Yeah.

好了

I was raised to be Generic.

我被撫養成為一個平凡人

Born that way.

生而如此

But on the third day in the second quarter, I'm starting to think it's not

但就在第二區的第三天，我開始覺得

who I really am.

那不是真正的我

The moods they don't understand just yet.

那些他們尚未了解的情緒

Usually it's to help sell things.

通常那有助於銷售東西

But sometimes you glimpse a person in that reflective surface,

但有些時候你看到一個人反映出的一面

who seems a little bit like you.

那個人和你有些相似

My name is Suzy Jackson, and I am a narrator of audiobooks.

我名叫 Suzy Jackson ，我是有聲書的旁白

Is that what we call ourselves?

是那樣稱呼的嗎？

I'm like, I don't know — audio...

我是說，我不知道欸，聲音...

voiceover artist?

畫外音藝術家？

I mean, but like we're talking about audiobooks, so...

我的意思是，我們在講有聲書所以 ...

As I'm reading, any time a character pops up, I'll underline their name.

當我閱讀時，只要任何角色出現，我就會在他們名字底下劃線

"Very good," Dr. Snoot says. I didn't notice her behind me.

「非常好，」史努博士說。我根本沒感覺她在我後面

She feels like a grandmother — I don't have one, but

她感覺就像是奶奶 -- 我沒有奶奶，不過

I've read about them in books. "Onto the next one."

我在書裡讀到奶奶過。「換下一個。」

One trick that I'll do, I'm trying to find if I have a place... Here.

我的一個小技巧，我看能不能找到一個 ... 這裡

Let's say there's a sentence that says “she whispered” at the end.

假設有一句話結尾是「她低語。」

So I need to know that before I start.

我會需要在開始前就知道

So I'll underline it while I'm preparing the book.

所以我在準備書時就會在它底下劃線

See, I'll draw an arrow to it.

你看，我會畫個箭頭

And so then I'll catch it before I'm saying it.

這樣我就能在唸到之前注意到

So there's... It's this weird mental trick of staying really present, but also kind of also reading

所以這就是一個詭異的心理技巧，你要專注在當下，同時有些

a little bit ahead.

提前閱讀

After Dr. Snoot walks away, I fall into a daze until Kenneth hits me on the shoulder,

史努博士離開後，我晃神了，直到凱尼斯拍我的肩膀

Rita and Adelaide bouncing next to him.

瑞塔和艾德莉在他旁邊雀躍著

"Addison," he says, sniffing a little and pushing his hair behind his ears.

「艾迪森，」他說，鼻子嗅了一下然後把頭髮塞到耳後

"Do you want to go look at it again?" "I'm supposed to work.

「想再去看一次嗎？」「我應該要工作的。

I have thirteen cases to diagnose before break four."

在第四次休息前我有十三個案子要診斷。」

Rita grabs me by the shoulders. "Come on daydreamer, let's go."

瑞塔抓住我的肩膀。「來啦做白日夢的，我們走。」

I start to follow them, Adelaide chattering the entire time.

我開始跟著他們，艾德莉一直喋喋不休

[GURGLING NOISE]

[汩汩噪音]

Did you hear... [laughs] so that's what happens.

你聽到了嗎 ... [笑聲] 就是這樣

You're like, and now my esophagus made some strange bubbling sound,

有時候我的食道會發出咕嚕聲

so we stop and pick up.

我們就會暫停再重來

And he started hitting a vending machine and I realized — I knew him when I was five!

然後他開始打販賣機，我才發現 -- 我五歲時就知道他了！

Before they made me an operator.

就在他們要我當操作員之前

"He ate a lot of glue."

「她吃很多漿糊。」

She'd keep going, but we stop. Standing in front of us, we see it.

她繼續走，不過我們停下腳步。就在我們前面，我們看到它了

A funny drawing scrawled on the wall.

墻上有一副潦草的好笑的畫

I wrote down the characters in the book, and I noted on my paper what I knew about them:

我把書裡的角色寫下來，然後在紙上記下我知道關於他們的事：

that Dr. Snoot was like a grandma, that Kenneth was nerdy, that Rita was always in control,

史努博士就像奶奶，凱尼斯很書呆，瑞塔總是掌握全局

that Adelaide was feisty.

艾德莉很積極

I felt like I knew the energy of it.

我感覺我知道其中的精髓

It says “Kilroy Was Here” underneath.

畫下面寫著「奇若伊到此一遊」

And then underneath that, there's another word.

而在那下面還有另一個字

"Vox?" Kenneth says, his voice catching on the x.

hours on end, like that stamina is more difficult than coming up with slight variation

of vocal quality to distinguish characters.

Whether I'm reading aloud to kids or whether I'm reading on my own, the experience has

changed a bit since I've been narrating.

You aren't necessarily only going to be narrating the style or genre of books that you

yourself might choose to read on your own.

So I think there is something to just respecting

that story and respecting the audience for that story.

“Voice,” I tell the group again.

“The one thing that can never be generic.”

I don't know if I've done alien voices, but I've done in the sci-fi world a lot

of creatures.

“Can you do a pizza order as a dragon?”

“I'll take a large cheese with extra pepperoni.”

It's so weird, it's so weird what I do.

I'm frightened.