爱，死亡和机器人-S02E08-溺毙的巨人_爱,死亡和机器人

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... is closed permanently. We've known that for some time now.

... 被永久关闭我们已经知道一段时间了

There had been a big storm the night before.

昨夜一场风暴来袭

And so it was late morning before the town heard the first news

因此当地渔民发现它之后临近中午

of the arrival after it had been spotted by local fishermen.

本镇居民才得知它到来的新闻

Being scientists my colleagues and I of course discounted the first reports

身为科学家我和同事当然认为

as exaggerations or a trick of the light.

最初的报道是夸大其词或是目击者眼花了

But as ever more eyewitnesses returned from the beach

但随着越来越多目击者从海滩回来

we finally decided to investigate for ourselves.

我们最终决定亲自去看看

Come on then Steven. No time to waste gawking.

走吧斯蒂芬别傻站着了

Right behind you.

马上来

He must displace at least 60 tons.

他肯定至少有60吨重

I'd say closer to 80. The bones alone must weigh 30 tons.

我觉得将近80吨光是骨头肯定都重30吨

The vast proportions of his features

他庞大的五官

made it impossible to assess the age of the giant

使人难以估计他的年龄

but his classically modeled mouth and nose

但他端正的嘴巴和鼻子表明

suggest he had been a young man of discreet and modest temper.

他是一名谦虚谨慎的年轻人

It was a noble face possessed of an ornate charm

这是一张英俊的面孔其迷人的魅力

that belied the brutish power of the giant's physique.

掩盖了巨人体魄之下隐含的残暴之力

His magnificent Homeric stature

他雄伟的荷马式身材

offered a more authentic example of a drowned Argonaut

更真实地展示了溺水的阿尔戈号船员

[阿尔戈: 出自古希腊神话指陪同伊阿宋寻找金羊毛的船员]

or a hero from The Odyssey

或"奥德赛"中英雄应有的样子

than the conventional human sized portraits previously in my mind.

彻底颠覆了我脑海中传统人类体型的形象

What I found so fascinating was partly his immense scale of course

当然我着迷的部分原因是他庞大的体型

but above all it was simply the categorical fact of his existence.

但最重要的是世上真的有巨人的存在

Whatever else in our lives might be open to doubt

我们或许能对生活中的其他事心存疑虑

this giant existed in an absolute sense...

但这位巨人在绝对意义上的存在...

providing us a glimpse into a world of similar absolutes

让我们得以窥见另一个相似绝对的世界

in which we spectators on the beach were such imperfect and puny copies.

在那里我们这些看客是如此不完美和渺小

Say look over there.

看那边

Who is that Come on.

那是谁我们也去吧

Oh it's rubbery.

好有弹性

How is it up there

站那么高感觉如何

Is it funny

好玩吗

Teddy you bastard I nearly fell.

泰迪你个混蛋我差点摔了

You looked so scared.

你真的吓坏了

From a distance it looked as if he was merely asleep

远远看去他似乎只是进入了梦乡

and could at any moment clap his heels together

随时可能拍拍脚跟

and crush the miniscule replicas of himself that swarmed around him.

碾碎团团围住自己的"迷你版巨人"

But as time passed

但随着时间的推移

the magical spell cast by the giant began to dissipate.

巨人施展的魔法开始逐渐消散

We'd best get back to town. It'll be dark soon.

我们最好回城了马上要天黑了

Yeah. I suppose you're right.

知道了你说得对

Three days passed before my next visit to the beach.

三天后我再次来到了海滩

Sensing a particular interest in the giant

我研究所的同事察觉到

my associates at the institute delegated the task

我对巨人尤其感兴趣

of keeping the giant under observation to me.

便将观察巨人的任务交给了我

There was nothing morbid about this because for all intents

这没什么可怕的因为不管怎样

the giant was still alive for me.

在我眼里巨人还活着

Indeed more alive than many of the people around me.

确实他甚至比我身边的许多人更有活力

No it's not. This bastard's big.

不是的那货大着呢

If the butchers start here we can soon get access to the thigh bone.

如果屠夫从这开始我们很快就能够到大腿骨

And we can work our way up to the hip.

然后我们就能移动到髋骨

Going to be some overtime getting this done.

全部处理完得花不少时间呢

The following day

第二天

I deliberately postponed my visit until late afternoon

我特意推迟到傍晚才来到海滩

hoping that I'd find fewer people on the beach.

希望这时人会少些

Prolonged immersion in seawater and the tumefaction of his tissues

长时间浸泡在海水里使他身体肿胀

had given the face a less youthful look.

