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We have groups that, if you don't measure up at some point, you're out
在我们的组织里如果你不能达到一定的要求 你就会被淘汰
We're all on a college campus and you're not aware of it
我们都置身于大学校园 只是你们没有意识到
Some of your parents might be high school teachers and they have tenure
你们的父母可能是高中老师 他们都有一定的任期
In public high schools, pretty much, as long as you put in your 3 years
在很多公立学校里 3年之内
and you don't do anything bad and you're okay, you can get tenure
只要你不犯错 那好 你可以获得任期
Not true in college campuses
但在大学校园里却不是这样的
The more selective a college or university,
大学越是挑剔
the more difficult it is to get tenure
就越是难获得任期
There are all kinds of criteria, the review processes
因为那有很多的标准 审查过程
and so it's an ordeal
因此这是一个考验
It's something you have to undergo
这些事你不得不接受
So again, how this is reflecting society
因此 这就是如何反应社会的
They say, the ordeal is customary and then they have the ordeal hymn
他们说 磨难是惯例 他们有磨难的赞美诗
just weird, weird stuff
一种奇怪的诗歌
We will read through this, but if you read through it,
我们将会阅读这些赞美诗 但是如果你真的阅读它们
I think your tendency, when it comes to something like this,
当真的遇到那样的赞美诗 我想你更愿意说
is that you'll say, "This is garbage I'm going to skip over the ordeal hymn,
"这是垃圾 我将跳过磨难的赞美诗"
it's obviously not important,"
很明显 那不重要
I know that'd be my tendency, as a student
我知道那是作为一个学生的倾向
So obviously, I have to be good, since I'm supposed to be your professor
显然 作为你们的教授 我必须好好表现
I have to read this stuff to see if there's anything important in here
我需要阅读这些材料 看看有没有什么重要的东西在里面
so I can say, "You dumblings, you should have read this "
因此我会说"你们应该读读这些材料"
There is something important in here, and what's important in here is
材料里面有一些重要的东西 重要的是
the hymn reiterates that "might is right "
在赞美诗中重复出现"强权即公理"
And so, this group is like Sir Bruce Saunce Pité
因此 这个组织就像是布鲁斯 索斯皮埃尔爵士
Without pity, this group represents just like Mr Pike, the way society is now
没有同情和怜悯 这个组织所代表就像是派克先生 所说的社会方式
At the very top, we really see this well, if you read the whole thing
如果你读过有关的书 你会发现 在最顶层的确是这样的
"Life is blood, shed and offered The eagle's eye can face this dree "
"生活就是流血 放弃和付出 鹰的眼睛可以坦然面对这些"
The important stuff is on top of 83
重要的东西在第83页最上面
"Strength to the strong and the lordly and lonely,
"力量之于强大高傲孤独的人"
Shame to the slothful and woe to the weak one
"羞耻之于懒惰的人 悲哀之于弱者"
Death to the dreadful who turn to flee
"死亡之于逃避恐惧的人"
Blood to the tearing, the talon'd, the beaked one "
"血之于泪 之于智者 之于鼻子最长的人"
So death to the weak, and blood to the strong
因此死亡之于懦弱者 流血之于强者
Wart does what is asked of him and narrowly escapes nutso Colonel Cully
沃特做了他要做的 并且让克里幸免于难
We have something prophetic said
我们要预言
So what do these other birds of prey who, obviously,
这些食肉鸟 很显然
would be like knights in society?
就像我们社会上的骑士
How do they view the behavior of Wart?
那他们怎样看沃特的行为呢
So they how view it at the end of chapter 8, the last prose material on page 85
他们的观点在第8章的最后 最后的散文素材在85页
