But anyway, importantly to get back
但是不管如何让我们言归正传
What we would expect of heroes,
我们对英雄有什么样的期待呢
You know, we're gonna expect to know something about their birth
我们会想要知道一些关于他们出身的事情
Because birth is important, you know?
因为出身很重要
and then we're not gonna know anything about them
然后我们就想要了解他们的任何事情
We're not gonna know anything about their youth,
我们想要了解他们年轻时候的任何事情
We're not gonna know anything about
想要了解从这个时间段到那个时间段
From the time they're here to over here
他们的事情
And if you think, if you've ever seen any movies on Arthur,
如果你认为 如果你看过任何关于亚瑟王的电影的话
There's usually something about his birth
通常会谈到他的出身
When do we see him again,
我们再次看见他又是什么时候了呢
When he comes back and pulls his sword out the stone
是他回来从石头里拔出剑的时候
Alright, do we know?
好吧 我们知道吗
Do we see him in between? No,
在这中间我们见过他吗 没有
And so, some point,
所以
Whatever that magic point is,
无论什么神奇的观点
You know, whatever age you are at some point of dangerousness,
无论处在危险时期你是多少岁
12, 13, 14, 15 and so you don't know anything about early childhood
12 13 14 还是15岁 你对幼儿时期是一无所知的
And if you read the first part of the book,
你要是读了这本书的第一部分
If you read the first forty pages,
即前四十页的话
When we were picking, when we were picking outward up
当我们把它们拎出来
We we're picking 'em up at a point of education
在某个教育阶段把它们拎出来的时候
I don't know, he's supposed to be what, 12, 13, 14?
我不知道 他应该有12 13 14岁了
You know
是吧
So what do we know about his life before that?
那么我们对他之前的生活知道些什么呢
Nothing
什么也不知道
What are we gonna find out?
我们要去了解些什么呢
Are we gonna find out about his birth?
我们要去弄清他的出身吗
But we're not really gonna find out about anything earlier,
但是我们真得不会去弄明白更早的事情了
This is, this is good tradition stuff Okay
这是一个很好的传统 好
Third possibility is, it's all myth, you know, the person didn't exist
第三种可能性就是这全是神话 就是这个人不存在
We simply created a hero that we could use as something
我们只是创造出一个英雄 可以用来
to drape on all the characteristics
承载所有我们认为很珍贵的
That we wanna see as valuable
特点
If we look at the list then, kind of interesting list,
然后如果我们看目录的话 目录很有趣
Then if you, as you read through are obviously Arthur first
你要是通读一下的话 很明显亚瑟王是排第一个
But the later on we get the Eric, when we get the Percival
之后我们会看到埃里克 当我们看到波西瓦尔的话
We should look at his characteristics too
我们应该也看看他的特点
You could look at somebody like Superman
要是想的话你们也可以看看诸如超人之类的人
If you wanted to see how they adhere to this list
看看他们是如何被弄上这个目录的
Luke Skywalker
比如说卢克·斯盖瓦克
I dunno, pick out anybody you want
挑出任何你想了解的人来看看
The Heroes mother is a royal virgin,
这个英雄的妈妈是一个皇家处女
His father is a King and of often near relative of his mother, ross
他的爸爸是一个国王 和他妈妈罗斯是近亲