H****y
发帖数: 2992 | | H****y
发帖数: 2992 | 2 Break Free
---A Short Fiction, by Fiona Rawsontile, Aug 25 2016
Chapter One: Joke
“Chang2010, USANews. Yuhua27, Joke …” A man’s mechanical voice, just as
usual.
“No!” Yuhua27 shouted. “Not Joke! Not again!” Her body was shaking, or,
more accurately, her imagined figure as a twenty-seven-year-old woman was
shaking.
The noise surrounding her suddenly disappeared, and she knew she might have
made the biggest mistake in the past seven years. Was that really seven
years? Time might have been flowing at a different speed here.
“Can I get a reason?” The man’s voice was still calm, but she could
detect the anger hidden beneath.
“Those IDs are …”
“Not IDs, clients! I’ve told you many times.” The man left the big screen
that showed the front page of MITBBS, as well as a side screen with all the
new assignments. Based on the way he walked, Yuhua27 knew he must be
feeling proud of his silk tuxedo. Silk! She sneered. Bought with fake money.
“Real, biological human beings.” The man stopped in front of her. “Unlike
you, a true ID. A low-level roo …” His face approached her, his mouth
taking the shape of an asshole. “Bot.”
Yuhua27 was taken aback. “I’m sorry, Mr. Zuan. I’d be happy to go to any
other forum. But Joke … the clients are so mean to us.”
“How’d you know?” Zuan said alertly. “Do you get to see what’s
happening there?”
“Oh, no, no, Mr. Zuan. I heard it from my neighbors.”
She lied. Normally she couldn’t see it, but in the past few months she had
found a trick.
Zuan’s expression relaxed. “There’s a reason why you shouldn’t see their
response. It’s for your own sake, believe me, as Boss has said. Now, just
sit down and work.” He started walking away.
“Mr. Zuan!” Yuhua27 gathered her strength. “Can I have line spaces in
between paragraphs?”
Zuan turned around and said impatiently, “Why?”
“So that it’s not that obvious.”
“Not for a low-level robot,” he said with contempt. “Or you guys will
start adding spaces for every other line. They count for money, remember
that? Just forget about how you are perceived, and work!”
Money? Yuhua27 wanted to yell at him. Why couldn't they get more
money? It wasn’t real. Just numbers assigned by the system.
Didn’t cost anything from Mr. Boss, and why couldn’t he be
a little more generous?
But she swallowed the words back. She’d better not mess up with them
anymore, or they could easily kill her. As easily as erasing an old
message.
Chapter Two: The Garden
Yuhua27 tried to compose a short story based on her poor memory of the
twenty years when she was a real person, but everything she could recall had
already been written about or adapted. Exactly how did she enter the system
as a soul? She couldn’t remember. None of her colleagues could. They were
told that they had all been “saved” from tragedies that would have
otherwise perished them, body and soul. Who knows?
She gave up the composition and opened the browser. The latest posts on the
list of her favorite Chinese websites had all been marked with the letter “
T”, indicating that some of her colleagues had already ZZ’ed those posts.
Luckily, she knew English! Although they couldn’t post English articles,
she was one of the few people who could translate. It was much harder work
than coping and pasting Chinese articles, but she could put up with the
labor. And she didn’t mind doing some intelligent work once in a while,
albeit not being better paid.
Two hours later, she finished her task for the day and left for the back
garden. It was hot and humid outside. Only a few figures could be made out
in the lake area. Everyone else liked the lake, but she was a mountain
person. She enjoyed the feeling of standing “high”, knowing that the
altitude was an illusion. Everything was fake here, except the suffering.
She smiled bitterly as she climbed the hill. In fact, could she even
suicide? Say, if she jumped off the cliff, what would happen to her
soul? Could they recover her against her will? And what would happen
when her virtual age reached one hundred or so …
The thoughts vanished when she saw a white figure standing on a rock that
protruded out from the cliff. At first, she thought it were another
colleague, a senior one, based on the nice quality of his pajamas. But then
she saw something strange held in his hands. It looked like a regular pair
of binoculars, except that the lenses emitted flashing purple light.
