走出幽暗荒凉的种族隔离深谷,踏上种族平等的阳关大道的时候.现在是使我们国家走出种族不平等的流沙,踏上充满手足之情的磐石的时候.现在是使上帝所有孩子真正享有公正的时候.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.
忽视这一时刻的紧迫性,对于国家将会是致命的.自由平等的朗朗秋日不到来,黑人顺情合理哀怨的酷暑就不会过去.1963年不是一个结束,而是一个开端.
Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
如果国家依然我行我素,那些希望黑人只需出出气就会心满意足的人将大失所望.在黑人得到公民权之前,美国既不会安宁,也不会平静.反抗的旋风将继续震撼我们国家的基石,直至光辉灿烂的正义之日来临.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
但是,对于站在通向正义之宫艰险门槛上的人们,有一些话我必须要说.在我们争取合法地位的过程中,切不要错误行事导致犯罪.我们切不要吞饮仇恨辛酸的苦酒,来解除对于自由的饮渴.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
我们应该永远得体地、纪律严明地进行斗争.我们不能容许我们富有创造性的抗议沦为暴力行动.我们应该不断升华到用灵魂力量对付肉体力量的崇高境界.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
席卷黑人社会的新的奇迹般的战斗精神,不应导致我们对所有白人的不信任——因为许多白人兄弟已经认识到:他们的命运同我们的命运紧密相连,他们的自由同我们的自由休戚相关.他们今天来到这里参加集会就是明证.
We cannot walk alone.And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
我们不能单独行动.当我们行动时,我们必须保证勇往直前.我们不能后退.有人问热心民权运动的人:“你们什么时候会感到满意?”只要黑人依然是不堪形容的警察
So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
因此,我们来兑现这张支票.这张支票将给我们以宝贵的自由和正义的保障.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
暴行恐怖的牺牲品,我们就决不会满意.只要我们在旅途劳顿后,却被公路旁汽车游客旅社和城市旅馆拒之门外,我们就决不会满意.只要黑人的基本活动范围只限于从狭小的黑人居住区到较大的黑人居住区,我们就决不会满意.只要我们的孩子被“仅供白人”的牌子剥夺个性,损毁尊严,我们就决不会满意.只要密西西比州的黑人不能参加选举,纽约州的黑人认为他们与选举毫不相干,我们就决不会满意.不,不,我们不会满意,直至公正似水奔流,正义如泉喷涌.
双语演讲:2016年特朗普感恩节演讲
英语演讲 • 文艺的小逗比 发表了文章 • 0 个评论 • 2527 次浏览 • 2017-06-15 16:43
川普说:“我们非常有幸能称这个国家为我们的家。这就是美国:她是我们的家。我们在这里成家立业、照顾亲人、关心邻里、实现梦想。我在这个感恩节祈祷,我们开始弥合分歧,带着共同的目标和决心,团结一致,让国家向前迈进,更加强大。”
We are very blessed to call this nation our home. And that is what America is: it is our home. It’s where we raise our families, care for our loved ones, look out for our neighbors, and live out our dreams.
我们很幸运地称这个国家为家园,这就是美国,这是我们的家园。我们在这里安家、关心我们所爱之人、照顾友邻,并活出我们的梦想。
It is my prayer, that on this Thanksgiving, we begin to heal our divisions and move forward as one country, strengthened by a shared purpose and very, very common resolve.
我祷告在今年的感恩节,我们开始弥合分歧,以一个国家的姿态继续前进,拥有共同目的和共同的决心。
In declaring this national holiday, President Lincoln called upon Americans to speak with “one voice and one heart.” That’s just what we have to do.
宣布这个国家节日时,林肯总统呼吁美国人齐力发声,并团结一心,我们就该如此。(这里川普引用了林肯1864年的感恩节讲话,当时美国正值内战时期,林肯宣布将感恩节定为全国性节日。)
We have just finished a long and bruising political campaign. Emotions are raw and tensions just don’t heal overnight. It doesn’t go quickly, unfortunately, but we have before us the chance now to make history together to bring real change to Washington, real safety to our cities, and real prosperity to our communities, including our inner cities. So important to me, and so important to our country. But to succeed, we must enlist the effort of our entire nation.
我们才刚刚结束了一场漫长又激烈的政治竞选,人民情绪强烈,紧张局势不会在一夜之间消除。不幸的是,这一切不会马上消失。但现在在我们眼前有一起创造历史的机会,为美国带来真正的改变,为各大城市带来真正的安全,为内陆城市等各群体带来真正的繁荣。这对我和我们的国家而言,都非常重要。但是要成功,我们必须争取全国上下共同努力。
This historic political campaign is now over. Now begins a great national campaign to rebuild our country and to restore the full promise of America for all of our people.
如今这个历史性的政治竞选结束了,但现在重建我们国家的伟大运动开始了,并恢复美国对所有人民的承诺。
I am asking you to join me in this effort. It is time to restore the bonds of trust between citizens. Because when America is unified, there is nothing beyond our reach, and I mean absolutely nothing.
我希望你们加入我,共同努力。是时候恢复公民之间信任的纽带了。因为只要美国人民团结一致,没有我们做不到的事儿——我是指任何事儿。
Let us give thanks for all that we have, and let us boldly face the exciting new frontiers that lie ahead.
让我们感恩所拥有的一切,让我们大胆面对前方令人兴奋的新领域。
Thank you. God Bless You and God Bless America.
感谢你们,上帝保佑你们,天佑美国。 查看全部
感恩节前夕,候任总统唐纳德•特朗普发表讲话,呼吁美国民众弥合分歧。在视频中,特朗普号召国民在持续数周对总统选举团进行抗议和请愿之后能够再一次团结起来。
川普说:“我们非常有幸能称这个国家为我们的家。这就是美国:她是我们的家。我们在这里成家立业、照顾亲人、关心邻里、实现梦想。我在这个感恩节祈祷,我们开始弥合分歧,带着共同的目标和决心,团结一致,让国家向前迈进,更加强大。”
We are very blessed to call this nation our home. And that is what America is: it is our home. It’s where we raise our families, care for our loved ones, look out for our neighbors, and live out our dreams.
我们很幸运地称这个国家为家园,这就是美国,这是我们的家园。我们在这里安家、关心我们所爱之人、照顾友邻,并活出我们的梦想。
It is my prayer, that on this Thanksgiving, we begin to heal our divisions and move forward as one country, strengthened by a shared purpose and very, very common resolve.
我祷告在今年的感恩节,我们开始弥合分歧,以一个国家的姿态继续前进,拥有共同目的和共同的决心。
In declaring this national holiday, President Lincoln called upon Americans to speak with “one voice and one heart.” That’s just what we have to do.
宣布这个国家节日时,林肯总统呼吁美国人齐力发声,并团结一心,我们就该如此。(这里川普引用了林肯1864年的感恩节讲话,当时美国正值内战时期,林肯宣布将感恩节定为全国性节日。)
We have just finished a long and bruising political campaign. Emotions are raw and tensions just don’t heal overnight. It doesn’t go quickly, unfortunately, but we have before us the chance now to make history together to bring real change to Washington, real safety to our cities, and real prosperity to our communities, including our inner cities. So important to me, and so important to our country. But to succeed, we must enlist the effort of our entire nation.
