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We live in a world increasingly tyrannized by the screen, by our phones, by our tablets , by our televisions and our computers. 我们身处的世界 正慢慢被屏幕所主宰, 电话、平板、电视和电脑 正充斥着我们的生活,
increasingly:adv.越来越多地;渐增地; tyrannized:vi.施行暴政;欺压;vt.施行虐政;欺压; tablets:n.药片;片剂;(固定于墙上作纪念的)牌,碑,匾;(tablet的第三人称单数和复数)
We can have any experience that we want, but feel nothing. 我们可以拥有任何想要的体验, 却什么也感受不到。
We can have as many friends as we want, but have nobody to shake hands with. 我们要多少朋友 就可以有多少朋友, 但却无法与之握手。
I want to take you to a different kind of world, the world of the imagination , where, using this most powerful tool that we have, we can transform both our physical surroundings , but in doing so, we can change forever how we feel and how we feel about the people that we share the planet with. 我想带你去一个不同的世界, 想象的世界, 在这里我们可以使用最强大的工具, 我们可以改变我们的外在环境, 但这么做,也会 彻底改变我们的感受, 以及改变我们对周围人的看法。
imagination:n.想象;想象力;创造力;想象的事物; transform:v.使改变;使改观;使转换;n.[数]变换式;[化]反式; physical:adj.[物]物理的;身体的;物质的;符合自然法则的;n.体格检查; surroundings:n.周围的环境;环境;(surrounding的复数)
My company, Artichoke , which I cofounded in 2006, was set up to create moments. 我的公司,Artichoke, 创建于 2006 年, 致力于创造精彩瞬间。
Artichoke:n.洋蓟,球蓟(圆形蔬菜,绿色厚叶基部及茎内部均可食用);
We all have moments in our lives, and when we're on our deathbeds , we're not going to remember the daily commute to work on the number 38 bus or our struggle to find a parking space every day when we go to the shop. 在生活中我们都有这样的 精彩瞬间,当我们临终时, 我们想起的不是 每天上班所搭载的交通工具, 38 路公交车, 或是当我们去购物时候, 为了找一个停车位焦头烂额。
deathbeds:n.临终之时;临死所卧之床;adj.临终时作的; commute:v.减刑;交换;通勤;代偿;n.通勤(口语);
We're going to remember those moments when our kid took their first step or when we got picked for the football team or when we fell in love. 我们会想起的时刻是 我们的孩子第一次学会走路, 或是当我们被选拔进足球队, 或者是我们坠入爱河的时候。
So Artichoke exists to create moving, ephemeral moments that transform the physical world using the imagination of the artist to show us what is possible. 所以,Artichoke 的存在 就是去创造感动的短暂瞬间, 它通过艺术家的想象 去改变真实的世界, 来向我们展示一切的可能。
ephemeral:adj.短暂的;朝生暮死的;n.只生存一天的事物;
We create beauty amongst ruins . 我们在废墟中创造美丽,
amongst:prep.在…之中;在…当中(等于among); ruins:n.遗迹(ruin的复数形式);废墟;v.毁灭(ruin的三单形式);
We reexamine our history. 我们重新审视我们的历史。
reexamine:v.复试(审查);
We create moments to which everyone is invited, either to witness or to take part. 我们邀请所有人来见证或参与 我们所创作的这些动人时刻。
witness:n.证人;目击者;证据;v.目击;证明;为…作证;
It all started for me way back in the 1990s, when I was appointed as festival director in the tiny British city of Salisbury. 这一切都开始于 1990 年, 当我被指派为英国小城 索尔兹伯里的庆典导演,
appointed:adj.(时间)指定的,约定的; v.任命; (appoint的过去分词和过去式)
You'll probably have heard of it. 你可能听说过这个城市。
Here's the Salisbury Cathedral , and here's the nearby Stonehenge Monument , which is world-famous . 这个是索尔兹伯里大教堂, 而这是附近的巨石阵纪念碑。 世界著名的景点。
Cathedral:n.大教堂; nearby:adj.附近的,邻近的;adv.在附近;prep.在…附近; Stonehenge:巨石阵 Monument:n.丰碑;纪念碑(或馆、堂、像等);历史遗迹;有历史价值的建筑; world-famous:adj.举世闻名的;
Salisbury is a city that's been dominated for hundreds of years by the Church, the Conservative Party and the army. 数百年来,索尔兹伯里这座城市 以及军队所主导。 以及军队所主导。
