But anyway, importantly to get back
但是不管如何讓我們言歸正傳
What we would expect of heroes,
我們對英雄有什么樣的期待呢
You know, we're gonna expect to know something about their birth
我們會想要知道一些關于他們出身的事情
Because birth is important, you know?
因為出身很重要
and then we're not gonna know anything about them
然后我們就想要了解他們的任何事情
We're not gonna know anything about their youth,
我們想要了解他們年輕時候的任何事情
We're not gonna know anything about
想要了解從這個時間段到那個時間段
From the time they're here to over here
他們的事情
And if you think, if you've ever seen any movies on Arthur,
如果你認為 如果你看過任何關于亞瑟王的電影的話
There's usually something about his birth
通常會談到他的出身
When do we see him again,
我們再次看見他又是什么時候了呢
When he comes back and pulls his sword out the stone
是他回來從石頭里拔出劍的時候
Alright, do we know?
好吧 我們知道嗎
Do we see him in between? No,
在這中間我們見過他嗎 沒有
And so, some point,
所以
Whatever that magic point is,
無論什么神奇的觀點
You know, whatever age you are at some point of dangerousness,
無論處在危險時期你是多少歲
12, 13, 14, 15 and so you don't know anything about early childhood
12 13 14 還是15歲 你對幼兒時期是一無所知的
And if you read the first part of the book,
你要是讀了這本書的第一部分
If you read the first forty pages,
即前四十頁的話
When we were picking, when we were picking outward up
當我們把它們拎出來
We we're picking 'em up at a point of education
在某個教育階段把它們拎出來的時候
I don't know, he's supposed to be what, 12, 13, 14?
我不知道 他應該有12 13 14歲了
You know
是吧
So what do we know about his life before that?
那么我們對他之前的生活知道些什么呢
Nothing
什么也不知道
What are we gonna find out?
我們要去了解些什么呢
Are we gonna find out about his birth?
我們要去弄清他的出身嗎
But we're not really gonna find out about anything earlier,
但是我們真得不會去弄明白更早的事情了
This is, this is good tradition stuff Okay
這是一個很好的傳統 好
Third possibility is, it's all myth, you know, the person didn't exist
第三種可能性就是這全是神話 就是這個人不存在
We simply created a hero that we could use as something
我們只是創造出一個英雄 可以用來
to drape on all the characteristics
承載所有我們認為很珍貴的
That we wanna see as valuable
特點
If we look at the list then, kind of interesting list,
然后如果我們看目錄的話 目錄很有趣
Then if you, as you read through are obviously Arthur first
你要是通讀一下的話 很明顯亞瑟王是排第一個
But the later on we get the Eric, when we get the Percival
之后我們會看到埃里克 當我們看到波西瓦爾的話
We should look at his characteristics too
我們應該也看看他的特點
You could look at somebody like Superman
要是想的話你們也可以看看諸如超人之類的人
If you wanted to see how they adhere to this list
看看他們是如何被弄上這個目錄的
Luke Skywalker
比如說盧克·斯蓋瓦克
I dunno, pick out anybody you want
挑出任何你想了解的人來看看
The Heroes mother is a royal virgin,
這個英雄的媽媽是一個皇家處女
His father is a King and of often near relative of his mother, ross
他的爸爸是一個國王 和他媽媽羅斯是近親