我们才刚刚结束了一场漫长又激烈的政治竞选,人民情绪强烈,紧张局势不会在一夜之间消除。不幸的是,这一切不会马上消失。但现在在我们眼前有一起创造历史的机会,为美国带来真正的改变,为各大城市带来真正的安全,为内陆城市等各群体带来真正的繁荣。这对我和我们的国家而言,都非常重要。但是要成功,我们必须争取全国上下共同努力。
This historic political campaign is now over. Now begins a great national campaign to rebuild our country and to restore the full promise of America for all of our people.
如今这个历史性的政治竞选结束了,但现在重建我们国家的伟大运动开始了,并恢复美国对所有人民的承诺。
I am asking you to join me in this effort. It is time to restore the bonds of trust between citizens. Because when America is unified, there is nothing beyond our reach, and I mean absolutely nothing.
我希望你们加入我,共同努力。是时候恢复公民之间信任的纽带了。因为只要美国人民团结一致,没有我们做不到的事儿——我是指任何事儿。
Let us give thanks for all that we have, and let us boldly face the exciting new frontiers that lie ahead.
让我们感恩所拥有的一切,让我们大胆面对前方令人兴奋的新领域。
Thank you. God Bless You and God Bless America.
感谢你们,上帝保佑你们,天佑美国。
英语演讲:2016年斯皮尔伯格哈佛大学演讲——《倾听内心低语》
英语演讲 • admin 发表了文章 • 7 个评论 • 3418 次浏览 • 2017-06-13 15:48
史蒂文•斯皮尔伯格是一名富有传奇色彩的好莱坞导演,其代表作有家喻户晓的大白鲨,E.T,侏罗纪公园,辛德勒名单等。2013年时代杂志将其列入世纪百大人物之一;斯皮尔伯格,在最近为哈佛的毕业典礼带来了一番精彩的演说,博古通今将电影制作和灵感做了深刻而风趣的解说。
斯皮尔伯格的演讲以自嘲开场——这位今年已70岁的大导演说,自己直到2002年(已56岁)才大学毕业,因为年轻时在大学期间早早就确信了自己想要做的事,所以就辍学了。 后来,因为他总是对自己的7个孩子强调大学教育的重要性,但自己却没有身体力行,所以决定在五十多岁时重返大学获得了学位。 查看全部
英语演讲:鲍勃.迪伦诺贝尔获奖感言
英语演讲 • cara_wu 发表了文章 • 0 个评论 • 3185 次浏览 • 2017-07-18 15:13
令人遗憾的是,万众期待的文学奖得主鲍勃?迪伦上台领奖发表感言的画面并没有出现。
虽然缺席典礼,但他亲笔写了一篇演讲稿,由美国驻瑞典大使(US ambassador to Sweden)代为朗读。
今年10月,瑞典皇家学院宣布鲍勃?迪伦获得诺贝尔文学奖,引来一片喝彩声和质疑声,很多人都问:
"Is Bob Dylan literature?"
“鲍勃?迪伦写的东西算文学吗?”
在获奖感言中,冷静的迪伦直面了这个质疑,以同样为舞台写作(writing for the stage)的莎士比亚为例,做了类比:
When he was writing Hamlet, I’m sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: ‘Who’re the right actors for these roles? How should this be staged? Do I really want to set this in Denmark?’ ... I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare’s mind was the question: ‘Is this literature?’
当他在写《哈姆雷特》时候,他一定在想这些问题,“谁适合演这些角色?”“这段要怎么在舞台上展现出来?”“故事背景真的应该设在丹麦吗?”……我打赌莎士比亚最不可能思考的问题就是:“这是文学吗?”
鲍勃?迪伦诺贝尔获奖感言
鲍勃?迪伦获奖感言全文,来感受一下。
Good evening, everyone. I extend my warmest greetings to the members of the Swedish Academy and to all of the other distinguished guests in attendance tonight.
各位晚上好。我向瑞典学院的成员和今晚所有出席宴会的尊贵来宾致以最热烈的问候。
I'm sorry I can't be with you in person, but please know that I am most definitely with you in spirit and honored to be receiving such a prestigious prize. Being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature is something I never could have imagined or seen coming.
很抱歉我没能到现场与诸位共享此刻,但请相信,在精神上,我绝对与你们同在,我深感荣幸能获得如此声望卓著的奖项。 被授予诺贝尔文学奖,是我从未想象过也没有预见到的事情。
From an early age, I've been familiar with and reading and absorbing the works of those who were deemed worthy of such a distinction: Kipling, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Pearl Buck, Albert Camus, Hemingway. These giants of literature whose works are taught in the schoolroom, housed in libraries around the world and spoken of in reverent tones have always made a deep impression. That I now join the names on such a list is truly beyond words.
从小,我就熟悉、阅读并充分汲取那些被认为值得获得该项殊荣的人的作品,如吉卜林、萧伯纳、托马斯?曼、赛珍珠、加缪、海明威。这些文学巨匠的著作在学堂上被讲授、在世界各地图书馆中陈列、被被人们虔诚地谈论着,它们给我留下了深刻的印象。如今能加入这样的名列,我的心情无以言表。
I don't know if these men and women ever thought of the Nobel honor for themselves, but I suppose that anyone writing a book, or a poem, or a play anywhere in the world might harbor that secret dream deep down inside. It's probably buried so deep that they don't even know it's there.
我不知道,这些作家是否想过自己能获得诺奖,但我猜想世界上任何一个著书写诗、或创作戏剧的人,内心深处都怀揣着这个秘密的梦想。这梦想埋藏得如此之深以至于他们自己都没意识到它的存在。
If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I'd have about the same odds as standing on the moon. In fact, during the year I was born and for a few years after, there wasn't anyone in the world who was considered good enough to win this Nobel Prize. So, I recognize that I am in very rare company, to say the least.
如果有人告诉我,我有那么一丝希望能获得诺奖,那我会认为这跟我能站在月球上的概率差不多。事实上,我出生的那一年和随后的那些年,世界上几乎没有人是完全值得诺贝尔奖的,所以,我想,至少可以说我现在属于一个非常少数的群体。
I was out on the road when I received this surprising news, and it took me more than a few minutes to properly process it. I began to think about William Shakespeare, the great literary figure. I would reckon he thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing literature couldn't have entered his head. His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read.
我是在世界巡演的过程中得知这一令人惊讶的消息的,我花了好一会儿去消化它。然后,我联想到了莎士比亚这位文学伟人。我想他是把自己当一个写剧本的来看待的,他怎么也不会想到自己是在创作文学。他的文字是为舞台而生的,是为了言说而不是阅读。
When he was writing Hamlet, I'm sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: "Who're the right actors for these roles?" "How should this be staged?" "Do I really want to set this in Denmark?" His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt at the forefront of his mind, but there were also more mundane matters to consider and deal with. "Is the financing in place?" "Are there enough good seats for my patrons?" "Where am I going to get a human skull?" I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare's mind was the question "Is this literature?"
