美国人的空间中国人的场所翻译.docxVIP

American Space, Chinese Place 美国人的空间，中国人的场所 by Yi-Fu Tuan---段义孚 Americans have a sense of space, not of place. 美国人有空间感，却没有地域意识。 Go to an American home in exurbia, and almost the first thing you do is drift toward the picture window. 去到城市远郊的美国家庭，你做的第一件事几乎就是走到风景窗前。 How curious that the first compliment you pay your host inside his house is to say how lovely it is outside his house! 在主人屋里，你却首先称赞他房子外面非常漂亮会是多么奇怪啊！ He is pleased that you should admire his vistas. 但是房子的主人会很开心因为你竟然懂得他的远景设计。 The distant horizon is not merely a line separating earth from sky, it is a symbol of the future. 遥远的地平线不仅仅是天地的分界线，它是未来的象征。 The American is not rooted in his place, however lovely : his eyes are drawn by the expanding space to a point on the horizon, which is his future. 美国人不会在他的地域落地生根，不管那个地方多么舒适。他们的目 光随着扩展的空间一直延伸到地平线的某一点，那儿是他们的未来。 By contrast, consider the traditional Chinese home. 相反，我们来看传统的中式家庭。 Blank walls enclose it. Outside is a courtyard with perhaps a miniature garden around the corner. 围墙环绕着屋子。院子的角落或许会有一个微型花圃。 Once inside the private compound you are wrapped in an ambiance of calm beauty, an ordered world of buildings, pavement, rock, and decorative vegetation. 一旦进入私人院落，你就会被沉静有序的气氛笼罩，房屋，曲径，奇 石，花草点缀其中。 But you have no distant view: nowhere does space open out before you. the only open space is the sky above. 但是，你看不到远景：你面前没有辽阔的空间，唯一开阔的是头顶的 天空。 The Chinese is rooted in his place. 中国人扎根于他们的某一地域。（中国人与他们的住宅是难分难舍的） The Chinese tie to place is deeply felt. 中国人的对扎根的地方感受颇深。 Wanderlust is an alien sentiment. 流浪对他们来说是陌生的。 The Taoist classic Tao Te Ching captures the ideal of rootedness in place with these words: Though there may be another country in the neighborhood so close that they are within sight of each other and the crowing of cocks and barking of dogs in one place can be heard in the other, 道家经典的〈〈道德经》这样描述中国人根深蒂固的思想： “尽管彼国 相邻，两国如此之近以至于可以看见，彼此也能听见鸡鸣狗吠声。 yet there is no traffic between them; and throughout their lives the two peoples have nothing to do with each other. 然而，他们之间老死不相往来