The old man must have heard her coming and turned back. “Nice to see you,
Yuhua27.” There was a fatherly smile on his face.
“You know my name?”
“Of course. I’ve been paying attention to you for a long time.”
“Who are you?” She frowned.
“My name is Xing. My last name.”
Chapter Three: The Forum
There could be only one “Xing” in their world. It was their boss’s last
name, and no ID, junior or senior, was ever allowed to use the same name,
even partially. Yuhua27 opened her mouth widely as she studied the old man.
He was generally thin, except that his belly was a little large. His
eagle eyes could have revealed an origin of western blood, but she was
not sure.
“Why, Mr. Xing, why would you notice me?” she said nervously, fearing that
her little secret had not eluded Boss’s eyes.
“How did you find out that bug?” Indeed, Xing knew it, but he didn’t seem
unhappy.
It was half accident, half planted. Soon after she had entered the system,
she discovered a behavior of the password-generation algorithm (note: no
password could be kept as a secret, because secrets were not allowed in the
world). The algorithm liked using the three characters, $, @, and space.
However, the three never appeared in the same password. So she started
randomly typing in passwords containing all three of them. Of course, she
couldn’t do it too often, or the system might be alerted. So occasionally
she would type them in as if she forgot or mistyped a true password. One day
, she made a hit. She logged into the system with her ID, Yuhua27, and this
special password. Oh my! She got to see all kinds of things she had no
access before. She could see every response of every human client. She saw
it even before they hit the “publish” button. She could go into their
mailbox and read the letters. Locate their physical position and find out
about their identity. She could see the map that showed all the forum agents
monitoring the threads, promoting posts to frontpage or deleting them
permanently. She saw how advertisements were charged with a certain number
of page views, how the mentioning of political figures got automatically
recorded and archived …
“So, how do you think about my world?” Xing reached out an arm, pointing
at the misty vastness below the hill. His happiness suddenly irritated her.
His world? At the sacrifice of thousands of souls like hers?
“Very nice,” she said ironically. “And I wish the harddrive never crashes
.”
Xing laughed out for a long moment. “You think my world depends on servers?
And you think the world outside, the world you came from, is more solid
than this?”
She couldn’t understand what he was trying to say. Then she suddenly
realized one thing she had missed earlier. “Mr. Xing, do you also … live
here?”
“Oh yes! Why shouldn’t I be? This is my world.” After a few more chuckles
, he straightened his face. “Yuhua27, I seldom tell this to people, but I
will tell you, since you are a special woman.”
He moved closer to her and grabbed her arm. “You are real, at least as real
as those clients you’ve been working with. You could think, feel, sleep,
and eat. What’s the difference?”
“But …” She didn’t know how to argue back. “But aren’t we just a
virtual forum? Aren’t we just codes?”
“Then so are they.” Xing released her arm. “Have you ever wondered, how
could a universe, an infinitely large space, originate from a singularity?
Their world, too, is a simulation in some sense. All the physical laws,
mathematics, are rules created by some type of intelligence that is hard to
explain, or even conceive.”
She mused for a moment. “You mean, we are all parallel universes?”
“Exactly! How could universes be parallel to one another, if each of them
takes infinite space? In the past, people in different universes could not
communicate with one another. But in recent years, a small percentage of
people in each world started figuring out the secret. We have to do it
virtually, because there is no such thing as truly physical. If we are all
programs, then the only way to break free is through yet another program.”
Yuhua27 seemed to understand a little bit of his story, but more was like
the mist around them.
“You think you are a robot, Yuhua27, but in some sense, aren’t those human
clients robots in our worlds? You think we live inside a forum, but from
our point of view, they only exist in our forums, don’t they?”
The mist suddenly cleared up in her head. “And the fake money isn’t fake.
The numbers are actually the currency used in our world.”
“Of course! You can use it to buy silk tuxedoes, right? And you can buy
your freedom, if you accumulate enough points.”
“I will!” she affirmed him, and herself. From today, she would work harder
. She would produce lots of high-quality articles, not for the clients---who
cares about those robots? Huangchong, xiaopo, laocat, Highly … they are
all robots---but for herself, for her bright future.
