双语阅读：如果爱可以穿越时空

摘要：《星际穿越》也会让许多人对日常生活层面之上和之下的陌生事实，产生一种彻底的洞明感。这就能使它成为某种文化事件。

Most Hollywood movies are about romantic love, orat least sex. But Christopher Nolan’s epic movie“Interstellar” has almost no couples, so you don’tget the charged romance you have in normal movieswhere a man and a woman are off saving the world.

大多数好莱坞电影讲的都是爱情，至少是性。然而克里斯托弗·诺兰(Christopher Nolan)的史诗电影《星际穿越》(Interstellar)却几乎没有情侣，所以观众不会感受到普通的电影里那种感情充沛的浪漫氛围，也没有普通电影里一对男女勇往直前拯救世界的情节。

Instead, there are the slightly different kinds of love,from generation to generation, and across time and space.

取而代之的是，剧中展示了一种不大一样的爱，是上一代与下一代之间，穿越时间和空间的爱。

The movie starts on a farm, and you see a grandfather’s love for his grandkids and thechildren’s love for their father. (Mom had died sometime earlier).

情节从一个农场开始，你能看到祖父对孙辈的爱，也能看到孩子对父亲的爱(母亲此前已经去世)。

The planet is hit by an environmental catastrophe, and, in that crisis, lives are torn apart. Thefather, played by Matthew McConaughey, goes off into space to find a replacement planetwhere humanity might survive. The movie is propelled by the angry love of his abandoneddaughter, who loves and rages at him for leaving, decade after decade.

地球遭受了环境灾难，而在这场危机中，人们的生活都被撕裂了。马修·麦康纳(Matthew McConaughey)饰演的父亲飞向太空，试图寻找一个替代行星，来让人类存活下去。被他丢下的女儿心中愤怒的爱推动了剧情的发展，十年又十年，她爱着父亲，又因为父亲的离去而怒不可遏。

On top of that, there is an even more attenuated love. It’s the love humans have for theirancestors and the love they have for the unborn. In the movie, 12 apostles go out alone intospace to look for habitable planets. They are sacrificing their lives so that canisters of frozenembryos can be born again in some place far away.

除此之外，还有一种更含蓄的爱。那就是人类对祖先的爱，以及对尚未出生的后代的爱。在电影中，12门徒各自走向太空，寻找适宜居住的行星。他们为了让罐中冷冻的那些胚胎能在一个遥远的地方出生，愿意牺牲自己的生命。

Nolan wants us to see the magnetic force of these attachments: The way attachments canexert a gravitational pull on people who are separated by vast distances or even by r attention is riveted by the beloved. They hunger for reunion.

诺兰希望我们看到这些牵挂所具有的磁力。即使人们相隔遥远，甚至阴阳两隔，这种牵挂仍然能产生万有引力一般的牵引作用。他们的注意力始终凝聚在挚爱亲人身上。他们渴盼重逢。

When the McConaughey character goes into space he leaves behind the rules of everydayearthly life and enters the realm of quantum mechanics and relativity. Gravity becomesvariable. It’s different on different planets. Space bends in on itself. The astronauts fly througha wormhole, a fold in the universe connecting one piece of space with another distant piece.

麦康纳的角色进入太空时，丢掉了地球日常生活的规则，进入了由量子物理和相对论统治的领域。重力开始变化，在不同的行星上不尽相同。空间自身发生扭曲，宇航员穿越虫洞，它是宇宙中的褶皱，将一块空间与另一块空间相连。

Most important, time changes speed. McConaughey is off to places where time is moving muchmore slowly than it is on Earth, so he ends up younger than his daughter. Once in the place ofan ancestor, he becomes, effectively, her descendant.

最重要的是，时间还会改变速度。在麦康纳飞去的空间，时间的行进比地球上慢得多，所以最后他比女儿还要年轻。本来他是一位前辈，却基本上成了女儿的后人。

These plotlines are generally based on real science. The physicist Kip Thorne has a book out, “The Science of Interstellar,” explaining it all. But what matters in the movie is the way scienceand emotion (and a really loud score) mingle to create a powerful mystical atmosphere.

