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Merlin, then explains why he's often confused

接下来 我们来说下一个问题 为何梅林会常常困惑呢

And Merlin's gonna be the magical figure and comic figure,

梅林是一个魔法师 一个有趣的形象

he's always getting his incantations always screwed up,

他常常念动咒语大搞破坏

he's transporting himself to Bimini, he changed himself to a condor,

还在比米尼群岛上把自己变成了一只秃鹫

and he's always practicing his incantations and not doing very well

他总是练习咒语 却总是做不好

But he's living life backwards, we read on page 35,

但他是逆向生长的 我们在25页读到了

he says, oh yes, "how", about line 7,

哦对 在第七行 他说

"how did I know, to set breakfast for two, "

我是怎么知道要准备两个人的早餐呢

that is why I showed you the looking glass "

那就是我向你展示预见镜的原因"

Now ordinary people are born forward in time,

常人总是向前生活的

and if you understand what I mean, nearly everything goes in forward too

如果你明白我的意思的话 万物都是顺向发展的

That makes it quite easy for the ordinary people to live

但假如你可以不再展望未来

Just as it would be easy to join those 5 dots into a "W",

而是从未来回顾 由内而外

if you're allowed to look at them forward,

活着便易如反掌

instead of backwards and inside-out

恰如五个点可以顺利成章的连成W一样

Merin's trying to explain why he doesn't have Prozac with his cereal in the morning

梅林正在解释他没在麦片里放上抗抑郁药的原因

He's just a little loony, because he's confused

他只是有点疯疯癫癫的 因为他很迷惑

He just like have too much information so he can't remember

如果他能向人倾诉的话 信息太多了

if he told somebody of this

他实在无从记起

I don't think White does a exceedingly good job of being true to this idea,

我不认为White在这个问题上解释得合理

of you know, if we try to apply that Merlin is living life backwards,

正如你们所知 如果我们试着像梅林那样逆向生长

how he confused he would be, but that's the premise he takes

他如何会困惑他本能预见的困惑呢

But I'm fortunately was born at the wrong end of time

但不幸我没能生在那个年代

And so thus, he's often confused

因此 他常常困惑

And he makes a point, when I read the sentence I become confused

虽然他解释了原因 但我读到这里的时候还是很困惑

And why he wrote the sentence with idea

究竟为什么要写这句话呢

and read it 6 times and still be confused,

反复读过六遍之后 我始终不明所以

and say "ok, I get it, I'm confused "

只好自我安慰道 好吧我懂了 我也困惑了

The paragraph the story you see, about 2/3 the way bottom 35, he said"

你们看35页上约2/3处的小故事 他说

If you know, what's going to happen to people

如果你知晓未来将会发生什么

and not what has happened to them it makes to difficult to prevent

却不知道过去已发生了什么

from happening if you don't know, if you don't want it to have happened "

你就很难用未知的因去避免已知的果

Well that makes sense, in other words, you know,

这句话是很有道理的 换言之

you don't want that outcome but since you only know the outcome,

你抗拒的结果只是结果本身

you don't know what caused the outcome,

你却不知道造成结果的缘因是什么

how can you prevent what would bring the outcome

以及如何避开可能产生恶果的因缘

It's one of those things you read

这只是你们所读到的一样东西

and then you think "I better stop reading for tonight,

你们没准会想 今晚我最好不要再读书了

obviously my brain is fried, I've done too much homework,

我一定是做了太多的作业导致头脑混乱了

it's time for pizza, and doing something else "

还是来个披萨吧 或者干点什么别的

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