工作与时日（2020）

They are.
好吃的
Around Yatsugatake
everyone has game recently.
八岳山附近
每个人都有比赛
Cooking game, deer and boar.
烹饪野味比赛，鹿肉啊，野猪肉啊
We’ve started
doing the same thing.
我们最近也开始搞了
– Deer steaks.
– Deer and wild boars are tastier.
-鹿扒
-鹿比野猪肉更好吃
Yes, well, they are cheaper.
是的，更便宜一点
They are cheap, that’s why.
And better, I think.
它们很便宜，这就是优势
我觉得它更好
Anyway, what I can say,
including that, well,
不管怎样，我想说的是
包括这些
people who hunt and kill them themselves,
and give them away to the neighborhood,
那些自己打猎
把猎物分发给周边邻居
and cook them
at home themselves.
然后自己在家烹饪
There aren’t many people left
who are doing this.
这样做的人不多了
– Not many people know how to do that.
– They don’t know how.
-没有几个人知道怎么做
-他们不知道怎么做
Also people
don’t like doing that.
而且人们也不爱那么做了
People prefer
being clean for everything.
大家更喜欢
所有东西都干干净净的
There are fewer people
who’d go for tough work.
愿意从事苦力活的人越来越少
That work goes to foreign workers
and machines.
这种工作交给了外籍劳工
和机器
I think things like butchering,
will be automated in the future.
我认为像屠宰这类工作
将在将来实现自动化
I suppose so.
我想是的
In fact,
事实上
people should butcher things themselves,
so we understand life.
人们应该自己动手屠宰
方便了解生活
When I was small,
for Obon and New Year,
我小时候
为了盂兰盆节和新年
we’d kill our chickens and
cook them for the feast.
我们会杀鸡做着吃
来准备宴席
We’d hang them upside down
on a pole to drain the blood,
我们会把它们倒挂
在一根杆子上来沥干血水
pluck them,
then cook them as sukiyaki.
摘下来后
煮成寿喜烧
I didn’t do it myself,
不是我一个人做的
– but I watched what the adults did.
– In my generation, we never see that.
-但我观察了大人们的行为
-我这代人中，从来没有看过这个景象
So the meat in front of us…
We don’t know who produced it
所以我们吃的肉…
不知道是谁做出来的
or how it was done,
only where it came from.
或者怎么做出来的
或从哪来的
People don’t know about
the proccess nowadays.
现在的人们不知道
这些流程
We just see meat
shaped like this now.
我们只看到肉
切好的形状
So for example, a watermelon.
举个例子，一个西瓜
It’s sold in thirds or quarters
in the shop.
它以三分之一或四分之一的价格
在商店里出♥售♥
So small children believe that
所以小孩子以为
watermelons come from the field
in that shape.
西瓜从田里出来
就是那个形状
From this point of view,
从这个角度看
people should learn about
what’s happening on site.
人们应该了解
现场发生了什么
I went to a slaughterhouse
as a school trip.
我们有一次学校旅行
去了屠宰场
Ah, did you?
啊，是吗？
Even though
we went to a slaughterhouse,
尽管去了屠宰场
we never saw
slaughtered animals.
却从未见过
被屠宰的动物
– Just they showed us around.
– And told you what they were doing.
-只是他们带我们到处看看
-告诉你他们在做什么
They explained to us
他们解释给我们听
how they used their hands to slaughter
and produce and sell meats.
他们如何用双手屠宰
然后生产和销♥售♥肉类
Well,
果然
I dissected frogs
when I was at school.
解剖过青蛙
我在学校
If you’re taught lots of things
when you are small,
如果你小的时候
学到了很多东西
your life is much more
determined for some reason.
出于某种原因
你的生活会更明朗
Very important to grow up
in an environment
成长的环境很重要
where you can learn
empathy and morals.
你可以在那里
学到同理心和道德
– It’s a huge difference.
– It’s related to family relationships,
-这是一个巨大的差异
-它与家庭关系有关
like brothers, sisters, and parents,
also with neighbors.
比如兄弟、姐妹、父母
还有邻居
That’s really important.
这真的很重要
It’s kind of like,
‘A change of pasture makes fat calves.’
有点像
「常换草场，小牛长得壮」
Children’s character is formed
by their environment,
孩子的性格依据
他们所处的环境形成
including their relationships
with other people.
包括他们与他人的关系
Compared to the old times,
与过去相比
the education environment is
much worse nowadays.
现今的教育环境
更糟糕了
You know.
你知道的
So, kids now are acting
more cunning and brash.
所以，孩子们现在
变得更加狡猾和鲁莽
And they’re worried
about the future.
他们很担心未来
These coddled kids are told
they are so clever and genius.
这些娇生惯养的孩子
被告知他们是如此聪明和天才
They will just get worse gradually,
before you know,
这只会更纵容他们
在…
– They need…
– as they grow up.
-他们需要…
-随着他们长大
What can we do?
我们能做什么？
It’s hard.
很难说
Well, they have to
have more free time.
嗯，他们必须
有更多的业余时间
Better not to make them
nervous and upset
最好不要让他们因为
about grades and the things
right in front of them.
成绩和眼前的事情
紧张不安
Human beings have
a power to grow naturally.
人类有自然生长的力量
It’s better to do what they want.
最好想干什么就干什么
Whenever I teach at university,
I just tell students that all the time.
我在大学教书的时候
我经常告诉学生们
Follow your nose.
跟着你的嗅觉走
I told you before I always write postcards
to people. I always write by hand.
我跟你讲过，我总是给人寄明信片
都是手写的
People take a long time
to write a postcard maybe.
人们需要花很长时间
写一张明信片
Of course it takes time.
当然这需要时间
Now I only need one minute.
现在我只需要一分钟
It means you’ve been
writing for a long time.
这意味着你已经
写了很长时间
I can write easily.
It gets rid of my stress.
你可以写得很容易了
它很解压
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