【翻译练习】勇者打倒权威，弱者被权威打倒(2)
世界著名交响乐指挥家小泽征尔在一次欧洲指挥大赛的决赛中，按照评委会给他的乐谱在指挥演奏时，发现有不和谐的地方。他认为是乐队演奏错了，就停下来重新演奏，但仍不如意。这时，在场的作曲家和评委会的权威人士都郑重地说明乐谱没有问题，而是小泽征尔的错觉。面对着一批音乐大师和权威人士，他思考再三，突然大吼一声：“不，一定是乐谱错了！”话音刚落，评判台上立刻报以热烈的掌声。
It turned out to be a well-designed trap to examine whether the conductor could stand his ground or not when he found the mistake and was denied by authorities. The first two competitors, though they discovered something wrong as well, were finally knocked out because they were too timid to challenge the authority, while Seiji Ozawa was crowned the winner of this World Conductor's Competition as a result of his defiance.
原来，这是评委们精心设计的圈套，以此来检验指挥家们在发现乐谱错误并遭到权威人士“否定”的情况下，能否坚持自己的正确判断。前两位参赛者虽然也发现了问题，但终因趋同权威而遭淘汰。小泽征尔则不然，因此，他在这次世界音乐指挥家大赛中摘取了桂冠。
You will get nowhere without wisdom, you will get nowhere without courage either. No one is sure that a wise man is bound to be courageous, but an unwise man is very likely short of courage, or you can say he has not enough courage.
没有智慧不行，没有勇气也不行。谁也不敢说有智慧的人一定有勇气；但缺少智慧的人，大约也没有勇气，或者其勇气亦是不足取的。
What is courage? Never be scared by external forces and turn a blind eye to them. Undertake formidable tasks without fear. Take warlord problem as an example: only a precious few have a mind to overthrow them out of indignation, while the vast majority regard it as a helpless situation, they have no other choice but to bend towards them and swim with the current. How can we deal with them when we are just unarmed civilians? That is cowardice. A man without courage is prone to yield to the accomplished situation and regard it as immutable. All that said, we have to admire Mr. Sun Yat-sen for him a man of great courage. It's a miracle he overthrew the Qin Dynasty reigned for two hundred years by himself. It is hard to imagine that he finished all this without an insane ambition. However, without wisdom he would not have achieved this either. Haven't he ever been scared by the mighty Qin Dynasty? He was not unaware of the strength of it, but simultaneously he was conscious that it was changeable. Haven't he ever felt a tiny human being he is? But he knew he would grow stronger, and that is wisdom. It needs more courage to see through all these things. It is just because of his courage that he had got a lot of brains. Wisdom and courage, one and the same rather than irrelevant two, are nothing more than a sign of one's life on the high ground. In contrast, one looks stupid when he is frightened.
It turned out to be a well-designed trap to examine whether the conductor could stand his ground or not when he found the mistake and was denied by authorities. The first two competitors, though they discovered something wrong as well, were finally knocked out because they were too timid to challenge the authority, while Seiji Ozawa was crowned the winner of this World Conductor's Competition as a result of his defiance.
原来，这是评委们精心设计的圈套，以此来检验指挥家们在发现乐谱错误并遭到权威人士“否定”的情况下，能否坚持自己的正确判断。前两位参赛者虽然也发现了问题，但终因趋同权威而遭淘汰。小泽征尔则不然，因此，他在这次世界音乐指挥家大赛中摘取了桂冠。
You will get nowhere without wisdom, you will get nowhere without courage either. No one is sure that a wise man is bound to be courageous, but an unwise man is very likely short of courage, or you can say he has not enough courage.
没有智慧不行，没有勇气也不行。谁也不敢说有智慧的人一定有勇气；但缺少智慧的人，大约也没有勇气，或者其勇气亦是不足取的。
What is courage? Never be scared by external forces and turn a blind eye to them. Undertake formidable tasks without fear. Take warlord problem as an example: only a precious few have a mind to overthrow them out of indignation, while the vast majority regard it as a helpless situation, they have no other choice but to bend towards them and swim with the current. How can we deal with them when we are just unarmed civilians? That is cowardice. A man without courage is prone to yield to the accomplished situation and regard it as immutable. All that said, we have to admire Mr. Sun Yat-sen for him a man of great courage. It's a miracle he overthrew the Qin Dynasty reigned for two hundred years by himself. It is hard to imagine that he finished all this without an insane ambition. However, without wisdom he would not have achieved this either. Haven't he ever been scared by the mighty Qin Dynasty? He was not unaware of the strength of it, but simultaneously he was conscious that it was changeable. Haven't he ever felt a tiny human being he is? But he knew he would grow stronger, and that is wisdom. It needs more courage to see through all these things. It is just because of his courage that he had got a lot of brains. Wisdom and courage, one and the same rather than irrelevant two, are nothing more than a sign of one's life on the high ground. In contrast, one looks stupid when he is frightened.
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