SH09翻译：金岳霖先生(汪曾祺)
Translation: Mr. Jin Yuelin (Wang Zengqi)
(translated by: alexcwlin; edited by: Adam Lam)

西南联大有许多很有趣的教授，
There were many interesting professors at National Southwest Associated University.
金岳霖先生是其中的一位。
Mr. Jin Yuelin was one of them.
金先生是我的老师沈从文先生的好朋友。
Mr. Jin was a good friend of my teacher Mr. Shen Congwen.
沈先生当面和背后都称他为“老金”。
Mr. Shen called him “Old Jin” in his face and behind his back.
大概时常来往的熟朋友都这样称呼他。
Likely all his close friends called him by that name as well.
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关于金先生的事，有一些是沈先生告诉我的。
Mr. Shen told me some of the things about Mr. Jin.
我在《沈从文先生在西南联大》一文中提到过金先生。
In my article “Mr. Shen Congwen in National Southwest Associated University”, I mentioned Mr. Jin.
有些事情在那篇文章里没有写进，觉得还应该写一写。
I did not include some of the things about him in that article and I feel I should write about them now.
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金先生的样子有点怪。
Mr. Jin looked a bit odd.
他常年戴着一顶呢帽，进教室也不脱下。
All year round he wore a felt hat and would not take it off even when he was in a classroom.
每一学年开始，给新的一班学生上课，他的第一句话总是：“我的眼睛有毛病，不能摘帽子，
At the beginning of every school term when he took on a class of new students, he always started the dialogue with: “There’s something wrong with my eyes and I could not take my hat off.
并不是对你们不尊重，
I mean no disrespect to you.
请原谅。”
Please forgive me.”
他的眼睛有什么病，我不知道，只知道怕阳光。
I had no clue what was wrong with his eyes, and all I knew was they were very sensitive to sunlight.
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因此他的呢帽的前檐压得比较低，脑袋总是微微地仰着。
As such, the front brim of his felt hat was positioned lower than normal and he always tilted his head a bit upward.
他后来配了一副眼镜，这副眼镜一只的镜片是白的，一只是黑的。这就更怪了。
Later he got a pair of spectacles with one clear lens and one dark lens, and that made him look even weirder.
后来在美国讲学期间把眼睛治好了，——
Afterwards, he fixed his eyes when he was lecturing in USA.
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好一些，眼镜也换了，但那微微仰着脑袋的姿态一直还没有改变。
Once he got better, he changed his eyeglasses but his posture of slight upward-tilting of his head did not change at all.
他身材相当高大，经常穿一件烟草黄色的麂皮夹克，
He had a fairly tall stature and always wore a smoky-yellow suede jacket.
天冷了就在里面围一条很长的驼色的羊绒围巾。
When the weather got cold, he would wrap a long camel-colored cashmere scarf around inside.
联大的教授穿衣服是各色各样的。
What the professors of SW Associated wore came in all colors and styles.
闻一多先生有一阵穿一件式样过时的灰色旧夹袍，
Mr. Wen Yiduo, for a period of time, wore an out-of-style gray old lined-robe.
是一个亲戚送给他的，
It was a gift from a relative.
领子很高，袖口极窄。
The collar was high and the sleeve-cuffs were very narrow.
联大有一次在龙云的长子、蒋介石的干儿子龙绳武家里开校友会，
One time SW Associated held an alumni gathering in the house of Long Shengwu—the eldest son of Long Yun and the godson of Chiang Kai Shek.
——龙云的长媳是清华校友，
Long Yun’s daughter-in-law who married his oldest son was a Tsinghua alumna.
闻先生在会上大骂“蒋介石，王八蛋！混蛋！”
In the meeting Mr. Wen denounced loudly: “Chiang Kai Shek is a jerk and dimwit.”
那天穿的就是这件高领窄袖的旧夹袍。
What he wore on that day was this high-collared and narrow-cuffed lined robe.
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朱自清先生有一阵披着一件云南赶马人穿的蓝色毡子的一口钟。
Mr. Zhu Ziqing for a while put on a blue felt poncho commonly worn by horse-herders in Yunnan.
除了体育教员，教授里穿夹克的，好像只有金先生一个人。
Other than gym class teachers, it seemed Mr. Jin was the only professor who wore a jacket.
他的眼神即使是到美国治了后也还是不大好，
His eyesight was not too good even after treatment in USA.
走起路来有点深一脚浅一脚。
He walked with a limping gait.
他就这样穿着黄夹克，微仰着脑袋，深一脚浅一脚地在联大新校舍的一条土路上走着。
Just like that he wore a yellow jacket, tilted his head slightly upward, and walked with a limping gait on a path of the new school building of SW Associated.
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金先生教逻辑。
Mr. Jin taught the subject of logic.
