「What I talk when I talk about running 」杂乱小记
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I‘m seriously running now.
Q：文中多次用词“seriously”，该如何理解？它是指一种严谨的生活习惯生活态度吗？
By seriously I mean thirty-six miles a week.
"There are sevearl reasons why, at a certain point in my life ,I stopped running seriously."
这里讲述了几个使他停止跑步的原因。第一个，太忙了。“I don't konw why,but the older you get, the busier you become.”这是不是意味着人思考的东西越来越复杂了，介意放不下的东西越来越多了。第二点，对 铁人三项（triathlon）更感兴趣，所以要花费更多时间锻炼游泳和骑行。“Probably the main reason,though ,was that at a certain point I'd simply grown tired of it.”最重要的一点，居然就是他厌倦了- -。这点让前两个理由充满了槽点。
他说他不适合团队运动，也对一对一竞技运动颇感难受。后面讲到其实是他不在意输赢，他在意的是自己能否达到自己预先设定的那个目标，所以他认为像长跑这种运动更适合他。
接下来他拿他的专业，写作来进行类比。“The same can be said about my profession. ”在小说界，畅销，得奖什么的不重要。“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself.”通俗点将就是你的创作要达到你的初衷，你写作的目的。
“But I knew if I did things halfheartedly ...... I'd always here regrets ."在Jazz小吧有所成就的时候，面对最感兴趣的写作，（文中表述不是为了拿奖，而是想写“I found myself wanting to write a move substantial kind of novel.)毅然决定放下有起色的小吧的生意，留出两年的空闲时间free to write ."If it doesn't work out we can always open up another little bar somewhere." 年轻不怕尝试，即使ever try,ever failed. try again,fail again.
---------18% reek of smoke 发出烟臭味
讲述逐渐决定成为小说家的故事，在第三本小说出版后心意已决。
通过”如何保持身体健康来长期进行写作“这个话题将跑步和小说家联系在一起。”A problem arose, though ,with my ...... keep physically fit."
想能够长期写作→需要健康的身体→需要运动→跑步是最好的运动。
“I think I've been able to run for more than twenty years for a sinple reason: It suits me." 这里阐释了坚持跑步并非有强大的意志力，可能是很简单的一个原因：他适合这项运动。
---------25%
解释了为什么不是说”running is great ." 正如不是每个人都能成为小说家，也不是每个人都能参加长跑。
曾经尝试说服学校不让每个孩子都去练习长跑，对于没意愿或者身体不够适应的孩子来说都是一种折磨（torture.)
也会有不想跑的时候，引用了对奥林匹克运动员Toshihiko Seko 的问题来解释这一现象。“Does a runner at your level ever feel like you'd better not run today,like you don't want to run and would rather just sleep in?”-"of course, all the time!"
受邀去希腊，在雅典和编辑建议跑最原始的马拉松，发现直线跑的话，从马拉松到雅典才25英里。Sometimes the world baffles me.本来杂志社的编辑也没想到村上真的打算跑全程马拉松，以为他和大多数人一样，也只是做做样子拍拍照片就了事。
在车流湍急的马路跑步时，回想自己从东京来雅典的意义，一路伴随的是被车撞死的3只狗和11只猫，有种莫名的失落。
看着村上的描述可以想象出来长跑运动越到后面越不能停，可能一根稻草就能压垮整个信念。最后跑完时并没有什么成就感，而是“我终于不用再跑了”。最后还是，个中滋味，只有亲身尝试了才知道。跑步如此，做事如此。
Four Most of What I Know About Writing Fiction I Learn by Running Every Day
在Jingu Gaien 作者与S&B田径队经常碰到一起跑步，讲他印象特别深刻的田径队里的小伙子死于事故，思考”Where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?”
Talent is the prerequisite for being a novelist ,the next most important is focus-the ability to concentrate all your limited talents on whatever’s critical at the moment. 天赋加专注，造就人才。The next most important thing for a novelist is, hands down, endurance. 除了天赋和专注外，再次之重要的就是耐性。这里给那些没天赋的人的启发就是，专注和耐性是可以锻炼的。
后面讲两种不同的小说家的成就原因，一种就是有天赋加上专注和耐性，另外一种没有天赋，但是厚积薄发，通过专注于写作和坚持下去，最终也是获得成就（late-blooming）
“Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.”
