4.13 The Secret Life of America’s Last True Hermit（隱士失驶；遁世者）
說明：從今年年初開始學(xué)習(xí)天天用英語的課程以來映穗，基本上每期都會(huì)學(xué)習(xí)衣式；以我目前的程度谁不，每期課都必須預(yù)習(xí)過后才能在老師上課的時(shí)候跟上老師的節(jié)奏诅妹；每天挨個(gè)查單詞預(yù)習(xí)往往比聽課花的時(shí)間還有多票髓，今天突然決定把預(yù)習(xí)過的標(biāo)注版的文章貼在簡(jiǎn)書上，留作記錄掷空。
[1]In?April?2013,?Sergeant（軍士肋殴，警察小隊(duì)長(zhǎng)）Terry?Hughes?caught?a?manbreaking?into（闖入）the walk-in（未經(jīng)預(yù)約而來的）fridge?of?asummer?camp?for?disabled?children?in?centralMaine（緬因州/美國(guó)州名）.?This?was?the?end?of?the?hunt?for?Maine’slegendary傳奇的North?Pond?Hermit（北池隱士）,?Christopher?Knight.
[2]It?was?a?moment?akin?to類似于catching?the?yeti雪人snatching?hikers（遠(yuǎn)足者，長(zhǎng)途旅行者）off（snatch off:搶了）a Himalayan（喜馬拉雅的）mountainside.Except,?in?this?case,?the?yetishaved（剔拣帽；修面）,?and?some?people wistfully?thought?they?might?want?to?livelike?him—torun?off?into（跑到）the?woods,?hear?birds?sing,?watch?water?ripple,?see?snow?drop,?and
rediscover（重新發(fā)現(xiàn)）the?ideal?ofunalloyed（純粹的）individualism（個(gè)人主義）.Knightdid?it?for?nearly?30?years.?InThe Stranger?in?the?Woods,?author?Michael?Finkel?uncovers?the?minute?and astonishing（使人吃驚的）elements?of Knight’s?story.?These?six?made?usdo?a?double?take（忍不住多看兩眼疼电；突然明白了意思）.
He Didn’t Talk to Anyone for 27 Years
[3]Well,?Knight?did?bump?into碰到a?hiker?once.?That?day,?he?looked?up,?nodded,?and?said,“Hi.”Then?Knight?walked?on,?because?he?didn’t?feel?like?talking—and?he
didn’t?talk?for?the?other nearly?10,000?days?he?spent?in?the?woods.?When?people?are?suffering,?we tell?them, “You’re?not alone.”?When?they?feel?the?need?to?be?understood,?we?tell?them,“I?hear?you.”?When?we?want?to punish?people?forextreme?offenses（極端的犯罪）,?we?isolate?them.?The?United?Nations?defines?that?lastidiosyncrasy（習(xí)性嚼锄，癖好）of?ours?astorture（拷問减拭，折磨）,?by?the?way.?And?yet?Knight?chose?to?forget?the?sound?of?human voices?and?let?his?own?voice?fade（逐漸消失）.?The?night?he?was?captured?and?questioned,?his?sentences?were“ stuttery（結(jié)結(jié)巴巴的）andclanky（叮當(dāng)叮當(dāng)?shù)模?/b>,?an?old?engine?struggling?toturn?over（發(fā)動(dòng)）,?eachsyllable（音節(jié)）achore（苦差事）,”as?Finkel describes?in?the?book.
He Was Just 20 When He Began HisSeclusion（隱居）
[4]When?Knight?walked?into?the?woods?in?1986,?he?had?never?been?on?a date?or?even?spent?a night?in?a?tent.?One?day,?he?drove?hisSubaru（斯巴魯汽車）as?far?as?roads?would?take?him?into?the?Mainewoods,?less?than?an?hour?from?where?he?grew?up.?He?left?the?keys?on?thedashboard（儀表板）and?started walking?south.?There?weren’t?manyindicators(指示)?that?Knight?wanted?toabandon（放棄）human?contact?so completely—he?was?following?some?sort?ofinner?directive（內(nèi)心指令）that?worked?on?a?level?removed?fromlogic.?He?told?Finkel,“I?had?no?plans?when?I?left,?I?wasn’t?thinking?of?anything.?I?just?did?it.”Knight?had?a?fairly?normal?childhood?in?an?unusuallyresourceful資源豐富的,?slightlyreclusive隱居的NewEngland?family.?At?the?time,?he?was?working?installing?alarm?systems?and?had?just?bought?thenew?car.?No?one?expected?it,?not?his?school?friends?or?even?his?brother,?who?had?helpedfund（為……提供資金）the Subaru?and?would?besaddled?with背負(fù)著the?debt?for?it.?One?day,?Knight?simply?decided?that?he?wouldlive?a?life?of?his?own?design.
He Lived So Close to a House That He Couldn’tSneeze打噴嚏Aloud
[5]For?the?vast?majority?of?time?he?spent?in?the?woods,?Knight?lived?about?a?three minutewalking?distance?from?the?nearest?cabin?and?awashboard搓板狀的road,?on?a? 220-acre英畝parcel?of?land where?other?simple?summer?homes?were?set?in?the?woods?along?the?lake.
To?avoiddetection察覺,?he never?lit?a?campfire?and?tried?to?avoid?sneezing.?He?built?his?long-term
woodlandencampment營(yíng)地in?anesse ntially根本上invisibleclearing空地between?twoboulders,?usingtarps防水布,garbage?bins垃圾桶,?and?many issues?of?National?Geographic?(great?for?water?drainage—Knight?created?a?level?platform?in?his living?space?withduct-taped綁bundles?of?magazines).?He?was?constantlytinkering?with（擺弄）the shelter,?but?no?matter?the?adjustments?Knight?made,?it?never?provided? much?warmth.?So,?in?the intense?Maine?winters,?he?froze?but?survived.?Knight?would?lie?under?a?mass?of?blankets?andforce?himself?to?wake?in?the?coldest?parts?of?the?night.“What?he?did?in?the?cold?was?bothprosaic無聊的乏味的and?profound深度的深切的,”?Finkel?writes. “He?suffered.”
