中英文双语对照《时代》百位世界名人录

《时代》百位名人录：史上最牛版

译者：ashen_ad

比起在过往的故纸堆里悉悉索索，我更喜欢大开大阖地观察与思考历史。所以，当―史上最杰出之百位名人‖这样宏大的题目即将沦为编辑们手中的小学生历史作业时，我决定将它梳理成一条足以贯穿人类历史的―伟人脉络‖：空前绝后之《时代》百位人杰！轻摇酒杯，旋转的白兰地晕出一道道华美的光圈，仿佛是伟人们的智慧散发出的光芒与醇香。这份名录，将不愧任何一块镌刻它的石碑、任何一枚储存它的电子。当镭射将其中任何一个名字送上天空，途径的云朵都将因其而身价倍增，更何况是你的Tweet和Facebook？

当你阅读本文的时候，唯一需要注意的是，和所有其他―《时代》100‖选题一样，这份名录绝不是在排座次，人物的重要性和他们的出场顺序并无关联。因此我希望，读者们不要为此而有所困扰，更不要认为这份名单是在唐突你的宗教信仰。不过，我还是希望科学教派的信徒（Scientologists）对本文不感兴趣。

注：Scientologists，没有查到一个公认确切的中文译名，希望了解的童鞋能够帮助答疑解惑。因为译者对相关信息所知极为有限，所以并不太理解原文作者为什么做如是说，有关内容读者或可参考维基百科。

I'm a big picture, big thinker kind of guy. So while my editors mess around with the 100 most important people right now, I'm swirling a brandy snifter full of smart and compiling a list that tells the story of the human race: the All-Time TIME 100 of All Time?. It is a list, I assume, that will be carved in stone, put in every time capsule and projected by lasers into space. Also, please tweet it and post it on your Facebook walls.

The only thing you need to know about this list is that, like the TIME 100, people are not listed in order of importance. So if you're a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew or a Zoroastrian, you have no reason to get upset. I'm hoping, however, that no Scientologists see this.

Homer

The Iliad and the Odyssey? That's a lot of our high school hours. I was pretty impressed until All-Time TIME 100 of All Time? list consultant James Lipton said, \poets named Homer. It was probably more than one person.\

Sir Isaac Newton

Before Newton, gravity did not exist. People just floated, like on spaceships. It was hard to get stuff done.

Charles Darwin

荷马

一提起《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》，高中的孩子们就是一把辛酸泪啊！关于这两部史诗的作者，我们的顾问詹姆斯.立普顿的一席话让我茅塞顿开：―?荷马‘很可能不是?一个人在战斗‘，十有八九是?组团‘创作。‖不过无论人数多少，立普顿认为，他/他们都理应在这份名录中占据一席之地。

Every list needs a little controversy. Many people in Kansas don't believe Darwin exists.

Euripides

He wrote Medea, Electra and The Trojan Women. He also wrote Phoenician Women, which seems a little derivative to me after The Trojan Women. But Lipton says, \made the armature on which all drama is built. And interestingly enough, all comedy as well. He looms very large.\His output was so immense that he was, in essence, the Tyler Perry of ancient Greece.

Plato

You know the Platonic ideal? That comes from Plato. Because he was perfect. I bet he used that at parties to hit on women.

The architects of Notre Dame

This isn't a person. This isn't an achievement on anyone else's list of 100 people. But Lipton kind of insisted: \fell in love with the gentler side of the Christian faith, and Mary as intercessor. They made churches that would appeal to her as a woman. They were jewels meant to attract our lady. They were jewels! They really were.\

Peter Abelard

He was a star medieval philosopher and the most romantic man in history. He loved Heloise so much that he got castrated for it. And then, even though

艾萨克.牛顿爵士

牛顿挨砸以前，问世间引力为何物，直叫人恨不能遨游寰宇，长空乱飘……只能望天兴叹！

he was castrated, he still loved her. That's love! If I were castrated, the only thing I would love is TV.

Leonardo da Vinci

I decided to pick only one of the Ninja Turtles. This Renaissance man was the most Renaissancy. Not in a Renaissance fair way, though I bet he could joust and eat a turkey leg too. He could do anything.

Rembrandt

To me, his portraits look like every other portrait in that portrait section of the museum, but Lipton says, \just plain better than anybody else. He just takes my breath away.\

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

You know how we call all instrumental music classical? That's because music from the classical period was so good. And Mozart was the classical guy. He's so good that people mistakenly think he wrote Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. No one thinks Handel wrote Itsy Bitsy Spider.

Johann Sebastian Bach

His fugues was considered fuddy-duddy during his time, and his time was so long ago that the term fuddy-duddy didn't even exist then. But now his stuff fits in on the radio with Mozart, Beethoven and Stravinsky. Soon anything that isn't dubstep will sound the same.

查尔斯.达尔文

没有争议的名录不是真正的名录，正如没有绯闻的名人称不上名人。直到现在，堪萨斯的居民当中还有不少人觉得达尔文不过是个传说。

Ludwig van Beethoven

You know how we're totally into expressing our true selves? This ultimate narcissist ushered in the Age of Me. Which makes it weird that Schroeder loved him so much. He was a quiet, humble Peanuts character. Lucy should have loved Beethoven.

William Shakespeare

When I first read Shakespeare, I was like, What's the big deal? That's because when you're told he's the best writer of all time, you expect something totally different than everything else you've read. But it's more like premier grand cru Bordeaux than a California cult cab — it's subtly perfect and nuanced, not big and shocking. Of all the snotty things said about Shakespeare, I'm thinking premier grand cru is up there.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Without him, we'd be calling Superman \Alien Guy.\Without him, the deconstructionists would not exist, which would mean that thousands of grad students in the 1980s would have had to get real jobs. Without him, the 1980s band that combined \and \I Love Your Way\would not have been called Will to Power. Also, Hitler would have had to quote Schopenhauer, which would have made him even more unlikable, thus destroying the space-time continuum.

Edmund Kean

Lipton: \being. He was the first actor who said, 'This person

must be recognizable as a human being.' He was advised by his colleagues not to do it, because it would so shock the audience that was so accustomed to the oratory of Shakespeare performance, but he defied them. And the audiences were on its knees!\too harshly for putting some actor you've never heard of on the list, know that Lipton also wanted me to include Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Ingmar Bergman, W.B. Yeats, Arthur Rimbaud and George Balanchine. So I pretty much held my ground.

Constantin Stanislavski

I'll just let Lipton talk: \took what he had seen Salvini [Note: No idea who that is or if I spelled it correctly] and Doozer [Note: No idea who that is or if I spelled it correctly] do, and tried to figure out how they did what they did when they were at their best. His influence on acting is universal. Sure, there were pockets of resistance. You don't use it for the Beijing opera or the Comédie-Fran?aise, but with the advent of motion pictures, that kind of acting was no longer appropriate and did look, in the early days of films, foolish.\

欧里庇得斯

《美狄亚》、《希波吕托斯》、《特洛伊妇女》是他的传世名作。《腓尼基妇女》也出自他的笔下，在我看来这部作品更像是《特洛伊妇女》的姊妹篇。立普顿对他赞赏有佳：―他的作品是戏剧这个玩意儿的祖宗。虽然他是

John Donne

I don't know all that much about poetry, but Lipton said I had to put Donne on. He also wanted Yeats and Rimbaud, but enough is enough, Lipton!

Charlie Chaplin

I know. But Lipton said I had to: \of the 20th century film is written, there will be four or five names, and one of them will be Charlie

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