悲劇的誕生The Birth Of Tragedy 第123期:現代文化的根源悲劇
It is certainly the sign of the "breach" of which everyone speaks as the fundamentAl malady of modern culture,
that the theoretical man, alarmed and dissatisfied at his own consequences, no longer dares entrust himself to the terrible icy current of existence:
也就是說，理論家對自己的結果感到恐懼和不滿，再不敢信賴生存的恐怖冰流。he runs timidly up and down the bank.
他戰戰兢兢躑躅岸上，
So thoroughly has he been pampered by his optimistic views that he no longer wants to have anything whole, with all of nature's cruelty attaching to it..
他再也不敢求全，全總帶着事物的自然暴力；他被自己的樂觀主義觀點驕縱慣壞了！Besides, he feels that a culture based on the principles of science must be destroyed when it begins to grow illogical,
況且，他覺得，一種建築在科學原理上的文化，一旦開始顯得不合理，that is, to retreat before its own consequences.
也就是說，在結論前知難而退，就勢必遭到毀滅。Our art reveals this universal distress: in vain does one depend imitatively on all the great productive periods and natures;
今日的藝術已顯出這種普遍的困難：他們徒然依賴一切偉大創造時代和創造天才作爲榜樣；in vain does one accumulate the entire "world-literature" around modern man for his comfort;
人們徒然蒐集全部“世界文學”放在現代人周圍以安慰他；in vain does one place oneself in the midst of the art styles and artists of all ages, so that one may give names to them as Adam did to the beasts:
人們徒然使人置身於歷代藝術風格和藝術家中間，以便一一命名，象亞當給走獸命名那樣；one still remains externally hungry, the "critic" without joy and energy, the Alexandrian man,
然而，讀者始終是飢腸轆轆，“批評家”則愁眉苦臉，沒精打彩，象亞歷山德里亞的學者們那樣，who is at bottom a librarian and corrector of proofs, and wretchedly goes blind from the dust of books and from printers' errors.
他們畢竟是圖書館員和校勘者，可憐讓書上塵埃和誤刊錯字弄得失明。
