《名人传记》之我是李小龙15:发现经典武学的弊端

 　　You and this entire society are useless in this country.You are archaic¹.And you're a fool to think that you can break away from us merely because you choose to.

　　你们团体的做法在这个国家行不通，你们太古板了。你只是一个自以为能够和我们抗争的傻瓜。

　　To prove Bruce Lee was wrong, he was a fake and a fraud,the Chinese traditionalists sent somebody over to fight him.

　　为了证明李小龙只是一个骗子，当地的中国保守派派了一些人去和他约战

　　The Chinese sent someone to shut down the school.Shut down or throw down, and of cause Bruce chose throw down.

　　他们派人踢馆。自己关门不然我们帮你，布鲁斯当然迎战。

　　The fight was to be held at Bruce's school.If Bruce lost the fight,he would have to stop teaching non-Chinese people.

　　那场约战在布鲁斯的武馆举行。如果布鲁斯输了，他就不能再教外国学生武术。

　　Anything that forces you to review your dogmas,most people don't respond too well to it.

　　对于迫使你改变想法的外力，大多数人都只是采取逆来顺受的态度，

　　I was there, eight months pregnant with Brandon,and these elders arrived from San Francisco,led by Wong Jack² Man,who was going to be the opponent in this challenge.They came and they had this big match.I didn't have a shred³ of a doubt about how this would come out.

　　当时我也在场，怀布兰登已有8个月了。这些人由黄泽民领头，从旧金山一路赶来，而黄则是他这次约战中的对手，然后就举行了这场重要的比赛。我毫不担心这场比赛的结果。

　　Wong Jack Man started to run around the room trying to get away from Bruce,and it took three minutes for Bruce to get him down on the ground and say, "Do you give up?"

　　黄泽民开始绕着房间跑动以避开布鲁斯的攻击，布鲁斯花了三分钟将其击倒在地，并质问他 "服不服"？。

　　So Wong Jack Man and those people all left.And I remember so clearly in my mind's eye Bruce sitting on the steps in the back of the studio with his head in his hands.And she said. "What's the matter?"

　　后来黄泽民带着这帮人离开了，而我清晰地记得布鲁斯坐在武馆后院的阶梯上，双手抱头.然后妈妈上去问他 "怎么了"

　　That was the fight that he realised the classical arts were not working for him.He should have put that guy down much sooner.。

　　这场打斗之后他发现了经典武学的弊端，他本可以更快地击倒对手

1 archaic   

adj.(语言、词汇等)古代的，已不通用的

参考例句：

• The company does some things in archaic ways,such as not using computers for bookkeeping.这个公司有些做法陈旧，如记账不使用电脑。
• Shaanxi is one of the Chinese archaic civilized origins which has a long history.陕西省是中国古代文明发祥之一，有悠久的历史。

2 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

3 shred   

v.撕成碎片，变成碎片；n.碎布条，细片，些少

参考例句：

• There is not a shred of truth in what he says.他说的全是骗人的鬼话。
• The food processor can shred all kinds of vegetables.这架食品加工机可将各种蔬菜切丝切条。