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1、赏析版2013年1月经济学人文章（英汉双语对照）汇集Contents2012.12.22 The girl at the Grand Palais 在巴黎大宫邂逅的女孩12012.12.22 In the name of the Name 上帝的称谓之争92012.12.22 The Senkaku or Diaoyu Islands 尖阁/钓鱼岛列岛152013.01.05Americas European moment 美国的欧洲时刻232013.01.05Six Good Books 六本好书2013年1/2月版262013.01.05 Cloney ponies 克隆赛马292013.

2、01.05Stoneless rivers 没有石头的河流312013.01.05 The bottom line 底线352013.01.05Europes dirty secret 欧洲环境污染背后372013.01.05 The mixed fortunes of a fuel 各国如何看待燃煤422012.01.10 Which is the best month? 最佳月份系列452013.01.12 Great expectations 改革之路漫漫532013.01.12 Modern families 摩登家庭562013.01.12Joe Biden is not the a

3、nswer 拜登的无能为力592013.01.12 In search of happiness 追寻幸福632013.01.16 Gun control 枪支管制（最新进展）642013.01.19 Farewell, Tim Geithner 再见，蒂莫西盖特纳662013.01.19 Global trade 从港口看全球贸易变迁692013.01.19 Facebook: Search me 搜搜我722013.01.19 Gun control: The battle begins 枪支管制：战斗打响742013.01.26 Child trafficking|A cruel tra

4、de 拐卖儿童| 残忍的交易762013.01.26The first Anglo-Afghan war第一次英阿战争782013.01.26Hero for a day 卡梅伦英雄气短822013.01.26Looking better 美国经济看上去有所好转85编号：时间：2021年x月x日书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟页码：第89页 共91页2012.12.22 The girl at the Grand Palais 在巴黎大宫邂逅的女孩Le Grand Meaulnes美丽的约定【注1】The girl at the Grand Palais在巴黎大宫邂逅的女孩【注2】The ado

5、lescent obsession that inspired an influential yet neglected French classic一段青春期的苦恋，促成了一部颇具影响却又被人忽视的法国文学经典Dec 22nd 2012 | from the print editionSAL PARADISE, hero of Jack Kerouacs “On the Road”, carries only one book on his three-year travels across America. On a Greyhound bus to St Louis he produce

6、s a second-hand copy of “Le Grand Meaulnes”, stolen from a Hollywood stall. Entranced by the Arizona landscape, he decides not to read it after all.萨尔帕拉戴斯是杰克凯鲁亚克在路上一书的主角。他花了三年时间穿越美国，其间只带了一本书。在开往圣路易斯的“灰狗”大巴上，他掏出一本从好莱坞某个摊上顺来的二手书：美丽的约定。但亚利桑那州的美景让他沉醉，于是他最终决定把书抛到一旁。Such is the fortune of Alain-Fourniers

7、story, one of Frances most popular novels, in the English-speaking world. Much loved yet little read, for almost a century this strange, earnest and inconsolable novel has haunted the fringes of fiction. Henry Miller venerated its hero; F. Scott Fitzgerald borrowed its title for “The Great Gatsby” (

8、and some critics think Fourniers main characters were models for Nick Carraway, Fitzgeralds narrator, and his lovelorn pal). John Fowles claimed it informed everything he wrote. “I know it has many faults,” he sighed, as if trying to shake the obsession, “yet it has haunted me all my life.”这便是美丽的约定（

9、法文原名了不起的摩尔纳）在英语人群中的命运写照。阿兰-福涅尔的这部作品是法国最流行的小说之一，但在英语文学中却始终不入主流：近百年来，这本诡异严肃、哀婉至极的小说虽然大受推崇，却没有多少读者。亨利米勒对小说主人公敬重有加。弗司各特菲茨杰拉德在了不起的盖茨比中也借用了它的书名（还有评论家认为，盖茨比中的叙述者尼克卡洛威和他那位相思成疾的朋友，正是以约定的主要人物为模板）。约翰福尔斯则声称，自己的每部作品都有约定的影子：“我知道它有很多缺点，但它是我终生挥之不去的东西”；说到这里，他长叹一声，似乎想要摆脱这种痴迷。Despite its famous advocates, “Le Grand Me

