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BillStrickland_2002-_比尔·斯特里克兰用幻灯片改造社会_
It's a great honor to be here with you. 幸会,诸位。
The good news is 有一个好消息
I'm very aware of my responsibilities to get you out of here because I'm the only thing standing between you and the bar. 我非常清楚我负有将各位带离现场的责任 因为我是你们和酒巴之间唯一的障碍了
(Laughter) （笑声）
And the good news is I don't have a prepared speech, but I have a box of slides. 好在是我并没有提前准备好一个长篇演讲, 但我有一大盒幻灯片。
I have some pictures that represent my life and what I do for a living. 我有一些能够描述我的生活,以及我如何谋生的图片。
represent:v.代表;表现;描绘;回忆;再赠送;
I've learned through experience that people remember pictures long after they've forgotten words, and so I hope you'll remember some of the pictures 我的经验告诉我 人们能够在忘记文字以后很久,还记得图片上的内容。 所以我希望你们会记住其中的一些图片
I'm going to share with you for just a few minutes. 我将要和你们分享的,只需要几分钟时间
The whole story really starts with me as a high school kid in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , in a tough neighborhood that everybody gave up on for dead. 故事从这里开始…… 那时候我还是宾州匹兹堡一所高中的学生, 生活在一个很乱的,每个人都放弃了希望的街区。
Pittsburgh:n.匹兹堡(美国一座城市); Pennsylvania:n.宾夕法尼亚州(美国州名); neighborhood:n.附近;地区;街坊;adj.附近的;
And on a Wednesday afternoon, 在一个星期三的下午
I was walking down the corridor of my high school kind of minding my own business. And there was this artist teaching, who made a great big old ceramic vessel , 我走在学校的过道中, 一边想着自己的心事,当时这位艺术家在讲课, 他做了一个巨大的老式瓷器。
corridor:n.通道;过道;走廊(一国领土通过他国境内的狭长地带); ceramic:adj.陶瓷的;陶器的;制陶艺术的;n.陶瓷;陶瓷制品; vessel:n.器皿;轮船;脉管;大船;
and I happened to be looking in the door of the art room -- and if you've ever seen clay done, it's magic -- and I'd never seen anything like that before in my life. 我无意中朝艺术教室的大门内看了一眼 如果你曾经见过制陶器是怎么作出来的,那简直就是魔法 我一生当中从未见过那样的东西。
clay:n.黏土;陶土;
So, I walked in the art room and I said, "What is that?" 于是我就走进了艺术教室,说:“这是什么？”
And he said, " Ceramics . And who are you?" 他说:“瓷器……你是谁？”
Ceramics:n.制陶术,制陶业(ceramic的复数);
And I said, "I'm Bill Strickland. I want you to teach me that." 我说:“我是比尔·斯特里克兰,我想你教教我弄这个。”
And he said, "Well, get your homeroom teacher to sign a piece of paper that says you can come here, and I'll teach it to you." 他说:“好的,让你的主管教师签一个单子, 说明你可以来这里学,我就教你。”
homeroom:n.(美)年纪教室(学生定期接受导师指导的教室);
And so for the remaining two years of my high school, 就这样,我在中学的最后两年,
I cut all my classes. 我取消了所有的课程,
(Laughter) （笑声）
But I had the presence of mind to give the teachers' classes that I cut the pottery that I made, 但我很安心, 我给那些我取消了课程的老师送去我做的瓷器
presence of mind:n.镇定;处变不惊;遇事不慌; pottery:n.陶器;陶器厂;陶器制造术;
(Laughter) （笑）
and they gave me passing grades. 他们就给了我合格。
And that's how I got out of high school. 我就是这样完成了中学的学业。
And Mr. Ross said, "You're too smart to die and I don't want it on my conscience , so I'm leaving this school and I'm taking you with me." 罗斯先生说: “你这个鬼灵精,为了让我的良心不受谴责, 我要离开这所学校并把你带走。”
conscience:n.道德心,良心;
And he drove me out to the University of Pittsburgh where I filled out a college application and got in on probation . 然后他就开车带我到了匹兹堡大学 我在那填了一份入学申请,并获准试读
application:n.应用;申请;应用程序;敷用; probation:n.试用;缓刑;查验;
Well, I'm now a trustee of the university, and at my installation ceremony I said, "I'm the guy who came from the neighborhood who got into the place on probation. 我现在是这所大学的理事会成员 在我的就职典礼上,我说, “我在附近的街区长大 以试读生的身份进入了这所大学
trustee:n.受托人;托管人;vt.移交(财产或管理权)给受托人; installation:n.安装;设施;设置;安装的设备(或机器); ceremony:n.典礼,仪式;礼节,礼仪;客套,虚礼;
Don't give up on the poor kids, because you never know what's going to happen to those children in life." 不要放弃那些穷孩子,因为你永远不知道 他们的生命里会发生什么样的事情。”
you never know:(非正式)很难说,不可预知;
What I'm going to show you for a couple of minutes is a facility that I built in the toughest neighborhood in Pittsburgh with the highest crime rate. 我要用几分钟时间来展示给诸位的 是我在匹兹堡犯罪率最高的街区里 建立的一所设施
facility:n.设施;设备;特别装置;特色;场所;天资;
One is called Bidwell Training Center; it is a vocational school for ex-steel workers and single parents and welfare mothers. 彼得维尔培训中心,这是一所为失业者、单亲妈妈和福利妈妈 设立的专科学校。
vocational school:n.(美国)职业学校; welfare:n.福祉;(政府给予的)福利;
You remember we used to make steel in Pittsburgh? 还记得匹兹堡以前生产钢铁吗？
Well, we don't make any steel anymore, and the people who used to make the steel are having a very tough time of it. 现在这里已经不再生产钢铁了 过去以炼钢为生的人们 面临非常困难的情况。
And I rebuild them and give them new life. 我改造他们,给他们新的生活。
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild is named after my neighborhood. 曼彻斯特手工艺行会就是以我们的街区命名的。
Guild:n.协会,行会;同业公会;
I was adopted by the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese during the riots , and he donated a row house . And in that row house 在骚乱中我曾经被 圣公会的主教收留。 他捐出了一座废弃的住宅楼,在那里,
adopted:adj.被收养的;被采用的;v.采用;接受;(adopt的过去式和过去分词); Bishop:n.主教;象; Episcopal:adj.主教的(副词episcopally);主教管辖的;主教制度的;英国国教的; Diocese:n.主教教区; riots:n.暴动(riot的复数);v.骚乱(riot的第三人称单数形式);闹事; donated:v.捐赠,赠送;献(血);捐献(器官);(donate的过去分词和过去式) row house:n.(成排相连房屋中的)一栋排房;
I started Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, and I learned very quickly that wherever there are Episcopalians , there's money in very close proximity . 我建立了曼彻斯特手工艺行会, 我很快就知道,只要有圣公会教徒的地方, 附近就有钱！
Episcopalians:主教制信奉者(episcopalian的复数);美国圣公会教徒(episcopalian的复数); proximity:n.接近,[数]邻近;接近;接近度,距离;亲近;
(Laughter) （笑声）
And the Bishop adopted me as his kid. 主教视我如己出,
And last year I spoke at his memorial service and wished him well in this life. 去年我在他的追悼会上致辞, 这一生我都会感激他。
memorial:adj.纪念的;悼念的;n.纪念碑(或像等);纪念品;
I went out and hired a student of Frank Lloyd Wright , the architect , and I asked him to build me a world class center in the worst neighborhood in Pittsburgh. 我找来建筑大师弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特的一位学生, 让他替我建一座世界级的（培训）中心, 就在匹兹堡最糟糕的地带。
Frank:adj.坦白的,直率的;老实的;n.免费邮寄特权;v.免费邮寄; Wright:n.制作者;工人; architect:n.建筑师;设计师;创造者;
And my building was a scale model for the Pittsburgh airport . 我的中心简直就是匹兹堡机场的比例模型。
scale:n.规模;比例;鳞;刻度;天平;数值范围;v.衡量;攀登;剥落;生水垢; airport:n.机场;航空港;
And when you come to Pittsburgh -- and you're all invited -- you'll be flying into the blown-up version of my building. 当你们来到匹兹堡……随时欢迎诸位…… 你们就飞进了我的建筑的放大版本。
blown-up:adj.放大的;
