Lesson 39 What every writer wants

歌曲 Lesson 39 What every writer wants
歌手 英语听力
专辑 新概念英语(第四册)

歌词

[00:01.52] Lesson 39
[00:03.44] What every writer wants
[00:11.73] How do professional writers ignore what they were taught at school about writing?
[00:19.84] I have known very few writers,
[00:22.18] but those I have known and whom I respect, confess at once that they have little idea where they are going when they first set pen to paper.
[00:33.22] They have a character, perhaps two;
[00:35.91] they are in that condition of eager discomfort which passes for inspiration all admit radical changes of destination once the journey has begun;
[00:47.54] one, to my certain knowledge, spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir,
[00:53.21] then reset the whole thing in the Scottish Highlands.
[00:57.73] I never heard of anyone making a 'skeleton', as we were taught at school.
[01:03.33] In the breaking and remaking, in the timing interweaving, beginning afresh,
[01:10.07] the writer comes to discern things in his material which were not consciously in his mind when he began.
[01:17.55] This organic process,
[01:19.69] often leading to moments of extraordinary self-discovery, is of an indescribable fascination.
[01:28.29] A blurred image appears; he adds a brushstroke and another and it is gone
[01:35.34] but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it.
[01:41.10] Sometimes the yeast within a writer outlives a book he has written.
[01:47.27] I have heard of writers who read nothing but their own books;
[01:51.51] like adolescents they stand before the mirror,
[01:54.77] and still cannot fathom the exact outline of the vision before them.
[01:59.96] For the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books,
[02:05.78] winkling out hidden meanings, super-imposing new ones,
[02:10.63] begging response from those around them.
[02:13.65] Of course a writer doing this is misunderstood: he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair.
[02:21.69] He is also, incidentally, an unforgivable bore.
[02:26.49] This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader,
[02:31.13] to study his image in the sight of those who do not know him, can be his undoing: he has begun to write to please.
[02:40.70] A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back
[02:46.26] that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow.
[02:52.68] For this reason also the writer, like any other artist,
[02:56.48] has no resting place, no crowd or movement in which he may take comfort,
[03:02.18] no judgment from outside which can replace the judgment from within.
[03:07.86] A writer makes order out of the anarchy of his heart;
[03:12.04] he submits himself to a more ruthless discipline than any critic dreamed of,
[03:17.70] and when he flirts with fame, he is taking time off from living with himself,
[03:23.02] from the search for what his world contains at its inmost point.

