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I love trees, and I'm very lucky, because we live near a wonderful arboretum , and Sundays, usually, I'd go there with my wife and now, with my four-year-old, and we'd climb in the trees, we'd play hide and seek . 我喜欢树木,而且非常幸运的是 我们住在一个非常棒的植物园的附近。 星期天的时候,我通常会和我夫人 现在是和我四岁的孩子, 一起爬树,玩捉迷藏。
arboretum:n.植物园;(供科研等的)树木园; seek:v.寻求;寻找;谋求;
The second school I was at had big trees too, had a fantastic tulip tree, I think it was the biggest in the country, and it, also, had a lot of wonderful bushes and vegetation around it, around the playing fields. 我上的第二所学校也有不少大树 那儿有棵奇异的郁金香树,我认为它是国内最大的一棵。 在它和操场的周围, 还有很多很棒的灌木和植物。
fantastic:奇异的,空想的 tulip:n.郁金香; bushes:n.灌木;荒野;林区;(bush的复数) vegetation:n.植被;植物,草木;呆板单调的生活;
And one day I was grabbed by some of my classmates, and taken in the bushes, I was stripped , I was attacked, 有一天我被一些同学抓住,带进灌木丛里 我被剥光了衣服,我受到攻击,
grabbed:v.抓住;攫取;抓住,夺得;(grab的过去分词和过去式) stripped:adj.剥去的;v.剥夺;脱衣;把…剪成条状;(strip的过去式和过去分词)
I was abused , and this came out of the blue . 我被虐待,这一切来得那么突然。
abused:v.滥用(以致危害健康); (abuse的过去分词和过去式) out of the blue:突然地;意外地;
Now, the reason I say that, because, afterwards, I was thinking -- well, I went back into the school, I felt dirty, I felt betrayed , 好了,我之所以那么说,是因为事后,我觉得, 嗯,当我返回学校时,我感到肮脏,觉得受到了背叛,
betrayed:v.出卖;泄露机密;辜负;对…不忠;(betray的过去分词和过去式)
I felt ashamed , but mainly -- mainly, I felt powerless, and 30 years later I was sitting in an airplane , next to a lady called Veronica, who came from Chile, and we were on a human rights tour, 我觉得耻辱,但更主要的是--我感到很无力。 三十年后我坐在一架飞机里, 邻座的是一位来自智利的女士,维罗妮卡。 我们参加了一个人权之旅,
ashamed:adj.惭愧;尴尬;因惭愧而不情愿; mainly:adv.大多;大部分;主要地;首要地; airplane:n.飞机;
and she was starting to tell me what it was like to be tortured , and, from my very privileged position, this was the only reference point that I had. 她开始向我诉说被折磨是什么样的感觉, 并且从我特有的立场出发, 这是我有的唯一的参照点。
tortured:adj.遭受重创的; v.拷问; (torture的过去分词和过去式) privileged:adj.有特权的; v.给予特权; (privilege的过去式和过去分词) reference point:n.参比点;参照标准;
And it was an amazing learning experience because, for me, human rights have been something in which I had, you know, a part-time interest, but, mainly, it was something that happened to other people over there. 那是一个神奇的学习历程, 因为对我而言,人权问题是一件 你明白,业余的兴趣;但主要来说, 它是发生在远方的其他人身上的事。
But I got a phone call from Bono in 1985 and, as you know, he's a great singer, but he's a magnificent hustler , and -- 但是我在1985年接到了波诺的电话 你们知道,他是个优秀的歌手,但他是个惊人的说服者,
Bono:n.宝鸟服饰;报喜鸟(品牌名); magnificent:adj.高尚的;壮丽的;华丽的;宏伟的; hustler:n.催促者;妓女;骗子;
(Laughter) （笑声）
very hard guy to say no to, and he was saying, you know, just after I'd done the Biko song, we're going to do a tour for Amnesty , you have to be on it, and, really, that was the first time that I'd been out and started meeting people 我很难对他说不。 在我刚做完歌曲 Biko 后,他说, 我们正要给“特赦”组织做一个巡演, 你一定得参与。于是,那是第一次我真正地 出来开始认识一些人
Amnesty:n.特赦;赦免,大赦;赦免期;vt.赦免;对…实行大赦
who'd watched their family being shot in front of them, and had a partner thrown out of an airplane into an ocean, and, suddenly, this world of human rights arrived in my world, and I couldn't, really, walk away in quite the same way as before. 他们曾看着自己的家人在自己面前被枪杀, 配偶在飞机上被扔进大海里 突然之间,人权的世界来到了我的世界, 我再也不能像以前那样袖手旁观了。
And so I got involved with this tour, which was for Amnesty, and, then, in '88, I took over Bono's job trying to learn how to hustle. 所以我开始参与到为“特赦”办的巡演中, 并在1988年取代波诺开始学习鼓动别人。
