Hello, my name is Magnus Walker and I was born in 1967, in Sheffield, England.

各位好 我是麥格納斯˙沃克 1967年在英格蘭雪菲爾出生

過去簡單式

I left school at 15 and I came to America at the age of 19.

Well, eight weeks ago I didn’t know what a TED talk was,

直到8個禮拜前 我才知道TED這玩意

and to be honest, I don’t know why I’m here today.

老實說我不太知道自己為什麼在這

But I do appreciate the opportunity to be with you guys

但我還是很感謝有機會與大家分享

and share my story, my journey, my hopes and my dreams.

我的故事、人生經歷、希望和夢想

And I, having left school at 15, you know, for me I didn’t really have any future.

and that represented the land for opportunity for me.

在我心中 美國是塊充滿機會的樂土

And in those past 28 years I’ve been able to build 3 things,

and also a restored raced driven and collected quite a lot of classic Porches.

改裝車子、蒐集許多經典保時捷

and I’ll talk about that in detail in a little bit.

But all 3 of those things share one common bond,

I had no education in them and I didn’t really think I would end up in that particular field.

我對服裝、電影都一竅不通 也沒想到會在這三個專業闖出名堂來

I didn’t really know where I was going.

But all three of those things have a common thread, a common bond.

And that common bond for me really is freedom.

在我看來 那個共通點就是自由發揮

I suppose, uh, live my life to the fullest and do whatever I wanted to do.

大概跟「把握光陰、及時行樂」的意思差不多

So, coming out to America really was a journey, and I’ll start my journey in 1977.

飛來美國是場精彩的冒險 這趟冒險始於1977年

1977 in England was sort of a special year.

1977年對英國人來說有著特殊意義

We had this, uh, punk rock thing going on

and we also had this Royal Jubilee thing going on.

But for me, it was the start of a very memorable moment.

那年對我來說則是生命的轉捩點

My father took me to the London Earls Court Motor Show in 1977.

我爸在1997年帶我去參加倫敦伯爵宮車展

And back then I fell in love with this car, it was a white Martini Porsche.

當時我就被這台白色馬丁尼保時捷迷住了

Now, any kid growing up anywhere in the world in the late 70s early 80s,

chances are you probably had a choice of 3 cars on your wall:

房間牆壁上可能會出現以下其一:

Porsche Turbo, Ferrari Boxer, or Lamborghini Countach.

I even wrote a letter to Porsche when I was 10 years old.

10歲的我甚至寫了一封信去他們公司

And essentially said to them, hey, I want to design for Porsche,

And they wrote back to me and said, well call us when you’re a little bit older,

得到的回覆是：「等你長大一點再說」

which I thought was pretty funny and they sent me a sales brochure

還附贈一本銷售指南 實在很幽默

and 35 years later they’d end up writing me a letter back,

but I’ll get to that story a little later on.

So I’m this young kid growing up in Sheffield.

Sheffield was a grim northern steel town as shown by this picture right here.

雪菲爾就像照片上這樣 是個位於北方的陰鬱鋼鐵小鎮

You know, there wasn’t necessarily many Porsches on the road,

So I filed that dream away, I had the poster on the wall,

我的保時捷夢是那時萌發的: 牆上貼車子海報、

and I was watching Motorsports as a kid also in 1977.

觀看動力運動(註: 以集團形式使用機動車為主的競爭賽事)

England had the James Hunt, he was a Formula 1 world champion.

看著英國車手詹姆士˙亨特在1997年贏得F1冠軍、

And we also had Barry Sheene, he was a two wheel motor GP champion back then.

貝瑞˙薛尼在大獎賽(註: 賽車比賽中賽道最長的賽事之一)拔得頭籌

So even though I didn’t grow up with any sort of fancy cars,

雖然成長過程中 沒什麼接觸酷炫車子

my father was a salesman, I grew up in a working class background.

老爸是業務員、又生在勞工階級家庭

I did have this dream early on, and somehow this dream involved Porsche.

我卻很早就對保時捷之類的跑車有了興趣

I also, back then, was a pretty competitive middle distance cross-country runner,

我以前是中程越野賽跑的佼佼者

sort of a solo sport guy, and I used to love getting out there and running.

