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YeonmiPark_2019-_在逃出朝鲜后我才知道的自由_-
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| I was born in 1993 in the northern part of North Korea, in a town called Hyesan, which is on the border with China. |
我出生于 1993 年的朝鲜北部, 一个叫海珊的小镇, 紧挨着中国边境。 |
| I had loving parents and one older sister. |
我有爱我的父母 和一个姐姐。 |
| Before I was even 10 years old, my father was sent to a labor camp for engaging in illegal trading. |
我在 10 岁前, 我父亲因参与非法贸易 而被送进劳动营。 |
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engaging:adj.有趣的; v.吸引住(注意力、兴趣); (engage的现在分词) illegal:adj.不合法的;非法的;n.非法移民;非法劳工;
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| Now, by "illegal trading" -- he was selling clocks, sugar, rice and later copper to feed us. |
“非法贸易”的意思是, 他卖衣服、糖、粮食以及后来是铜 来养活我们。 |
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copper:n.铜;铜币;警察;adj.铜(制)的;(紫)铜色的;v.用铜板[铜皮]盖[包];
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| In 2007, my sister and I decided to escape. |
2007 年,我姐姐和我打算逃亡。 |
| She was 16 years old, and I was 13 years old. |
她当时 16 岁, 而我 13 岁。 |
| I need you to understand what the word "escape" means in the context of North Korea. |
我想让你们理解“逃亡” 在朝鲜这个环境中的意思。 |
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context:n.环境;上下文;来龙去脉;
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| We were all starving, and hunger means death in North Korea. |
我们全都处于挨饿状态, 而在朝鲜饥饿意味着死亡。 |
| So it was the only option for us. |
所以这是我们唯一的选择。 |
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option:n.选择;可选择的东西;
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| I didn't even understand the concept of escape, but I could see the lights from China at night, and I wondered if I go where the light is, |
我甚至不理解逃亡的概念, 但我可以在晚上看到来自中国的灯光, 我好奇如果我能到达灯光那边, |
| I might be able to find a bowl of rice. |
我也许能找到一碗米饭。 |
| It's not like we had a grand plan or maps. |
我们没有宏大的计划或者地图。 |
| We did not know anything about what was going to happen. |
我们不知道会发生什么。 |
| Imagine your apartment building caught fire. |
试想你家着火了。 |
| I mean, what would you do? |
我意思是,你会怎么做？ |
| Would you stay there to be burned, or would you jump off out of the window and see what happens? |
你会待在那里等着被烧死, 还是会从窗户里跳出去 看看会发生什么？ |
| That's what we did. |
这就是我们做的。 |
| We jumped out of the house instead of the fire. |
我们从房子里跳了出来 而非待在火中。 |
| North Korea is unimaginable . |
朝鲜无法想象。 |
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unimaginable:adj.不可思议的;难以想像的;
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| It's very hard for me when people ask me what it feels like to live there. |
当人们问我生活在那里是什么感觉时, 我难回答他们。 |
| To be honest, |
老实说, |
| I tell you: you can't even imagine it. |
我告诉你们: 你实在无法想象那里的生活。 |
| The words in any language can't describe , because it's a totally different planet, as you cannot imagine your life on Mars right now. |
用任何语言的词汇都没法描述, 因为那是个完全不一样的世界, 就如同你现在无法想象 火星上的生活一样。 |
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describe:v.描述;形容;把…称为;画出…图形; Mars:n.火星
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| For example, the word "love" has only one meaning: love for the Dear Leader. |
比如,“爱”这个词只有一个意思: 对伟大领袖的爱。 |
| There's no concept of romantic love in North Korea. |
在朝鲜没有浪漫的概念 。 |
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romantic:adj.浪漫的;爱情的;n.浪漫的人;耽于幻想的人;
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| And if you don't know the words, that means you don't understand the concept, and therefore, you don't even realize that concept is even a possibility. |
如果你不知道这个词, 就意味着你不理解这个概念, 因此,你甚至无法意识到 这个概念是真实存在的。 |
| Let me give you another example. |
让我再给你们一个例子。 |
| Growing up in North Korea, we truly believed that our Dear Leader is an almighty god who can even read my thoughts. |
在朝鲜长大, 我们真的相信我们敬爱的领袖 是全能的神, 他甚至可以看穿我的想法。 |
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almighty:adj.全能的;有无限权力的;adv.非常;n.全能的神;
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| I was even afraid to think in North Korea. |
在朝鲜,我甚至害怕思考。 |
| We are told that he's starving for us, and he's working tirelessly for us, and my heart just broke for him. |
我们被告知他在盯着我们, 他不知疲倦地为我们工作着, 我为他（的举动）而感动、心碎。 |
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tirelessly:adv.不知疲倦地;不屈不挠地;
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| When I escaped to South Korea, people told me that he was actually a dictator , he had cars, many, many resorts , and he had an ultraluxurious life. |
