一、这两道题都涉及到副词whereby。whereby意思是“凭借…/ 通过…”,它有下面的两种含义:
1、方式副词,例如:
Whereby shall we know her? 我们靠什么认出她呢?
Whereby will he do it? 他会如何做?
I whereby saw that he was angry. 由此我看出他生气了。
2、关系副词(= by which),引导定语从句,例如:
We need to devise some sort of system whereby people can liaise with each other. 我们须想出一套方法,凭此大家能够互相联络。
There is no other way whereby we can cross the river. 我们没有别的办法过河。
二、搞清楚上面的用法,下面的题目就会迎刃而解。
第一题:Watermelons have been cultivated for more than 4000 years, (and whereby thumping them) to test for ripeness has an equally long history.。
【选择】D、and thumping them。
【解析】前面提到“西瓜已经种植了4000多年”,后面说“凭借这一点可知,拍打习惯判断成熟程度有同样长的历史”,前后是并列关系,whereby应该是方式副词,而不是关系副词。连词and 前面用逗号表示语义的转折,不用逗号表示的承接。
第二题:The name "transferware" (comes from a nineteenth-century technique for which) a pattern is engraved onto a copper roll, printed on tissue paper, and transferred onto earthware dishes.。
【选择】C、comes from a nineteenth-century technique whereby。
【解析】本句的结构如下:
主句:The name "transferware" comes from a nineteenth-century technique——transferware 这个名称来自十九世纪的技术。
定语从句:whereby a pattern is engraved onto a copper roll, printed on tissue paper, and transferred onto earthware dishes. 借助这种技术,花样先被雕刻到铜滚上,然后印到薄纸,最后复制到陶瓷盘上。
Thinking of word。
It is often said that, provided we are not of the unfortunate minority of 。
people who have pathological language defects, our language mechanism 。
automatically equips us to say anything we need to say. This does not mean that 。
I can talk about all the technicalities of company law or of central heating 。
with the glibness of a solicitor or a plumber. What it does mean is that if my 。
job or my hobby entailed a knowledge of these activities, my language would rise 。
to the occasion.。
We thus have the general truth that any normal person has 。
the language tools to handle anything he needs to handle. But there are odd 。
little exceptions. Let us consider, for instance, forms of address to strangers. 。
Quite often we need to draw a person's attention to something that has just 。
dropped out of pocket or handbag, or to the fact that he is just going to walk 。
into a plate glass door. Not merely do English lack anything corresponding to 。
the French attention, but we do not have the equivalent of M'sieur or Madame or 。
even Mademoiselle. Some people manage very effectively with ‘Watch it, mate' or 。
‘Look out, lady' or even ‘Hey, missis'; but these forms are outside the range of 。
polite educated usage. We can try shouting ‘Excuse me!' but that is ambiguous: 。
it may be taken to mean that we just want to push in a hurry. ‘Excuse me, sir' 。
is awkward unless you are a very young male speaking to a much older one. 。
‘Excuse me, madam' makes you sound like a door-to-door salesman —— and can 。
hardly be addressed to a teenage female in any case. By this time, the stranger 。
has bumped into the plate glass, or has disappeared, leaving you to take a fur 。
glove to the police station.。
Not long ago, a foreign visitor whose English is extremely 。
good told me of his embarrassment in a tea shop. He knew that although we can 。
call out ‘waiter’ to a man, we cannot call out ‘waitress’ if the place is 。
staffed by women. So he tried ‘Miss’, and had been forced to cringe by the large 。
middle-aged married waitress who had turned on him: ‘And who are you calling 。
miss, young feller?’
There are many such arbitrary little limitations on our 。
language. While we can single out one story or one yarn from a number of 。
stories, we can't talk about ‘an information’. Instead, we have to use a 。
roundabout expression like ‘I have another piece of news (or another item of 。
information) for you’. While underclothes (informally, undies) are made up of 。
individual garments, we can not complain to the laundry that they have mislaid 。
one ‘underclo(the)’ or one ‘undy’. While we can talk about John's car or Mary's 。
car, or John and Mary's car if it belongs to the two of them, we are in 。
difficulty if one of the possessives is a pronoun: John and her car. A friend of 。
mine recently slipped into saying This is Mary and I's car. We can ask a person 。
how many children he has without going into the specifics of whether they are 。
boys or girls; but we can not ask him how many brothers and sisters he has 。
without getting precisely these irrelevant subanswers and then totalling 。
them.
