精美英文欣赏:我们身处的谎言世界(3)

We've become disconnected. Idolizing people we've never met.

人们的隔阂越来越深，以至于把从未见过的人当做偶像。

We witness the extraordinary on screens but ordinary everywhere else.

我们见证着屏幕里的伟大事迹，却在自己的生活中处处平凡。

We wait for someone to bring change without ever thinking of changing ourselves.

我们坐等别人改变世界，却从未想过要改变自己。

Presidential elections might as well be a coin toss. It's two sides of the same coin.

总统选举就像是抛硬币，不管哪一面都是同一个硬币。

We choose which face we want and the illusion of choice, of change is created.

我们选择自己想要的一面，仿佛参与了某种改变和选择。

But the world remains¹ the same.

但这个世界依旧一成不变。

We fail to realize the politicians don't serve us; they serve those who fund them into power.

我们没有意识到政治家不会为我们服务，他们不过是服务于赞助人的傀儡。

We need leaders, not politicians.

我们需要的是领导者而非政治家。

But in this world of followers², we have forgotten to lead ourselves.

但在这个充斥着盲从者的世界里，我们忘记了要做自己的领导者。

Stop waiting for change and be the change you want to see.

别再等待改变的到来，去创造你想要看到的改变吧。

We didn't get to this point by sitting on our asses³.

我们能拥有今天的一切并不是一路坐着看来的。

The human race survived not because we are fastest or the strongest, but because we worked together.

人类的幸存并不是因为我们最快、最强壮，而是因为我们懂得合作。

We have mastered the act of killing⁴. Now let's master the joy of living.

我们已经精通了杀戮的技巧，现在应该学习生命的美妙。

This isn't about saving the planet. The planet will be here whether we are or not.

这不是为了拯救地球，因为不管我们拯救与否，地球依旧存在。

Earth has been around for billions of years, each of us will be lucky to last eighty.

地球已经存在了几十亿年，我们每个人有幸才能活到80多年。

We are a flash in time, but our impact is forever.

我们只是时间长河中的一瞬闪光，但我们的影响确是永恒的。

I often wished I lived in an age before computers, when we didn't have screens to distract us.

我常希望自己生活在电脑之前的年代里，这样我们才不会被屏幕里的信息分散注意力。

But I realize there's one reason why this is the only time I want to be alive.

然而我意识到，我想要活在当下也有一个原因。

Because here today, we have an opportunity we never had before.

因为今天我们有着前所未有的机遇。

The internet gives us the power to share a message and unite millions around the world.

网络给予了我们分享信息，联合世界各地几百万人的力量。

While we still can we must use our screens to bring us closely together, rather than farther apart.

趁还来得及，我们必须用网络来拉近我们之间的距离，而不是推得越来越远。

For better or worse, our generation will determine the future of life on this planet.

无论好坏，我们这一代将决定这个星球的未来。

We can either continue to serve this system of destruction until no memory of our existence remains.

我们要么继续服务于这个自我毁灭的系统直到我们存在过的记忆消失殆尽。

Or we can wake up. Realize we aren't evolving upwards⁵, but rather falling down...we just have screens in our faces so we don't see where we're heading.

要么觉醒，意识到自己并不是在向前进而是在不断衰败。我们把电子屏幕摆在面前，所以看不到前路。

This present moment is what every step, every breath and every death has led to.

过去的每一个脚步，每一次呼吸，每一次死亡将世界带领到了当下。

We are the faces of all who came before us. And now it is our turn.

所有的前人决定了我们今天的面貌。现在轮到了我们。

You can choose to carve your own path or follow the road countless⁶ others have already taken.

你可以选择开辟自己的道路，或是继续无数前人走过的道路。

Life is not a movie. The script isn't already written. We are the writers.

生活不是电影，剧本还未完成。我们就是编剧。

This is your story, their story, our story.

这是你的故事，他们的故事，我们的故事。

1 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

2 followers   

追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件

参考例句：

• the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
• The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。

3 asses   

n. 驴，愚蠢的人，臀部 adv. (常用作后置)用于贬损或骂人

参考例句：

• Sometimes I got to kick asses to make this place run right. 有时我为了把这个地方搞得像个样子，也不得不踢踢别人的屁股。 来自教父部分
• Those were wild asses maybe, or zebras flying around in herds. 那些也许是野驴或斑马在成群地奔跑。

4 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

5 upwards   

adv.向上，在更高处...以上

参考例句：

• The trend of prices is still upwards.物价的趋向是仍在上涨。
• The smoke rose straight upwards.烟一直向上升。

6 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。