鮑勃迪倫獲獎致辭

　　去年10月，瑞典文學院將2016年諾貝爾文學獎頒給鮑勃-迪倫，但在此后的一段時間內，瑞典文學院一度無法聯系到他本人。根據頒獎規定，鮑勃-迪倫必須在今年6月10日前發表獲獎感言才能領取獎金。

　　諾貝爾文學獎評獎機構瑞典文學院5日在其官方網站宣布，美國歌手鮑勃-迪倫終于向瑞典學院提交了諾貝爾文學獎獲獎致辭，有資格領取800萬瑞典克朗的獎金。他的演說音頻已由諾貝爾官方發布在社交媒體上。

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　　鮑勃迪倫獲獎致辭

　　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。我向瑞典學院的成員和今晚所有出席宴會的尊貴來賓致以最熱烈的問候。

　　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.

　　抱歉我不能親自與你們共度此刻，但請確信我絕對是在精神上與你們同在，我也為獲得這樣一個享有盛譽的獎項而感到榮耀。被授予諾貝爾文學獎是我未曾想到或者預見到的事情。從年少時起，我就熟知、閱讀并吸收被認為有資格獲得這份殊榮的那些人的作品，比如吉卜林、蕭伯納、托馬斯·曼、賽珍珠、阿爾貝·加繆、海明威。這些文學巨匠一直給我留下了深刻的印象，他們的著作是課堂上的教材、世界各地圖書館的藏書、人們帶著恭敬語氣談論的話題。如今我的名字也出現在這樣一份名單上，我的.心情無以言表。

　　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.

　　我不知道這些獲獎的男男女女是否想到過自己能榮獲諾貝爾獎，但我猜想在世界上任何一個地方，任何一個寫書、寫詩或者寫劇本的人或許內心深處都懷有這個隱秘的夢想。它可能深埋心底，以至于他們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.

　　如果之前有人告訴我說我有一線希望獲得諾貝爾獎，我會覺得那與我站上月球的幾率一般大小。事實上，我出生的那年和之后的幾年，世界上沒有哪個人被認為優秀到足以獲得諾貝爾文學獎。所以，我明白，至少可以說，我加入了一個極少數人群體。

　　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這個出人意料的消息的，我好半天才回過神來。我開始想到文學界的偉大人物威廉·莎士比亞。我猜想他把自己視為劇作家。他不會產生他寫的是文學作品的念頭。他的文字為舞臺而寫。用來說而不是讀。我敢肯定，他在寫《哈姆雷特》時想的是許多別的事情：“都有誰適合扮演這些角色?”“這一段要怎么演?”“真要把丹麥作為這個故事的背景嗎?”創意和雄心無疑是他最先要想的東西，但還有一些比較瑣碎的事情要考慮和處理。“資金到位了嗎?”“給資助人提供的好座位夠多嗎?”“去哪里弄一顆顱骨?”我敢打賭莎士比亞最不可能想到的問題是：“這算文學嗎?”

　　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.

　　我年少時開始寫歌，在我開始因自己的才能小有名氣時，我對這些歌抱有的期望也僅限于此。我想著也許能在咖啡館或酒吧聽到它們，或許日后還能在像卡內基音樂廳和倫敦守護神劇院這樣的地方聽到。如果我真的敢想的話，或許我會想象出唱片、然后在電臺里聽到我的歌。那的確是我心目中的大獎。出唱片并在電臺聽到自己的歌意味著會擁有眾多聽眾，如此一來也許就可以將最初要做的事情繼續下去。

　　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，這么長時間以來，我一直在做著最初要做的事情。我出了幾十張唱片，在世界各地舉辦了數千場演唱會。但我在做的幾乎每件事的核心都是我的歌。它們似乎在眾多不同文化背景的人的生命中占據了一席之地，對此我心存感激。

　　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.

　　但是有一點我必須要講。作為一個表演者，我為5萬人演出過，也為50個人演出過，我可以告訴你們，為50個人表演的難度更大。5萬人擁有的是一副面孔，50人卻并非如此。每個人都擁有獨特的、不同的身份，有著自己的世界。他們能更清楚地感知事物。你的真誠以及這份真誠與你全部才華的交融在接受著考驗。我不是沒注意到諾貝爾獎評審委員會的人數之少。

　　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，和莎士比亞一樣，我也經常忙于對創作的追求和對各種日常瑣事的處理。“誰是最適合演繹這些歌曲的音樂人?”“我應不應該在這個錄音棚錄歌?”“這首歌的調子準嗎?”即便在400年后的今天，有些事情依然從未改變。

　　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.

　　我從來沒有時間問自己：“我的歌算是文學嗎?”所以，我真的要感謝瑞典文學院，感謝它不僅花時間思考了這個問題，而且，最終給出了這么棒的答案。

　　My best wishes to you all，

　　致以最好的祝福，

　　Bob Dylan

　　鮑勃迪倫