dominated:v.支配;控制;左右;影响;(dominate的过去式和过去分词) Conservative Party:n.保守党(英国主要政党之一,尤其信奉自由企业制度及产业私有化);
It's a place where people really love to observe the rules. 这个地方的人们 非常热衷于遵守法律。
observe:v.观察;看到;庆祝;监视;
So picture me on my first year in the city, cycling the wrong way down a one-way street, late. 可以想象一下,在我任职第一年, 骑着车子误入了一条 单行道逆行,还迟到。
one-way:adj.单程的;单行道的;单方面的;
I'm always late. 我总是迟到,
It's a wonder I've even turned up today. 我今天能按时出现在这里 都是个奇迹了。
(Laughter) （笑声）
A little old lady on the sidewalk helpfully shouted at me, "My dear, you're going the wrong way!" 一个小老太太在路边 热心地对我大喊, “亲爱的,你走错道儿啦！”
sidewalk:n.人行道; helpfully:adv.有益地;有用地;
Charmingly -- I thought -- I said, "Yeah, I know." 我当时觉得她很可爱, 于是我说:“是,我知道。”
Charmingly:adv.迷人地;快乐地;
'"I hope you die!" she screamed. 她冲我喊道, “我希望你被撞死。”
(Laughter) （笑声）
And I realized that this was a place where I was in trouble. 我当时意识到 我住在这里麻烦大了。
And yet, a year later, persuasion , negotiation -- everything I could deploy -- saw me producing the work. 然而,一年之后, 经过劝说,协商—— 使劲一切招数—— 我的作品终于完成了。
persuasion:n.说服;说服力;信念;派别; negotiation:n.谈判;转让;顺利的通过; deploy:v.部署;利用;[军事]展开;(使)张开;
Not a classical concert in a church or a poetry reading, but the work of a French street theater company who were telling the story of Faust , "Mephistomania," on stilts , complete with handheld pyrotechnics . 它既不是教堂里的古典音乐会 也不是诗歌会, 而是在一家法国街头剧团的作品, 这家戏剧公司讲的 都是关于浮士德的故事。 《邪灵狂欢》这部剧以踩高跷, 手上拿着烟火棒的方式演出。
classical:adj.古典的;经典的;传统的;第一流的;n.古典音乐; poetry:n.诗;诗意,诗情;诗歌艺术; Faust:n.浮士德(歌德同名悲剧著作的主人公); stilts:n.桩子,支柱;高跷;(stilt的复数) handheld:adj.掌上型;手持型; pyrotechnics:n.烟火制造术;烟火使用;各种烟火;
The day after, the same little old lady stopped me in the street and said, "Were you responsible for last night?" 那天之后,还是同一位 小老太太叫住了我和我说: “昨天晚上的演出是你负责吗？”
responsible:adj.负责的,可靠的;有责任的;
I backed away. 我吓得后退了一步,
(Laughter) （笑声）
'"Yes." 我说,“是的。”
'"When I heard about it," she said, "I knew it wasn't for me. “之前听人说的时候,” 她说, “我觉得我不会喜欢。
But Helen, my dear, it was." 但是,海伦,我好喜欢。”
So what had happened? 到底发生了什么呢？
Curiosity had triumphed over suspicion , and delight had banished anxiety . 好奇心战胜了质疑, 喜悦驱散了焦虑。
Curiosity:n.好奇,好奇心;珍品,古董,古玩; triumphed:v.打败;战胜;成功;(triumph的过去式和过去分词) suspicion:n.怀疑;嫌疑;疑心;一点儿;v.怀疑; delight:n.高兴;vi.高兴;vt.使高兴; banished:v.放逐;流放;赶走;驱除;(banish的过去分词和过去式) anxiety:n.焦虑;渴望;挂念;令人焦虑的事;
So I wondered how one could transfer these ideas to a larger stage and started on a journey to do the same kind of thing to London. 因此我开始思索该怎么 把这些想法搬到更大的舞台上, 于是开始把同样的计划带去伦敦。
transfer:n.转移;调任;调离;[体]转会球员;v.调任;调走;转学;转移; journey:n.旅行;行程;vi.旅行;
Imagine: it's a world city. 想象一下:在一个世界级的城市。
Like all our cities, it's dedicated to toil , trade and traffic. 就像所有的繁忙城市一样, 到处都是人群,交易和拥挤的交通。
dedicated:adj.献身的; v.把…奉献给; (dedicate的过去分词和过去式) toil:n.辛苦;苦工;网;圈套;v.辛苦工作;艰难地行进;
It's a machine to get you to work on time and back, and we're all complicit in wanting the routines to be fixed and for everybody to be able to know what's going to happen next. 它好似一个不停歇的机器 督促着你准时上下班。 而且我们都希望走固定的路线, 任何人都能知道即将发生的事情。
