Name: TED】Emily Levine:一切的理論(A theory of everything | Emily Levine) (【TED】Emily Levine: A theory of everything (A theory of everything | Emily Levine))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:47:05.000Z
Duration: 22 min 53 s

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譯者: Leslie Liu 審譯者: Shelley Krishna Tsang

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well for one thing, I prefer to talk about things I know nothing about.

And secondly, I'm a recovering narcissist.

一方面，更喜歡談論我所不了解的事

其次，我是一個正在復原的自戀狂。

I didn't know I was a narcissist actually.

I thought narcissism meant you loved yourself.

其實以前我不知道我是自戀狂。

And then someone told me there is a flip side to it.

So it's actually drearier than self-love;

後來，有人告訴我它其實有另外一個意思。

我覺得我無法承受這種舊疾復發

how I came to design my own particular brand of comedy

because I've been through so many different forms of it.

我是怎麼創建我獨特的喜劇品牌的

因為我經歷過太多不同類型的喜劇。

in a particular form of improvisation called theater games,

即興創作中有一種特殊的形式叫劇場遊戲。

which I always thought was a great rule for an ethic for a society.

And the rule was, you couldn't deny the other person's reality,

而且我認為這個規則是對社會很好的一個道德規範，

那就是，你不能夠否認他人現實的世界，

And of course we live in a society that's all about

which I think is why I'm so sensitive to contradiction in general.

這也是為什麼我對矛盾這麼敏感的緣故

Like polls. You know, it's always curious to me

the percentage of Americans who don't know the answer to any given question

在任何題目中不知道答案的美國人

But only two percent don't know the effect

認為阿拉斯加是加拿大的一部分

that the debacle in Argentina will have on the IMF's monetary policy --

阿根廷政府垮臺對國際貨幣基金組織政策的影響

Or this ad that I read in the New York Times:

"Wearing a fine watch speaks loudly of your rank in society.

或者說我在《紐約時報》上看到的這則廣告：

“配戴一款精緻的手錶展現了你的社會地位

向我們購買手錶體現你的品味。”

Or this that I found in a magazine called California Lawyer,

in an article that is surely meant for the lawyers at Enron.

還有我在《加州律师》雜誌上看到的這篇文章，

"Surviving the Slammer: Do's and Don'ts."

這絕對是寫給安然公司(Enron)的律師看的：

And I suppose it's a contradiction that I

talk about science when I don't know math.

You know, because -- and by the way to I was so grateful to Dean Kamen

for pointing out that one of the reasons,

因為，順道一提我非常感謝狄恩卡門(Dean Kamen)

that women and minorities don't enter the fields of science and technology --

because for instance, the reason I don't do math is,

其中一個原因有文化的因素在内

I was taught to do math and read at the same time.

是因為，舉例來說，我不擅長數學的原因是

So you're six years old, you're reading Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,

我被教導著要同時學習數學與閱讀

當你六歲時，你閱讀著《白雪公主與七個小矮人》

that there are only two kinds of men in the world:

And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

而你找到白馬王子的機率是一比七

That's why little girls don't do math. It's too depressing.

這就是為何小女孩不愛算術，因爲太令人沮喪了。

incur the violent wrath of some scientists

也可能，像我某個晚上的演講一樣

讓某些科學家產生了一些憤怒的情緒

I used the word postmodern as if it were OK.

我使用了“后現代”這個詞，我以爲不會有什麽問題的，

One of them, to his credit, I think really just wanted to engage me

其中的一個科學家，他真的很想要與我辯論

但我不和人在嚴肅的議題上爭論

because arguments, of course, are all about contradiction,

and they're shaped by the values that I have questions with.

因為爭論本身，當然，都跟矛盾有關。

I have questions with the values of Newtonian science,

like rationality. You're supposed to be rational in an argument.

我對於牛頓科學的價值產生懷疑

例如理性，你在一個爭論中必須是要理性的

by what Christie Hefner was talking about today,

When we say "I," -- as when Rene Descartes said,

And as David Lee Roth sang in "Just a Gigolo,"

當David Lee Roth 唱著"我只是個牛郎"

is the body asserting itself against the head.

That's why you have toilet humor and sexual humor.

這也是為何有洗手間笑話和黃色笑話

這也是為何Raspyni Brothers(同是喜劇演員)

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