逻辑是西南联大规定文学院一年级学生的必修课，
Logic was a compulsory course for first-year students in the set program of Arts Faculty in SW Associated.
班上学生很多，上课在大教室，坐得满满的。
The class was held in a large lecture hall filled with students.
在中学里没有听说有逻辑这门学问，
In high school, the learning of logic was unheard of.
大一的学生对这课很有兴趣。
First-year university students were very interested in this course.
金先生上课有时要提问，
Sometimes in class Mr. Jin needed to ask questions.
那么多的学生，他不能都叫得上名字来，
Since there were so many students, he was unable to call them by names.
——联大是没有点名册的，
Also there were no roll book in SW Associated.
他有时一上课就宣布：
At times he would announce at the start of the class:
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“今天，穿红毛衣的女同学回答问题。”
“Today female students in red woollen sweaters will answer questions.”
于是所有穿红衣的女同学就都有点紧张，又有点兴奋。
Then all the female students in red woollen sweaters would get a bit nervous and excited.
那时联大女生在蓝阴丹士林旗袍外面套一件红毛衣成了一种风气。
At that time, a red woollen sweater over Indanthrene blue cheongsam dress was all the rage for SW Associated female students.
——穿蓝毛衣、黄毛衣的极少。
Blue or yellow sweaters were rarely worn.
问题回答得流利清楚，也是件出风头的事。
Answering questions fluently and clearly would be a good way to grab the limelight.
金先生很注意地听着，完了，说：“Yes！请坐！”
Mr. Jin was always very attentive in listening to an answer and when it is finished, he would say: “Yes, please be seated.”
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学生也可以提出问题，请金先生解答。
Students could also raise questions and ask Mr. Jin to answer.
学生提的问题深浅不一，金先生有问必答，很耐心。
Those questions had different degrees of difficulties, and Mr. Jin always provided answers with plenty of patience.
有一个华侨同学叫林国达，操广东普通话，最爱提问题，
An overseas Chinese student by the name of Lin Guoda, who spoke Mandarin with a Cantonese accent, loved to ask questions.
问题大都奇奇怪怪。
Most of his questions were kind of weird.
他大概觉得逻辑这门学问是挺“玄”的，应该提点怪问题。
Likely he felt the discipline of logic was fairly “philosophical” and therefore deserved some peculiar questions.
有一次他又站起来提了一个怪问题，
Once he stood up and raised an offbeat question.
金先生想了一想，说：“林国达同学，我问你一个问题：‘Mr．林国达is perpenticular to the blackboard（林国达君垂直于黑板），这什么意思？”
Mr. Jin thought for a moment and said: “Fellow Student Lin Guoda, let me ask you a question. What does ‘Mr. Lin Guoda is perpendicular to the blackboard’ mean?”
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林国达傻了。
Lin Guoda was stunned.
林国达当然无法垂直于黑板，但这句话在逻辑上没有错误。
Of course practically Lin Guoda could not be positioned in perpendicular to the blackboard, but then logically there was nothing wrong with this expression.
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林国达游泳淹死了。
Lin Guoda drowned during swimming.
金先生上课，说：“林国达死了，
Mr. Jin said in class: “Lin Guoda passed away.
很不幸。”
It is very unfortunate.”
这一堂课，金先生一直没有笑容。
Throughout this class, Mr. Jin did not crack a smile.
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有一个同学，大概是陈蕴珍，即萧珊，曾问过金先生：
A student, likely Chen Yunzhen, i.e., Xiao Shan, once asked Mr. Jin:
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“您为什么要搞逻辑？”
“Why are you engaged in logic?”
逻辑课的前一半讲三段论，大前提、小前提、结论、周延、不周延、归纳、演绎……还比较有意思。
The first half of logic discussed syllogism: major premise, minor promise, conclusion, distributed, undistributed, induction, deduction, etc., and comparably those were the interesting parts of the course.
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后半部全是符号，简直像高等数学。
The second half was all symbols which were practically advanced mathematics.
她的意思是：这种学问多么枯燥！
She meant to insinuate this knowledge was very monotonous.
金先生的回答是：“我觉得它很好玩。”
Mr. Jin’s answer was: “I think it’s a lot of fun.”
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除了文学院大一学生必修逻辑，金先生还开了一门“符号逻辑”，是选修课。
Other than teaching the compulsory course of logic to Arts Faculty freshman-year students, Mr. Jin also started a program “logic symbols” which was an elective course.
这门学问对我来说简直是天书。选这门课的人很少，
As far as I was concerned, this field of knowledge was all Greek to me, and very few students took this course.
教室里只有几个人。
There were only a few people in the classroom.
学生里最突出的是王浩。
The most outstanding one among all the students was Wang Hao.