在写《哈姆雷特》的时候,他一定在想这些问题,“谁适合演这些角色?”“这段要怎么在舞台上展现出来?”“故事背景真的要设在丹麦吗?”他富于创造的想象与野心毫无疑问是他思维最活跃的部分,但也有很多世俗琐事要考虑和处理。 “资金到位了吗?”“赞助人都能安排到好座位吗?”“到哪里能弄到人的头骨啊?”我打赌莎士比亚最不可能思考的问题就是:“这是文学吗?”
When I started writing songs as a teenager, and even as I started to achieve some renown for my abilities, my aspirations for these songs only went so far. I thought they could be heard in coffee houses or bars, maybe later in places like Carnegie Hall, the London Palladium. If I was really dreaming big, maybe I could imagine getting to make a record and then hearing my songs on the radio. That was really the big prize in my mind. Making records and hearing your songs on the radio meant that you were reaching a big audience and that you might get to keep doing what you had set out to do.
我少年时代开始写歌时,甚至当我因自己的才能而小有知名度时,我对这些歌曲的期待都十分很有限。我希望它们能在咖啡厅或酒吧被人听到,或者将来能在卡内基音乐厅,伦敦帕拉斯剧院这些地方被演唱。如果梦做得再大胆些,我希望我的音乐能被制作成唱片在电台播放,这真是我心目中最好的奖赏了。录唱片在电台播放意味着你能接触到更庞大的听众群体,而你也能按照自己的理想继续走下去。
Well, I've been doing what I set out to do for a long time, now. I've made dozens of records and played thousands of concerts all around the world. But it's my songs that are at the vital center of almost everything I do. They seemed to have found a place in the lives of many people throughout many different cultures and I'm grateful for that.
现在,我已经朝着自己规划的路走了很久了。我发行了几十张唱片,在全球举办了上千场演唱会。但我的歌曲才是我所做一切的核心,它们似乎在不同文化的各类人群中产生了影响,对此我无限感激。
But there's one thing I must say. As a performer I've played for 50,000 people and I've played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a singular persona, not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. Your honesty and how it relates to the depth of your talent is tried. The fact that the Nobel committee is so small is not lost on me.
但有件事我必须要说,作为一个表演者,我为5万人演唱过,也为50人演唱过,而为50个人表演难度更高。因为5万人会融成单一人格,但50人不会。他们每个人都是一个鲜明的个体,不同的身份,自成一体。他们能更加清晰地感知事物。你的真诚以及它如何反应出你的才华和深度,都在经受考验。诺奖评委会的人数之少,我是清楚的。
But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years.
然而,与莎士比亚一样,我常常被音乐创作和日常杂事占据了大部分时间精力,“谁最适合演唱这些歌?”“这个录音室录音效果好吗?”“这首歌的调子定对了吗?”就算过了400年,有些事也不会变的。
Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?"
但我从来没有时间问过自己:“我的歌算文学吗?”
So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer.
所以,我真的要感谢瑞典文学院,不仅花时间思考这个问题,还最终给出了一个精彩的回答。
My best wishes to you all,
致以最好的祝福,
Bob Dylan
鲍勃?迪伦
迪伦没时间考虑自己的创作是否算是文学,所以只能由诺贝尔官方来为他辩护了。
在颁奖词中,诺贝尔皇家学院的Horace Engdahl教授用一篇充满力量、极尽赞誉的演讲回击了那些批评质疑的声音。
不愧是诺贝尔文学奖的颁奖词!这篇演讲稿文采斐然,如诗一般的语言,读来极有韵味,值得细品。
What brings about the great shifts in the world of literature? Often it is when someone seizes upon a simple, overlooked form, discounted as art in the higher sense, and makes it mutate.
什么会带来文学世界的巨变?通常,是一种简单、被人忽视,从更高意义来说被贬低为技艺的一种形式被某个人所掌握,并令其蜕变的时候。
Thus, at one point, emerged the modern novel from anecdote and letter, thus arose drama in a new age from high jinx on planks placed on barrels in a marketplace, thus songs in the vernacular dethroned learned Latin poetry, thus too did La Fontaine take animal fables and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales from the nursery to Parnassian heights. Each time this occurs, our idea of literature changes.
于是,当代小说从奇闻轶事与日常通信脱颖而出,戏剧从站在市集木桶板上表演的杂耍发轫,拉丁诗文渐被方言歌谣取代,同样地,拉?方丹将动物寓言、安徒生把童话,从育婴室升华到高蹈派诗歌的高度。每一次变化的出现,我们对于文学的看法就随之发生改变。
In itself, it ought not to be a sensation that a singer/songwriter now stands recipient of the literary Nobel Prize. In a distant past, all poetry was sung or tunefully recited, poets were rhapsodes, bards, troubadours; 'lyrics' comes from 'lyre'.
本来,一位歌手或作曲家成为诺贝尔文学奖得主并不应该成为一个耸人听闻的事件。在久远的过去,所有的诗都是唱出来或是带着音调起伏诵读出来的。史诗吟诵者、游吟诗人、行吟诗人,他们就是诗人;而“歌词”一词就来源于“里尔琴”。
But what Bob Dylan did was not to return to the Greeks or the Proven?als. Instead, he dedicated himself body and soul to 20th century American popular music, the kind played on radio stations and gramophone records for ordinary people, white and black: protest songs, country, blues, early rock, gospel, mainstream music. He listened day and night, testing the stuff on his instruments, trying to learn. But when he started to write similar songs, they came out differently.
但鲍勃?迪伦所做的并非要回到古希腊或中古的普罗旺斯。相反,他全身心地投入于20世纪的美国流行音乐中,这些都是为普通人创作的音乐,不分人种,它们在广播电台和留声机唱片中播放:抗议歌曲、乡村音乐、蓝调、早期摇滚乐、福音音乐和主流音乐……他日夜聆听,用乐器弹奏,试着学习创作。当他开始写出类似的歌曲时,它们呈现出来的却是另一片天地。
In his hands, the material changed. From what he discovered in heirloom and scrap, in banal rhyme and quick wit, in curses and pious prayers, sweet nothings and crude jokes, he panned poetry gold, whether on purpose or by accident is irrelevant; all creativity begins in imitation.
在他的手中,这些素材发生了变化。从别人的传家宝与废弃之物中、从陈腐的韵律与机灵妙语中、从邪恶的诅咒和虔诚的祷告中、从甜言蜜语和粗鄙玩笑中,他淘出了诗歌的黄金。是有心还是无意,都无关紧要。所有的创作都始于模仿。
Even after fifty years of uninterrupted exposure, we are yet to absorb music's equivalent of the fable's Flying Dutchman. He makes good rhymes, said a critic, explaining greatness. And it is true. His rhyming is an alchemical substance that dissolves contexts to create new ones, scarcely containable by the human brain.