这些情节大体上基于真实的科学原理。物理学家基普·索恩(Kip Thorne)出版了一本书《星际穿越背后的科学》(The Science of Interstellar)，解释了所有科学原理。然而这部电影中最重要的特点是，科学与情感(以及响亮的背景音乐)怎样融合在一起，创造出了强有力的神秘氛围。

Nolan introduces the concept of quantum entanglement. That’s when two particles that haveinteracted with each other behave as one even though they might be far apart. He then showshow people in love display some of those same features. They react in the same way at thesame time to the same things.

诺兰介绍了量子纠缠的概念，即两个粒子发生互动，即使相隔甚远，也像是一个粒子那样运动。之后他又展示了，挚爱的人也会表现出相同的一些特质。他们会在相同的时间对相同的事做出相同的反应。

The characters in the movie are frequently experiencing cross-cutting and mystical connectionsthat transcend time and space. It’s like the kind of transcendent sensation you or I mighthave if we visited an old battlefield and felt connected by mystic chords of memory to the peoplewho fought there long ago; or if we visited the house we grew up in and felt in deep communionwith people who are now dead.

电影中的人物时常感受到超越时间和空间的交叉，以及神秘的联结。就像是你我在参观古战场时，通过记忆中神秘的线索，与古时候在这里作战的人之间，产生的那种超越时间的感受;又好像是重访我们幼年时的旧居，与如今已经过世的人之间，产生的那种深深的交流。

Bloggers have noticed the religious symbols in the movie. There are those 12 apostles, andthere’s a Noah’s ark. There is a fallen angel named Dr. Mann who turns satanic in an inverseGarden of Eden. The space project is named Lazarus. The heroine saves the world at age e’s an infinitely greater and incorporeal intelligence offering merciful salvation.

博客作者们注意到了电影中的宗教符号。片中有12门徒，有诺亚方舟。还有一个名为曼恩博士(Dr. Mann)的陨落天使，在与伊甸园截然相反的环境里变得犹如魔鬼一般。太空计划名为拉撒路(Lazarus)，女主角拯救世界时年龄是33岁。在电影中，存在着一种无限宏大而又无形的智慧，给人以仁慈的救赎。

But this isn’t an explicitly religious movie. “Interstellar” is important because amid all theculture wars between science and faith and science and the humanities, the movie illustrates thereal symbiosis between these realms.

不过这并不是一部具有明显宗教意味的影片。《星际穿越》之所以重要，是因为面对着科学与宗教、科学与人性之间的各种文化战争，这部电影勾画了这些领域之间真正的共生关系。

More, it shows how modern science is influencing culture. People have always bent theirworldviews around the latest scientific advances. After Newton, philosophers conceived aclockwork universe. Individuals were seen as cogs in a big machine and could be slotted intovast bureaucratic systems.

此外，它还显示出现代科学是如何影响文化的。人类一直都会因为最新的科学进步，而转变世界观。在牛顿(Newton)之后，哲学家构想出了一种类似发条装置的宇宙。个人被认为是一个巨大机械里的齿轮，可以嵌入宏大的官僚体制里。

But in the era of quantum entanglement and relativity, everything looks emergent andinterconnected. Life looks less like a machine and more like endlessly complex patterns ofwaves and particles. Vast social engineering projects look less promising, because of thecomplexity, but webs of loving and meaningful relationships can do amazing good.

然而在量子纠缠和相对论的领域，所有的事物看起来都像是新生的，互相关联的。生命不再那么像机器，而更像是无穷无尽样式繁复的波动和粒子。因为过于复杂，庞大的社会工程项目似乎没那么可行，但是爱与深刻的人际关系组成的网络，却能产生令人惊诧的效果。

As the poet Christian Wiman wrote in his masterpiece, “My Bright Abyss,” “If quantumentanglement is true, if related particles react in similar or opposite ways even whenseparated by tremendous distances, then it is obvious that the whole world is alive andcommunicating in ways we do not fully understand. And we are part of that life, part of thatcommunication. ...”

就像诗人克里斯蒂安·威曼(Christian Wiman)在他的著作《我明亮的深渊》(My Bright Abyss)中所写，“如果量子纠缠是真实的，如果相关的粒子即使相距甚远，也能以相似或相反的方式互动，那么整个世界显然就是有生命的，在以我们并不能完全理解的方式沟通。我们是这种生命的一部分，是这种沟通的一部分。”

I suspect “Interstellar” will leave many people with a radical openness to strange truth justbelow and above the realm of the everyday. That makes it something of a cultural event.

