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HetainPatel_2013G-_我是谁_
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| Hetain Patel: (In Chinese) |
赫顿 帕塔尔: (中文） |
| Yuyu Rau: Hi, I'm Hetain. I'm an artist. |
饶宇玉: 你好！我叫赫顿,我是个艺术家。 |
| And this is Yuyu, who is a dancer I have been working with. |
这是宇玉, 她是与我合作的舞蹈家 |
| I have asked her to translate for me. |
我请她来为我翻译 |
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translate:v.翻译;被翻译;被译成;(使)转变;
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| HP: (In Chinese) |
赫顿: (中文） |
| YR: If I may, I would like to tell you a little bit about myself and my artwork. |
宇玉: 如果可以的话 我想向你们 简单介绍一下我自己 和我的艺术作品 |
| HP: (In Chinese) |
赫顿: (中文） |
| YR: I was born and raised near Manchester, in England, but I'm not going to say it in English to you, because I'm trying to avoid any assumptions that might be made from my northern accent . |
宇玉: 我在英格兰城市曼彻斯特周边 出生长大 出生长大 因为我要避免任何由于我的北方口音 而对我本人作出的任何设想 |
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assumptions:n.假定;假设;承担;获得;(assumption的复数) accent:n.口音;重音;强调;特点;重音符号;v.强调;重读;带…口音讲话;
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| (Laughter) |
（笑） |
| HP: (In Chinese) |
赫顿: (中文） |
| YR: The only problem with masking it with Chinese Mandarin is I can only speak this paragraph, which I have learned by heart when I was visiting in China. (Laughter) |
宇玉:用中文（普通话）掩饰我来自哪里 的唯一问题就是 我只会说这一段话 这是我在中国游历期间 通过背诵学到的。（笑） |
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Mandarin:n.(中国)普通话;国语;官话;满清官吏;柑橘;adj.紧身马褂的;
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| So all I can do is keep repeating it in different tones and hope you won't notice. |
因此我所能做的就是用不同的语调来重复这段话 希望你们都不会察觉到 |
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tones:n.声调;基本音色(tone的复数);v.调节音调(tone的第三人称单数);
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| (Laughter) |
（笑） |
| HP: (In Chinese) |
赫顿:（中文） |
| (Laughter) |
（笑） |
| YR: Needless to say, I would like to apologize to any Mandarin speakers in the audience. |
宇玉:毫无疑问,我想要对那些说中文的观众 表示歉意 |
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Needless:adj.不必要的,不需要的;多余的,无用的;
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| As a child, I would hate being made to wear the Indian kurta pajama , because I didn't think it was very cool. |
在我是孩子的时候,我讨厌 穿着印度无领长袖睡衣 因为我认为这一点儿也不酷 |
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kurta:n.无领长袖衬衫(等于khurta); pajama:n.睡衣;宽长裤;
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| It felt a bit girly to me, like a dress, and it had this baggy trouser part you had to tie really tight to avoid the embarrassment of them falling down. |
我认为这服饰太女性化了,像一条裙子 裤子这块儿像个布兜 你必须系得很紧 以免它尴尬地滑落 |
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girly:adj.像少女的; baggy:adj.袋状的,膨胀的;宽松而下垂的; trouser:n.裤子;v.收受;赚得;adj.裤子的; embarrassment:n.窘迫,难堪;使人为难的人或事物;拮据;
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| My dad never wore it, so I didn't see why I had to. |
我爸爸从来不穿这种服饰 所以我找不到任何穿着它的理由 |
| Also, it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable, that people assume I represent something genuinely Indian when I wear it, because that's not how I feel. |
并且,这服装让我感到有些不舒服 穿着它的时候人们会假设 我代表了某些印度的元素 但那不是我所感受到的 |
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assume:v.承担;假定;采取;呈现; represent:v.代表;表现;描绘;回忆;再赠送; genuinely:adv.真诚地;诚实地;
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| HP: (In Chinese) |
赫顿:（中文） |
| YR: Actually, the only way I feel comfortable wearing it is by pretending they are the robes of a kung fu warrior like Li Mu Bai from that film, " Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ." |
宇玉:事实上,唯一能让我 自然地穿着它的时候,是假装 它是功夫勇士里面的某种长袍 就像电影《卧虎藏龙》中的李慕白那样。 就像电影《卧虎藏龙》中的李慕白那样。 |
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robes:n.长袍;礼服;v.(使)穿上长袍,礼服等(robe的第三人称单数); warrior:n.勇士; Crouching:v.蹲;蹲下;蹲伏;(crouch的现在分词) Dragon:n.龙;悍妇;母夜叉;
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| (Music) |
（音乐） |
| Okay. |
好的 |
| So my artwork is about identity and language, challenging common assumptions based on how we look like or where we come from, gender , race, class. |