即使在50年的不断聆听之后,我们还未能完全领悟迪伦那些在音乐领域能与《漂泊的荷兰人》相媲美的歌曲。“他的旋律朗朗上口,”一位评论家如是解释他的伟大。没错。他的韵律就像是一剂炼金秘方,溶解现有的语境创造出人类大脑所难以容纳的新内容。
It was a shock. With the public expecting poppy folk songs, there stood a young man with a guitar, fusing the languages of the street and the bible into a compound that would have made the end of the world seem a superfluous replay.
多么震撼。当大众在期待着流行民谣的时候,一个年轻人手持吉他站在那儿,把街头俗语与圣经语言熔在一起,让世界末日看起来都像是多余的再现。
At the same time, he sang of love with a power of conviction everyone wants to own. All of a sudden, much of the bookish poetry in our world felt anaemic, and the routine song lyrics his colleagues continued to write were like old-fashioned gunpowder following the invention of dynamite. Soon, people stopped comparing him to Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams and turned instead to Blake, Rimbaud, Whitman, Shakespeare.
与此同时,他以一种人人想拥有的、令人信服的力量来歌颂爱。突然间,世间那些书面的诗词变得如此苍白无力,而他的同行们那些按部就班创作的词曲也仿佛成了随着炸药诞生而过时了的火器。很快,人们不再把他与伍迪?格思里和汉克?威廉姆斯这些音乐人相比,而是将他与威廉?布莱克(英国浪漫主义诗人)、阿蒂尔?兰波(法国象征主义诗人)、沃尔特?惠特曼(美国世人)和莎士比亚相提并论。
In the most unlikely setting of all - the commercial gramophone record - he gave back to the language of poetry its elevated style, lost since the Romantics. Not to sing of eternities, but to speak of what was happening around us. As if the oracle of Delphi were reading the evening news.
在商业化的黑胶唱片这一最不可能的条件中,他重新赋予诗歌语言以高昂的姿态,这是自浪漫主义时代之后便已失掉的风格。不为歌颂永恒,只在叙述我们的日常,好似德尔斐的神谕正向我们播报着晚间新闻。
Recognising that revolution by awarding Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize was a decision that seemed daring only beforehand and already seems obvious. But does he get the prize for upsetting the system of literature? Not really. There is a simpler explanation, one that we share with all those who stand with beating hearts in front of the stage at one of the venues on his never-ending tour, waiting for that magical voice.
通过授予鲍勃?迪伦诺奖来认可这一革命,初时似乎会觉得过于大胆,但现在已然觉得理所应当。但他获得文学奖是因为颠覆了文学系统吗?并不是。还有个更简单的解释,这个解释所有看过迪伦演出的观众都懂,他们都怀着一颗跳动的心站在迪伦那永不停歇的巡演舞台前,等待着那魔力般的声音响起。
Chamfort made the observation that when a master such as La Fontaine appears, the hierarchy of genres - the estimation of what is great and small, high and low in literature - is nullified. “What matter the rank of a work when its beauty is of the highest rank?" he wrote. That is the straight answer to the question of how Bob Dylan belongs in literature: as the beauty of his songs is of the highest rank.
法国剧作家尚福尔评论说,当诸如拉?方丹这类文学巨擘诞生时,文学类型的等级——对文学高低贵贱的价值估量——便再无约束力。他曾写到:“当一部作品自身的美达到了巅峰时,等级还有什么意义呢?”这也是对鲍勃?迪伦如何属于文学范畴这一问题最直白的解答:他的音乐之美已达到最崇高的地位。
By means of his oeuvre, Bob Dylan has changed our idea of what poetry can be and how it can work. He is a singer worthy of a place beside the Greeks' ?οιδ?ι, beside Ovid, beside the Romantic visionaries, beside the kings and queens of the Blues, beside the forgotten masters of brilliant standards. If people in the literary world groan, one must remind them that the gods don't write, they dance and they sing. The good wishes of the Swedish Academy follow Mr. Dylan on his way to coming bandstands.
迪伦的毕生作品已经改变了我们对诗的认知——诗是什么,该如何创作。鲍勃?迪伦作为一名歌手,值得与希腊声乐家、古罗马的奥维德、浪漫主义空想家、蓝调歌王歌后、和以及诸多以高标准来衡量而被遗忘的大师共享盛名。如果文学界的人对此不满,那他应该记得:神并不写作,他们只歌唱舞蹈。瑞典学院的美好祝愿将一路跟随迪伦先生的音乐之路前行。
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2016年诺贝尔奖颁奖仪式10日在瑞典首都斯德哥尔摩(Stockholm, Sweden)举行。
令人遗憾的是,万众期待的文学奖得主鲍勃?迪伦上台领奖发表感言的画面并没有出现。
虽然缺席典礼,但他亲笔写了一篇演讲稿,由美国驻瑞典大使(US ambassador to Sweden)代为朗读。
今年10月,瑞典皇家学院宣布鲍勃?迪伦获得诺贝尔文学奖,引来一片喝彩声和质疑声,很多人都问:
"Is Bob Dylan literature?"
“鲍勃?迪伦写的东西算文学吗?”
在获奖感言中,冷静的迪伦直面了这个质疑,以同样为舞台写作(writing for the stage)的莎士比亚为例,做了类比:
When he was writing Hamlet, I’m sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: ‘Who’re the right actors for these roles? How should this be staged? Do I really want to set this in Denmark?’ ... I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare’s mind was the question: ‘Is this literature?’
当他在写《哈姆雷特》时候,他一定在想这些问题,“谁适合演这些角色?”“这段要怎么在舞台上展现出来?”“故事背景真的应该设在丹麦吗?”……我打赌莎士比亚最不可能思考的问题就是:“这是文学吗?”
鲍勃?迪伦诺贝尔获奖感言
鲍勃?迪伦获奖感言全文,来感受一下。
Good evening, everyone. I extend my warmest greetings to the members of the Swedish Academy and to all of the other distinguished guests in attendance tonight.
各位晚上好。我向瑞典学院的成员和今晚所有出席宴会的尊贵来宾致以最热烈的问候。
I'm sorry I can't be with you in person, but please know that I am most definitely with you in spirit and honored to be receiving such a prestigious prize. Being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature is something I never could have imagined or seen coming.
很抱歉我没能到现场与诸位共享此刻,但请相信,在精神上,我绝对与你们同在,我深感荣幸能获得如此声望卓著的奖项。 被授予诺贝尔文学奖,是我从未想象过也没有预见到的事情。
From an early age, I've been familiar with and reading and absorbing the works of those who were deemed worthy of such a distinction: Kipling, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Pearl Buck, Albert Camus, Hemingway. These giants of literature whose works are taught in the schoolroom, housed in libraries around the world and spoken of in reverent tones have always made a deep impression. That I now join the names on such a list is truly beyond words.
从小,我就熟悉、阅读并充分汲取那些被认为值得获得该项殊荣的人的作品,如吉卜林、萧伯纳、托马斯?曼、赛珍珠、加缪、海明威。这些文学巨匠的著作在学堂上被讲授、在世界各地图书馆中陈列、被被人们虔诚地谈论着,它们给我留下了深刻的印象。如今能加入这样的名列,我的心情无以言表。
I don't know if these men and women ever thought of the Nobel honor for themselves, but I suppose that anyone writing a book, or a poem, or a play anywhere in the world might harbor that secret dream deep down inside. It's probably buried so deep that they don't even know it's there.
