Unit5TheTapestryofFriendship课文翻译综合教程四

1、their time. Buddies seemed todo” things together; friends simplyther. “ were ” togeUnit 5The Tapestry of FriendshipEllen Goodman1It was, in many ways, a slight movie. Nothing actually happened. There was no big-budgetchase scene, no bloody shoot-out. The story ended without any cosmic conclusions.2Y

2、et she found Claudia Weill fislm Girlfriend gentle and affecting. Slowly, it panned across thetapestry of friendship- showing its fragility, its resiliency, itsrole as the connecting tissue between the lives of two young women.3When it was over, she thought about the movies she had seen this year -

3、Julia ，The TurningPoint and now Girlfriends . It seemed that the peculiar eye, the social lens of the cinema, haddrastically shifted its focus. Suddenly the Male Buddymovies had been replaced by the Female Friendship flicks.4This was n t just ano ther binge of trendin ess, but a kind of cin emav /it

4、 .eForonce the movies were reflecting a shift, not just from men to women but from one definition offriendship to another.5Across millions of miles of celluloid, the ideal of friendship had always beenmale - a world of sidekicks and“ partners ” of Butch Cassidys and Sundance Kids.There had bee n som

5、eth ing almost atavistic about these visio ns of attachme nts asif producers culled their plots from some pop anthropology book on male bonding. Movies portrayedthe idea that only men, those direct descendants of hunters and Hemingways, inherited a primalcapacity for friendship. In contrast, they po

6、rtrayed women picking on each other, the way they oncepicked berries.6Well, that duality must have been mortally wounded in some shootout at theYou reOK, I mOK Corral. Now, on the screen, they were at least aware of the subtle distinctionbetween men and women as buddies and friends.7About 150 years

7、ago, Coleridge had written, “ Awoman s friendship bordersmore closely on love than man s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble orfriendly acts, whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment. ”8Well, she thought, on the whole, men had buddies, while women had

8、friends.Buddies bonded, but friends loved. Buddies faced adversity together, but friends faced each other.There was something palpably different in the way they spentBuddies came linked, like accessories, to one activity or another. People have golf buddies andbusiness buddies, college buddies and c

9、lub buddies. Men often keep their buddies in these categories,while women keep a special category for friends.A man once told her that men weren treal buddies until they had been“ through the wars ” togethecorpor-te or athletic or military. They had to soldier together, he said.Women, on the other h

10、and, didn ctount themselves as friends until they had shared three loathsomeconfidences.Buddies hang tough together; friends hang onto each other.It probably had something to do with pride. You donshtow off to a friend;you show need. Buddies try to keep the worst from each other; friends confess it.

11、A friend of hers once telephoned her lover, just to find out if he was home. She hung up without ahello when he picked up the phone. Later, wretched with embarrassment, the friend moaned, “Canyoubelieve me? A thirty -five-year-old lawyer, making a chi cken call? ” Together they laughed and made itbe

12、tter.Buddies seek approval. But friends seek acceptance.She knew so many men who had been trained in restraint, afraid of each other jusdgment orawkward with each other asffection. She wasntsure which. Like buddies in the movies, they would die foreach other, but never hug each other.She had reread

13、Babbitt recently, that extraordinary catalogue of male grievances. The onlyrelationship that gave meaning to the claustrophobic life of George Babbitt had been with Paul Riesling. Butnot once in the tragedy of their lives had one been able to say to the other: You make a difference.Even now men shoc

14、ked her at times with their description of friendship. Does this one have a bestfriend? “Why,of course, we see each other every February. ” Does that one call his most intimate pal longdistance?“Why, certainly, wheneverthere as real reason. ”Do those two old chums ever have dinner together? “You mea

15、n alone? Withoutour wives?”Yet, things wer e changing. The ideal of intimacy wasnt this parallel playmate,this teammate, this trenchmate. Not even in Hollywood. In the double standard of friendship, for once thefemale version was becoming accepted as the general ideal.After all, a buddy is a fine li

16、fe- companion. But one fsriends, as Santayana once wrote, “are thatpart of the race with which one can be human.”910111213141516171819友谊面面观埃伦古德曼1从多方面看来， 这是一部不足挂齿的小制作电影。 平淡无奇。 没有大成本制作的追逐画 面，没有血腥的枪战。故事结尾也没得出什么意味深长的结论。2然而她还是觉得克劳迪娅 韦尔的电影女朋友温婉动人。它缓缓地向我们展现了友 谊的全貌 它的脆弱、生命力，以及它连接两个年轻女子人生的纽带作用。3电影放完了，她回想起这一年

17、看过的几部电影 茱莉亚、转折点 ，还有现在这 部女朋友 。似乎电影作品镜头这一特殊视角已经大大改变了聚焦对象。一转眼哥俩好的 电影已经被反映闺蜜友谊的影片所替代。4这并不仅仅是另一场时尚狂欢，而是一种实录电影的潮流。就这一次电影反映一种转 向，不只是从男性转向女性，而是从友谊的一种定义转为另一种定义。5纵观数百万英里长的电影胶片，友谊的理想主角总是男性一一满世界都是类似布奇卡西 迪斯及其铁哥们山丹思基德斯这样的密友、同伴的故事。这些形影不离的银幕形象似乎是 来自远古社会 故事情节好像是制片人从诠释男性间密切关系的人类学通俗读物里选取 出来似的。影片诠释了一个观点，即只有男性那些猎人和海明威式硬

18、汉的传人 才继 承了对于友谊的原始的能力。 相反， 女人们总是被描绘成互相挑刺， 就好像她们从前挑选浆 果那样。6哦， 那种两面性在 OK 牧场枪战中一定已经受了致命的枪伤了。现在， 在银幕上， 他们 至少意识到男人作为哥们、女人作为闺蜜的微妙区别。7大约 150 年前，柯勒律治写道： “比起男性，女性的友谊更接近爱恋。男性之间相互影 响体现在崇高或友善的举动中， 而女性不需要这么多实实在在的例证， 却需要更多依恋之情 的外在表露。 ”8好吧，她想，总体来说，男人有哥们，女人有闺蜜。哥们相互关联，闺蜜互相喜爱。 哥们共同面对逆境，但闺蜜直面彼此。显然，两者共度时光的方式互不相同。哥们似乎一起 “做 ”事，闺蜜只不过 “在 ”一起。9哥们像同伙一样靠各种活动联系在一起。人们有一起打高尔夫的哥们，有商场上的哥 们，大学时的哥们和俱乐部的哥们。 男人经常按这些类别给哥们归类， 而女人们把闺蜜专门 归类。10一个男人曾经告诉她男人不会成为真正的哥们，除非他们曾经“并肩作战 ”在商场上，运动场上，或是战场上。他说，他们得在一起当兵打仗才成。另一方面，女人们除非共享了 3 个讨人嫌的秘密之后才视彼此为闺蜜。11哥们在一起共渡难关，闺蜜则相互依赖。12或许这和自尊有点关系。对一个闺蜜， 你不会炫耀， 你只会告之你的需要。哥们互相把 最糟糕的情况藏着掖着，闺蜜会互相倾诉痛苦。13她一个