Now. it is true that in this instance we may use the word 。
siblings. But the very fact that this word is mainly confined to technical 。
health-authority usage (despite our recognition of its usefulness and of our 。
need for such a word) is an interesting indication of the way we are very 。
largely the helpless prisoners of the language in general use around us. We like 。
to think that we make our language as we need it, but in fact the scope for an 。
individual to change things is very limited. Even where there would be 。
widespread agreement that there is a linguistic deficiency, very few communities 。
in the world seem to have settled the means whereby remedies can be agreed upon 。
and adopted.
Let me touch upon one other way in which we are equipped 。
somewhat less than ideally to say what we want to say. I mean the problem of 。
‘word-finding’. Let us pretend that we are writing something or —— worse —— that 。
we are in the middle of a conversation, and we want to refer to what goes on 。
when people are doing something together in full knowledge of each other's 。
motives but seem unwilling to disclose those motives to others, perhaps because 。
their activity is harmful to other people's interests. We may turn over in our 。
minds some such long-winded paraphrase of what we want to say and even at the 。
end not feel satisfied that the paraphrase has in it all that we mean. Yet we 。
may remain convinced that a single word exists which says exactly what we have 。
in mind. Collaboration, plotting, co-operation, conspiracy, partnership, we fish 。
around and reject each of these in turn because they either say too much or not 。
enough. It is worrying when we can not find the right word, and it is worrying 。
too that when we find it —— in this case, collusion —— it has no obvious 。
relation to the rough paraphrase we started with: it is not as if the word 。
turned out to be ‘selfish-secret-work-together’. Finally it is worrying that 。
when we are struggling to find the ‘right’ word in this way, there is no certain 。
or systematic way of setting about it, and no guarantee either that the word 。
exists or that if it does we will inevitably find it.。
Can we not begin to imagine how near to despair these people 。
must come who can almost never find the word they are hunting for?。
求采纳
你是指学校的大学本科英语学习规划吧,不是个人的吧。
For their first degree, most students read for the degree of bachelor, which usually takes three years, however in the sciences and engineering integrated courses covering both undergraduate level and advanced degree level leading to the degree of master[4], usually taking four years and including a research project or dissertation are popular. Given the integrated nature of these programs someone who gains a master's degree via an integrated program is not admitted to the degree of bachelor; the exception being some Oxbridge degrees where a BA would be conferred after the first three years even on those reading the sciences.。
Master's degrees conferred after an extended programs are not to be conflated with the degree of Master of Arts conferred at Oxbridge which is not a substantive qualification, but reflects the ancient practice of those two universities of promoting Bachelors of Arts to Masters of Arts (and thus full membership of the University) six or seven years after matriculation.[5]。
Honours degrees and integrated master's degrees are awarded with 1st, upper 2nd, lower 2nd or 3rd class honours. If a student passes the course but fails to do so sufficiently well for third class honours to be awarded he will be awarded with an ordinary degree. Some graduates write "Hons" after their degree postnominals to show that they have an honours degree rather than an ordinary degree however some consider this to be an affectation.。
