|
|
JoeSabia_2011S-_讲故事的技术_
|
| Ladies and gentlemen, gather around. |
先生们女士们 大家都围坐过来 |
| I would love to share with you a story. |
让我来给你们讲个故事 |
| Once upon a time in 19th century Germany, there was the book. |
很久很久以前 19世纪的德国 有本书 |
|
Once upon a time:从前(常用于故事的开头)
|
| Now during this time, the book was the king of storytelling . |
那时候 这是故事书中的王者 |
|
storytelling:n.讲故事;说谎话;adj.讲故事的;说谎的;
|
| It was venerable . |
故事书很珍贵 |
|
venerable:adj.庄严的,值得尊敬的;珍贵的;
|
| It was ubiquitous . |
但又无处不在 |
|
ubiquitous:adj.普遍存在的;无所不在的;
|
| But it was a little bit boring . |
又有点无趣 |
|
boring:adj.无聊的;令人厌烦的;n.钻孔;v.使厌烦;钻孔;(bore的现在分词)
|
| Because in its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device . |
因为在有故事书的四百年里 讲故事的人们从来没有 改良故事书作为辅助设备 |
|
storytellers:n.说故事的人(storyteller的复数); evolved:v.(使)逐渐形成;进化;进化形成;(evolve的过去分词和过去式) device:n.装置;策略;图案;
|
| But then one author arrived, and he changed the game forever. |
后来有个作家 他永远地改写了历史 |
| (Music) |
（音乐） |
| His name was Lothar, |
他叫罗萨 |
| Lothar Meggendorfer. |
罗萨?梅根多尔弗尔 |
| Lothar Meggendorfer put his foot down, and he said, "Genug ist genug!" |
罗萨?梅根多尔弗尔下了决心 他说:“我受够了！” |
| He grabbed his pen, he snatched his scissors . |
他抓起笔 抄起剪刀 |
|
grabbed:v.抓住;攫取;抓住,夺得;(grab的过去分词和过去式) snatched:v.一把抓起;一下夺过;夺去;抢走;偷窃;(snatch的过去分词和过去式) scissors:n.剪刀;v.剪断;删除;(scissor的第三人称单数和复数)
|
| This man refused to fold to the conventions of normalcy and just decided to fold. |
他决意不走寻常路 他折起了纸 |
|
fold:v.折叠;包;可叠平(以便贮存或携带);裹;n.褶;褶层;折叠部分;褶痕; conventions:n.[法]惯例;会议;[计]约定(convention的复数); normalcy:n.常态;
|
| History would know Lothar Meggendorfer as -- who else? -- the world's first true inventor of the children's pop-up book. |
历史上的罗萨?梅根多尔弗尔 作为什么人被记载下来？ 世界上第一个 为孩子发明立体书的人 |
| (Music) |
（音乐） |
| For this delight and for this wonder, people rejoiced . |
人们享受着 这喜悦和惊奇 |
|
delight:n.高兴;vi.高兴;vt.使高兴; rejoiced:v.非常高兴;深感欣喜;(rejoice的过去分词和过去式)
|
| (Cheering) |
（欢呼） |
| They were happy because the story survived, and that the world would keep on spinning . |
他们很高兴故事保存下来 世界继续转动 |
|
spinning:n.纺纱(手艺):纺线v.(使)旋转:纺线:纺纱;(spin的现在分词)
|
| Lothar Meggendorfer wasn't the first to evolve the way a story was told, and he certainly wasn't the last. |
罗萨?梅根多尔弗尔不是第一个 改进讲故事方法的人 也不会是最后一个 |
| Whether storytellers realized it or not, they were channeling Meggendorfer's spirit when they moved opera to vaudville, radio news to radio theater, film to film in motion to film in sound, color, 3D, on VHS and on DVD. |
不管讲故事的人是否意识到 当他们 从歌剧到杂技 从电台新闻到电台剧院 从影像到电影 到有声电影,彩色电影和3D电影 从家用录像到DVD 他们都是在传承梅根多尔弗尔的精神 |