That's the building. 这就是我的建筑。
Built in a tough neighborhood where people have been given up for dead. 建在一个贫困潦倒的粗鲁的街区。
My view is that if you want to involve yourself in the life of people who have been given up on, you have to look like the solution and not the problem. 我认为,如果想介入那些 已经被认为没有希望的人的生活, 你自己就更应该看上去象是解决问题的办法,而不是问题本身。
involve:v.包含;需要;牵涉;牵连;影响;(使)参加; solution:n.解决方案;溶液;溶解;解答;
As you can see , it has a fountain in the courtyard . 你们看,院子里有一个喷泉
As you can see:正如你所看到的;你是知道的; fountain:n.喷泉,泉水;源泉; courtyard:n.院子;
And the reason it has a fountain in the courtyard is I wanted one and I had the checkbook, so I bought one and put it there. 园子里做一个喷泉是我的主意。 我掌握着支票本,就买了一个放在那。
(Laughter) （笑声）
And now that I'm giving speeches at conferences like TED, 现在我在很多类似TED的会议上演讲,
conferences:n.会议(conference的复数形式);
I got put on the board of the Carnegie Museum. 他们让我加入了卡内基博物馆的董事会
on the board:在董事会,将在会上讨论;在那块木板上;
At a reception in their courtyard, I noticed that they had a fountain because they think that the people who go to the museum deserve a fountain. 在博物馆院子的一个接待处,我看到那也有一个喷泉 因为他们认为应该让每个去到博物馆的人都看到一个喷泉。
deserve:vi.应受,应得;
Well, I think that welfare mothers and at-risk kids and ex-steel workers deserve a fountain in their life. 嗯,我认为应该让福利妈妈、不幸的孩子 和失业者的生活里,都有一个“喷泉”。
at-risk:adj.处于危险中的;
And so the first thing that you see in my center in the springtime is water that greets you -- water is life and water of human possibility -- and it sets an attitude and expectation about how you feel about people before you ever give them a speech. 所以春季你在我的中心第一眼看到的, 就是迎接你的水花——水是生命之源。 它在你向人们开口之前,就明确了你对 他们的态度和期望。
springtime:n.春天;春季;初期; attitude:n.态度;看法;意见;姿势; expectation:n.预料;预期;期待;希望;指望;
So, from that fountain I built this building. 于是我从这座喷泉开始建立了这座建筑。
As you can see, it has world class art, and it's all my taste because I raised all the money. 正如你们所看到的,它具备世界级的艺术水准,而且完全符合我的口味 因为我筹集了所有的资金。
(Laughter) （笑声）
I said to my boy, "When you raise the money, we'll put your taste on the wall." 我对我的儿子说:“如果你筹来了钱 我们就把你的口味写在墙上。”
That we have quilts and clay and calligraphy and everywhere your eye turns, there's something beautiful looking back at you, that's deliberate . 实际上我们有织锦、瓷器还有书法 在你目光所到之处, 都有些美丽的东西和你相对。 用心良苦,
calligraphy:n.书法;笔迹; deliberate:v.深思熟虑;仔细考虑;反复思考;adj.故意的;蓄意的;存心的;不慌不忙的;
That's intentional . 颇费周章啊。
intentional:adj.故意的;蓄意的;策划的;
In my view, it is this kind of world that can redeem the soul of poor people. 我认为,只有这样的世界, 才能够拯救贫苦大众的灵魂。
redeem:vt.赎回;挽回;兑换;履行;补偿;恢复;
We also created a boardroom , and I hired a Japanese cabinetmaker from Kyoto , Japan, and commissioned him to do 60 pieces of furniture for our building. 我们还建了一个会议室。 我从日本的京都重金请来一位家具匠人, 让他为我们的建筑制作了60件家具。
boardroom:n.会议室;交换场所; cabinetmaker:n.家具工;细工木匠; Kyoto:n.京都(日本城市); commissioned:adj.受委任的;v.正式委托;任命…为军官;(commission的过去式和过去分词) furniture:n.家具;设备;储藏物;
We have since spun him off into his own business. 因为我们,他从此开创了自己的事业。
spun:adj.纺成的;v.纺(spin的过去分词);旋转;
He's making a ton of money doing custom furniture for rich people. 他现在为富人定制家具,赚了很多很多的钱。
And I got 60 pieces out of it for my school because I felt that welfare moms and ex-steel workers and single parents deserved to come to a school where there was handcrafted furniture that greeted them every day. 他的定制家具中有60件是我为我的学校订作的。 因为我觉得福利母亲、失业者 和单身妈妈都愿意去一所 有些手工家具每天欢迎他们的学校
deserved:adj.值得的;该奖[罚]的;v.值得;应得;应受;(deserve的过去分词和过去式) handcrafted:adj.手工制作的;v.用手工制作;(handcraft的过去分词和过去式)
Because it sets a tone and an attitude about how you feel about people long before you give them the speech. 因为这是一种早在你向他们开口之前就已经表明的 你如何对待他们的腔调和态度。
tone:n.语气:风格:特色:声音信号:v.使更结实:与…协调:
We even have flowers in the hallway, and they're not plastic. 我们甚至在走廊里布置了花,这些花不是塑料的
Those are real and they're in my building every day. 他们可是货真价实,每天都摆在我们的楼里
And now that I've given lots of speeches, we had a bunch of high school principals come and see me, and they said, "Mr. Strickland, what an extraordinary story and what a great school. 现在,我已经做了很多场演讲了 有一帮高中校长来看我 他们说,“斯特里克兰先生, 你的故事真是太精彩了,你的学校也很棒。
a bunch of:一群;一束;一堆; principals:n.校长;负责人(principal的复数); extraordinary:adj.非凡的;特别的;离奇的;临时的;特派的;
And we were particularly touched by the flowers and we were curious as to how the flowers got there." 特别是那些花,它们尤其让我们感动。 我们很好奇,那些花是怎么摆到那里的呢？”
particularly:adv.特别地,独特地;详细地,具体地;明确地,细致地; curious:adj.好奇的,有求知欲的;古怪的;爱挑剔的;
I said, "Well, I got in my car and I went out to the greenhouse and I bought them and I brought them back and I put them there." 我说:“我开上车,来到花房, 把这些花买下来,然后他们带回来并放到那里。”
greenhouse:n.温室;暖房;
You don't need a task force or a study group to buy flowers for your kids. 你不需要一个任务小组或者一个研究小组来为你的孩子买花。
task force:工作小组;
What you need to know is that the children and the adults deserve flowers in their life. 你需要知道的是,孩子 和成人在他们的生命中都配得欣赏鲜花。
The cost is incidental but the gesture is huge. 买花的费用无阻挂齿,但是它所表达的东西是很巨大的。
incidental:adj.附带的;偶然的;容易发生的;n.附带事件;偶然事件;杂项; gesture:n.手势;姿势;示意动作;表示;v.做手势;用手势表示;
And so in my building, which is full of sunlight and full of flowers, we believe in hope and human possibilities. 在我的学校了,充满了阳光和鲜花, 我们坚信希望和人类的潜能。
sunlight:n.日光;
That happens to be at Christmas time. 当时刚好在圣诞期间。
And so the next thing you'll see is a million dollar kitchen that was built by the Heinz company -- you've heard of them? 接下来你们将看到的是一个价值一百万美元的厨房 它由亨氏（Heinz）企业为我们提供的,你们听说过这间公司吗？
They did all right in the ketchup business. 他们在番茄酱领域做得不错。
ketchup:n.蕃茄酱;
And I happen to know that company pretty well because John Heinz, who was our U.S. senator -- who was tragically killed in a plane accident -- he had heard about my desire to build a new building, 我恰好挺熟悉这家公司, 因为,参议员约翰亨氏先生 后来他不幸死于飞机失事- 听说了我要建这么一座新楼的愿望,
senator:n.参议员; tragically:adv.悲剧地;悲惨地;
because I had a cardboard box and I put it in a garbage bag and I walking all over Pittsburgh trying to raise money for this site . 因为我正拿着一个纸盒放在垃圾袋里 走遍匹兹堡为此筹款呢。
cardboard:n.[纸]硬纸板;纸板箱;卡纸板;adj.不真实的;硬纸板制的; garbage:n.垃圾;废物; site:n.地点;位置;场所;v.设置;为…选址;
And he called me into his office -- which is the equivalent of going to see the Wizard of Oz 于是他就让我去他的办公室— 那感觉就像我要去看《绿野仙踪》一样
