与耶鲁校友、获奖作者聊聊好故事应该如何构思？
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:04 | Good evening everyone. | 晚上好,大家好,谢谢 |
| 0:06 | Welcome to this talk on accessible storytelling organized by Yale | 欢迎来到耶鲁大学组织的 关于无障碍故事的演讲 |
| 0:10 | Center Beijing and Yale Collab of Beijing. | 北京中心与耶鲁学院. |
| 0:14 | This talk is part of Lux and Veritas, | 这段话是卢克斯和维里塔斯的 |
| 0:19 | Guangming and Zhenli speaker series, which model after college teas at Yale 14 residential college. | 广明与振利演讲者系列,该系列以耶鲁14寄宿学院的大学茶后为模特. |
| 0:29 | And today's event actually the first talk in this series. | 而今天的活动其实是这个系列的第一个演讲. |
| 0:33 | My name is Xinjing, the program and office | 我叫新京 节目和办公室 |
| 0:35 | manager of Yale Center Beijing. | 北京耶鲁中心经理. |
| 0:38 | For those of you who are new to the center, Yale Center Beijing is | 对于你们中新到中心的人,耶鲁中心北京是 |
| 0:43 | the Yale University's first and only university-wide center outside of the U.S. | 耶鲁大学是美国以外第一个也是唯一的全大学中心. |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good evening everyone. | 晚上好,大家好,谢谢 |
| 2 | Welcome to this talk on accessible storytelling organized by Yale | 欢迎来到耶鲁大学组织的 关于无障碍故事的演讲 |
| 3 | Center Beijing and Yale Collab of Beijing. | 北京中心与耶鲁学院. |
| 4 | This talk is part of Lux and Veritas, | 这段话是卢克斯和维里塔斯的 |
| 5 | Guangming and Zhenli speaker series, which model after college teas at Yale 14 residential college. | 广明与振利演讲者系列,该系列以耶鲁14寄宿学院的大学茶后为模特. |
| 6 | And today's event actually the first talk in this series. | 而今天的活动其实是这个系列的第一个演讲. |
| 7 | My name is Xinjing, the program and office | 我叫新京 节目和办公室 |
| 8 | manager of Yale Center Beijing. | 北京耶鲁中心经理. |
| 9 | For those of you who are new to the center, Yale Center Beijing is | 对于你们中新到中心的人,耶鲁中心北京是 |
| 10 | the Yale University's first and only university-wide center outside of the U.S. | 耶鲁大学是美国以外第一个也是唯一的全大学中心. |
| 11 | So throughout the years | 这么多年了 |
| 12 | we host programs and events that bring thought leaders from diverse sectors to engage in | 我们主办各种方案和活动,让不同部门的思想领袖参与 |
| 13 | discussions on the most cutting-edge, interesting and important topics. | 讨论最尖端、最有趣和最重要的专题。 |
| 14 | So today we are very excited | 所以今天我们很兴奋 |
| 15 | to have our two Yale alumni, Jingjing Xiao and Ruozhi Guo, joining us this center. | 让耶鲁大学的两位校友 萧静静和郭若日加入我们 |
| 16 | So Jingjing | 所以静静 |
| 17 | is currently a Yale student and Ruozhi actually gonna start his academic journey | 目前是耶鲁大学的学生 鲁兹会开始他的学术旅行 |
| 18 | at Cambridge University this year, right? | 今年在剑桥大学,对吧? |
| 19 | They both majored in English during their time at Yale. | 他们在耶鲁期间主修英语. |
| 20 | So Ruozhi is our moderator today, right? | 鲁兹今天是我们的主持人,对吧? |
| 21 | So without further ado, I'll now hand over the | 所以,不做进一步的事, 我现在交出 |
| 22 | speaker to Ruozhi Guo. | 郭鲁志的演讲者. |
| 23 | I was an English major at Yale and towards the end of this year, October, | 我是耶鲁大学的英语专业,今年十月底 |
| 24 | I'm going to be heading to Cambridge to do an MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. | 我要去剑桥 做一个MPhil 在盎格鲁-撒克逊,诺斯和凯尔特。 |
| 25 | Jingjing is a senior that I did not know I had. | 静静是个高年级的,我不知道我有。 |
| 26 | Surprisingly, we went to the same residential | 令人惊讶的是,我们去了同一个住所 |
| 27 | college in Yale as well, what are the chances? | 耶鲁的大学也有机会吗? |
| 28 | She is doing something that I have dreamt of doing | 她在做我梦寐以求的事 |
| 29 | since I wanted to study English actually, creative writing, and I did not have the... | 因为我想学习英语 实际上,创造性的写作, 我没有... |
| 30 | I chose a different path. | 我选择了另一条路 |
| 31 | I went to study literature and analytical writing, but I still | 我去研究文学和分析性写作 |
| 32 | love creative writing and I'm sure Jingjing's love and passion for writing is something | 我确信静静对写作的热爱和热情 |
| 33 | we are all excited to hear about. | 我们都很兴奋听到这个消息。 |
| 34 | We've talked about this and I'm looking forward to hearing | 我们谈过了 我期待听到 |
| 35 | what she has to share. | 她要分享的东西 |
| 36 | So let's welcome my senior, Jingjing Xiao. | 所以欢迎我的高年级生小静静 |
| 37 | Thank you, Ruozhi. | 谢谢你,鲁兹 |
| 38 | So as a writer, I believe in letting my work speak for itself. | 所以作为一名作家,我相信让我的作品能代表自己. |
| 39 | So I'll start by reading from | 所以,我先从阅读 |
| 40 | my story. | 我的故事。 |
| 41 | Let's play a game. | 我们来玩个游戏 |
| 42 | You are my grandfather. | 你是我爷爷 |
| 43 | Your name is... You have no name. | 你的名字是... 你没有名字。 |
| 44 | Your parents died so young, you cannot remember what they looked like, much less what they called | 你父母这么年轻就死了 你不记得他们长什么样 更不记得他们叫什么 |
| 45 | you. | 你们 |
| 46 | Your first memory is a patch of weeds whacking like dog tails beside the dirt road. | 你的第一个记忆是一丁点的杂草 像狗尾巴一样在泥土路边。 |
| 47 | A lanky girl running ahead of you to the landlord's courtyard. | 一个娘娘腔在你前面跑去房东的庭院 |
| 48 | One silk slipper, | 一个丝绸拖鞋, |
| 49 | the toes tapping the door frame behind her bare brown feet. | 脚趾敲门框 背后她赤褐的脚。 |
| 50 | Ever since you could remember, | 自从你还记得, |
| 51 | you had followed your elder sister around the countryside, begging work from wealthy farmers | 你一直跟随你的姐姐 在农村,乞讨 从富裕的农民的工作 |
| 52 | and scavenging the fields when they gave nothing. | 当他们无所施舍的时候,他们为田地扫荡。 |
| 53 | The season cycle, eight or ten summers. | 季循环,八十夏. |
| 54 | You become 11 or 13. | 你变成11或13。 |
| 55 | No one who knows your birth date remains alive. | 没有人知道你的出生日期还活着。 |
| 56 | One clear date, | 一个明确的日期, |
| 57 | your sister brings you a man on horseback who wears a uniform the same color as that | 你姐姐给你带来一个骑马的男人 穿着和那一样的制服 |
| 58 | cloudless morning. | 无云晨报. |
| 59 | He's your shushu, she tells you. | 他是你的舒舒,她告诉你。 |
| 60 | Shushu can mean anything from uncle to stranger. | 修修从叔叔到陌生人都可以说 |
| 61 | You look towards his face and wonder if you will find a trace of the parents that you do not | 你看着他的脸 想知道你会不会找到 父母的痕迹,你没有 |
| 62 | remember. | 记住 |
| 63 | From behind him, the sun is bright, the sky glows blue, and the light blinds you. | 从他身后,太阳明亮,天空发亮蓝亮,光照使你失明. |
| 64 | Your sister met uncle, you decide, because as soon as you squint, the man in the blue uniform | 你姐姐遇到了叔叔,你决定, 因为当你一看,那个穿蓝色制服的男人 |
| 65 | takes off his nice cloth cap with the red star and sets it on your head. | 用红星脱下他漂亮的布帽 放在你的头上 |
| 66 | {\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}你的胸口掉下来了 | |
| 67 | eyes. | 双眼 |
| 68 | Your uncle makes adjustments until the hat balances just so on your hairline. | 你叔叔做了调整,直到帽子平衡 在你的发线。 |
