[花邊] 我想讓你知道關於Allen Iverson的事-1

原文出處：https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/life-and-times-of-allen-iverson 近來沒有球賽可以看，無聊翻到這篇AI談論自己的文章， 看完有許多感觸，原來「平凡」對於他來說多麼珍貴， 趁上班空檔翻譯分享給大家， 不過由於原文頗長且個人不太擅長翻譯， 所以會分篇翻譯出來給大家看， 若違反版規請站內告知我，謝謝。 ------ 「我想讓你知道關於Allen Iverson的事 by Allen Iverson」 ------ Larry Hughes likes to tell this story. The story goes, it's early in the season. Larry’s a rookie. We’re in the players’ parking lot,ust one of those days after practice — making moves, you know, talking this that and the third. And then as we’re talking……. we walk up on my Bentley. 賴瑞休斯(與AI在七六人時期的隊友)很愛說這個故事。 這故事是這樣的，在季初發生的，當時賴瑞還是一個剛進聯盟的菜鳥。 在某個日常練習後的日子，我們在走向球員停車場的路上邊走邊聊些五四三... 最後走到我的賓利旁邊。 A Bentley, it’s nothing to me. You know what I’m saying? It’s just a car. But it’s funny, because it’s not like that for everyone. If you’re AI……. it’s a Bentley. If you’re not? It’s a BENTLEY. 一台賓利，對我來說不算什麼。 你知道我在說什麼嗎？就是一台車罷了。 不過有趣的事來了，因為對其他人來說，可不是這麼一回事。 如果你是AI......那就只是一台賓利， 但...如果你不是呢？那可是一台「賓利」啊啊啊啊啊！！！！！ So anyway for Larry, it’s like, O.K. — we’re walking up to a BENTLEY. And he’s got this look. 所以對賴瑞來說，噢...好吧！——我們走向一台「賓利」 然後他一副傻屌樣(譯者註:我自己揣摩的...應該就是那種很驚訝的表情吧) I’m saying, Larry is standing there, and he’s in this……daze. He’s in a Bentley Daze. Just looking at it…. and then looking at me…. and then he’s just, like, “Yo….. AI. I have to get me one of these. ”I don’t even hesitate. "Bro, you can have mine.” 賴瑞就是站在那裡，一臉傻眼......看到賓利傻眼的臉。 他看看車，然後再看看我，然後碎念說：「yo...AI ，我一定要買一台給自己」 我聽到後沒太多遲疑，跟他說：「小兄弟，這台送你吧」 I’ve never seen anyone so grateful. But then here’s the funny part. Well actually, check that, there’s two funny parts. First one: it’s gotta be Larry thinking that’s my only Bentley I own. Haha.Nah. I’d say I had, hmm, let’s put it at…… a couple Bentleys at that time? Come on —’m nice, but I’m not THAT nice. 我從來沒看過一個人如此感激 不過有趣的部分來了，具體來說可以分成兩個部分。 第一：我猜賴瑞以為那是我僅有的一台賓利， 哈～才不是咧，恩～我那時應該有...好幾台賓利吧？反正不只一台啦！ 拜託！我很大方，但也沒那麼「大方」啦！ Second funny part — man, so imagine this. Larry takes my keys, throws his bag in the back seat, and he’out. And you have to remember: Larry’s never had a ride like that before. So he’s got the car going, he’s feeling himself, and now he’s probably thinking,Alright, I’m taking the long way home today. You’re driving that BENTLEY for the first time, you know what I’m saying — and you’re not really trying to be on some HIGHWAY. You’re trying to be SEEN. 第二個有趣的部分是———我們想像一下，賴瑞拿了鑰匙，把他的包包丟進後座， 然後就開走了。你要記得，他從來沒有開過賓利在路上亂跑，所以他現在應該爽翻天， 可能在想：我今天一定要繞遠路回家開個夠。你可是人生第一次開「賓利」， 你應該知道我在說什麼——— 其實你不是真的要開上高速公路，你只是想被看到、想炫耀。 Anyway, the next morning at practice, I spot Larry, and I’m like, “Lil Bro — how was your ride?” But he just looks at me like he’s seen a ghost. “Man you cold blooded.” I’m like, “What you talking about?” And Larry goes, “O.K. — I see how it is. This some rookie hazing.” The boy looks like he hasn’t slept a wink. “What you talking about,rookie hazing?” “NO GAS IN THE TANK.” 總之，隔天早上練球，我看到賴瑞問候他：「小兄弟... 開的爽嗎？」 然後他看到我像看到鬼一樣，「哥...你真冷血」 「哩喜咧工三小？」 「好吧...我懂怎麼一回事，這就是一種菜鳥惡整吧」， 這孩子看起來整夜沒睡 「哩喜咧工三小啦？菜鳥惡整？」 「啃 車子沒油啦！！！！！」 And this is what Larry believes, to this day: That I’d given him my carike I knewt had no gas left in the tank — and thenike I knewe wouldn’t be able to read a Bentley’s gas meter. Turns out that Larry ran out of gas DEAD DEEP into West Philly. Just him and that Bentley……. parked out in West Philly at night. And my guy spent almost half the night out there before he got himself saved. 