Many universities offer sandwich courses or extramural year which offer work placements whereby the student works for a short period of time in a relevant industry before he completes his studies. Taking a sandwich course may make the course last a year longer than it would otherwise.。
Apart from a single private university, Buckingham, all universities with the power to award degrees are heavily state financed however they also rely on tuition fees set by the government at a maximum index-linked level, repayable after graduation contingent on attaining a certain level of income, and with the state paying all fees for students from the poorest backgrounds. UK students are generally entitled to student loans for maintenance with repayment contingent on income.[6] Unlike in other European countries, the British government does not own the universities' assets and university staff are not civil servants. United Kingdom universities are therefore better described as autonomous intellectually independent institutions with public funding, rather than public universities per se. The crown does not control syllabi,with the exception of teacher training. The crown restricts the power to award degree to those with a royal charter, in the case of traditional universities, or authorisation from the Secretary of State for Universities, in the case of modern universities. Universities accredited in foreign countries,such as Richmond University are however free to operate.。
Undergraduate Program 。
Fudan University has been carrying out a profound reform in its undergraduate program, aiming at quality higher education and intending to train more creative talents for the world. The reform begins with the construction of a credit system.。
The Transformation: One Step further toward Liberal Education。
Having set its educational goal of ability, quality, and originality more than ten years ago, Fudan is concentrating on cultivating all-round talents with substantial knowledge, ability and creativity. It is among the first universities in China that adopts the credit system as an important means of educational administration. These ten years of practicing and exploring have updated our understanding of how to train our students for the new century. The implementation of the Education Scheme for Arts and Sciences of Fudan University, which features arts and sciences education and intends to offer quality liberal education, has well demonstrated the aggiornamento of Fudan's undergraduate program in China, both in theory and in practice. 。
Fudan has reconstructed its course system for its educational goal. A course scheme composed of general education, specialized education and basic education in arts and sciences has been drawn up elaborately. Encompassing a complete and comprehensive range of disciplines, the courses of general education enable students to receive instructions in diverse fields. All the 70-plus undergraduate majors of Fudan have been put into seven general categories in order that students can benefit on a broader scale from the systematic discipline training. According to the Education Scheme for Arts and Sciences, course modules are determined by discipline systems and course suits, and credits by course modules. In this sense, we provide students with more options for their college studies. In contrast with the traditional syllabus, the new scheme has appropriately decreased the gross credits and class hours. Supported by second-major programs and extracurricular academic activities, it has made remarkable contributions to the intellectual development of the undergraduate students of Fudan.。
Efforts for the Students' Individualized Development。