equivalent:adj.等价的,相等的;同意义的;n.等价物,相等物; Wizard:n.男巫;术士;奇才;adj.男巫的;巫术的;
(Laughter) -- and John Heinz had 600 million dollars, and at the time I had about 60 cents. （笑声） 约翰亨氏（John Heinz）有6个亿美元,我当时却只有60美分。
And he said, "But we've heard about you. 他说:“我们听说过你,
We've heard about your work with the kids and the ex-steel workers, and we're inclined to want to support your desire to build a new building. 以及你为儿童和失业工人做的工作, 我们很想资助你修建这个新楼的愿望。
inclined:adj.有…倾向; v.(使)倾向于,有…的趋势; (incline的过去分词和过去式)
And you could do us a great service if you would add a culinary program to your program." 如果能在你的课程里增加一个烹饪课程的话, 那你就给我们帮了大忙了。”
culinary:adj.厨房的;烹调用的;
Because back then, we were building a trades program. 因为在当时,我们只是要做工匠培训方面的。
He said, "That way we could fulfill our affirmative action goals for the Heinz company." 他说:“那样的话我们就实现 亨氏企业反歧视行动的目标。”
fulfill:v.执行,贯彻;完成,实现;兑现;达到;起到; affirmative action:n.积极区别对待政策(对因种族、性别等原因遭歧视的群体在就业等方面给予特别照顾);
I said, "Senator, I'm reluctant to go into a field that I don't know much about, but I promise you that if you'll support my school, I'll get it built and in a couple of years, I'll come back and weigh out that program that you desire." 我说,“参议员先生,让我涉足不熟悉的领域, 这使我感觉有些勉为其难,但是我向你保证, 如果你资助我的学校, 一两年的时间我就会把它建好, 然后我就会考虑你想做的那个项目的。”
reluctant:adj.不情愿的;勉强的;顽抗的;
And Senator Heinz sat very quietly and he said, "Well, what would your reaction be if I said I'd give you a million dollars?" 亨参议员静静的坐在那儿,说: 说:“嗯,如果我说我要给你一百万美元, 你的反应会怎样呢？”
reaction:n.反应,感应;反动,复古;反作用;
I said, "Senator, it appears that we're going into the food training business." 我说: “参议院先生,看来我们要进军烹饪培训业了。”
(Laughter) (笑声)
And John Heinz did give me a million bucks . 然后约翰亨氏就真的给了我一百万。
bucks:n.元;雄鹿;(buck的复数)
And most importantly , he loaned me the head of research for the Heinz company. 而最重要的是, 他还把他的公司研究部部长派给了我。
And most importantly:最主要的是…;
And we kind of borrowed the curriculum from the Culinary Institute of America, which in their mind is kind of the Harvard of cooking schools, and we created a gourmet cooks program for welfare mothers in this million dollar kitchen in the middle of the inner city . 我们借用了一点儿美国烹饪学校（Culinary Institute of America）的课程, 而那个学校就好像是烹饪界的哈佛。 于是,我们为福利妈妈们设计了一个美食烹饪课程, 就在市中心的这个价值百万美元的厨房里。
curriculum:n.课程;总课程; Institute:v.开始(调查);制定;创立;提起(诉讼);n.学会,协会;学院; Harvard:n.哈佛大学;哈佛大学学生; gourmet:n.美食家;菜肴精美的; inner city:n.(居民拥挤,住屋破旧的)市中心平民区;adj.市中心的;
And we've never looked back. 我们从没有回过头。
I would like to show you now some of the food that these welfare mothers do in this million dollar kitchen. 我想向你们展示一些食物 它们是由这些福利妈妈们在这个百万美元的厨房里烹制的。
That happens to be our cafeteria line. 这是我们的餐厅。
That's puff pastry day. Why? 这是松饼日。 为什么这样呢？
puff pastry:n.千层酥面团;油酥面团;
Because the students made puff pastry and that's what the school ate every day. 因为学生们做了这些松饼 而学校的学生每天都在吃这些食物
But the concept was that I wanted to take the stigma out of food. 但是我的理念是,我要剔除食物中耻辱的标记。
stigma:n.[植]柱头;耻辱;污名;烙印;特征;
That good food's not for rich people -- good food's for everybody on the planet, and there's no excuse why we all can't be eating it. 美食并非富人独享 美食属于这个星球上的每一个人。 每个人都应该享用,没有理由可以把任何人排除在外。
So at my school, we subsidize a gourmet lunch program for welfare mothers in the middle of the inner city because we've discovered that it's good for their stomachs, but it's better for their heads. 所以,在我的学校里,我们资助了一项美味午餐计划, 这些计划是为住在内城的中部地区的福利妈妈们准备的, 因为我们发现,这有益于她们的胃。 不过更有益于他们的头脑。
subsidize:vt.资助;给与奖助金;向…行贿;
Because I wanted to let them know every day of their life that they have value at this place I call my center. 因为我想让他们明白,在这个被我称之为中心的地方, 他们生命的每一天都是有价值的。
We have students who sit together, black kids and white kids, and what we've discovered is you can solve the race problem by creating a world class environment, 我们这儿有黑人学生,也有白人学生,他们都坐在一起 我们发现,种族问题是可以解决的, 办法是创造一个世界级的环境。
because people will have a tendency to show you world class behavior if you treat them in that way. 因为人们愿意展现世界级的行为 如果你能这样对对他们。
tendency:n.倾向,趋势;癖好; treat:v.治疗;处理;招待;款待;n.款待;乐事;乐趣;
These are examples of the food that welfare mothers are doing after six months in the training program. 这张是照片是福利妈妈们 在培训六个月后做出的食物。
No sophistication , no class, no dignity , no history. 没有刻意、没有阶级、没有贵贱、没有历史。
sophistication:n.复杂;诡辩;老于世故;有教养; dignity:n.尊严;高贵;
What we've discovered is the only thing wrong with poor people is they don't have any money, which happens to be a curable condition. 我们发现,穷人唯一的问题就在于 他们没有一分钱,而这个问题是可以解决的。
curable:adj.可治愈的;可医治的;可矫正的;
It's all in the way that you think about people that often determines their behavior. 这完全取决于你们是怎样看待人们的 这常常决定了他们的行为。
in the way:妨碍;挡道; determines:v.查明;测定;准确算出;决定;裁决;安排;(determine的第三人称单数)
That was done by a student after seven months in the program, done by a very brilliant young woman who was taught by our pastry chef. 这张照片是由一个参加培训七个月的学生做的食物。 她既聪明又年轻。 她的老师就是我们的糕点师。
I've actually eaten seven of those baskets and they're very good. 我已经吃了7个这样的食物篮子了,味道很不错。
(Laughter) 笑声。
They have no calories . 它们没有卡路里。
calories:n.[物]卡路里(热量单位,calorie的复数);
That's our dining room . 这是我们的餐厅。
dining room:n.餐厅;
It looks like your average high school cafeteria in your average town in America. 看上去就象一个普通美国小镇 中的学校餐厅一样。
But this is my view of how students ought to be treated , particularly once they have been pushed aside. 我认为学生们应该得到这样的尊重, 尤其是对那些曾被人们放弃过的孩子们。
treated:v.以…态度对待;把…看作;(treat的过去分词和过去式)
We train pharmaceutical technicians for the pharmacy industry, we train medical technicians for the medical industry, and we train chemical technicians for companies like Bayer and Calgon Carbon and Fisher Scientific and Exxon. 我们为制药业培训制药方面的技术人员。 我们为医疗行业提供医疗技术人员。 我们还为一些公司培训化工技术人员, 比如拜尔,卡尔冈炭素, 飞世尔科技以及埃克森石油。
pharmaceutical:adj.制药(学)的;n.药物; technicians:n.[劳经]技术员(technician的复数);工作人员; pharmacy:n.药房;配药学,药剂学;制药业;一批备用药品; chemical:n.化学制品,化学药品;adj.化学的; Carbon:n.[化学]碳;碳棒;复写纸;adj.碳的;碳处理的; Fisher:n.渔夫;渔船;食鱼貂; Scientific:adj.科学的,系统的;
And I will guarantee you that if you come to my center in Pittsburgh -- and you're all invited -- you'll see welfare mothers doing analytical chemistry with logarithmic calculators 10 months from enrolling in the program. 我向你们保证,如果你们来到我的匹兹堡中心, 当然你们都受到我们的邀请 你们会看到,福利妈妈们 在使用对数计算机作化学分析。 他们才入学10个月。
