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Shelley's one consolation back in rainy conservative England was that Frankenstein's popularity was greater than ever.
在多雨的保守的英格兰，雪莱唯一的安慰是弗兰肯斯坦比以往任何时候都更受欢迎。
1823 saw the first theatrical production a play that was such a smash hit, but there would be six versions of it that year alone.
1823年，我们看到了第一部戏剧的制作，它是如此的轰动，但仅在那一年，它就有六个版本。
By 1824, the tale was so well known that the foreign secretary directly referenced it in a speech to parliament,
到了1824年，这个故事已经家喻户晓，以至于外交大臣在对议会的演讲中直接引用了它，
as Shelly rightly noted of this period "Lo and behold! I found myself famous."
雪莱对这一时期的描述是正确的:“瞧! 我发现自己出名了。”
By now though it wasn't just Frankenstein that she was famous for but for being the last living link to the romantics.
到现在为止，她不仅因为《科学怪人》而出名，还因为她是浪漫主义的最后一根纽带。
Yep, it's time for yet more characters to die.
是的，是时候让更多的角色死去了。
In this case, Lord Byron who was carried away by illness while fighting in the Greek war of independence.
在这种情况下，拜伦勋爵在希腊独立战争中因病去世。
With John Polidori already dead by suicide, Mary Shelley and Claire Claremont became the last surviving members of the bright young poets, who'd gathered at lake Geneva only eight years earlier to change literary history .
约翰·波里多里已经自杀身亡，玛丽·雪莱和克莱尔·克莱尔蒙特成为最后幸存的年轻诗人，他们仅仅在八年前聚集在日内瓦湖，试图改变文学史。
Or as Shelly herself put it "I am the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me."
或者像雪莱自己说的"我是一个受人爱戴的种族的最后遗迹，我的同伴在我之前就灭绝了"
A quick reminder if you're needed at this stage.
如果现在需要的话，我提醒你一下。
She's only 26, 26 already widowed with three dead children and a miscarriage behind her,
她才二十六，二十六岁就丧偶了，有三个孩子死了，还有一次流产，
and all her closest friends long enough to the great Villa Diodati in the sky.
她所有最亲密的朋友十分渴望来到天空下伟大的迪奥达蒂别墅。
Still Shelley was at least able to keep working.
雪莉至少还能继续工作。
In 1826, she published The Last Man.
1826年，她出版了《最后一个男人》。
A tale about the lone survivor of a devastating plague.
一个关于一场毁灭性瘟疫的孤独幸存者的故事。
That's now considered her second best work.
这是她第二好的作品。
Unfortunately, sir Timothy hit the roof when he found out and he briefly cut her off, because apparently that's just how miserable that old was.
不幸的是，蒂莫西爵士发现后勃然大怒，短暂地切断了她的联系，因为很显然，那个老人就是这么悲惨。
After that Shelley's art never quite hit the same heights again.
从那以后，雪莱的艺术再也没有达到同样的高度。
Now we don't want to give the impression nothing happened in these later years.
我们不想给人留下这几年什么都没发生的印象。
While poor by the standards of her class, Shelley was still able to travel even meeting the Marquis De Lafayette in Paris in 1828, like a 19th century version of one of those marvel cameos.
尽管以她所在阶级的标准来看，雪莱很穷，但她仍然能够旅行，甚至在1828年在巴黎见到了Marquis De Lafayette，就像那些奇迹浮雕中的一个19世纪版本。
Despite sir Timothy, she still lived in an orthodox life, befriending the writer Mary Diana Dodds
尽管有蒂莫西爵士的阻挠，她仍然过着正统的生活，与作家玛丽·戴安娜·多兹(Mary Diana Dodds)成为朋友
who was romantically involved with another woman and only ever appeared in public as a male, she even continued writing.