We have made out Fudan Academic Regulations for Undergraduates (trial version), which are in sync with the objectives of the credit system construction. Excellent students may apply for earlier graduation; quicker learners may have their second majors; those who prove exceptionally promising in a certain field may have opportunities to be transferred to their interested disciplines; a wide variety of optional courses are open to all students.。
Every semester there will be 2,000 or so courses for students to select from. The education resources allow students to choose courses according to their training plans and out of their personal interest. We spare no efforts in fulfilling the teaching plans of each semester, and the students may choose from the basic courses in both the spring and the autumn semester. Meanwhile, summer schools are regularly held to meet the students' needs for more knowledge. We also keep optimizing the supervisor system to ensure that the students will receive adequate instructions concerning their academic researches.。
Education Quality Improvement: All for the Students。
We rely on the quality administration to guarantee the stability and progressiveness of the education quality in the reform. An advisory panel for the undergraduate education consisting of eminent professors has been established. It has three branches: the commission of education quality and administration, the commission of discipline and education material construction and the commission of laboratorial education, which form the effective mechanism for undergraduate education administration. By applying the advanced research outcomes, we have established the index system of course appraisal, which will be carried out every semester by way of education quality supervision. In a word, we are improving the quality of our undergraduate education technically and institutionally.。
Good education materials, competent teachers and advanced pedagogical methods are essential to quality education. For the course construction, we have invested millions of RMB for the courses and teaching materials. For example, the complete Harvard teaching materials have been introduced to Fudan. The full use of various modernized teaching facilities has yielded us noteworthy accomplishments. Top ranks in the lists of the national and municipal teaching awards are the most eloquent illustrations.。
Reform Spurs Development and Improves Education Quality。
We aim at a successful transformation from traditional education to liberal education. We wish to convert our students to young masters of sciences and the humanities, with rich knowledge about history as well as their own time. They are expected to be creative, active and progressive, with sound moral integrity and a strong sense of responsibility. They will learn to synchronize themselves with the frequent changes and intense competitions in the world, and to cooperate and communicate with others.。
Intellectually, both the concepts and methods of science and the philosophy of living and learning will confer great benefits to them. 。
Since China has entered the WTO, we have to readjust and optimize our education policies to meet the new needs of talent cultivation. And it is in this process that the quality and effects of our education are elevated.。
Fudan's talent cultivation relies heavily on its long history, fine tradition, excellent faculty and advanced facilities for school operation. In the new era, Fudan has faith and confidence enough in its reform and pursuit for preeminence. Endowed with the courage and wisdom to overcome all the difficulties and guided by the goal of constructing a great university in the world, the University will elevate its undergraduate program to a higher level and make greater contributions to the modernization of our country. 。
UNIVERSITIES have been asked to make up for more than a decade of inequity entrenched in the school education system.。