10、aulnes”100 years old in 2013is a masterpiece in peril. The stream of pilgrims who visit Fourniers childhood home, near Bourges, is starting to thin. These days readers in Britain and America often choose denser, more overtly philosophical French authors. A decade ago, one British fan, Tobias Hill, n

11、oted that the book survived through “a barely audible system of Chinese whispers”.2013年是约定的百年华诞。尽管不乏名家推崇，但这本著作的地位却岌岌可危。在布尔日市附近的福涅尔儿时故居，慕名前来的人日渐稀少。英美读者现在往往会选择更加深奥、哲学味更明显的法国作家。十年前，英国书迷托拜厄斯希尔就注意到，约定之所以尚未没落，是靠“几近不可闻、可信度很差的传言”。Why are many English-speaking readers unfamiliar with a book adored by some of

12、 their most respected writers? And what accounts for the curious grip that this simply written and nostalgic tale of adolescent romance holds over its most besotted fans? Some love the poetry of its language, others the interlocking mysteries of its plot. Many are entranced by the elegiac sadness th

13、at rises from the prose, as one critic remarked, “like mist over the heath”. But its appeal partly lies in the romantic life and early death of its author, and the story of the woman who inspired him.为何在英语人群中，众多读者对一本备受文坛巨匠推崇的作品却知之甚少？而一篇朴实怀旧的青春爱情故事，又如何会对铁杆书迷有着不可思议的魔力？有人喜欢的是它富有诗意的语言，其他人则喜欢它故事情节中环环相扣的神

14、秘。小说平实的字里行间散发着哀婉凄越，令许多人为之心醉；用一位评论家的话来说，“宛如那荒原上的雾霭”。然而，它的魅力有一部分是源自作者的浪漫人生和英年早逝，还有一位女子的故事：是她给了作者创作的灵感。A brief encounter短暂的邂逅The life of Henri Fournier (pictured), now better known by his pen name, spun round a single, sunny afternoon in 1905, described in Robert Gibsons valuable biography “The End of

15、Youth”. Leaving an art exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, when he was 18, he spotted a young woman walking with an older lady. Captivated, he followed them across the river to the door of a Left Bank apartment, afterwards returning to the building whenever his studies would allow. Too timid to

16、 knock, he paced the streets outside. Ten days later he saw the girl againwalking unaccompanied to massand approached her. Wary but flattered, she agreed to stroll with him by the Seine.照片中的便是小说作者亨利福涅尔，而现在人们往往更熟悉他的笔名。他的一生都围绕着1905年一个阳光明媚的下午展开。这一幕在罗伯特吉布森的重要传记青春的终点中有过描述：当时，18岁的福涅尔刚在巴黎大宫参观完一个艺术展，与一年长妇女同

17、行的少女步入了他的眼帘。福涅尔对少女一见倾心，于是尾随二人过河，来到左岸的一所公寓门前。此后，只要学业容许，他就会来到这座楼前。由于没有勇气敲门，他只好在屋外的街道徘徊。十天之后，他终于再次见到了那位少女：这次，她是独自一人去做弥撒。见到上前搭讪的福涅尔，少女有些警惕，但也为他的殷勤芳心暗喜，便同意和他一起沿着塞纳河畔散步。He told her he was a writer (or that he would be one day), the son of a country schoolmaster, now studying in Paris. She told him her nam

18、e was Yvonne de Quivrecourt, and that she was staying in the city with relatives, but leaving the next day. At her request they separated at the Pont des Invalides. Waiting where she left him, Fournier saw her look back twice. Years later he was still decoding this gesture: “Was it because, silently

19、, from a distance, she wanted to reinforce her order that I should not follow her? Or was it to let me see her face one more time?”福涅尔告诉姑娘，他是作家（也或者说的是，他会成为作家），正在巴黎学习，父亲是一所乡村学校的校长。少女则告诉福涅尔，她叫伊芳娜葵瑞珂特，在巴黎亲戚家做客，明天就要走了。按照她的要求，二人在荣军大桥道别。流连在原地的福涅尔发现，少女曾两次回眸。其中的意味让他数年之后仍在揣测：“她是想从远处无声地重申自己的命令，要我不要尾随？还是想让我再看看

