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想象力

Imagination

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

一个男孩的想象力是健康的,一个男人成熟的想象力是健康的;但在这两者之间有一段生命的空间,在这空间里,灵魂处于骚动之中,性格未定,生活道路未定,雄心壮志高瞻远瞩。

I no longer wonder the elegant arts are unknown here; the rigor of the climate suspends the very powers of the understanding; what then must become of those of the imagination?... Genius will never mount high, where the faculties of the mind are benumbed half the year.

我不再奇怪这里没有高雅的艺术;气候的严峻性使理智的力量完全丧失了;那么,那些想象的东西一定会变成什么样子呢?天才永远不会登上高峰,那里的心智官能半年都处于麻木状态。

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

我并不是说足球是这个国家在这个领域的救星,但它是其中之一,一件小事,显然已经吸引了我们社会很大一部分人的想象力。但当足球不能成为一种相对纯粹的发泄方式、一件有趣的事情时,它就会伤害自己。

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

今天,我开始明白爱是什么,如果它存在……当我们分开的时候,我们都感到缺少了另一半。我们不完整,就像一本丢了第一卷的两卷书。这就是我想象中的爱:不在时的不完整。

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

如果哥本哈根是一个人,这个人应该慷慨,美丽,年老,但有才华。一个人有一定的争吵倾向,充满想象力,对新事物充满欲望,对旧事物充满敬意——一个能很好地照顾人和事的人。

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