The Federal Government wants 20 per cent of undergraduate enrolments by 2020 to be people from poor backgrounds. The target is admirable but it can only be achieved by lowering university entry standards or through massive intervention during the early school years to narrow the wide academic performance gap between rich and poor students.。
The Government also needs to provide a more sophisticated indicator of economic status than the crude postcode measure.。
Two academics, Buly Cardak and Chris Ryan, of the Australian National University, recently found that rich and poor students with equivalent university entrance scores were equally likely to go to university. Their research suggested that students from poor backgrounds needed no extra incentive at the point of university entry.。
However, what is needed is help for a huge number of poor students who perform well below their potential and who need help during their school years to score enough to earn a place at university.。
Year 12 retention rates also need to improve.。
Unless students lift their performance at school, universities will be forced to lower their entry standards and seek alternative ways to identify students with academic potential.。
Macquarie University is already providing entry tests that ignore a student's poor performance in the Higher School Certificate by measuring their comprehension skills and other indicators of learning potential.。
Such a system recognises that universities can allow bright students to realise their potential regardless of how rich or poor their background.。
Universities have also introduced programs to raise the aspirations of indigenous school students and those from socially disadvantaged areas.。
The University of Melbourne reserves 20 per cent of its domestic undergraduate places for students from a range of social backgrounds who are disadvantaged as a result of disability, ethnicity or rural location.。
Professor Sue Elliott, its Pro Vice-Chancellor (Teaching, Learning & Equity), says the Federal Government's attempt to raise the representation of poor students from the existing 15 per cent to 20 per cent is "a stretch" without changes in primary and secondary schools.。
In her speech yesterday the federal Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, acknowledged that universities could only make a difference if schools rose to the challenge and governments played their part.。
Undergraduate Plan of Study 。
The program of apparel product development and merchandising management addresses the domestic and international concerns of apparel and textile manufactures and retailers and their consumers. Basic to these concerns are the social, cultural, political, economic, and technological factors that affect consumer satisfaction with apparel/textile and fashion products and the contributions the apparel and textile industries make to the national and global economics.。
The program prepares students for careers in business, industry, and governmental services, such as buyers, fashion coordinators, fashion forecasters, product development managers, merchandise managers, store managers, and visual merchandisers. The program core courses are intended to provide students with a broad liberal education and with knowledge and skills fundamental to the development, production, merchandising, distribution, and use of apparel/textile and fashion products. Through coursework, internships, study tours, student organizations, and interaction with industry experts, students prepare for careers in the field.。
如果弄错方向,我可以继续改
一、前言
从 Matrix I 到 Matrix III,整整四年,一对名叫沃卓斯基(导演加编剧)的兄弟给科幻电影带来一次史无前例的冲击,无论从思想上还是视觉效果上都超过了以往任何一部科幻电影,从来没有一部科幻电影能够创造这么多的 Fans 也没有任何一部科幻电影能像 Matrix 这样引发如此大规模的讨论----讨论剧情,讨论主题,讨论特效,讨论演员,笔者绝不敢自称 100% 的看懂了(我把看懂定义为“理解沃卓斯基兄弟眼中剧情和主题的原意”,以免就这个“看懂”一词遭来无数的非议),但是我愿意把我所理解的 The Matrix 的故事写出来与大家分享。