金先生讲着讲着，有时会停下来，问：“王浩，你以为如何？”
In talking on and on, sometimes Mr. Jin might pause and asked: “Wang Hao, what do you think?”
这堂课就成了他们师生二人的对话。
Then this session would feature a dialogue between this couple of teacher and student.
王浩现在在美国。
Wang Hao is in USA at present.
前些年写了一篇关于金先生的较长的文章，大概是论金先生之学的，
A few years ago in USA, he wrote a fair length article on Mr. Jin and likely it was about his teaching.
我没有见到。
I never read it.
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王浩和我是相当熟的。
Wang Hao and I knew each other very well.
他有个要好的朋友王景鹤，和我同在昆明黄土坡一个中学教学，
He had a good friend called Wang Jinghe who taught in the same high school as I did in Huangtupo of Kunming.
王浩常来玩。
Wang Ho often came to have some fun at my place.
来了，常打篮球。大都是吃了午饭就打。
When he was there, he always played basketball after lunch.
王浩管吃了饭就打球叫“练盲肠”。
He called playing ball after lunch “training the appendix”.
王浩的相貌颇“土”，脑袋很大，剪了一个光头，——
His look was quite bumpkin-like with a huge bald head.
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联大同学剪光头的很少，说话带山东口音。
Very few students in SW Associated shaved their heads and spoke with Shandong accent.
他现在成了洋人——美籍华人，国际知名的学者，
Now Wang Hao is a westerner—a Chinese American, and an international renowned scholar.
我实在想象不出他现在是什么样子。
I can’t imagine what he looks like now.
前年他回国讲学，托一个同学要我给他画一张画。
Two years ago he came back to China to give lecture, and he requested a classmate to ask me to draw him a picture.
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我给他画了几个青头菌、牛肝菌，一根大葱，两头蒜，还有一块很大的宣威火腿。——火腿是很少入画的。
I drew several green-cracking Russula mushrooms, a few King Bolete mushrooms, a stem of green onion, two garlics, and a big piece of Xuanwei ham—bearing in mind that ham seldom makes it to drawings.
我在画上题了几句话，有一句是“以慰王浩异国乡情”。
I also wrote several sentences in the drawing, one of which was “in consolation for Wang Hao’s love for his homeland in a foreign country”.
王浩的学问，原来是师承金先生的。
Wang Hao’s knowledge turned out to have been taken after Mr. Jin as his mentor.
一个人一生哪怕只教出一个好学生，也值得了。
It would worth a person’s while if he produces one good student in his lifetime.
当然，金先生的好学生不止一个人。
Of course Mr. Jin had more than one good student.
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金先生是研究哲学的，但是他看了很多小说。从普鲁斯特到福尔摩斯，都看。
Mr. Jin was into the studies of philosophy, but he had read many novels including Marcel Proust and Sherlock Holmes.
听说他很爱看平江不肖生的《江湖奇侠传》。
Allegedly he loved to read “Legend of Grassroots Heroes” by Bu Xiaosheng of Pingjiang.
有几个联大同学住在金鸡巷，陈蕴珍、王树藏、刘北汜、施载宣（萧荻）。
Several SW Associated students, including Chen Yunzhen, Wang Shucang, Liu Beisi, and Shi Zaixuan (Xiao Di) lived in Jin Ji Xiang.
楼上有一间小客厅。
There was a small living room upstairs.
沈先生有时拉一个熟人去给少数爱好文学、写写东西的同学讲一点什么。
Sometimes Mr. Shen dragged a close acquaintance over there to give a lecture to a small group of literature lovers and student writers.
金先生有一次也被拉了去。他讲的题目是《小说和哲学》。题目是沈先生给他出的。
Mr. Jin was hauled over there once and the topic of his speech, “Novel and Philosophy”, was chosen by Mr. Shen.
大家以为金先生一定会讲出一番道理。
Everybody thought Mr. Jin would bring out a bunch of arguments.
不料金先生讲了半天，结论却是：小说和哲学没有关系。
To everyone’s surprise after talking for half a day, he concluded there was no connection between novel and philosophy.
有人问：那么《红楼梦》呢？
Someone asked, “What do you say on Dream of Red Chamber?”
金先生说：“红楼梦里的哲学不是哲学。”
Mr. Jin said: “The philosophies in Dream of Red Chamber are not philosophies.”
他讲着讲着，忽然停下来：“对不起，我这里有个小动物。”
When he was talking on, suddenly he stopped and said: “Sorry! I have a little creature here.”
他把右手伸进后脖颈，捉出了一个跳蚤，
He reached into the back of his neck with his right hand and pulled out a flea.
捏在手指里看看，甚为得意。
Then he held it between his fingers and looked at it with pride.
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金先生是个单身汉（联大教授里不少光棍，
Mr. Jin was a bachelor (Note: Many SW Associated professors were single.
