Name: 【TED】安娜-迪維爾-史密斯。四個美國人物》（Anna Deavere Smith: Four American characters）。 (【TED】Anna Deavere Smith: Four American characters (Anna Deavere Smith: Four American characters))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:53:37.000Z
Duration: 23 min 51 s

So my grandfather told me when I was a little girl,

我還是個小女孩時我祖父告訴我，

程度副詞

"If you say a word often enough, it becomes you."

"如果妳常常唸著同一句話，它會變成妳的一部分。"

And having grown up in a segregated city, Baltimore, Maryland,

我在一個實行種族隔離政策的的城市，馬里蘭州巴爾的摩市長大

I sort of use that idea to go around America with a tape recorder --

祖父的話啟發了我，我帶著錄音機，開始巡迴美國

to interview people, thinking that if I walked in their words --

我訪問了許多人，試著去感同身受（穿別人的鞋子走路），

which is also why I don't wear shoes when I perform --

這正是為什麼我表演時不穿鞋，

if I walked in their words, that I could sort of absorb America.

揣摩他們的感受，讓我能更了解真正的美國精神。

who wanted to absorb America and have it absorb him.

他受美國精神影響，也影響著美國精神。

So these four characters are going to be from that work

and well over, I don't know, a couple of thousand people

已經超過，嗯，應該超過幾千人了，

Anybody out here old enough to know Studs Terkel, that old radio man?

在座有哪位年紀夠長，還記得資深的廣播人Studs Terkel？

So I thought he would be the perfect person

to go to to ask about a defining moment in American history.

You know, he was "born in 1912, the year the Titanic sank,

他出生於1912年，鐵達尼號沉船的那一年，

greatest ship every built. Hits the tip of an iceberg,

當時所建造最大的船，撞上了冰山的一角，

and bam, it went down. It went down and I came up. Wow, some century."

蹦的一聲，沉入海中。船沉了，我出生了。哇，多偉大的世紀。

So this is his answer about a defining moment in American history.

這是他對美國歷史上關鍵時刻的答案。

"Defining moment in American history, I don't think there's one;

美國歷史的關鍵時刻，我認為沒有；

you can't say Hiroshima, that's a big one --

就算是在廣島投下原子彈這樣的大事，

I can't think of any one moment I would say is a defining moment.

我不認為有任何的時刻是所謂的關鍵時刻。

The gradual slippage -- 'slippage' is the word

used by the people in Watergate, moral slippage --

是人們對水門事件的看法，道德淪喪，

it's a gradual kind of thing, combination of things.

這是逐漸形成的，許多事情造成的。

你們都清楚的，我們雖然擁有科技的進步。

我可以這樣說，人情味卻越來越少了。

"Oh, let me kind of tell you a funny little play bit.

對了，告訴你一個有趣的小故事。

亞特蘭大機場是一個現代化機場，

These trains that take you out to a concourse and on to a destination.

機場捷運能夠帶你往來於各個轉運站與機場間。

And there's a voice on the train, you know the voice was a human voice.

車廂裡有一種聲音，是由真人發聲的。

You see in the old days we had robots, robots imitated humans.

So we got this voice on this train: Concourse One: Omaha, Lincoln.

在捷運車廂裡會聽到這樣的廣播︰第一轉運站︰奧馬哈，林肯。

Concourse Two: Dallas, Fort Worth. Same voice.

第二轉運站︰達拉斯，福特堡。相同的聲音。

Just as a train is about to go, a young couple rush in

一輛列車正準備要駛離時，一對年輕夫婦衝了進去。

and they're just about to close the pneumatic doors.

就在自動門正要關上的那一刻。

And that voice, without losing a beat, says,

這個廣播的聲音，不疾不徐的說，

'Because of late entry, we're delayed 30 seconds.'

因為有乘客遲到，我們將延遲30秒發車。

Just then, everybody's looking at this couple with hateful eyes

那個時候，車上每人都用一種厭惡的眼神看著這對夫婦，

and the couple's going like this, you know, shrinking.

那對夫妻就像這樣，縮在一起。

Well, I'd happened to have had a couple of drinks before boarding --

我喝酒是為了讓自己冷靜，所以

I imitate a train call, holding my hand on my --

我模仿列車上的廣播，把手放在我的嘴邊—

'George Orwell, your time has come,' you see.

"George Orwell，你的預言成真了耶。" 你看。

Well, some of you are laughing. Everybody laughs

你們有些人在笑了。當我那樣說話時

when I say that, but not on this train. Silence.

大家都在笑，但在列車上沒人笑。安靜無聲。

突然所有人的目光都在我身上。

So here I am with the couple, the three of us

shrinking at the foot of Calvary about to be up, you know.

