石黑一雄回应获诺奖:令人惊吓,不知是否为骗局?
近日，2017年诺贝尔文学奖揭晓，日裔英国作家石黑一雄荣获该奖项。
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 is awarded to the English author Kazuo Ishiguro.
"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss* beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
新闻公报表示，将文学奖授予石黑一雄是因为他“凭借充满强烈情感的小说揭示了我们幻觉之下的深渊(新华社译)”。“他的小说具有强大的情感力量，揭开了存在于幻想中的地狱面与现实世界的联系(中国青年报译)。”
*abyss [ə'bɪs]
1) a very deep hole that seems to have no bottom深渊
2)a difficult situation that brings trouble or destruction险境，绝境
The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.
这个国家正陷入暴力和法制崩溃的深渊。
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在接受BBC的采访时，他首度表态，获得该奖“是个被吓到的惊喜”。
When contacted by the BBC, Ishiguro said he was "flabbergastingly* flattered" by the award.
*flabbergast [ˈflæbəˌgæstɪŋ] (v.)
to shock someone, usually by telling that person something they were not expecting使大吃一惊；使目瞪口呆
He was flabbergasted when we told him how cheap it was.
我们告诉他这东西有多便宜时，他惊得目瞪口呆。
他称，诺奖委员会目前还没有联系他，还不知道获奖消息是否真实。
He admitted he hadn't been contacted by the Nobel committee and wasn't sure whether it was a hoax*.
*hoax：a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick恶作剧，骗局
The bomb threat turned out to be a hoax.
那次炸弹恐吓结果发现是场恶作剧。
若真的获奖，“那将是荣幸，这意味着我走在之前伟大的作家身后，对我来说是巨大的肯定”。
He said: "It's a magnificent honour, mainly because it means that I'm in the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived, so that's a terrific commendation."
Biobibliographical Notes
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Kazuo Ishiguro was born on November 8, 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan. The family moved to the United Kingdom when he was five years old; he returned to visit his country of birth only as an adult.
石黑一雄1954年11月出生于日本长崎，5岁时随家人移居英国，成年后才有机会重回日本。
In the late 1970s, Ishiguro graduated in English and Philosophy at the University of Kent, and then went on to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
他曾在英国肯特大学学习英语和哲学，后来到东安格利亚大学学习创作。
Kazuo Ishiguro has been a full-time author ever since his first book, A Pale View of Hills (1982). Both his first novel and the subsequent one, An Artist of the Floating World(浮世画家) (1986) take place in Nagasaki a few years after the Second World War. The themes Ishiguro is most associated with are already present here: memory, time, and self-delusion. This is particularly notable in his most renowned novel, The Remains of the Day (1989), which was turned into film with Anthony Hopkins acting as the duty-obsessed butler Stevens.
石黑一雄1982年发表首部作品《远山淡影》，此后成为一名全职作家。其最著名的作品是发表于1989年的长篇小说《长日留痕》，小说以第二次世界大战后的英国为现实背景，以两次世界大战之间的英国为叙事背景，展现了主人公对职业历程的回顾和人生价值的思考。石黑一雄凭借《长日留痕》获得了1989年度的英国布克文学奖。这部作品后来还被拍成同名电影。
In his latest novel, The Buried Giant (2015), an elderly couple go on a road trip through an archaic English landscape, hoping to reunite with their adult son, whom they have not seen for years. This novel explores, in a moving manner, how memory relates to oblivion, history to the present, and fantasy to reality.
石黑一雄最新一部小说《被掩埋的巨人》(2015年出版)以一种流动的笔法探讨记忆与遗忘、历史与现实，以及幻想与现实的关系。
Apart from his eight books, Ishiguro has also written scripts for film and television.
除小说之外，石黑一雄还从事影视剧本的写作。
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