所以 我的艺术作品讨论的是身份认同以及语言, 挑战常见的刻板印象 这些假设 基于我们的外表和我们来自哪里 性别 种族 阶级 |
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identity:n.身份;同一性,一致;特性;恒等式; gender:n.性别;
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| What makes us who we are anyway? |
究竟什么让我们每个人显得独特？ |
| HP: (In Chinese) |
赫顿:（中文） |
| YR: I used to read Spider-Man comics, watch kung fu movies, take philosophy lessons from Bruce Lee. |
我看蜘蛛侠漫画 看功夫电影 从李小龙那里学习哲学 |
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philosophy:n.哲学;哲理;人生观;
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| He would say things like -- |
他会说这类的话 |
| HP: Empty your mind. |
赫顿:排除你的杂念 |
| (Laughter) |
（笑） |
| Be formless , shapeless , like water. |
无形 似水 |
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formless:adj.没有形状的;无定形的;形体不明的; shapeless:adj.不成形的;不定形的;不象样的;
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| Now you put water into a cup. |
现在你把水倒在一个杯子里 |
| It becomes the cup. |
水就是杯子的形状 |
| You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. |
你把水倒在瓶子里,它就是瓶子的形状 |
| Put it in a teapot , it becomes the teapot. |
把水倒在茶壶里,它就是茶壶的形状 |
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teapot:n.茶壶;小题大做;
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| Now, water can flow or it can crash. |
水可以是流动的 亦可以承受撞击 |
| Be water, my friend. (Applause) |
像水一样吧,我的朋友 （鼓掌） |
| YR: This year, I am 32 years old, the same age Bruce Lee was when he died. |
这一年,我32岁, 李小龙就是在他32岁那年去世的 |
| I have been wondering recently , if he were alive today, what advice he would give me about making this TED Talk. |
我时常在想 如果他今天还活着 他会给我做这个TED演讲 提出怎样的建议 |
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recently:adv.最近;新近;
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| HP: Don't imitate my voice. |
赫顿:不要学我的口音 |
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imitate:v.模仿;仿效;模仿(某人的讲话、举止);作滑稽模仿;
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| It offends me. |
这会冒犯到我 |
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offends:v.得罪;冒犯;犯罪;犯法;(offend的第三人称单数)
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| (Laughter) |
（笑） |
| YR: Good advice, but I still think that we learn who we are by copying others. |
宇玉:好建议 但我还是认为我们可以通过模仿他人 来了解我们自己是谁 |
| Who here hasn't imitated their childhood hero in the playground, or mum or father? |
在场的人里 谁没模仿过他们的儿时偶像呢 或者他们的妈妈 爸爸 |
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imitated:adj.模仿的;仿造的;v.仿效;仿制(imitate的过去分词);类似; childhood:n.童年;幼年;孩童时期
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| I have. |
我模仿过 |
| HP: A few years ago, in order to make this video for my artwork, I shaved off all my hair so that I could grow it back as my father had it when he first emigrated from India to the U.K. in the 1960s. |
赫顿:几年前,为了制作这段影片 来展现我的艺术思考,我剃光了自己的头发 那样我就可以像我的父亲那样 等待它慢慢长出来 像我的父亲刚从印度移民来英国时那样 那是在1960年代 |
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shaved:v.剃(须发);(尤指)刮脸;(少量地)削减;(shave的过去分词和过去式) emigrated:v.移居国外;移民;(emigrate的过去分词和过去式)
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| He had a side parting and a neat mustache. |
他有着偏分的发型和利落的胡子 |
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neat:adj.整洁的;整齐的;有序的;有条理的;
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| At first, it was going very well. |
刚开始进展很顺利 |
| I even started to get discounts in Indian shops. |
我甚至可以在印度商店拿到折扣 |
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discounts:n.优惠,折价; v.打折扣(discount的三单形式);
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| (Laughter) |
（笑） |
| But then very quickly, |
但是很快 |
| I started to underestimate my mustache growing ability, and it got way too big. |
我发现自己低估了 胡子的生长速度 我的胡子长得太快了 |
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underestimate:v.低估;看轻;n.低估;
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| It didn't look Indian anymore. |
不再像印度人了 |
| Instead, people from across the road, they would shout things like -- |
路对面的人们 开始对我吼叫 |
| HP and YR: Arriba ! Arriba ! ándale! ándale! |