complicit:adj.有同谋关系的,串通一气的;
And yet, what if this amazing city could be turned into a stage, a platform for something so unimaginable that would somehow transform people's lives? 那么,我们是否可以把 这个了不起的城市打造成一个舞台, 一个不可思议的大舞台, 以某种方式去改变人们的生活？
what if:如果…怎么办? platform:n.平台; v.把…放在台上[放在高处; unimaginable:adj.不可思议的;难以想像的; somehow:adv.以某种方法;莫名其妙地;
We do these things often in Britain. 我们在英国经常这样做。
I'm sure you do them wherever you're from. 我相信在你所在地方 也经常这样做,
Here's Horse Guards Parade . 这个是骑兵游行卫队。
Parade:n.阅兵;游行;炫耀;检阅;v.游行;展览;游行庆祝;游行示威;
And here's something that we do often. It's always about winning things. 在这里,我们经常组织赛事 或盛典,它们总是关乎胜利,
It's about the marathon or winning a war or a triumphant cricket team coming home. 这总是关于马拉松 或者取得战争的胜利, 或是有赢得比赛的板球队凯旋,
triumphant:adj.成功的;得意洋洋的;狂欢的; cricket:n.蟋蟀;板球;
We close the streets. Everybody claps . 我们封锁街道,大家都沿街鼓掌,
claps:vt.鼓掌;轻敲(clap的第三人称单数);vi.拍手;发出碰撞声;
But for theater? Not possible. 但是搭建剧院？这是不可能的。
Except a story told by a French company: a saga about a little girl and a giant elephant that came to visit for four days. 唯一例外的故事是 一个法国剧团来此演出, 演的是一个关于小女孩 和一头巨象的故事。 他们一同进城进行为期四天的 游行表演。
saga:n.传说;冒险故事;英雄事迹; giant:n.巨人;伟人;巨兽;adj.巨大的;特大的
And all I had to do was persuade the public authorities that shutting the city for four days was something completely normal. 我需要做的就是劝说有关部门 让他们觉得封锁整个城市 4 天 是件很正常的事情。
persuade:v.说服;劝说;使信服;使相信; authorities:n.权力;威权;职权;批准;(authority的复数)
(Laughter) （笑声）
No traffic, just people enjoying themselves, coming out to marvel and witness this extraordinary artistic endeavor by the French theater company Royal de Luxe . 路上没有车辆, 只有人们在此尽情享受, 走出家门迎接并见证 法国皇家剧团创作的 伟大艺术杰作。
marvel:n.奇迹;vt.对…感到惊异;vi.感到惊讶; extraordinary:adj.非凡的;特别的;离奇的;临时的;特派的; artistic:adj.艺术的;风雅的;有美感的; endeavor:n.v.努力;尽力;试图; Royal:adj.国王的;女王的;皇家的;n.王室成员; de Luxe:adj.高级的;豪华的;
It was a seven-year journey, with me saying to a group of men -- almost always men -- sitting in a room, "Eh, it's like a fairy story with a little girl and this giant elephant, and they come to town for four days and everybody gets to come and watch and play." 这是一个长达 7 年的旅程, 我要去游说一群坐在房间里的男人—— 几乎总是男人在房间里坐着, “哦,剧情就像童话一样, 一个小女孩和一头巨大的大象, 让它们来我们的城里游街 4 天, 然后大家都能出来观赏、游玩。”
fairy:n.仙子;adj.美丽的;优雅的;妖精(一样)的;
And they would go, "Why would we do this? 他们总是会问, “为什么我们要做这些？
Is it for something? 做这些是为了什么呢？
Is it celebrating a presidential visit? 这是在庆祝一个总统的访问吗？
presidential:adj.总统的;首长的;统辖的;
Is it the Entente Cordiale between France and England? 是和英法友好协议有关吗？
Entente Cordiale:n.(尤指英法两国间的)友好关系;
Is it for charity ? Are you trying to raise money?" 这是为了慈善吗,还是为了筹款？”
charity:n.慈善;施舍;慈善团体;宽容;施舍物;
And I'd say, "None of these things." 然后我说, “都不是。”
And they'd say, "Why would we do this?" 他们就说,“那我们为什么做这些呢？”
But after four years, this magic trick, this extraordinary thing happened. 但是四年之后, 这件神奇的事情发生了。
I was sitting in the same meeting I'd been to for four years, saying, "Please, please, may I?" 我出现在了我过去四年来 每年都来的同一个会议上, 以前我总说, “拜托,拜托,我可以组织吗？”
Instead of which, I didn't say, "Please." 只是这次我没有说,“拜托。