| 69 | Then he takes | 然后他带走 |
| 70 | your hand, you take your sister's, and the three of you go to dinner. | 你的手,你拿你姐姐的, 和你们三人去吃饭。 |
| 71 | You will remember that meal | 你会记得那顿饭 |
| 72 | forever. | 永远 |
| 73 | There were four types of crystal noodles made of milky white green bean jelly, | 有四种类型的水晶面 由乳白色绿豆果冻制成, |
| 74 | pale yellow soybean jelly, and translucent silver sweet potato jelly. | 淡黄大豆果冻 半透明银甜土豆果冻 |
| 75 | The first two change colors in boiling water, turning transparent before the cook scooped them | 头两朵在沸水中变色,在厨师挖出来前变透明 |
| 76 | into bowls with his cloth nut. | 用他的坚果打成碗。 |
| 77 | A young woman seasoned them according to your uncle's | 一个年轻女人根据你叔叔的 |
| 78 | instructions with a dozen ingredients, soy sauce, chili oil, chili flakes, chili powder, | 配有十几种成分的 酱油 辣椒油 辣椒片 辣椒粉 |
| 79 | spring onions, minced garlic, crushed pepper, taken from a rainbow of plastic dishes. | 春天的洋葱,薄荷大蒜,粉碎的胡椒,取自一盘塑料盘的彩虹. |
| 80 | That summer, you learn some people get not one or two, but three meals a day. | 那年夏天,你学会了有些人不是一两顿,而是一天三顿饭. |
| 81 | Your uncle stays | 你叔叔留下来 |
| 82 | until autumn, when another uniformed man arrives and tells him he must return to the Red Army. | 直到秋天,另一个穿制服的人到了,告诉他他必须回到红军. |
| 83 | War is no place for a young girl, he says, avoiding the gaze of your sister. | 他说,对一个年轻姑娘来说,战争不是地方 避开你妹妹的目光。 |
| 84 | Though her eyes water, her voice does not falter. | 虽然她的眼睛水,她的声音不动摇。 |
| 85 | You will grow up to be a man, she tells you, | 她告诉你,你会长大成人 |
| 86 | and your uncle agrees with a sigh. | 你叔叔同意叹息 |
| 87 | If you wish, he will bring you with him to the Red Army in | 如果你愿意 他会带你们去红军 |
| 88 | Chengdu. | 成都网. |
| 89 | So this story is interactive, as with the Choose Your Own Adventure games and books | 因此,这个故事是互动的, 就像选择自己的冒险游戏和书籍 |
| 90 | that I read growing up. | 我读到成长。 |
| 91 | I will give you a list of choices, tell you how many there are, | 我给你一份选择清单 告诉你有多少人 |
| 92 | and we're going to take a vote, and your vote will decide which way the story goes. | 我们要进行投票, 你的投票会决定故事的走向。 |
| 93 | There are two choices here. | 这里有两个选择。 |
| 94 | First, if you want to go with your uncle. | 首先 如果你想和叔叔一起去的话 |
| 95 | Second, if you want to go | 第二 如果你想去的话 |
| 96 | with your sister. | 和你的妹妹。 与你的妹妹。 |
| 97 | If you go with your uncle, raise your hand. | 如果你跟你叔叔去,举手 |
| 98 | All right, we have two votes, | 好了 我们有两票 |
| 99 | three votes. | 三张票 |
| 100 | I am going to guesstimate the number of votes. | 我将猜到票数。 |
| 101 | If you go with your sister, | 如果你跟你妹妹去的话 |
| 102 | raise your hand. | 举手 |
| 103 | All right, we have more votes for going with your sister. | 好吧,我们有更多的选票 与你妹妹去。 |
| 104 | In the following years, you wander from job to job, landlord to landlord, at first with your | 在接下来的几年里,你从工作到工作,从房东到房东, 一开始与你 |
| 105 | sister, then by yourself, after one landlord marries her. | 妹妹,然后一个人, 在一个房东娶了她之后。 |
| 106 | As you till, plan to weed, fertilize, | 等你们到来,计划大麻,施肥, |
| 107 | harvest, preserve, and then try not to freeze or starve, the tides of history sweep through China, | 收割,保存,然后尽量 不冻结或饥饿, 历史潮流横扫中国, |
| 108 | sometimes literally. | 有时候是字面上的。 |
| 109 | The civil war between the Kuomintang, the warlords, the Japanese, | 国共内战 军阀 日军 |
| 110 | the new Red Army means that no faction has time for governance. | 新的红军意味着任何派别都没有时间治理。 |
| 111 | Everyone neglects routine chores | 每个人都忽视日常的家务 |
| 112 | like clearing the sill deposits on the Yahtzee River banks. | 就像清理亚赫兹河岸的石井存款一样 |
| 113 | The accumulated sediment and 1931's | 累积的沉积物和1931年的 |
| 114 | heavy spring rain combine into torrential flooding. | 大春大雨加之洪水泛滥 |
| 115 | If you could read, the newspapers would have given | 如果你能读到,报纸本会 |
| 116 | you nightmares about walls of water appearing by night to sweep entire cities away into darkness. | 你梦见夜里出现的水墙 将整个城市都冲向黑暗 |
| 117 | You do not live by the river, so the spring floods are distant hearsay. | 你不住在河边 所以春季洪水是遥远的传闻 |
| 118 | Then came autumn, | 然后秋天降临, |
| 119 | there's no work for you, because flooding destroyed the fields. | 没有工作给你, 因为洪水摧毁了田地。 |
| 120 | Begging outside the | 向外面乞讨 |
| 121 | teahouse gets you little to nothing. | 茶馆让你一无所获 |
| 122 | Food is too expensive to give away. | 粮价太贵,不能施舍. |
| 123 | You grow thin at first, | 你一开始瘦了 |
| 124 | then your stomach bloats, then you die of starvation. | 然后胃胀,然后饿死。 |
| 125 | To reconsider your previous choice, | 为了重新考虑你之前的选择 |
| 126 | go to page one. | 转到第一页。 |
| 127 | To the people who chose to go with your uncle, you've survived this step | 对于选择跟你叔叔一起走的人来说, 你活了下来 |
| 128 | of the game. | 游戏。 |
| 129 | After having chosen to go to Chengdu with your uncle, he can leave your birthday blank, | 选择跟你叔叔去成都后 他可以把你生日留空 |
| 130 | but the Red Army registrar needs a name. | 但红军登记员需要名字 |
| 131 | At your helpless look, your uncle picks Yi Quan. | 在你无助的眼神下,你叔叔选了怡泉. |
| 132 | Yi, | 阿义 |
| 133 | he tells you, means morality and sensibility, the strength of character to do good and the | 他告诉你,意味着道德和理智, 性格的力量做好事和 |
| 134 | to do it well. | 做得不错 |
| 135 | Quan means completely. | 泉意为彻底. |
| 136 | As he explains, your uncle sketches the characters | 正如他所解释的 你叔叔勾画人物 |
| 137 | on the edge of your registration form. | 在您注册表的边缘。 |
| 138 | Yi is easy. | 易为易. |
| 139 | Two crossing lines and a dot. | 两条交叉线和一个点。 |
| 140 | Quan is slightly | 小泉有点小 |
| 141 | more complicated, with seven strokes comprising the square character. | 更复杂,由七下划线组成方块字符. |
| 142 | You copy all line nines | 复制所有九行内容 |
| 143 | onto the spot for your signature on the enrollment list. | 在入学名单上签名。 |
| 144 | Then your uncle gives you his last name, | 你叔叔给你取了姓 |
| 145 | Xiao. | 小晓. |
| 146 | Your new family name is written like a little moon, he explains, showing you how the | 你的新姓氏写得像小月亮, 他解释,告诉你如何 |
| 147 | three dots of the little character crown the crescent-shaped moon character. | 小人物三个点加冕 月亮形状的人物。 |
| 148 | After you copy | 复制后 |
| 149 | his neat script with your unsurgeoned scrawl, your uncle hands in the paper. | 他的剧本很整齐 你的无外科医生 手放在报纸上 |
| 150 | The registrar gives you | 书记官给你的 |
| 151 | a pack of supplies from a shiny new canteen to a blanket that smells odd to a smaller version of | 从闪亮的新食堂到毛毯 闻起来怪怪的 |
| 152 | your uncle's blue uniform. | 你叔叔的蓝色制服。 |
| 153 | This time, the red-starred hat fits perfectly on your head. | 这一次,红星帽 完全适合你的头上。 |
