审美现象毕竟是简单的：
At bottom the aesthetic phenomenon is quite simple:
只要一个有能力不断见到周围的活跃生机，不断生活在一群精灵的包围中，他便是诗人；
All one needs in order to be a poet is the ability to have a lively action going on before one continually, to live surrounded by hosts of spirits.
只要一个人能够感到有使自己变成别人，并且借用其肉体和心灵来说话的冲动，他便是戏剧家。
To be a dramatist all one needs is the urge to transform oneself and speak out of strange bodies and souls.
酒神祭的兴奋，能够使一整批人都参予这种艺术才能。使他们见到自己周围是一群精灵，而又知道自己与他们心心相印。
Dionysian excitation is capable of communicating to a whole multitude this artistic power to feel itself surrounded by, and one with, a host of spirits.
悲剧歌队的这种体验，是戏剧的原始现象:
What happens in the dramatic chorus is the primary dramatic phenomenon:
你见到自己就在你眼前起了变化，然后你行动起来，好象你真的占有别人的身体和别人的性格似的。
projecting oneself outside oneself and then acting as though one had really entered another body, another character.
这种体验发生在戏剧发展的开端之时。
This constitutes the first step in the evolution of drama.
在这场合，歌队和诗朗诵者就有所不同，朗诵者并不和他的形象融合为一体，而是像画家那样以静观的眼光置身于事外来观察他们。
This art is no longer that of the rhapsodist, who does not merge with his images but, like the painter, contemplates them as something outside himself; what we have here is the individual effacing himself through entering a strange being.