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On the one hand, we're immersed in the here and now.
而另一方面 我們沉浸在這片土地這個時空
We have no choice. We go from minute to minute,
別無選擇 我們按部就班
hour to hour, task to task. It's our daily routine.
循規(guī)蹈矩 溺于瑣事 安于故俗
But, then, something else happens.
但突然之間 起了變化
We stop and we contemplate and we look at the whole picture,
我們止步沉思 我們注視著整個圖景
like that one bird, perching on that naked, leafless branch.
仿佛這只棲于蕭條樹枝上的鳥兒
And everything, somehow, is pulled together.
萬事萬物間仿佛忽然有了聯(lián)系
The whole of our life is laid out in front of us, and, with it,
人生種種都浮現(xiàn)在眼前 由此而上
the entirety of human society.
更是得以一窺世間百態(tài)
And we're very, very lucky.
我們真是無比幸運
It all adds up, the whole human condition,
全體人類的境況 與我們身在其中
and our particular, special, little place inside it.
那獨特微小的地位 全都串聯(lián)在了一起
Bruegel was an encyclopaedist of the human comedy,
勃魯蓋爾是人類喜劇百科全書的撰寫者
and, as we cross the frozen pond, we find, for me,
在我們穿過這片冰凍的池塘時 我找到了
one of the most unforgettable characters in all of European art.
所有歐洲藝術作品中 最令我難忘的人物形象
A tiny, stooped figure, an old woman,
一個躬身的微小身影 一位老婦
bent with the burden of branches,
背負著沉重的樹枝
meant for fuel or thatching,
向她家中的冬日暖爐蹣跚而去
plodding home to her winter hearth,
那樹枝或是填了爐灶 或是補了漏屋
the prospect of which makes that burden just about bearable.
心有期盼 連沉重的柴枝似乎也輕盈了起來
It's a lesson in the perseverance of the poor.
她教會了我 窮人的隱忍與堅持
For what alternative does she really have?
畢竟她除了堅忍 別無選擇
Through these landscape paintings, what Bruegel is really doing
通過這些風景畫 勃魯蓋爾其實是想
is offering us a profound glimpse not into the natural world,
讓我們深刻地感知到人類的境況
but into the human condition.
而非窺視大自然的風景
Bruegel died in 1569, spared the worst of a war
勃魯蓋爾逝于1569年 躲過了荷蘭
for religious and local liberty in the Netherlands.
因信仰和地方獨立所起戰(zhàn)亂最慘烈的日子
He couldn't know it would last for 80 years.
他從沒料到 這一戰(zhàn)就是八十年
But he evidently feared the worst.
但他陰差陽錯地預見到了最糟的情況
A painting pretending to be a Biblical massacre of the innocents
一幅描繪圣經(jīng)中殘殺無辜的畫作
is done in contemporary dress,
畫中人卻穿上了當代的衣服
with a documentary awareness
這正是西班牙軍隊到來后
of what was in store for those countryfolk
等待著這些村民的悲慘下場的
when Spanish troops arrived.
真實寫照
