克林顿回忆录里的“登月”（转）_风闻

克林顿的回忆录《My Life》中有如下一段叙述： （1969）‘The next six weeks in Hot Springs were more interesting than I could have imagined. I worked one week helping a sixty-seven-year-old man put up one of Jeff’s pre-fab houses in the small settlement of Story, west of Hot Springs. The old guy worked me into the ground every day and shared a lot of his homespun wisdom and country skepticism with me. Just a month before,Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had left their colleague, Michael Collins, aboard spaceshipColumbia and walked on the moon, beating by five months President Kennedy’s goal of putting a man on the moon before the decade was out.

The old carpenter asked me if I really believed it had happened. I said sure, I saw it on television. He disagreed; he said that he didn’t believe it for a minute, that “them television fellers” could make things look real that weren’t. Back then, I thought he was a crank. During my eight years in Washington, I saw some things on TV that made me wonder if he wasn’t ahead of his time.”

中文大意： （1969年）“接下来在温泉城的六个星期比我想象的还有意思。有一个星期我都在帮一位67岁的老人在城西边一个叫做斯多里的小居民点搭建杰夫的预制房。这位老伙计每天都让我累得趴下，但也跟我讲了许多折射着朴实智慧和乡村怀疑主义的故事。就在一个月前，阿波罗11号的宇航员巴兹·奥尔德林和尼尔·阿姆斯特朗离开了他们在哥伦比亚号飞船上的同事麦克尔·科林斯，踏上了月球，把肯尼迪总统希望在60年代结束前把人送上月球的目标提前了五个月。

老木匠问我是不是真相信有这么回事。我说当然，我在电视上看到了。他表示不同意，他说他压根儿就不信有这么回事儿——“那些玩电视的家伙可以把虚假的东西弄得很真实”。那时，我觉得他是个怪人。然而我在华盛顿后来的八年间，在电视上看到一些事情真让我寻思，这家伙是不是很有点儿先见之明。”