苇草集 2022 Reeds in the Wind 2022 第 13 篇 Section 13
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一、农夫山泉-可口可乐三定律 I. The Three Laws of Nongfu Spring and Coca-Cola
“我和她心中理想型的差距就好像是可口可乐的瓶盖和农夫山泉的瓶盖，看起来没什么区别，但就是对不上那瓶农夫山泉。”
“The gap between me and the ideal type in her heart is just like that between a Coca-Cola bottle cap and a Nongfu Spring bottle cap: they seem to look almost the same, yet it simply cannot fit onto that bottle of Nongfu Spring.”
“有的人就像那个农夫山泉的瓶盖，无论是农夫山泉还是可口可乐都是随意搭配，而我就像是那个可口可乐的瓶盖，总是遇见那个该死的农夫山泉。”
“Some people are like that Nongfu Spring bottle cap, matching effortlessly whether with Nongfu Spring or Coca-Cola; whereas I am like that Coca-Cola cap, forever running into that damned Nongfu Spring.”
“可口可乐的瓶盖始终可悲地活在农夫山泉的瓶盖的阴影下”
“The Coca-Cola bottle cap forever lives pathetically in the shadow of the Nongfu Spring bottle cap.”
环海路仍是长得没有尽头，山威的梧桐仍然枝繁叶茂。人间骄阳正好，风过林梢，农夫山泉的瓶盖和他的可乐正当年少……
Huanhai Road still stretches on without an end, and the plane trees of Shandong University Weihai remain luxuriant with leaves. The earthly sun shines just right, the breeze brushes past the treetops, and the Nongfu Spring bottle cap and his Cola are right in the prime of their youth…
二、《在轮下》《人生》述评 II. Commentary on Beneath the Wheel and A Woman’s Life
“他不知道，他的童年和少年时代再一次快乐地微笑着出现在他面前，是在披着记忆的外衣同他告别，曾经的巨大幸福再也不会回来，只留下一根意味着它曾经来过的刺，犹如玫瑰一般。”
“He did not know that his childhood and adolescence, reappearing once more before him with a joyful smile, were bidding him farewell clad in the mantle of memory; that immense former happiness would never return, leaving behind only a thorn that marked its past presence, like a rose.”
“他隐隐觉得自己已经失去了这个狭小的凡俗世界，却又没有别的充满生机、值得体味的东西来填补这个空缺。”
“He felt dimly that he had lost this narrow, mundane world, yet had no other vibrant, worthy realm to fill the void.”
读完《在轮下》，很久没有读到这么精粹的文学作品了，有被惊艳到。都是可以好好品味咀嚼的作品。
Having finished Beneath the Wheel, it has been a long time since I read a literary work of such exquisite refinement; I was thoroughly captivated. Both are masterpieces worthy of deep contemplation and savoring.
“对人的‘存在’问题的关注是20世纪以来西方文化一个重要的也是中心的主题。黑塞是这个时期的作家，他的创作以人为中心，关注个体的存在状态。人物在这样的社会现实中却无法选择自己的存在，只能选择‘被动死亡’。”
“Concern for the problem of human ‘existence’ has been a vital and central theme of Western culture since the twentieth century. Hesse was a writer of this epoch; his creation centered on humanity, focusing on the state of individual existence. Yet within such social realities, characters are stripped of the choice to define their own existence, left only with the choice of ‘passive death.’”
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读完莫泊桑《人生》。莫名联想到余华的活着，而法国十九世纪小贵族的生活更能让我感同身受。那些我经历过的与还未经历的生活，刻在了社会的基因里，无计相回避。而那些不幸与悲哀，似乎在嘲笑着人类，永远逃脱不了自身欲望的窠臼。人们永远不可能得到他所期待的幸福，然而又不能完全无所期望。
Having finished Guy de Maupassant’s A Woman’s Life (Une Vie). Inexplicably, it reminded me of Yu Hua’s To Live, yet the existence of the nineteenth-century French minor nobility resonated even more deeply with me. Those lives I have traversed and those yet to be lived are engraved into the genetic code of society, with no way of evasion. And those misfortunes and sorrows seem to mock humanity for never escaping the prison of its own desires. People can never attain the happiness they anticipate, yet they can never be entirely without expectation.
生活就是如此：幸福总是短暂的，而且往往是人们受自身梦想的欺骗时才感到幸福；痛苦却是无限的，因为现实永远不像人们想象的那么美好。所以，对待生活既不能有太多幻想，也不能完全不抱希望。也许，这就是莫泊桑想要阐明的“人生”吧。
Such is life: happiness is ever fleeting, and often people feel happy only when deceived by their own dreams; suffering, however, is boundless, because reality is never as beautiful as human imagination paints it. Thus, toward life one must neither harbor excessive illusions, nor abandon hope altogether. Perhaps this is precisely the “life” Maupassant sought to illuminate.
摘句：
“就是这些老古董叫我伤心。一翻弄这些东西，就会想起快乐的日子，但现在已经都结束了。有些我们已经忘记了的人，一下子都出现了。你仿佛看见了他们，听到了他们的声音，这真叫人心惊。这一切，将来你会明白的。”
Excerpts:
“It is these old antiques that break my heart. Sorting through these things brings back joyful days, but now they have all come to an end. People we had forgotten suddenly all reappear. You seem to see them, to hear their voices—it truly chills the soul. All this, you will understand in the future.”
她第一次发觉，既然是两个人，就永远不能从心底里，从灵魂深处达到相互了解，他们可以并肩同行，有时拥抱在一起，但并非真正的合而为一，因此我们每个人的精神生活会永远是感到孤独的。
She discovered for the first time that since they were two separate individuals, they could never attain mutual understanding from the depths of the heart and soul; they could walk side by side, at times embracing, but never truly fuse into one, and thus the spiritual life of each of us will forever remain lonely.
她感到无可奈何地说：“人生，可并不总是快乐的。”男爵叹息说：“孩子呀，这有什么办法呢，我们谁也无能为力。”
She sighed helplessly: “Life, after all, is not always happy.” The Baron sighed in return: “My child, what can be done? None of us can do anything about it.”
三、重逢45度的天空 III. Reuniting with the 45-Degree Sky
“诗人要听过一整个冬天的雪，才能成为落单不染的那一抹白。” 记得以后走路，抬头挺胸，45度角看天。
“A poet must hear an entire winter of snow before becoming that singular, untainted touch of white left behind.” Remember to walk with head held high and chest out in the days ahead, looking at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle.
还是忘不了一年前，有牵挂的人，有自己的目标，我好像知道我想要的是什么。 这种感觉一辈子也找不回来了吧。 到了听懂张悬的年纪……
Still unable to forget a year ago: having someone to care for, having my own goals—I seemed to know what I truly wanted. That feeling can probably never be retrieved in this lifetime. Having arrived at the age where one understands the songs of Zhang Xuan…
“那时我们有梦，关于文学，关于爱情，关于穿越世界的旅行。如今我们深夜饮酒，杯子碰到一起，都是梦破碎的声音。” 高考后将近半年又是一个不眠之夜，字面意义上的。
“Back then we had dreams—of literature, of love, of voyages across the world. Now we drink deep into the night; when glasses clink together, all that sounds is the shattering of dreams.” Nearly half a year after the Gaokao, another sleepless night—in the literal sense.
大抵上学期是做了一场梦吧……
Perhaps last semester was merely a dream…
信仰与梦，恋爱与死，都是上好的麻醉。 梦醒了。
Faith and dreams, love and death—all are fine anesthetics. I have woken from the dream.
威海下雪了，
It has begun to snow in Weihai;
我的夏天结束了。
My summer has ended.