That if your father was a Baron, you got to be a Baron too
就是說如果你爸爸是一位男爵 你也會成為一個男爵
Up to then, the system was very much in flux
時至今日這一體制仍然處在不斷變化之中
Not, not crucially important
不是至關重要的
But it's at least the term we should talk about
但至少也是一個我們應該談到的術語
One of the things in, that was mentioned,
馬洛里寫的書多次被提到
That's mentioned again-again is Mallory,
即托馬斯·馬洛里先生
Sir Thomas Mallory Le Morte d'Arthur
寫的"亞瑟王之死"
And being kind of the definitive material in English
作為英語版本的限定版
Here it is in two paperbacks
這有兩本平裝本
This is a lot of serious reading
這需要倍加認真讀
This is a thousand pages
總共有一千頁
Each book is about 500 pages And, you know,
每本書大約五百頁
you have to be seriously in the mood to read stuff
你知道的讀書一定要有足夠的興趣
This is not as much fun, but it is a great listing of things
這本書并不是有趣但卻列舉了很多重大事件
What White does many times, as we read White, White says,
很多次當我們讀懷特的書時 他會說
"I'm not gonna talk about that, Ahh Mallory does such a great job"
我不想談論這個 馬洛里已經說得很多很好了
If you're really interested go read Mallory
你要是真有興趣的話 就去讀馬洛里的書吧"
I'm not gonna list everyone whose here
我不會列舉這里的每一本書
So, if it's what you want, I recommend this to you
所以如果感興趣的話可以自己去讀
I've read him once and that's probably what I'll do
我曾經讀過一次 或許我就會這么做
Before w get started today on White's book
在我們今天開始學習懷特的這本書之前
I wanted to talk about the hero Okay
我想要談談"英雄"好
This is a book,
這是一本
From a book by Lord Raglan entitled surprisingly, The Hero
拉格蘭勛爵寫的書 很奇怪這本書被命名為
And it has a subtitle, a study in tradition, myth and drama
它還有一個副標題"對傳統 神話和戲劇的研究"
And if you really wanna know,
你們若真想知道的話我就告訴你們
His whole name is Baron Fritz Roy Richard Somerset Raglan
他的全名是弗里茨·羅伊·理查德·薩默賽特·拉格蘭