| 154 | As you leave the dry goods stores that serves as the Red Army's makeshift office and storage, | 当你离开作为红军临时办公室和仓库的干货店时 |
| 155 | your uncle tells you that your family once had a different last name. | 你叔叔告诉你 你的家庭曾经有一个不同的姓氏。 |
| 156 | The emperor who began your | 开始你的皇帝 |
| 157 | line more than a million ago, a millennium ago, had been known as a patron to artists and writers, | 一百万多年前 千禧年前 曾是艺术家和作家的赞助者 |
| 158 | but his descendants were usurped by a new dynasty. | 但他的后代被一个新的王朝篡夺. |
| 159 | Those that survived the purge changed their names | 那些在清洗中幸存下来的人改了名字 |
| 160 | to your assassins into the little moon, Xiao, which was pronounced just like your original name, | 给刺客们送去小月亮 小月亮就像你的原名一样 |
| 161 | but written with different radicals. | 但写着不同的激进分子。 |
| 162 | You briefly wonder if that story is true, because you would | 你简短地想知道那故事是否是真的 因为你会 |
| 163 | have changed your last name to Li, Wang, or something else that neither looked nor sounded | 改姓李,王,或别的东西 既不看也不听 |
| 164 | like your original last name. | 就像你的原姓一样 |
| 165 | Then a candy maker distracts you on your way to the barrocs with the | 然后一个糖果制造者 让你在去巴洛克的路上分心 |
| 166 | motion of spinning brown sugar into lanterns, houses, and animals. | 将褐色的糖 旋转成灯笼、房屋和动物 |
| 167 | You imagine walking through | 你想象一下走过去 |
| 168 | the capital city, returning to a palace painted violet where you will review the latest work by | 回到一个画紫罗兰的宫殿 你将审查最新的作品 |
| 169 | the leading novelists of your era, over green bean soup chilled with ice cubes shipped in the front | 你时代的著名小说家 绿豆汤被冰块冷冻在前面 |
| 170 | from the north, alongside red bean jelly that melts with every bite, and sugar molasses spun | 和红豆果冻一起融化 糖糖糖糖糖糖 |
| 171 | into dragons extending the sky. | 变成延伸天空的龙 |
| 172 | You're assigned non-combat roles first. | 你被分配到非战斗角色第一。 |
| 173 | The quartermaster sends | 军需官派来了 |
| 174 | you to bunk with other kids your age. | 跟你这个年纪的其他孩子上床 |
| 175 | When the night has set, but nobody feels tired enough to | 当夜晚到来的时候,没有人觉得疲倦到 |
| 176 | sleep, some little red ghosts brag about the landlords and the Japanese soldiers they killed. | 睡觉,一些小红鬼吹嘘地主和他们杀死的日本士兵. |
| 177 | But most work is propaganda, with theater troops that deploy alongside every battalion. | 但大部分工作是宣传, 剧院部队部署在每个营。 |
| 178 | They raise troop morale and educate other peasants about the Red Army's efforts to liberate them from | 他们提高部队士气,并教育其他农民,让他们了解红军解放他们的努力。 |
| 179 | landlords. | 房东 |
| 180 | Since you can't read lines or write scripts, you're sent to tangle horses. | 由于不能读行或写剧本,被送到缠马. |
| 181 | All the | 所有的东西 |
| 182 | best equipment, including mounts, go to the soldiers on the front lines. | 最好的装备,包括山顶,去前线的士兵。 |
| 183 | The remainder get | 其余的会得到 |
| 184 | used by officers and staff at base camp. | 由大本营的军官和工作人员使用。 |
| 185 | Your work makes both parties notice your intelligence | 你的工作令双方注意到你的智力 |
| 186 | and charm. | 还有魅力 |
| 187 | A captain declares that you've as much courage as any man. | 船长说你和男人一样有勇气 |
| 188 | A bureaucrat hints your | 一个官僚暗示你 |
| 189 | cleverness would serve well in his peonage. | 聪明能用他的小马 |
| 190 | You must pick one of two positions. | 你必须从两个位置中选一个 |
| 191 | First, you can go | 首先,你可以离开 |
| 192 | to the front lines, or second, you can become a covert operative. | 到前线,或者第二, 你可以成为一个秘密特工。 |
| 193 | So let's have a raise of hands. | 故举手曰. |
| 194 | If you go to the front lines, raise your hand. | 若往前行举手. |
| 195 | All right. | 好吧,我们走。 |
| 196 | If you become a covert operative, | 如果你成为秘密特工 |
| 197 | here we go. | 开始了 |
| 198 | You leave Shindu during the season when yellow flowers open to greet the spring. | 黄花开花迎接春节时离开新都. |
| 199 | By the time you return, their companion leaves have treated red coats for gold and began dancing | 当你回来的时候,他们的伴生叶子 已经用红衣换金,开始跳舞 |
| 200 | from their branches into the autumn wind. | 从树枝进入秋风 |
| 201 | For the most part, what you do when you disappear for | 大部分时候,当你消失时你做什么 |
| 202 | months at a time is a secret that they will bury with you. | 几个月一次是秘密 他们会和你们一起埋葬 |
| 203 | There are rumors of you escorting | 有谣言说你护送 |
| 204 | General M or Governor L through Sutong province, but those are rumors. | M将军或L州长通过苏东省, 但这些都是谣言。 |
| 205 | Cover stories for your true | 掩盖你真实的故事 |
| 206 | missions, perhaps, or simple errands, not missions at all. | 任务,也许,或简单的任务,根本不是任务。 |
| 207 | By the time you have a household and | 当你有一个家庭, |
| 208 | insatiably curious children, you have learned to give non-answers or to deflect and redirect | 好奇的孩子们 你学会了不回答 或转移方向 |
| 209 | their attentions. | 他们的注意力。 |
| 210 | Your elder daughters are sensitive enough to read the room and know what not to ask. | 你的长女们很敏感,可以读房间,知道什么是不能问的. |
| 211 | Your younger sons can ask little when they're stuffing their mouths with sweetmeats. | 你的幼子们在用甜肉塞嘴时,可以问点小问题. |
| 212 | When they grow up, they will remember little of your covert missions outside the trees you brought | 当他们长大了,他们会 记不起你的秘密任务 你带来的树外 |
| 213 | home, from entire sheep to a fish so big you had the spine joints made into a tobacco pipe, | 家,从整只羊到一条大鱼... ...你把脊椎关节做成烟斗, |
| 214 | to candies and preserved fruits in rainbow plastic and aluminum. | 在彩虹塑料和铝中保存水果 |
| 215 | Your sons remember cleaning the | 你儿子记得打扫 |
| 216 | wrappers in the sink before they went to school. | 他们上学前在水槽里打包 |
| 217 | They gave the scraps to their elder sisters who | 他们把废品送给了姐姐们 |
| 218 | did frogs that jumped, cameras that flashed, and cranes that flapped their wings when you pulled | 跳跃的青蛙 闪闪发光的摄像头 和飞翔翅膀的鹤 当你拉动时 |
| 219 | the tails. | 尾巴。 尾巴。 |
| 220 | Those are the stories that they tell their children so that years later, when your | 这些是他们告诉孩子的故事 多年后,当你 |
| 221 | granddaughter writes about you, she has little idea how to describe the covert operations in which | 孙女写你的事 她根本不知道该怎么形容 秘密行动 |
| 222 | you participated and instead directs her readers to learn more about your participation in battle | 你参加,而是指示她的读者 更多地了解你参加战斗的情况 |
| 223 | like this. | 像这样 |
| 224 | To learn more about how my grandfather fought for the Red Army, go to page six. | 为了解我祖父如何为红军作战,请参看第六页. |
| 225 | This is, I would pay attention to this part because it's leading to one of the choices | 我想注意这部分,因为它导致一个选择 |
| 226 | where you're more likely to die out of the others and I would be curious to see how many people | 在那里你更有可能死 在其他人,我会想知道有多少人 |
