![src=../../upimg/allimg/20060913/1519550.jpg]() 酒过三巡,辛德勒(Shindler)与纳粹军官阿蒙哥特(Amon Goeth)到阳台闲聊。平常,Goeth经常无缘无故开枪射击,乱杀无辜,他认为,随意杀人就是权力。Shindler却说,“正义”才是能让一个人操生杀大权的原因,宽恕才是权力。——看看Shindler的原话是怎么说的: Goeth: You know, I look at you. I watch you, and you´re never drunk. Oh, that´s...that´s real control. Control is power. That´s power. Is that why they fear us? We have the fucking power to kill, that´s why they fear us. They fear us because we have the power to kill arbitrarily. A man commits a crime, he should know better. We have him killed, and feel good about it. Or we kill him ourselves and we feel even better. Shindler: That´s not power, though. That´s justice. It´s different than power. Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don´t.
Goeth: You think that´s power? Shindler: That´s what the emperors had. A man stole something; he´s brought in before the emperor. He throws himself down on the ground, he begs for mercy. He knows he´s going to die. And the emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.
Goeth: I think you are drunk. Shindler: That´s power, Amon.
重点讲解: look at,固定搭配的词组,意思是看、观察。drunk,喝醉了的。Goeth说Shindler从不喝醉,显示了超强的控制力。进而他发出感慨:控制力就是权力。犹太人怕我们,就是因为我们有生杀予夺的大权,我们能随意决定一个犹太人的生死。 arbitrarily,武断地,任意地。 接着Goeth举了个例子。比如对一个犯了罪的人,如果我们杀了他,我们会感觉快乐;如果是我们亲手杀了他,就更有快感了。 commit a crime,犯罪,可以当作一个固定搭配来记忆。 Shindler却提出了不同的见解。他认为,正义( justice)使我们有权杀死一个犯了罪的人。真正的权力是,我们有充足的理由去处死他,而我们却不去这样做。every,每一个,全部的,引申为充分的; justification,认为有理,认为正当,理由。他解释说,就像小偷乞求( beg for)宽恕,皇帝原谅( pardon)了他,让这个毫无价值的人(worthless)继续苟且偷生,皇帝(emperor)们拥有的就是权力而不是正义。 throw oneself on the ground,匍匐在地。 再做些文字外的注释,以便更透彻地理解这段话。Shindler话外的意思是,“权力”是存在于人与人的关系中的,可以使用,可以执行;“正义”却不是一个人或一群人与生俱来的,它是一种参照的标准,是独立于人之外的。当一个人或一群人以正义的化身自居的时候,这个世界也就危险了。 |