involved:adj.有关的; v.涉及; (involve的过去式和过去分词)
I didn't do it as well, but we managed to get Youssou N'Dour, Sting , 我不如他做得好,但是我也成功地使尤索·恩多、斯汀、
Sting:v.刺;蜇;叮;(使)感觉刺痛;n.刺;刺伤;蜇伤;刺毛;
Tracy Chapman , and Bruce Springsteen to go round the world for Amnesty, and it was an amazing experience. 特蕾西·查普曼、布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀为“特赦”做环球巡演, 这是个神奇的经历。
Chapman:n.叫卖小贩;商人;
And, once again, I got an extraordinary education, and it was the first time, really, that I'd met a lot of these people in the different countries, and these human rights stories became very physical , and, again, I couldn't, really, walk away quite so comfortably. 再一次,我收获了一份异乎寻常的教育, 并且我第一次真正地 结识不同国家的许多人 有关人权的故事变得活生生起来, 再一次,我不能允许自己袖手旁观。
extraordinary:adj.非凡的;特别的;离奇的;临时的;特派的; physical:adj.[物]物理的;身体的;物质的;符合自然法则的;n.体格检查;
But the thing that really amazed me, that I had no idea, was that you could suffer in this way and, then, have your whole experience, your story, denied , buried and forgotten. 但最让我惊异的是,我并不知道 一个人可以这样地受苦, 然后你的全部体验,你的故事,遭到否认 被掩盖,被遗忘。
denied:v.否认;拒绝;否定;不承认;(deny的过去分词和过去式)
And it seemed that whenever there was a camera around, or a video or film camera, it was a great deal harder to do, for those in power to bury the story. 然而,好像一旦有照相机或摄像机在 或这 那些当权者想要掩盖这些故事就变得难了很多。
bury:v.埋葬;隐藏;
And Reebok set up a foundation after these Human Rights Now tours and there was a decision then -- well, we made a proposal , for a couple of years, about trying to set up a division that was going to give cameras to human rights activists. 锐步在这些 人权,现在！ 巡演后设立了一个基金会 并且当时决定 恩,我们在几年中提议 想要努力设立一个部门 给人权活动家派发相机。
Reebok:n.南非短角羚; foundation:n.基础;地基;基金会;根据;创立; proposal:n.提议,建议;求婚; division:n.师;分配;分开;分歧;
It didn't, really, get anywhere, and, then, the Rodney King incident happened, and people thought, 事实上它无疾而终, 之后发生了那个Rodney King事件
OK, if you have a camera in the right place at the right time , or, perhaps, the wrong time, depending who you are, then you can, actually, start doing something, and campaigning, and being heard, and telling people about what's going on. 人们觉得如果你在恰当的时间恰当的地点有个相机, 或许是错误的时间,取决于你是谁, 那么你真的可以开始做些事情, 开始发起运动,开始让别人听见自己的声音, 告诉别人发生了什么事。
at the right time:在适当时候;
So, Witness was started in '92 and it's, since, given cameras out in over 60 countries. 所以,“目击者”在1992年被建立了 从此之后一共在六十多个国家派发相机。
Witness:n.证人;目击者;证据;v.目击;证明;为…作证;
And we campaign with activist groups, and help them tell their story, and, in fact, 我们和活动家团体一起开展运动, 帮助他们讲述故事
activist:n.积极分子;激进主义分子;
I will show you, in a moment , one of the most recent campaigns, and I'm afraid it's a story from Uganda , and, although we had a wonderful story from Uganda yesterday, this one isn't quite so good. 一会儿我将给你们展示一个最新的运动, 我恐怕它是来自乌干达的一个故事, 尽管我们昨天听到了来自乌干达的一个精彩故事, 这一个就没那么美好了。
in a moment:立刻; Uganda:n.乌干达(非洲国家);
And, in the north of Uganda, there are something like 1.5 million internally displaced people, people who are not refugees in another country, but because of the civil war, which has been going on for about 20 years, they have nowhere to live. 在乌干达北部, 有将近一百五十万流离失所的人 他们并非外国的难民, 而是因为长达将近20年的内战 而颠沛流离的人们。
internally:adv.内部地;国内地;内在地; displaced:v.取代;替代;置换;迫使(某人)离开家园;转移;(displace的过去式和过去分词) refugees:n.避难者;逃亡者;难民;(refugee的复数) civil:adj.公民的;民间的;文职的;有礼貌的;根据民法的; nowhere:v.无处; n.无处; adj.不存在的;