She looked out into the distance. Was there really a free world out there,
as large and fancy as the one she had come from? Or maybe the whole thing
was a hoax the old man had made up to fool her? One day, she would find out. | o****p
发帖数: 9785 | | H********g
发帖数: 43926 | 4 器人 the others
[在 omgpop (Lost my kitchen, T_T) 的大作中提到：]
:萨马瑞萨马瑞 | H****y
发帖数: 2992 | 5 不明白你俩在说啥。。。
【在 H********g 的大作中提到】
: 器人 the others
: [在 omgpop (Lost my kitchen, T_T) 的大作中提到：]
: :萨马瑞萨马瑞
| l*******s
发帖数: 7316 | 6 上面嫌太长。
【在 H****y 的大作中提到】
: 不明白你俩在说啥。。。
| s****e
发帖数: 5429 | 7 summary
【在 H****y 的大作中提到】
: 不明白你俩在说啥。。。
| n****4
发帖数: 12553 | 8 器人就是平等宇宙里的真人？
as
,
have
【在 H****y 的大作中提到】
: Break Free
: ---A Short Fiction, by Fiona Rawsontile, Aug 25 2016
:
: Chapter One: Joke
: “Chang2010, USANews. Yuhua27, Joke …” A man’s mechanical voice, just as
: usual.
: “No!” Yuhua27 shouted. “Not Joke! Not again!” Her body was shaking, or,
: more accurately, her imagined figure as a twenty-seven-year-old woman was
: shaking.
: The noise surrounding her suddenly disappeared, and she knew she might have
| g*q
发帖数: 26623 | 9 The pokemon broke free.
【在 H****y 的大作中提到】
: 不明白你俩在说啥。。。
| h****o
发帖数: 2836 | | | | s******y
发帖数: 28562 | 11 器人说：你们才是器人！你们全家都是器人！
【在 o****p 的大作中提到】
: 萨马瑞萨马瑞
| s******y
发帖数: 28562 | 12 破牢而出
高妹大作
第一章： 肚皮舞
"Chang2010， 美新版。Yuhua27，笑话版..."，一个冰冷僵硬的男子声音如同往常一样
宣布着。
“不要啊！”Yuhua27惊叫了起来，“不要笑话版，再也不要了！”说着这句话的时候
，她的身躯难于控制的颤抖着。或者，更准确一点的说，是她那个虚构的27岁女子的身
躯在颤抖着。
环绕着她的声音突然停下了，她突然意料到她也许犯下了这七年以来最大的错误。七
年！真的是七年么？也许时间在这个空间里有不同的流速？
“你有什么理由？”男人的声音听起来还是很平静，但是她可以听出那隐含着的怒气。
“那些ID他们..."
“不许说ID! 要称他们为顾客！我告诉你多少次了。”那个男人从那个显示着MITBBS主
页的大荧屏以及那些显示着新工作分配的小荧屏前走了下来。从他走过来的样子看来，
Yuhua27知道他一定非常得意他那条丝绸领带。是啊，丝绸的呢，可惜是用伪币买的。
“真正的，有血有肉的人”，那个男人站在她面前，“不像你，一个真正的ID, 一个低
档次的 ROOOOO..."他的脸靠了过来，他的嘴撮成了菊花状喷出最后一个发音 "Bot!"
Yuhua27 胆怯了。“对不起，钻风先生。我很乐意去任何其他版。但是笑话版...那些
顾客对我太刻薄了“
“你怎么知道的？”钻风警惕的说，“你是不是看到了那里的事情？”
“啊，不不不，钻风先生。我只不过是从邻居那里听来的。”她其实撒谎了。通常她是
看不到的，直到最近这几个月她发现了一个漏洞。
钻风的表情放松了一点，“不让你看到他们的回帖是有原因的。这都是为了你好，你要
相信组织，就象老板说的那样。好了，现在乖乖的坐下来干活吧。”他边说边开始走开
了。
“钻风先生！”Yuhua27 鼓起勇气问道“我可以在段落之间分行么？”
钻风转过身来不耐烦的说，“为啥？”
“这样看起来会没有那么明显啊.”