直到今天賴瑞還是認為，我把車給他的時候我知道車子快沒油了， 不過我猜應該是他看不懂賓利的油表。 結果他在費城西部拋錨了，整晚只有可憐的他跟那台拋錨的賓利， 在那等了大半個夜晚才得救。 And it’s funny on top of that because Larry, man, we’re family —ut now he has to go and tell this story toveryone. (He’s still telling it to this day!) And it takes on a life of its own, you know what I mean? It’s like one of those urban legends or something, where it becomes all open-ended. So half the people, they hear that story, and they’ll think to themselves, Oh, wow, AI orchestrated this whole thing — he’s a savage. And then another half the people, they hear that same story, and it’s like,Oh, wow, AI gave this rookie a Bentley — he’s a saint. 哎...最搞笑的是，即便我們現在像家人一般，他到現在還是到處講這件事。 不過這種事要看人，每個人都會有自己的解讀，變成像某種都市傳說一樣。 一半的人聽到這故事會認為：「哇哩個去...AI根本自導自演嘛 太殘忍了啦...」， 另一半人會認為：「哇哩個去...AI送菜鳥一台賓利欸...他是聖人」 I don’t know why, but I’ve been thinking about that story lately. Or not even thattory, but maybe more what it represents. How it’s like — pretty much my whole life, I’ve never been just aerson. I’ve never really been just myself. Some people, they love me. Other people, they hate me. But it’s like they all have their ways of projecting this baggage on me that’s not even always what’s real. It’s like — I’m larger than life. I’m a cultural icon. I’m a basketball myth. And my haters, they use that to pin all this stuff on me that has nothing even to do with me. And my fans, it’s all love….. but it’s almost like they’re guilty too sometimes!! Making me out to be a hero when that might not have been the whole story either. 不知道為什麼，我最近很常想起這個故事，或著是說這不只是一個故事， 而是他代表的意義，更像是我一生的寫照。 我從未被當作是一個「人」、一個「平凡的人」，我沒辦法單純只做我自己。 一些人愛我，另一些人恨我，但就像這件事一樣，他們總是投射自己的想法在我身上， 即使這並不是真實的我。 就像是說「我」這個名字帶來的意義比我的人生還重要， 我是一個文化象徵、籃球神話。 恨我的人，把所有不論有關、無關於我的事情釘在我身上。 愛我的人給我滿滿的愛，但有時他們反而因此受罪。 把我當成英雄一般看待，有時候會因次看不清楚故事的全貌。 But if there’s one thing that I’ve never really got to be in this life, it’s just………. regular. It’s just some normal person. It’s just human. Am I a good guy? Yeah, man, I think so —ask about me. Have I made mistakes? Man, who hasn’t? Of course I have. They’ll have to invent a whole new number to find out how many mistakes I’ve made. But it’s the balancing of those ideas, it’s somewhere in between my mistakes and my best self — that’s the real me. That’s the real AI. 如果有一件事是我這輩子還沒得到的，那就是「平凡」， 當個普通人、就只是當一個凡人。 我是一個好人嗎？當然，我是這麼認為的。 若你問我從做錯事過嗎？當然，誰沒做錯事過呢？我當然有！ 他們可能要發明一個新的數字才能數清我做錯的事情。 在我做錯的部分和最好的我之間尋找一個平衡點， 沒錯，那才是真實的我、真實的AI。 And I don’t know if y’all have ever really known that dude. 你各位啊… 我不知道你們是不是真的認識我剛所說的這個人。 Which is mainly what I had wanted to accomplish, I think, when I got this opportunity to do my thing and write an article for The Players’ Tribune. I’m not out here trying to write abouty Lue, you know what I’m saying?’m not out here trying to write about practice. I’m tired of these same old topics. Nah, man — to be honest?? I just want to write this as a regular person. It’s like….. “Here are some things about Allen Iverson that I want you to know, by Allen Iverson.” Let’s do that. 當我有機會在The Players’ Tribune上寫文章，我想這就是我想做的事情。 我並不想寫一些關於Ty Lue的事，你懂嗎？ 我也不想寫一些關於「practice」的事，我對這些舊聞很厭煩了。 老實說，我只想寫一些關於這個平凡人的事， 「我想讓你知道關於Allen Iverson的事 by Allen Iverson」 讓我們開始吧！ ------ 未完待續...... -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 59.120.186.85 (臺灣) ※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/NBA/M.1585629435.A.0EB.html