赫顿和宇玉:阿里巴 阿里巴 安德烈 安德烈 |
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Arriba:阿锐巴(美国地名);
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| (Laughter) |
（笑） |
| HP: Actually, I don't know why I am even talking like this. |
赫顿:事实上我不知道为什么我要用这样的口音说话 |
| My dad doesn't even have an Indian accent anymore. |
我的父亲的印度口音早就消失了 |
| He talks like this now. |
他说话的口音就像现在这样 |
| So it's not just my father that I've imitated. |
我模仿的对象并不只有我父亲而已 |
| A few years ago I went to China for a few months, and I couldn't speak Chinese, and this frustrated me, so I wrote about this and had it translated into Chinese, and then I learned this by heart, like music, I guess. |
几年前 我去中国住了几个月 我不会说中文 这让我有挫败感 所以我写了这些话 将它们翻译成中文,用心记住 我猜 就像学习音乐那样 |
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frustrated:adj.失意的,挫败的;泄气的;v.挫败;阻挠;(frustrate的过去式和过去分词)
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| YR: This phrase is now etched into my mind clearer than the pin number to my bank card , so I can pretend I speak Chinese fluently . |
宇玉:这句话现在深深地刻在我脑海里 甚至比我的银行卡密码还清晰 所以我假装自己会说流利的中文 |
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etched:v.蚀刻,凿出;(脸上)流露出;铭刻;画出…的轮廓(etch的过去分词和过去式) pin:n.大头针;饰针;旗杆;胸针;v.别上;使不能动弹;按住;钳住; bank card:n.支票保付卡;取款机提款卡;银行信用卡; fluently:adv.流利地;通畅地;
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| When I had learned this phrase, |
当我学这段话的时候 |
| I had an artist over there hear me out to see how accurate it sounded. |
我有个艺术家在那里听我说 然后看我对这段话的表达有多精确 |
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accurate:adj.精确的;
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| I spoke the phrase, and then he laughed and told me, "Oh yeah, that's great, only it kind of sounds like a woman." |
我说了这段话,然后他笑了 并告诉我 “太棒了, 只是听起来有些女性化” |
| I said, "What?" |
我说 “什么？” |
| He said, "Yeah, you learned from a woman?" |
他说 “你是不是从一位女士那里学来的这段话？” |
| I said, "Yes. So?" |
我说 “是的。那又怎样？” |
| He then explained the tonal differences between male and female voices are very different and distinct , and that I had learned it very well, but in a woman's voice. |
他紧接着解释了 男女之间语气的差异 非常不同,有着很明显的区别, 我学得非常好,只是用了女性的语气 |
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tonal:adj.色调的;音调的; female:adj.女性的;雌性的;柔弱的,柔和的;n.女人;[动]雌性动物; distinct:adj.明显的;独特的;清楚的;有区别的;
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| (Laughter) |
（笑） |
| (Applause) |
（鼓掌） |
| HP: Okay. So this imitation business does come with risk. |
赫顿:好的 模仿他人 是具有一定风险的事情 |
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imitation:n.模仿;仿制品;赝品;效仿;
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| It doesn't always go as you plan it, even with a talented translator. |
它并不总是像你计划的那样 即使你有一个有才华的翻译 |
| But I am going to stick with it, because contrary to what we might usually assume, imitating somebody can reveal something unique . |
但是我会坚持下去 因为这和我们常有的假设是相悖的 模仿他人这个举动可以揭示某种特别的东西 |
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I am going to:我将要做什么事情 contrary:adj.相反的;对立的;adv.相反地;n.相反;反面; imitating:v.模仿;仿效;冒充;(imitate的现在分词) reveal:v.显示;透露;揭露;泄露;n.揭露;暴露;门侧,窗侧; unique:adj.独特的,稀罕的;[数]唯一的;n.独一无二的人或物;
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| So every time I fail to become more like my father, |
所以 每次 未能成功模仿我的父亲 |
| I become more like myself. |
使我越发地像我自己 |
| Every time I fail to become Bruce Lee, |
未能成功模仿李小龙 |
| I become more authentically me. |
令我成为更真实的自己 |
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authentically:adv.真正地,确实地;可靠地;
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| This is my art. |
这就是我的艺术 |
| I strive for authenticity , even if it comes in a shape that we might not usually expect. |
我为了真实抗争 即使以一种 我们并不常期待的形式 |
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strive for:争取,奋斗; authenticity:n.真实性,确实性;可靠性;
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| It's only recently that I've started to understand that I didn't learn to sit like this through being Indian. |
直至最近,我才开始懂得 这样蹲着的姿势 并不是印度人的特征 |
| I learned this from Spider-Man. |
这样的姿势 我是从蜘蛛侠那里学来的 |
| (Laughter) |
（笑） |
| Thank you. |
谢谢 |
| (Applause) |
（鼓掌） |