歌词大意

[00:01.52] dì 39 kè
[00:03.44] zuò jiā zhī suǒ xū
[00:11.73] zhuān yè zuò jiā shì zěn yàng hū lüè xué xiào lǐ xué dào de xiě zuò zhī shí de?
[00:19.84] wǒ de rèn shi de zuò jiā liáo liáo wú jǐ
[00:22.18] rán ér fán shì wǒ suǒ rèn shi hé zūn jìng de zuò jiā, dōu lì jí chéng rèn zài tā men dòng bǐ shí, bù qīng chǔ yào xiě shén me, zěn me xiě.
[00:33.22] tā men xīn zhōng zhī zài yí gè huò liǎng gè jué sè.
[00:35.91] tā men chǔ yú jí qiè bù ān de zhuàng tài, ér zhè bèi dàng zuò shì líng gǎn. tā men wú bù chéng rèn, yī dàn" lǚ chéng" kāi shǐ," mù dì dì" cháng yǒu jí jù de biàn huà.
[00:47.54] jù wǒ suǒ zhī, yǒu wèi zuò jiā huā le 9 gè yuè de shí jiān xiě le yī bù guān kè shí mǐ ěr de xiǎo shuō
[00:53.21] hòu lái què bǎ zhěng gè gù shì bèi jǐng huàn chéng le sū gé lán gāo dì.
[00:57.73] wǒ cóng wèi tīng shuō guò rèn hé yī wèi zuò jiā xiàng wǒ men zài xué xiào nà yàng, dòng bǐ qián xiān liè shén me tí gāng.
[01:03.33] zuò jiā zài jiǎn cái xiū gǎi gòu sī shí jiān chuān chā qíng jié yǐ zhì cóng tóu chóng xiě de guò chéng zhōng,
[01:10.07] huì lǐng wù dào sù cái zhōng hěn duō dōng xī shì tā gāng dòng bǐ shí suǒ wèi yì shí dào de.
[01:17.55] zhè zhǒng yǒu jī de jiā gōng guò chéng
[01:19.69] wǎng wǎng dá dào bù xún cháng zì wǒ fā xiàn de jìng jiè, jù yǒu nán yǐ yán biǎo de gòu sī mèi lì.
[01:28.29] yí gè méng lóng de xíng xiàng chū xiàn zài zuò jiā de nǎo hǎi lǐ, tā zuǒ tiān yī bǐ, yòu tiān yī bǐ, xíng xiàng fǎn ér xiāo shì le.
[01:35.34] kě shì, hǎo xiàng hái yǒu shén me dōng xī cún zài zhe, bù bǎ tā bǔ zhuō dào, zuò jiā shì bú huì bà xiū de.
[01:41.10] yǒu shí, yí gè zuò jiā yī běn shū xiě wán le, dàn xīng fèn réng bù xiāo sàn.
[01:47.27] wǒ tīng shuō yī xiē zuò jiā, chú le zì jǐ de shū wài, bié de shū yī gài bù dú.
[01:51.51] yóu rú xī là shén huà zhōng nà wèi piào liàng de shào nián, zhàn zài jìng qián
[01:54.77] bù néng biàn rèn zì shēn dí zhēn miàn mù.
[01:59.96] yóu yú zhè gè yuán yīn, zuò jiā dié dié bù xiū dì tán lùn zì jǐ de shū
[02:05.78] wā jué qí yǐn huì de hán yì
[02:10.63] xún wèn zhōu wéi rén de fǎn yìng.
[02:13.65] zuò jiā rú cǐ xíng shì dāng rán bèi rén wù jiě. tā hái bù rú gěi rén jiǎng yí gè fàn zuì àn jiàn huò yí gè liàn ài gù shì.
[02:21.69] shùn biàn shuō yī jù, tā yě shì gè bù kě ráo shù de lìng rén yàn fán de rén.
[02:26.49] zhè zhǒng qǐ tú xiāo chú zì jǐ hé dú zhě zhī jiān jù lí de zuò fǎ
[02:31.13] qǐ tú yòng bù liǎo jiě zì jǐ de rén de guān diǎn lái yán jiū zì jǐ sù zào de xíng xiàng de zuò fǎ, huì dǎo zhì zuò jiā de huǐ miè, yīn wèi tā yǐ jīng kāi shǐ wèi qǔ yuè tā rén ér xiě zuò le.
[02:40.70] yī liǎng nián qián, yī wèi nián qīng de yīng guó zuò jiā fā biǎo le zhòng kěn de kàn fǎ.
[02:46.26] tā shuō, chū gǎo shì cái huá, yǐ hòu gè gǎo shì yì shù.
[02:52.68] yě shì yóu yú zhè gè yuán yīn, zuò jiā tóng rèn hé yì shù jiā yí yàng
[02:56.48] zhǎo bu dào kě xiū xī de chǎng suǒ, zhǎo bu dào huǒ bàn hé huó dòng shǐ zì jǐ dé dào ān yì.
[03:02.18] rèn hé jú wài rén de pàn duàn yě bǐ bù shǎng tā nèi xīn de zhèng què pàn duàn.
[03:07.86] yī dàn zuò jiā cóng nèi xīn de wěn luàn zhōng lǐ chū tóu xù
[03:12.04] jiù yīng gāi àn rèn hé píng lùn jiā xiǎng xiàng bú dào de wú qíng guī fàn yuē shù zì jǐ xiě zuò
[03:17.70] dāng tā gū míng diào yù shí, tā jiù tuō lí le zì wǒ shēng huó
[03:23.02] tuō lí le duì zì jǐ líng hún zuì shēn chǔ shì jiè de tàn suǒ.