I said, "This thing that we've been talking about for such a long time, it's happening on these dates, and I really need you to help me." 我说,“这事情我们 已经讨论了这么长时间了。” 它马上就要真的举办了, 而我需要你们的帮助。”
This magic thing happened. 神奇的事情发生了。
Everybody in the room somehow decided that somebody else had said yes. 房子里的每一个人好像 都以为有人已经做了决定。
(Laughter) （笑声）
(Applause) （鼓掌）
They decided that they were not being asked to take responsibility, or maybe the bus planning manager was being asked to take responsibility for planning the bus diversions , 他们认为他们无需 为此事承担主要责任, 顶多是公共交通处的经理需要协助 计划公交路线的责任。
diversions:n.娱乐活动;转向(diversion的复数);
and the council officer was being asked to close the roads, and the transport for London people were being asked to sort out the Underground. 管理委员会的官员 被要求封锁一些路, 而负责伦敦地铁运输的 要去分流地铁。
council:n.(市、郡等的)政务委员会;市政(或地方管理)服务机构; transport:n.运输;输送;运送;运输机;v.输送;传播;使产生身临其境的感觉;(旧时)流放;
All these people were only being asked to do the thing that they could do that would help us. 这些人只是被要求 去做他们应该做的工作, 这就足够帮助我们了。
Nobody was being asked to take responsibility. 没有人被要求负责。
And I, in my innocence , thought, "Well, I'll take responsibility," 然后我想,我来承担
innocence:n.清白,无罪;天真无邪;
for what turned out to be a million people on the street. 百万的人们出现在街上的责任。
It was our first show. 这是第一场秀。
(Applause) （鼓掌）
It was our first show, and it changed the nature of the appreciation of culture, not in a gallery , not in a theater, not in an opera house , but live and on the streets, 这是我们的第一场秀, 它改变了文化欣赏的本质, 不是在画廊,不在戏院, 更不在歌剧院, 是在街头上的现实演出,
appreciation:n.升值;欣赏;感谢;增值; gallery:n.画廊;走廊;旁听席;地道;v.在…修建走廊;挖地道; opera house:n.歌剧院;
transforming public space for the broadest possible audience, people who would never buy a ticket to see anything. 面向公共的空间 尽可能分享给更多观众。 人们不用买票就可以看到。
transforming:v.使改变形态;使改变外观(或性质);使改观;(transform的现在分词)
So there we were. 到此为止,
We'd finished, and we've continued to produce work of this kind. 我们完成了,并且继续 从事着类似的工作。
As you can see , the company's work is astonishing , but what's also astonishing is the fact that permission was granted. 正如你所见,剧团的作品令人震惊。 但是更让人震惊的是 我们居然被允许这样做,
As you can see:正如你所看到的;你是知道的; astonishing:adj.令人十分惊讶的;v.使十分惊讶;使吃惊;(astonish的现在分词)
And you don't see any security. 你没有看到任何的安保,
And this was nine months after terrible terrorist bombings that had ripped London apart. 而且 9 个月前伦敦才刚刚 发生过爆炸恐怖袭击。
bombings:n.[军]轰炸,[军]投弹;v.轰击;引爆炸弹(bomb的ing形式);
So I began to wonder whether it was possible to do this kind of stuff in even more complicated circumstances . 所以,我开始想是否有可能 在更复杂的环境里 去举办类似的活动。
stuff:n.东西:物品:基本特征:v.填满:装满:标本: complicated:adj.复杂的;难懂的;v.使复杂化;(complicate的过去分词和过去式) circumstances:n.情况;环境;情形;(circumstance的复数)
We turned our attention to Northern Ireland, the North of Ireland, depending on your point of view . 我们开始关注北爱尔兰, 爱尔兰的北边, 当然每个人的理解不一样,
point of view:观点;见地;立场;
This is a map of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, the island to the left. 这是英国的地图,英格兰, 苏格兰,威尔士和爱尔兰。 爱尔兰就是左边的这个岛,