二、先来说故事
第一集的故事还比较好懂,相信看过两遍的人都能懂:人类的科技文明发展到某一天,机器的人工智能已经开始超越了人所能控制的范围,于是,机器开始了挑战人类的战争,结果,机器打胜了,地球上的人类分成了两部分,一部分是被驱逐到地心深处一个名叫锡安(Zion)的溶洞中的地球原著民,他们继续在跟机器进行着战斗,试图摧毁机器世界,重新获得地球的主宰权,另一部分则是机器的战利品,他们一生下来就被养在机器制造的试管中,也会生长发育,只是他们并不知道过去曾经发生的一切,他们活在机器创造的一个虚拟世界里面,完全是由程序编写的一个虚拟世界,这个虚拟世界被锡安的人称为 Matrix,它就像一个超级的网络游戏;对于机器来说,这部分人类的作用是给机器提供生物电,使得机器能够拥有必需的能源。如果说,机器只是需要这些试管人类的生物电,为什么还要花大力气编写 Matrix 这个网络游戏呢?可能的原因有两个,一个是只有这些试管人的大脑不停的有活动才能产生足够的生物电和促进机体的生长发育产生更多的生物电;另一个是,作为战利品,机器对这些曾经创造了他们的人类也很感兴趣,就像人类研究猴子一样研究人类作为一种乐趣,这个原因对于电影来说,已经并不重要,总之机器创造了 Matrix,而在锡安里的人不断地想设法解救 Matrix 中的人,告知他们真相,加入反抗的队伍中,这些被解救的人以莫非斯为代表。因为莫非斯这些人来自 Matrix,所以他们的脑袋上保留有插头,可以重新接入 Matrix,莫非斯在 Matrix 中见到了一个有预知未来能力的人叫先知(Oracle),他告诉莫非斯,你们想战胜机器,就必须找到一个人,他才是真正的救世主(The One),莫非斯对此深信不疑,他找到了他认为就是救世主的那个人---尼奥(Neo),于是第一集的真正主角登场了,那么如同所有故事片一样,有了正面人物就必须要有反面人物,第一集的反面人物就是 Matrix 中维持秩序的特工(Agent),他们不是真正的人类,他们完完全全是由机器编写的程序,有点像防火墙或者说入侵检测程序,特工的代表人物叫做 Smith,他们的任务是阻止莫非斯他们的解救行动并杀死他们。于是第一集就在叛军和特工之间的战斗中展开,与其说是战斗不如说一场逃亡游戏,在第一集里面,观众们看到就是莫非斯、尼奥、崔尼悌这些叛军们不停的逃,特工们不停的追。奔跑、跳跃成了第一集动作的主题。但是到了影片的最后,尼奥在被 Smith 杀死以后又复活了,并且具备了超能力,他看穿了 Matrix 中的一切,在他眼中,Matrix 中的物体不再是形象,而是有数字组成的矩阵,于是,莫非斯认为的救世主(The One)诞生了,特工变的根本不是尼奥的对手,尼奥钻进 Smith 的身体中,把他撕的四分五裂。
这就是第一集的故事,故事很精彩,效果很棒,票房极好,那一年是 1999 年,这部影片获得了四项奥斯卡奖,影片中的众多特效镜头被奉为经典。接下来有传闻说要拍续集,于是大多数人包括我在内,都自然而然的认为就如同《终结者》《生死时速》《沉默羔羊》一样,因为第一集的票房很好,有了这个人气的保证,不管怎样只要凑一个续集出来,让这些主要人物重新登场,就一定还有票房,因此,自然而然的就猜测第二集应该讲的是在尼奥这个救世主的带领下,将 Matrix 中解救出来的人组成一支人类的强大军队,以锡安为后盾,与那些“八爪鱼”展开战斗,最终以人类的胜利为结束,皆大欢喜,拍成一部像《星球大战》《独立日》一般的战争史诗片。但是,当我了解到导演沃卓斯基兄弟的一些拍摄计划以后,我开始认为我的想法过于简单,按照网上得来的消息,Matrix II 的上映时间将是 2003 年,相隔要四年,而且还不止 Matrix II,Matrix III 也将同时拍摄,也就是说 Matrix II 和 Matrix III 几乎同时拍摄完毕,都在 2003 年上映,沃卓斯基兄弟还告诉我们,Matrix 从来就是一个完整的故事,并不是先有了 I 再想到去拍摄 II 和 III,只不过故事太长,必须要拍摄三部才够,Matrix I 只是故事的开始,真正让观众吃惊的都在后面,Matrix 的故事绝没有你们想象的那么简单。我突然意识到,这对兄弟不简单,Matrix 的续集不会像我想的如此简单。好了,我们现在开始来说第二集的故事,在整个 Matrix 的故事中,第二集的作用是承上启下,也是最为难懂,引起争议和讨论最多的一集,在这一集里面众多的新人物纷纷登场? 。
让人目不暇接,眼花缭乱。故事从尼奥的一个梦开始,他梦见崔尼悌被特工用枪打中了,这一开始其实就埋下了一个伏笔,按照电影的一般惯例,这种梦最后多半会成为真实的(影片确实也是如此),那么我不禁就要发问,既然这是在真实世界,尼奥怎么可能能梦到未来发生的事情(注意,这是科幻电影,不是指环王这样的神话故事电影,现实世界中你说一个人梦到了未来那是封建迷信),这不符合科幻电影严谨的逻辑,难道导演又要在这一集里面插入一些什么奇幻电影的因素,接下来要出现什么魔法阿超自然力阿什么的吗?接着,上一集被杀死的 Smith 又复活了,理论上并不是复活,而是升级了,在尼奥钻入他身体的时候,Smith 获得了尼奥的部分代码,最终导致了 Smith 的复活(升级),升级版的 Smith 不再是一个普通的特工,他变得更加强大,而且不受 Matrix 的控制,可以将自己的代码(思想)植入 Matrix 中的人甚至特工的身体中,从而复制自己,并控制他们,这个功能非常可怕,意味着 Smith 可以不断的复制自己,尼奥和 Smith 的第二次正面打斗的戏就是尼奥面对一堆的 Smith 不停的打,怎么也打不完,越打越多,最后只好像超人一样三十六计飞走了。接着影片出现了第二个伏笔,Smith 复制了一个锡安的叛军,这个叫本恩的叛军通过电话回到了锡安,但是显然,他的思想已经变化了,不再是原来的本恩,而变成了 Smith 附身的本恩,这里我不禁又要问,既然锡安是真实世界,那么来自 Matrix 中的程序 Smith 怎么可能能够控制真实世界中的人,就像一台电脑把网线都拔了,他怎么还会被黑客入侵呢?尼奥莫非斯他们回到了锡安,观众有幸目睹了这个人类最后一个城市的壮观景象,我们开始知道,莫非斯也只是一个普通的船长,他也有上司,就是他的情敌司令官,锡安的最高权力机构是议会,议员有男有女,都是老人。而莫非斯所坚信的所谓救世主并不为大多数锡安人认同,在锡安,尼奥只不过是个小有名气的普通人而已。在锡安,尼奥和一个老议员的一段对话非常重要,是整个 Matrix 中几段经典对话之一,是揭示整个故事主题的点睛之笔,大意是这样,议员带尼奥来到锡安的动力和循环系统控制中心,看着那些巨大的机器在运转,说我虽然知道这些机器的名称和作用,但是我却根本不知道这些机器是如何工作的,他问尼奥你说什么是控制,尼奥说控制就是我们随时都可在我们想的时候把机器给关掉,议员说说得没错,可是关掉之后我们也就失去了赖以生存的各种循环系统。我想,议员是在告诉观众,人类世界与机器世界已经是你中有我我中有你的状态,互为依存的关系,从这里我可以隐约感觉到电影的最终结局必然是人类和机器要达到一种新的和谐。尼奥他们继续出征,他们要重新找到先知,让她告诉尼奥战胜机器世界的最终办法,先知告诉尼奥你必须先找到开锁人(Keymaker),可以帮助尼奥打开一扇门,去见到神秘的幕后人物。于是,又有几个新的人物类型登场了,其中有那个法国人,严格来说,他并不是和摩非斯他们一样的试管中的人,而是一段程序,这段程序很老,而且他还有编程能力,可以编出像“春药”这样的小程序,Matrix 已经不再需要他,要把他删除,但是他又设法逃脱了删除,他收留了很多这样即将被删除但又逃脱的程序,包括一对有特殊能力的双胞胎兄弟,他们像幽灵一样可以自由出入很多程序,这些人并不像特工,他们就像 Matrix 中的独行侠一样,独来独往,特立独行,有他们自己的生活规则和生存方式,但是这些人的能力也有限,并不能改变 Matrix,也不对 Matrix 构成太大的威胁。法国人囚禁着开锁人(Keymaker),尼奥他们的目的就是救出开锁人,于是一场史无前例的追车大战开始了,其中有穿插着莫非斯和特工的决斗,就像沃卓斯基自己说的,他们要终结以往所有的追车场面,为此,剧组特地建造了一条专用的高速公路拍戏,总共动用了 300 多辆各种不同的车,炸毁、撞翻了无数,真是史无前例,这场追车大战直看得人神魂颠倒。最后,尼奥在开锁人的帮助下见到了那个幕后的神秘人物,他,就是 Matrix 的建造者,设计师(Architector),在这里,尼奥与设计师的一段对话终于揭示了第二集的真正内容,由于这段话实在太重要,我在这里全文摘录如下:
The Architect - Hello, Neo. 。
设计师:你好,Neo
Neo - Who are you? 。
Neo:你是谁?