guarantee:n.保证;担保;保证人;保证书;抵押品;v.保证;担保; analytical:adj.分析的;解析的;善于分析的; logarithmic:adj.对数的; calculators:n.[计]计算器(calculator的复数); enrolling:v.(使)加入;注册;登记;(enroll的现在分词)
There is absolutely no reason why poor people can't learn world class technology. 没有任何理由证明穷人 就不能学习世界级的技术。
absolutely:adv.绝对地;完全地;
What we've discovered is you have to give them flowers and sunlight and food and expectations and Herbie's music, and you can cure a spiritual cancer every time. 我们发现,你必须给他们鲜花、 阳光、食物、期望、赫比（Herbie）的音乐 这样每次你都能够治愈精神上的癌症了。
expectations:n.预料;预期;期待;希望;指望;(expectation的复数) spiritual:n.圣歌(尤指美国南部黑人的);adj.精神的,心灵的; cancer:n.癌症;恶性肿瘤;
We train corporate travel agents for the travel industry. 我们为旅游业培训旅游专员。
corporate:adj.公司的;组成公司(或团体)的;法人的;社团的; agents:n.代理人,经纪人;原动力;(agent的复数)
We even teach people how to read. 我甚至还教人读书识字。
The kid with the red stripe was in the program two years ago -- he's now an instructor . 穿红条衫的那个孩子两年前参加了培训 他现在已经成了课程的教师。
stripe:n.条纹;线条;杠;种类;v.使…成条纹状; instructor:n.指导书;教员;指导者;
And I have children with high school diplomas that they can't read. 还有一些孩子都有高中毕业证书,但自己却不认识证书上的字。
diplomas:n.学位证书;毕业文凭;执照(diploma的复数);
And so you must ask yourself the question: how is it possible in the 21st century that we graduate children from schools who can't read the diplomas that they have in their hands? 你们肯定会问自己 都21世纪了,这种连毕业证上的字都不会念的孩子 我们就让他们毕业了, 怎么可能还有这种事情。
The reason is that the system gets reimbursed for the kids they spit out the other end, not the children who read. 其实原因是,教育系统从政府拿钱 是以毕业人数为基准而不是认字的人数。
reimbursed:v.偿还;补偿;(reimburse的过去分词和过去式)
I can take these children and in 20 weeks, demonstrated aptitude; I can get them high school equivalent. 这样的孩子们只要智力正常,20周内 就可以在我的学校中达到高中生的水平。
demonstrated:v.证明;证实;论证;说明;表达;(demonstrate的过去分词和过去式)
No big deal. 没什么大不了的。
That's our library with more handcrafted furniture. 那个是我们的图书馆,有更多的手工家具,
And this is the arts program I started in 1968. 这个是我在1968年开班的艺术课程。
Remember I'm the black kid from the '60s who got his life saved with ceramics. 请记住,我是一个生长于60年代的黑人,陶器制造挽救了我的生命。
Well, I went out and decided to reproduce my experience with other kids in the neighborhood, the theory being if you get kids flowers and you give them food and you give them sunshine and enthusiasm , you can bring them right back to life. 当我准备把我的成长模式复制到 其他住在我那个地方的小孩身上时 我的理论就是,如果你给他们 鲜花、食物、阳光和激情, 你就能让他们重新回到正常的生活中去。
reproduce:v.繁殖;复制;再现;生育; sunshine:n.阳光;日光;欢乐;幸福 enthusiasm:n.热心,热忱,热情;
I have 400 kids from the Pittsburgh public school system that come to me every day of the week for arts education. 有400个曾就读匹兹堡公立学校的孩子 每天都来我这里接受艺术教育。
public school:(美国和苏格兰的初等或中等的)公立中小学;寄宿学校;
And these are children who are flunking out of public school. 这些孩子都快被公立学校退学了。
flunking:vi.失败;放弃;考试不及格;vt.使…不及格;n.不及格;失败;
And last year I put 88 percent of those kids in college and I've averaged over 80 percent for 15 years. 去年我让这些孩子中的88%的人进入了大学, 这个比例平均高于80%已经有15年了。
We've made a fascinating discovery: there's nothing wrong with the kids that affection and sunshine and food and enthusiasm and Herbie's music can't cure. 我们做出一个惊人的发现: 问题不在孩子们身上 没有爱、阳光、食物、热情、 和赫比的音乐不能治愈的孩子。
fascinating:adj.极有吸引力的;迷人的;v.深深吸引;迷住;(fascinate的现在分词)
For that I won a big old plaque -- Man of the Year in Education. 凭这个发现,我赢得了一个又大又旧的匾额---年度杰出教育人物。
plaque:n.匾;血小板;饰板;
I beat out all the Ph.D.'s because I figured that if you treat children like human beings, it increases the likelihood they're going to behave that way. 我打败了所有的博士们 因为我认为,如果你把孩子像人一样对待的话, 他们的举动就更有可能像个正常人。
likelihood:n.可能性,可能; behave:v.表现;(机器等)运转;举止端正;(事物)起某种作用;
And why we can't institute that policy in every school and in every city and every town remains a mystery to me. 我们为什么不能 在每个学校、每个城市、每个小镇制定这样的措施呢？ 我真的很难理解。
policy:n.政策,方针;保险单;
Let me show you what these people do. 让我来告诉你这些人是怎么做的。
We have ceramics and photography and computer imaging . 我们有陶瓷制造课、摄影课、电脑制图课,
photography:n.摄影;摄影术; imaging:n.[物]成像;造像;v.反映;想像;作…的像;象征;(image的现在分词形式)
And these are all kids with no artistic ability, no talent, no imagination . And we bring in the world's greatest artists -- 而这些孩子们没有艺术细胞、没有才华、 没有想象力,我们又请来了很多世界级的艺术家
artistic:adj.艺术的;风雅的;有美感的; imagination:n.想象;想象力;创造力;想象的事物;
Gordon Parks has been there, Chester Higgins has been there -- and what we've learned is that the children will become like the people who teach them. 我们发现 孩子们可以变成和教他们的人一样的人。
Chester:n.切斯特(美国港口城市);切斯特(英国一城市);
In fact, I brought in a mosaic artist from the Vatican , an African-American woman who had studied the old Vatican mosaic techniques , and let me show you what they did with the work. 实际上,我从梵蒂冈请来了一个镶嵌艺术家, 她是一位非洲裔美国人, 学习古代梵蒂冈镶嵌艺术技巧。 让我来给你们看看他们的作品
mosaic:adj.摩西的;拼成的;嵌花式的;n.马赛克;镶嵌;镶嵌细工; Vatican:n.梵蒂冈;罗马教廷; African-American:非洲裔美国人(指美国黑人); techniques:n.技巧;技艺;工艺;技术;(technique的复数)
These were children who the whole world had given up on, who were flunking out of public school, and that's what they're capable of doing with affection and sunlight and food and good music and confidence . 这些孩子曾被世界抛弃 被公立学校开除 而这幅画证明了他们的能力 只要有爱、阳光、食物、美好的音乐和自信。
capable:adj.能干的,能胜任的;有才华的; confidence:n.信心;信任;秘密;adj.(美)诈骗的;骗得信任的;
We teach photography. 我们教授摄影
And these are examples of some of the kids' work. 这是一些学生的作品
That boy won a four-year scholarship on the strength of that photograph. 拍摄这张照片的男孩凭借这幅照片展示出的力量 拿到了4年的奖学金
scholarship:n.奖学金;学问;学识;学术成就; on the strength of:adv.基于;凭借…;依赖…;
This is our gallery . 这是我们的画廊
gallery:n.画廊;走廊;旁听席;地道;v.在…修建走廊;挖地道;
We have a world class gallery because we believe that poor kids need a world class gallery, so I designed this thing. 我们有一个世界级的画廊 因为我们相信穷孩子需要一个世界级的画廊。 所以我设计了它。
We have smoked salmon at the art openings, we have a formal printed invitation , and I even have figured out a way to get their parents to come. 我们在艺术展开幕式准备了熏三文鱼。 我们有正式的印刷请柬。 我甚至想出一个方法来让他们家长参加开幕式。
smoked salmon:熏制鲑鱼; formal:adj.适合正式场合的; n.(美)须穿礼服的社交集会; (口)夜礼服; invitation:n.邀请,引诱
I couldn't buy a parent 15 years ago so I hired a guy who got off on the Jesus big time. 15年前,我就是花钱也请不来一个父母。 所以我就雇了个人,他从上帝的事业中跳槽过来。
