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Love is a trick, right after that, played on us by the powers of evolution
愛不過是個笑話 不過是在進化力量下欺騙我們的謊言
Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same, however, the nice thing
快樂也同樣只是誘餌 雖然是個美味的誘餌
There is only power
只有力量是最關鍵的
Power is an individual mind, the mind's power is not enough
對于個體而言 只有精神強大是不夠的
Power of the body decides everything in the end
身體強大與否才是決定因素
And only, and this is the key phrase,
力量才是硬道理
"Might is right "
這是一句關鍵的表達
So this is what Arthur, obviously, is not supposed to agree with,
顯然亞瑟并不贊同這種觀念
and he's gonna have to fix, but that's how things are, at this point
他不得不進行修正 無奈世事如此
And then they changed back, changed back
所以他們只能不停的變回去
The next little chapter, chapter 6
下一個小章節 第六章
It's almost like an interlude
似乎是一個小插曲
And we'll find this a lot when White is writing different parts of the book
我們會在White的書中找到很多這樣的小片段
And sometimes we'll have a real serious chapter
有些章節是系統的
and then a kind of, throw away chapter
有些則是非常零散的
It's like he doesn't wanna bog you down too much,
似乎他并不想讓我們過于沉浸在故事當中
and stop reading the book
所以他會停下來
And so, he'll beat you up a little bit,
對你當頭棒喝
of trying to get the points across, he wants to get across
告訴你一些他想闡述的道理
And then we'll have some,
也有一些短小的章節
silliest little chapter that doesn't mean anything
是完全沒有任何意義的
The only thing I found interesting a particularly chapter was gain in the end
我覺得有趣的一件事是 當我們在最后回過頭來看時
where we get more insight
我們會更加明白這一章的含義
After the bird takes Arthur's arrow shot in the sky
當天空中的鳥被亞瑟的箭射中之后
And how Kay and Arthur or Wart reacts
Kay和亞瑟 或者說Wart 都有什么反應呢
And Kay was frightned, he was spooked by this,
Kay受驚了 他被嚇壞了
he thinks like a witch did it
他認為這是巫師干的
The boy you know, he needs help, he needs some serious counseling
Wart他被激怒了 怒火沖天
Obviously been in the woods too long alone
這個孩子需要更多的幫助和教導
I'm not saying that Wart's reaction was right,
我并不是說他的反應是正確的
but he was furious, certainly irritated
但顯然他待在森林里太久了
We talked, and as we pick up in the next chapter, in chapter 7
接下來我們講第7章 在第7章中
Merlin's grumble about the athletics
梅林對競技體育有了怨言
and the normal societies obsessions with athletics
通常 人們都會對競技體育著迷
And so certainly, some appropriateness in concern, for our own society
因此我們的社會中也會產生一些相應的活動
Unlike some faculty members, I don't view athletics as a whipping boy,
我不像系里的其它人 我并不認為競技體育是一種折磨
in fact I was our faculty athletic rep to the NCAA for 15 years
事實上 我在NCAA呆了十五年 是我們系的體育代表
And so I'm fairly sympathetic, before my present puniness
在我變得這么脆弱之前 我對體育是深有感觸的
I used to weigh about 205 and played football and lacrosse in college,
我曾是個205磅重的運動員 大學時即踢足球又打曲棍球
before my knee went bye-bye
但我的膝蓋讓我不得不與運動場告別
And they wanted to get out the big night
它們大概是想離家出走開一場晚會
And I said "bye no big night for me "
我只好說 "拜拜 我就不參加晚會了"
