Name: 【TED】皮科-艾耶爾:我們永遠不會知道的美（The beauty of what we'll never know | Pico Iyer）。 (【TED】Pico Iyer: The beauty of what we'll never know (The beauty of what we'll never know | Pico Iyer))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:30:01.000Z
Duration: 10 min 6 s

過去簡單式

And out on the street, I ran into a group of rough men

我到了街上， 碰到一群衣著樸素的人，

It was less than I would pay for a bar of chocolate at home.

價格比我在家吃一根巧克力棒還要便宜。

and he began pedaling us slowly between palaces and pagodas.

And as he did, he told me how he had come to the city from his village.

他載著我，緩緩地穿梭在皇宮和寶塔之間。

同時，他開始講述他從他的村莊來到城市的經歷。

But of course, life is hard under a military dictatorship,

and so for now, this was the only way he could make a living.

但是，受軍閥獨裁統治的生活是很困難的，

Many nights, he told me, he actually slept in his trishaw

所以這是他唯一能賴以生存的方式。

so he could catch the first visitors off the all-night train.

多少個夜晚，他告訴我， 他睡在自己的三輪車裡

And very soon, we found that in certain ways,

為了能夠接到走下連夜火車的第一個乘客

很快的，我們發現，在很多方面，

we were both fascinated by foreign cultures --

So we turned off the wide, crowded streets,

and we began bumping down rough, wild alleyways.

所以我們離開了寬大而擁擠的馬路，

開始顛簸在一條條凹凸不平的巷子裡。

and I realized that anything could happen to me now.

我意識到什麼都有可能發生在我身上。

Finally, he stopped and led me into a hut,

最終，他停下車， 帶我進了一個棚屋，

我等待著， 想知道他會拿出什麼東西。

Inside it was every single letter he had ever received

裡面是每一封他從外國遊客那裡

那個晚上，當我們道別的時候，

Out in the world, you are reminded every moment that you're not,

and you can't get to the bottom of things, either.

離家在外的時候， 你要記住，每一分每一秒，

你不會，也不能了解事情的全部。

“無論何處，人們都想通曉世事，”

拉爾夫 沃爾多 愛默生提醒過我們，

“但是正因為我們無法通曉世事

At this conference, we've been lucky enough

to hear some exhilarating new ideas and discoveries

能夠聽到一些令人激動的 新想法和發現，

in which knowledge is being pushed excitingly forwards.

And it's then, when you're lost or uneasy or carried out of yourself,

然後，當你失敗或失落的時候，

Science has unquestionably made our lives

And I am forever grateful to the teachers who showed me the laws of physics

變得更光明，更長久，更健康。

and pointed out that three times three makes nine.

我永遠感激教導我物理定律的老師

that minus three times minus three makes nine,

that's a kind of logic that almost feels like trust.

The opposite of knowledge, in other words, isn't always ignorance.

知識的對岸，換句話說，不一定是無知。

And in my life, I've found it's the things I don't know

that have lifted me up and pushed me forwards

在我的人生中，我發現，那些我不知道的事情

that have often brought me closer to everybody around me.

而且也是我不知道的那些事情，

I traveled every year across Japan with the Dalai Lama.

that most seemed to give people reassurance and confidence

也似乎最能夠讓人們感到安慰和自信，

"When are we ever going to get world peace?"

【TED】皮科-艾耶爾:我們永遠不會知道的美（The beauty of what we'll never know | Pico Iyer）。 (【TED】Pico Iyer: The beauty of what we'll never know (The beauty of what we'll never know | Pico Iyer))

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【TED】皮科-艾耶爾:我們永遠不會知道的美（The beauty of what we'll never know | Pico Iyer）。 (【TED】Pico Iyer: The beauty of what we'll never know (The beauty of what we'll never know | Pico Iyer))

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