20、她的容颜？”Fournier clung to the memory long after it should have faded into his adolescence. He waited at the steps of the Grand Palais on the anniversary of his first glimpse of her (knowing, in rational moments, that she would not be there). He returned frequently to the apartment, hoping to spot her

21、at a window. The word “She”, its first letter meaningfully capitalised, peppered his letters.这次邂逅本该在青春期的记忆中渐渐淡去，但福涅尔却久久不能忘怀。二人第一次见面的周年纪念日，他来到巴黎大宫的台阶上苦苦等待（虽说在理性占上风的时候，他也明白伊芳娜不会出现）。他时常回到那所公寓门前，期待着她出现在窗口。“她”这个词频繁出现在福涅尔的信中，大写的首字母意味深长。Other frustrations in his life helped this childish attachment foment

22、into something powerful. He twice failed his university entrance exam, which kept him at school long after his peers had left. Mandatory military service prevented a third failure, but brought another two years of gloom. In 1909 he returned to Paris and moved in with his parents, plagued by “the fee

23、ling that youth is over and you havent done what you ought”.生活的其他失意，将幼稚的爱慕催化为浓烈的情感。福涅尔两次高考落榜，眼看同学纷纷毕业，自己却成了大龄留级生。义务兵役让他免受第三次挫折，却又带来两年抑郁的从军生涯。1909年，他回到巴黎与父母同住。“青春已逝、一事无成的感觉”让他饱受煎熬。Attempts to contact Yvonne brought Fournier further disappointment. In July 1907 he had finally called at the apartment b

24、uildingto be told by the concierge that she had married the previous winter. Two years later, still disconsolate, he hired a private investigator. He learned her address, and that she had a child.福涅尔也试图联系伊芳娜，但结果却让他更加失望。1907年7月，当他终于登门拜访那所公寓时，却被门房告知伊芳娜已于去年冬天出嫁。两年后，依旧郁郁寡欢的他雇了一名私家侦探。他拿到了伊芳娜的住址，也得知她已为人母。

25、These discoveries distressed Fournier. Five years after the encounter he still labelled his fixation a “sickness”; occasionally his melancholy brought on bouts of real fever. But it also suited his nature to love at a distance. The memorable months he spent perfecting his English in Chiswick, in wes

26、t Londonwhere the young anglophile delighted in tea, jam and the landmarks made famous by his beloved Dickenswere marred only by the unsettling worldliness of British girls, who “get too friendly too soon”.这些消息令福涅尔苦闷不已。在与伊芳娜相识五年之后，他仍将自己的迷恋称为一种“病”。有时，他也真的抑郁成疾，并因此数度发烧。不过，这也符合他倾慕却不愿亲近的天性。年轻的福涅尔喜欢英国，并曾在

27、伦敦西郊的奇斯威克进修英语，那几个月是他难忘的日子：那里有他喜欢的香茶、果酱，还有因偶像狄更斯出名的历史建筑。唯一的缺憾是英国女孩的世故让他不安：她们“太容易对人亲近了”。What is more, with Yvonne as his muse Fourniers literary career gathered startling speed. His first published poems, all addressed or dedicated to the absent girl, earned him a job as a gossipy literary columnist f

28、or the Paris-Journal, which allowed him to befriend (and irritate) Andr Gide, Paul Claudel and other popular French writers. He founded an eccentric rugby club with the novelist Charles Pguy and Gaston Gallimard, a publisher. He briefly taught French to the young T.S. Eliot. In 1912 Fournier entered

29、 high society, becoming personal secretary and speechwriter to Claude Casimir-Prier, son of a former French president.而且，有了伊芳娜这位缪斯女神，福涅尔在文学事业上的进展也快得惊人。他最初发表的诗歌全是致献给从未在诗中出现的女孩。因为这些作品，他成了巴黎日报文学漫谈的专栏作家，并同安德烈吉德、保罗克劳德尔等法国当红作家成了朋友（也令这些人着恼）。他还会同小说家查理斯裴盖和出版商加斯顿伽利玛德，组建了一个特立独行的橄榄球俱乐部。此外，他还教过托马斯艾略特一阵子法语。1912年，