当我逃亡到韩国时, 人们告诉我他其实是个独裁者, 他有很多辆汽车, 数不清的度假地, 并且他过着极端奢侈的生活。 |
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dictator:n.独裁者;命令者; resorts:n.度假村;度假胜地(resort复数);v.诉诸(resort的第三人称单数);
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| And then I remember looking at a picture of him, realizing for the first time that he is the largest guy in the picture. |
然后我记得我看着照片上的他, 第一次意识到 他是照片中最大的家伙。 |
| (Laughter) |
（笑声） |
| And it hit me. |
这震惊了我。 |
| Finally , I realized he wasn't starving. |
终于,我意识到他没有挨饿。 |
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Finally:adv.终于;最终;(用于列举)最后;彻底地;
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| But I was never able to see that before, until someone told me that he was fat. |
但我以前从来都看不到, 直到有人告诉我他很胖。 |
| (Laughter) |
（笑声） |
| Really, someone had to teach me that he was fat. |
真的,我需要有人告诉我他是个胖子。 |
| If you have never practiced critical thinking, then you simply see what you're told to see. |
如果你从来没有练习批判性思维, 那么你只会知道 别人让你知道的事情。 |
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critical:adj.鉴定的;[核]临界的;批评的,爱挑剔的;危险的;决定性的;评论的;
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| Biggest question also people ask me is: "Why there is no revolution inside North Korea? |
人们问我的最重大的问题是: “为什么朝鲜不会发生革命, |
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revolution:n.革命;旋转;运行;循环;
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| Are we dumb ? |
你们都是傻的吗？ |
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dumb:adj.哑的,无说话能力的;不说话的,无声音的;
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| Why is there no revolution for 70 years of this oppression ?" |
为什么 70 多年的压迫 都没有发生革命？” |
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oppression:n.压抑;镇压;压迫手段;沉闷;苦恼;
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| And I say, if you don't know you're a slave, if you don't know you're isolated or oppressed , how do you fight to be free? |
我回答道: 如果你都不知道你是个奴隶, 如果你不知道你被孤立压迫, 你如何为自由奋斗？ |
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isolated:adj.偏远的; v.隔离,孤立,脱离; oppressed:adj.受压制的,受压迫的;v.压迫;折磨(oppress的过去分词);
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| I mean, if you know you're isolated, that means you are not isolated. |
我意思是,如果你知道你被孤立, 这意味着你并没有被孤立。 |
| Not knowing is the true definition of isolation, and that's why I never knew |
不知道才是孤立的真正含义, 所以我从来不知道 |
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definition:n.定义;清晰度;(尤指词典里的词或短语的)释义;解释;
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| I was isolated when I was in North Korea. |
我在朝鲜时是被孤立的。 |
| I literally thought I was in the center of the universe. |
我真以为自己在宇宙的中心。 |
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literally:adv.按字面:字面上:确实地:
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| So here is my idea worth spreading: a lot of people think humans inherently know what is right and wrong, the difference between justice and injustice , what we deserve and we don't deserve. |
所以这是我认为值得传播的想法: 很多人认为 人们天生知道什么是对错, 人们知道公正和不公正的差异, 人们知道什么值得和什么不值得。 |
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inherently:adv.内在地;固有地;天性地; injustice:n.不公正;不讲道义; deserve:vi.应受,应得;
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| I tell them: BS. |
我告诉他们:扯蛋。 |
| (Laughter) |
（笑声） |
| (Applause) |
（鼓掌） |
| Everything, everything must be taught, including compassion . |
一切东西, 一切东西需要教育, 包括同情心。 |
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compassion:n.同情;怜悯;
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| If I see someone dying on the street right now, |
如果你今天看到有人在街上快要死去, |
| I will do anything to save that person. |
我会尽一切可能拯救那个人。 |
| But when I was in North Korea, |
但当我在朝鲜时, |
| I saw people dying and dead on the streets. |
我看到人们在街上半死不活或死去。 |
| I felt nothing. |
我无动于衷。 |
| Not because I'm a psychopath , but because I never learned the concept of compassion. |
不是因为我精神失常, 而是因为我从来没了解过 什么是同情。 |
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psychopath:n.精神病患者;
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| Only, I felt compassion, empathy and sympathy in my heart after I learned the word "compassion" and the concept, and I feel them now. |
只有在我学到同情的词汇和概念后, 我才内心感到同情,怜悯和慈悲, 我现在能感受到了。 |
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empathy:n.神入;移情作用;执着; sympathy:n.同情;慰问;赞同;
