综英15课文翻译

Daydreams of What You’d Rather Be

Kierkegaard once confided to his journal that he would have been much happier if he had become a police spy rather than a philosopher. Richard Nixon always wanted to be a sportswriter. If one considers these fantasies together they seem to have got weirdly crossed. It is Nixon who should have been the police spy. On the other hand, Kierkegaard would probably have made an extraordinarily depressing sportswriter (Fear and Trembling: The Angest of Bucky Dent)克尔凯郭尔曾经在他的日记中写到如果他能成为一名警探，而不是一个哲学家的话，他会感到更加快乐。于此同时，理查德·尼克松一直想成为一名体育专栏的作家。如果你把这些空想放在一起考虑的话，他们似乎有莫名的关联。尼克松应该成为警探。另一方面，克尔凯郭尔应该成为一个极度厌世不安的体育专栏作家(恐惧和颤抖：巴奇丹特昂)

We have these half-secret old ambitions to be something else, to be someone else, to leap out of the interminable self and into another skin another life. It is usually a brief out-of-body phenomenon, the sort of thing that we think when our gaze drifts away in the middle of a conversation. Goodbye. The imagination floats through a window into the conjectural and finds there a kind of bright blue antiself. The spirit starts itself in a brief hypothesis, an alternative a private myth. What we image at such moments can suggest peculiar truths of character.我们有一些鼓而有之的雄心壮志，想要成为某样东西或者是其他的人，要从无休止的自我飞跃而成另一种面貌，过的一种生活。我们认为当我们的目光从谈话中游离开来，那它通常是一种短暂的灵魂出窍现象。再见了。想象力飞出窗外而进入一种虚幻的境界，找到一种反自我的感受。精神在一个简短的假设，一个私人的神话的替代中占主导地位。我们在这种时刻的想象可以揭示人们的本性特征。

One rummages in closets for these revelations. Kierkegaard’s fancy about being a police spy is a dark, shiny little item; a melancholic’s impulse toward sneaking omnipotence, the intellectual furtively collaborating with state power, committing sins of betrayal in police stations in the middle of the night. It is not far from another intellectual’s fantasy, Norman Mailer once proposed that Eugene McCarthy, the dreamboat of the late ‘60s moderate left, might have made an ideal director of the FBI McCarthy agreed. But of course, McCarthy had a sardonic genius for doubling back upon his public self and making it vanish. He did magic tricks of self-annihilation. Nixon’s imaginary career-wholesome, all-American unimpeachable-may suggest both a yearning for blamelessness what could possibly be tainted in his writing about baseball?) and an oblique, pre-emptive identification with an oldEnemy: the press.

为了这些启示我们要在小的密室中搜查彻底。克尔凯郭尔想成为警探的想法是黑暗的，忽明忽暗的东西；忧郁的人朝向自己想拥有的无所不能的能力的欲望的冲动，知识分子暗中与当局者合谋，犯有罪过的警察站在深夜里的背叛自己。不是迄今从另一种智力的幻想，诺曼·梅勒曾经建议尤金·麦卡锡，60年代后期的梦想之舟已经过时了，有必要为联邦调查局制定一种合理的制度。麦卡西同意了。但当然，麦卡锡有真实的能力来回归他的公众自我的形象并使其消失。他变了的魔术来使自己消亡。尼克松想象的职业生涯----好事的、全美人无懈可击，是不是他在写关于棒球的时候受到什么污染呢?)间接的不会出错的找到一个共同的敌人----媒体，

The daydream of an alternative self is a strange, flitting thing. This wistful speculation often occurs in summer, when a vacation loosens the knot of one’s vocational identity. Why , dammit, says the refugee from middle management on his 13th day on the lake, why not just stay here all year? Set up as a fishing guide. Open a lodge. We’ll take the saving and …. The soul at odd moments (the third trout, the fourth beer) will make woozy rushes at the pipe dream. Like a gangster who has cooperated with the district attorney, we want a new house in a different city-and maybe a new nose from the D.A.’s cosmetic surgeon.