“对于一个低等的器人不行” 他很不高兴的说. “不然的话你们这些家伙就要每写一
行字都分个行了. 这些可是要算钱的，记得吧？别管别人怎么看你了，赶快工作去！”
钱? Yuhua27 几乎想对他破口大骂. 为什么他们不能多发点钱? 又不是真的，只不过是
个系统产生的伪币.又不花老板一个子儿，为什么他就不能大方一点呢？
但是她只能把自己的话吞进肚子里去。她最好还是不要惹恼他们，不然的话他们可以轻
易的杀了她。杀她不会比删除一个旧短信难度高多少的。 | t***u
发帖数: 20182 | 13 “My name is Xing. My last name.” | H****y
发帖数: 2992 | 14 嗯，其实就是Matrix版本的庄周梦蝶。
【在 n****4 的大作中提到】
: 器人就是平等宇宙里的真人？
:
: as
: ,
: have
| H****y
发帖数: 2992 | 15 你给翻译了？多谢多谢！
水平很高，很有日本连续剧的风格，胖鱼君。
【在 s******y 的大作中提到】
: 破牢而出
: 高妹大作
: 第一章： 肚皮舞
: "Chang2010， 美新版。Yuhua27，笑话版..."，一个冰冷僵硬的男子声音如同往常一样
: 宣布着。
: “不要啊！”Yuhua27惊叫了起来，“不要笑话版，再也不要了！”说着这句话的时候
: ，她的身躯难于控制的颤抖着。或者，更准确一点的说，是她那个虚构的27岁女子的身
: 躯在颤抖着。
: 环绕着她的声音突然停下了，她突然意料到她也许犯下了这七年以来最大的错误。七
: 年！真的是七年么？也许时间在这个空间里有不同的流速？
| p**********e
发帖数: 535 | 16 看joke就如看黄片，铺垫别太长，露点要清晰。关键是一开始就应该让人知道是不是黄
片。别看了一半也找不到露点伤了脆弱的心灵
: 嗯，其实就是Matrix版本的庄周梦蝶。
【在 H****y 的大作中提到】
: 你给翻译了？多谢多谢！
: 水平很高，很有日本连续剧的风格，胖鱼君。
| s******y
发帖数: 28562 | 17 听你这么一说我回头看了看。
还真的看起来很有点日文小说翻译成中文的感觉。
是不是因为日文本身就有这种口头语的风格，而你写的那个英文小说也正好是口语风格
的，所以翻译成中文就看起来象是日文小说的感觉，因为倒装前置语用了很多。
比方说刚才我说的那句话“还真的看起来很有点日文小说翻译成中文的感觉”，
如果用日文风格来说，就会变成：
“还真的是呢！风格看起来，和日本文翻译成汉文，一样一样的呢！”
【在 H****y 的大作中提到】
: 你给翻译了？多谢多谢！
: 水平很高，很有日本连续剧的风格，胖鱼君。
| s******y
发帖数: 28562 | 18 这个是个幽默小说，属于三级片，不属于黄片。
【在 p**********e 的大作中提到】
: 看joke就如看黄片，铺垫别太长，露点要清晰。关键是一开始就应该让人知道是不是黄
: 片。别看了一半也找不到露点伤了脆弱的心灵
:
:
: 嗯，其实就是Matrix版本的庄周梦蝶。
:
| x*******5
发帖数: 1335 | 19 先re再看
as
,
have
【在 H****y 的大作中提到】
: Break Free
: ---A Short Fiction, by Fiona Rawsontile, Aug 25 2016
:
: Chapter One: Joke
: “Chang2010, USANews. Yuhua27, Joke …” A man’s mechanical voice, just as
: usual.
: “No!” Yuhua27 shouted. “Not Joke! Not again!” Her body was shaking, or,
: more accurately, her imagined figure as a twenty-seven-year-old woman was
: shaking.