| 227 | survive. | 幸存下来 |
| 228 | Your Red Army is the weakest force struggling for control of China in the 1920s. | 你的红军是1920年代为控制中国而斗争的最弱力量. |
| 229 | You learn this after you go to the front lines because everyone you fight is better fed and | 你到前线后学会这个 因为每个你打架的人都吃得更好 |
| 230 | better equipped from the mercenaries and the coming down the dark green to the Japanese and olive. | 更好的装备从雇佣兵 和从黑暗的绿色 来到日本和橄榄。 |
| 231 | The rifle you loot from a warlord's foot soldier works better than your issued gun, | 你从军阀的脚部士兵那里抢走的步枪 比你发放的枪更有效 |
| 232 | but even then you rarely shoot the rifle. | 但即使这样 你也很少开枪 |
| 233 | You barely have enough ammunition to fill its chambers. | 你几乎没有足够的弹药 充填它的室。 |
| 234 | The Red Army wages guerrilla warfare. | 红军进行游击战. |
| 235 | It's the only way you can win against superior forces | 只有这样你才能战胜上层势力 |
| 236 | for what you lack in equipment, training, and numbers you make up for with knowledge of the | 你们所缺乏的装备、训练和数量, |
| 237 | local terrain and peasant support. | 当地地形和农民支持。 |
| 238 | The work of your little red ghosts and propaganda enable you | 你那小红鬼的作品和宣传 使你得以 |
| 239 | the other men in steel blue uniforms to enter any village and become welcomed as heroes. | 其他身穿钢蓝制服的人 进入任何村庄 成为英雄 |
| 240 | The peasant's army will liberate the villagers from perpetual poverty | 农民的军队会把村民们从长期贫困中解放出来 |
| 241 | by eliminating the landlords and redistributing the farmland. | 消灭地主,重新分配农田。 |
| 242 | The propaganda songs and theater | 宣传歌曲和戏剧 |
| 243 | have become so popular that the going down soldiers will sneak off to watch performances. | 越来越受欢迎了 以至于下山的士兵们会溜走看表演 |
| 244 | Other peasants feed, shelter, and protect you when the hostile malicious come knocking. | 其他农民提供食物,庇护, 保护你 当敌对的恶意来敲门。 |
| 245 | Everyone has heard your stories and they trust the blue cap with the red star. | 每个人都听到你的故事 他们相信蓝帽和红星 |
| 246 | Every time you | 每次你都这样 |
| 247 | free a village from the landlords in the coming down, some villagers follow you to liberate the | 一些村民跟随你解放 |
| 248 | next town. | 下一个城市。 |
| 249 | Like this, the Red Army grows and you are promoted from one soldier in a squadron of | 像这样,红军壮大,你从一个士兵升至一个中队 |
| 250 | a dozen to a captain leading the squad to a commander managing captains. | 一打给队长 带领小队去找指挥官管理队长 |
| 251 | Despite being | 虽然如此 |
| 252 | younger than many of the men you command, you have fought longer than most and learned to lead and | 比你指挥的很多人还年轻 你比大多数人战斗的时间还长 学会了领导 |
| 253 | through life and decision, life and death decisions like the one you made a darling river. | 生命和决定 生命和死亡的决定 就像你造的一条亲爱的河 |
| 254 | As you are leaving the Riverside Village, holdouts from the defeated warlord militia attacked, | 当你离开河边村的时候, 被打败的军阀民兵的阻力袭击, |
| 255 | critically wounding one of your soldiers. | 你的一个士兵受了重伤 |
| 256 | You have his son take some string and a metal bowl | 你让他儿子拿些绳子和一个金属碗 |
| 257 | from his back, put his guts in the bowl and tie the bowl against the hole in his stomach. | 从他的背部,把他的内脏放在碗里,并将碗绑在肚子的洞上. |
| 258 | This frees the old man's hands from holding his intestines. | 此解脱老子手执大肠. |
| 259 | You and his son voice his arms over | 你和他儿子说话 |
| 260 | shoulders and support him to the river bank. | 并支撑他到河岸。 |
| 261 | The nearest hospital is across the water. | 最近的医院就在水对面 |
| 262 | The nearest bridge is six kilometers away. | 最近的桥梁距离6公里. |
| 263 | There is a ferryman on the river less than 100 meters | 河上有一个不到100米的渡轮 |
| 264 | from where you stand. | 从你的立场。 |
| 265 | He watched you bundle up your man's stomach as he pushed away from shore | 他看着你把你男人从岸上推开的肚子捆起来 |
| 266 | so he and his boat are just out of reach when you approach the water. | 所以当你接近水面时 他和他的船就离不开 |
| 267 | The fare he demands could buy a meal for every man in your five squadrons. | 他要求的票价可以为你们五个中队的每个人买一顿饭. |
| 268 | You consider swimming to the boat and shoving him off and forcibly taking him the raft, | 你考虑游泳到船上 然后把他扔下去 强行带走木筏 |
| 269 | but the current is swift and neither you nor your soldiers know how to work a boat. | 但水流很快 你和你的士兵都不懂如何操作船只 |
| 270 | Your squad pulls together all your valuables. | 你们的班把贵重物品都召集起来 |
| 271 | Waving the collection in the air brings the | 在空中挥动收藏带来 |
| 272 | ferryman back to shore. | 渡轮员回到岸上。 |
| 273 | By the time his raft touches the pebble beach, your squad is slapping | 当他的木筏触碰鹅卵石海滩时 你的队伍正在扇耳光 |
| 274 | the wounded soldier and scooping water onto his face to keep him awake. | 受伤的士兵 并抽水在他的脸上 让他保持清醒。 |
| 275 | He goes into shock on the | 他受到惊吓 |
| 276 | outside the operation room. | 手术室外面 |
| 277 | You overhear one of the doctors speculating had the patient arrived | 你无意中听到一个医生的猜测 病人来了 |
| 278 | a few minutes earlier, they might have been able to clear the leaking intestinal acid burning | 几分钟前,他们可能已经 清理了漏泄的肠酸燃烧 |
| 279 | through the soldiers abdominal cavity and limit the internal scarring that will make digestion | 通过士兵的腹腔 并限制内伤疤 使消化 |
| 280 | difficult as long as he lives. | 只要他活着就很难 |
| 281 | If he lives, the nurses tell you afterward that the stomach wound | 如果他还活着 护士会告诉你胃部的伤口 |
| 282 | was deep enough. | 足够深 |
| 283 | Scarring should ensure your soldier will never stand up straight without pain. | 刀疤应该能确保你的士兵 永远站直,没有痛苦。 |
| 284 | He may want to invest in the expensive plastic waist brace instead of the temporary cloth brace | 他可能想投资 昂贵的塑料腰套 而不是临时布套 |
| 285 | because he will wear it the rest of his life. | 因为他一辈子都戴着它 |
| 286 | The next morning you return to Chongqing with your | 第二天早上你带着你回到重庆 |
| 287 | squad. | 班长 |
| 288 | A secretary records your oral report before sending you and your team to purchase | 一个秘书记录你的口头报告 然后派你和你的团队去购买 |
| 289 | provisions with understanding that the Kuomintang are pushing their way west. | 并理解库姆宁唐人正在向西推进 |
| 290 | This may be the last | 这也许是最后一次 |
| 291 | time you enter a city freely so you must stock up on supplies for the world ahead. | 时间,你自由进入一个城市 所以,你必须储存 供应为未来的世界。 |
| 292 | When you go to replace your boots, the shoemaker gives you three options. | 去换靴子时,鞋匠给你三个选择. |
| 293 | You can buy the canvas | 你可以买画布 |
| 294 | shoes that have become the Red Army standard. | 成为红军标准的鞋子 |
| 295 | Your fellow soldiers favor these boots for their | 你的同伴们喜欢这双靴子 |
| 296 | affordability. | 买得起。 |
