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Talk more about the owl that deserved respect,
来讲一下那只令人敬重的猫头鹰吧
and they made their way to Arthur's,
它和梅林共同为亚瑟打开道路
and Merlin tells him "I am going to be your tutor "
梅林告诉他 我会成为你的导师
And so, that's the purpose of that whole chapter,
这是这个章节的中心
and now, if you remember early on,
如果你们还记得
Hector said "I guess I'm gonna have a quest for a tutor "
早先Hector说过"我想我需要一个导师来答疑解惑"
And what basically happens here is Arthur has been on this quest,
亚瑟此时也几乎处在同一个状态
this is his first quest, so to speak,
这也是他的第一个问题
and it's his quest to find a tutor
需要一个导师的问题
And so, questions?
有疑问吗
Let's get back to Hector's and, too many paperclips
让我们回顾一下Hector的部分 许多页之前
Merlin is introduced to Hector, they talked about white magic
梅林曾被引见给Hector 两人讨论了些正当的法术
Now, on top of page 39, this is one of the points, I think, is confusing
但是 在39页上方 有一处内容十分令我困惑
As White is trying to be consistent with this idea
如果按照White一贯坚持的理念
and Merlin is living time backwards
梅林是逆向生长的
and so when has these recommendations, who's recommendations by?
那么当他被引荐时 是谁来引荐他的呢
On top of 39
在39页上方
One is by Aristotle
有可能是亚里士多德
And so if he's living life backwards,
那么既然他能预见未来
why shouldn't be his recommendation be by Einstein?
为什么他不选择由爱因斯坦引荐自己呢
By people, who'd make no sense,
如果这是实实在在的引荐的话
if they were genuine recommendations
好多情况普通人都无法理解
And so we have to assume that then,
所以我们只好假设
they were trying to make logic sense out on why it's done,
他们只是在试图为已经做过的事情找一个合理的逻辑罢了
that Merlin just produced these, they were not genuine in anyway,
梅林创造了这些 因此它们并不可信
he's just fulfilling what Hector wants
Hector对他很满意
He does some magic and Hector does hire him
他展示了一些魔法 Hector将他奉为上宾
Kay
Kay
Kay never gets anything
Kay资质平庸
The proper son, the real son of Hector, he's ok,
作为Hector的嫡子 他最多算得上合格
but he's just, you know, later in the book they'll have a conversation
稍后书中将会有一段对话
about can birds speak
是一场关于鸟类语言的讨论
And they get involved in this conversation about, do birds have language?
谈话的中心是 鸟类是否有语言
It turns on they say they have social structures
它们似乎有自己的社会结构
and language and everything
语言和其它的一切东西
They really have this really meaningful
他和亚瑟梅林阿基米德
with Arthur and Merlin and Archimedes
深入而认真地讨论了这个问题
At the end of this chapter, Kay comes in
在本章的结尾 Kay加入了讨论
and he's very excited because he just shot some birds
Kay很兴奋 因为他射杀过许多鸟
And so, he just, you know, he's kinda of always out of sync
对鸟儿没什么怜悯之心
with the rest of the book
本书的其它部分也提到了Kay
They say about Kay, to try to put him in perspective
试图定位这个人 并给出了一个很刻薄的评价
Kind of, a nasty statement, I hope nobody ever wrote this about,
我希望没有人被这样评价过
write this is about anybody,
每个人在自己的推荐信中
in a letter recommendation
都没有被这样评价过
The very end of chapter 4 on page 40, about 7 lines from the end,
在第四章末尾 大约40页第七行到最后
he said, referring to Kay, he said "he was one of those people,
关于Kay他说"他只是那些庸人中的一员
who would be neither a follower nor leader,
既不会成为信徒 也不会成为领袖
but only an aspiring heart and patient in a failing body, which imprisoned it "
志大才疏 难成大业