|
channeling:n.通道作用;[电子]沟道作用;掏槽; opera:n.歌剧;歌剧院;歌剧艺术;歌剧剧本; motion:n.动作;移动;手势;请求;意向;议案;v.运动;打手势;
|
| There seemed to be no cure for this Meggendorferitis. |
没有什么能阻止梅根多尔弗尔的精神 |
| And things got a lot more fun when the Internet came around. |
互联网的问世则带来了更多的乐趣 |
| (Laughter) |
（笑声） |
| Because, not only could people broadcast their stories throughout the world, but they could do so using what seemed to be an infinite amount of devices . |
因为人们不但可以向世界讲述他们的故事 而且可以 利用各种各样的设备来讲故事 |
|
broadcast:v.广播; n.广播节目; adj.[无线]播音的; throughout:adv.自始至终,到处;全部;prep.贯穿,遍及; infinite:adj.无限的,无穷的; n.无限; devices:n.[机][计]设备;[机]装置;[电子]器件(device的复数);
|
| For example, one company would tell a story of love through its very own search engine . |
比如 有个公司 通过它的搜索引擎 讲述一个爱情故事 |
|
search engine:n.(计算机)搜索引擎;
|
| One Taiwanese production studio would interpret American politics in 3D. |
一个台湾工作室 把美国政治做成3D动画 |
|
Taiwanese:adj.台湾的;台湾人的;n.台湾人; studio:n.工作室;[广播][电视]演播室;画室;电影制片厂; interpret:v.诠释;说明;口译;把…理解为; politics:n.政治;钩心斗角;政治观点;v.(贬)从事政治活动;(politic的第三人称单数)
|
| (Laughter) |
（笑声） |
| And one man would tell the stories of his father by using a platform called Twitter to communicate the excrement his father would gesticulate . |
有个人通过一个叫做推特的平台 讲述他父亲的故事 分享他父亲说的无用废话 |
|
platform:n.平台; v.把…放在台上[放在高处; excrement:n.粪便,排泄物; gesticulate:vi.用姿势示意;(讲话时)做手势;vt.用手势谈话;做姿势表达;
|
| And after all this, everyone paused; they took a step back. |
在有了这一切之后 人们停下脚步 回望过去 |
| They realized that, in 6,000 years of storytelling, they've gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls. |
他们意识到 在六千年讲故事的历史中 他们从在洞穴墙壁上画狩猎图 到在脸书的涂鸦墙上诠释莎士比亚 |
|
depicting:v.描绘;描画;描写;描述;刻画(depict的现在分词) Shakespeare:n.莎士比亚(英国剧作家);
|
| And this was a cause for celebration. |
这是让我们庆祝的原因 |
| The art of storytelling has remained unchanged . |
讲故事的艺术没有改变 |
|
unchanged:adj.未改变的;
|
| And for the most part , the stories are recycled . |
大部分故事流传下来 |
|
for the most part:adv.在极大程度上,多半; recycled:n.再生纸;回收站;adj.[环境]回收利用的;可循环再造的;
|
| But the way that humans tell the stories has always evolved with pure, consistent novelty . |
但是人们讲故事的方法 已经通过不断创新 不停地改进 |
|
consistent:adj.始终如一的,一致的;坚持的; novelty:n.新奇;新奇的事物;新颖小巧而廉价的物品;
|
| And they remembered a man, one amazing German, every time a new storytelling device popped up next. |
人们会记住一个人 一个伟大的德国人 每一次一个新的讲故事的设备问世 都会想起他 |
| And for that, the audience -- the lovely, beautiful audience -- would live happily ever after. |
由此 观众们 可爱美丽的观众们 也从此永远幸福快乐地生活在一起 |
| (Applause) |
（掌声） |