Name: TED】羨慕的頌歌｜Parul Sehgal｜TED Talks (【TED】An Ode to Envy | Parul Sehgal | TED Talks)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:46:05.000Z
Duration: 13 min 12 s

譯者: William Choi 審譯者: Wen-Hsin (Willy) Feng

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She had vast quantities of very shiny hair

好像新來的女生應該就是那樣的。

And I just curdled with jealousy that year,

那年我心中一直嫉妒氣得發抖，

So one day I stayed a little late after school,

a little too late, and I lurked in the girls' bathroom.

有一天，我放學後在學校留了一陣子，

確實有點兒晚，而我躲藏在女廁所，

當學校沒有人之後，我就溜了出來，

and took from my teacher's desk the grade book.

從老師桌子上拿到了成績紀錄簿，

just a little, just demoted some of those A's.

只是改了一點點，把一些 A 降級，

And I got ready to return the book to the drawer,

when hang on, some of my other classmates

當我準備要把那本紀錄簿放回抽屜時，

just because I was there, you know, might as well.

只是因為我在那裡， 你知道啦，你也會這樣做的。

I don't understand where the idea came from.

我現在仍然對自己的行為感到不解。

I don't understand why I felt so great doing it.

我不知道這樣的意念是從哪兒來的。

我不知道為什麼這樣做會感到爽快。

I don't understand why I was never caught.

I mean, it should have been so blatantly obvious.

我不知道為什麼從來沒被抓到。

我是說，這應該是顯而易見吧。

但最重要的，讓我覺得難解的是，

that this little girl, this tiny little girl,

It's so mysterious, and it's so pervasive.

它是如此神秘，又是如此無孔不入。

We know primates do. Bluebirds are actually very prone.

We know that jealousy is the number one cause

我們知道靈長類動物也會。 藍色知更鳥事實上也非常易妒。

它的期限，或者它的嚴峻挑戰。

就是因為這點，我們必須看小說，

In fact, I don't know if it's an exaggeration to say

事實上，我不知道這樣說是否太誇張，

沒有不貞的海倫， 就沒有《奧德賽》。

沒有易妒的國王，就沒有《天方夜譚》，

because we're losing "Sound and the Fury,"

因為我們錯失了《喧嘩與騷動》，

我們錯失了《大享小傳》、《太陽照常升起》

《包法利夫人》、《安娜．卡列妮娜》

I know it's fashionable to say that Proust

沒有嫉妒，就沒有普魯斯特。我的意思是， (註：普魯斯特是法國小說家)

說「普魯斯特的小說包含所有的答案」

This year is the centennial of his masterpiece, "In Search of Lost Time,"

and it's the most exhaustive study of sexual jealousy

今年是他的代表作《追憶似水年華》一百週年，

and just regular competitiveness, my brand,

這是有關由愛生妒最詳盡的研究，

當我們想到普魯斯特，我們想到

We think about a little boy trying to get to sleep.

We think about a madeleine moistened in lavender tea.

我們想到一個正嘗試進入夢鄉的小男孩。

一塊蘸著薰衣草茶的瑪德蓮蛋糕。

我們忘記他的願景是如此的惡劣，

I mean, these are books that Virginia Woolf said

我的意思是，這些書，正如維吉尼亞．吳爾芙所說的， (註：維吉尼亞．吳爾芙是英國小說家)

Let's look at why they go so well together,

但讓我們假設它是難以對付的。

the novel and jealousy, jealousy and Proust.

讓我們看看他們能走在一起的原因，

Is it something as obvious as that jealousy,

小說和嫉妒、嫉妒和普魯斯特，

which boils down into person, desire, impediment,

是否某些東西像那個嫉妒一樣明顯，

I don't know. I think it cuts very close to the bone,

我不知道。我想這已經非常接近事實。

When we feel jealous, we tell ourselves a story.

當我們感到嫉妒時會發生的事情。

We tell ourselves a story about other people's lives,

當我們感到嫉妒時，我們會告訴自己一個故事。

我們告訴自己一個有關其他人生活的故事，

because they're designed to make us feel terrible.

As the teller of the tale and the audience,

因為它們設計到使我們感到可怕。

嫉妒讓所有人成為業餘小說家，

在第一卷「在斯萬家那邊」， （註：《追憶似水年華》的第一卷)

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