1. Hi, Pat, I’m a bit worried about the coming mid-term exam. 你好，帕特。半期考快來了，我有點擔心。
2. Oh, Lily, what makes you feel so upet? 哎呀，莉莉，有什麼事情令你這麼不安？
3. Actually, I’m still not quite clear about the term 「 Stream of Consiouness」. 說真的，我對什麼是「意識流」還不是很明白。
4. Well, I heard my literature tutor said that 「Stream of Consciousness」 is a narrative mode or method that attempts to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind. 噢。我聽我的文學老師是這麼說的，「意識流」 是一種敘事模式或方法，試圖描繪心靈內部紛至沓來的各種想法和感受。
5. ---But why did he use the term 「 stream」? 老師為什麼要用「流」這個詞？
---Well, Lily. In fact, the term 「stream」 was initially coined by William James, a psychologist, in his research. 哦，莉莉，其實這個詞是由一位名叫威廉•詹姆斯的心理學家在他的研究中首創的。
6. ---Oh, yup, interesting. Then? 噢，很有趣。請接著說。
--- I remember in his book entitled 「The Principles of Psychology」,James wrote in this way 「… it is nothing joined; it flows. A 「river」 or a "stream" is the metaphor by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let’s call it the stream of thought, consciousness, or subjective life.」 我記得在那部名為《心理學原理》的著作中,詹姆斯這樣寫道：「……思維不是什麼連接起來的東西，它在流動，以一條河，或一條溪流作為比喻是最為恰當的說法。此後，我們再談及它，就讓我們稱它為思維流、意識流或主觀生活流。」
7. Fantastic, Pat. It seems that I understand it a bit better now. But I still want you to explain the term called 「myriad impressions」 for me. 太棒了，帕特。好像我現在比之前要清楚多了。但我仍然想讓你為我解釋一下「多種印象」的內涵。
8. Well, it is possible that it means those myriad impressions come from visual, auditory, physical, associative and subliminal sources. 好的，我想「多種印象」可能是指意思流源於視覺，聽覺，身體，聯想和潛意識等得到的印象。
9. Thank you for telling me so much, Pat. 太感謝你了，帕特。
10. You are most welcome. I wish you good luck in your exam. 不客氣。祝你考試好運。
Stream of Conciousness: 意識流
make sb upset: 令某人不安
multitudinous thoughts and feelings：各種想法與情感
pass through the mind: 掠過心頭，紛至沓來
myriad impressions：多種印象
come from: 源於
be initially coined by: 由.首創
意識流例子
1. Look at that polar bear on the television. Did I take out the trash-wait, I think I threw away a check from mom I need a drink of kool-aid now.
2. The bathroom needs to be cleaned. Where did I put my shoes, I think I should wear shoes while cleaning-I don't like to get anything on my feet (which are in bad need of a pedicure). Maybe red polish next time-or a pinkish orange for the spring-I can't wait for warmer weather.
名家之作
From Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway:
What alark! What a plunge! For so it always seemed to me when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which I can hear now, I burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen as I then was) solemn,feeling as I did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen.
From William Faulkner's As I LayDying:
Nonsense you look like a girl you are lots younger than Candace color in your cheeks like a girl A face reproachful tearful an odor of camphor and of tears a voice weeping steadily and softly beyond the twilit door the twilight-colored smell of honey suckle. Bringing empty trunks down the attic stairs they sounded like coffins.