乌托邦这个词是托马斯摩尔在1560年创造的 The word "utopia" was invented by a man called Thomas Moore in 1560
一词双关 and it's a pun.
它结合了三个希腊词语 It combines three Greek terms.
第一个词是eu 拼作E U 是好的意思 The first is "eu", spelled E-U, and that means "good."
第二个是ou 拼作O U 表示否定 The second is "ou", which is spelled O-U, and that means not.
第三个词是topos 意思是地方 And the third is "topos" which means "place."
所以utopia的字面意思是 And so the literal meaning of "utopia"
不存在的美好之地 was the good place that's no place.
首先这个词语本身就是矛盾的 And that's quite a paradoxical word just to start with
因为如何能拥有一个美好但是又不存在的东西呢 'cause how can you have something that's good and nowhere?
这种矛盾穿越了乌托邦的历史 And that paradox runs through the history of utopia,
穿越了旧时乌托邦的思想体系 through old utopian articulations.
乌托邦人总是从现今的世界出发 Utopias always imagine a better world
想象出一个更好的世界 that's extrapolated from the present.
他们对现实不满 They start off with dissatisfaction.
他们坚信当前必有问题 They believe there's something wrong with the now
他们努力去想象一个可替代的世界 and they current try to imagine better alternatives.
一些人甚至努力去找寻乌托邦让乌托邦成为现实 Some people even try to get there, to make utopias happen
但他们总是以失败告终 and they always fail.
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哦 太好了 Oh, brilliant.
讨论足球的人也 People discussing football is also the current
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四分 Four points there.
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