Name: 【TED】愛倫-麥克阿瑟女士。我學到的令人驚訝的事情單人帆船環遊世界 (The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world | Dame Ellen MacArthur) (【TED】Dame Ellen MacArthur: The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world (The surprising thing I learned sailing solo
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:43:20.000Z
Duration: 16 min 48 s

The challenge, so often, is hanging on to that as we grow up.

但是隨著我們的成長， 挑戰也隨之而來。

I had the opportunity to sail for the first time.

I will never forget the excitement as we closed the coast.

the feeling of adventure as I climbed on board the boat

and stared into her tiny cabin for the first time.

But the most amazing feeling was the feeling of freedom,

the feeling that I felt when we hoisted her sails.

it was the greatest sense of freedom that I could ever imagine.

我能夠想像到最大的自由之感。

I made my mind up there and then that one day, somehow,

So I did what I could in my life to get closer to that dream.

Age 10, it was saving my school dinner money change.

10 歲時，我開始省學校的午餐錢。

Every single day for eight years, I had mashed potato and baked beans,

8 年來，午餐只吃薯泥和焗豆，

每樣只要 4 鎊，還附免費肉汁。

Every day I would pile up the change on the top of my money box,

我每天把省下來的錢 放在存錢罐的頂部，

and when that pile reached a pound, I would drop it in

每集滿一鎊時，就放進存錢罐裡，

and cross off one of the 100 squares I'd drawn on a piece of paper.

然後劃掉我自己畫的 100 個格子中的ㄧ格。

I spent hours sitting on it in the garden dreaming of my goal.

花幾小時，坐在院子裡的船， 想像我在環遊世界。

我讀了我能夠獲得的所有航海書，

and then eventually, having been told by my school

left school age 17 to begin my apprenticeship in sailing.

我 17 歲畢業後，就去拜師學航海。

So imagine how it felt just four years later

in front of someone who I knew could make that dream come true.

I felt like my life depended on that moment,

我想，這輩子就取決於那一刻，

And I could barely contain my excitement as I sat in that first design meeting

在首次的設計會議上我非常興奮，

designing a boat on which I was going to sail

From that first meeting to the finish line of the race,

Just like in my dreams, there were amazing parts and tough parts.

但就如我預期， 有困難也有精彩的地方，

Nine times, I climbed to the top of her 90-foot mast.

We were blown on our side in the Southern Ocean.

But the sunsets, the wildlife, and the remoteness

但夕陽落日、野生動物、杳無人煙，

I'd loved it, so much so that within six months

我很享受過程，以致 6 個月內，

I decided to go around the world again, but this time not in a race:

我決定再次踏上環遊世界的旅程， 但這次不是比賽。

to try to be the fastest person ever to sail solo nonstop around the world.

我想挑戰獨自不間斷 繞行地球的紀錄。

Now for this, I needed a different craft:

Just to give that boat some scale, I could climb inside her mast

它的桅要能讓我向上攀爬到頂部。

When we built her, no one had ever made it solo nonstop

當我們建造它的時候， 沒有人能夠不停靠

around the world in one, though many had tried,

獨自環航世界， 雖然很多人試過了，

but whilst we built her, a Frenchman took a boat 25 percent bigger than her

但我們在造它的同時 一名法國人以比她大 25% 的船，

and not only did he make it, but he took the record from 93 days

This was a training sail off the French coast.

This I know well because I was one of the five crew members on board.

我很了解這艘船， 因為我是船上 5 個船員之一。

Five seconds is all it took from everything being fine

to our world going black as the windows were thrust underwater,

之後，一個大浪打過來， 船就翻了，

那五秒很快，完全來不及反應。

Just see how far below those guys the sea is.

想像一下，獨自一人在南極海，

plunged into icy water, thousands of miles away from land.

陷入冰冷的海水， 離陸地有千里之遙。

I was forging into the Southern Ocean underneath Australia.

which was 2,000 miles away from the nearest town.

The nearest land was Antarctica, and the nearest people

would be those manning the European Space Station above me.

距離我最近的人是 歐洲太空站的宇航員。

it takes four days for a ship to get to you

一艘船要 4 天才能到達這個位置，

and then four days for that ship to get you back to port.

which was far too much wind for the boat and I to cope with.

The waves were already 40 to 50 feet high,

was blown horizontally like snow in a blizzard.

If we didn't sail fast enough, we'd be engulfed by that storm,

但如果不開快點， 我們就會被風暴捲走，

and either capsized or smashed to pieces.

We were quite literally hanging on for our lives

The speed I so desperately needed brought with it danger.

We all know what it's like driving a car 20 miles an hour, 30, 40.

都知道，就像開車， 時速二三十或四十英里，

It's not too stressful. We can concentrate.

【TED】愛倫-麥克阿瑟女士。我學到的令人驚訝的事情單人帆船環遊世界 (The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world | Dame Ellen MacArthur) (【TED】Dame Ellen MacArthur: The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world (The surprising thing I learned sailing solo 