我不知道,这些作家是否想过自己能获得诺奖,但我猜想世界上任何一个著书写诗、或创作戏剧的人,内心深处都怀揣着这个秘密的梦想。这梦想埋藏得如此之深以至于他们自己都没意识到它的存在。
If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I'd have about the same odds as standing on the moon. In fact, during the year I was born and for a few years after, there wasn't anyone in the world who was considered good enough to win this Nobel Prize. So, I recognize that I am in very rare company, to say the least.
如果有人告诉我,我有那么一丝希望能获得诺奖,那我会认为这跟我能站在月球上的概率差不多。事实上,我出生的那一年和随后的那些年,世界上几乎没有人是完全值得诺贝尔奖的,所以,我想,至少可以说我现在属于一个非常少数的群体。
I was out on the road when I received this surprising news, and it took me more than a few minutes to properly process it. I began to think about William Shakespeare, the great literary figure. I would reckon he thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing literature couldn't have entered his head. His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read.
我是在世界巡演的过程中得知这一令人惊讶的消息的,我花了好一会儿去消化它。然后,我联想到了莎士比亚这位文学伟人。我想他是把自己当一个写剧本的来看待的,他怎么也不会想到自己是在创作文学。他的文字是为舞台而生的,是为了言说而不是阅读。
When he was writing Hamlet, I'm sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: "Who're the right actors for these roles?" "How should this be staged?" "Do I really want to set this in Denmark?" His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt at the forefront of his mind, but there were also more mundane matters to consider and deal with. "Is the financing in place?" "Are there enough good seats for my patrons?" "Where am I going to get a human skull?" I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare's mind was the question "Is this literature?"
在写《哈姆雷特》的时候,他一定在想这些问题,“谁适合演这些角色?”“这段要怎么在舞台上展现出来?”“故事背景真的要设在丹麦吗?”他富于创造的想象与野心毫无疑问是他思维最活跃的部分,但也有很多世俗琐事要考虑和处理。 “资金到位了吗?”“赞助人都能安排到好座位吗?”“到哪里能弄到人的头骨啊?”我打赌莎士比亚最不可能思考的问题就是:“这是文学吗?”
When I started writing songs as a teenager, and even as I started to achieve some renown for my abilities, my aspirations for these songs only went so far. I thought they could be heard in coffee houses or bars, maybe later in places like Carnegie Hall, the London Palladium. If I was really dreaming big, maybe I could imagine getting to make a record and then hearing my songs on the radio. That was really the big prize in my mind. Making records and hearing your songs on the radio meant that you were reaching a big audience and that you might get to keep doing what you had set out to do.
我少年时代开始写歌时,甚至当我因自己的才能而小有知名度时,我对这些歌曲的期待都十分很有限。我希望它们能在咖啡厅或酒吧被人听到,或者将来能在卡内基音乐厅,伦敦帕拉斯剧院这些地方被演唱。如果梦做得再大胆些,我希望我的音乐能被制作成唱片在电台播放,这真是我心目中最好的奖赏了。录唱片在电台播放意味着你能接触到更庞大的听众群体,而你也能按照自己的理想继续走下去。
Well, I've been doing what I set out to do for a long time, now. I've made dozens of records and played thousands of concerts all around the world. But it's my songs that are at the vital center of almost everything I do. They seemed to have found a place in the lives of many people throughout many different cultures and I'm grateful for that.
现在,我已经朝着自己规划的路走了很久了。我发行了几十张唱片,在全球举办了上千场演唱会。但我的歌曲才是我所做一切的核心,它们似乎在不同文化的各类人群中产生了影响,对此我无限感激。
But there's one thing I must say. As a performer I've played for 50,000 people and I've played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a singular persona, not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. Your honesty and how it relates to the depth of your talent is tried. The fact that the Nobel committee is so small is not lost on me.
但有件事我必须要说,作为一个表演者,我为5万人演唱过,也为50人演唱过,而为50个人表演难度更高。因为5万人会融成单一人格,但50人不会。他们每个人都是一个鲜明的个体,不同的身份,自成一体。他们能更加清晰地感知事物。你的真诚以及它如何反应出你的才华和深度,都在经受考验。诺奖评委会的人数之少,我是清楚的。
But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years.
然而,与莎士比亚一样,我常常被音乐创作和日常杂事占据了大部分时间精力,“谁最适合演唱这些歌?”“这个录音室录音效果好吗?”“这首歌的调子定对了吗?”就算过了400年,有些事也不会变的。
Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?"
但我从来没有时间问过自己:“我的歌算文学吗?”
So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer.
所以,我真的要感谢瑞典文学院,不仅花时间思考这个问题,还最终给出了一个精彩的回答。
My best wishes to you all,
致以最好的祝福,
Bob Dylan
鲍勃?迪伦
迪伦没时间考虑自己的创作是否算是文学,所以只能由诺贝尔官方来为他辩护了。
在颁奖词中,诺贝尔皇家学院的Horace Engdahl教授用一篇充满力量、极尽赞誉的演讲回击了那些批评质疑的声音。
不愧是诺贝尔文学奖的颁奖词!这篇演讲稿文采斐然,如诗一般的语言,读来极有韵味,值得细品。
What brings about the great shifts in the world of literature? Often it is when someone seizes upon a simple, overlooked form, discounted as art in the higher sense, and makes it mutate.
什么会带来文学世界的巨变?通常,是一种简单、被人忽视,从更高意义来说被贬低为技艺的一种形式被某个人所掌握,并令其蜕变的时候。
Thus, at one point, emerged the modern novel from anecdote and letter, thus arose drama in a new age from high jinx on planks placed on barrels in a marketplace, thus songs in the vernacular dethroned learned Latin poetry, thus too did La Fontaine take animal fables and Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales from the nursery to Parnassian heights. Each time this occurs, our idea of literature changes.
于是,当代小说从奇闻轶事与日常通信脱颖而出,戏剧从站在市集木桶板上表演的杂耍发轫,拉丁诗文渐被方言歌谣取代,同样地,拉?方丹将动物寓言、安徒生把童话,从育婴室升华到高蹈派诗歌的高度。每一次变化的出现,我们对于文学的看法就随之发生改变。
In itself, it ought not to be a sensation that a singer/songwriter now stands recipient of the literary Nobel Prize. In a distant past, all poetry was sung or tunefully recited, poets were rhapsodes, bards, troubadours; 'lyrics' comes from 'lyre'.
本来,一位歌手或作曲家成为诺贝尔文学奖得主并不应该成为一个耸人听闻的事件。在久远的过去,所有的诗都是唱出来或是带着音调起伏诵读出来的。史诗吟诵者、游吟诗人、行吟诗人,他们就是诗人;而“歌词”一词就来源于“里尔琴”。
But what Bob Dylan did was not to return to the Greeks or the Proven?als. Instead, he dedicated himself body and soul to 20th century American popular music, the kind played on radio stations and gramophone records for ordinary people, white and black: protest songs, country, blues, early rock, gospel, mainstream music. He listened day and night, testing the stuff on his instruments, trying to learn. But when he started to write similar songs, they came out differently.