For generations, it's been a place of conflict , the largely Catholic republic in the south and the largely Protestant loyalist community -- hundreds of years of conflict , 这个地区在历史上一直冲突不断。 最大的天主教信奉群体在南边, 主要的新教保皇派—— 数百年来冲突不断,
conflict:n.冲突;矛盾;争执;抵触;v.抵触; largely:adv.主要地;大部分;大量地; Catholic:adj.天主教的;宽宏大量的;n.天主教徒;罗马天主教; Protestant:adj.抗议的;持异议的;n.抗议者;持异议者; loyalist:n.忠诚的人;反对独立者; community:n.社区;[生态]群落;共同体;团体;
British troops on the streets for over 30 years. 英国军队在街上站了 30 年之久。
And now, although there is a peace process , this is today in this city, called Londonderry if you're a loyalist, called Derry if you're a Catholic. 现在呢,尽管现在是和平进程, 现今的这座城市,保皇派 称其为伦敦达利（Londonderry）, 如果你是天主教 会叫它达利（Derry）。
peace process:n.和平进程; Derry:n.民谣;歌谣;民谣中的无意义字眼;
But everybody calls it home. 无论叫什么, 对这里的人来说都是家。
And I began to wonder whether there was a way in which the community tribalism could be addressed through art and the imagination. 我开始去想, 是否能通过艺术和想象的方法 来探讨组织群体的问题。
tribalism:n.部落文化;部落制;部落制度; addressed:v.写(收信人)姓名地址:致函:演说:演讲:向…说话; (address的过去分词和过去式)
This is what the communities do, every summer, each community. 这是每个组织做的事情, 每一个夏天,每个组织都做。
communities:n.社区;社会;团体;共有(community的复数)
This is a bonfire filled with effigies and insignia from the people that they hate on the other side . 这是一个“篝火”, 里面满是他们憎恨的 另一边的人们的肖像和徽章。
bonfire:n.篝火;营火; effigies:n.肖像;雕像(effigy的复数); insignia:n.记号,标志;徽章;荣誉; on the other side:另一面;在另一边;
This is the same from the loyalist community. 这个一样,是忠诚分子做的。
And every summer, they burn them. 每年夏天,他们会点燃
They're right in the center of town. 位于城市中心的这些“篝火”。
So we turned to here, to the Nevada desert, to Burning Man, where people also do bonfires , but with a completely different set of values. 这让我们想到了 美国内达华州的火人节, 人们同样会这点燃“篝火”, 但是却有着不同的意义。
bonfires:n.篝火;营火(bonfire的复数);
Here you see the work of David Best and his extraordinary temples, which are built during the Burning Man event and then incinerated on the Sunday. 这个是大卫 ·贝斯特的作品, 以及他在火人节期间 随即在星期天就把庙宇点燃了。
incinerated:v.把…烧成灰烬;焚毁;(incinerate的过去分词和过去式)
So we invited him and his community to come, and we recruited from both sides of the political and religious divide: young people, unemployed people, people who would never normally come across each other or speak to each other. 因此我们邀请他和他的组织过来, 我们邀请两边有着 不同政治、宗教分歧的人过来, 年轻的人,失业的人, 那些平常拒绝跨界、 拒绝与对方沟通的人 来一起交流。
recruited:v.招聘,雇佣;招募;(recruit的过去分词和过去式) religious:adj.宗教的;虔诚的;严谨的;修道的;n.修道士;尼姑; unemployed:adj.失业的;下岗的;n.(集合词)失业者; normally:adv.正常地;通常地,一般地; come across:偶然遇见;给人以…的印象;
And out of their extraordinary work rose a temple to rival the two cathedrals that exist in the town, one Catholic and one Protestant. 他们凭借非凡的合作 建立了这个庙宇, 规模堪比小镇上 现有的两座大教堂。 一座是天主教教堂, 另一座是新教教堂。
rival:v.与…相匹敌;比得上;adj.竞争的;n.竞争对手; cathedrals:教堂;
But this was a temple to no religion, for everyone, for no community, but for everyone. 这只是个庙宇,不属于任何宗教, 属于每一个人, 不属于任何组织,属于普罗大众。
And we put it in this place where everyone told me nobody would come. 我们把它放在 通常不会有人来的地方。
It was too dangerous. It sat between two communities. 放在两个组织中间,这太危险了。
I just kept saying, "But it's got such a great view." 我总是会说,“但这里景色超好。”