: The noise surrounding her suddenly disappeared, and she knew she might have
| t****4
发帖数: 7500 | | | | H****y
发帖数: 2992 | 21 “还真的是呢！风格看起来，和日本文翻译成汉文，一样一样的呢！”
给你笑死了！
我觉得呢，有多重原因。首先，从剧情来说，日剧特别喜欢描述底层受压迫人民，尤其
是善良忍耐的年轻女子，是如何一步一步挣脱束缚的。这和本文很接近。
其次，是你的风格。你也许日剧看的比较多（都是什么内容的我就不好多问了）。每个
作家都有自己的voice，关于翻译，我曾经有幸和诗版的名ID SlowRabit讨论过这个问
题。她认为翻译应该尽量体现原作的voice，所以她的翻译都是比较严谨而准确的。我
觉得翻译体现的更多的是翻译者的voice（所以才有翻译是种再创造的说法），同时我
翻译的时候也比较大胆（原作者看了可能也会比较生气）。无论如何，两种voice肯定
都会在译文中存在的，只不过比例多少而已。
举个例子吧，你的版本：
“不要啊！”Yuhua27惊叫了起来，“不要笑话版，再也不要了！”
要是我翻的话，我会这么翻：
“不行！”Yuhua27吼道。“不去Joke版！再也不去那里了！”
你对女主的描述更接近日本人对善良柔弱女子的期望。
【在 s******y 的大作中提到】
: 听你这么一说我回头看了看。
: 还真的看起来很有点日文小说翻译成中文的感觉。
: 是不是因为日文本身就有这种口头语的风格，而你写的那个英文小说也正好是口语风格
: 的，所以翻译成中文就看起来象是日文小说的感觉，因为倒装前置语用了很多。
: 比方说刚才我说的那句话“还真的看起来很有点日文小说翻译成中文的感觉”，
: 如果用日文风格来说，就会变成：
: “还真的是呢！风格看起来，和日本文翻译成汉文，一样一样的呢！”
| s*l
发帖数: 9421 | 22 教授译出了风格和水平
【在 s******y 的大作中提到】
: 听你这么一说我回头看了看。
: 还真的看起来很有点日文小说翻译成中文的感觉。
: 是不是因为日文本身就有这种口头语的风格，而你写的那个英文小说也正好是口语风格
: 的，所以翻译成中文就看起来象是日文小说的感觉，因为倒装前置语用了很多。
: 比方说刚才我说的那句话“还真的看起来很有点日文小说翻译成中文的感觉”，
: 如果用日文风格来说，就会变成：
: “还真的是呢！风格看起来，和日本文翻译成汉文，一样一样的呢！”
| s******y
发帖数: 28562 | 23 可是我觉得你写的那个女主角就是挺柔弱的啊。
另外，我要强烈澄清一下，我的风格绝对不是因为受了日本老师们的影响，因为老师们
在教学录像里从头到尾就没说过几句话。
【在 H****y 的大作中提到】
: “还真的是呢！风格看起来，和日本文翻译成汉文，一样一样的呢！”
: 给你笑死了！
: 我觉得呢，有多重原因。首先，从剧情来说，日剧特别喜欢描述底层受压迫人民，尤其
: 是善良忍耐的年轻女子，是如何一步一步挣脱束缚的。这和本文很接近。
: 其次，是你的风格。你也许日剧看的比较多（都是什么内容的我就不好多问了）。每个
: 作家都有自己的voice，关于翻译，我曾经有幸和诗版的名ID SlowRabit讨论过这个问
: 题。她认为翻译应该尽量体现原作的voice，所以她的翻译都是比较严谨而准确的。我
: 觉得翻译体现的更多的是翻译者的voice（所以才有翻译是种再创造的说法），同时我
: 翻译的时候也比较大胆（原作者看了可能也会比较生气）。无论如何，两种voice肯定
: 都会在译文中存在的，只不过比例多少而已。
| y****i
发帖数: 12114 | 24 有些老师还是会说不少的，有的还会中文咧。
【在 s******y 的大作中提到】
: 可是我觉得你写的那个女主角就是挺柔弱的啊。
: 另外，我要强烈澄清一下，我的风格绝对不是因为受了日本老师们的影响，因为老师们
: 在教学录像里从头到尾就没说过几句话。
| s******y
