Name: 弗蘭-萊博維茨談她對科技的蔑視 - "深夜與柯南-奧布萊恩"。 (Fran Lebowitz On Her Contempt For Technology - "Late Night With Conan O'Brien")
Uploaded: 2021-01-21T19:40:49.000Z
Duration: 9 min 13 s

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Especially since I understand you're going through a bit of a hard time right now.

尤其是我知道你現在正經歷一段艱難的時期。

A little bit of controversy about your Children's book.

Chazz先生和Lisa Su，見過大熊貓。

Well, I've heard from a great number of panda experts.

好吧，我聽了很多熊貓專家的意見。

Um, you're probably surprised as I was discovered.

嗯，你可能很驚訝，因為我被發現了。

There are a great number of panda experts on, uh, they have taken issue.

有大量的熊貓專家對，呃，他們提出了質疑。

I actually chose pandas at random just as a fun animal to frolic with the Children, right?

其實我隨意選擇熊貓只是作為一種有趣的動物，和孩子們一起嬉戲吧？

他們他們無緣無故地想到了我。

I know so little about the natural world that I had no idea that they were even from China.

我對自然界知之甚少，甚至不知道它們來自中國。

I mean, you could easily have convinced me that the lawns of Greenwich were filled with cavorting pandas.

我的意思是，你可以很容易地說服我 格林威治的草坪上到處都是爬行的熊貓。

It could have been squirrels, pandas, and, um, I started getting letters when the hardcover came out.

可能是松鼠，也可能是熊貓，還有，嗯，精裝本出來後，我開始收到信。

What are these panda experts mad about What?

feel that I have misrepresented the panda.

I mean, I've actually got letter to say Pandas don't eat pizza.

我的意思是，我其實已經收到信，說熊貓不吃披薩。

Pandas eat bamboo, which, in fact, is why they're rare.

熊貓吃竹子，其實，這也是熊貓稀少的原因。

Because there are apparently fewer and fewer bamboo trees.

這也是為什麼沒有熊貓的原因。

That is right so clearly that he should eat pizza.

這話說得太對了，明明他應該吃披薩。

So I was obviously, which is another pull the wool over the eyes of the American public.

所以我很明顯，這又是一次拉攏美國民眾的行為。

I once, um, wrote a piece for Newsweek about teenagers and where I made a disparaging remark about guidance counselors and I heard from about 80 million guidance counselors.

我曾經，嗯，為《新聞週刊》寫過一篇關於青少年的文章，在那裡我對輔導員說了一句貶低的話，我聽到了大約八千萬輔導員的聲音。

And I think there is really an equation to be made here.

而且我覺得這裡真的要做一個等式。

I mean, concerning the fact that we need none.

我是說，關於我們不需要的事實。

Yeah, the fact that there are 80 million guidance counselors and an equal number of panda experts who I feel actually had been the students of these guidance councils.

是啊，事實上，有8000萬輔導員和同樣數量的熊貓專家，我覺得其實曾是這些輔導員的學生。

I mean, if you learned a lesson next time, will you research the animal that No, you don't care?

我的意思是，如果你下次吸取了教訓，你會不會研究出不，你不在乎的動物？

You know, I actually, Um, offending panda experts really just rolls right off my back.

其實我... 呃 得罪熊貓專家的事就這麼過去了。

I don't have to appease the panda expert fashion.

In a similar vein, you've been working on the same novel now for quite a long time.

同樣的道理，你現在已經在寫同一部小說很久了。

好吧，其實，在那之後就沒什麼了。

I feel that is important in this changing world.

我覺得這在這個變化的世界裡很重要。

And so I clearly chosen this book to be the thing in my life.

於是我明確地選擇了這本書，成為我生命中的事情。

It depends on how much distraction there is.

I mean, I could spend months on the panda experts, So, um, I would say that I'm getting I'm getting toward the middle, okay?

我的意思是，我可以花幾個月的時間 在熊貓專家， 所以，嗯，我會說，我得到 我得到的中間，好嗎？

No, I haven't been working on it for years and years has just been due for years and years.

不，我已經很多年沒有工作了，多年來一直在努力，只是由於多年來。

Being a writer is just very much like being a high school student without, of course, the fun.

當一個作家就很像一個高中生，當然，沒有樂趣。

It's like always having a term paper due.

就像總是有學期論文要交一樣。

The only problem is, you can't do it the night before.

唯一的問題是，你不能在前一天晚上做。

It's dio I know that since I've tried it twice eso just that I have poor working habits.

這是dio我知道的，因為我試過兩次eso只是我的工作習慣不好。

Now you've you've been writing real adult books, not riel adult books.

現在你已經... ...你一直在寫真正的成人書，而不是瑞爾成人書。

I should say that you've been writing adult books and you've been writing Children's book.

應該說，你一直在寫成人書，而你一直在寫兒童書。

What is easier to dio, um, Children's books.

什麼是更容易dio，嗯，兒童書籍。

Uh, which is why we like them, is, uh, it's just easier because I'm childish.

呃，這就是為什麼我們喜歡他們，是，呃，這只是更容易，因為我很幼稚。

我想這是比較容易的，字數少。

Um, the whole thing is much less complicated, and there are pictures that take up a lot of space.

嗯，整個事情就沒那麼複雜了，還有圖片，佔了很多空間。

So what happens when what happens when you go on TV shows say, like this one And you say writing Children's books is easy, Easier, easier Do Children's book authors now get mad.

那麼會發生什麼，當你在電視節目中說，像這樣的，你說寫童書很容易，更容易，更容易，童書作者現在生氣。

So, uh, all right, it's not that threatening.

所以，呃，好吧，這不是威脅。

現在已經不是什麼威脅的事情了。

We talked about this the last time you were on, but you don't like.

上次你來的時候我們說過這個問題，但你不喜歡。

而你承認了這一點，你就會接受這一點。

You don't You don't like having people around, do you?

你不... ...你不喜歡有人在身邊，是嗎？

No, you don't like having people in your home.

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