And 20,000 kids have been taken away to become child soldiers, and the International Criminal Court is going after five of the leaders of -- now, what's it called? 两万孩子被迫成为童军 国际罪犯法庭在追捕五个头目 他们来自,那个
I forget the name of the of the army, it's Lord's Resistance Army, I believe, but the government, also, doesn't have a clean sheet , so if we could run the first video. 恩,那个军队叫什么来着, 应该是国王反击队 而他们的政府也不是廉洁公正的。 让我们来看看这第一段录像。
Resistance:n.电阻;抵抗;阻力;抗力; sheet:n.薄板;床单;纸张;报纸;v.覆盖;展开;给…铺床单;铺开;adj.片状的;
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Woman: Life in the camp is never simple. Even today life is difficult. 女:在难民营里的日子从不好过,直至今日也是如此。
We stay because of the fear that what pushed us into the camp... 我们之所以会留在营中,是因为惧怕逼我们进营的那些因素,
still exists back home. 依然在家乡猖獗。
Text: "Between Two Fires: Torture and Displacement in Northern Uganda" 文字:“双重烈焰:乌干达北部的酷刑折磨和颠沛流离”
Displacement:n.取代,位移;[船]排水量;
Man: When we were at home, it was Kony's rebel soldiers disturbing us. 男:当我们在家乡时,是Kony的叛乱的士兵在骚扰我们。
rebel:n.反政府的人;叛乱者;造反者;反抗权威者;v.造反;反抗;背叛;adj.造反的; disturbing:adj.引起烦恼的;令人不安的;v.打扰;干扰;搅乱;使不安;(disturb的现在分词)
At first, we were safe in the camp. 一开始的时候我们在营里还是安全的。
But, later the government soldiers began mistreating us a lot. 但是后来政府的士兵开始虐待我们。
mistreating:v.虐待;(mistreat的现在分词)
(Chanting) （齐唱）
Jennifer: A soldier walked onto the road, asking where we'd been. Jennifer:一个士兵走过来,问我们去哪儿了。
Evelyn and I hid behind my mother. Evelyn和我藏在妈妈身后
Eveyln: He ordered us to sit down, so we sat down. Eveyln:他命令我们坐下,所以我们只好坐下
The other soldier also came. 另一个士兵也走了过来
Jennifer: The man came and started undressing me. Jennifer:那个男人走过来脱我的衣服。
undressing:v.(给…)脱衣服(undress的现在分词)
The other one carried Evelyn aside. 另一个把Evelyn带向一边
The one who was defiling me then left and went to rape Evelyn. 那个玷污了我的人又走向Evelyn,糟蹋了她。
defiling:v.弄脏;玷污;糟蹋;亵渎;(defile的现在分词) rape:n.强奸罪;强奸案;v.强奸;强暴;
And the one who was raping Evelyn, came and defiled me also. 那个强暴Evelyn的人则走过来侮辱我。
raping:v.强奸;强暴(rape的现在分词) defiled:v.弄脏;玷污;糟蹋;亵渎;(defile的过去分词和过去式)
Man: The soldiers with clubs this long beat us to get a confession . 男人:士兵们拿着这么长的棍子拷打我们,严刑逼供。
confession:n.忏悔,告解;供认;
They kept telling us, "Tell the truth!" as they beat us. 打我们的时候,他们不停地说,“说实话！”
Woman: They insisted that I was lying. 女人:他们坚持说我在撒谎。
At that moment, they fired and shot off my fingers. 那时,他们开枪射下了我的手指
I fell. They ran to join the others... leaving me for dead. 我跌倒了。他们跑回队伍,留着我在那儿等死。
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Text: Uganda ratified the Convention Against Torture in 1986. 文字:乌干达在1986年批准了禁止酷刑公约
ratified:adj.批准的;vt.批准(ratify的过去式); Convention:n.习俗;惯例;协定;常规;
Torture is defined as any act by which severe pain of suffering whether physical or mental is intentionally inflicted by a person acting in an official capacity . 酷刑的定义是任何官方为了获取信息或供词 而在生理或心理上 有意地对人施以惩罚、强迫或威胁
defined:adj.有定义的,确定的; v.使明确; severe:adj.极为恶劣的;十分严重的;严厉的;苛刻的; mental:adj.精神的;脑力的;疯的;n.精神病患者; intentionally:adv.故意地,有意地; inflicted:把…强加给;使承受(inflict的过去式和过去分词); official:adj.官方的;正式的;公务的;n.官员;公务员;高级职员; capacity:n.能力;容量;资格,地位;生产力;
to obtain information or a confession, to punish, coerce or intimidate . 而导致严重痛楚的行为。
obtain:vi.获得;流行;vt.获得; coerce:vt.强制,迫使; intimidate:vt.恐吓,威胁;胁迫;
Peter Gabriel: So torture is not something that always happens on other soil. 而酷刑折磨并不总发生在异国他乡。
