悲劇的誕生The Birth Of Tragedy 第48期:建立一個新世界

The profound poet tells us that a man who is truly noble is incapable of sin;

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詩人意味深長地告訴我們：這個高尚的人並沒有犯罪。

though every law, every natural order, indeed the entire canon of ethics, perish by his actions,

一切法律，一切自然秩序，甚至這道德世界，都因他的行爲而毀滅，甚至通過這行爲產生一個更高的神祕的影響範圍，

those very actions will create a circle of higher consequences able to found a new world on the ruins of the old.

它在舊世界的廢墟上建立一個新世界。

This is the poet's message, insofar as he is at the same time a religious thinker.

這就是詩人想告訴我們的東西，因爲他同時是一個宗教思想家。

In his capacity as poet he presents us in the beginning with a complicated legal knot in the slow unraveling of which the judge brings about his own destruction.

作爲詩人，他給我們寫出一個離奇複雜的公案的糾紛。裁判者一節一節地逐漸解決了這公案，而毀滅了自己。

The typically Greek delight in this dialectical solution is so great that it imparts an element of triumphant serenity to the work,

希臘人對於這種辯證的解決感到真正的最大快樂，所以一點樂觀精神瀰漫着全劇，

and thus removes the sting lurking in the ghastly premises of the plot.

緩和了人們慄然預料這公案的結局的恐懼心情。

In Oedipus at Colonus we meet this same serenity, but utterly transfigured.

在“奧狄浦斯在科羅諾斯”一劇中，我們也見到同樣的樂觀，不過它變得無限崇高罷了。