给他的面容增添了些许沧桑感

His features now had an appearance of well fed maturity

他的五官如今有种养尊处优的成熟感

hinting at the growing corruption to come.

暗示着更严重的腐败即将到来

This was the beginning of his surrender to that all demanding system of time

这意味着他开始屈服于冷酷无情的时间

in which the rest of humanity found itself.

人类也同样遵循这一体系

However repellent it may seem

不管看起来有多恶心

this ceaseless metamorphosis this visible life in death

这无休止的质变这死亡中的生命迹象

is what gave me the courage to finally set foot on his corpse.

使我终于有勇气踏上他的尸体

This new perspective made me more aware of...

全新的视角让我更加意识到...

...the last physical agonies of the giant.

巨人最后生理上的痛苦

No less painful for his unawareness of them.

并未因为他没有意识而好受多少

In the end his face had been transformed

最后他的脸变成了

into a mask of exhaustion and helplessness.

一张疲惫与无助交织的面具

Caught in that same twisting whirlpool

陷进了生命的漩涡中

for which all our finite lives are destined.

正如我们有限的人生一样

And his suffering was made all the more tragic by the isolation

而独自忍受这一切使他的境遇

in which he endured it.

越发凄凉

Cast like an abandoned ship upon the empty shore.

就像一艘被抛弃在空旷海岸的巨轮

The amputation was but the first of a series of depredations.

截肢只是一系列劫掠的开始

Two days had passed while I struggled to overcome my reluctance

我挣扎了两天才克服了自己的不情愿

to witness the end of this magnificent illusion.

来目睹这一宏伟幻想的终结

Despite his immense size

尽管他体格巨大

these insults to the giant's body made him appear more human to me.

他身体受到的侮辱让我感觉他更具人性

More vulnerable.

更脆弱

But that weakness has released a sudden flood of repressed spite

但这脆弱激发出了泄洪般被压抑的恶意

encouraging the mutilation of the colossus by the tiny creatures around it.

刺激着周围的小生物损毁这一庞然大物

When I visited the beach the following day

当我第二天去海滩时

I found almost with relief that the head had been removed.

看到他的头已经没了几乎松了口气

Some weeks had lapsed before my next journey to the beach.

我再去已经是好几周后了

And by then any human likeness held by the giant had vanished.

那时巨人的任何人类特征都已消失

Evening mate.

晚上好哥们

And with the loss of those few remaining traces of personality

随着那些残存的勉强附着在他身上的

that had clung tenuously to the figure

人性特征的丧失

the interest of the spectators had at last expired.

看客的兴趣终于消失殆尽

Months later after the giant's arrival had been generally forgotten

几个月后巨人已被大众遗忘

various pieces of the body began to reappear around town.

他的各种身体部位又开始出现在镇上

Most of those remains were bones.

这些遗骸大多是骨头

These mighty yet disembodied fragments seem to better convey the essence

这些巨大的残肢断臂似乎更好地表现了

of the giant's magnificence

巨人壮观的精髓

than my last memories of his bloated appendages.

比我最后记得的肿胀躯体强多了

I have no doubt that if I search the town's pubs

我敢肯定如果我找遍镇上的酒吧

hotels and eateries I'd also find the mummified nose or ears of the giant

旅店和餐馆也能发现他干瘪的鼻子或耳朵

hanging on walls and fireplaces.

挂在那些地方的墙上和壁炉上

Tickets get them here

票拿来让他们过来

Get out of here. You wanna look you pay for it.

滚出去想看就得买票

As for the immense pizzle

至于他巨大的阴茎

this ends its days in the freak museum of a small circus

沦落到了一个小马戏团的怪物博物馆里

which travels up and down the northwest coast.

在西北海岸来回巡演

That monumental apparatus

那个宏伟的器官

stunning in its proportions and once potency

因其令人震惊的体积和往日的雄风

occupies a complete tent to itself

独自占据了整个帐篷展厅

though sadly it is mislabeled as belonging to a whale.

但遗憾的是它被标成是鲸鱼的生殖器

Even those who came and saw the giant after the storm now remember him

那些在风暴后曾去海边见过巨人的人

if at all as merely a large sea beast.

现在就算记得他也只把他记作一只巨型海兽

But the giant is still alive for me.

但对我来说巨人依然活着

I often dream of his resurrection.

我经常梦到他复活

A colossus striding through the streets of town

大步流星地穿梭于镇上的街道

picking up the fragments of himself on his return journey to the sea.

捡起自己的残肢随后回归海洋