Milton opens up a shady space for something approaching a kind of moral relativism where black and white theological categories simply don't apply.
弥尔顿为接近道德上的相对主义,即黑和白之间的区分已经无法简单的适用,开创了先河。
I'm usually out early in the morning when it's still dark now because of the changing in the season.
我通常早上很早就出门,因为季节变换,那时天还是黑的。
So I had only known people of color. I only knew black people or Nigros as we called ourselves then or we are called.
所以,我所认识的人,就只有黑人而已,那时我们自称“黑鬼“,大家也都这么叫我们。
Now when Black Boy was published there was a war bond advertisement on the back cover of the book.
当《黑孩子》出版时,战争债券的广告是附在书后的。
He says: I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses.
他说:,我曾在黄昏时遇见他们,他们离开柜台或写字台,脸上带着生动的表情,从18世纪灰黑的房屋里走出。
So, I wrote some very simple software to receive an email from my BlackBerry and then send it out to an email list of some people I put on that list, with my friends and my family on it.
所以我编写一些很简单的软件,来接收我的黑莓手机发来的邮件,然后将其转发给一个邮件列表,这个列表上有我的朋友和家人。
And he's seeing what's happening in Chicago, even though he's sitting in a room in New Haven.
他正在观看芝加哥发生的事,而他本人却坐在纽黑文的一个房间里
And Odysseus says that that was a black remark.
奥德修斯的脸马上就黑了
I think that's my Blackberry beeping.
我的黑莓手机响了
If you think back to New Haven in the 1950s or 1940s, or 1930s, a lot of the food, much more then is the case today, was grown locally and was sold in markets and so there might have been one person or one step that resided between you and your food.
若回顾上个世纪30到50年代的纽黑文,比起今天 很多的食物都是产于当地,然后拿到市场上去销售,你和你所吃的,食品之间可只隔着一个人或一道工序
But because New Haven is not like, you know, the greatest city around, I guess...
而纽黑文不是什么大城市,我是这样认为的……
So we are sitting there in Woolsey Hall with New Haven Symphony or whatever,New York Philharmonic.
那么我们现在在乌尔西大厅来欣赏新天堂交响乐,纽黑文交响乐园或其他的,纽约爱乐乐团。
You develop a particular delusion, like it's getting dark .
我们想象一个特殊的错觉,就像是这里正在变黑
The Dark Tower", one of his... yeah, that's a great series.
他的作品之一——《黑塔》。嗯,那是一部伟大的作品。
It's going to let us bury away the specifics of something, and treat that computation like a black box. And by black box, I mean, literally behaves like a mysterious little black box.
通过抽象我们可以将一些细节,掩埋起来并将这一段计算当成黑盒,说到黑盒我的意思就是,字面上的像一个神秘的小黑盒。
Yes. New Haven was in part started by, founded by, members of the, you might say, the republican opposition to royalty and to the English king.
是的,纽黑文部分上,是由反对皇室,和英国国王的,共和反对力量所建立的。
So in a town that's the size of new Haven with a population of let's say 100,000 people in just the immediate New Haven area, there might be 20 of these instances of very severe form of polio per year, 20 crippled children would result.
在一个像纽黑文这么大的城市里,大约有十万人口,生活在纽黑文地区的人当中,每年可能就会有二十人,感染到这种急性传染病,可能会导致二十个孩子残疾
I suggested that there was a critical response to those issues that was somewhat negative, and I want to sort of remind you of that from W. E. B. Du Bois's review of Black Boy when it came out.
对于负面问题,有个关键评述,大家看一下,关于《黑孩子》的评论。
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
猝然突袭,硕大的翅膀拍击,那摇摇晃晃的姑娘,黑蹼爱抚,她的大腿,他的嘴咬住她的脖子,他把她无力的胸脯紧贴他的胸脯。
So what the guy would do is he would say okay you've got--if it was local money if it was from this town if it was New Haven money there were New Haven banks the guy would immediately know what it's worth.
所以,那个人将会做的是说,好的,你的钱-如果它是当地货币,如果来自这个城镇,如果是纽黑文的纸币,当时有纽黑文银行,那么这个人将立刻知道它值多少钱。
When you start a company you might have had-- maybe when Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman founded The Blackstone Group they gave each of them five hundred shares-- I'm just making that up-- but obviously there's going to be more shareholders as time comes in.
开办一家新公司时,你可能要...,当彼得·彼得森和史蒂芬·施瓦茨曼,创立黑石集团的时候,他们每人拿到了500股,这是我编的,显然,随着时间推移,会有更多股东
There is a nervous breakdown that actually happens right here in New Haven in one of these novels.
其中一本小说提到,就在我们所处的纽黑文发生的精神崩溃事件。
Talib, who's a Wall Street professional, talks about these black swans as being the real story of finance.
华尔街的专家塔利博,用金融界的真实案例讨论黑天鹅现象
I also had the first BlackBerry because I was still working in dispatch at the time.
我还第一次用上了黑莓手机,因为那时我还在忙调度的事情。
I just come back with my black coffee and my double espresso mocha latte skinny frothed, except it isn't espresso.
我回到桌位上,双手拿着我的黑咖啡,和一杯双倍浓度无咖啡因少泡沫的穆哈咖啡,其实不是无咖啡因的。
One of the wonderful things you can see in the Beinecke's Richard Wright Archives is the draft copies of Black Boy.
在Beinecket图书馆的怀特档案中,可以发现《黑孩子》的草稿,这个形象怀特在草稿里。
I was coming back to New Haven on the train afterwards and I came across this quote.
后来有一次我在坐火车回纽黑文的路上,无意中翻到这么一段话
Here's an example that highlighted in the block there are the--is a farm called Fairview Gardens, that's outside of Los Angeles, in suburban Los Angeles, and so that's--the bracketed part is the farm in 1954.
这里有个例子,图片中的黑框,是一个叫做美景花园的农场,它位于洛杉矶城区之外,在洛杉矶城郊,圈起来的部分,是在1954年的样子
So, here is his verbal ecstasy as he watches her: "Look," she said as she rode the bike beside me, one foot scraping the darkly glistening sidewalk. "Look. I've decided something.
那么,这里是表现他看着他时的迷恋的语言:,“听着,“她骑着车走在我身旁,一只脚擦着,黑得发亮的人行道,“我打定主意了。
So what we see in the publishing history of Black Boy and also in its reception brings us back to those questions that I was raising at the beginning of class.
黑孩子》的出版经历,以及出版之后的反响,让我们又回到了我一开始提到的那些问题。
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