Name: 《孤獨部長》| 莎拉·凱 | TED (“The Minister of Loneliness” | Sarah Kay | TED)
Uploaded: 2025-12-31T13:50:04.000Z
Duration: 4 min 41 s

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In the country of Japan in the month of October 2020, more people died by suicide than had died from COVID 19 in all of 2020 up to that point.

在 2020 年 10 月的日本，自殺死亡人數比該年至今為止的 COVID 19 死亡人數還多。

In response, the Japanese government instituted a new position of a Minister of Loneliness.

為此，日本政府設立了一個新的「孤獨大臣」職位。

The Minister of Loneliness has abolished email.

He is installing tin cans on every windowsill with a piece of string to someone else's window.

他會在每個窗臺上安裝錫罐，並用一條線連接到別人的窗戶。

Each person, of course, does not need a lot of people to speak to just the one.

當然，每個人不需要很多人交談，只需要一個人。

But the one must be reliable, must be available when needed.

但那一個人必須是可靠的，必須在需要時隨時可用。

Every day is a field trip to the Adulthood Museum, and

每天都是成人博物館的校外教學，

we don't go home until everyone has been accounted for.

在所有人都被點名報到之前，我們不會回家。

The way you find your buddy is a nationwide game of of Guess who, where you sing the song that is always stuck in your head.

你找夥伴的方式，就像一場全國性的「猜猜我是誰」遊戲，唱著那首總是在你腦海裡揮之不去的歌。

Describe the movie you can't get through without crying the hardest you've ever laughed, the outfit you wish you could pull off, and

描述你看著會哭得最慘、笑得最開懷的電影，還有你希望自己能駕馭的穿搭，

the only person who can spot you is the one you are assigned.

而唯一能支持你的人，就是你被分配到的那一位。

整個日本現在變成了一團毛線球。

The economy has ground to a halt, productivity is entirely impossible.

經濟停滯不前，生產力完全不可能。

Sometimes you go to talk into the can on your windowsill and a knot in the string accidentally gives you someone else's conversation, the fading fabric of someone else's loneliness evaporating into the air between buildings.

有時候你會對著窗臺上的罐子說話，結果線上的結不小心讓你聽到別人的對話，別人孤獨的褪色織物在建築物間的空氣中蒸發。

You are allowed to eavesdrop, but so is everyone else.

The Minister of Loneliness has moved all kindergartens to the ground floor of elderly Assisted living centers.

孤獨大臣把所有幼稚園都搬到了老人安養中心的樓下。

There are daily story hours, animal shelters across the street.

有每日說故事時間，街對面有動物收容所。

The Minister of Loneliness has not abolished Valentine's Day, but

孤獨大臣並沒有廢除情人節，但是

has instituted a nationwide bring enough for the class regulation and nobody goes home empty handed.

實施了全國性的「帶足夠上課」規定，沒有人會空手回家。

The Minister of Loneliness has prescribed therapy for everyone.

孤獨大臣為每個人開了心理治療的處方。

Daily walks through the many gardens, opportunities for meditation by a brook in the rain, under falling blossoms, or along a snowy riverbank, depending on the season.

每天在許多花園裡散步，有機會在雨中、落花下或雪河邊冥想，依季節而定。

He has commissioned musicians and actors and poets to create concerts and radio plays and poetry readings to be pumped across the knotted tin can radio lines.

他委託音樂家、演員和詩人創作音樂會、廣播劇和詩歌朗誦，透過打結的錫罐無線電線傳播。

Every evening when you order dinner for one, the person who delivers it arrives with an appropriate ability and comfort level.

每天晚上你訂一份單人份的晚餐時，送餐的人會帶著適當的能力和舒適度抵達。

Dance instruction, video, and two hours to spend despair.

舞蹈教學、影片，以及兩小時的時間來揮霍絕望。

Grieving is encouraged and art making is rampant.

But because of the knots, sometimes when you are expecting a visit from a grief counselor, the dance partner food delivery arrives instead.

但因為那些結，有時候當你期待一位悲傷輔導員的來訪時，送餐的舞伴卻到了。

He is the most popular man in the country.

He has a crush on a middle school teacher across town, and

他暗戀著鎮上另一頭的國中老師，

everyone eavesdrops to hear the way he stumbles when she answers.

大家都在豎起耳朵聽，想聽聽他對她說話時會結巴的樣子。

Everyone forgets about dying because they can't wait to find out what happens next.

大家都會忘記死亡這件事，因為他們迫不及待想知道接下來會發生什麼。

The minister has to start a hotline where people can call in to tell him their thoughts.

這位大臣必須設立一條熱線，讓人們可以打電話進來告訴他他們的想法。

The minister is grateful for the advice but is nervous his crush will hear the commotion.

大臣很感謝這些建議，但又擔心他的暗戀對象會聽到這陣騷動。

She prefers quiet, but he does not know for sure yet.

He does not know what she is thinking, does not know how she spends her Saturdays, or how she prefers her tea, or whether she likes to walk in the rain.

他不知道她在想什麼，不知道她週六怎麼過，不知道她喜歡什麼茶，也不知道她是否喜歡雨中散步。

But he likes wondering when nobody is paying attention, when the window sills are quiet, late at night, awake.

但他喜歡在沒人注意時、窗臺安靜的深夜裡，醒著胡思亂想。

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