白日梦是有两面性的，可替代的一面是很奇怪的，一闪而过的事情。这种投机的冲动往往发生在夏天，当一个人放松下了去度过假期而忽视了职业规范，在他为期13天的湖滨假期内为什么会从中层管理者口中爆出“妈的”的粗话，为什么不能在这里安定下来？洒一张渔网，打开一个小屋。赚钱为生…。(吃第三条鲑鱼，喝第四次啤酒）大吃大喝，开怀畅饮。灵魂有时在白日梦境中会变成空想主义。像个流氓与地方检察官进行了合作，我们想要在不同的城市拥有的新的名字，新的工作和新的房子-和也许还会让美容医生通过手术来整容一个新的鼻子。

Usually, the impulse passes. The car gets packed and pointed back toward the old reality. The moment dissolves, like one of those instants when one falls irrevocably in love with the face of a stranger through the window as the bus pulls away.

通常，冲动会很快消失。人生的旅程又会回到现实中来这种。突然消失了，就好比公共汽车经过某人身旁时，从车窗望去看到一只陌生的脸而就此被她给吸引，一见钟情。

Sometimes, the urge does not vanish. The results are alarming. This month Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. died.That was his final career change. His obituary listed nearly as many metamorphoses as Ovid did. Demara, “the Great Imposter,” spent years of his life being successfully and utterly someone else: a Trappist monk, a doctor of psychology, a dean of philosophy at a small Pennsylvania college, a law student, a surgeon in the Royal Canadian Navy, a deputy warden at a prison in Texas. Demaratook the protean itch and amateur’s gusto, old American traits, to new frontiers of pathology and fraud.

有时，冲动并没有消失。结果是令人震惊的。本月费迪南德Waldo Demara二世死了。这是他最后的职业生涯的改变。他的讣告列出几乎与奥维德作家诉说的一样多。Demara伟大的伪装大师，多年来成功地改变他的生活，完全是另外一个人：特拉彼斯特修道士、心理医生、宾夕法尼亚州一个小型学院的哲学系主任，一名法律系学生，一名在加拿大皇家海军军队内的外科医生，一名在德克萨斯州的监狱副监狱长。Demaratook带来了无知无畏的业余爱好者的热情，老美人的自强的精神给研究新的病理学带来了契机和希望。

Usually, it is only from the safety of retrospectand an established self that we entertain ourselves with visions of an alternative life. The daydreams are an amusement, a release from the monotony of what we are, from the life sentence of the mirror. The imagination’s pageant of an alternative self is a kind of vacation from one’s fate. Kierkegaard did not really mean he should have been a police spy, or Nixon that he should have been a sportswriter. The whole mechanism of daydreams of the antiself usually depends upon the fantasy remaining fantasy. Hell is answered prayers. God help us if we had actually married that girl when we were 21.

通常，它是来自安全感的回顾和建立稳定的自我，这样我们就能从不一样的人生视角来享受生活。白日梦是一种憧憬，是从单调的自我中解脱出来，折射出我们的生活被判处无期徒刑。可替代的想象力的展示自我是来自人们命运的一次旅行。克尔凯郭尔并不真正意味着他应该会变成警探或尼克松他应该是体育专栏的作家。反自我的白日梦的整个机制通常取决于剩余的一时的心血来潮。地狱是祷告。如果在我们21岁的时候，我真的娶了那个女孩，那么神就会帮我。

In weak, incoherent minds, the yearning antiself rises up through a wall into actuality. That seems to have happened with John W. Hinckley Jr., the young man who shot Ronald Reagan last year. Since no strong self disciplined his vagrant aches and needs, it was his antiself that pulled the trigger. It was his nonentity. The antiself is a monster sometimes, a cancer, a gnawing hypothesis.

