Name: 【TED】奇納卡-霍奇。關於2016年，你會對你的女兒們說些什麼？(What will you tell your daughters about 2016? | Chinaka Hodge) (【TED】Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016? (What will you tell your daughters about 2016? | Chinaka Hodge))
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請與你的女兒們談談在這一年當中，

我們是如何依賴咖啡保持清醒，

but discovered instead cadavers strewn about our morning papers,

卻發現悲劇大篇幅 佔據了我們的早報

waterlogged facsimiles of our sisters, spouses, small children.

和來自姐妹、伴侶和孩子的 那些令人沮喪的消息。

Say to your baby of this year when she asks, as she certainly should,

你的孩子理應問及這一年 而當她問起時，請你與她談談

Admit even in the year we leased freedom, we didn't own it outright.

承認吧，這一年，我們仍未能 理所當然擁有那些爭取來的自由。

There were still laws for every way we used our privates

還是有各種法律 限制我們如何使用自己的身體；

while they pawed at the soft folds of us,

然而當他們侵略我們柔軟之處的時候，

當他們不在乎我們意願的時候，

no laws made for the men that enforced them.

越來越多的等待、無盡的等待，

但請與你的女兒 談談這個戰爭的年代，

也和二十年前一樣 沒什麼不同的一年。

laid our bodies on the concrete against the outlines of our fallen,

我們躺在水泥地上， 身軀緊挨著革命先驅的精神，

叫喊著 ：「我們女人當然重要！」

女人真的為了這一年流了眼淚。

但與此同時，我們也做好準備。

The year we lost our inhibition and moved with courageous abandon

這一年，我們不再畫地自限， 並勇敢前進，

was also the year we stared down barrels,

同時，我們用眼神擊退了槍支，

sang of cranes in skies, ducked and parried,

caught gold in hijab, collected death threats,

said, "We're 35 now, time we settled down and found a running mate,"

說：「我們已經三十五歲了， 該是時候安頓下來，找個伴侶了。」

made road maps for infant joy, shamed nothing but fear,

called ourselves fat and meant, of course,

Remind them that the year has passed to be docile or small.

並提醒她們，要順從和低微的 年代已經過去了。

Some of us said for the first time that we were women,

Some of us bore children and some of us did not,

我們當中有人生了孩子， 而有些沒有。

and none of us questioned whether that made us real

沒有人應該因此質疑 這是否使我們真實地存在，

your daughter, whether your offspring or heir to your triumph,

你的女兒、子嗣 或是那些繼承你榮耀的人，

from her comforted side of history teetering towards woman,

she will hold your estimation of it holy,

好奇地試探：「那個時候你在哪裡？

Did you fight? Were you fearful or fearsome?

你打架了嗎？ 你害怕嗎，還是令人畏懼？

What did you do for women in the year it was time?

This path you made for me, which bones had to break?

你為我鋪的這條路， 哪些骨頭必須打破？

Did you do enough, and are you OK, momma?

你做足夠了，你還好嗎，媽媽？

She will not care about the arc of your brow,

Your daughter, for whom you have already carried so much, wants to know

what you brought, what gift, what light did you keep from extinction?

你帶來什麼、什麼禮物， 你讓哪一盞燈持續發光不滅？

did you sleep through it or were you roused?

What, in the year we said time's up, what did you do with your privilege?

當我們說時間到了， 你用你的特權做了什麼？

Did you look away or directly into the flame?

Did you know your skill or treat it like a liability?

你知道你的技能 或者將其視為負擔？

Were you fooled by the epithets of "nasty" or "less than"?

你被“討厭的”還是 “少於”的註釋愚弄了嗎？

Did you teach with an open heart or a clenched fist?

你用開放的心 還是握緊的拳頭教導？

Confirm it. Say, "Daughter, I stood there

確認這些，並說： 「女兒，我站在那裡

with the moment drawn on my face like a dagger,

Tell her the truth, how you lived in spite of crooked odds.

請你告訴她事實的真相， 你是如何披荊斬棘的存活。

and always, always in the company of courage,

mostly the days when you just had yourself.

請你告訴她，她的出生就像你一樣，

as your mothers before, and the sisters beside them,

更如同你的母親和她身旁的姐妹們，

【TED】奇納卡-霍奇。關於2016年，你會對你的女兒們說些什麼？(What will you tell your daughters about 2016? | Chinaka Hodge) (【TED】Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016? (What will you tell your daughters about 2016? | Chinaka Hodge))

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