He Broke into More Than 1,000 BuildingsBefore Getting Caught
[6]Though?he?suffered,?Knight?did?find?a?surprising?amount?ofsustenance（食物）in?other?people’s homes.?He?was?an?expertburglar（竊賊）.?Using?skills?that?lingered?from?the?alarm-installation?job,Knight?left?no?trace.?Rather?than?break?down?doors,?he?would?take?them?off?theirhinges鉸鏈and?put them?back?on?later.?Most?of?his?neighbors?only?noticed?they’d?been?robbed?when?they?found?thatfood,?sleeping?bags,?clothes,?magazines,?books,?alcohol,?or?candy?were?missing.?Thiskleptomaniacal偷盜癖mode?of?survival?wassubtle,?but?it?was?so?consistent?that Knight?ended?upcreating?a?mood?of?unease?in?the?cabin?community,?most?of?whom?were?seasonal?residents?who
used?the?cabins?for?their?own?escapes逃避during?the?summers.?? “All?Patterson?wanted?from?her?cabin was?a?place?to?escape?the?pressures?of?daily?life,”?writes?Finkel?of?one?of?the?victims.
“Knight denied?her?that.”?All?solitude?comes?at?a?cost（孤獨(dú)是有代價(jià)的）,?whether?for?thesecluded（隱居的）or
those?who?surround him. There Is an Online Hermit Community That Thinks He’sOverrated（過高估計(jì)）
[7]Much?of?the?hermit?community隱士群體objected?to?Knight’s?particularlyparasitic寄生蟲的mode?of?existence.Yes,?there?is?a?hermit?community,?with?an?online?forum at?Hermitary.com.?Many?of?the?hermitson?that?forum?declared?that?Knight couldn’t?be?considered?a?real?hermit?because?he?stole?things.Knight?himself?agrees—he?told?Finkel?that?he?does?not?consider?himself?a?hermit?but?a
thief.Still,?many?other?modern-day當(dāng)代的現(xiàn)代的hermits?actually?live?in?their?parents’ basements?oranalogous相似的internet-connected?pits?and?have?meals?slipped?through?a?crack?in?the?door?while?they?chat? online?with?their?hermit?friends.?In?Japan,?there?are?more?than?half?a?million?of?this?sort?of? hermit.?They’re?known?as?hikikomori蟄居族，形容那些脫離社會(huì)区丑、有些自閉的年輕人and?are?soprevalent普遍的that?the?Japanese?Ministry?of?Health,Labor,?and?Welfare?has?studied?their?condition.
[8]Conceptually概念地,?it?might?seem?weird?that?all?these?hermits,?Knight?among?? them,?would?choose to?rely?on?society?in?some?way.?Actually,?most?of?history’s?known?hermits? have?interacted?with（有相互作用）their?societiesto?varying?degrees不同程度的.?There?were?the?walled-off封閉的medieval中世紀(jì)的anchorites隱士who?ate?meals? slipped?through?slots?by?servants,?and?then?slippedexcrement排泄物back?out.
Then?there?was?EverettRuess,?who?showed?up?at?a?shop?every?once?in?a very?long?while?before?disappearing?again?intothe?desert?with?hismules騾子.?Even?theUnabombersent?off?hisexplosive? missives爆炸性的信件through?thepostal郵局的service?from?his?woodlandlair巢穴.?If?there?were?hermits?who’ve?never had?to?interact?with society,?we’ve?never?heard?of?them?(for?obvious?reasons).?But?Knight?does? stand?out突出引人注目for?going the?longest?period?without?human?contact.
He Hates Henry David Thoreau
[9]When?Knight?was?captured,?a?media?stormbroke?over打破了the?Kennebec County?Jail?as?journalistsdescended下來from?around?the?world?torattle?him?like?hail（像冰雹一樣打他）.?All?of?them,?including?Finkel,?tried?toglean收集hermit?wisdom?in?the?process.?In?the?end,?the?only?major?insight?Knight? expressed?to Finkel?was?“get?enough?sleep.”?Thepithiness有力簡(jiǎn)潔and?grounded接地的practicality實(shí)用性of that?advice?isn’t entirely全部地surprising.?It?was?unlikely?that?Knight?would?ever?come?up?withethereal?maxims飄渺的格言,memorable?aphorisms難忘的格言,?orspiritual?nuggets精神上的掘金.?He?brandedThoreau梭羅a?“dilettante一知半解者”?and?said?others like?him?who?published?andcommodified使商品化their?thoughts?were?false?hermits.?What?Knight?took? from?the?woods?were?not?grand?cosmic宇宙的insights,?but?memories?of?a?time when?he?was?attuned?to the?nature,?beautiful?andbrutal野蠻的,?around?him.?He?remembered?how?on?the?warmest?days?of?theyear,?the?pond?would?be?warm?and?he?wouldstrip脫去衣服and?float?in?it,?gazing?at the?stars.?Though?he losttrack?of?time時(shí)間的軌道,?Knight?eagerly?anticipated?the?days?around?the?Fourth?of?July.?Rather? than recallinggawking發(fā)呆at?fireworks?with?a?drunken?mass,?Knight?remembered those?times?because?he could?sit?back?and?watch?as?thepitch-black漆黑的forest?around?him?filled?with
fireflies螢火蟲.