In my country, it was -- we had been looking at pictures of British soldiers beating up young Iraqis , we've got Abu Ghraib, we've got Guantanamo Bay, and I had a driver on my way to Newark Airport . 在我的国家, 我们看着英国士兵痛打伊拉克年轻人的照片 我们有美军虐囚事件、关塔那摩湾事件 我在去纽瓦克机场的时候碰到一个司机,
Iraqis:adj.伊拉克的;伊拉克人的;n.伊拉克人; Guantanamo:n.关塔那摩(古巴); Newark:n.纽瓦克市(美国新泽西州港市); Airport:n.机场;航空港;
And he told me a story that, in the middle of the night, 4 a.m., he'd been taken out of his home in Queens -- taken to a place in the Midwest , that he was interrogated and tortured, and returned to the street four weeks later, because he had the same -- he was Middle Eastern , 他跟我说了一个发生在凌晨四点的故事。 他被带出他在皇后区的家,带到一个中西部的地方, 在那里被审讯、拷打, 直到四个星期后才被释放, 只因为他是个中东人,
Midwest:n.美国的中西部; interrogated:v.审问;盘问;查询,询问;(interrogate的过去分词和过去式) Eastern:adj.东方的;向东的;东部的;东方国家的;n.东方人;东正教信徒;
and he had the same name as one of the 9/11 pilots, and that may or may not be true, 并且和那个911的劫机犯同名。 这个故事不一定真实,
I didn't think he was a liar , though. 尽管我不觉得他是个撒谎者。
liar:n.说谎的人;
And, I think, if we look around the world, as well as the polar ice caps melting , human rights, which have been fought for, for many hundreds of years in some cases, are, also, eroding very fast, 我觉得,如果我们环视全球, 正如极地冰盖在融化一般, 人权,我们为之苦苦抗争, 有些抗争了好几百年, 也在很快地消融解体。
as well as:也;和…一样;不但…而且; polar:adj.极地的;南极(或北极)的;n.极线;极面; melting:adj.感人的;v.(使)熔化,融化;(melt的现在分词) eroding:v.侵蚀;磨损(erode的ing形式);adj.侵蚀的;
and that is something that we need to take a look at and, maybe, start campaigning for. 这是我们应该好好地注视, 并且或许应该开始为之运动。
take a look at:看一看;检查;
I mean, here, too, one of our partners has -- was at Van Jones and the Books Not Bars project, they have managed, with their footage to -- in California, to change the youth correction systems employed , 我们的一个在凡琼斯的合作伙伴 以及 要书不要牢笼 的项目,成功地 用他们的录像在加州 改变了那里的青年改造系统
Van:n.厢式货车;客货车;v.选矿;用车搬运; footage:n.英尺长度;连续镜头;以尺计算长度; correction:n.校正;修正;改正;处罚; employed:v.雇用:应用:运用:使用(employ的过去分词和过去式)
and it's much -- much -- I think, more humane methods are being looked at, how you should lock up young kids, and that's questionable to start off, and as the story of Mr. Morales, just down the road , excuse me, Mr. Gabriel, would you mind if we delayed your execution a little bit? 更加人性化的方法 开始被运用,包括关于如何囚禁小孩 这件本身就很有问题, 就像Morales先生的那个故事一样, 他说不好意思盖布瑞尔先生, 你介不介意我把你的死刑推迟一点儿？
humane:adj.仁慈的,人道的;高尚的; questionable:adj.可疑的;有问题的; down the road:只要沿着这条路;将来;在路上; execution:n.执行,实行;完成;死刑;
No, not at all , no problem, take your time. 我说我一点儿也不介意,慢慢来。
not at all:毫无;一点也不;不用谢;
But this, surely, whoever that man is, whatever he's done, this is cruel and unusual punishment . 但是不论那人是谁,做了什么, 那都是残忍的、不同寻常的惩罚。
whoever:任何人:无论是谁: punishment:n.惩罚;严厉对待,虐待;
Anyway, Witness has been trying to arm the brave people who, often, put their lives at risk, around the world, with cameras, and I'd like to show you just a little more of that. Thank you. 总而言之,“目击者”一直努力在用相机 武装起世界各地的勇敢的、冒着生命危险的人们。 让我再给你们看些东西。谢谢。
(Thunder) Text: You can say a story is fabricated . （雷声）
fabricated:adj.焊接的; v.制造,组装; (fabricate的过去式和过去分词);
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Text: You can say a jury is corrupt . 你可以说一个陪审团是腐败的.
jury:n.[法]陪审团;评判委员会;adj.应急的; corrupt:v.损坏;破坏;使腐化;使堕落;adj.贪污的;受贿的;腐败的;营私舞弊的;
You can say a person is lying. 你可以说一个人是在撒谎.
