亚瑟王之死
Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory · 初版 1485 年
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- 午后放松时能让人忘却现实世界
- 搭配几杯啤酒阅读别有一番风味
Le Morte d'Arthur（最初拼作 Le Morte Darthur，是不合语法的中古法语，意为“亚瑟之死”）是15世纪由 Sir Thomas Malory 用中古英语对关于传奇人物 King Arthur、Guinevere、Lancelot、Merlin 和 Knights of the Round Table 及其相关民间传说的散文体改编作品。为了讲述从孕育亚瑟到他逝世的“完整”故事，Malory 整理、重构、阐释并修改了来自法语和英语多方来源的材料。如今，这是最著名的亚瑟王文学作品之一。自那以后，许多作家……
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我大学时偶然发现了《亚瑟之死》（Le Morte d'Arthur）。它是少数几本喝上几罐啤酒读起来才真带劲的书之一。
I stumbled on "Le Morte d'Arthur" in college. It was one of the few books that having a few beers really helped with.
强烈推荐《亚瑟之死》（Le Morte d'Arthur）。我去年读的，一开始觉得很难读进去。里面有大量重复的比武和长矛对决……拿漫威来类比没错，确实有点像漫画书。但渐渐地，人物……
Big shout out to the Morte d'Arthur. I read it last year and at first found it hard to get into. There's tons of repetitive tournaments and jousting... the Marvel analogy is not wrong, it's a bit like a comic book. But gradually the characters…
如果我有一把舒服的椅子、好听的音乐，还能有一整个下午放松，我大概会选《亚瑟王之死》（Le Morte d'Arthur）。要是想与世隔绝、彻底忘掉外面的世界，就看《阿瓦隆的迷雾》（Mists of Avalon）。想更深入探究历史的话，牛津大学整理了一份专门针对这个课题的书籍和论文清单。
If I have a comfy chair, nice music, and an afternoon to relax, probably Le Morte d'Arthur. Or if I'm looking to forget the world, Mists of Avalon. For more historical diving, Oxford maintains a list of books and papers written on the matter.
……取决于我有多在乎这段内容。《古舟子咏》作为诗歌，没有任何通融余地：我必须一字不差地记住。《亚瑟之死》里某些枯燥冗长的战斗描写，不管背得多离谱我都能放它一马。如果某张卡片让我犯难，我可以通过几种补救措施来处理：在某些情况下，我会修改卡片，把更有意义的词抠掉填空……
…how much I care about the contents of the passage. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, being poetry, doesn't get any latitude: I must remember the word exactly. Some of the tedious battle descriptions in Le Morte d'Arthur get a pass no matter how badly they go wrong. If a card is causing me trouble, there are a few corrective actions I can take: In some instances I'll edit the card to blank out a more meaningful word…
……蒙茅斯——一位生活在12世纪初的威尔士修士。比马洛里早了足足200多年。但杰弗里·蒙茅斯的作品在托马斯·马洛里将其复兴之前基本鲜为人知。托马斯·马洛里的《亚瑟之死》成为畅销书纯粹是因为赶上了好时机——古腾堡差不多就在那个时候发明了活字印刷机。无论如何——亚瑟王传说完全是编造的。杰弗里·蒙茅斯编织了……
…Monmouth - a Welsh monk who lived in the early 12th century. Good 200+ years before Malory. But Geoffrey of Monmouth's work was largely unknown until Thomas Malory revived it. Thomas Malory's book Le Morte D'Arthur became a bestseller because of the right timing - Guttenberg invented his printing press at just about that time. In either case - the Arthurian legend is entirely made up. Geoffrey of Monmouth weaved…
关于表音拼写，像英语这种非表音拼写其实很不寻常——法语或德语搞拼字比赛（spelling bee）完全是讲不通的。尽管像《亚瑟之死》这样的书一开始看起来很陌生，但只要母语是英语的人集中注意力去读，拼写上的差异很快就不是问题了。
Regarding phonetic spelling, non-phonetic spelling such as is found in English is unusual - the idea of a French or German spelling bee is incoherent. Even though a book such as Le Morte d'Arthur is unfamiliar at first, the spelling differences disappear pretty quickly once an English speaker's attention is focused on it.