| 297 | While the cloth isn't as durable, comfortable, or weatherproof as rubber or leather, | 虽然布没有橡胶或皮革那么耐用、舒适或防风, |
| 298 | the remaining money can buy clothing and ammunition for your retreat from the Kuomintang. | 剩下的钱可以买衣服和弹药 让你从库明顿撤退 |
| 299 | You can buy the second choice, the heavyweight leather boots, handmade by the shoemaker, | 你可以买第二个选择,重型皮靴, 由鞋匠手工制造, |
| 300 | which would not only be the most comfortable choice but also reinforce the image of the Red | 这不仅是最舒服的选择 而且还会强化红军的形象 |
| 301 | Army as a people's army by supporting local business. | 军队通过支持当地企业作为人民军队. |
| 302 | The one risk of this choice is that | 选择的唯一风险是 |
| 303 | you do not know where the next step in your journey will take you. | 你不知道接下来的旅程会带你们去哪里 |
| 304 | Leather won't do well | 皮革不会做得很好 |
| 305 | in the swamp lands of the Yunnan, for example. | 例如云南的沼泽地 |
| 306 | You have heard horror stories of feet rotting | 你听过脚烂的恐怖故事 |
| 307 | leather boots as soldiers waded through watery caves and muddy trenches. | 皮靴作为士兵在水深的洞穴和泥质的战壕中挥舞. |
| 308 | You can buy the rubber | 你可以买橡胶 |
| 309 | boots, which are waterproof. | 靴子,是防水的。 |
| 310 | The pair that the shoemaker keeps in his window display had been | 鞋匠保存在窗外的一对 |
| 311 | shipped in from one of the coastal industrialized cities, Guangdong, Hong Kong, or maybe Macau. | 从一个沿海工业化城市, 广东,香港,或澳门运来。 |
| 312 | The smell of new rubber still fills this door. | 新橡胶的味道仍然充斥着这扇门. |
| 313 | He guarantees that these boots, filled with a | 他保证这些靴子,充满了 |
| 314 | decade of Western engineering experience, will keep your feet dry and warm in any weather. | 十年的西方工程经验, 将保持你的脚干燥和温暖在任何天气。 |
| 315 | You'll risk being too warm, however. | 你会冒太暖和的风险 |
| 316 | The boots don't release moisture, and they'll cost nearly | 靴子不会释放水分,而且要花很多钱 |
| 317 | all the money you have even if you talk with shoemaker into a steep discount. | 即使你和鞋匠谈到一个高价的折扣 你还有那么多钱 |
| 318 | You can also | 你也可以这样 |
| 319 | buy nothing. | 买什么。 |
| 320 | While your boots are well-worn, you know from the experience that they should serve | 虽然你的靴子很老,但你知道 从经验中他们应该服务 |
| 321 | a few more months or several hundred more kilometers. | 再过几个月或几百公里 |
| 322 | You can always braid your own | 你总是可以自己编辫子 |
| 323 | sandals from straw if they wear through before you buy another pair, and saving money will | 如果在买另一双之前穿穿了草鞋 省钱就可以了 |
| 324 | let you afford supplies that you can't replace, like matches and fire starters for your camps, | 让你买得起你无法替代的补给, 就像火柴和起火机,为你的营地, |
| 325 | or bullets for your rifle. | 或子弹为你的步枪。 |
| 326 | So again, there are four choices. | 故复有四种选择. |
| 327 | You can buy canvas boots, | 你可以买帆布靴 |
| 328 | leather boots, rubber boots, or nothing. | 皮靴,橡胶靴,或无。 |
| 329 | If you buy the canvas boots, raise your hand. | 如果你买了帆布靴 举手 |
| 330 | If you buy the leather boots, raise your hand. | 如果你买皮靴,举手。 |
| 331 | If you buy the rubber boots, raise your hand. | 如果你买橡胶靴,举手。 |
| 332 | And then if you buy nothing. | 如果你什么都不买的话 |
| 333 | So I see the most votes for either rubber boots or nothing. | 所以,我看到大多数选票 要么是橡皮靴,要么是无。 |
| 334 | Let's try rubber boots again. | 再试试橡皮靴 |
| 335 | Nothing. | 没什么 |
| 336 | Nothing it is. | 没什么 |
| 337 | The leftover money lets you remain in the | 剩下的钱让你留在 |
| 338 | city one more month to wait for new shipments and stock up on provisions. | 城市再待一个月 等待新的货物 和库存的供给。 |
| 339 | On the second week, | 第二个星期 |
| 340 | it begins to rain. | 开始下雨了 |
| 341 | The drizzle becomes a downpour. | 细细细细细变成下流. |
| 342 | The pouring rain turns into water falling from | 倾盆大雨 变成水从 |
| 343 | sky in one solid mass as if someone had turned on a giant faucet directly over your head. | 就像有人在你的头上 打开巨型水龙头一样 |
| 344 | The deluge sweeps through Chongqing at night in one great wall of water emerging out of darkness. | 洪水在夜里横扫重庆,一堵巨大的水墙从黑暗中涌出. |
| 345 | You wake to a column of rain tearing through the doorway. | 你醒来时看到一列雨在门前撕裂 |
| 346 | Your last thought is that you must | 你最后的想法是 你必须 |
| 347 | be dreaming. | 做梦吧 |
| 348 | Then the water takes you and you drown. | 然后水会把你淹死 |
| 349 | You have died. | 你已经死了。 |
| 350 | While your choice of footwear | 当你选择鞋 |
| 351 | may not avert natural disaster, a different selection might prevent you from dying in the | 可能无法避免自然灾害, 不同的选择会防止你死于 |
| 352 | 1931 Yahtzee Hawaii floods. | 1931年亚赫齐夏威夷水灾. |
| 353 | You have three options. | 你有三种选择 |
| 354 | Canvas boots, leather boots, and rubber boots. | 帆布靴 皮靴 还有橡胶靴 |
| 355 | Canvas boots, leather boots, rubber boots. | 帆布靴 皮靴 橡胶靴 |
| 356 | All right, rubber boots it is. | 好吧,橡皮靴就是这样。 |
| 357 | You immediately become convinced that the rubber boots are the single's greatest purchase you have | 你马上相信 橡皮靴是单曲最大的买家 |
| 358 | ever made. | 曾经做。 |
| 359 | The flatness of the soles takes some getting used to, but you figure out how to stuff | 鞋底的平坦需要一些习惯, 但你想出如何填充 |
| 360 | rags into the hollow arches beneath your feet. | 破布入脚下空心拱. |
| 361 | Then the shoes become supportive while remaining, | 然后鞋子就变得支持,而留下, |
| 362 | most importantly, dry. | 最重要的是,干燥。 |
| 363 | For at least a month, you make it a point to wade through the deepest part | 至少一个月,你把最深的部分 弄得一团糟 |
| 364 | of every pothole and puddle. | 每个坑洞和水坑。 |
| 365 | The soldiers under your command may tease you endlessly, but you | 你手下的士兵可能会无休止地嘲笑你 但你 |
| 366 | persist in delighted slashing. | 坚持欢乐的刀法。 |
| 367 | There is simply no substitute for the feeling of standing ankle deep | 站在脚踝深处的感觉是无可替代的 |
| 368 | in life and wiggling your dry, toasty toes. | 在生活中 摇动你的干燥的脚趾 |
| 369 | You have worn through and patched the boots twice by | 你穿了两双靴子 |
| 370 | the time Chiang Kai-shek's forces surround the Red Army. | 蒋介石部队围剿红军时. |
| 371 | The rubber seal serves you well as your | 橡皮封对你也有好处 |
| 372 | forces split and retreat northwest into the Himalayas. | 部队分裂后向西北撤退,进入喜马拉雅山脉. |
| 373 | Then the earth dries overnight when | 然后,大地在一夜之间干涸, |
| 374 | you go into the Gobi Desert. | 你进入戈壁沙漠 |
| 375 | One of your men, a guading scholar with a chipped front tooth, | 你的一个手下 一个有前牙的学者 |
| 376 | had told you about rain shadows. | 告诉你雨影。 |
| 377 | You told him to watch his feet instead of lecturing you. | 你让他看好他的脚 而不是教训你 |
| 378 | He was saying something about the mountains blocking the clouds from distributing rain | 他在说山上阻断了云层的雨量 |
| 379 | downwind when he slipped and fell off a cliff. | 当他滑倒从悬崖上掉下来时,他倒下了 |
