Name: 【TED】裡夫斯。如果我控制了互聯網 (如果我控制了互聯網｜Rives) (【TED】Rives: If I controlled the Internet (If I controlled the Internet | Rives))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:25:25.000Z
Duration: 4 min 17 s

程度副詞

I wrote this poem after hearing a pretty well known actress

譯者: Pin-hsien Kuo 審譯者: Leonard Lin

tell a very well known interviewer on television,

我寫下這首詩是在我聽到一個十分知名的女演員

情態副詞

"I'm really getting into the Internet lately.

在電視上告訴一個家瑜戶曉的主持人

不過我希望它能更加有規律。」

you could auction your broken heart on eBay.

buy a phonebook for a country you've never been to -- call folks at random

拿著錢，聯結到亞馬遜網上(網路書店)

until you find someone who flirts really well in a foreign language.

買一本你從未去過的國家的電話簿，打給不認識的人

打不停，直到你找到很會用外文調情的人為止

you could Mapquest your lover's mood swings.

Hang left at cranky, right at preoccupied,

你可以查詢你情人的心情動態地圖。

all the way back to tongue kissing and good lovin'.

You could navigate and understand every emotional intersection.

Some days, I'm as shallow as a baking pan,

每一個情緒路口你都可以導航和理解。

but I still stretch miles in all directions.

有時候我膚淺的跟平底鍋一樣，

If I owned the Internet, Napster, Monster and Friendster.com

但我仍朝各個方向延伸好幾哩。

如果網際網路歸我所有，Napster, Monster and Friendster.com

and you're really just chattin' with your pals.

但是你其實上是在和朋友聊天。

Heck, if I ran the Web, you could email dead people.

為什不行呢~如果我管網路，你可以寄電子郵件給死人

他們的名字在你的收件夾匣出現－

And a message saying, "Hey, it's me. I miss you.

內容寫著：「喂，是我。我想你。

Now you go back to raising kids and waging peace and craving candy."

告訴你，你以後就會知道死亡有多讚。

If I designed the Internet, childhood.com would be a loop

你現在繼續去養孩子、鼓吹和平和渴望糖果吧。」

of a boy in an orchard, with a ski pole for a sword,

如果網際網路是我設計的，童年網會是有關

trashcan lid for a shield, shouting, "I am the emperor of oranges.

一個在果樹園裡的男孩，以滑雪桿為劍，

I am the emperor of oranges. I am the emperor of oranges."

垃圾桶蓋為盾，一直喊著：「我是橘子之王。

我是橘子之王。我是橘子之王。」

跟著我的思考方式一起，好嗎？

Grandma.com would be a recipe for biscuits and spit-bath instructions.

祖母網，會是餅乾食譜和如何用口水幫孫子清理的教學。

一、二、三(用口水梳小孩的頭髮)。

They take you to gruff-ex-cop-on-his-fourth-marriage.dad.

他們倆連結你到「臭臉－退休警察－和他的第四次婚姻的爸爸」。

kind-of-ditzy-but-still-sends-ginger-snaps-for-Christmas.mom,

who downloads the boy in the orchard, the emperor of oranges,

「有點愚蠢－但聖誕節仍然送薑餅的母親」，

她下載了在果園裡的男孩，橘子之王，

already have the lowest possible mortgage

so I would outlaw spam on my first day in office.

那麼我會在上班第一天宣布垃圾郵件不需要過濾了。

I'd be like some kind of Internet genius, and me,

I'd like to upgrade to deity and maybe just like that --

我希望升級為神人，而或許我就會－

I could zip through your servers and firewalls like a virus

啥？搞不好谷歌會用我這個主意。

until the World Wide Web is as wise, as wild and as organized

我能快速穿梭於你的伺服器和防火牆，就像病毒

as I think a modern-day miracle/oracle can get, but, ooh-eee,

直到全球資訊網，如此狂野又有規律

一如我覺得現今奇蹟/預言之所能及，但，哎呀，

your Mac or PC is going to be when I'm rocking

你們要不要賭賭看你們的電腦會

變得多不電腦化，一旦我掌控了

We can make "You've got Hallelujah" the national anthem of cyberspace

我們可以立「你有哈雷路亞」為虛擬空間的國歌

You send one blessed email to whomever you're thinking of

只要發送一封祈福過的電郵給你想到的任何人

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