Jesus:int.上帝啊:天哪:n.耶稣:耶稣基督:
He was dragging guys out of bars and saving those lives for the Lord . 他把人们从酒吧里拉出来 让他们得到上帝的救赎。
Lord:n.(英国)贵族,大人,大臣;v.使成贵族;作威作福;
And I said, "Bill, I want to hire you, man. 我说:“比尔,我想聘用你,
You have to tone down the Jesus stuff a little bit, but keep the enthusiasm. 你得先把上帝的事儿放一放, 不过得保持这股激情。
stuff:n.东西:物品:基本特征:v.填满:装满:标本:
(Laughter) (Applause) （笑声）
I can't get these parents to come to the school." 我没法让这些父母来学校。“
He said, "I'll get them to come to the school." 他说:“我会让他们来学校的。”
So, he jumped in the van, he went to Miss Jones' house and said, "Miss Jones, I knew you wanted to come to your kid's art opening but you probably didn't have a ride. 然后他就开上面包车,来到琼斯太太家,问道, 琼斯女士,我知道你想去参加你孩子的艺术展开幕式, 但是你可能没车过去。
So, I came to give you a ride." 所以我来载你去。”
And he got 10 parents and then 20 parents. 他先叫来了10个家长,然后又来了20个家长。
At the last show that we did, 200 parents showed up and we didn't pick up one parent. 在我们的上一个展览上,来了200个家长。 一个家长我们都没有去接。
Because now it's become socially not acceptable not to show up to support your children at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild because people think you're bad parents. 因为现在,你要是不来曼彻斯特工匠行会办的展览支持你的小孩的话, 你就不会被社会接受, 因为大家认为你是糟糕的家长。
acceptable:adj.认同的;可接受的;令人满意的;
And there is no statistical difference between the white parents and the black parents. 而白人家长和黑人家长 在这点上都是一样的。
statistical:adj.统计的;统计学的;
Mothers will go where their children are being celebrated, every time, every town, every city. 母亲们会去参加自己孩子的庆祝活动 任何时间、任何地点都是如此
I wanted you to see this gallery because it's as good as it gets. 我想让你们看看这个画廊,因为不可能比它作得更好了。
And by the time I cut these kids loose from high school, they've got four shows on their resume before they apply to college because it's all up here. 到这些孩子从我这里毕业的时候 他们在申请大学前 他们的简历上就有了四次展览的经历了。
loose:adj.宽松的; v.释放; v.松散地; n.放纵; resume:n.简历;v.继续;重返; apply:v.申请;涂,敷;应用;适用;请求;
You have to change the way that people see themselves before you can change their behavior. 在你能够改变人们的行为之前 你必须改变他们看待自己的方式。
And it's worked out pretty good up to this day . 这条法则至今都很有有效。
to this day:至今;
I even stuck another room on the building, which I'd like to show you. 我还在这栋楼上加盖了一个房间,我想请你们看看。
This is brand new . 这可是全新的。
brand new:adj.崭新的;最近获得的;
We just got this slide done in time for the TED Conference. 我们赶在TED会议前完成了这张幻灯片。
I gave this little slide show at a place called the Silicon Valley and I did all right. 我在硅谷做了一个小型的幻灯片演讲, 演讲的效果很好。
Silicon Valley:n.硅谷(美国加利福尼亚州一处计算机和电子公司聚集地,有时用以指任何计算机公司聚集地);
And the woman came out of the audience, she said, "That was a great story and I was very impressed with your presentation . 观众中一位女士过来 说:“这个故事非常好 你的演讲给我留下了很深的印象。
impressed:adj.印象深刻; v.使钦佩; (impress的过去分词和过去式) presentation:n.展示;描述,陈述;介绍;赠送;
My only criticism is your computers are getting a little bit old." 美中不足的是你们的电脑有点旧了。
criticism:n.批评;批判;评论;指责;
And I said, "Well, what do you do for a living?" 我说:“您是做哪行的？”
She said, "Well, I work for a company called Hewlett-Packard." 她说:“我在惠普工作。”
And I said, "You're in the computer business, is that right?" 我说:“你是从事电脑行业的,对吗？”
She said, "Yes, sir." 她说:“是的,先生”
And I said, "Well, there's an easy solution to that problem." 我说:“这个问题有个很简单的办法来解决”
Well, I'm very pleased to announce to you that HP and a furniture company called Steelcase have adopted us as a demonstration model for all of their technology and all their furniture for the United States of America . 我非常高兴的想你们宣布,惠普 和Steelcase家具公司 已经我们作为他们所有的技术和家具 在全美的展示样板。
demonstration:n.示范;演示;论证;证明; United States of America:un.美利坚合众国;
And that's the room that's initiating the relationship. 这就是那个房间。 因为我们的合作关系才刚开始,
initiating:v.开始;发起;使了解;传授;使加入;(initiate的现在分词)
We got it just done in time to show you, so it's kind of the world debut of our digital imaging center. 我们刚把它做好来给你展示, 这次讲演就成了我们的数字影像中心的全球首映式了。
debut:n.初次登台;开张;vi.初次登台; digital:adj.数字的;手指的;n.数字;键;
(Applause) （掌声）
(Music) （音乐）
I only have a couple more slides, and this is where the story gets kind of interesting. 我还有一些幻灯片。 故事开始越来越有趣了。
So, I just want you to listen up for a couple more minutes and you'll understand why he's there and I'm here. 所以我想让你们再多听我几分钟, 然后你就会明白为什么他在那儿,我在这儿。
In 1986, I had the presence of mind to stick a music hall on the north end of the building while I was building it. 1986年我正在修建这个中心的时候, 我就想在它的最北边修一个音乐厅。
music hall:n.(盛行于19世纪末20世纪初的)歌舞杂耍表演;
And a guy named Dizzy Gillespie showed up to play there because he knew this man over here, Marty Ashby. 然后一个叫Dizzy Gillespie的人就来这儿表演了, 因为他认识坐在那边的人—Marty Ashby。
Dizzy:adj.晕眩的; vt.使头晕眼花;
And I stood on that stage with Dizzy Gillespie on sound check on a Wednesday afternoon, and I said, "Dizzy, why would you come to a black-run center in the middle of an industrial park with a high crime rate that doesn't even have a reputation in music?" 一个星期三的下午, Dizzy和我在台上试音,我说, “Dizzy, 为什么你要来一个黑人办的中心来表演呢？ 这儿是个工业园区,犯罪率又高, 在音乐界一点名气也没有。”
industrial:adj.工业的,产业的; n.工业股票;
He said, "Because I heard you built the center and I didn't believe that you did it, and I wanted to see for myself. 他说:“因为我听说你建了这个中心, 但我不相信你把这个做成了,所以我想亲自来看看。
And now that I have, I want to give you a gift." 现在我相信了,而且我要送你一件礼物。”
I said, "You're the gift." 我说:“你就是我的礼物。”
He said, "No, sir. You're the gift. 他说:“不,先生,你才是那件礼物。
And I'm going to allow you to record the concert and I'm going to give you the music, and if you ever choose to sell it, you must sign an agreement that says the money will come back and support the school." 我允许你为我的现场录音 我要把我的音乐版权给你 如果你准备通过这些录音营利的话,你必须签一个协议, 声明经营所得要用于资助学校。”
And I recorded Dizzy. And he died a year later, but not before telling a fellow named McCoy Tyner what we were doing. 我为Dizzy录了音,半年后他就去世了。 不过在去世之前他就把我们所做的事情告诉了一个叫作McCoy Tyner的人
McCoy:n.本人;真品;adj.真正的;
And he showed up and said, "Dizzy talking about you all over the country, man, and I want to help you." Tyner来了,他说: “Dizzy在全国各地都谈起你们, 我想帮助你们。”
And then a guy named Wynton Marsalis showed up. 然后,一个叫做Wynton Marsalis也来了。