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| Now I live in the United States as a free person. |
现在我作为一个自由人生活在美国。 |
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United:adj.联合的; v.联合,团结; (unite的过去分词和过去式)
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| (Applause) |
（鼓掌） |
| Thank you. |
谢谢。 |
| (Applause) |
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| And recently , the leader of the free country, our President Trump , met with my former god. |
最近, 自由国家的领袖,我们的总统特朗普, 与我的前神会面。 |
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recently:adv.最近;新近; Trump:n.王牌;主牌花色;v.出王牌赢(牌);;赢;胜过;打败;
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| And he decided human rights is not important enough to include in his agendas , and he did not talk about it. |
他觉得人权这个议题不够重要 不配在他日程上, 并且他不会谈论它。 |
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agendas:n.会议议程(agenda的复数);
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| And it scares me. |
这让我害怕。 |
| We live in a world right now where a dictator can be praised for executing his uncle, for killing his half brother, killing thousands of North Koreans. |
我们现在生活的世界 独裁者因处决他的姑父, 杀死他的同父异母弟弟, 处死成千上万的朝鲜人而被赞扬。 |
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executing:v.(尤指依法)处决,处死;实行;执行;实施;(execute的现在分词)
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| And that was worthy of praise. |
这值得赞扬。 |
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worthy:adj.值得的; n.杰出人物;
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| And also it made me think: perhaps we all need to be taught something new about freedom now. |
这也让我思考; 也许现在我们都需要 学习“自由”在新时代的含义。 |
| Freedom is fragile . |
自由是脆弱的。 |
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fragile:adj.脆的;易碎的;
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| I don't want to alarm you, but it is. |
我不像惊吓你,但确实如此。 |
| It only took three generations to make North Korea into George Orwell's "1984." |
只花了三代人的时间 就让朝鲜变成了 乔治·奥威尔的《1984年》。 |
| It took only three generations. |
只需要三代人的时间。 |
| If we don't fight for human rights for the people who are oppressed right now who don't have a voice, as free people here, who will fight for us when we are not free? |
如果我们作为这里的自由人, 不去为现在受压迫、 不能发出声音的人 抗争的话, 当我们不自由时,谁会为我们抗争。 |
| Machines? Animals? I don't know. |
机器？动物？我不知道。 |
| I think it's wonderful that we care about climate change, animal rights , gender equality, all of these things. |
我认为我们关心气候变化, 动物权利,性别平等, 所有这些东西很棒。 |
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animal rights:n.动物权益(指获得善待,如不能猎杀或用于医学研究); gender:n.性别;
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| The fact that we care about animals' rights, that means that's how beautiful our heart is, that we care about someone who cannot speak for themselves. |
我们关心动物的事实 意味着我们的内心是如此的美丽, 我们关心那些不会为 自己说话的事物。 |
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speak for:要求得到;代表…讲话;
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| And North Koreans right now cannot speak for themselves. |
朝鲜人民现在就不能替自己说话。 |
| They don't have internet in the 21st century. |
他们没有 21 世纪的互联网。 |
| We don't have electricity , and it is the darkest place on earth right now. |
我们没有电, 并且现在是地球上最黑暗的地方。 |
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electricity:n.电力;电流;强烈的紧张情绪;
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| Now I want to say something to my fellow North Koreans who are living in that darkness. |
现在我想要跟我生活在黑暗中的 朝鲜兄弟说几句。 |
| They might not believe this, but I want to tell them that an alternative life is possible. |
他们可能不会相信这点, 但我想告诉他们 另一种的生活是可能的。 |
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alternative:adj.供选择的;选择性的;交替的;n.二中择一;供替代的选择;
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| Be free. |
自由吧。 |
| From my experience, literally anything is possible. |
就我的经验而言, 确实任何事情都有可能。 |
| I was bought, |
我被买卖过, |
| I was sold as a slave. |
我被当奴隶卖过。 |
| But now I'm here, and that is why I believe in miracles . |
但现在我在这里, 因此我相信奇迹。 |
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miracles:n.奇迹;奇人;不平凡的事;(miracle的复数)
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| The one thing that I learned from history is that nothing is forever in this world. |
我从历史上学到的一个事情是 这个世界上没有什么是永久的。 |
| And that is why we have every reason to be hopeful. |
所以我们有一切理由充满希望。 |
| Thank you. |
谢谢。 |
| (Applause) |
（鼓掌） |