Five Even if I Had a Long Ponytail Back Then
这里的标题让我思考了很久，是个隐喻。作者在校园的Charles湖畔慢跑时，看到那些扎着马尾青春活力的女孩，看到她们闪耀着光芒，稳健的步伐快速超过作者，引发了村上的思考，就算自己有马尾，也不能像她们一样的姿态跑着，每个人都有属于自己的跑道,属于自己的时间。“These girls have their own pace, their own sense of time. And I have my own pace, my own sense of time.”
写作这种工作就像一种毒素，虽然很不健康，但fugu fish 最美味的地方也就是最有毒性的部分。
“If something’s worth doing, it’s worth giving it your best –or in some cases beyond your best.”
54%就写作是不健康的观点来说，作者认为只有健康的身体才能支撑得住那不健康的灵魂。
每次都要铺垫很久，例如54%~56%是讲跑步有助于演讲，但是前面讲了一大堆演讲的事情。
#1238“I stopped a lot to stretch…next to impossible to finish this race.”一旦纵容了自己，很可能就再也回不去巅峰状态。做事追求极致的结果
#1355“From beginning to end the sky was completely covered with the thick gray clouds particular to this region. Like a dawdling person, the rain lingered for a long time, then finally made up its mind to turn into a downpour. ”这里把迟迟未来的雨比作一闲逛的人，生动形象。
#1369“It’s pretty hard, though, to not give it your all in a race, to try to hold back.” 在比赛的时候周围的氛围会把你带动起来，如何维持本心很重要。“Being surrounded by other runners is bound to have an influence on you.”
#1783“This takes time, of course, but sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.”
“It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I will always discover something new about myself.”
这里讲了他参加铁人三项时遇到的问题，比赛时游泳游太慢导致被取消资格，曾经一度不知道原因出在哪，但通过不断尝试，例如请教练更改自己的泳姿，自己边游边摸索。慢慢的发现了问题，沉住气耐心练习，最终成功完成了4年后的铁人三项比赛。
#1887“If pain weren’t involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathlon or the marathon, which demand such an investment of time and energy? It’s precisely because of the pain, precisely because we want to overcome that pain, that we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive-or at least a partial sense of it.”我们生来这个世界就是遭受疼痛，这样才会感受到生存于世的真正含义。
Q：文中多次用词“seriously”，该如何理解？它是指一种严谨的生活习惯生活态度吗？
By seriously I mean thirty-six miles a week.
"There are sevearl reasons why, at a certain point in my life ,I stopped running seriously."
这里讲述了几个使他停止跑步的原因。第一个，太忙了。“I don't konw why,but the older you get, the busier you become.”这是不是意味着人思考的东西越来越复杂了，介意放不下的东西越来越多了。第二点，对 铁人三项（triathlon）更感兴趣，所以要花费更多时间锻炼游泳和骑行。“Probably the main reason,though ,was that at a certain point I'd simply grown tired of it.”最重要的一点，居然就是他厌倦了- -。这点让前两个理由充满了槽点。
他说他不适合团队运动，也对一对一竞技运动颇感难受。后面讲到其实是他不在意输赢，他在意的是自己能否达到自己预先设定的那个目标，所以他认为像长跑这种运动更适合他。
接下来他拿他的专业，写作来进行类比。“The same can be said about my profession. ”在小说界，畅销，得奖什么的不重要。“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself.”通俗点将就是你的创作要达到你的初衷，你写作的目的。
“But I knew if I did things halfheartedly ...... I'd always here regrets ."在Jazz小吧有所成就的时候，面对最感兴趣的写作，（文中表述不是为了拿奖，而是想写“I found myself wanting to write a move substantial kind of novel.)毅然决定放下有起色的小吧的生意，留出两年的空闲时间free to write ."If it doesn't work out we can always open up another little bar somewhere." 年轻不怕尝试，即使ever try,ever failed. try again,fail again.
---------18% reek of smoke 发出烟臭味
讲述逐渐决定成为小说家的故事，在第三本小说出版后心意已决。
通过”如何保持身体健康来长期进行写作“这个话题将跑步和小说家联系在一起。”A problem arose, though ,with my ...... keep physically fit."
想能够长期写作→需要健康的身体→需要运动→跑步是最好的运动。
“I think I've been able to run for more than twenty years for a sinple reason: It suits me." 这里阐释了坚持跑步并非有强大的意志力，可能是很简单的一个原因：他适合这项运动。
---------25%
解释了为什么不是说”running is great ." 正如不是每个人都能成为小说家，也不是每个人都能参加长跑。
曾经尝试说服学校不让每个孩子都去练习长跑，对于没意愿或者身体不够适应的孩子来说都是一种折磨（torture.)
