On Home
定冠词和不定冠词By prior什么意思John Berger
英文qq网名“Philosophy is really homesickness, it is the urge to be at home everywhere.”—Novalis
【1】The transition from a nomadic life to a ttled one is said to mark the beginning of what was later called civilization. Soon all tho who survived outside the city began to be considered uncivilized. But that is another story—to be told in the hills near the wolves.
【2】Perhaps during the last century and a half an equally important transformation has taken place. Never before our time have so many people been uprooted. Emigration, forced or chon, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintesntial experience of our time. That industrialization and capitalism would require such a transport of men on an unprecedented scale and with a new kind of violence was already prophesied by the opening of the slave trade in the sixteenth century. The Western Front in the First World War with its conscripted masd armies was a later confirmation of the same practic
e of tearing up, asmbling, transporting, and concentrating in a “no-man’s land.” Later, concentration camps, across the world, followed the logic of the same continuous practice.
【3】All the modern historians from Marx to Spengler have identified the contemporary phenomenon of emigration. Why add more words? To whisper for that which has been lost. Not out of nostalgia, but becau it is on the site of loss that hopes are born.
谢谢你们英语怎么说【4】The term home (Old Nor Heimer, High German heim, Greek kōmi, meaning “village”) has, since a long time, been taken over by two kinds of moralists, both dear to tho who wield power. The notion of home became the keystone for a code of domestic morality, safeguarding the property (which included the women) of the family. Simultaneously the notion of homeland supplied a first article of faith for patriotism, persuading men to die in wars which often rved no other interest except that of a minority of their ruling class. Both usages have hidden the original meaning.winga
【5】Originally home meant the center of the world—not in a geographical, but in an ont
在线日语翻译中文ological n. keep it real中文翻译MarceauElide has demonstrated how home was the place from which the world could be founded. A home was established, as he says, “at the heart of the real.” In traditional societies, everything that made n of the world was real; the surrounding chaos existed and was threatening, but it was threatening becau it was unreal. Without a home at the center of the real, one was not only shelterless, but also lost in nonbeing, in unreality. Without a home everything was fragmentation.
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【6】Home was the center of the world becau it was the place where a vertical line crosd with a horizontal one. The vertical line was a path leading upwards to the sky and downwards to the underworld. The horizontal line reprented the traffic of the world, all the possible roads leading across the earth to other places. Thus, at home, one was nearest to the gods in the sky and to the dead in the underworld. This nearness promid access to both. And at the same time, one was at the starting point and, hopefully, the returning point of all terrestrial journeys.
【7】The crossing of the two lines, the reassurance their interction promis, was prob
ably already there, in embryo, in the thinking and beliefs of nomadic people, but they carried the vertical line with them, as they might carry a tent pole. Perhaps at the end of this century of unprecedented transportation, vestiges of the reassurance still remain in the unarticulated feelings of many millions of displaced people.
【8】Emigration does not only involve leaving behind, crossing water, living amongst strangers, but also, undoing the very meaning of the world and—at its most extreme—abandoning onelf to the unreal which is the absurd.
online shopping【9】Emigration, when it is not enforced at gunpoint, may of cour be prompted by hope as well as desperation. For example, to the peasant son the father’s traditional authority may em more oppressively absurd than any chaos. The poverty of the village may appear more absurd than the crimes of the metropolis. To live and die amongst foreigners may em less absurd tha外教招聘平台n to live percuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen. All this can be true. But to emigrate is always to dismantle the center of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