You can say you don't trust newspapers. 你可以说你不相信报纸上的报导.
But you can't say what you just saw never happened. 但是你不能说, 你刚看到的 从来没有发生过.
Help WITNESS give cameras to the world. 帮助“目击者”给世界派发相机。
Shoot a video, expose injustice , reveal the truth, show us what's wrong with the world and maybe we can help make it right. 拍摄一段录像, 揭露不公正 展现事实真相 向我们展现世界的病症 也许这样 我们可以为 拨乱反正 尽一份力。
expose:v.揭露,揭发;使曝光;显示; injustice:n.不公正;不讲道义; reveal:v.显示;透露;揭露;泄露;n.揭露;暴露;门侧,窗侧;
WITNESS. 目击者。
All the video you have just seen was recorded by human rights groups working with WITNESS. 您刚才所观看的录像都是由 与“目击者”一起工作的人权团体拍摄的。
(Applause) （掌声）
PG: WITNESS was born of technological innovation , in a sense that the small, portable , DV cam was, really, what allowed it to come into being. “证人”的诞生于科技创新, 可以说,小型、便携的数字摄像机 真正使它得以来到世上。
technological:adj.技术[工程](上)的;因工艺技术高度发展而引起的; innovation:n.创新,革新;新方法; in a sense:在某种意义上; portable:adj.便携式的;手提的;轻便的;n.便携机;(尤指)手提电脑;
And we've, also, been trying to get computers out to the world, so that groups can communicate much more effectively, campaign much more effectively, but, now, we have the wonderful possibility, 现在,我们也在想方设法使电脑遍布全球, 使团体之间可以更有效地沟通, 更有效地开展运动, 而现今,自带相机的手机
which is given to us from the mobile phone with the camera in it, because that is cheap, it's ubiquitous , and it's moving fast all round the world, and it's very exciting for us. 为我们带来了美妙的可能性。 因为手机便宜、普及,并且在全球迅速增长, 这对我们来说非常振奋。
mobile phone:移动电话 ubiquitous:adj.普遍存在的;无所不在的; all round:周围,到处;
And so, the dream is that we could have a world in which anyone who has anything bad happen to them, of this sort, has a chance of getting their story uploaded , being seen, being watched, that they, really, know that they can be heard, that there would be a giant website, maybe, a little like Google Earth, 我们的梦想是, 世界上任何一个遭遇此类坏事的人, 能有机会上传他们的故事, 让他们的遭遇展现在世人面前。 并且,他们知道自己的声音会被听见, 并且会有一个庞大的网站, 可能有点像谷歌地球一样,
uploaded:vt.上传; giant:n.巨人;伟人;巨兽;adj.巨大的;特大的 Google:谷歌;谷歌搜索引擎;
and you could fly over and find out the realities of what's going, for the world's inhabitants , in a way -- what this technology is allowing is, really, 让你能够四处穿越,找出正在发生的事情的真相。 从某种意义上,对于世界上的居民们来说, 这项科技带来的是,
inhabitants:n.居民(inhabitant的复数); technology:n.技术;工艺;术语;
that a lot of the problems of the world can have a human face, that we can, actually, see who's dying of AIDS, or who's being beaten up, for the first time, 世界上的很多问题能有一张人脸, 我们第一次能实在地看到 谁因爱滋而垂死,谁被毒打
and we can hear their stories in a way that the blogger culture -- if we can move that into these sort of fields, 我们能够通过博客文化的方式听到他们的故事 如果我们能够把它带入到这些领域中来。
blogger:n.写博客的人;博客使用者;
I think we can, really, transform the world in all sorts of ways. 我觉得我们真的可以从种种方面改变世界。
transform:v.使改变;使改观;使转换;n.[数]变换式;[化]反式;
There could be a new movement growing up, rising from the ground, reaching for the light, and growing strong, just like a tree. Thank you. 一个新的运动可能正在成型, 从地下生根发芽,向光生长, 日益强壮,正如一棵树一般。谢谢。