| 380 | The slope looked survivable, but the forest was too | 山坡看起来可以生存 但森林也一样 |
| 381 | dense for you to be certain. | 让你很确定 |
| 382 | Two of the scholar's friends offered to trace their way back down the | 两位学者的朋友提出要追踪他们的路 |
| 383 | mountain, find him, and bring him to the village you passed two kilometers ago. | 山,找到他, 带他到二公里前经过的村庄。 |
| 384 | Perhaps they | 也许他们 |
| 385 | survived, but you never hear from them again. | 幸存下来,但你再也没有他们的消息 |
| 386 | You go into the Gobi Desert with less than five dozen | 不到五打就进戈壁沙漠 |
| 387 | people because the rest of your soldiers have chosen to stay behind in the villages or been | 因为剩下的士兵 选择留在村子里或者一直留在村子里 |
| 388 | lost to the mountains. | 败于山. |
| 389 | Your men march by night and sleep by day. | 你的人晚上行军,白天睡觉 |
| 390 | There's nothing to eat. | 食无所着. |
| 391 | When you | 当你 |
| 392 | have not seen green in a week, your soldiers lose their footing in the desert. | 你们的士兵们在沙漠中失去了立足点 |
| 393 | The younger boys and | 年轻的男孩和 |
| 394 | then older men do not get up. | 年长的人不会站起来 |
| 395 | You move on. | 你继续前进。 |
| 396 | By the second week, you and your men have reached a tacit | 到了第二个星期,你和你的部下们 已经到达了暗处 |
| 397 | agreement to march on silently whenever one of you fall. | 同意每当你们中有人跌倒时安静地前进 |
| 398 | The men who stop never restart walking, | 那些不再继续走路的人 |
| 399 | and your throats crack when you try to urge them up. | 当你试图敦促他们时 你的喉咙会裂开 |
| 400 | You do not have enough moisture left to cry. | 你没有足够的水分可以流泪。 |
| 401 | When the inside of your belly rubs against your back and the wrinkled skin of your collapsed | 当腹部的内脏在背上摩擦时 你的皮肤皱了 |
| 402 | comrades begin to look faintly like Cherokee, you nibble at your belts. | 同志们看起来有点像切罗基, 你舔你的腰带。 |
| 403 | The men who cling the | 男人谁紧贴 |
| 404 | leather off their buckles die first. | 他们扣上的皮革先死 |
| 405 | You stretch out the thin piece of preserved meat so it lasts | 你伸展了保存下来的薄肉,所以它能持续 |
| 406 | you five days. | 你5天时间。 |
| 407 | You march on two, three, four more days. | 再过两、三、四天就出发 |
| 408 | Your second in command has a thinner belt, | 你的第二个指挥有更薄的腰带, |
| 409 | but also more fat and muscle on his bones from growing up as the son of a small landowner in | 他的骨头上还有更多的脂肪和肌肉 作为小地主的儿子长大 |
| 410 | Yunnan. | 云南报. |
| 411 | He sets the pace for the team after your steps begin to slow, and you spend the following | 在你开始减速后 他为球队定下步调 你花在下面 |
| 412 | day croaking instructions to him for reaching Huining, for regrouping with the Red Army, | 日复一日,指示他抵达惠宁,与红军重新集结, |
| 413 | for which lieutenants to trust with what tasks once you regroup. | 你重新组合后 中尉会相信什么任务 |
| 414 | You watch him lead a dozen men into the sunset that evening, and then lie down in the desert | 你看着他带领十几个人 进入夕阳的夜晚, 然后躺下 在沙漠中 |
| 415 | cave. | 洞穴 洞穴 洞穴 洞穴 洞穴 洞穴 |
| 416 | Nibbling on your fingers draws blood. | 在手指上擦擦血迹 |
| 417 | The metallic flavor is unpleasant, but tasting | 金属味很不愉快,但味道不错 |
| 418 | anything other than spit and bile satisfies the hunger, gnawing your stomach enough that you can | 除了吐口水和大便之外 其他的都满足了饥饿 饱饱了肚子 |
| 419 | fall asleep for the last time. | 最后一次睡着了。 |
| 420 | You have died of starvation. | 你饿死了 |
| 421 | Perhaps a different boot purchase | 也许换个买靴子的 |
| 422 | would sustain you through the Gomi Desert. | 通过戈米沙漠支撑你 |
| 423 | Do you buy the canvas boots or the leather boots? | 你买帆布靴还是皮靴? |
| 424 | Canvas boots, leather boots. | 帆布靴,皮靴。 |
| 425 | We are going with the leather boots, and | 我们用皮靴,和 |
| 426 | leather can be eaten. | 皮革可以食用. |
| 427 | You regret buying leather boots for two years. | 你后悔买皮靴两年 |
| 428 | In the wet season, | 在湿季, |
| 429 | system grows so humid that you wade through air thick enough to cut with a knife. | 系统长得如此潮湿 以至于你穿过空气 足够厚厚,用刀割伤。 |
| 430 | You come to dread the autumn months when the sweat and the moisture makes the skin slow off | 你来害怕秋季的几个月 当汗水和水分使皮肤变慢时 |
| 431 | your feet like newsprint. | 你的脚像新闻印。 |
| 432 | Then Chiang Kai-shek assembles the Kuomintang forces and chases your | 然后蒋介石召集国安军 追赶你们 |
| 433 | army across China. | 军队横跨中国. |
| 434 | The Long March takes you northwest through the Himalaya Mountains. | 长征带你西北穿过喜马拉雅山脉. |
| 435 | The leather at the cup of your shoes cools to the point of cracking, but insulates your feet | 你的鞋杯上的皮革 冷却到裂缝的地步, 但隔热你的脚 |
| 436 | initially until your body heat melts the gathered snow. | 最初直到你的身体热 融化积雪。 |
| 437 | The water seeps into your socks, starting | 水渗入你的袜子,开始 |
| 438 | at the left toenail. | 在左脚趾甲。 |
| 439 | The cold creeps into your bones so that years later you still hallucinate | 寒冷爬进你的骨头 这样几年后你仍然有幻觉 |
| 440 | when you wear boots, even when the shoes are new and rubber and it's summer. | 你穿靴子时,即使鞋子是新鞋和橡胶,现在是夏天。 |
| 441 | The earth dries | 大地干涸 |
| 442 | overnight after you cross the Himalayas as if the mountains have sucked the moisture out of the land | 穿过喜马拉雅山后一夜 仿佛山脉把水吸出陆地 |
| 443 | to their north. | 他们的北方。 |
| 444 | One of your men, a Guilin scholar who had been inspired to join the | 你手下的一位桂林学者 受启发加入 |
| 445 | right of Red Ra army by the writings of Karl Marx, once told you about rain shadows. | 卡尔·马克思的著作对红拉军的右派,曾告诉你雨影. |
| 446 | You never | 你从来没有 |
| 447 | finished that conversation. | 结束了谈话。 |
| 448 | He was one of those men with such a one track mind that he couldn't | 他是那种有轨迹的人 他不可能 |
| 449 | seem to split his focus between speaking and watching where he was going. | 似乎把注意力从演讲和看他去的地方分开了。 |
| 450 | As he explained | 正如他所解释的 |
| 451 | rain shadows, his foot slipped against the Mawaragai cliffside. | 他的脚滑到了马瓦拉盖悬崖边 |
| 452 | You didn't catch him fast enough | 你抓他不够快 |
| 453 | that time. | 那时候 |
| 454 | The slip may have been survivable, but the forest was too dense for you to be certain. | 滑雪也许可以幸存 但森林太稠密了,你无法确定 |
| 455 | You let two soldiers trace their way back down the mountain and find him, or bring his corpse | 你让两个士兵跟踪他们回到山下 找到他,或者把他的尸体带来 |
| 456 | to the village you passed two kilometers earlier. | 去你两公里前经过的村庄 |
| 457 | In the next weeks, the squad under your command | 接下来的几周里,你指挥的队伍 |
| 458 | split. | 分页。 |
| 459 | Soldiers quit the army, fall behind, or die until you have less than five dozen people. | 士兵退出军队,落在后面,或死,直到你只有不到五十多人. |
| 460 | You've reached the Gobi desert. | 你已经到达戈壁沙漠。 |
| 461 | Though your men march by night and dig holes to gather water by | 虽然你的人在夜间行军 挖洞取水 |
