Name: 【TED】Ashweetha Shetty:教育如何幫我改寫人生(教育如何幫我改寫人生｜Ashweetha Shetty) (【TED】Ashweetha Shetty: How education helped me rewrite my life (How education helped me rewrite my life | Ashweetha Shetty))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:20:58.000Z
Duration: 10 min 42 s

情態副詞

程度副詞

She hand-rolls country cigarettes to sustain our family.

她以人工捲印度的國民香菸 來維持家計。

and spent 10 to 12 hours every day rolling bidis.

That particular day she came home and showed me her bidi-rolling wage book.

每天要花十到十二小時捲香菸。

She asked me how much money she has earned that week.

就在那天，她回到家， 讓我看她捲香菸的薪水薄。

and what caught my eyes were her thumbprints on each page.

吸引我注意的是每頁上 都有她的拇指指紋。

She uses her thumbprints instead of a signature

她用她的拇指指紋來代替簽名，

I wanted to teach her how to hold a pen and write her name.

我想要教她如何握筆 以及如何寫她的名字。

But deep down, I was sure she wanted to give it a try.

她露出天真的微笑並說「不」。

With a little bit of perseverance and a lot of effort,

但，內心深處， 我很確定她想要一試。

花了一點點的堅持和很多的努力，

Her hands were trembling, and her face was beaming with pride.

我們成功讓她學會寫她的名字。

她的手在發抖，臉上盡是驕傲。

that I could be of some use to this world.

In rural India, girls are generally considered worthless.

因為照理來說我不該是有用的。

在印度鄉村， 女孩都是沒有價值的。

it is only to cook dishes, keep the house clean

那最多也只是有用在 煮飯、打掃房子，

As a second daughter of my conservative Indian family,

我是一個保守印度家庭中的次女，

I was conditioned to believe that the three identities that defined me --

我受到制約，相信我 被三種身分給定義——

meant that I was to live a life of no voice and no choice.

These three identities forced me to think

意思就是說，我注定要過著 沒有發言權、選擇權的人生。

All throughout my childhood, as I rolled bidis alongside my mother,

我的整個童年都在 我媽媽身邊幫忙捲香菸，

I often asked my mother, with a lot of anxiety,

"Amma, will my life be different from yours?

我通常會充滿焦慮地問我媽媽：

「媽，我的人生會和你的不同嗎？

I am sure my mother did not mean to discourage me.

我相信我媽媽並沒有要洩我的氣。

that my dreams might be too big for a girl in my village.

When I was 13, I found the autobiography of Helen Keller.

就一個生在這個村莊的女孩 而言，我的夢想太大了。

我十三歲時，發現了 海倫·凱勒的自傳。

I wanted to have a college degree like her,

so I fought with my father and my relatives to be sent to college,

所以我為了要上大學的事 和我爸爸及親戚爭執，

During my final year of my undergraduate degree,

I desperately wanted to escape from being forced into marriage,

so I applied to a fellowship program in Delhi,

我非常想要逃離被迫結婚的命運，

which is about 1,600 miles away from my village.

德里離我的村莊 大約有一千六百英里。

In fact, I recall that the only way I could fill out the application

事實上，我記得， 我唯一能夠填申請表的方式，

就是在通勤去大學的路上填寫。

so I had to borrow a college junior's cell phone.

As a woman, I could not be seen with a cell phone,

我得要向一位大一學生借手機。

so I used to huddle his phone under my shawl

我是女人，所以不能 讓別人看到我持有手機，

我通常會把他的手機 藏在我的披巾下，

I got into the fellowship program with a full scholarship.

My father was confused, my mother was worried --

我被錄取了，且拿到全額獎學金。

我爸爸感到很困惑， 我媽媽感到很擔心——

My father was confused, my mother was worried,

我爸爸感到很困惑， 我媽媽感到很擔心，

because I was going to step out of my village

當年選出的九十七位研究員中，

There was no one there who looked like me or spoke like me.

我是唯一一位從鄉村大學畢業的。

I felt alienated, intimidated and judged by many.

那裡沒有人看起來跟我一樣， 或說話跟我一樣。

我覺得很孤獨、害怕， 且被很多人評斷。

有一位研究員叫我「椰子女孩」。

That's because I applied a lot of coconut oil to my hair.

那是因為我在頭髮上 抹了很多椰子油。

Another asked me where I had learned to speak English,

and some of my peers did not prefer to have me on their assignment teams

另一位研究員問我 是在哪裡學會說英文的，

because they thought I would not be able to contribute to their discussion.

我有一些同儕不歡迎我 加入他們的小組寫報告，

I felt that many of my peers believed that a person from rural India

因為他們認為我不會 對他們的討論有所貢獻。

我覺得，我有很多同儕都認為， 來自印度鄉村的人

yet the majority of Indian population today is rural.

不可能提供任何有價值的東西，

I realized that stories like mine were considered to be an exception

盡管印度大部分的人口 都是鄉村人口。

我了解到，像我這樣的故事 其實是被視為特例，

I believe that all of us are born into a reality that we blindly accept

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