意志薄弱，思路不清，反自我的冲动就会打破道德底线进入到真实世界中去。这似乎与去年打伤了里根总统的约翰·w ·欣克利二世有关。因为没有强大的自我控制力，无法控制他的冲动的欲望。反自我的他扣动了扳机。这是反自我的阴暗面。反自我有时就想一个魔鬼，一种癌症，一种痛苦的虚幻。

All of our lives we are accompanied vaguely by the selves we might be. Man is the only creature that can imagine being someone else. The fantasy of being someone else is the basis of sympathy, of humanity. Daydreams of possibility enlarge the mind. They are also haunting. Around every active mind there always hovers an aura of hypothesis and the subjunctive: almost every conscious intellect is continuously wandering elsewhere in time and space.我们应该让我们本真的一面伴随我们一生。人类是唯一的创造者可以去想象一个人的另一面。幻想中成为另一个人是人性中同情心的根源。作白日梦放大了人们的思维。他们也是令人难以忘怀。周围每个人的积极思想里总是徘徊光环的假说和虚拟语气：几乎每个有意识的知识分子不断在时间和空间中其他地方游荡。

The past 20 years have stimulated the antiself. They have encouraged the notion of continuous self-renewal-as if the self were destined to be an endless series of selves. Each one would be better than the last, or at least different, which was the point: a miracle of transformations dreams popping into reality on fast-forward, life as a hectic multiple exposure.

过去20 年来刺激了反自我。他们不断鼓励那种自我更新的信念，即使自己已经到了目的地，永无止尽的集中的反自我。每一个都会比前一次好，或至少是不同的。这是点：梦想浮现在快进的现实，这种微妙的转换作为忙乱的生活多重曝光的一个奇迹。

For some reason, the more frivolous agitations of the collective antiself seem to have calmed down a little. Still we wall around enveloped in it, like figures in the nimbus of their own ghosts on a television screen. Everything that we are not has a kind of evanescent being within us. We dream, and the dream is much of the definition of the true self. Last week Lena

Horne said that she has always imagined herself being a teacher. Norman Vincent Peale says

Fervently that he wanted to be a salesman-and of course that is, in a sense, what he has always been. Opera singer Grace Bumbry wants to be a professional race-car driver. Bill Veeck, former owner of the Chicago White Sox, confides the alternate Veeck: a newspaperman. In a “nonfiction short story”Truman Capote wrote that he wanted to be a girl. Andy Warhol confesses without hesitation: “I’ve always wanted to be an airplane. Nothing more, nothing less.Even when I found out that they could crash. I still wanted to be an airplane.

出于某些原因，更多轻浮阴暗的集体反自我更轻薄风潮似乎平静了一点。我们周围的墙仍然笼罩着它，像重影的光环出现在电视屏幕上。并不属于我们的事情和我们在一起的时间是短暂的。我们的梦想，梦想更多的是我们的真实再现。上周莉娜·霍恩说，她已总是想象自己成为一名老师。皮尔说：他热切地想要一个推销员-和当然就是在某种意义上，他一直就是。歌剧歌手恩典Bumbry想要成为一名职业赛车手。BillVeeck，芝加哥白袜队的前拥有人坦言说想创办一份报纸。在"非小说类作品短篇小说中，"杜鲁门·卡波特写了他想要成为一个女孩。安迪? 沃霍尔毫不犹豫地交代:"我一直想成为一架飞机。什么都不多，也不能少。甚至当我发现他们可能会崩溃。我还想要成为一架飞机。

The antiself has a shadowy, ideal life of its own. It is always blessed (the antiself is the Grecian Urn of our

personality) and yet it subtly matures as it runs a course parallel to our actual aging. The Hindu might think that the antiself is a premonition of the soul’s next life. Perhaps.But in the last moment of this life, self and antiself may coalesce. It should be their parting duet to mutter together: “On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadephia.”Antiself

反自我有其自身的幻影，理想的生活。总是受到神的保佑（反自我是我们人格的希腊古瓮）。另一面是人性更本真的一面。本真的一面，美好的一面，不知不觉中随着年龄的增长而平行。印度可能会认为反自我是一种人的灵魂在下辈子的先兆。也许自我和反自我在生命的最后一刻会联合起来。他们一起交头接耳："总的说来，我宁愿在费城"。（要是不死该多好啊！）