The Architect - I am the Architect. I created the matrix. I've been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also irrelevant. 。
设计师:我是设计师,是我创造了 Matrix。我一直在等你。我知道你有很多问题要问,虽然整个过程改变了你的意识,但你依然是不折不扣的人类。所以我的一些回答你也许能明白,有些你也许不能明白。你的第一个问题也许是最有关键的一个问题,同时你也许意识到或没有意识到它也是最无关紧要的问题。
Neo - Why am I here? 。
Neo:为什么我会在这里?
The Architect - Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here. 。
设计师:你的生命是 Matrix 固有程序中一个失衡因式的残留总和。你是一个偏差的偶然性,是尽管我竭尽全力,仍不能消除的影响数学精度和谐的一个偏差。尽管它不断地制造麻烦让我小心翼翼地处理它,但它并不是不可预测的,它仍然处于控制范围之内。它引导着你来到这里。
Neo - You haven't answered my question. 。
Neo:你还没有回答我的问题。
The Architect - Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the others. 。
设计师:很好。有意思,这要比其他的那些要快一点。
*The responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: Others? What others? How many? Answer me!* 。
*其他救世主的回应显现在监视器上:其他的?什么其他的?有多少个?回答我!* 。
The Architect - The matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which 。
case this is the sixth version. 。
设计师:Matrix 比你想像的要老得多。我比较喜欢用一个完整偏差的出现到下一个完整偏差出现的方式来计算,这已经是第六个版本的 Matrix。
*Again, the responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: Five versions? Three? I've been lied too. This is bull****.* 。
*其他救世主的回应再次显现在监视器上:五个版本?三个版本?我一直被蒙在鼓里,妈的。
Ne There are only two possible explanations: either no one told me, or no one knows. 。
Neo:只可能有两种解释:没人告诉过我或是从来就没人知道。
The Architect - Precisely. As you are undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly's systemic, creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations. 。
设计师:正确。因为你无疑是最简单化的因式里聚集并创造着偏差的系统化变动 。
Once again, the responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: You can't control me! **** you! I'm going to kill you! You can't make me do anything!* 。
*其他救世主的回复再次显现在监视器上:你控制不了我!*** you!我会干掉你!我不会为你做任何事情!
Neo - Choice. The problem is choice. 。
Neo:选择。问题的关键是选择。
*The scene cuts to Trinity fighting an agent, and then back to the Architects room* 。
*电影场景切换到崔妮蒂和一个密探对打,然后又切换回到建造者的房间* 。
The Architect - The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is as apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being, thus I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus, the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program,initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother. 。
设计师:我设计的第一个 Matrix 非常完美,它简直就像是一件完美而卓越的艺术品。它的成功和失败都同样是史诗性的。它失败的必然性在我看来是每个人类固有的非完美性的结果。所以我根据你们人类的历史重新设计了 Matrix,以便更准确地反映你们人类本性中多变的怪诞特质。可是我再次失败了。我终于了解到我得不到正确答案是因为它不需要太多的考虑或是也许不需要考虑太多完美性的问题因素。答案最终为另一个指导性的程序偶然发现,这个程序原本是为了研究某些人类思维的。如果说我是Matrix 之父,她无疑是 Matrix 之母。
Neo - The Oracle. 。
Neo:先知。
The Architect - Please. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99.9% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level. While this answer functioned, it was obviously 。
fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster. 。
设计师:嗯。正如我所说的,她偶然发现了一个方法使得将近 99.9% 的试验体接受程序, 那就是给他们一个选择的机会,他们甚至只是仅仅意识到这个选择只是处于无意识的阶段. 这个解决方案最初进行时, 它无疑从基础上是有缺陷的, 因而产生了相矛盾的系统偏差, 如果不加以抑制就会威胁到系统本身. 因此那些拒绝程序的试验体, 尽管只是少数, 但如果不加以抑制就会不断增加形成灾难的可能性. 。
Neo - This is about Zion. 。
Neo :你指的是锡安。
The Architect - You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated. 。
设计师:你在这里是因为锡安就快要被摧毁。居住在里面的人全都会被消灭,那里所有的一切都会被彻底摧毁。
Neo - Bull****. 。
Neo:放屁!