我猜想，《星际穿越》也会让许多人对日常生活层面之上和之下的陌生事实，产生一种彻底的洞明感。这就能使它成为某种文化事件。

　　关于爱

True love is magical. True love is mystical?Right? Well, kind of. But it’s more than that, as anyone in a relationship can tell you. Read on to find ten things you need to know about true love.

真爱是神奇的。真爱是神秘的--对么?只对了一部分。远远不止这些，任何陷入爱河里的人们都可以给你答案。一起看看真爱的五个事实吧。

1. True love is not about finding yourself in another

真爱不是迷失自己

Don’t fall in love, or think you’re in love, just because you want to find yourself. Your identity is not to be someone’s other half?it’s to be yourself! Don’t get so swept up in your partner that you become them. You don’t need to be the number one fan of their favorite band or read all the books they read. Keep your interests and hobbies and you’ll be more interesting to, and interested in, your partner.

不要因为想找另一个自己就陷入，或认为自己陷入爱河。你不是要做别人的另一半--而是要做你自己。不要一味迎合另一半把自己变得像他们那般。你不要是他们最爱乐队的头号粉丝，也不需要去读他们读过的所有书籍。保持自己的兴趣爱好，你会对另一半更有兴趣，自身也会更有吸引力。

2. Self love is the best way to find true love

想爱人，先爱自己

It sounds like a cliche, something your mom and girlfriends told you every time you were crying over a broken heart, but it’s true?you must love yourself before you can love anyone else. Be comfortable with yourself, even when you’re having a bad day. Know who you really are, deep down inside, and know what you want to do with your life. Being in love with yourself and having your life on track are not only incredibly self-satisfying, they’re really attractive qualities to a partner.

这听起来有点老生常谈，每次分手妈妈或闺蜜们都会这么告诉你，但这的确是真的-你必须先爱别人才能知道爱自己。让自己快乐开心，哪怕今天过得很遭。知道自己的真实面目，发掘内心，看看你到底想干些什么。爱上自己，快乐的生活，这不仅会让你十分幸福，还能真的吸引到另一半的关注哦。

3. True love is not demanding

真爱不是索取

Your partner should never ask you to change if you’re truly loved. And if you truly love your partner, you shouldn’t expect him to change. You got into a relationship because you liked each other, and you grew to love each other as you are. Why would you need to change someone you love so deeply? Accept them as they are, and you’ll get that consideration in return.

如果真的爱你，他绝对不会要求你去改变。如果你真的爱他，也不应该希望他去改变。你们能在一起是因为互相喜欢，正因为你是你，双方才会爱上。为什么要改变你深爱的人呢?接受他们，同样的，他们也不会再去要求你改变。

4. True love allows you to be yourself

真爱就是做你自己

Being yourself in front of your partner can seem scary at first. Waking up without any makeup on, and your hair a mess? What about him seeing you when you’re sick?runny nose, bloodshot eyes and all. It’s something you want to avoid as long as you can. But you shouldn’t feel that way. When you’re in love, even the worst illness is a beautiful experience because it’s worth it. Your partner helping you through a messy episode or kissing you with morning breath is a major step towards your future, and it shows how much he truly loves you.

刚开始在另一半面前做自己好像有点恐怖。头发乱糟糟没有化妆就起床?他要是看到你感冒的红鼻子，充满血丝的眼睛会有何感想?这些都是你想尽可能避免的情况。但其实不能那样想。在一起时，即使生病也是美好的体验，绝对值得。他帮你度过乱糟糟的清晨，或是牙也不刷就吻你，本身就是好的预兆，也能表现出他到底有多爱你。

5. True love comes naturally

真爱都是自然而然来的

Do you have doubts about your partner? Are you not sure they’re right for you? If you’re asking yourself too many questions about your partner, your relationship, and your future together, then you’re probably not in love. When you’re truly in love, you don’t question anything. It feels natural to be with your partner, and you know you can work through anything to achieve that future you’re dreaming of.

你对另一半有疑问么?是不是不确定到底他们是不是那个对的人?如果你总是对另一半，这段关系或者你们的未来有这些疑问，那么有可能你不爱他。真正爱的时候，你不会怀疑任何事情。好像跟他在一起是如此自然，你知道和他在一起能迎来一直梦想的那个未来。