但鲍勃?迪伦所做的并非要回到古希腊或中古的普罗旺斯。相反,他全身心地投入于20世纪的美国流行音乐中,这些都是为普通人创作的音乐,不分人种,它们在广播电台和留声机唱片中播放:抗议歌曲、乡村音乐、蓝调、早期摇滚乐、福音音乐和主流音乐……他日夜聆听,用乐器弹奏,试着学习创作。当他开始写出类似的歌曲时,它们呈现出来的却是另一片天地。
In his hands, the material changed. From what he discovered in heirloom and scrap, in banal rhyme and quick wit, in curses and pious prayers, sweet nothings and crude jokes, he panned poetry gold, whether on purpose or by accident is irrelevant; all creativity begins in imitation.
在他的手中,这些素材发生了变化。从别人的传家宝与废弃之物中、从陈腐的韵律与机灵妙语中、从邪恶的诅咒和虔诚的祷告中、从甜言蜜语和粗鄙玩笑中,他淘出了诗歌的黄金。是有心还是无意,都无关紧要。所有的创作都始于模仿。
Even after fifty years of uninterrupted exposure, we are yet to absorb music's equivalent of the fable's Flying Dutchman. He makes good rhymes, said a critic, explaining greatness. And it is true. His rhyming is an alchemical substance that dissolves contexts to create new ones, scarcely containable by the human brain.
即使在50年的不断聆听之后,我们还未能完全领悟迪伦那些在音乐领域能与《漂泊的荷兰人》相媲美的歌曲。“他的旋律朗朗上口,”一位评论家如是解释他的伟大。没错。他的韵律就像是一剂炼金秘方,溶解现有的语境创造出人类大脑所难以容纳的新内容。
It was a shock. With the public expecting poppy folk songs, there stood a young man with a guitar, fusing the languages of the street and the bible into a compound that would have made the end of the world seem a superfluous replay.
多么震撼。当大众在期待着流行民谣的时候,一个年轻人手持吉他站在那儿,把街头俗语与圣经语言熔在一起,让世界末日看起来都像是多余的再现。
At the same time, he sang of love with a power of conviction everyone wants to own. All of a sudden, much of the bookish poetry in our world felt anaemic, and the routine song lyrics his colleagues continued to write were like old-fashioned gunpowder following the invention of dynamite. Soon, people stopped comparing him to Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams and turned instead to Blake, Rimbaud, Whitman, Shakespeare.
与此同时,他以一种人人想拥有的、令人信服的力量来歌颂爱。突然间,世间那些书面的诗词变得如此苍白无力,而他的同行们那些按部就班创作的词曲也仿佛成了随着炸药诞生而过时了的火器。很快,人们不再把他与伍迪?格思里和汉克?威廉姆斯这些音乐人相比,而是将他与威廉?布莱克(英国浪漫主义诗人)、阿蒂尔?兰波(法国象征主义诗人)、沃尔特?惠特曼(美国世人)和莎士比亚相提并论。
In the most unlikely setting of all - the commercial gramophone record - he gave back to the language of poetry its elevated style, lost since the Romantics. Not to sing of eternities, but to speak of what was happening around us. As if the oracle of Delphi were reading the evening news.
在商业化的黑胶唱片这一最不可能的条件中,他重新赋予诗歌语言以高昂的姿态,这是自浪漫主义时代之后便已失掉的风格。不为歌颂永恒,只在叙述我们的日常,好似德尔斐的神谕正向我们播报着晚间新闻。
Recognising that revolution by awarding Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize was a decision that seemed daring only beforehand and already seems obvious. But does he get the prize for upsetting the system of literature? Not really. There is a simpler explanation, one that we share with all those who stand with beating hearts in front of the stage at one of the venues on his never-ending tour, waiting for that magical voice.
通过授予鲍勃?迪伦诺奖来认可这一革命,初时似乎会觉得过于大胆,但现在已然觉得理所应当。但他获得文学奖是因为颠覆了文学系统吗?并不是。还有个更简单的解释,这个解释所有看过迪伦演出的观众都懂,他们都怀着一颗跳动的心站在迪伦那永不停歇的巡演舞台前,等待着那魔力般的声音响起。
Chamfort made the observation that when a master such as La Fontaine appears, the hierarchy of genres - the estimation of what is great and small, high and low in literature - is nullified. “What matter the rank of a work when its beauty is of the highest rank?" he wrote. That is the straight answer to the question of how Bob Dylan belongs in literature: as the beauty of his songs is of the highest rank.
法国剧作家尚福尔评论说,当诸如拉?方丹这类文学巨擘诞生时,文学类型的等级——对文学高低贵贱的价值估量——便再无约束力。他曾写到:“当一部作品自身的美达到了巅峰时,等级还有什么意义呢?”这也是对鲍勃?迪伦如何属于文学范畴这一问题最直白的解答:他的音乐之美已达到最崇高的地位。
By means of his oeuvre, Bob Dylan has changed our idea of what poetry can be and how it can work. He is a singer worthy of a place beside the Greeks' ?οιδ?ι, beside Ovid, beside the Romantic visionaries, beside the kings and queens of the Blues, beside the forgotten masters of brilliant standards. If people in the literary world groan, one must remind them that the gods don't write, they dance and they sing. The good wishes of the Swedish Academy follow Mr. Dylan on his way to coming bandstands.
迪伦的毕生作品已经改变了我们对诗的认知——诗是什么,该如何创作。鲍勃?迪伦作为一名歌手,值得与希腊声乐家、古罗马的奥维德、浪漫主义空想家、蓝调歌王歌后、和以及诸多以高标准来衡量而被遗忘的大师共享盛名。如果文学界的人对此不满,那他应该记得:神并不写作,他们只歌唱舞蹈。瑞典学院的美好祝愿将一路跟随迪伦先生的音乐之路前行。
英语演讲:我有一个梦想 I Have a Dream (双语)
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Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
100年前,一位伟大的美国人——今天我们就站在他象征性的身影下——签署了《解放宣言》.这项重要法令的颁布,对于千百万灼烤于非正义残焰中的黑奴,犹如带来希望之光的硕大灯塔,恰似结束漫漫长夜禁锢的欢畅黎明.
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
然而,100年后,黑人依然没有获得自由.100年后,黑人依然悲惨地蹒跚于种族隔离和种族歧视的枷锁之下.100年后,黑人依然生活在物质繁荣翰海的贫困孤岛上.100年后,黑人依然在美国社会中间向隅而泣,依然感到自己在国土家园中流离漂泊.所以,我们今天来到这里,要把这骇人听闻的情况公诸于众.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
从某种意义上说,我们来到国家的首都是为了兑现一张支票.我们共和国的缔造者在拟写宪法和独立宣言的辉煌篇章时,就签署了一张每一个美国人都能继承的期票.这张期票向所有人承诺——不论白人还是黑人——都享有不可让渡的生存权、自由权和追求幸福权.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
然而,今天美国显然对她的有色公民拖欠着这张期票.美国没有承兑这笔神圣的债务,而是开始给黑人一张空头支票——一张盖着“资金不足”的印戳被退回的支票.但是,我们决不相信正义的银行会破产.我们决不相信这个国家巨大的机会宝库会资金不足.
