【33 The Call of Nature 野性的呼喚】
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All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the bloodlust, the joy to kill-all this was Buck’s, only it was in finitely more intimate. He was ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the eyes in warm blood.
布克體內隱藏著一種原始的本能，這個本能在特定的時期牽引人類走出城市來到森林和平原大開殺戒。現在，這種原始本能——對血的渴望、對殺戮的迷戀都屬於布克。這種快感不斷驅使著布克跑在狼群的前端，渴望用自己的牙齒擊殺那新鮮的獵物，讓自己從嘴到眼睛都浸在溫熱的鮮血裡。
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were
狂喜標誌著生命的頂峰，而生命無法超越它。這就是一種生活的悖論，隻有當一個人最活躍的時候，這種極端的狀態就會出現，而它會使人渾然忘卻生命的存在。這種巔峰的狀態、這種超脫生命的狀態，使藝術家創作的激情如烈火般爆發；使士兵成為好戰分子，在戰場上瘋狂戰鬥，對敵人毫不留情；使布克帶領著狼群，發出一種古老的嚎叫聲，緊緊追捕那隻在月光下瘋狂逃竄的鮮活的食物。他的嚎叫發自內心深處，發自更深奧的本性，仿佛回溯到了時間的起點。他被時間的衝擊所征服，是那種生命的輪換，是身體每塊肌肉
deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.
與肌腱帶來的快感，因為這些讓你知道自己沒有死去，知道生命的活躍和狂躁，在悸動中表現自己，在群星中狂亂飛舞，飛過那些寂靜不動的事物。
單詞解析 Word Analysis
propel[prəˈpel]v.推進；推動
例 He succeeded in propelling the ball across the line.
他成功地把球帶過線。
𝑤𝑡.𝑝𝑜𝑜於源來節章本
神出；喜狂.n]isətskeˈ[ysatsce
.dehcaer renniw eht ysatsce fo sthgieh tahw derednow enO 例
。度程麼什了到狂若喜欣者勝道知想們人
事或人的盾矛相自.n]skɒdəræpˈ[xodarap
—xodarap a saw eH 例