30、福涅尔进入上流社会，为法国前总统之子克劳德卡西米尔-佩里埃担任私人秘书，并为他起草演讲稿。Love affairs arrived, eventually. He had a lengthy, tumultuous relationship with a milliner. An affair with a neighbour began when she dropped a note from her window onto the pavement in front of him. (It ended after her husband, sensing infidelity but un

31、certain of the culprit, vowed to murder his rival.)桃花运也终于来了。他与一位女帽商的恋情磕磕碰碰，持续了很长时间。有次，在他门前的人行道上，一个女邻居将字条从窗口抛到他的面前；从此二人有了私情。（女邻居的丈夫察觉妻子的不忠，却弄不清第三者是谁。在他发誓干掉情敌之后，这段私情也就此结束。）Fantasy and reality幻想与现实But none of these paramours could compare to Yvonne, whom Fournier had come to believe only the grandest g

32、estures might win. By the end of 1912 he was carrying around a letter to the woman who had haunted him for seven years. “You left me only one way to rejoin you and communicate with you and that was to win literary fame,” it read. “A long novel which Im finishing, a novel which is centred all around

33、youyou whom I hardly knewis coming out this winter.”然而这些情人都无法与伊芳娜相比。福涅尔最终相信，只有用最盛大的示爱方式，才可能赢得她的芳心。1912年年底之前，他总是随身带着一封信，那是写给七年以来让他魂牵梦绕的女子。信中这样写道：“你让我别无选择，只能用一种方式与你与重逢谈心，那就是在文学界成名。我的一部小说即将杀青，今冬便会付梓。整部小说都围绕着你展开，那个我无缘相知的你。”In truth Fourniers literary ambitions were not born outside the Grand Palaishowev

34、er fierce that singular thunderboltbut forged years earlier in his fathers schoolhouse, where he and his sister would dog-ear the books bought as prizes for the best students. Still, “Le Grand Meaulnes”, which was published the following autumn, has Yvonne firmly at its heart.事实上，福涅尔的文学抱负并非源自巴黎大宫外的那

35、次邂逅，无论当时他触电的感觉有多强烈。早在多年之前，当他和妹妹在父亲的校舍中，一遍又一遍翻看奖励优等生的图书时，他就已经立下志向。尽管如此，在1913年秋出版的约定中，伊芳娜依旧是无可争议的灵魂人物。In the novel, 17-year-old Augustin Meaulnes is sent to board at a country school. There he befriends Franois Seurelthe bookish son of the local schoolmaster and the novels narratorand earns the admira

36、tion of his schoolmates, who bestow on him the title le grand. Months later Meaulnes stumbles upon a tumbledown chateau where a bizarre wedding party has assembled, its guests in lavish historical costume. There he encounters a beautiful young woman, but afterwards he finds it impossible to locate t

37、he strange estate, and the mysterious girl. Before his search comes to an end, a bungled suicide will leave one character disfigured; a brief affair in Paris will lead a young woman to the streets.书中，17岁的奥古斯丁摩尔纳被送到一所乡村学校寄读。在那里，他和书卷气十足的弗朗索瓦苏瑞尔成了朋友（后者是校长的儿子，也是故事的叙述者）。同学们把摩尔纳当作偶像，给了他一个“了不起”的称号。几个月后，他无意

38、间闯入了一座破败的庄园，目睹了一场奇特的婚礼和身着华丽古装的客人，并邂逅了一位美丽的少女。然而在此之后，他却无法找到这座奇怪的庄园和那位神秘的少女。在他的寻梦之旅落幕之前，一个书中角色因为自杀未遂而惨遭毁容，而一名年轻女子因为一夕偷欢而沦落风尘。The story mixes fantasy and reality. Fourniers childhood home among the moors and marshes of north-central France, to which he felt a morbid attachment almost equal to his longi

39、ng for Yvonne, provides a nostalgic setting. The book features events and observations first chronicled in letters; a few passages quote directly from his correspondence. But its imagined elements, such as a circus troupe that vanishes overnight, recall the novels of Britains renowned adventure writ