我们来到这块圣地还为了提醒美国:现在正是万分紧急的时刻.现在不是从容不迫悠然行事或服用渐进主义镇静剂的时候.现在是实现民主诺言的时候.现在是走出幽暗荒凉的种族隔离深谷,踏上种族平等的阳关大道的时候.现在是使我们国家走出种族不平等的流沙,踏上充满手足之情的磐石的时候.现在是使上帝所有孩子真正享有公正的时候.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.
忽视这一时刻的紧迫性,对于国家将会是致命的.自由平等的朗朗秋日不到来,黑人顺情合理哀怨的酷暑就不会过去.1963年不是一个结束,而是一个开端.
Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
如果国家依然我行我素,那些希望黑人只需出出气就会心满意足的人将大失所望.在黑人得到公民权之前,美国既不会安宁,也不会平静.反抗的旋风将继续震撼我们国家的基石,直至光辉灿烂的正义之日来临.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
但是,对于站在通向正义之宫艰险门槛上的人们,有一些话我必须要说.在我们争取合法地位的过程中,切不要错误行事导致犯罪.我们切不要吞饮仇恨辛酸的苦酒,来解除对于自由的饮渴.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
我们应该永远得体地、纪律严明地进行斗争.我们不能容许我们富有创造性的抗议沦为暴力行动.我们应该不断升华到用灵魂力量对付肉体力量的崇高境界.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
席卷黑人社会的新的奇迹般的战斗精神,不应导致我们对所有白人的不信任——因为许多白人兄弟已经认识到:他们的命运同我们的命运紧密相连,他们的自由同我们的自由休戚相关.他们今天来到这里参加集会就是明证.
We cannot walk alone.And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
我们不能单独行动.当我们行动时,我们必须保证勇往直前.我们不能后退.有人问热心民权运动的人:“你们什么时候会感到满意?”只要黑人依然是不堪形容的警察
So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
因此,我们来兑现这张支票.这张支票将给我们以宝贵的自由和正义的保障.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
暴行恐怖的牺牲品,我们就决不会满意.只要我们在旅途劳顿后,却被公路旁汽车游客旅社和城市旅馆拒之门外,我们就决不会满意.只要黑人的基本活动范围只限于从狭小的黑人居住区到较大的黑人居住区,我们就决不会满意.只要我们的孩子被“仅供白人”的牌子剥夺个性,损毁尊严,我们就决不会满意.只要密西西比州的黑人不能参加选举,纽约州的黑人认为他们与选举毫不相干,我们就决不会满意.不,不,我们不会满意,直至公正似水奔流,正义如泉喷涌. 查看全部
马丁·路德·金(公元1929—1968年),美国黑人律师,著名黑人民权运动领袖.一生曾三次被捕,三次被行刺,1964年获诺贝尔和平奖.1968年被种族主义分子枪杀.他被誉为近百年来八大最具有说服力的演说家之一.1963年他领导25万人向华盛顿进军“大游行”,为黑人争取自由平等和就业.马丁·路德·金在游行集会上发表了这篇著名演说.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
100年前,一位伟大的美国人——今天我们就站在他象征性的身影下——签署了《解放宣言》.这项重要法令的颁布,对于千百万灼烤于非正义残焰中的黑奴,犹如带来希望之光的硕大灯塔,恰似结束漫漫长夜禁锢的欢畅黎明.
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
然而,100年后,黑人依然没有获得自由.100年后,黑人依然悲惨地蹒跚于种族隔离和种族歧视的枷锁之下.100年后,黑人依然生活在物质繁荣翰海的贫困孤岛上.100年后,黑人依然在美国社会中间向隅而泣,依然感到自己在国土家园中流离漂泊.所以,我们今天来到这里,要把这骇人听闻的情况公诸于众.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
从某种意义上说,我们来到国家的首都是为了兑现一张支票.我们共和国的缔造者在拟写宪法和独立宣言的辉煌篇章时,就签署了一张每一个美国人都能继承的期票.这张期票向所有人承诺——不论白人还是黑人——都享有不可让渡的生存权、自由权和追求幸福权.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
然而,今天美国显然对她的有色公民拖欠着这张期票.美国没有承兑这笔神圣的债务,而是开始给黑人一张空头支票——一张盖着“资金不足”的印戳被退回的支票.但是,我们决不相信正义的银行会破产.我们决不相信这个国家巨大的机会宝库会资金不足.
我们来到这块圣地还为了提醒美国:现在正是万分紧急的时刻.现在不是从容不迫悠然行事或服用渐进主义镇静剂的时候.现在是实现民主诺言的时候.现在是走出幽暗荒凉的种族隔离深谷,踏上种族平等的阳关大道的时候.现在是使我们国家走出种族不平等的流沙,踏上充满手足之情的磐石的时候.现在是使上帝所有孩子真正享有公正的时候.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.
忽视这一时刻的紧迫性,对于国家将会是致命的.自由平等的朗朗秋日不到来,黑人顺情合理哀怨的酷暑就不会过去.1963年不是一个结束,而是一个开端.
Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
如果国家依然我行我素,那些希望黑人只需出出气就会心满意足的人将大失所望.在黑人得到公民权之前,美国既不会安宁,也不会平静.反抗的旋风将继续震撼我们国家的基石,直至光辉灿烂的正义之日来临.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
但是,对于站在通向正义之宫艰险门槛上的人们,有一些话我必须要说.在我们争取合法地位的过程中,切不要错误行事导致犯罪.我们切不要吞饮仇恨辛酸的苦酒,来解除对于自由的饮渴.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
我们应该永远得体地、纪律严明地进行斗争.我们不能容许我们富有创造性的抗议沦为暴力行动.我们应该不断升华到用灵魂力量对付肉体力量的崇高境界.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
席卷黑人社会的新的奇迹般的战斗精神,不应导致我们对所有白人的不信任——因为许多白人兄弟已经认识到:他们的命运同我们的命运紧密相连,他们的自由同我们的自由休戚相关.他们今天来到这里参加集会就是明证.
We cannot walk alone.And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
我们不能单独行动.当我们行动时,我们必须保证勇往直前.我们不能后退.有人问热心民权运动的人:“你们什么时候会感到满意?”只要黑人依然是不堪形容的警察
So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
因此,我们来兑现这张支票.这张支票将给我们以宝贵的自由和正义的保障.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
暴行恐怖的牺牲品,我们就决不会满意.只要我们在旅途劳顿后,却被公路旁汽车游客旅社和城市旅馆拒之门外,我们就决不会满意.只要黑人的基本活动范围只限于从狭小的黑人居住区到较大的黑人居住区,我们就决不会满意.只要我们的孩子被“仅供白人”的牌子剥夺个性,损毁尊严,我们就决不会满意.只要密西西比州的黑人不能参加选举,纽约州的黑人认为他们与选举毫不相干,我们就决不会满意.不,不,我们不会满意,直至公正似水奔流,正义如泉喷涌.
