声音简介：《白日梦想家》：一定要跳出舒适圈吗？

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之前有几位听友跟我分享了《白日梦想家》这部电影，刚好出差回来抽空看完了，今天和你们一起分享。

The movie’s English name is the Secret Life of Walter Mitty. So why is it called the “secret life”? It is because the main character Walter Mitty enjoys daydreaming. So besides the real life of him, his daydreaming is his secret life.

Walter Mitty is the manager of the negative sector of Life magazine. He has been working for sixteen years for the magazine and has a tedious life, not going anywhere but from his home to his job and vice-versa.

男主Walter Mitty是杂志社Life的一位相片底片管理员，16年来一直负责帮杂志社洗照片。因为工作比较机械无聊，Walter总是喜欢做白日梦。

所以影片的英文原名是叫The Secret Life of Walter Mitty，对于Walter来说他的白日梦就是他的secret life.

Later, Walter has a cruch on his colleague Cheryl Melhoff, but he is too shy to invite her on a date and he is trying to contact her via online dating.

Walter喜欢上了新到的同事Cheryl，却从不敢和她说话，只敢在交友网站上浏览她的信息。

At the same time, the magazine is preparing to release its last printed edition because it was acquired by another big company. The mysterious independent photographer Sean O'Connell has sent to Walter a package of negatives and a wallet as a gift for his work. And these stuff, have pushed Walter to step out of his comfort zone and go on an adventure.

后来杂志社被另一家大公司并购了。

Life杂志著名的摄影记者Sean O’Connell给Walter寄了个钱包作为离开前的礼物，还叮嘱他要把第25号底片洗出来，作为杂志最后一期的封面。

可Walter却慌了，所有的底片都在，唯独第25号找不到。

新到的公司领导给他下发了最后通牒，让他几天内洗出来第25号底片，也由此Walter开始走上了寻找Sean的冒险之路。

Just like what Walter daydreams about, he is literally doing something that he has never ever done in his real life, such as climbing on the Himalayas, fighting with sharks, and jumping onto a helicopter.

他开始打破舒适圈，做了很多只有在白日梦里才敢做的事，比如跳上了一辆已经起飞的直升飞机、掉进海里和鲨鱼搏斗、还登上了喜马拉雅等等。

最后找到了Sean，还终于有勇气牵起了女神的手。

而这些，都是因为Walter在Cheryl的鼓励下勇敢迈出了那第一步。

最开始当婚恋网的介绍人Todd Maher看着Walter空荡荡的个人档案，问他说：Have you done anything noteworthy, mentionable?

你有没有做过任何值得一提的事？

Walter思考了很久，却想不起来。

他总喜欢做白日梦，新到的boss嘲笑Walter说他就像歌曲Major Tom里活在梦里的汤姆上校。

直到后来女神Cheryl鼓励他：I wanted to tell you, that song "Major Tom" and that beard guy... he doesn't know what he's talking about. That song is about courage and going into the unknown. It's a cool song.

“那个大胡子哥对Major Tom一无所知。那首Major Tom唱的其实是关于勇气、和走进未知。是很酷的一首歌。”

所以当Walter犹豫要不要跳上直升飞机寻找Sean的时候，这首萦绕在脑海的Major Tom给了他力量迈出了第一步。

之后发生的一切，都是意料之外的收获。Walter在冒险回来之后才对杂志社Life的座右铭有了更深的同感：To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.

“去看世界、做那些危险的事情。去看墙的后面，靠近一些、找到彼此、去感受，这就是生活的意义。”

But does the film just teach us to do something dangerous? I don’t think so. On the other hand, Walter’s story shows us that many tedious works you do in life are also meaningful, though you may have not noticed.

但影片只是鼓励我们学会去做那些危险的、不敢尝试的事吗？

我并不这样认为。

它其实在鼓励我们走出舒适区的同时，也认可了平凡生活里我们所做的点滴也都是有意义的，只是我们可能没有察觉。

摄影师Sean是这样形容雪豹的：Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.

美丽的事物不会刻意引人注意。

He says people call the snow leopard [ˈlepərd] the ghost cat--never lets itself be seen.

人们总称雪豹为幽灵猫，因为它虽然很美，却总是不让自己被看见。

对摄影痴迷的Sean有多喜欢雪豹呢？

When Walter asked Sean when he’s going to press the shutter and take a picture of the “ghost cat,” Sean says:

Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.

当Walter在Sean身旁等着特地跑来喜马拉雅拍雪豹的他按下快门、拍下那好不容易才出现的雪豹的时候，Sean却说：“有时候我不会按下快门。如果我很喜欢那个瞬间，对我个人来说，我不喜欢相机干扰了我对它的欣赏，我只想停留在那一刻。”

Sean无比珍视默默独自美丽的“幽灵猫”，愿为了它爬喜马拉雅，却舍不得因为快门声打扰到欣赏它的瞬间。

而当Walter问Sean那25号底片拍的到底是什么的时候，Sean说--let’s call it the ghost cat. 我们就把它叫做“幽灵猫”吧。

可其实，那张25号照片，拍的正是Walter本人。

So the cover of the last issue of Life magazine depicts Walter himself starting at his negatives. The photo essay was written by Sean, which says--dedicated to the people who made it.

Life杂志的最后一版封面是Walter在看着底片的照片。

旁边的文字是Sean写的：献给那些创造了这本杂志的人。

对Sean来说，Walter虽然看似一直默默无闻，但正是因为有了他、还有很多像他一样在背后认真负责工作的人，才有了这个杂志社。所以Walter也是那个幽灵猫 —— 不刻意引人注目、却自带光芒。

So when you find your works and life are tedious, you may need to be brave to take the first step, just the first step, to step out of your comfort zone.

But also, if you don' t, it is totally fine, as all the tedious works you do may be as meaningful as those adventurous things you do.

所以当你觉得自己的生活和工作很没意思的时候，或许你得跨出舒适圈，迈出第一步。

就是那第一步，或许就会给你带来后面种种意想不到的惊喜。

可如果你不愿迈出，也未尝不好。

很多时候你以为的很无聊的工作，其实就跟那些冒险的事一样有意义，只是你还没有察觉。

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