想在腳下找個地洞鑽下去，你明白那樣的尷尬吧。

"Just then I see a baby, a little baby in the lap of a mother.

那時後我看見一個嬰兒，躺在媽媽的腿上。

I know it's Hispanic because she's speaking Spanish to her companion.

我知道她是西班牙人，因為她用西班牙語跟她的同伴聊天。

So I'm going to talk to the baby. So I say to the baby,

我想跟嬰兒說話，我對著嬰兒說。

holding my hand over my mouth because my breath must be 100 proof,

因為滿嘴酒臭，所以我用手遮著嘴巴

對著嬰兒說，" 先生，或是女士，

what is your considered opinion of the human species?'

And the baby looks, you know, the way babies look at you clearly,

這個嬰兒看著，嗯，就是嬰兒想看清楚你的模樣，

starts busting out with this crazy little laugh.

I say, 'Thank God for a human reaction, we haven't lost yet.'

我心裡想著，"感謝上帝，讓我們沒有失去人類的純真。"

"But you see, the human touch, you see, it's disappearing.

You know, you see, you've got to question the official truth.

你知道，你會對真相提出質疑。

You know the thing that was so great about Mark Twain --

you know we honor Mark Twain, but we don't read him.

我們尊敬馬克‧吐溫，但是很少人讀他的作品。

We read 'Huck Finn,' of course, we read 'Huck Finn' of course.

讀過哈克歷險記吧，當然，我們應該都讀過哈克歷險記。

哈克耶，當然讀過，多麼了不起啊。

Remember that great scene on the raft, remember what Huck did?

記得在竹筏上的那一幕嗎，記得哈克做了什麼嗎？

You see, here's Huck; he's an illiterate kid; he's had no schooling,

這就是哈克，一個不識字的孩子，沒有上過學，

And the official truth, the truth was, the law was,

that a black man was a property, was a thing, you see.

黑人是一項財產，是一件商品，你明白嗎。

And Huck gets on the raft with a property named Jim, a slave, see.

哈克與黑奴吉姆一起乘上竹筏，一個奴隸，瞧。

And he hears that Jim is going to go and take his wife and kids

他聽到吉姆要去帶他的妻子和孩子們

and steal them from the woman who owns them,

從他們的女主人那裡偷偷將他們帶走，

and Huck says, 'Ooh, oh my God, ooh, ooh --

哈克說，"不，老天爺，不，不，

that woman, that woman never did anybody any harm.

那個女人，那個女人從未傷害過任何人。

Ooh, he's going to steal; he's going to steal;

哇，他將要偷偷把他們帶走，偷偷的

Just then, two slavers caught up, guys chasing slaves, looking for Jim.

就在這個時候，兩個黑奴划船追上來了，一群追捕黑奴的人，他們正在追捕吉姆。

'Anybody up on that raft with you?' Huck says, 'Yeah.'

"有誰跟你一起搭乘那艘竹筏嗎？" 哈克回答，" 有。"

'Is he black or white?' 'White.' And they go off.

"是黑人還是白人？" "白人。" 他們就離開了。

And Huck said, 'Oh my God, oh my God, I lied, I lied, ooh,

哈克說:"我的天啊！我的天啊！我說謊了！我說謊了！哇!

I did a terrible thing, did a terrible thing -- why do I feel so good?'

我做了一件可怕事，我做了一件可怕事—可是為什麼我卻覺得好開心？"

"But it's the goodness of Huck, that stuff that Huck's been made of,

這就是哈克的善良，這就是哈克的本性，

you see, all been buried; it's all been buried.

現在呢，都消失了，完全都消失無蹤了。

So the human touch, you see, it's disappearing.

人情味，你很清楚，它正逐漸的消失。

ain't no defining moment in American history for me.

對我來說在美國的歷史上是沒有關鍵時刻的。

It's an accretion of moments that add up to where we are now,

歷史不斷的累積，造就了我們今日的現狀，

And more and more, less and less awareness of the pain of the other.

越來越多社會新聞告訴我們，大家對他人的痛苦越來越視而不見。

Huh. You know, I don't know if you could use this or not,

嗯，不知道這是否也發生在你的生活裡，

but I was quoting Wright Morris, a writer from Nebraska, who says,

Wright Morris，一位內布拉斯加的作家，他說，

【TED】安娜-迪維爾-史密斯。四個美國人物》（Anna Deavere Smith: Four American characters）。 (【TED】Anna Deavere Smith: Four American characters (Anna Deavere Smith: Four American characters))

字幕列表影片播放

【TED】安娜-迪維爾-史密斯。四個美國人物》（Anna Deavere Smith: Four American characters）。 (【TED】Anna Deavere Smith: Four American characters (Anna Deavere Smith: Four American characters))

moment

risk

security

race