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And, in retrospect, I was really depressed
每当回忆当年 我都很沮丧
At that point of time, people didn't realize but you know,
当时 其它人可能没有注意
I was so surprised that my body was broken,
但我真的无比震惊于我身体的支离破碎
that I lost about 35 pounds in about 4 months
我在4个月掉了35磅
and it just never came aback
直到现在也没能恢复
So it's probably false weight only
也许它们的存在本身就是个错误吧
Thomas Mann 20th century German novelist
Thomas Mann是20世纪的一位德国小说家
If you do anything in comparative literature,
不论你做什么与比较文学相关的事情
anybody who likes to talk about 20th century literature
不管什么人想跟你讨论20世纪的文学
Always talks about Thomas Mann
话题永远有Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann is really, really important,
他真的非常非常重要
and his first famous book was called Buddenbrooks
他的成名之作是布登勃洛克
which was a name of the family,
布登勃洛克是一个家族的姓氏
but on the subtitle, In einer Familiar, decline of the family
在副标题里 他写到这是送给家族的后裔 他的一位密友
And Mann talk a lot of stuff his books are very complicated,
Mann在书中谈到的很多东西 他的书很复杂
but one of the things Mann, that is kind of in Mann books is,
但他的书都有一种普遍观点是
that we exist on 3 levels
人们在三重意义上存在着
We exist on the physical, the mental,
我们依存于肉体 依存于精神
and some of you would want to say, spiritual,
或者是你们所说的灵魂
but probably in a general sense, so people aren't offended,
以及魔法 魔法这个词在这里很合适
the magical, the word magical works very well
这里指的是一般意义上的魔法 人们不会反感的那种
As long as people aren't offended,
因为人们不反感
like "I dare you to call Christianity magical "
像是"我才不在乎你的那些什么基督魔法"
Well you know, chill out
之类的话 哦 说话要小心点
You know, we'll put on the magical
因此 我们都算是依存于魔法
Basically what you'll find in his characters,
你可以从他的性格中发现
has, there's ascendency on one level, some other levels, give way
他在体格方面是有优势的 而其它方面却不翼而飞
This isn't necessarly that you're 100% so if you gain 6% on the spiritual level,
这不是绝对的 你在智慧上多出了6%并不意味着
you got a loose 6% somewhere else
你再别处就必须损失同样的份额
But you know, it, it's really hard to do everything well
但事事完美也确实很难做到
It's hard to look like Arnold, you know, to pump yourself up,
很难做到每个人都像Arnold那样 自己给自己打气
or be all cut and, and be as fit as you wanna be
或者砍掉所有缺点 成为理想中的样子
and at the same time to do wonderfully in school,
在学校里表现出色
on the same time pursue what you want to in, in a magical realm,
同时在魔法领域也一样心想事成
as far as spiritual development, I mean there's not so much time in a day
特别是心智的成熟 我的意思是 一天并没有那么多的时间
And that's why, you know, the kind of a joke about college students,
由此你们大概明白了那个关于大学生的笑话
they don't go to church
他们从不去教堂
Well you know, by the time you study, try to work out and party,
在学习的时候又要去工作又要娱乐
or party try to work out and go to school or whatever
娱乐的时候又要工作和学习
