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maybe I already said this once and, you know, if you talk to somebody in social Sciences,
也许我曾经已经讲过了 你们知道 如果社会科学领域的什么人谈话
they'll tell you it's good to change language because people are affected by language
他们将告诉你改变语言是有好处的 因为人们受语言的影响
Being more of a linguist it drives me nuts when we change language to change people
作为一个语言学家 当说我们通过变化语言来改变人类时 它把我逼疯了
because I don't think words are gonna change people
因为我不认为语言会改变人类
And a good example of this is changing all these chairmen
一个很好的例子是改变所有的主席们
and words like this, the chairperson or whatever,
比如像主席或者任何的词语
because it was man
因为它是一个人类

There are actually two sources for the word "man" in English
在英语中"男人"这个单词 实际上有两个来源
One, you hear sometimes Jewish people mutter in movies "Mensch" which means human being
一个是 在电影里你有时候听到犹太人喃喃低语"高尚的人" 意思就是指人类
And the other, is the men word, "Mann"
另一个是 人类的单词是"曼"
And so, a lot of times when words appear as "man",
所以 很多次当单词作为"男人"出现时
they really are from the word "mensch"
他们确实是来自于"高尚的人"这个词
And so, they're meaning human being,
所以他们的意思是指人类
they're not meaning male human beings
他们不是指男性人类
And so that's how I read this
这就是我怎么读得这个
And I realize, being a man, it's easier for me to read it that way and not feel excluded
作为人类 我意识到 以那种方式读它对我而言 更容易些 不会感到有排斥感
He had been forged as a weapon for the aid of mankind, on the assumption that mankind were good
亚瑟已经被打造成了一个帮助人类的武器 并建立在人性本善的假定上
He had been forged, by deluded old teachers
他被轻率的年老的老师们打造成了
So when you put "deluded" in here, what's he inferring now?
当你把”轻率”放在这的时候 他暗指什么呢
What's he inferring?
他暗指什么呢
That Merlin was wrong
梅林错了
You know, Merlin was deluded
你知道 梅林被欺骗了
He wasn't right
他是错误的
Into a sort of Pasteur or Curie or pattern discoverer of insulin
像巴斯德或者居里夫人或者胰岛素模型的发现者
The servicer which he had been destined, back to the word,
回到文中 他命中注定要成为的人
had been against Force, so we're gonna talk a lot about force in these last ten pages,
是与力量相悖的 在最后十页 这里我们将多谈谈力量
the mental illness of humanity
人性的心理阴暗面
His Table, his ideas of Chivalry, his Holy Grail, his devotion to Justice
他的圆桌 他的骑士精神 圣杯和对正义的坚持
So, these are the progressive steps, okay?
这些都是非常重要的步骤
these had been progressive, steps in the effort for which he had been bred
在他朝着自己的目标努力的过程中 这些都很重要
He was like a scientist who had pursued the root of cancer all his life
他像一个科学家毕生致力于癌症根源的研究
And that cancer is what?
那么这个癌症是什么呢
Might
力量
Might to have ended it, to have made men happier
力量能够终结癌症 使得人类更加的快乐
But the whole structure depended on the first premise, that man was decent
但是整个体系取决于一个大前提 那就是人类是正义的
If we think a little bit about Lancelot,
如果我们想一下兰斯洛特
Lancelot calls himself the ill-made knight because he feels instrincally, innately he's bad
他叫自己 残缺骑士 因为它认为自己本质上是罪恶的
So he has to do good to compensate for the bad
因此他要去做好事来赎罪
So in keeping with that idea, he feels he's bad
这样的想法使他觉得自己是罪恶的
And what is this?
那么这个是什么
Might he likens to a flood
力量像洪水一样
And so Arthur now realizes that what he's been doing is trying to dam up a flood. Not a river, but a flood
亚瑟意识到他一直努力对抗的是洪水一样的而不是江河
which is obviously impossible to do
这显然不可能成功

视频及简介

本课对作家怀特的系列书籍行了进一步的点评和探讨，就亚瑟王之死、莫德雷德的新秩序、圆桌骑士的分裂以及亚瑟王的理想进行了系统的分析和阐述。内容紧凑，精彩丰富。讲师思维缜密，鞭辟入里。是不可多得的优秀书评。