SO LONG, STAN LEE

Whatever you do, you should do what most you want to do and what you're best at.                                                                                              ——Stan Lee

SO LONG, STAN LEE

The comic book writer Stan Lee, who has  died aged 95, revolutionised his industry in  the 1960s, when he created the mythic figures that are still inspiring new generations to flock to the cinema. Lee’s  creations—the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, most of the  Avengers (Hulk, Iron Man, Thor), Daredevil  and Doctor Strange—helped to rescue the costumed superhero  from obscurity and to usher in the silver  age of American comic books.

漫画书作者斯坦·李与世长辞，享年 95 岁。在 20 世纪 60 年代，他曾使漫画行业发生了革命性的巨变，彼时他创作的虚构人物，直到今天还鼓舞着一代又一代的后辈们涌向电影院。李创造的形象：X 战警，神奇四侠，大部分复仇者联盟成员（浩克，钢铁侠，雷神），夜魔侠还有奇异博士，帮忙挽救了身着制服的超级英雄形象，使他们不再默默无闻，还助力开启了美国漫画书的白银时代。

But it was a radioactive spider that was responsible for Lee’s most popular creation. To many, Spider-Man was not about fighting malformed or  transmuted enemies such as the Green  Goblin or the Lizard but about Peter Parker, a shy, bullied young boy with a crush on a  beautiful girl from his school but who lacks the confidence to ask her out.

但是李能创作出最受欢迎的人物，要归功于一只受了辐射的蜘蛛。对许多人来说，蜘蛛侠的内核不在于同畸形的或是变异的敌人战斗，像是绿魔或者蜥蜴博士，而在于彼得·帕克，一个性格腼腆，遭人霸凌的年轻男孩，他对同校的一位美丽女生心生好感，却没有信心约她出游。

Lee was allowed to give his characters  flaws and, where superheroes had  previously immediately embraced their  powers, his heroes were often reluctant.  Lee gave his characters voices, with pithy  catchphrases—“Flame on!”, “Hulk smash!”, “It’s clobberin’ time!”-and pages littered with thought  balloons out of which would grow some  truth that the hero needed to learn, not the least of which was Peter Parker’s: “With great  power there must also come great  responsibility”.

李被允许赋予他的漫画人物一些缺陷，在其他作品里，超级英雄此前都是二话不说就接受了他们的超能力，而李创作的英雄通常都有些不情愿。李还赋予了自己的角色独特的风格，凭借的是简短有力的经典语录，比如“点火！”“浩克砸！”“开打开打！”或是布满漫画书页的思想气泡框，气泡中表现的内容，是英雄们需要了解的真理，颇为有名的一个例子就是彼得·帕克说过的：“能力越大，责任越大。”

In a 1965 Esquire poll, Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk were ranked  alongside Bob Dylan and Che Guevara as  the favourite revolutionary icons among  college students. Lee once said: “Our goal  is that someday an intelligent adult would  not be embarrassed to walk down the  street  with a comic magazine. I don’t know  whether we can ever bring this off, but it’s  something to shoot for.”

1965 年《君子》杂志发起的一项投票显示，在大学生群体中，蜘蛛侠，无敌浩克，同时还有鲍勃·迪伦和切·格瓦拉，被评为最受人喜爱的革命性人物代表。李曾经说过：“我们的目标是，终有一天，一位才智过人的成年人，就算手拿一本漫画杂志走在街头，也不会觉得尴尬。我不知道我们能不能实现这件事，但它不失为一个目标。”

mythic/ˈmɪθɪk/
adj. 著名的；神话般的；虚构的
flock to
成群结队地走向…
e.g.Thousands of tourists flocked to Paris.
obscurity/əbˈskjʊrəti/n. 无名，默默无闻
e.g.slide into obscurity
usher in开创；开启
e.g.The railways ushered in an era of cheap mass travel.
radioactive/ˌreɪdioʊˈæktɪv/adj. 放射性的，有辐射的
malformed/ˌmælˈfɔːrmd/adj. 畸形的
transmuted/trænzˈmjuːtid/adj. 变异的
ask sb. out请…外出约会（尤指男女交往约会之始）
flaw/flɔː/n. 缺点，瑕疵
e.g.
flawless skin
flawless French
flawless victory
pithy/ˈpɪθi/adj. 简短有力的
catchphrase/ˈkætʃfreɪz/n. 名言；时兴的话
clobber/ˈklɑːbər/v. 胖揍一顿
litter/ˈlɪtər/v. 乱糟糟地堆放n. 垃圾
alongside/əˌlɔːŋˈsaɪd/adv. 与…一起与…同时
bring off完成，做完（艰难的事）
shoot for力争达到；努力获取,拓展内容

SO LONG, STAN LEE