| 462 | day, there's nothing to eat. | 白天,没有吃的。 |
| 463 | You have not seen a green leaf in a week. | 你一周没看到绿叶了 |
| 464 | Your soldiers lose their | 你的士兵们失去了他们 |
| 465 | footing in the sand. | 在沙滩上。 |
| 466 | The younger kids and older men do not get up and you move on. | 年幼的孩子和年长的男人不起来 你继续前进。 |
| 467 | By the second | 到了第二个 |
| 468 | week, you and your men have reached a tacit agreement to march on in silence when one of | 一周后,你和你的部下 达成了默默进军的协议 |
| 469 | you fell. | 你掉下来了。 |
| 470 | The men who stopped never restarted walking, and your throats crack when you urge | 停止的人从来没有重新开始走动, 你的喉咙裂裂 当你敦促 |
| 471 | them off. | 关了 |
| 472 | You do not have enough moisture left to cry. | 你没有足够的水分可以流泪。 |
| 473 | When the inside of your belly rubs against | 当肚子的内脏磨擦 |
| 474 | your back and the wrinkled skin of your collapsed corn ruts begins to look faintly like jerky, | 背部和皱纹的皮肤 你的崩溃的玉米鲁特 开始看起来微弱 像牛肉干, |
| 475 | you nipple at your belts. | 你乳头在你的腰带。 |
| 476 | The men who clean the leather off their buckles die first until you | 把皮革脱掉的人先死,直到你 |
| 477 | learn to stretch out the thin piece of preserved meat so it lasts you five days. | 学会把保存下来的薄肉伸展出来 让你活5天 |
| 478 | Then you tear the | 然后你撕开 |
| 479 | off your boot, hating yourself for not having kept the chunks that broke off when you were in | 痛恨自己不留 断裂的块 当你在 |
| 480 | {\fn华文仿宋\fs16\1cHD1D1D1}山上。 | |
| 481 | The top of the boot tastes like wax. | 靴子的顶部有蜡的味道. |
| 482 | As you eat your way down, the flavor grows | 当你吃你的路下, 味道增长 |
| 483 | salty and vaguely metallic because the leather has marinated in mud and your sweat. | 咸而模糊的金属,因为皮革在泥和汗水中浸润。 |
| 484 | By the time | 当时 |
| 485 | you reach Huining, you are barefoot, but your boots have about three men, two of whom survived | 你到了惠宁,你赤脚, 但你的靴子有大约三个人, 其中两个幸存下来 |
| 486 | the long march. | 长征。 |
| 487 | In the months after your arrival at Huining, bits and pieces of the squadron under | 在你到达惠宁后的几个月里, 中队的几块零碎 |
| 488 | your command stumble into the city. | 你的命令偶然进入了城市。 |
| 489 | Between these men, their stories, and the reports from | 这些人之间,他们的故事,以及来自 |
| 490 | the fragmented but growing red army intelligence network, you can account for the whereabouts of | 红军情报网的破碎却不断壮大 你可以说明他们的下落 |
| 491 | three quarters of your men. | 四分之三的你的人。 |
| 492 | In your company of more than 500, 67 men and women have completed | 在你五百多人的陪伴中,67名男女完成了 |
| 493 | the long march. | 长征。 |
| 494 | A hundred more, give or take 50, left the army partway to settle in villages | 一百人左右五十人 离开军队到村庄定居 |
| 495 | alongside your path. | 与你的路径。 |
| 496 | After Mao Zedong negotiates an alliance with Chiang Kai-shek to fight off the | 毛泽东与蒋介石商谈结盟后,与蒋介石抗战. |
| 497 | Japanese, you begin to receive their letters from provinces around China. | 日语,你开始收到他们的信 来自中国各地的省份。 |
| 498 | One of the kids from the propaganda department reads them to you. | 宣传部的一个孩子读给你听 |
| 499 | You learn that the wounded | 你学会了伤者 |
| 500 | soldier has brought his wife to his new home. | 士兵把他妻子带到他的新家 |
| 501 | He suspects that they're too old to have another | 他怀疑他们太老了,没有别的 |
| 502 | child, but they have effectively adopted the neighborhood urchins whose leader looks a little | 孩子们,但他们已经有效地收养了 邻居的胆子,他们的领袖看起来有点 |
| 503 | like you because his face is long and his ears stick out too far from his head. | 像你一样 因为他的脸很长 而且耳朵离头太远了 |
| 504 | The other soldiers | 其他士兵们 |
| 505 | who remain at Dadu have gotten married, one to a nurse from the hospital by the river. | 住在达杜的医生 嫁给了河边医院的护士 |
| 506 | Their children send you greetings and ask for that one hat with the red army's star to share | 他们的孩子们向你问好 要求与红军的明星分享那顶帽子 |
| 507 | between them. | 他们之间。 |
| 508 | Northwest China becomes the home base for the resurgence of the red army. | 中国西北成为红军复辟的主基地. |
| 509 | The difficult terrain keeps you isolated from the Kuomintang. | 险峻的地形让你与库蒙唐人隔绝. |
| 510 | Fighting off the Japanese gives you | 与日本人抗争给你 |
| 511 | time to recuperate and consolidate your bond with peasants around China. | 是时候恢复和巩固你与中国各地农民的关系了 |
| 512 | You receive proper training | 你接受适当的训练 |
| 513 | for leading your battalion from both native eastern philosophy and new western ideas imported | 领导你们营 从本土东方哲学 和西方新思想导入 |
| 514 | by Chinese students abroad. | 由中国留学生到国外学习. |
| 515 | These form the foundation for the army that sweeps the Kuomintang | 这些是扫荡国门的军队的基础 |
| 516 | out of the Chinese mainland after the Japanese expulsion. | 日本驱逐后退出中国大陆. |
| 517 | You retire in your late 20s, having | 你20多岁退休了 |
| 518 | walked nearly 6,000 miles with your battalion. | 跟你的营走近6000英里 |
| 519 | You may have left Sichuan as a starving orphan, | 你可能因为饥饿而离开四川 |
| 520 | but you return home as a hero whose choices gave rise to modern China. | 但你却以英雄的身份回家 他的选择产生了现代中国 |
| 521 | In the years after your homecoming, you settle into a quiet life in a farmhouse with exposed | 在你返校后的几年里, 你安顿下来,在农场里过着平静的生活, 与暴露 |
| 522 | wooden rafters and meet a woman, your primary schoolmate, a former landlord's daughter. | 木筏和遇到一个女人,你的小学同学,前房东的女儿. |
| 523 | She teaches you to read. | 她教你读书 |
| 524 | You marry her. | 你嫁给她。 |
| 525 | You have six children, the youngest of whom becomes my father. | 你有六个孩子 其中最小的孩子成为我父亲 |
| 526 | Give me a moment to organize my thoughts as well as my papers because there's quite a bit of them. | 请给我一点时间来整理我的想法和我的论文,因为有相当一部分。 |
| 527 | So the project I was reading is an excerpt from my senior thesis for the English creative writing | 所以,我正在读的项目 是从我的高级论文节选 对于英语创意写作 |
| 528 | department. | 部门。 |
| 529 | I was writing creative nonfiction about my grandfather on my father's side who had | 我在写关于祖父的创作性小说 |
| 530 | been a child soldier in the Red Army. | 曾经是红军的一名儿童兵。 |
| 531 | As for me, so my parents immigrated to the U.S. in 2003, | 至于我,我的父母于2003年移民美国, |
| 532 | moving from the center of Beijing to a one-bedroom apartment in Louisville, Kentucky. | 从北京市中心搬到肯塔基州路易斯维尔的一间单人房公寓. |
| 533 | So this is the apartment. | 这就是公寓 |
| 534 | I had the bedroom. | 我有卧室。 |
| 535 | My parents slept in the living room, | 我父母睡在客厅里 |
| 536 | and as my mother worked in my father's job search, the books that we could afford | 以及当我妈妈在我父亲的求职中工作时 我们买得起的书 |
| 537 | came from the public library where I devoured the children's section, | 是从公共图书馆来的 我吞噬了孩子们的部分, |