也会有不想跑的时候，引用了对奥林匹克运动员Toshihiko Seko 的问题来解释这一现象。“Does a runner at your level ever feel like you'd better not run today,like you don't want to run and would rather just sleep in?”-"of course, all the time!"
受邀去希腊，在雅典和编辑建议跑最原始的马拉松，发现直线跑的话，从马拉松到雅典才25英里。Sometimes the world baffles me.本来杂志社的编辑也没想到村上真的打算跑全程马拉松，以为他和大多数人一样，也只是做做样子拍拍照片就了事。
在车流湍急的马路跑步时，回想自己从东京来雅典的意义，一路伴随的是被车撞死的3只狗和11只猫，有种莫名的失落。
看着村上的描述可以想象出来长跑运动越到后面越不能停，可能一根稻草就能压垮整个信念。最后跑完时并没有什么成就感，而是“我终于不用再跑了”。最后还是，个中滋味，只有亲身尝试了才知道。跑步如此，做事如此。
Four Most of What I Know About Writing Fiction I Learn by Running Every Day
在Jingu Gaien 作者与S&B田径队经常碰到一起跑步，讲他印象特别深刻的田径队里的小伙子死于事故，思考”Where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?”
Talent is the prerequisite for being a novelist ,the next most important is focus-the ability to concentrate all your limited talents on whatever’s critical at the moment. 天赋加专注，造就人才。The next most important thing for a novelist is, hands down, endurance. 除了天赋和专注外，再次之重要的就是耐性。这里给那些没天赋的人的启发就是，专注和耐性是可以锻炼的。
后面讲两种不同的小说家的成就原因，一种就是有天赋加上专注和耐性，另外一种没有天赋，但是厚积薄发，通过专注于写作和坚持下去，最终也是获得成就（late-blooming）
“Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.”
Five Even if I Had a Long Ponytail Back Then
这里的标题让我思考了很久，是个隐喻。作者在校园的Charles湖畔慢跑时，看到那些扎着马尾青春活力的女孩，看到她们闪耀着光芒，稳健的步伐快速超过作者，引发了村上的思考，就算自己有马尾，也不能像她们一样的姿态跑着，每个人都有属于自己的跑道,属于自己的时间。“These girls have their own pace, their own sense of time. And I have my own pace, my own sense of time.”
写作这种工作就像一种毒素，虽然很不健康，但fugu fish 最美味的地方也就是最有毒性的部分。
“If something’s worth doing, it’s worth giving it your best –or in some cases beyond your best.”
54%就写作是不健康的观点来说，作者认为只有健康的身体才能支撑得住那不健康的灵魂。
每次都要铺垫很久，例如54%~56%是讲跑步有助于演讲，但是前面讲了一大堆演讲的事情。
#1238“I stopped a lot to stretch…next to impossible to finish this race.”一旦纵容了自己，很可能就再也回不去巅峰状态。做事追求极致的结果
#1355“From beginning to end the sky was completely covered with the thick gray clouds particular to this region. Like a dawdling person, the rain lingered for a long time, then finally made up its mind to turn into a downpour. ”这里把迟迟未来的雨比作一闲逛的人，生动形象。
#1369“It’s pretty hard, though, to not give it your all in a race, to try to hold back.” 在比赛的时候周围的氛围会把你带动起来，如何维持本心很重要。“Being surrounded by other runners is bound to have an influence on you.”
#1783“This takes time, of course, but sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.”
“It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I will always discover something new about myself.”
这里讲了他参加铁人三项时遇到的问题，比赛时游泳游太慢导致被取消资格，曾经一度不知道原因出在哪，但通过不断尝试，例如请教练更改自己的泳姿，自己边游边摸索。慢慢的发现了问题，沉住气耐心练习，最终成功完成了4年后的铁人三项比赛。
#1887“If pain weren’t involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathlon or the marathon, which demand such an investment of time and energy? It’s precisely because of the pain, precisely because we want to overcome that pain, that we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive-or at least a partial sense of it.”我们生来这个世界就是遭受疼痛，这样才会感受到生存于世的真正含义。
- 作者: Haruki Murakami
- 出版: Knopf
- 定价: USD 21.00
- 装帧: Hardcover
- 页数: 179
- 时间: 2008-7-29