Natural World The Wild Places of Essex《自然世界：艾塞克斯原野（2010）》完整中英文对照剧本.docxVIP

我已经记不清何时开始爱上大自然的了 I cannot say when I first grew to love the wild, 但我知道心中对自然的向往一直很强烈 but I know that a need for it will always be strong in me. 我叫罗伯特·麦克法兰 Im Robert Macfarlane, 我花大量的时间去寻找 and Ive spent much of my life seeking out 英国的野外美景 并记录下来 Britains wild places and writing about them. 在孩童时期 我就想象在遥远的地方 As a child, I imagined a wild place 一定有个野外世界 to be somewhere remote, 在那里我得以放眼望去 somewhere I could look out to a horizon 都会是未被人类触及的风景 untouched by human hand. 但现在我明白这种天真纯洁的期待 But Ive come to realise that this innocent view 大自然已无法实现了 of the wild just wont hold any longer. 因为在英国已经没有纯粹的自然风光了 Because no pure landscape exists in modern Britain. 没有一寸土地没被我们改造过的 Theres no inch of land that weve not influenced. 就拿艾塞克斯说吧 Take Essex, of all places. 艾塞克斯 常因其耗损严重 高楼密集 Essex, so often dismissed as Englands 位列英国郡县之前列 而被弃之一边 most run-down, built-up county. 乍一看 似乎大自然在这已不复存在 At first glance, it seems that wildness is extinct here. 但我不这么认为 But I think otherwise, 我要证明这里还是有大自然存在的 and want to prove that it can still be found. 正是因此我准备花一年时间 Its for this reason that Im going to spend a year 来探索艾塞克斯杂乱的风景 exploring Essexs jumbled landscape... 去发现美丽 奇异 深邃 ..To try and find those places in which beauty, 仍在苟延残喘的大自然 strangeness and depth still linger. 我看过太多英国自然美景逝去的讣告 Ive read so many obituaries for the wild in England. 有人认为我们用沥青 锄头 吊车 The idea that weve tarmacked and farmed and developed 开凿出离开大自然的路 and roaded ourselves out of wildness. 但在我看来 这些观点 But these arguments, they seem to me 不但错误而且很危险 是过早的定论 both false and dangerous, premature really, 就像给一个没死的人哀悼 like mourning for somebody who isnt yet dead. 所以我来到了艾塞克斯 And Ive come to Essex, 罗伯特·麦克法兰 作家 最具代表性的英国郡县 this most typical in its way of English counties, 看看在这种人类和自然 in the way the human and the natural 互相作用互相抗衡的状况下 weave and butt up against each other, 什么能幸存下来 to see what remains, 哪些部分的自然 以哪种方式 在哪里存活着 what wildness is left, how and where it survives. 艾塞克斯的自然风光 当听说我要在艾塞克斯找到一处 When I say Im looking for the wild places 自然风光时 人们有两种反应 o