*The responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: Bull****!* 。
*其他救世主的回应显现在监视器上:放屁!
The Architect - Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it. 。
设计师:否认是所有人类反应中最容易预知的一种。但不可否认的是,这将是我们第六次摧毁Zion,我们干得越来越干净利落。
*Scene cuts to Trinity fighting an agent, and then back to the Architects room.* 。
*电影画面切换到崔妮蒂和密探的对打,然后又回到建造者的房间。* 。
The Architect - The function of the One is now to return to the source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the prime program. After which you will be required to select from the matrix 23 individuals, 16 female, 7 male, to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race. 。
设计师:救世主的作用就是现在要返回源极,散播你所携带的编码,重新植入源程序。然后你要从 Matrix 中选出 16 个女性,7 个男性共 23 个人类个体来重建锡安。如果没有按照这个步骤来进行,将会导致灾难性的系统崩溃,这会杀死连接在 Matrix 上的所有人附带的锡安毁灭,这也意味着全人类的绝灭。
Neo - You won't let it happen, you can't. You need human beings to survive. 。
Neo:你不会让这样的事情发生的,你不会的。你们需要人类才能生存。
The Architect - There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However, the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world. 。
设计师:我们已经作好了接受任何幸存程度的准备。但与此相关的问题是你是否已经准备好为这个世界所有人类的灭亡承担责任?
*The Architect presses a button on a pen that he is holding, and images of people from all over the matrix appear on the monitors* 。
*设计师按下他拿在手里的笔上的一个按键,Matrix 里各个地方的人的图像显现在监视器里。
The Architect - It is interesting reading your reactions. Your five predecessors were by design based on a similar predication, a contingent affirmation that was meant to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species, facilitating the function of the one. While the others 。
experienced this in a very general way, your experience is far more specific. Vis-a-vis, love. 。
设计师:观察你的反应很有趣。你的五个前辈都是在一个相同推断的基础上设计以便你执行我们设计好的流程,这个可能的巧合意味着与你们种类的附属关系. 其他的那些救世主们是按常规的方式经历这一过程的,相对他们, 你的经历却是相当特殊的, 你经历着爱. 。
*Images of Trinity fighting the agent from Neo’s dream appear on the monitors* 。
*Neo梦里崔妮蒂和密探大战的画面出现在监视器上。* 。
Neo - Trinity. 。
Neo:崔妮蒂!
The Architect - Apropos, she entered the matrix to save your life at the cost of her own. 。
设计师:顺带说一句,她进入 Matrix 牺牲她自己是为了救你。
Neo - No!
Neo:不!
The Architect - Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed, and the anomaly revealed as both beginning, and end. There are two doors. The door to your right leads to the source, and the salvation of Zion. The door to the left leads back to the matrix, to her, and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you're going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic, and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you from the simple, and obvious truth: she is going to die, and there is nothing that you can do to stop it. 。
设计师: 这最终让我们来到揭示真相的时刻. 基本缺陷出现时, 偏差表现为开始和结束. 这里有两道门. 你右边的门是通往源极拯救锡安的. 你左边的门是回到 Matrix, 去往她以及你们种类绝灭的. 就像你说的, 问题的关键是选择. 可是我们已经知道你准备如何选择了, 不是吗? 我已经能够看到由此产生的连锁反应, 你体内的前体生化物质发出的信号引起情感的开始, 压制了你的逻辑和理智. 你的情感已经蒙蔽了一个简单而明显的事实——她就快要死了,而你却无可奈何。
*Neo walks to the door on his left* 。
*Neo走向他左边的门*
The Architect - Humph. Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness. 。
设计师:哼。希望,最典型的人类错觉。它既是你们最强大的力量又是你们最大的弱点。
Neo - If I were you, I would hope that we don't meet again. 。
Neo:如果我是你,我希望我们不会再见面。
The Architect - We won't. 。
设计师:我们不会再见面的