40、ersKipling, Stevenson, Wells and Defoe. An early chapter cites “Robinson Crusoe”.这是一个现实与幻想交织的故事。怀旧的背景源自作者儿时的故乡，它位于法国中北部，四周是荒原和沼泽；福涅尔思乡成疾，其程度与对伊芳娜的相思之苦几乎不相上下。书中的一些经历和评述最初见于福涅尔的书信，几段文字甚至是原文照搬。不过，作品的幻想元素颇有英国冒险小说名家的风范，比如一夜之间凭空消失的马戏团，就会让人想起吉卜林、史蒂文森、威尔斯和笛福等人的作品。小说开头有一章引用了鲁滨逊漂流记。Drawing the real and fantas

41、tical together is the meeting between Meaulnes and the elusive heroine, also called Yvonne. It is a faithful re-enactment of the encounter of 1905 that Fournier had recorded in his notebook. The novel sways between celebrating and condemning the obsessive and destructive search that follows; but Fou

42、rnier was at least able to give his characters a concluding reunionpart wish-fulfilment, part tragedythat his own story still lacked.小说中神秘的女主角也叫“伊芳娜”。将真实与虚幻拼接起来的，正是她与摩尔纳的相识。这一幕忠实地再现了1905年的那次邂逅（福涅尔早已将之载入笔记之中）。书中，摩尔纳此后一直苦苦追寻，但其间却铸成大错；对此，小说有时赞其不懈，有时怒其不争。不过，书中的角色至少能有一个团圆的结局，虽说有些悲情，也算为作者圆了一个梦。但在现实中，梦依旧是梦

43、。By 1913 he had reason to rid himself of his preoccupation, one way or another. In May he began an affair with Simone Casimir-Prier, a well-known actress and the wife of his employer. (Their relationship started in secret the night Fournier returned excitedly from the now-famous near-riot at the pre

44、miere of Stravinskys “The Rite of Spring”.) The letter he had drafted for Yvonne, still unsent, was intended to provoke a denouement. “I beseech you to take quite seriously these dreadful words,” he wrote. “I have no desire to live far from wherever you may be.”1913年之前，福涅尔有种种理由让自己摆脱相思之苦。五月，斯特拉文斯基的芭蕾

45、舞剧春之祭首次公演（这场公演险些演变成了一场暴乱，因此闻名至今）。观剧归来的福涅尔非常兴奋。那天晚上，他与自己老板的妻子、著名演员西蒙妮卡西米尔-佩里埃有了私情。从此，二人开始了一段不伦之恋。为了激起伊芳娜的谴责，福尔纳给她写了一封信，不过从未寄出。信中这样写道：“请你务必明白，这些丑闻绝非戏言。无论你身在何方，我都不愿和你天涯相隔。”As unlikely as it must have seemed to Fournier, it was mutual acquaintances, not tear-stained missives, that eventually connected t

46、hem. Encouraged by her sisterwho had heard, through friends, of Fourniers infatuationYvonne herself arranged a meeting in Rochefort, on Frances west coast, in July 1913. The girl from the Grand Palais remembered many small details of their previous conversation. She admitted she had thought of it of

47、ten.不过，最终让二人重逢的并非满是泪痕的书信，而是他们共同的熟人（虽说福涅尔肯定觉得这不可思议）。伊芳娜的姐姐从朋友口中得知福尔纳的相思之苦，便鼓励妹妹与之见面。1913年7月，在伊芳娜的亲自安排下，二人在法国西海岸的罗舍福尔重逢。当年巴黎大宫外的女孩还记得两人上次谈话的许多小细节，并且承认她曾经常忆起那些情形。Scribbled in his notebook are snippets of an exchange that must have saddened as much as delighted him. “If you had come three years ago,” sh

48、e said to him, “everything might have been possible.” He gave her his love letter, but she promptly returned it, taking pains to show him that his imagined future was now inconceivable. She introduced him to her mother and her two small children. She invited him to visit them at home in Brest: “My husband will take you out into the country.”福涅尔在笔记中潦草地摘录了一些二人的对话，这些话肯定是让他悲喜参半。女孩告诉他：“如果你三年前来的话，或许一切都有可能。”福涅尔将情书交给伊芳娜，但女孩立即递了回去，同时苦口婆心地表明，他幻想的未来现在已不可能实现。她向福涅尔引荐了自己的母亲和两个年幼的孩子，又邀请他去布雷斯特的家中做客，并告诉他：“我先生会带你去乡下看看”。Fro