(Laughter) （笑声）
And again, that same old question: 再次回到同样的问题。
Why wouldn't we do this? 我们为什么不做呢？
What you see in the picture is the beginning of 426 primary school children who were walked up the hill by the head teacher , who didn't want them to lose this opportunity. 你在图片里所看到的是 426 名小学生 在老师的带领下来到这里, 老师不想让他们错过这个机会。
primary school:小学; head teacher:校长
And just as happens in the Nevada desert, though in slightly different temperatures, the people of this community, 65,000 of them, turned out to write their grief , their pain, their hope, their hopes for the future, their love. 正如美国内华达沙漠的火人节, 尽管气温有些许不同, 当地社区的六万五千人, 开始写下他们的痛苦,她们的希望, 他们对于未来的心愿, 他们的爱。
slightly:adv.些微地,轻微地;纤细地; grief:n.悲痛;忧伤;不幸;
Because in the end, this is only about love. 因为一切终究都是关于爱。
They live in a post-conflict society: lots of post-traumatic stress, high suicide . 他们生活在一个有冲突的社会中: 创伤后的压力无处不在, 高自杀率。
post-traumatic:adj.受伤后的; suicide:n.自杀;自杀行为;自杀者;adj.自杀的;v.自杀;vi.自杀;
And yet, for this brief moment -- and it would be ridiculous to assume that it was more than that -- somebody like Kevin -- a Catholic whose father was shot when he was nine, upstairs in bed -- 当然,在这短暂的时刻—— 仅此而已—— 像凯文——一个天主教男孩, 他9岁的时候,他的爸爸 被枪杀在楼上房间的床上——
ridiculous:adj.可笑的;荒谬的; assume:v.承担;假定;采取;呈现;
Kevin came to work as a volunteer . 凯文现在做着志愿者工作。
volunteer:n.志愿者;志愿兵;adj.志愿的;v.自愿;
And he was the first person to embrace the elderly Protestant lady who came through the door on the day we opened the temple to the public. 在我们开放庙宇的那一天, 他是第一个去拥抱 新教派中的一位老太太的人。
embrace:n.拥抱,怀抱;v.拥抱;乐意采纳(思想、建议等);信奉;包括; elderly:adj.上了年纪的;过了中年的;稍老的;
It rose up. It sat there for five days. 神庙建起来的五天后,
And then we chose -- from our little tiny band of nonsectarian builders , who had given us their lives for this period of months to make this extraordinary thing -- we chose from them the people who would incinerate it. 我们从当初挑选来的 一小部分无神论者中—— 他们贡献了过去几个月的时间, 来打造这件伟大的作品—— 我们选择由他们来点燃篝火。
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; nonsectarian:adj.无宗派的; builders:n.[建]施工人员(builder的复数);生成器;
And here you see the moment when, witnessed by 15,000 people who turned out on a dark, cold, March evening, the moment when they decided to put their enmity behind them, to inhabit this shared space, 这就是那个时刻。 在超过一万五千人的见证下, 在一个夜黑风高的夜晚, 在这个时刻, 人们把憎恶仇恨抛在脑后, 来一同分享这个家园,
witnessed:v.当场看到,目击;见证;作证;(witness的过去式和过去分词) enmity:n.敌意;憎恨; inhabit:v.居住在;栖居于;
where everybody had an opportunity to say the things that had been unsayable , to say out loud, "You hurt me and my family, but I forgive you." 在这共享的空间里,每个人都有机会 说出他们过去未能说出口的话, 大声的说出来。 “你伤害了我和我的家人, 但我原谅你。”
unsayable:无法言说;不好说的; forgive:v.原谅;免除(债务,义务等);
And together, they watched as members of their community let go of this thing that was so beautiful, but was as hard to let go of as those thoughts and feelings that had gone into making it. 人们一起目睹了 每个群体的代表一同点亮了 当初用心血建成的庙宇, 但那些用来创造它的想法和感受 却很难被割舍。
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Thank you. 谢谢大家。
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