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The Porcellian Club, or called the Pig Club, is a male-only final chib at Harvard University. It is the iconic “hotsy-totsy1”final club, often bracketed with Yale’s Skull and Bones and Princeton’s Ivy Club. The club emblem is the pig.
“坡斯廉俱樂部”, 或“豬俱樂部”, 是哈佛大學里的一個只吸收男生的本科生俱樂部, 是標志性的“絕妙本科生俱樂部”。人們常把它和耶魯大學的“骷髏會”以及普林斯頓大學的“常青藤俱樂部”相提并論, 其會徽是一頭豬。
This society was established in 1791. It occupies rooms on Harvard street, and owns a library of some 7, 000 volumes. Its members are taken from the senior, junior and sophomore classes, about eight from each class. The origin of its name is popularly supposed to be as follows:
該社團1791年成立, 位于哈佛街上, 擁有藏書量為7000冊的圖書館。其成員是是從大四、大三和大二的學生中挑選出來的, 每一屆有8個人左右。“豬俱樂部”的名字常被認為是這樣得來的。
In the year 1791, a student brought a pig into his room in Hollis. In those days the window-seats were merely long boxes with lids, used to store articles in. Said student having an antipathy to the proctor who roomed beneath, was accustomed to squeeze piggy’s ears and make him squeal whenever said proctor was engaged in the study of the classics. The result would be a rush by the proctor for the student’s room, where the student was to be found studying, peacefully seated on his window-seat. Piggy, in the mean time had been deposited beneath, and no sound disturbed the tranquility of the scene. On the departure of the hated proctor, a broad grin would spread over the countenance of the joker, and in a little while the scene would be repeated with variations.
1791年, 一個住在霍利斯學舍的學生把一只豬帶進了宿舍。那時候的窗臺只是有蓋子的長箱子, 用來存放物品。這個學生很討厭住在樓中的學監, 每當學監學習古典文學時, 他就掐小豬的耳朵, 讓小豬發出嚎叫聲。結果學監就沖進了這個學生宿舍, 但卻發現這個學生平靜地坐在窗臺上學習。這時候小豬已被藏到了下面, 沒有一點聲音。討厭的學監走了以后, 這個惡作劇者咧嘴笑了起來, 一會兒這樣的情景又重復出現, 只是每次略有不同罷了。
But when it was rumored that his room was to be searched by the faculty, the joker determined to cheat them of their prey. So he invited some of his classmates to the room, and the pig being cooked, all present partook of a goodly feast. They enjoyed their midnight meal so much that they determined then and there to form a club and have such entertainments periodically. In order to render historical the origin of the club, and also to give it a classic touch, they decided to call it the Porcellian from Latin “porcus”. In 1831, the society bearing the name of the “Order of the Knights of the Square Table”was joined to the Porcellian, as “the objects and interests of the two societies were identical. ”
但當聽說他的房間要被系里檢査時, 惡作劇者決定騙他們一下。因此他把同學都邀請到他的房間, 把豬燉了, 大伙分享了一頓大餐。他們很喜歡這次宵夜, 于是當場決定成立一個俱樂部, 定期舉辦這樣的活動。為了讓俱樂部的起源同歷史聯系起來, 并且讓它帶有經典的味道, 這些人決定稱該倶樂部為“坡斯廉”, “坡斯廉”在拉丁語中是“非洲河豬”的意思。1831年一個名叫“方桌騎士的餐點”的社團加入了“坡斯廉”, 因為“兩個社團的目標和興趣是一模一樣的”。
In 1901 a gate to Harvard Yard, directly opposite the clubhouse, was erected by members of the Porcellian Club in memory of Joseph McKean the founder of the Porcellian Club. The gate features prominently the symbol of the club, the pig’s head, and is a famous Harvard landmark.
1901年, 為紀念“坡斯廉”俱樂部的創辦者約瑟夫?麥基恩, 俱樂部成員在俱樂部的正對面建立起一個通往哈佛園的大門。這個大門的顯著特色就是“坡斯廉”俱樂部的標志----頭豬, 現在這個大門是哈佛的一個標志性建筑。
