纪录片《文明》 第77期 画卷天堂（1）

When your world is collapsing¹,

当你身边的世界正在崩塌

when everything is closing in...

当你穷途末路

..What you want is to be somewhere else.

你想要的就是离开

Somewhere you can breathe in peace.

去一个你可以平静呼吸的地方

A scrap² of beauty, far from the noise and ugliness.

一个美丽的地方 远离喧嚣丑陋的世界

But, if there is no escape, then you go there in your dreams...

但如果无路可逃 那么你会在梦中去到那里

..And you paint that landscape into existence.

并将那片景象绘于纸上

This is what happened in China

这正是二十世纪七十年代

in the 1970s to the artist Mu Xin.

中国画家木心的亲身经历

During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution,

在毛泽东发起的文革期间

he was an obvious target.

他是个显而易见的目标

Middle-class, intellectual,

中产阶级 知识分子

a lover of decadent³, Western art.

一个腐朽的西方艺术的崇拜者

Mu Xin was subjected to solitary⁴ confinement⁵,

木心被单独关押

forced labour and then house arrest.

强迫劳动 最后被软禁

But the paper supplied for weekly confessions⁶

但是每周供他写"坦白书"的纸

became the material of his liberation.

恰恰变成了解放他的工具

Mu Xin broke out of his confinement by making visible,

木心冲破了外界对他的监禁

albeit⁷ in deadly secrecy⁸,

在极度隐秘中

the landscapes which unfolded in his mind.

将他脑海中的风景绘于纸上

The art memory of China, its peaks and its valleys.

中国的艺术记忆 有起有伏

The culture which had given the rest of the world,

这个文化古国 早在一千年以前

1,000 years before,

就向世界展示了

true landscape art.

风景画的真谛

While everything else was being smashed up,

当其他一切都被打碎

he was determined⁹

木心却坚信

that art, now judged a reactionary¹⁰ crime,

被判为反动罪行的绘画艺术

would survive.

一定会生存下来

Like nature itself,

和自然界相似

landscape art has always been an antidote¹¹

风景画一直是化解人世间

to the anarchy¹² wrought¹³ by the hand of man.

种种动乱纷争的一剂良药

1 collapsing   

压扁[平]，毁坏，断裂

参考例句：

• Rescuers used props to stop the roof of the tunnel collapsing. 救援人员用支柱防止隧道顶塌陷。
• The rocks were folded by collapsing into the center of the trough. 岩石由于坍陷进入凹槽的中心而发生褶皱。

2 scrap   

n.碎片；废料；v.废弃，报废

参考例句：

• A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
• Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。

3 decadent   

adj.颓废的，衰落的，堕落的

参考例句：

• Don't let decadent ideas eat into yourselves.别让颓废的思想侵蚀你们。
• This song was once banned, because it was regarded as decadent.这首歌曾经被认定为是靡靡之音而被禁止播放。

4 solitary   

adj.孤独的，独立的，荒凉的；n.隐士

参考例句：

• I am rather fond of a solitary stroll in the country.我颇喜欢在乡间独自徜徉。
• The castle rises in solitary splendour on the fringe of the desert.这座城堡巍然耸立在沙漠的边际，显得十分壮美。

5 confinement   

n.幽禁，拘留，监禁；分娩；限制，局限

参考例句：

• He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.他度过了11年的单独监禁。
• The date for my wife's confinement was approaching closer and closer.妻子分娩的日子越来越近了。

6 confessions   

n.承认( confession的名词复数 )；自首；声明；（向神父的）忏悔

参考例句：

• It is strictly forbidden to obtain confessions and to give them credence. 严禁逼供信。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Neither trickery nor coercion is used to secure confessions. 既不诱供也不逼供。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

7 albeit   

conj.即使；纵使；虽然

参考例句：

• Albeit fictional,she seemed to have resolved the problem.虽然是虚构的，但是在她看来好象是解决了问题。
• Albeit he has failed twice,he is not discouraged.虽然失败了两次，但他并没有气馁。

8 secrecy   

n.秘密，保密，隐蔽

参考例句：

• All the researchers on the project are sworn to secrecy.该项目的所有研究人员都按要求起誓保守秘密。
• Complete secrecy surrounded the meeting.会议在绝对机密的环境中进行。

9 determined   

adj.坚定的；有决心的

参考例句：

• I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
• He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。

10 reactionary   

n.反动者，反动主义者；adj.反动的，反动主义的，反对改革的

参考例句：

• They forced thousands of peasants into their reactionary armies.他们迫使成千上万的农民参加他们的反动军队。
• The reactionary ruling clique was torn by internal strife.反动统治集团内部勾心斗角，四分五裂。

11 antidote   

n.解毒药，解毒剂

参考例句：

• There is no known antidote for this poison.这种毒药没有解药。
• Chinese physicians used it as an antidote for snake poison.中医师用它来解蛇毒。

12 anarchy   

n.无政府状态；社会秩序混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• There would be anarchy if we had no police.要是没有警察，社会就会无法无天。
• The country was thrown into a state of anarchy.这国家那时一下子陷入无政府状态。

13 wrought   

v.引起；以…原料制作；运转；adj.制造的

参考例句：

• Events in Paris wrought a change in British opinion towards France and Germany.巴黎发生的事件改变了英国对法国和德国的看法。
• It's a walking stick with a gold head wrought in the form of a flower.那是一个金质花形包头的拐杖。