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2017년 2월 16일 목요일

PE 12/13 William Faulkner – Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech


I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged [하1] and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny [하2] inexhaustible voice, still talking.
* fade: to slowly lose intensity
ex> Many of my parents’ old color photographs have faded.

I refuse to accept this I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
* merely: only; just
ex> The police were amazed that the troublemaker was merely a child.
* prevail: to defeat an opponent; continue to exist through endurance, superiority, etc.
ex> Benny won the first game, but Foster prevailed for the next three.

The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.
* compassion: a desire to relieve the distress of others
ex> Anne’s compassion for animals has saved hundreds of innocent lives.
* lift one’s heart: to invoke a sense of joyous openness; feel elation
ex> It lifts my heart to see our son and his cousins playing together.

The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
* pillar: something or someone that provides support; a vertical support in a structure
ex> My brother is a pillar in his community.
ex> Many of the ancient stone pillars lay shattered on the ground.



 [하1]쨍그랑 하는 소리를 내다
Bells were clanging in the tower.
The trams clanged their way along the streets.
 [하2][|pju:ni] 작고 연약한 (paltry; feeble; diminutive)
The lamb was a puny little thing.

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