You once said, the most dangerous person is one who is articulate.

你曾經說過，最危險的人是能言善辯的人。

What would you recommend to a one who wants to learn to speak in a more articulate manner?

您會向想要學習更流暢地說話的人推薦什麼？

Well, articulate is an interesting word, eh?

鏗鏘有力是個有趣的詞，不是嗎？

Because if your joints are articulated, and that means you can do things with them, because they're articulated, right?

因為如果你的關節是鉸接的，那就意味著你可以用它們做一些事情，因為它們是鉸接的，對嗎？

They're not one solid, vague mass.

它們不是一個堅實、模糊的整體。

They're differentiated, and someone who's graceful is articulated, and compelling because they're articulated, and speech is a form of articulation in that manner, because the act of speech itself is extremely complicated.

他們是有區別的，一個優雅的人是有表達能力的，因為他們有表達能力，所以引人注目，而演講就是這樣一種表達形式，因為演講行為本身是極其複雜的。

It's a very complicated motor activity, right?

這是一項非常複雜的運動，對嗎？

It's a very complicated action to dance with your tongue, let's say, and it is definitely the case that there is no more exceptional form of the capacity to be dangerous than to be articulate.

比方說，用舌頭跳舞是一個非常複雜的動作，而危險能力的特殊形式莫過於能言善辯。

Do you want to be competent and dangerous, or do you want to be vague and useless?

你是希望自己能幹而危險，還是希望自己模糊而無用？

Because those are your options, and I don't care what your job is, it doesn't matter what you end up doing.

因為這些都是你的選擇，我不在乎你的工作是什麼，也不在乎你最終會做什麼。

You know, if you're a plumber, great respect for plumbers, by the way, and you're articulate, you can negotiate with your clients, you can introduce your co-workers, you can make a case for your employees, you can advertise your services, you can think through your problems, you're firing on all cylinders.

你知道，如果你是一名水管工，順便說一句，我非常尊重水管工，而且你能言善辯，你能與客戶談判，你能介紹你的同事，你能為你的員工辯護，你能為你的服務做廣告，你能思考你的問題，你就會一帆風順。

Think of this as an analogy.

打個比方吧。

Imagine that you're trying to walk across a swamp, and the swamp is murky, but you know there's a path, you know there's a path of stone under the water, but it twists and moves, and if you stay on the path, you won't drown.

想象一下，你正試圖走過一片沼澤地，沼澤地裡一片渾濁，但你知道有一條路，你知道水底下有一條石頭鋪成的小路，但它曲折蜿蜒，如果你沿著這條路走，就不會被淹死。

The crocodiles in the swamp won't devour you, and as you walk forward, you can feel with your next step where the stone might be, and then you feel it's solid, then you take that step, and then you do the same thing with your foot again.

沼澤中的鱷魚不會吞噬你，當你向前走時，你可以用下一步感覺到石頭可能在哪裡，然後你感覺到它是堅實的，然後你邁出那一步，然後你再用腳做同樣的事情。

You search, and you find out what's solid, and you step on it, and you move forward in that manner.

你要尋找，找出堅實的東西，然後踏上它，以這種方式前進。

That's what you do with your words.

這就是你的語言。

It's the same thing.

都是一樣的。

You feel, and you feel, is this the right word?

你覺得，你覺得，這個詞合適嗎？

Is the fact that I'm uttering it putting me together and making me intact and stronger, or is it tearing me apart and making me dissolute and weak, and you can learn to do that, and you can listen to yourself, and you can stop humming and hawing and using like and you know and fillers, and you can take the time necessary to craft your words carefully, and you can practice merely saying what you believe to be true, and you can read, and you can read great writers, and you can write, and you can write about what you think about the problems that obsess you, and you can become articulate as a consequence, and there'll be nothing about that that isn't the adventure of your life.

你可以學會這樣做，你可以傾聽自己的心聲，你可以停止哼哼唧唧，停止使用 "喜歡"、"你知道 "和填詞，你可以花必要的時間仔細斟酌你的話、你可以練習只說出你認為真實的東西，你可以閱讀，你可以閱讀偉大的作家，你可以寫作，你可以寫下你對困擾你的問題的看法，你可以是以變得能言善辯，沒有什麼不是你生命中的冒險。

And so it's a moral endeavor in some real sense.

是以，從某種意義上說，這是一種道德努力。

To become articulate is to become the master of your own tongue.

口齒伶俐就是成為自己舌頭的主人。