翻译笔记:德波顿 - 《爱情笔记》10

《爱情笔记》是一部细腻生动的恋爱过程全记录。 其间，才子德波顿细述一段情缘中的邂逅、迷恋、平凡中的幸福、熟悉后的倦怠、女友移情别恋、挽回无望、自杀、醒悟，以至一段情完全成为过去。他认真思辩自己的感觉，忠实记下与女友交往中的各个细节，特别是心理和哲学层面的思考，文字生动、处处机锋，不仅有极大的阅读乐趣，阅毕更令人回味无穷。

作者简介：阿兰·德波顿(Alain de Botton)，英伦才子型作家，生于1969年，毕业于剑桥大学，现住伦敦。着有小说《爱情笔记》(1993)、《爱上浪漫》(1994)、《亲吻与诉说》(1995)及散文作品《拥抱逝水年华》(1997)、《哲学的慰藉》(2000)、《旅行的艺术》(2002)。他的作品已被译成二十几种文字。（以上介绍转自一舟博客）

爱一个人，真的可以这样：

 1,I was no longer concerned to locate within it either insight or humour, what mattered was not so much what she was saying, as the fact that she was saying it - and that I had decided to find perfection in everything she could utter.
我也不再从话语中找出智性的感悟或诗化的真谛。她讲述的内容无关紧要，紧要的是她正在讲述——我想从中发现她所说的一切都是那么完美无缺。

小Car笔记：
concern to：对 ... 关系重大

 2,I felt ready to follow her into every anecdote (there was this shop that served fresh olives...), I was ready to love every one of her jokes that had missed its punchline, every reflection that had lost its thread.
我乐意倾听她说的每一个趣闻（有一个卖鲜橄榄的店子……）；喜爱她讲述的每一个笑话，即使讲丢了其中的妙语；欣赏她发表的每一点见解，即使乱了头绪。

小Car笔记：
punchline：点睛之笔, 妙语如珠

 3,I felt ready to abandon self-absorption for the sake of consummate empathy, to catalogue every one of Chloe's memories, to become a historian of her childhood, to learn all of her loves and fears.
我愿意不再专注自己，这完全是因为移情克洛艾。我用心体会她的每一点脾性，分享她的每一段记忆，探索她童年时代的生活历程。了解她喜欢的所有事物，知晓她害怕和痛恨的东西。

小Car笔记：
self-absorption：聚精会神, 专心一意, 热衷
for the sake of：为了，为了……的利益

 4,Everything that could possibly have played itself out within her mind and body had promptly grown fascinating.
所有这些也许早已存在于她身心之中，却在瞬息之间变得那么神奇迷人。

小Car笔记：
promptly：迅速地, 准时地, 立即

 5,Then the luggage arrived, hers only a few cases behind mine, we loaded it onto the trolleys and walked out through the green channel.
行李来了，在我行李后面只隔着几个箱子，就是她的。我们把行李搬上手推车，从绿色通道走出去。

小Car笔记：
green channel：绿色通道(办证快捷通道)