Then a bass player named Ray Brown, and a fellow named Stanley Turrentine, and a piano player named Herbie Hancock, and a band called the Count Basie Orchestra , and a fellow named Tito Puente, 之后是 一个叫 Ray Brown 的贝斯手、 一个叫Herbie Hancock的钢琴师、 一个叫Tito Puente的家伙、
bass:n.鲈鱼;男低音;低音部;椴树;adj.低音的; band:n.带;波段;频带;箍;v.加彩条(或嵌条等);(将价格、收入等)划分档次; Orchestra:n.管弦乐队;乐队演奏处;
and a guy named Gary Burton, and Shirley Horn , and Betty Carter, and Dakota Staton and Nancy Wilson all have come to this center in the middle of an industrial park to sold out audiences in the middle of the inner city. 他们都来过个内城中央的工业园里的中心演出。 观众场场爆满。
Horn:n.喇叭,号角;角;v.装角于; Betty:n.贝蒂(皮包品牌); Dakota:n.达科他(美国过去一地区名,现分为南,北达科他州);adj.达科他人的; Nancy:adj.柔弱的;搞同性关系的;n.假娘儿们;
And I'm very pleased to tell you that, with their permission, 我很高兴的告诉你们,在这些艺术家的允许下,
I have now accumulated 600 recordings of the greatest artists in the world, including Joe Williams, who died, but not before his last recording was done at my school. 我已经制做了600张专辑 都是世界上最伟大的艺术家们的音乐 他在我的学校录制了他的最后一张专辑。
accumulated:v.积累;积聚;(数量)逐渐增加;(accumulate的过去式和过去分词)
And Joe Williams came up to me and he put his hand on my shoulder and he said, "God's picked you, man, to do this work. Joe Williams找到我,把他的手放在我的肩膀上 说:“是上帝拣选了你,让你做这样的工作,
And I want my music to be with you." 愿我的音乐与你同在。”
And that worked out all right. 我们合作的很好。
When the Basie band came, the band got so excited about the school they voted to give me the rights to the music. Basie乐团来了后,整个乐队都因学校感到激动, 他们就投票决定把演出的版权给我。
And I recorded it and we won something called a Grammy . 我就做他们录制了音乐,然后我们就赢得了一个叫做个格莱美的东西。
Grammy:n.留声机(等于gramophone);(外)祖母;老太太(等于grandmother);
And like a fool, I didn't go to the ceremony because I didn't think we were going to win. 我真是个傻瓜,我并没有参加颁奖典礼, 因为我觉得我们赢不了。
Well, we did win, and our name was literally in lights over Madison Square Garden. 但是,我们确实赢了 我们的名字被灯光打在了麦迪逊花园上空。
literally:adv.按字面:字面上:确实地:
Then the U.N. Jazz Orchestra dropped by and we recorded them and got nominated for a second Grammy back to back. 然后UN Jazz管弦乐队又造访了我们,我们为他们录制了音乐 第二次得到格莱美奖的提名。
nominated:v.提名;推荐;任命;指派;挑选;(nominate的过去式和过去分词)
So, we've become one of the hot, young jazz recording studios in the United States of America 结果我们变成了美国的一个 年轻而热门的爵士乐录音室
studios:n.工作室(studio的复数);
(Laughter) （笑声）
in the middle of the inner city with a high crime rate. 在这个犯罪率极高的市中心。
That's the place all filled up with Republicans . 这张照片是坐满了共和党人的音乐厅
Republicans:n.共和党,共和党员;(republican的复数形式)
(Laughter) （笑声）
(Applause) （掌声）
If you'd have dropped a bomb on that room, you'd have wiped out all the money in Pennsylvania because it was all sitting there. 如果你当时在那儿丢一颗炸弹, 那么全宾夕法尼亚州的财源就全被你断了, 因为他们可都在那儿呢,
Including my mother and father, who lived long enough to see their kid build that building. 我的父母也在其中,他们能活到足够大的年纪 看着他们的孩子建好了这个建筑
And there's Dizzy, just like I told you. He was there. 那是Dizzy,就像我告诉你们那样,他在那儿。
And he was there, Tito Puente.
And Pat Metheny and Jim Hall were there and they recorded with us. 他们和我们录音。
Pat:v.合适; n.拍打; adj.过于简易的; v.(喜爱地)轻拍;
And that was our first recording studio, which was the broom closet . 那是我们的第一个录音室,过去是一个扫帚间。
broom:n.扫帚;扫把;金雀花(野生,开小黄花);v.扫除; closet:n.贮藏室;壁橱adj.隐藏(身份等)的;v.把…关在房间里;
We put the mops in the hallway and re-engineered the thing and that's where we recorded the first Grammy. 我们只能把抹布什么的都放在走廊里,重新设计了这个房间, 我们在那录制了第一次获得格莱美奖的专辑。
mops:n.拖把(日本六七十年代音乐组合);
And this is our new facility, which is all video technology. 这是我们的新录音室,全部使用视频技术。
And that is a room that was built for a woman named Nancy Wilson, who recorded that album at our school last Christmas. 这个房间是我们为Nancy Wilson修造的, 去年圣诞,她在我们的学校录制了专辑。
And any of you who happened to have been watching Oprah Winfrey on Christmas Day, he was there and Nancy was there singing excerpts from this album, the rights to which she donated to our school. 如果你们中有谁正好在圣诞节看了“奥普拉”（一个电视节目）的话, 你们就会看到到他和南希在节目里 演唱了这张专辑里的部分歌曲, 她把专辑的版权捐给了我们学校。
Oprah:n.奥普拉(美国电视节目主持人); excerpts:n.摘由,节选(excerpt复数形式);
And I can now tell you with absolute certainty that an appearance on Oprah Winfrey will sell 10,000 CDs. 我现在可以向你们打包票, 一旦在“奥普拉”上露过一面,他的CD就能卖出一万张。
certainty:n.必然;确实;确实的事情; appearance:n.外貌;外观;外表;
(Laughter) （笑声）
We are currently number four on the Billboard Charts, right behind Tony Bennett. 我们现在在全美音乐公告牌上排名第四, 仅次于托尼Tony Bennett。
currently:adv.当前;一般地; Billboard:n.(大幅)广告牌;v.宣传;
And I think we're going to be fine. 我想我们的成绩会更好的。
This was burned out during the riots -- this is next to my building -- and so I had another cardboard box built and I walked back out in the streets again. 这张照片是一个在暴乱中烧毁的建筑—紧挨着我的学校。 所以我又做了个硬纸板盒子, 再次走上了街头。
burned out:adj.烧坏的;疲倦不堪的;
And that's the building, and that's the model, and on the right's a high-tech greenhouse and in the middle's the medical technology building. 这就是那个新学校的模型, 在它的右边是一个高科技的温室, 中央是医学楼。
high-tech:adj.高科技的,高技术的;仿真技术的;n.高科技;
And I'm very pleased to tell you that the building's done. 我很高兴的告诉你们,这座楼已经建好了。
It's also full of anchor tenants at 20 dollars a foot -- triple that in the middle of the inner city. 这个建筑里全是有名的商户,一英尺20美元 是市中心租价的三倍。
tenants:n.房客;居住者(tenant的复数形式);v.租借(tenant的第三人称单数); triple:adj.三部分的; n.三倍的数[量]; v.成为三倍;
And there's the fountain. 这张是一个喷泉。
(Laughter) （笑声）
Every building has a fountain. 每一个建筑都有一个喷泉。
And the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are anchor tenants and they took half the building, and we now train medical technicians through all their system. 匹兹堡大学医疗中心是这儿的大租户, 他们租了一半的空间。 我们现在就通过他们的系统来培训医疗技术人员。
And Mellon Bank's a tenant. 梅隆银行也租了这里,
And I love them because they pay the rent on time. 我很喜欢他们,因为他们按时交房租。
(Laughter) （笑声）
And as a result of the association , 由于这层关系,
as a result:结果; association:n.协会;关联;联想;交往;
I'm now a director of the Mellon Financial Corporation that bought Dreyfus. 我现在是梅隆金融公司的董事, 这家公司买下了Dreyfus制药公司。
Financial:adj.金融的;财政的,财务的; Corporation:n.法人;(大)公司;法人团体;市政委员会;
And this is in the process of being built as we speak. 这个目前正在修建中
in the process of:在…的过程中;
Multiply that picture times four and you will see the greenhouse that's going to open in October this year because we're going to grow those flowers in the middle of the inner city. 把照片中的花房再扩大四倍就是今年10月份 正式落成的样子了, 因为我们要把这些花 中在市中心。