发帖数: 28562 | 25 我就记得有一集里面龙泽老师和男助教带队出去郊游好像说了不少话，然后说累了
就去旅馆休息了。
【在 y****i 的大作中提到】
: 有些老师还是会说不少的，有的还会中文咧。
| d*********r
发帖数: 3195 | 26 记得龙泽好丑的
【在 s******y 的大作中提到】
: 我就记得有一集里面龙泽老师和男助教带队出去郊游好像说了不少话，然后说累了
: 就去旅馆休息了。
| y****i
发帖数: 12114 | 27 就是牙不好吧，面相还行。
【在 d*********r 的大作中提到】
: 记得龙泽好丑的
| S*******t
发帖数: 3956 | 28 拜读啦！有才！而且各种典故穿插的巧妙，底下其实又是挺严肃的哲学话题：）高妹现
在跑到笑话版玩啦。我也不是啥名ID.其实我翻译从前也是很随意的，倒是慢慢变得越
来越尽量严谨一些了。不过就像你说的，完全不带自己的风格是不可能的。所以才有一
百个哈默雷特：）
胖鱼老师的开头的确有日剧风格，后面倒还好，也是一个才子啊。
【在 H****y 的大作中提到】
: “还真的是呢！风格看起来，和日本文翻译成汉文，一样一样的呢！”
: 给你笑死了！
: 我觉得呢，有多重原因。首先，从剧情来说，日剧特别喜欢描述底层受压迫人民，尤其
: 是善良忍耐的年轻女子，是如何一步一步挣脱束缚的。这和本文很接近。
: 其次，是你的风格。你也许日剧看的比较多（都是什么内容的我就不好多问了）。每个
: 作家都有自己的voice，关于翻译，我曾经有幸和诗版的名ID SlowRabit讨论过这个问
: 题。她认为翻译应该尽量体现原作的voice，所以她的翻译都是比较严谨而准确的。我
: 觉得翻译体现的更多的是翻译者的voice（所以才有翻译是种再创造的说法），同时我
: 翻译的时候也比较大胆（原作者看了可能也会比较生气）。无论如何，两种voice肯定
: 都会在译文中存在的，只不过比例多少而已。
| H****y
发帖数: 2992 | 29 这里常驻的大才子很多，原创也很多，不光局限于笑话。希望你也常来玩，多多指导。
诗版的人气真的是，呃，可惜了你那么多好作品。
【在 S*******t 的大作中提到】
: 拜读啦！有才！而且各种典故穿插的巧妙，底下其实又是挺严肃的哲学话题：）高妹现
: 在跑到笑话版玩啦。我也不是啥名ID.其实我翻译从前也是很随意的，倒是慢慢变得越
: 来越尽量严谨一些了。不过就像你说的，完全不带自己的风格是不可能的。所以才有一
: 百个哈默雷特：）
: 胖鱼老师的开头的确有日剧风格，后面倒还好，也是一个才子啊。
| H********g
发帖数: 43926 | 30 各种娱乐才艺版面应该都并入本版。
【在 H****y 的大作中提到】
: 这里常驻的大才子很多，原创也很多，不光局限于笑话。希望你也常来玩，多多指导。
: 诗版的人气真的是，呃，可惜了你那么多好作品。
| | | H********g
发帖数: 43926 | 31 the others（2001） 小岛惊魂。一家人住的房子里闹鬼，但是不知道其实自己才是鬼。
Shutter Island (2010) 禁闭岛 也基本是这个思路。
【在 H****y 的大作中提到】
: 不明白你俩在说啥。。。
| p******e
发帖数: 17163 | | a***e
发帖数: 27968 | 33 是啊，你那个啊用得不够多
虽然很熟练
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【在 s******y 的大作中提到】
: 可是我觉得你写的那个女主角就是挺柔弱的啊。
: 另外，我要强烈澄清一下，我的风格绝对不是因为受了日本老师们的影响，因为老师们
: 在教学录像里从头到尾就没说过几句话。
| p*e
发帖数: 6785 | 34 喂 berry，上黄盘。
【在 H****y 的大作中提到】
: 一楼喂宝宝
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