Heretics：翻向外篇

為了要讓人生有意義...

(People should start wondering about the meaning of life in a pandemic. What is, after all, the meaning of death threats? If not to remind the mortal beings their mortality?  )

I try to go back to the beginning, to return to the basics, and ask myself: what shall I do to make life probably a little bit more meaningful?

As a christian, since Christ has died for us, we shall live for him. 

As simple as this sounds, it is not a reality that is "given" to us, but a reality that we have to struggle, to strive to live up to. 

Apart from the daily struggles of getting closer to God, knowing His will, and living a Godly life; out of stupidity, perhaps, I always think I should get my hands dirty by doing something (well, it's probably a workaholic syndrome). If the Lord wills, I shall start with what I'm probably capable of.

One of them is to finish what I've already started, which is the translation of G. K. Chesterton's Heretics. 

(By translating, I actually meant I'm reading and sharing my interpretations....)

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G. K. Chesterton的Heretics (中文翻譯之前的版本翻為 異教徒)，大約從去年此時，我便開始翻譯這一本書，至今完成不到十分之一。翻譯的契機是教會牧者的鼓勵，因為他強烈想要讀這本書，一直很想看到中文版本。

雖然已有一本中文翻譯本，但由於是簡體字版，在繁體華語社會的流通性不高（這很明顯不是唯一原因...說真的，大家現在都不看書了...）。

開始翻譯之前，其實我有瞄了一眼簡體版的譯本，大略翻過的感想是，翻譯品質不差，但好像也不是很好懂。而真正開始翻譯就完全明白為何不淺顯易懂，因為Chesterton的英文實在太好了.....好難翻呀！

G. K. Chesterton（何須多做介紹，想知道更多資訊的讀者請上網搜尋...），這位距今大約一百年的天才、快筆、平信徒、神學思想家，我與他的時代距離，恐怕無法完全解釋我閱讀他的英文時的窒礙難行，讀都有障礙，翻就是每隔幾句便入坑了。

而自從上次入坑，我已有多個月未曾開啟那份檔案，繼續奮鬥了...

此翻譯從來也沒有想要出書或是獲得稿費，從開始便已下定決心，將這過程作為一個閱讀的方式。

之後翻譯會以中英對照的方式貼在這裡，歡迎有人走過路過，若有更好的翻法，不吝分享。