Multiply:vt.乘; vi.乘; v.多样地; adj.多层的;
And we're going to have high school kids growing Phalaenopsis orchids in the middle of the inner city. 我们要让高中的孩子们 在市中心种上蝴蝶兰。
Phalaenopsis:n.蝴蝶兰属; orchids:n.[园艺]兰花,淡紫色;称赞(orchid的复数);
And we have a handshake with one of the large retail grocers to sell our orchids in all 240 stores in six states. 我们和一个大型零售商协定, 让他们在六个州的240个商店里卖我们的兰花。
handshake:n.握手; retail:vt.零售;转述;vi.零售;n.零售;adv.以零售方式;adj.零售的; grocers:杂货商;
And our partners are Zuma Canyon Orchids of Malibu, California, who are Hispanic . 我们的合作伙伴是一家西班牙裔开办的公司
Canyon:n.(周围有悬崖峭壁的)峡谷;( Hispanic:adj.西班牙的;
So, the Hispanics and the black folks have formed a partnership to grow high technology orchids in the middle of the inner city. 所以,西班牙裔和黑人达成了合作 在市中心的中段来种植具有高科技含量的兰花。
Hispanics:n.西班牙裔; partnership:n.合伙;[经管]合伙企业;合作关系;合伙契约; high technology:n.高科技;
And I told my United States senator that there was a very high probability that if he could find some funding for this, we would become a left-hand column in the Wall Street Journal , to which he readily agreed. 我告诉一个美国参议员, 如果他能帮我们 找到一些资金援助, 我们就能上华尔街日报的左边栏的专栏。 他答应了我们。
probability:n.可能性;机率;[数]或然率; funding:n.基金;资金;提供资金;v.为…提供资金;拨款给;(fund的现在分词) left-hand:adj.左手的;左侧的; column:n.栏目,纵队; Wall Street:n.华尔街(美国纽约金融中心和证券交易所所在地); Journal:n.杂志;日记;日志;(用于报纸名)…报; readily:adv.容易地;乐意地;无困难地;
And we got the funding and we open in the fall. 所以我们最后得到了资助,我们的花房在今年秋季就要开业了。
And you ought to come and see it -- it's going to be a hell of a story. 你们到时候一定要来看看---这个才是故事的高潮。
And this is what I want to do when I grow up. 这张照片是长大以后,我想要做的事
(Laughter) （笑声）
The brown building is the one you guys have been looking at and I'll tell you where I made my big mistake. 那个棕色的大楼你们看到了吧, 我告诉你们,我在它身上犯了一个巨大的错误。
I had a chance to buy this whole industrial park -- which is less than 1,000 feet from the riverfront -- for four million dollars and I didn't do it. 我曾经有机会把整个园区 --距河边不到1000英尺-- 以400万美元的价格买下来,但是我没有买。
riverfront:n.河边陆地;河边地区;
And I built the first building, and guess what happened? 你们知道在我修好第一个楼后发生了什么吗？
I appreciated the real estate values beyond everybody's expectations and the owners of the park turned me down for eight million dollars last year, and said, "Mr. Strickland, 我让这块地的地价涨得超出了所有人的想象, 去年我出价800万美元要买下整个园区,园区的所有者拒绝了。 他说:“斯特里克兰先生,
appreciated:v.欣赏;感激;理解;(appreciate的过去分词和过去式) real estate:n.房地产;不动产;
you ought to get the Civic Leader of the Year Award because you've appreciated our property values beyond our wildest expectations. 你应该得到年度领袖大奖, 因为你让我的地价升值到 超出了我们想象的程度,
Civic:adj.市的;公民的,市民的;
Thank you very much for that." 非常感谢你。”
The moral of the story is you must be prepared to act on your dreams, just in case they do come true. 这个故事告诉人们,人们要对他们所梦想的事情做好准备, 以免梦想有机会成真的时候措手不及。
moral:n.寓意;品行;教益;adj.道德的;道义上的;道德上的;品行端正的; just in case:以防万一;作为准备;
And finally , there's this picture. 最后,请看这张照片。
finally:adv.终于;最终;(用于列举)最后;彻底地;
This is in a place called San Francisco. 这个楼建在旧金山。
And the reason this picture's in here is 我放这张照片的原因是,
I did this slide show a couple years ago at a big economics summit , and there was a fellow in the audience who came up to me. 几年前我在一个很大的经济峰会上作一个幻灯片秀时, 观众里一个人找到我,
summit:n.峰会;山顶;顶点;最高点;
He said, "Man, that's a great story. 他说:“那个故事真的很棒,
I want one of those." 我也想要这样的一座中心。”
I said, "Well, I'm very flattered . What do you do for a living?" 我说“很荣幸,请问你是做哪一行的？”
flattered:adj.感到满意的,觉得荣幸的; v.奉承; (flatter的过去式和过去分词)
He says, "I run the city of San Francisco. 他说:“我经营一个城市,叫旧金山。
My name's Willie Brown." 我叫威利布朗。”
And so I kind of accepted the flattery and the praise and put it out of my mind. 我随便的接受了他的表扬 就把这事儿抛在脑后了。
flattery:n.奉承;谄媚;恭维话;
And that weekend, I was going back home and Herbie Hancock was playing our center that night -- first time I'd met him. 那一周的周末,我正准备回家, Herbie Hancock晚上要在中心表演 那是我第一次和他见面。
And he walked in and he says, "What is this?" 他来到中心,说:“这是怎么回事？”
And I said, "Herbie, this is my concept of a training center for poor people." 我说:“赫比（Herbie）,穷人的培训中心 就该是这个样子的。
And he said, "As God as my witness , 他说:“上帝作证,
witness:n.证人;目击者;证据;v.目击;证明;为…作证;
I've had a center like this in my mind for 25 years and you've built it. 我想要建这样一个培训中心想了有25年了,现在你却实现了它。
And now I really want to build one." 现在我真想修一个。”
I said, "Well, where would you build this thing?" 我说:“那...你要把它修在哪呢？”
He said, "San Francisco." 他说:“旧金山。”
I said, "Any chance you know Willie Brown?" 我说:“认识威利布朗吗？”
(Laughter) （笑声）
As a matter of fact he did know Willie Brown, and Willie Brown and Herbie and I had dinner four years ago, and we started drawing out that center on the tablecloth . 实际上,他确实认识威利布朗。 威利布朗、赫比和我四年前一起吃晚餐, 我们开始在桌布上描绘那个中心的蓝图。
As a matter of fact:事实上; tablecloth:n.桌布;台布;
And Willie Brown said, "As sure as I'm the mayor of San Francisco, 威利布朗说:“我以旧金山市市长的名义保证,
mayor:n.市长;镇长;
I'm going to build this thing as a legacy to the poor people of this city." 我要修建这个学校, 把它送给我们这座城市里的穷人。”
legacy:n.遗赠,遗产;
And he got me five acres of land on San Francisco Bay and we got an architect and we got a general contractor and we got Herbie on the board, and our friends from HP, and our friends from Steelcase, 他批给我旧金山湾附近5英亩的土地, 我们还从其他人那里得到了帮助,比如一位设计师,一个总承包商, 我们还有Herbie, 惠普的朋友,Steelcase公司的朋友,
contractor:n.承包人;立契约者;
and our friends from Cisco , and our friends from Wells Fargo and Genentech. 思科(Cisco)的朋友,以及富国银行 和Genentech的朋友。
Cisco:n.加拿大白鲑(一种青鱼);Cisco公司(是企业网络产品的全球领先供应商); Fargo:n.法戈(美国北达科他州东南部城市);
And along the way, I met this real short guy at my slide show in the Silicon Valley. 在硅谷做演讲时, 我认识了一个个子很矮的人。
He came up to me afterwards, he said, "Man, that's a fabulous story. 演讲结束后,他找到我 说:“你的故事真实太精彩了,
fabulous:adj.难以置信的;传说的,寓言中的;极好的;
I want to help you." 我想帮助你。”
And I said, "Well, thank you very much for that. 我说:“非常感谢你能帮助我们,
What do you do for a living?" 您是做哪一行的呢？”
He said, "Well, I built a company called eBay." 他说:“我开了一家公司,叫EBAY。”
I said, "Well, that's very nice. 我说:“太好了。
Thanks very much, and give me your card and sometime we'll talk." 非常感谢你,请给我你的名片,我们将来可以聊聊。”
