英語名篇名段背誦:17.兩種時間觀念(1/2)
來源:滬江聽寫酷
2012-02-11 22:34
Imagine that you spent your whole life at a single house. Each day at the same hour you entered an artificially-lit room, undressed and took up the same position in front of a motion picture camera. It photographed one frame of you per day, every day of your life. On your seventy-second birthday, the reel of film was shown. You saw yourself growing and aging over seventy-two years in less than half an hour (27.4 minutes at sixteen frames per second). Images of this sort, though terrifying, are helpful in suggesting unfamiliar but useful perspectives of time. They may, for example, symbolize the telescoped, almost momentary character of the past as seen through the eyes of an anxious or disaffected individual.
想象一下,你一生中都住在同一棟房子里, 每天同一時間,你來到一間特意點亮的房間,脫掉衣服,擺出一樣的姿勢。一臺照相機照下你每一天的照片。在你72歲生日那天,整卷膠片被拿來放映,你在半小時之內看到自己逐漸長大并衰老(27.4分鐘,以每秒16幀的速度播放)。想象一下這種情況,雖然很可怕,但是確實有助于我們理解“時間”令人陌生卻有意義的一面。這些圖片將過去有紀念意義的時刻濃縮為符號,并將之呈現(xiàn)在焦急等待的觀眾面前。
——譯文來自: akritkey
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