这位作家曾与另一个女人有过恋情，只以男性身份出现在公众面前，她甚至还继续写作。
In 1834, Shelley picked up regular work writing biographical sketches of famous people for the Cabinet Cyclopedia, a sort of handheld biographics for old-timey folk,
1834年，雪莱开始定期为《内阁百科全书》写名人传记，这是一种为旧时代的人写的手持式传记，
but still in the grand scheme of things, these were the quiet years shawn of the adventure romance and impact of Shelley's early life, the flip side of that though is that they were also stable.
但就大局而言，这是雪莱早期生活的宁静岁月充满了冒险、浪漫和影响，但另一方面，也很稳定。
Percy Florence grew up to be a healthy young man free of the tragedy that bedeviled his long-dead siblings,
珀西·弗洛伦斯成长为一个健康的年轻人摆脱了困扰他死去多年的兄弟姐妹的悲剧，
as the years passed, a Timothy mellowed, at least allowing Shelly to publish a definitive volume of her dead husband's poems in 1840.
随着时间的流逝，蒂莫西变得平和，至少在1840年，雪莱出版了一本她已故丈夫的最终诗集。
Better still the old fart died not long after leaving Shelly and her son enough money to never worry about poverty again.
更妙的是，这个老家伙没多久就死了，给雪莱和她儿子留下了足够的钱，让他们再也不用担心贫穷了。
Not that Shelley had long to enjoy her newfound wealth.
雪莱并没有很长时间享受她新获得的财富。
Mary Shelley died of a brain tumor.
玛丽·雪莱死于脑瘤。
On the 1st of February 1851, at the age of 53, she left behind not just a son and an unfinished biography of Percy Shelley, but also a creation that had taken on a life of its own.
1851年2月1日，在她53岁的时候，她留下的不仅是一个儿子和一本未完成的珀西·雪莱传记，还有一个有自己生命的作品。
From its very first production in 1823, Frankenstein became a staple of the theater, with hundreds of versions staged in multiple countries,
从1823年的第一部作品开始，《弗兰肯斯坦》就成为了剧院的主打作品，在多个国家上演了数百个版本，
because of this popularity it was eventually picked for adaptation by the new film industry that arose in America.
由于它的受欢迎程度，它最终被美国兴起的新电影工业选中改编。
First in 1910 by Thomas Edison and then far more famously by Universal in 1931
首先是1910年的托马斯·爱迪生，然后是更著名的1931年的通用
and while Boris Karloff's silent hulking monster maybe a million miles away from the erudite creature of Shelley's tale.
而鲍里斯·卡洛夫笔下沉默的笨重怪物与雪莱笔下博学的怪物或许有百万里之遥。
The essence of her story that flicker of sympathy we feel for the devil remained unchanged.
她的故事的精髓——我们对魔鬼的那一丝同情——并没有改变。
Today it's hard to imagine how fiction would look without Frankenstein.
今天，很难想象没有弗兰肯斯坦的小说会是什么样子。
So influential was it!
多么有影响力啊!
That its effects can be seen almost everywhere, like Bram Stoker's Dracula or the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
它的影响随处可见，比如布拉姆·斯托克的《德古拉》或埃德加·爱伦·坡的作品。
It's the bedrock of modern genre fiction.
这是现代体裁小说的基石。
Yet there was more to Marry Shelley than just this one book.
然而，玛丽·雪莱的作品远不止这一本书。
As this video has hopefully shown she was a woman who seemed to stand apart from her own time, not just as a literary pioneer, but as someone who tried her damnedest to live on her own terms.
正如这段视频希望展示的那样，她是一个似乎与自己的时代格格不入的女人，不仅是一个文学先驱，而且是一个尽最大努力按自己的方式生活的人。
She didn't always succeed, but we've no doubt that had Mary Wollstonecraft lived to see the woman her daughter grew up to be, she would have felt nothing but pride.
她并不总是成功，但我们毫不怀疑，如果玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特活着看到她的女儿长大成人,她只会感到骄傲。
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所以我真的希望你觉得这个视频有趣，如果你觉得有趣，请点击下面的大拇指按钮。
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