Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None — Page 14
《查拉图斯特拉》第一部分大约用了十天写成——也就是说,从1883年2月初写到大约2月中旬。
The first part of "Zarathustra" was written in about ten days—that is to say, from the beginning to about the middle of February 1883.
「最后几行恰好写于理查德·瓦格纳在威尼斯辞世的那个神圣时刻。」
"The last lines were written precisely in the hallowed hour when Richard Wagner gave up the ghost in Venice."
除了用于创作本书第一部分的那十天之外,我的兄弟常常提起那个冬天是他所经历过的最艰难、最多病痛的一个冬天。
With the exception of the ten days occupied in composing the first part of this book, my brother often referred to this winter as the hardest and sickliest he had ever experienced.
然而他并不是说他以前的病症在困扰着他,而是说他正遭受着一场严重流感的折磨——那场流感是他在圣玛格丽塔染上的,在他抵达热那亚后又折腾了他好几个星期。
He did not, however, mean thereby that his former disorders were troubling him, but that he was suffering from a severe attack of influenza which he had caught in Santa Margherita, and which tormented him for several weeks after his arrival in Genoa.
然而事实上,他抱怨最多的是他的精神状态——那种难以言说的被遗弃感——他在《查拉图斯特拉》中以令人心碎的方式表达了这种感受。
As a matter of fact, however, what he complained of most was his spiritual condition—that indescribable forsakenness—to which he gives such heartrending expression in "Zarathustra".
甚至连第一部分在朋友和熟人那里所得到的反响也极为令人沮丧:因为几乎所有收到他赠书的人都误解了这部作品。
Even the reception which the first part met with at the hands of friends and acquaintances was extremely disheartening: for almost all those to whom he presented copies of the work misunderstood it.
「我发现没有人能够理解我的许多思想;《查拉图斯特拉》的遭遇证明了一点:一个人可以说得再清晰不过,却仍然得不到任何人的倾听。」
"I found no one ripe for many of my thoughts; the case of 'Zarathustra' proves that one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by any one.
Vocabulary
- first
- 第一,最开始的
- part
- 部分,组成整体的一个段落
- written
- write的过去分词,被写成
- about
- 大约,roughly的意思
- beginning
- 开始,起始阶段
- middle
- 中间,中部时间或位置
- February
- 二月,一年中的第二个月
- last
- 最后的,最末的
- lines
- 行,文字的行数
- precisely
- 恰好,精确地,正是
- hallowed
- 神圣的,受尊崇的
- hour
- 小时,特定的时刻
- ghost
- 鬼魂;give up the ghost意为死去
- exception
- 例外,不符合一般规律的情况
- occupied
- 占据,忙于某事
- composing
- 创作,撰写(音乐或文章)
- often
- 经常,频繁地
- referred
- 提及,称呼,指称某事
- winter
- 冬天,一年四季中最冷的季节
- hardest
- 最艰难的,hard的最高级
- sickliest
- 最多病的,sickly的最高级
- ever
- 曾经,在任何时候
- experienced
- 经历过,体验过
- however
- 然而,但是,表示转折
- mean
- 意思是,表示……的含义
- thereby
- 因此,由此,通过那种方式
- former
- 以前的,之前的
- disorders
- 疾病,失调,健康紊乱状态
- troubling
- 困扰,使烦恼
- suffering
- 遭受,忍受痛苦或疾病
- severe
- 严重的,剧烈的
- attack
- 发作,(疾病的)突然发作
- influenza
- 流行性感冒,即流感
- caught
- catch的过去式,感染(疾病)
- tormented
- 折磨,使痛苦
- several
- 几个,数个,不止两个
- arrival
- 到达,抵达某地
- matter
- 事情,as a matter of fact意为事实上
- fact
- 事实,真实存在的情况
- complained
- 抱怨,表示不满或痛苦
- spiritual
- 精神上的,心灵的
- condition
- 状况,状态,情形
- indescribable
- 难以形容的,无法用语言表达的
- forsakenness
- 被遗弃感,孤立无援的状态
- heartrending
- 令人心碎的,极度悲痛的
- expression
- 表达,表现,表述方式
- Even
- 甚至,连……也,表示强调
- reception
- 接待,反应,对某事物的接受态度
- hands
- 手;at the hands of意为由……手中
- acquaintances
- 熟人,认识但不太亲密的人
- extremely
- 极其,非常,程度极高地
- disheartening
- 令人沮丧的,使人气馁的
- almost
- 几乎,差不多,将近
- whom
- who的宾格,用于正式从句
- presented
- 赠送,呈递,递交
- copies
- 副本,copy的复数,书的册数
- work
- 作品,著作,工作成果
- misunderstood
- 误解,错误理解某事
- ripe
- 成熟的,准备好接受的
- thoughts
- 想法,思想,thought的复数
- case
- 情况,案例,实例
- proves
- 证明,prove的第三人称单数
- speak
- 说话,讲述,表达
- utmost
- 极度的,最大程度的
- clearness
- 清晰度,明了程度
- yet
- 然而,但是,表示转折
- heard
- hear的过去分词,被听见,被理解
- any
- 任何,任一,用于否定或疑问
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