Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech -- William Cuthbert Faulkner
Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature
接受诺贝尔文学奖的演讲
originally delivered December 10, 1950 in Stockholm Sweden
最初于 1950 年 12 月 10 日在瑞典斯德哥尔摩交付
[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Reading version below transcribed directly from audio version #2]
[真实性认证：以下阅读版本直接转录自音频版本 #2]
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before.
我觉得这个奖项不是颁给我作为一个人，而是颁给我的工作——我毕生在人类精神的痛苦和汗水中所做的工作，不是为了荣耀，更不是为了利润，而是为了用人类精神的材料创造出以前不存在的东西。
So this award is only mine in trust.
所以这个奖只属于我一个人的信任。
It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin.
不难找到与其起源的目的和意义相称的金钱部分的奉献。
But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand here where I am standing.
但我也想对赞誉做同样的事情，通过利用这一刻作为一个顶峰，那些已经致力于同样的痛苦和劳苦的年轻男女可以倾听我的声音，他们之中已经有有一天会站在我站的地方。
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it.
我们今天的悲剧是一种普遍存在的身体恐惧，这种恐惧长期存在，以至于我们甚至可以忍受。
There are no longer problems of the spirit.
精神上不再有问题。
There is only the question: When will I be blown up?
唯一的问题是：我什么时候会被炸毁？
Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
正因为如此，今天写作的年轻人已经忘记了人心与自身冲突的问题，只有这样才能写出好文章，因为只有这样才值得写，值得痛苦和汗水。
He must learn them again.
他必须再次学习它们。
He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed -- love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.
他必须教导自己，一切事情中最基本的就是害怕；他教导自己，永远忘记它，在他的工作室里除了古老的真理和心灵的真理之外，不留任何空间，没有这些古老的普遍真理，任何故事都是短暂的和注定要失败的——爱、荣誉、怜悯、骄傲、同情和牺牲。
Until he does so, he labors under a curse.
在他这样做之前，他一直在咒诅之下工作。
He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion.
他写的不是爱情，而是欲望，写的是没有人失去任何有价值的东西的失败，写的是没有希望的胜利，最糟糕的是，没有怜悯或同情。
His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars.
他的悲伤没有在普遍的骨头上悲伤，也没有留下伤痕。
He writes not of the heart but of the glands.
他写的不是心脏，而是腺体。
Until he relearns these things, he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man.
在他重新学习这些事情之前，他会像站在人类之中并注视着人类的终结一样写作。
I decline to accept the end of man.
我拒绝接受人类的终结。
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.
很容易说，人是不朽的，仅仅因为他会忍受：当厄运的最后一声叮当声从最后一个红色的、垂死的夜晚悬在无潮的无价值岩石上叮当作响并消失时，即使那样，仍然还会有一种声音：他那微弱的、无穷无尽的声音，仍在说话。
I refuse to accept this.
我拒绝接受这一点。
I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.
我相信，人不仅会忍耐，而且会胜利。
He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
他之所以不朽，并不是因为他在众生中独一无二，拥有无穷无尽的声音，而是因为他有灵魂，有同情心、牺牲精神和忍耐力。
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things.
诗人、作家的责任就是写下这些事情。
It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.
他有幸帮助人们振奋精神，提醒他们勇气、荣誉、希望、骄傲、同情、怜悯和牺牲，这些都是他过去的荣耀，从而帮助他们忍受苦难。
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
诗人的声音不仅需要成为人类的记录，它还可以成为帮助他忍受和获胜的支柱之一。
Research Note : Audio version #1 is the originally delivered address and Audio Version #2 is the revised re-recorded reading by Faulkner in studio.
研究笔记：音频版本#1 是最初发送的地址，音频版本#2 是福克纳在工作室重新录制的修订后的朗读内容。
According to some sources Audio Version #1 may be incomplete.
根据一些消息来源，音频版本 #1 可能不完整。
The version published in Les Prix Nobel mirrors Audio version #1 and hence contains substantive and stylistic alterations not present in Faulkner's original address.
《诺贝尔奖》中发布的版本反映了音频版本#1，因此包含福克纳原始演讲中未出现的实质性和风格上的改变。
Additional Note : Thanks to David DeGusta for his helpful corrections to the written transcript above.
附加说明：感谢 David DeGusta 对上述书面记录的有益更正。
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Image = Public domain.
图像=公共领域。
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American Rhetoric.
美国修辞学。
HTML transcription by Michael E.
HTML 转录由 Michael E.
Eidenmuller.
艾登米勒。