城市广场（2009）

honored member but as far as I’m aware
尊敬的元老 但据我所知
your God has not yet proved himself
你们的上帝并不能证明他自己
to be more just or more merciful than his predecessors.
比他的前任们更公正更仁慈
Lady.
老师
Is it really just a question of time before I accept your faith?
让我接受你们的信仰 真的只是时间问题吗?
Why, then,
那是什么?
should this assembly
难道这次会议
accept the counsel of someone who admittedly
要接受一个毫无信仰的人
believes in absolutely nothing?
提出的提议吗?
I believe in philosophy.
我信仰哲学
Philosophy.
哲学
Just what we need
正是现在这种时候
in times like this.
我们所需要的东西
Enough!
够了
All these years, I’ve been studying.
这些年来 我一直在研究
With absolutely no life of my own.
完全没有了自己的生活
And I wonder, what was the point?
我想知道 我这样为了什么?
Whoa, forget about what was said today.
忘了今天那些话吧
Is this all life holds for me?
是生活困住了我吗?
What else?
还能是什么?
I doubt anyone could see as a,
我觉得没人能看出
devoted wife
你是一位忠诚的妻子
and mother.
一位尽心的母亲
I think,
我认为
I think everyone in the city knows the story of the handkerchief.
城里的所有人都听说了手帕的故事
So,
所以
My father loved a woman.
我父亲也会喜欢女人
Even he,
连他也不例外
Who have I ever loved?
有谁不爱呢?
Except you,
除了你
Libanius.
黎巴农斯
If I could just,
如果我能
just unravel this,
解开这个谜团
just a little bit more.
只需要再多努力一点
And just get a little close to the answer then,
只要离答案再接近一些 那么
then I would,
这样 我就能
then I would go to my grave a happy woman.
我就能安然入土
Why?
为什么?
Why does that mean so much to you?
为什么这些对你如此重要?
Right now,
就是现在
this very second, the whole Earth could be moving
就在这一秒 整个世界可能都在移♥动♥
and no one realizes it.
却没有人意识到这些
Except you and me.
只有你和我知道
Believe me Lady, it’s best no one does.
相信我 老师 幸亏没人意识得到
Do you really not think it important?
你觉得这些真的不重要吗?
I don’t understand
我不明白你为什么
why you insist on moving the ground we walk on.
坚信人们脚下的土地是移♥动♥的呢
Well, you saw for yourself what happened on the boat.
你也看到了船上发生的
Yes, I did. But that does not necessarily mean the Earth moves.
是的 但那也不能证明地球在移♥动♥
What if it does?
如果确实是这样呢?
Hypatia, look around you.
希帕蒂亚 看看你的周围
Death,
死亡
horror
恐惧
destruction.
毁灭
If the stars move in a circle
如果地球真的在圆形轨道中移♥动♥
why would they share their perfection with us?
他们为什么 不把完美分给我们一些呢?
So we do not move,
所以我们没有移♥动♥
In a circle.
只是不在圆形轨道中
We don’t move,
我们不是按照圆形
Circle.
运动的
We do not move in a circle.
我们并非在圆形轨道中移♥动♥
Ever since Plato,
从柏拉图开始
all of them: Aristarchus Hipparchus, Ptolemy,
所有人 包括阿里斯塔克斯 希巴克斯 托勒密
they have all tried to reconcile their observations
所有人都试图用圆形轨道
with circular orbits but,
来解释他们的观察结果
What if another shape is hiding in the heavens?
但如果在宇宙中隐藏着其它形状呢?
Another shape?
其它形状
Lady, there is no shape purer than the circle.
女士 没有任何形状比圆形更完美
You taught us that.
这是你教我们的
I know, but suppose just suppose the,
我知道 只是假设
purity of the circle
正是圆形的完美
has blinded us from seeing anything beyond it.
让我们忽视了其它的一切
The same way that the glare of the sun
就像耀眼的太阳让我们
blind us from actually seeing the stars.
看不见星星一样
I must begin all over with,
我必须重新
with new eyes.
重新审视这个问题
I must rethink everything.
我必须重新思考一切
I have to rethink everything.
所有的一切
Reading from the first letter of Paul to Timothy.
从保罗写给提摩太的第一封信开始读
I desire therefore, that everywhere
我渴望男人 无处不在
men should lift up holy hands in prayer
举起圣洁的手 随处祷告
without anger or disputing.
无忿怒 无争论
In like manner, I desire women
同样 又愿女人
to dress modestly,
廉耻 自守
with decency and propriety
以正派衣裳为妆饰
not with braided hair
不以编发
or gold or pearls
黄金 珍珠
or expensive clothes,
和贵价的衣裳为妆饰
but with good deeds. Why is he reading this passage?
只要有善行 为什么读这段?
I don’t know, prefect.
不知道 首领
I assure you it is not the one we agreed on.
但我肯定这不是事先说好的那段
That a woman learn
女人要沉静学道
in quietness and in full submission. I do not permit a woman,
一味的顺服 我不许女人讲道
to teach or to have authority over a man,
也不许他辖管男人
but to be
只要
in silence.
沉静
This is the word of God!
这是上帝之言
Amen.
阿门
Amen.
阿门
Jesus himself
当耶稣把自己的神圣遗产
knew this when he
托付给他的十二门徒时
entrusted his holy legacy to twelve men
他自己非常了解这些
Men.
全是男人
Not a woman among them.
没有一个女人
And yet,
但是
I know of some in Alexandria
我知道亚历山大有些人
who admire and even trust
他们仰慕某个女人并且对她的话
in the word of a woman.
言听计从
The philosopher Hypatia.
哲学家希帕蒂亚
A woman who declared,
这个女人曾公然表示过
in public, her ungodliness.
她对上帝的不忠
A witch!
她是个女巫
Dignitaries,
官员们
it is time for you all to reconcile yourselves with Christ.
你们现在应该全部信奉基♥督♥
This is the word of God.
这是上帝之言
Kneel before it and embrace its truth.
在圣经面前下跪 并接受真理吧
Kneel.
跪下
Is he not going to kneel?
他不准备跪下吗?
Is he not going to kneel?
他不准备跪下吗?
Kneel!
跪下
Kneel!
跪下
Sinner!
罪人
I am a Christian!
我是基♥督♥徒
I am a Christian! You’re not a Christian!
我是基♥督♥徒 不 你不是
I’m as Christian as you are.
我是和你们一样的基♥督♥徒
Make way for the prefect!
给提督让路
Make way!
让路
I am a baptized Christian!
我是受过洗礼的基♥督♥徒
I am a baptized Christian!
我是受过洗礼的基♥督♥徒
I’ll kill you.
我要杀了你