I didn't know eBay from that jar of water sitting on that piano, but I had the presence of mind to go back and talk to one of the techie kids at my center. 我当时还不知道EBAY这家公司。 不过,谨慎起见, 我还是问了一下学校里的一些懂技术的学生,
techie:n.高科技专家;热衷电子学的电子迷;技师;
I said, "Hey man, what is eBay?" 我说:“喂,EBAY是什么啊？”
He said, "Well, that's the electronic commerce network." 他说:“EBAY是一家网上商务公司。”
electronic:adj.电子的;电子器件的;电子设备的; commerce:n.商业;(尤指国际间的)贸易;商务;
I said, "Well, I met the guy who built the thing and he left me his card." 我说:“我见过这家公司的老板, 他给我留了名片。”
So, I called him up on the phone and I said, "Mr. Skoll, 我打电话给他说:“Skoll先生,
I've come to have a much deeper appreciation of who you are 恕我有眼不识泰山
appreciation:n.升值;欣赏;感谢;增值;
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and I'd like to become your friend." 我愿意和你交朋友。”
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And Jeff and I did become friends, and he's organized a team of people and we're going to build this center. 我和杰夫后来真的成为了朋友, 他已经组织好一班人马, 我们要开始修这个中心了。
organized:adj.有组织的; v.组织; (organize的过去分词和过去式)
And I went down into the neighborhood called Bayview-Hunters Point, and I said, "The mayor sent me down here to work with you and I want to build a center with you, but I'm not going to build you anything if you don't want it. 然后我去来到将要修学校的社区,那地方叫 Bayview-Hunters Point, 我说:“市长派我来和你们一来工作, 我想和你们一起修这个培训中心, 但是,如果你们不愿意,那我们就不修了。
And all I've got is a box of slides." 我唯一用来说服你们的东西就是一盒子幻灯片。”
And so I stood up in front of 200 very angry, very disappointed people on a summer night, and the air conditioner had broken and it was 100 degrees outside, and I started showing these pictures. 于是,在一个夏夜里,我站在200个非常愤怒非常沮丧的人前面, 屋里的空调坏了, 外面的温度有华氏100度, 我开始给他们放这些幻灯片。
air conditioner:n.空调;
And after about 10 pictures they all settled down. 看过10张照片后,他们就都静了下来,
settled:adj.稳定的; v.结束; (settle的过去分词和过去式)
And I ran the story and I said, "What do you think?" 我把我的故事讲给他们听,最后说:“你们觉得怎么样？”
And in the back of the room, a woman stood up and she said, "In 35 years of living in this God forsaken place, you're the only person that's come down here and treated us with dignity. 在房间的后面,一位女士站起来说: “我在这个被上帝遗弃的地方生活了35年, 你是唯一拿我们当人看的人。
forsaken:adj.被抛弃的;孤独凄凉的;v.遗弃(forsake的过去分词);抛弃(思想等);
I'm going with you, man." 我跟定你了。”
And she turned that audience around on a pin . 她影响了当时所有的观众。
pin:n.大头针;饰针;旗杆;胸针;v.别上;使不能动弹;按住;钳住;
And I promised these people that I was going to build this thing, and we're going to build it all right. 我向这些人保证,我们不仅要修 而且要把它修好。
And I think we can get in the ground this year as the first replication of the center in Pittsburgh. 我想我们今年就能开始修建了 这座学校将以匹兹堡培训中心为模型来修建。
replication:n.复制;回答;反响;
But I met a guy named Quincy Jones along the way and I showed him the box of slides. 后来我碰见了Quincy Jones, 给他看了这盒幻灯片。
And Quincy said, "I want to help you, man. Quincy说:“我想帮助你,
Let's do one in L.A." 我们在洛杉矶也建一个吧。”
And so he's assembled a group of people. 然后他也组织了一批人
assembled:v.聚集;集合;收集;装配;组装;(assemble的过去分词和过去式)
And I've fallen in love with him, as I have with Herbie and with his music. 然后我像爱上了他 如同我爱上Herbie和他的音乐一样
And Quincy said, "Where did the idea for centers like this come from?" Quincy说:“修建这样的培训中心的想法是从哪来的呢？”
And I said, "It came from your music, man. 我说:“这都来自你的音乐。
Because Mr. Ross used to bring in your albums when I was 16 years old in the pottery class, when the world was all dark, and your music got me to the sunlight." 当我16岁时在制陶课上, 当世界还是一片漆黑的时候, ROSS先生带来你的专辑, 你的专辑让我回到了阳光里。”
And I said, "If I can follow that music, 我说:“随着那些音乐,
I'll get out into the sunlight and I'll be OK. 我就重新沐浴在阳光下,我就会好起来。
And if that's not true, how did I get here?" 如果不是那样的话,我怎么会取得现在的成就？”
I want you all to know that I think the world is a place that's worth living. 我想让你们所有人都明白: 我认为,这个世界是值得我们生活的地方。
I believe in you. 我相信你们,
I believe in your hopes and your dreams, 我相信你们的希望、你们的梦想。
I believe in your intelligence and I believe in your enthusiasm. 我相信你们的才智, 我相信你们的热情。
intelligence:n.智力;智慧;才智;(尤指关于敌国的)情报;
And I'm tired of living like this, going into town after town with people standing around on corners with holes where eyes used to be, their spirits damaged. 我厌倦了这样的生活方式: 来到一座又一座城市,人们站在街角, 眼睛里是空洞的眼神,没有魂魄。
We won't make it as a country unless we can turn this thing around. 不扭转这种状况的话,我们又怎么能成为一个国家呢？
In Pennsylvania it costs 60,000 dollars to keep people in jail , most of whom look like me. 在宾夕法尼亚,把那些看起来我一样的人 关在监狱里要花6万美元。
jail:n.监狱;监牢;拘留所;v.监禁;下狱;
It's 40,000 dollars to build the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. 但是修匹兹堡大学医学院才花4万美元。
It's 20,000 dollars cheaper to build a medical school than to keep people in jail. 建医学院比把人关进监狱还要少花2万美元。
Do the math -- it will never work. 你们算算,靠把人关起来永远都没用。
Do the math:盘算一下;
I am banking on you and I'm banking on guys like Herbie and Quincy and Hackett and Richard and very decent people who still believe in something. 我要向你们寻求帮助, 和那些还有一点信仰的好人寻求帮助。
decent:adj.正派的;得体的;相当好的;
And I want to do this in my lifetime, in every city and in every town. 我希望在每一个城市,每一个小镇,都做这个事业,并为之付出一生。
And I don't think I'm crazy. 我认为我并没有发疯。
I think we can get home on this thing and I think we can build these all over the country for less money than we're spending on prisons. 我觉得我们能把这些东西带回家里, 我想我们可以在全国各处 花费比修监狱更少的钱修建这些学校
And I believe we can turn this whole story around to one of celebration and one of hope. 我相信,我们能把人们的悲惨生活 转变成一个圆满的大结局。
In my business it's very difficult work. 这种工作难度很大--
You're always fighting upstream like a salmon -- never enough money, too much need -- and so there is a tendency to have an occupational depression that accompanies my work. 你们都像鲑鱼一样要力争上游, 钱永远都不够,需要办的总是太多。 所以容易产生 一种职业性的抑郁。
upstream:adv.逆流地;向上游;adj.向上游的;逆流而上的;n.上游部门; occupational:adj.职业的;占领的; depression:n.沮丧;洼地;不景气;忧愁; accompanies:v.陪同;陪伴;与…同时发生;为…伴奏;(accompany的第三人称单数)
And so I've figured out, over time, the solution to the depression: you make a friend in every town and you'll never be lonely. 长久以来,我终于找到了一个避免这种抑郁的办法 那就是在每一个城镇都交一个朋友,这样你就永远都不会感到孤单。
And my hope is that I've made a few here tonight. 我希望,我今天晚上在这儿也能交一些朋友。
And thanks for listening to what I had to say. 感谢大家听我的故事。
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