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这是一篇张抗抗的文章，原文挺深的，翻译起来，虽然中规中矩，却总是不能翻译出原文的味道来，觉得很遗憾~望园地各大虾看看，也请各位多多提出意见~以便我修改错误和完善译文~~谢谢大家~！！可贵的“他人意识” Precious “Other-Oriented Value”
上世纪中叶的中国式“集体主义”，自从在世纪末之前，逐渐分解以及还原为对个人和个体的尊重，初步建立起个人的权益保障系统之后，“我们”——这个在计划经济时代使用频率极高的词，已被更为普遍的\"我\"所代替。我喜欢说“我”，也因此欣赏其他的那些“我”。如果没有“我”的确立，没有无数“我”的合作，“我们”必定是空洞、脆弱、空心化以至于不堪一击的。
From the end of last century, the collectivism① of China, established in the middle of 20th century, has gradually broken down and then turned toward individualism. Since the preliminary set-up of the system to guarantee individual’s rights and interests, we ----the word frequently used during the era of planned economy②----has been replaced by the more popular word I. I like the word I so much that I accordingly appreciate other I (namely, other individuals) as well, because we must be empty, hollow, fragile and unable to withstand a single blow without the involvement and corporation of countless I.
然而，在“我”和“我们”之间，是以“他人”作为连接点的。“我”因“他人”而成为“我”；“我们”因“他人”而成为“我们”。当“我们”过度地强化、放大“我”，而舍弃“他人”的时候，“我”便处于四面受敌的孤立无援之中。在我们的传统习性中，“他人”这一概念，更多的情况下，只是一种被供奉的虚设牌位。我们的成语中曾有“以邻为睿”一词，可以佐证；有“只扫自家门前雪，哪管他人瓦上霜”的谚语，可以证言。即便在集体主义理想教育最为鼎盛之时，“他人”不仅未能成为国人的自觉意识，“他人”反而意味着告密、背叛、异己、危险、离间等等。这种体制下的集体主义文化，终于导致了“他人即地狱”的严酷后果。闻“他人”而心颤，近“他人”而丧胆。也许正是由于对“他人”的恐惧，“文革”之后，“我们”迅速土崩瓦解，“我”自仰天长啸——而“他人”却不得不退出公众的视线，淡化为一个可有可无的虚词，成为公民道德的模糊地带。
Others, however, serves as the connecting-point between we and I and the basis of the existence of the two words as well. If I is over emphasized and magnified while others are abandoned, I will find itself in an isolated position surrounded by enemies. Traditionally, the concept of others, in most cases, is as meaningless as the memorial tablet used in ancestral worship, which can be testified to by the Chinese idiom “to use one’s neighbor’s field as a drain”③ and the proverb “to sweep the snow out of one’s own door and take no care of the frost on others’ roof”④. Even in the bloom of the ideal education of collectivism, others, instead of becoming part of the self-consciousness of Chinese people, are associated with informers, betrayers, dissidents, dangerous people, and those who set one party against another. Under such a system, collectivism finally brings about the serious consequence that all regard others as horrible as hell. Thus, people tremble with fear on hearing or seeing others. Perhaps it is just because of the fear of others that we quickly collapsed after the Cultural Revolution. Since then, I alone is left on the historical stage while others have to disappear from public attention. Later, it further degenerates into an insignificant function word without any concrete meaning. Then, public morality becomes the blind spot in the area of others.
五十年代以来，人口的高速增长，造成生存空间的高密度化；人口压力长期形成经济发展与卫生保健的沉重负担；部分农村以及偏远地区的计划生育仍然阻力重重。“我”生我的娃，关你什么样事？在人口问题上，可有“他人”的意识么？餐馆大肆收购、杀戮、烹煮野生动物为牟取暴利；食客面不改色食用野生动物以饱“口福”或炫耀财富；官吏不惜以野生珍稀动物作为最高规格的宴席；“贿赂”上级领导为自己铺设升官晋级的阶梯——在这个破坏自然生态的“人链”中，可有“他人”的位置么？长期以来，城市与乡村的公共卫生系统始终没有得到真正重视：办公室的脏乱差、公共场所的日常消毒防护、公共厕所的洗手设备、污水处理、生活垃圾等等。但公共卫生的管理者与被管理者的心态，却有着惊人的共识：这又不是我一个人的事情。在这些被忽略的公共卫生死角中，可有“他人”的概念？日积累月的民众生活卫生习惯中，沉淀下多少恶习陋性——随地吐痰、随地大小便、随地抛弃果皮塑料袋、就餐分餐制难以推行、酒后驾车、公共场所吸烟等等……“我们”的传统文化是“不患寡，患不均”——在这利益与灾祸均享均沾、“同甘共苦”的行为惯性中，可有愿为“他人”避免灾祸而自控自律的一份责任感？
Ever since the 1950s, limited living space has become more and more densely populated by rapid population growth. The population pressure becomes the long-term heavy burden of economic development and hygienic care. Resistance of the popularization of birth control⑤ is still strong in some rural and remote areas. They may refute, “It’s none of your business when I give birth to more than one child.” Nevertheless, have they ever considered the well-being of others in terms of the population problem? What’s worse, restaurants indulge in purchasing, slaughtering and cooking wild animals to seek exorbitant profits. Eaters shamelessly feast upon wild animals to satisfy their taste buds or to show off their wealth. Government officials list the rare wild animals on the menu for banquets of the highest standard, or bribe highranking authorities in order to climb up a higher official ladder. Have they ever considered the well-being of others as they destroy the ecology in such a human-oriented world? For years, the sanitation system in urban and rural areas has never been given proper attention, including the untidy environment of offices, daily disinfection of public places, equipment for washing in public restrooms, and disposal of sewage and garbage in daily life, to name just a few. The supervisors and those supervised, however, share such an amazing attitude that they alone are not responsible for it. Have they ever thought about others when they see the neglected spots devoid of hygiene? With the pass of time, people have already developed innumerable bad habits such as drinking and driving, spitting、defecating、 urinating、smoking, littering peel and plastic bags in public places, and the habits that resist hygienic behavior of communal eating, and so on and so forth. The saying “worrying about the unequal distribution rather than the shortage of resources” well expresses our traditional culture. While sharing benefits and misfortune with others equally, have they ever had the sense of responsibility to prevent the disaster of others by self-discipline?
我们似乎一直在无意中铺设着迎接它到来的无障碍通道。然而，在公共领域里，“零距离”是有害的。距离便是“他人”，而“他人”即社会公德。因为在这个世界上，除了“你”和“我”之外，地球上更多存在的是陌生的“他”——“他人”，还有“它”——与人类共存的动物朋友们。正是为了“我”的安全与自由，请不要再“唯我独尊”，而多些对“他人”的关爱吧。“我”的自由是他人自由的终结。而他人的自由，最终才能成全“我”的自由。
We seem to have been unwittingly paving a barrier-free way to greet the “other-oriented value”. In public area, however, “zero distance” is harmful. Distance is representative of others which means morality. In addition to individuals like you and me, there’re more strange he (others) and it (animals which co-exist with human beings) in the world. For the safety and freedom of I, pleases care more about others but not myself. The fulfillment of my freedom puts an end to the freedom of others. Only I can be free under the condition that others enjoy their freedom.
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