That if your father was a Baron, you got to be a Baron too
就是说如果你爸爸是一位男爵 你也会成为一个男爵
Up to then, the system was very much in flux
时至今日这一体制仍然处在不断变化之中
Not, not crucially important
不是至关重要的
But it's at least the term we should talk about
但至少也是一个我们应该谈到的术语
One of the things in, that was mentioned,
马洛里写的书多次被提到
That's mentioned again-again is Mallory,
即托马斯·马洛里先生
Sir Thomas Mallory Le Morte d'Arthur
写的"亚瑟王之死"
And being kind of the definitive material in English
作为英语版本的限定版
Here it is in two paperbacks
这有两本平装本
This is a lot of serious reading
这需要倍加认真读
This is a thousand pages
总共有一千页
Each book is about 500 pages And, you know,
每本书大约五百页
you have to be seriously in the mood to read stuff
你知道的读书一定要有足够的兴趣
This is not as much fun, but it is a great listing of things
这本书并不是有趣但却列举了很多重大事件
What White does many times, as we read White, White says,
很多次当我们读怀特的书时 他会说
"I'm not gonna talk about that, Ahh Mallory does such a great job"
我不想谈论这个 马洛里已经说得很多很好了
If you're really interested go read Mallory
你要是真有兴趣的话 就去读马洛里的书吧"
I'm not gonna list everyone whose here
我不会列举这里的每一本书
So, if it's what you want, I recommend this to you
所以如果感兴趣的话可以自己去读
I've read him once and that's probably what I'll do
我曾经读过一次 或许我就会这么做
Before w get started today on White's book
在我们今天开始学习怀特的这本书之前
I wanted to talk about the hero Okay
我想要谈谈"英雄"好
This is a book,
这是一本
From a book by Lord Raglan entitled surprisingly, The Hero
拉格兰勋爵写的书 很奇怪这本书被命名为
And it has a subtitle, a study in tradition, myth and drama
它还有一个副标题"对传统 神话和戏剧的研究"
And if you really wanna know,
你们若真想知道的话我就告诉你们
His whole name is Baron Fritz Roy Richard Somerset Raglan
他的全名是弗里茨·罗伊·理查德·萨默赛特·拉格兰