鲍勃迪伦获奖致辞

鲍勃迪伦获奖致辞

　　去年10月，瑞典文学院将2016年诺贝尔文学奖颁给鲍勃-迪伦，但在此后的一段时间内，瑞典文学院一度无法联系到他本人。根据颁奖规定，鲍勃-迪伦必须在今年6月10日前发表获奖感言才能领取奖金。

　　诺贝尔文学奖评奖机构瑞典文学院5日在其官方网站宣布，美国歌手鲍勃-迪伦终于向瑞典学院提交了诺贝尔文学奖获奖致辞，有资格领取800万瑞典克朗的奖金。他的演说音频已由诺贝尔官方发布在社交媒体上。

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　　鲍勃迪伦获奖致辞

　　Good evening， everyone. I extendmy warmest greetings to the members of the Swedish Academy and to all of the other distinguished guests in attendance tonight.

　　各位晚上好。我向瑞典学院的成员和今晚所有出席宴会的尊贵来宾致以最热烈的问候。

　　I‘m sorry I can’t be with you in person， but please know that I am most definitely with you in spirit and honored to be receiving such a prestigious prize. Being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature is something I never could have imagined or seen coming.From an early age， I‘ve been familiar with and reading and absorbing the works of those who were deemed worthy of such a distinction: Kipling， Shaw， Thomas Mann， Pearl Buck， Albert Camus， Hemingway. These giants of literature whose works are taught in the schoolroom， housed in libraries around the world and spoken of in reverent tones have always made a deep impression. That I now join the names on such a list is truly beyond words.

　　抱歉我不能亲自与你们共度此刻，但请确信我绝对是在精神上与你们同在，我也为获得这样一个享有盛誉的奖项而感到荣耀。被授予诺贝尔文学奖是我未曾想到或者预见到的事情。从年少时起，我就熟知、阅读并吸收被认为有资格获得这份殊荣的那些人的作品，比如吉卜林、萧伯纳、托马斯·曼、赛珍珠、阿尔贝·加缪、海明威。这些文学巨匠一直给我留下了深刻的印象，他们的著作是课堂上的教材、世界各地图书馆的藏书、人们带着恭敬语气谈论的话题。如今我的名字也出现在这样一份名单上，我的.心情无以言表。

　　I don’t know if these men and women ever thought of the Nobel honor for themselves， but I suppose that anyone writing a book， or a poem， or a play anywhere in the world might harbor that secret dream deep down inside. It‘s probably buried so deep that they don’t even know it‘s there.

　　我不知道这些获奖的男男女女是否想到过自己能荣获诺贝尔奖，但我猜想在世界上任何一个地方，任何一个写书、写诗或者写剧本的人或许内心深处都怀有这个隐秘的梦想。它可能深埋心底，以至于他们甚至不知道它的存在。

　　If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize， I would have to think that I’d have about the same odds as standing on the moon. In fact， during the year I was born and for a few years after， there wasn‘t anyone in the world who was considered good enough to win this Nobel Prize. So， I recognize that I am in very rare company， to say the least.

　　如果之前有人告诉我说我有一线希望获得诺贝尔奖，我会觉得那与我站上月球的几率一般大小。事实上，我出生的那年和之后的几年，世界上没有哪个人被认为优秀到足以获得诺贝尔文学奖。所以，我明白，至少可以说，我加入了一个极少数人群体。

　　I was out on the road when I received this surprising news， and it took me more than a few minutes to properly process it. I began to think about William Shakespeare， the great literary figure. I would reckon he thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing literature couldn’t have entered his head. His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read. When he was writing Hamlet， I‘m sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: “Who’re the right actors for these roles?” “How should this be staged?” “Do I really want to set this in Denmark?” His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt at the forefront of his mind， but there were also more mundane matters to consider and deal with. “Is the financing in place?” “Are there enough good seats for my patrons?” “Where am I going to get a human skull?” I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare‘s mind was the question “Is this literature?”

