2013年4月20日 星期六

Why not

You see things, and say , "Why?"
But I dream things 
that never were, and say, "Why not?"

怎麼翻比較好?





4 則留言:

  1. tricky~~~ kind of difficult~~
    what do you think?

    意思好像是說:你看見事物時,總是問"為什麼?"
    而我卻夢到"things that never were",所以問"為什麼不?"


    這片段指的應是什麼呢??
    主題是與"想像"有關,所以需琢磨琢磨~~
    是指:"事物從來就不是它們原本的樣子"????

    我本來是想翻成:
    你看見事物時,總是問"為什麼?"
    而我卻夢到事實不然,所以問"為什麼不?"

    老師您覺得呢??

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  2. 還有另一種可能性
    因為主題與"想像"有關
    所以things that never were
    也有可能指的是 "從未存在的事物"
    因"從未存在的事物"是需靠"想像力"想像出來的

    所以到底是哪個比較接近作者的想法呢?

    如果能討論一下,會很有趣~~

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  3. 禪念互動:

    (註: 沒有網路不會有這些對話)

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    2013年4月20日星期六 溫老 Blog 貼文 : http://jeromewen.blogspot.tw/2013/04/why-not.html#comment-form

    You see things, and say , "Why?"
    But I dream things that never were, and say, "Why not?"
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    Ellen Yu 貼文回應:

    2013年5月2日上午12:05
    tricky~~~ kind of difficult~~
    what do you think?

    意思好像是說:你看見事物時,總是問"為什麼?"
    而我卻夢到"things that never were",所以問"為什麼不?"


    這片段指的應是什麼呢??
    主題是與"想像"有關,所以需琢磨琢磨~~
    是指:"事物從來就不是它們原本的樣子"????

    我本來是想翻成:
    你看見事物時,總是問"為什麼?"
    而我卻夢到事實不然,所以問"為什麼不?"

    老師您覺得呢??

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    Ellen Yu2013年5月2日上午12:29
    還有另一種可能性
    因為主題與"想像"有關
    所以 things that never were
    也有可能指的是 "從未存在的事物"
    因"從未存在的事物"是需靠"想像力"想像出來的

    所以到底是哪個比較接近作者的想法呢?

    如果能討論一下,會很有趣~~


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    (上課互動)

    387. 葉瓊華 (s12731107) : 我們看到一件不想看的事實會說但當我們夢想的事卻一直沒出現因此我們又問為甚麼他不存在 (15:42:07)
    388. 葉瓊華 (s12731107) : 我們看到一件不想看的事實會說他怎麼會發生但當我們夢想的事卻一直沒出現因此我們又問為甚麼他不存在 (15:42:50)
    389. 邱靜萍 (s12731121) : 身是菩提樹,心如明鏡台,時時勤拂拭,莫使惹塵埃 (15:43:33)
    390. 黃淑鈴 (s12731118) : 菩提本無樹. 明鏡亦非臺; 本來無一物. 何處惹塵埃 (15:43:35)
    391. 張欽凱 (s12731116) : 慧能 (15:44:08)
    392. 張欽凱 (s12731116) : 2 (15:44:26)
    393. 辛憶如 (s12731105) : 敦煌本六祖法寶壇經記載,惠能祖師說了兩首偈: (15:44:29)
    394. 張欽凱 (s12731116) : 他的師兄 (15:44:46)
    395. 鄭志銘 (s12631111) : 神秀 (15:44:59)
    396. 邱靜萍 (s12731121) : 首座第子神秀作了一偈,"身是菩提樹,心如明鏡台,時時勤拂拭,勿使惹塵埃".五祖說未見性,只在門外.後慧能聽偈有感,遂來到堂前,亦作一偈:"菩提本非樹,明鏡亦非台,本來無一物,何處惹塵埃."五祖亦說未見性.五祖為何說亦未見性呢,因此偈的確未見 (15:45:39)

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  4. The theme "Imagine" reminds me of a famous English song written by John Lennon, a well-known member of Beatles.

    Imagine there's no heaven
    It's easy if you try
    No hell below us
    Above us only sky
    Imagine all the people
    Living for today...

    Imagine there's no countries
    It isn't hard to do
    Nothing to kill or die for
    And no religion too
    Imagine all the people
    Living life in peace...

    You may say I'm a dreamer
    But I'm not the only one
    I hope someday you'll join us
    And the world will be as one

    Imagine no possessions
    I wonder if you can
    No need for greed or hunger
    A brotherhood of man
    Imagine all the people
    Sharing all the world...

    You may say I'm a dreamer
    But I'm not the only one
    I hope someday you'll join us
    And the world will live as one

    The world are so familiar with the song; however, few of the people know where his inspiration came from. The article mentioned that, in fact, the song was inspired from a poem written by John Lennon's Japanese wife, Yoko Ono. The poem started with the sentence “Imagine a raindrop, imagine a goldfish." Yoko Ono once said in an interview that, “When I was a child in Japan during the Second World War, my brother and I were terribly hungry. I imagined delicious menus for him, and he began to smile. If you think something is impossible, you can imagine it and make it happen."

    It is the sentence “If you think something is impossible, you can imagine it and make it happen” that expresses the true essence of “ imagine”.

    Through imagination, the impossible seems possible; the non-exist seems physical, which is the power of imagination.

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