文档介绍：Thinking As a Hobby
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While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking;and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion - namely, that I myself could not think at all.
还是个孩子的时候我就得出了思考分三种等级的结论。后来思考成了嗜好,我进而得出了一个更加离奇的结论,那就是:我自己根本不会思考。
I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how prehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them. It was the headmaster of my grammar school who first brought the subject of thinking before me - though neither in the way, nor with the result he intended. He had some statuettes in his study. They stood on a high cupboard behind his desk.
那个时候我一定是个很让大人头疼的小孩。当然我已经忘记自己当初在他们眼里是什么样子了,但却记得他们一开始在我眼中就是如何不可理喻的。第一个把思考这个问题带到我面前的是我文法学校的校长,当然这样的方式,这样的结果是他始料不及的。他的办公室里有一些小雕像,就在他书桌后面一个高高的橱柜上面。
One was a lady wearing nothing but a bath towel. She seemed frozen in an eternal panic lest the bath towel slip down any farther, and since she had no arms, she was in an unfortunate position to pull the towel up again. Next to her, crouched the statuette of a leopard, ready to spring down at the top drawer of a filing labeled A-AH. My innocence interpreted this as the victim's last, despairing cry. Beyond the leopard was a naked, muscular gentleman, who sat, looking down, with his chin on his fist and his elbow on his knee. He seemed utterly miserable.
其中一位女士除了一条浴巾外一丝不挂。她好象被永远地冻结在对浴巾再往下滑的恐惧中了。而不幸的是她没有手臂,所以无法把浴巾拉上来。在她的身边蜷伏着一头美洲豹,好象随时都会往下跳到档案橱柜最上层的抽屉上去,我懵懵懂懂地把那个抽屉上标着的"A-AH"理解成为猎物临死前绝望的哀鸣/惨叫。在豹子的另一边端坐着一个健硕的***男子,他手肘支在膝头,手握拳托着腮帮子,全然一副痛苦不堪的样子。
Some time later, I learned about these statuettes. The headmaster had placed them where they would face delinquent children, because they symbolized to him the whole of life. The naked lady was the Venus of Milo. She was Love. She was not worried about the towel. She was just busy being beautiful. The leopard was Nature, and he was being natural. The naked,