　　我是在巡演途中接到这个出人意料的消息的，我好半天才回过神来。我开始想到文学界的伟大人物威廉·莎士比亚。我猜想他把自己视为剧作家。他不会产生他写的是文学作品的念头。他的文字为舞台而写。用来说而不是读。我敢肯定，他在写《哈姆雷特》时想的是许多别的事情：“都有谁适合扮演这些角色?”“这一段要怎么演?”“真要把丹麦作为这个故事的背景吗?”创意和雄心无疑是他最先要想的东西，但还有一些比较琐碎的事情要考虑和处理。“资金到位了吗?”“给资助人提供的好座位够多吗?”“去哪里弄一颗颅骨?”我敢打赌莎士比亚最不可能想到的问题是：“这算文学吗?”

　　When I started writing songs as a teenager， and even as I started to achieve some renown for my abilities， my aspirations for these songs only went so far. I thought they could be heard in coffee houses or bars， maybe later in places like Carnegie Hall， the London Palladium. If I was really dreaming big， maybe I could imagine getting to make a record and then hearing my songs on the radio. That was really the big prize in my mind. Making records and hearing your songs on the radio meant that you were reaching a big audience and that you might get to keep doing what you had set out to do.

　　我年少时开始写歌，在我开始因自己的才能小有名气时，我对这些歌抱有的期望也仅限于此。我想着也许能在咖啡馆或酒吧听到它们，或许日后还能在像卡内基音乐厅和伦敦守护神剧院这样的地方听到。如果我真的敢想的话，或许我会想象出唱片、然后在电台里听到我的歌。那的确是我心目中的大奖。出唱片并在电台听到自己的歌意味着会拥有众多听众，如此一来也许就可以将最初要做的事情继续下去。

　　Well， I‘ve been doing what I set out to do for a long time， now. I’ve made dozens of records and played thousands of concerts all around the world. But it‘s my songs that are at the vital center of almost everything I do. They seemed to have found a place in the lives of many people throughout many different cultures and I’m grateful for that.

　　是的，这么长时间以来，我一直在做着最初要做的事情。我出了几十张唱片，在世界各地举办了数千场演唱会。但我在做的几乎每件事的核心都是我的歌。它们似乎在众多不同文化背景的人的生命中占据了一席之地，对此我心存感激。

　　But there‘s one thing I must say. As a performer I’ve played for 50，000 people and I‘ve played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50，000 people have a singular persona， not so with 50. Each person has an individual， separateidentity， a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. Your honesty and how it relates to the depth of your talent is tried. The fact that the Nobel committee is so small is not lost on me.

　　但是有一点我必须要讲。作为一个表演者，我为5万人演出过，也为50个人演出过，我可以告诉你们，为50个人表演的难度更大。5万人拥有的是一副面孔，50人却并非如此。每个人都拥有独特的、不同的身份，有着自己的世界。他们能更清楚地感知事物。你的真诚以及这份真诚与你全部才华的交融在接受着考验。我不是没注意到诺贝尔奖评审委员会的人数之少。

　　But， like Shakespeare， I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life’s mundane matters. “Who are the best musicians for these songs?” “Am I recording in the right studio?” “Is this song in the right key?” Some things never change， even in 400 years.

　　但是，和莎士比亚一样，我也经常忙于对创作的追求和对各种日常琐事的处理。“谁是最适合演绎这些歌曲的音乐人?”“我应不应该在这个录音棚录歌?”“这首歌的调子准吗?”即便在400年后的今天，有些事情依然从未改变。

　　So， I do thank the Swedish Academy， both for taking the time to consider that very question， and， ultimately， for providing such a wonderful answer.

　　我从来没有时间问自己：“我的歌算是文学吗?”所以，我真的要感谢瑞典文学院，感谢它不仅花时间思考了这个问题，而且，最终给出了这么棒的答案。

　　My best wishes to you all，

　　致以最好的祝福，

　　Bob Dylan