別人眼裡 我是個獨來獨往的運動咖 喜歡往外跑

I became quite competitive. I joined this club called the Ellen Show Harriers.

我越跑越好 之後加入俱樂部「艾倫越野競走」

They had this guy called Sebastian Coe set quite a few world records,

裡頭有個傢伙叫賽巴斯汀˙寇伊 有好幾項金氏世界紀錄

and ran at the ’80 and ’84 world Olympic games

Around that same time, I also fell in love with something called heavy metal music.

Now growing up in Sheffield there are a lot of rock bands you know, may it being a sort of slightly depressed grim, northern city,

我的家鄉雪菲爾 有很多搖滾樂團 雖然那裏陰沉、灰暗了點

but there was a lot of music and a lot of fun.

卻也是個充滿音樂與樂趣的北方小鎮

So, fell in love with Porsche, doing some middle distance cross country running,

and I decided at the end of the 5th year I would leave school.

I left school in 1982, basically with 2 O-Levels and no real future.

1982年輟學、沒受什麼教育 前途是一片茫然

By that time, I’d also figured out I could go drink in a pub.

So for some reason that was great for going to clubs and having fun,

but wasn’t so good for a middle-distance cross-country runner athlete.

but there was the little thing that stuck with me was the passion and sort of the drive

但熱情和驅使我前進的力量一直存在

and I think till this day, those memorable moments from earlier on are still with me.

年輕時候的珍貴時光也烙印在我心中

I’m still running around, I’m still chasing around, I’m still running after my goal.

過了這麼多年 我還是四處跑、追尋目標

So, I bummed around on the dole for a little bit,

輟學之後我無所事事、領救濟金度日

And, uh, I started to hear this comment quite a lot – cut your hair and get a real job.

然而這些話開始一遍又一遍出現: 「去理個髮吧，找份正當工作」

Well I was on the dole working construction, living at home, no car, taking the bus places.

我打零工、領救濟金 住在家裡、沒車代步 唯一選擇是公車

I’m not gonna cut my hair, but maybe I should think about getting a job.

「頭髮是不可能剪的，但或許該考慮找份活兒」

So I actually took a year longer in leisure and recreation study course sports management at a college.

所以我鬼混了一些時日 又回學校上課 念為期一年的運動管理課程

And I heard about this thing called “Camp America”. Well what was Camp America? I didn’t know,

聽人們說起「美國夏令營」 那是什麼? 我也不知道

But apparently Camp America sent kids to work at a summer camp in the United States of America.

顧名思義 應該是把小孩送到美國的夏令營去

Growing up as a kid, of course, I watched a lot of American TV.

Most of the shows I loved centred around action and cars – Starsky and Hutch, Dukes of Hazzard, CHiPs.

我喜歡的都跟汽車、動作有關 例如: 警網雙雄、正義前鋒、CHiPs(註: 動作犯罪影集)

So I had this American dream and it involved Evel Knievel .

所以我的美國夢還包括依維˙卡尼爾(註: 摩托車特技人員)

And long story short I took a leap of faith and I applied to Camp America.

長話短說 我鼓起勇氣報名了「美國夏令營」

It was a little bit of a strange feeling, and I had these strange feelings in the past,

以前也有過這種難以名狀的感覺

and somehow when my gut tells me to do something it generally is a good thing.

So by pure luck I suppose I was accepted into Camp America, got on a,

a flight to New York, took a Trailways bus from New York,

我要飛去紐約 搭上紐約的Trailways巴士

that’s the bus I took, to Detroit. Now Detroit was great, it was somewhat similar to Sheffield,

巴士開往底特律 底特律是個很棒的城市 和雪菲爾有點像

former industrial city, also happened to the sort of, automotive hub of the United States.

從前工業都市 變成現今美國汽車工業中心

30 minutes north on a summer camp working with, in a city,

而是底特律北方 30分鐘車程的一個夏令營

underprivileged kids, that happened to be from Detroit.

和一群剛好來自底特律的弱勢小孩朝夕相處

對來自北雪菲爾的重金屬樂迷來說

Cuz you know, I’m this heavy metal guy from Sheffield, north of England,

So I adapted pretty quickly on this summer camp

而我也很快就讓自己進入了狀況

and when that camp was over, I got back onto that Trailsway Bus,

夏令營結束後 我再度搭上Trailways巴士

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