杨振声先生曾写过一篇游戏文章《释鳏》，在教授间传阅），
Mr. Yang Zhensheng once wrote a tongue-in-cheek article “Free the Wifeless” that was passed around the professors.)
无儿无女，但是过得自得其乐。
Without any children, he was able to enjoy life alone.
他养了一只很大的斗鸡（云南出斗鸡）。
He kept a very big gamecock (Note: Yunnan produced gamecocks).
这只斗鸡能把脖子伸上来，和金先生一个桌子吃饭。
This gamecock could stretch its neck and dined with Mr. Jin at the same table.
他到处搜罗大梨、大石榴，
He went all over the places to collect big pears and big pomegranates.
拿去和别的教授的孩子比赛。
Then he took those fruits along in challenging other professors’ kids for cockfights.
比输了，就把梨或石榴送给他的小朋友，他再去买。
If he lost, he would give the pears or pomegranates to his little friends and then shopped for some more.
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金先生朋友很多，
Mr. Jin had many friends.
除了哲学家的教授外，时常来往的，据我所知，有梁思成、林徽因夫妇，沈从文，张奚若……
Other than Philosopher Professors, as far as I knew, the people he regularly socialized with included Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin husband-and-wife couple, Shen Congwen, Zhang Xiruo, etc.
君子之交淡如水，
However, friendship between gentlemen usually would be shallow.
坐定之后，清茶一杯，闲话片刻而已。
A gathering usually would only involve, after sitting down, a little chitchat over a cup of tea.
金先生对林徽因的谈吐才华，十分欣赏。
Mr. Jin thought highly of Lin Huiyin’s way of carrying a conversation and her talent.
现在的年轻人多不知道林徽因。
Most of the young people nowadays would not know Lin Huiyin.
她是学建筑的，但是对文学的趣味极高，
She studied architecture but was very interested in literature.
精于鉴赏，
Also she was an expert in connoisseurship.
所写的诗和小说如《窗子以外》、《九十九度中》风格清新，一时无二。
The poems and novels that she wrote, such as “Beyond the Window” and “Within Ninety-Nine Degrees”, were refreshing in style and unparalleled in attainment.
林徽因死后，有一年，金先生在北京饭店请了一次客，
After she died, one year Mr. Jin hosted a dinner at Beijing Restaurant.
老朋友收到通知，都纳闷：老金为什么请客？
When his old friends received the invitation, they were puzzled as to why Old Jin was treating?
到了之后，金先生才宣布：“今天是徽因的生日。”
After they arrived, Mr. Jin announced: “Today is Huiyin’s birthday.”
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金先生晚年深居简出。
Mr. Jin lived a secluded life and seldom came out in his sunset years.
毛主席曾经对他说：“你要接触接触社会。”
Chairman Mao once said to him: “You have to get in touch with society.”
金先生已经八十岁了，怎么接触社会呢？
Mr. Jin was already eighty and some odd years old and how could he get in touch with society?
他就和一个蹬平板三轮车的约好，每天蹬着他到王府井一带转一大圈。
Anyway, he made arrangement with a flatbed-tricycle cyclist to pedal him for a long tour around the area of Wangfujing every day.
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我想象金先生坐在平板三轮上东张西望，那情景一定非常有趣。
I could imagine it would be a very interesting scene with Mr. Jin looking around while sitting on a flatbed tricycle.
王府井人挤人，熙熙攘攘，谁也不会知道这位东张西望的老人是一位一肚子学问，为人天真、热爱生活的大哲学家。
Wangfujing would be bustling with pedestrians but no one would notice that this old man looking around was a great philosopher who was rich in knowledge, childlike in demeanor, and passionate about life.
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金先生治学精深，而著作不多。
Mr. Jin was profoundly dedicated in the pursuit of his studies but he did not have a lot of publications.
除了一本大学丛书里的《逻辑》，我所知道的，还有一本《论道》。
Other than “Logic” among the book collection in university, there was another one “Discussion on Arguments” as far as I know.
其余还有什么，我不清楚，须问王浩。
I am not clear if there were others, and we should ask Wang Hao on that.
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我对金先生所知甚少。希望熟知金先生的人把金先生好好写一写。
What I know about Mr. Jin is very little and I hope people who are familiar with Mr. Jin could do a better job in writing about him.
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联大的许多教授都应该有人好好地写一写。
Someone should spend time in writing about many of the professors in SW Associated.
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1987年2月23日
February 23rd, 1987
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附注：

(1) “blue or yellow sweater” vs. “blue and yellow sweater”
The Chinese text refers to (a) blue sweaters + (b) yellow sweaters.
If you say “blue and yellow sweaters”, it could mean sweaters with blue and yellow colors in the same sweaters.
Therefore “blue or yellow sweaters” would clarify the confusion and refers to what the Chinese version intends to say.