双语演讲:2016年特朗普感恩节演讲
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川普说:“我们非常有幸能称这个国家为我们的家。这就是美国:她是我们的家。我们在这里成家立业、照顾亲人、关心邻里、实现梦想。我在这个感恩节祈祷,我们开始弥合分歧,带着共同的目标和决心,团结一致,让国家向前迈进,更加强大。”
We are very blessed to call this nation our home. And that is what America is: it is our home. It’s where we raise our families, care for our loved ones, look out for our neighbors, and live out our dreams.
我们很幸运地称这个国家为家园,这就是美国,这是我们的家园。我们在这里安家、关心我们所爱之人、照顾友邻,并活出我们的梦想。
It is my prayer, that on this Thanksgiving, we begin to heal our divisions and move forward as one country, strengthened by a shared purpose and very, very common resolve.
我祷告在今年的感恩节,我们开始弥合分歧,以一个国家的姿态继续前进,拥有共同目的和共同的决心。
In declaring this national holiday, President Lincoln called upon Americans to speak with “one voice and one heart.” That’s just what we have to do.
宣布这个国家节日时,林肯总统呼吁美国人齐力发声,并团结一心,我们就该如此。(这里川普引用了林肯1864年的感恩节讲话,当时美国正值内战时期,林肯宣布将感恩节定为全国性节日。)
We have just finished a long and bruising political campaign. Emotions are raw and tensions just don’t heal overnight. It doesn’t go quickly, unfortunately, but we have before us the chance now to make history together to bring real change to Washington, real safety to our cities, and real prosperity to our communities, including our inner cities. So important to me, and so important to our country. But to succeed, we must enlist the effort of our entire nation.
我们才刚刚结束了一场漫长又激烈的政治竞选,人民情绪强烈,紧张局势不会在一夜之间消除。不幸的是,这一切不会马上消失。但现在在我们眼前有一起创造历史的机会,为美国带来真正的改变,为各大城市带来真正的安全,为内陆城市等各群体带来真正的繁荣。这对我和我们的国家而言,都非常重要。但是要成功,我们必须争取全国上下共同努力。
This historic political campaign is now over. Now begins a great national campaign to rebuild our country and to restore the full promise of America for all of our people.
如今这个历史性的政治竞选结束了,但现在重建我们国家的伟大运动开始了,并恢复美国对所有人民的承诺。
I am asking you to join me in this effort. It is time to restore the bonds of trust between citizens. Because when America is unified, there is nothing beyond our reach, and I mean absolutely nothing.
我希望你们加入我,共同努力。是时候恢复公民之间信任的纽带了。因为只要美国人民团结一致,没有我们做不到的事儿——我是指任何事儿。
Let us give thanks for all that we have, and let us boldly face the exciting new frontiers that lie ahead.
让我们感恩所拥有的一切,让我们大胆面对前方令人兴奋的新领域。
Thank you. God Bless You and God Bless America.
感谢你们,上帝保佑你们,天佑美国。 查看全部
感恩节前夕,候任总统唐纳德•特朗普发表讲话,呼吁美国民众弥合分歧。在视频中,特朗普号召国民在持续数周对总统选举团进行抗议和请愿之后能够再一次团结起来。
川普说:“我们非常有幸能称这个国家为我们的家。这就是美国:她是我们的家。我们在这里成家立业、照顾亲人、关心邻里、实现梦想。我在这个感恩节祈祷,我们开始弥合分歧,带着共同的目标和决心,团结一致,让国家向前迈进,更加强大。”
We are very blessed to call this nation our home. And that is what America is: it is our home. It’s where we raise our families, care for our loved ones, look out for our neighbors, and live out our dreams.
我们很幸运地称这个国家为家园,这就是美国,这是我们的家园。我们在这里安家、关心我们所爱之人、照顾友邻,并活出我们的梦想。
It is my prayer, that on this Thanksgiving, we begin to heal our divisions and move forward as one country, strengthened by a shared purpose and very, very common resolve.
我祷告在今年的感恩节,我们开始弥合分歧,以一个国家的姿态继续前进,拥有共同目的和共同的决心。
In declaring this national holiday, President Lincoln called upon Americans to speak with “one voice and one heart.” That’s just what we have to do.
宣布这个国家节日时,林肯总统呼吁美国人齐力发声,并团结一心,我们就该如此。(这里川普引用了林肯1864年的感恩节讲话,当时美国正值内战时期,林肯宣布将感恩节定为全国性节日。)
We have just finished a long and bruising political campaign. Emotions are raw and tensions just don’t heal overnight. It doesn’t go quickly, unfortunately, but we have before us the chance now to make history together to bring real change to Washington, real safety to our cities, and real prosperity to our communities, including our inner cities. So important to me, and so important to our country. But to succeed, we must enlist the effort of our entire nation.
我们才刚刚结束了一场漫长又激烈的政治竞选,人民情绪强烈,紧张局势不会在一夜之间消除。不幸的是,这一切不会马上消失。但现在在我们眼前有一起创造历史的机会,为美国带来真正的改变,为各大城市带来真正的安全,为内陆城市等各群体带来真正的繁荣。这对我和我们的国家而言,都非常重要。但是要成功,我们必须争取全国上下共同努力。
This historic political campaign is now over. Now begins a great national campaign to rebuild our country and to restore the full promise of America for all of our people.
如今这个历史性的政治竞选结束了,但现在重建我们国家的伟大运动开始了,并恢复美国对所有人民的承诺。
I am asking you to join me in this effort. It is time to restore the bonds of trust between citizens. Because when America is unified, there is nothing beyond our reach, and I mean absolutely nothing.
我希望你们加入我,共同努力。是时候恢复公民之间信任的纽带了。因为只要美国人民团结一致,没有我们做不到的事儿——我是指任何事儿。
Let us give thanks for all that we have, and let us boldly face the exciting new frontiers that lie ahead.
让我们感恩所拥有的一切,让我们大胆面对前方令人兴奋的新领域。
Thank you. God Bless You and God Bless America.
感谢你们,上帝保佑你们,天佑美国。
英语演讲:2016年斯皮尔伯格哈佛大学演讲——《倾听内心低语》
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史蒂文•斯皮尔伯格是一名富有传奇色彩的好莱坞导演,其代表作有家喻户晓的大白鲨,E.T,侏罗纪公园,辛德勒名单等。2013年时代杂志将其列入世纪百大人物之一;斯皮尔伯格,在最近为哈佛的毕业典礼带来了一番精彩的演说,博古通今将电影制作和灵感做了深刻而风趣的解说。
斯皮尔伯格的演讲以自嘲开场——这位今年已70岁的大导演说,自己直到2002年(已56岁)才大学毕业,因为年轻时在大学期间早早就确信了自己想要做的事,所以就辍学了。 后来,因为他总是对自己的7个孩子强调大学教育的重要性,但自己却没有身体力行,所以决定在五十多岁时重返大学获得了学位。 查看全部