| 538 | except for a wall of bookshelves holding up Newberry and Calicot medal winners. | 除了一堵书架墙 挡住纽伯利和卡利科特奖牌得主 |
| 539 | My mother wanted me to read those, so naturally I refused like any self-respecting teenager. | 我母亲想让我读这些,所以我自然拒绝 像任何自尊的青少年。 |
| 540 | As a first-generation immigrant who grew up in Beijing and Kentucky, I came from a different | 作为第一代在北京和肯塔基长大的移民 我来自不同的地方 |
| 541 | world than most of my peers at Yale, where 69% of students are in families and the top 20% of | 全世界都比我在耶鲁的大部分同龄人 69%的学生在家庭里 而前20% |
| 542 | the income bracket. | 收入等级。 |
| 543 | Outside of class, my debate club discussed philosophers that I barely heard | 课外,我的辩论会讨论 哲学家,我很少听到 |
| 544 | of. | 页:1 |
| 545 | So to me, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are S-P-A-SPA, like as in that. | 因此,对我来说,苏格拉底,柏拉图,和亚里士多德是S-P-A-SPA,就像那样。 |
| 546 | That was an acronym | 那是个缩写 |
| 547 | I memorized for AP English, while Dante, yeah obviously this is the platinum blonde dude from | 我还记得AP英语, 而但丁,是的,显然这是 白金金色的家伙从 |
| 548 | Devil May Cry game series. | 恶魔梅 哭游戏系列. |
| 549 | In lieu of familiarity with the Western canon, I grew up with Chinese | 为了代替对西洋舟的熟悉,我从小跟中国人一起长大 |
| 550 | history, shangxia wu tian nian, computer games, and the genre fiction of my public library. | 历史 翔霞wu tian nian 电脑游戏 和我的公共图书馆的流派小说. |
| 551 | Majoring in English and concentrating creative writing at Yale was a process of translation. | 在耶鲁主讲英语和集中创作是一个翻译过程。 |
| 552 | The stories that I've loved since childhood, I learned to stand up for their literary value | 我从小就喜欢的故事 我学会为他们的文学价值而奋斗 |
| 553 | from professors who not only wrote award-winning books, but also shaped the standards of the | 来自教授,他们不仅写获奖书籍, 而且还塑造了标准 |
| 554 | English literary world. | 英国文学界. |
| 555 | In turn, the literary texts that we read for class influenced my own stories. | 反过来,我们为课堂阅读的文学文本影响了我自己的故事. |
| 556 | I gave new appreciation for the award-winning stories that I had ignored as a child | 我对小时候忽略的获奖故事 表示新的赞赏 |
| 557 | because literary writing could afford to think less about popularity or sales | 因为文学写作可以少考虑 流行或销售 |
| 558 | to focus more on telling stories that matter. | 更专注于讲故事 这很重要。 |
| 559 | What mattered to me, the stories that I was shaped to | 关我什么事,我被塑造的故事 |
| 560 | tell, is giving voice to minority narratives. | 给少数人的叙事发声 |
| 561 | The Times published this when I was a senior in college | "泰晤士报"在我大学高年级的时候刊登了这个 |
| 562 | that was especially important to me as a Chinese American who had grown up in Kentucky, | 作为一名在肯塔基州长大的美国华人 对我来说尤为重要 |
| 563 | reading stories that feature little about people who look like me or had experiences like mine. | 读一些关于我这样的人 或我这样的人的故事 |
| 564 | At the same time, I was struck by how the readership of the Times differed from the | 同时,我对《时报》的读者人数 与《时报》的读者人数 |
| 565 | communities in which I'd grown up in both China and the U.S. | 我在中国和美国长大的社区 |
| 566 | I wanted to write a story that I | 我想写个故事 |
| 567 | would have read, which led to a contract for this project. | 本来是读的,这导致了这个项目的合同。 |
| 568 | So you won't actually see this project | 所以你不会真正看到这个项目 |
| 569 | associated with my name. | 和我的名字有关 |
| 570 | I published it under a pen name last year. | 去年我用笔名出版的 |
| 571 | It's interactive fiction, | 这是互动小说, |
| 572 | which tracks readers' choices and gives different endings based on your performance, like my thesis | 追踪读者的选择 并根据你的表演给出不同的结局 就像我的论文 |
| 573 | project. | 项目。 |
| 574 | This is actually released on the App Store, so you can buy it now. | 这其实是在App Store上发布的,所以你现在可以购买. |
| 575 | It sold a few dozen | 卖了几十个 |
| 576 | copies. | 副本。 |
| 577 | It's also 250,000 words that I wrote while working full-time and earning a part-time | 我也写了25万个字 在全职工作和兼职工作期间 |
| 578 | master's degree. | 硕士学位. |
| 579 | This is not an experience that I would repeat for both the quality of my work and | 这不是我为了工作质量和工作质量而重复的经历。 |
| 580 | my own quality of life, but you learn from every experience. | 我自己的生活质量, 但你学习 从每一个经验。 |
| 581 | The game was a test run for some | 游戏是试运行一些 |
| 582 | concepts that I'm passionate about. | 我充满激情的观念 |
| 583 | It features international casts, characters who are poor and | 它的特点是国际演员、贫穷人物和 |
| 584 | fabulously wealthy, women navigating difficult social and familial questions. | 非常富有, 女性 导航困难的社会和家庭问题。 |
| 585 | While writing a | 写作时 |
| 586 | story I would have liked to read, a game about running a magical tea house in Sichuan, I was | 我想读的故事,一个游戏 关于经营一个神奇的茶馆 在四川,我是 |
| 587 | able to address real issues. | 能够解决真正的问题。 |
| 588 | This is one of my favorite comments from readers in the corner, | 这是我最喜欢的一个评论 从读者在角落, |
| 589 | 因为Tumblr很棒。 | |
| 590 | You can see how we type on Tumblr, but I also wanted to write stories | 你看我们怎么在Tumblr上打字 但我也想写故事 |
| 591 | that feel real while alive with dragons and magical pandas, which leads to my current project. | 与龙和神奇熊猫一起活着时感觉是真实的 这导致了我目前的计划 |
| 592 | So as I mentioned earlier, the excerpt from my grandfather came from my college thesis, | 因此,正如我前面提到, 摘录从我的祖父 从我的大学论文, |
| 593 | which I'm currently adapting into a book. | 我目前正在改编成一本书 |
| 594 | After hopping the spectrum from nonfiction to fantasy, | 从虚构到幻想的光谱 |
| 595 | I'm searching for a middle ground in creative nonfiction, but since I graduated in 2019, | 我在寻找创意非虚构的中间点 但自从2019年毕业后 |
| 596 | COVID has changed the world around us. | COVID改变了我们周围的世界. |
| 597 | Even when I tell the same stories, they're being shaped | 即使我讲同样的故事,它们也会被塑造 |
| 598 | by a context of increasing polarization. | 在日益两极分化的背景下 |
| 599 | I'm grateful to Yale, Beijing, and Kentucky for | 感谢耶鲁、北京和肯塔基 |
| 600 | giving me the confidence and shared humanity from having called many different places home. | 赐予我信心和共同的人性 从把许多不同的地方叫回家。 |
| 601 | Past projects have helped me explore how storytelling can put us into the shoes | 过去的项目帮助我探索 讲故事如何让我们步入正轨 |
| 602 | of people with very different experiences. | 不同经验的人。 |
| 603 | So despite a landscape of growing anti-Asian | 所以,尽管有一个风景 增长的反亚洲 |
| 604 | hatred and violence, I continue to be inspired by the experiences of people like my grandfather, | 仇恨和暴力,我继续受到我爷爷这样的人的启发, |
| 605 | who have seen the worst of the world and continue to believe in goodness. | 他们看见了世上最坏的事物 继续相信善良 |
| 606 | Thank you so much for sharing your story. | 非常感谢你分享你的故事 |
| 607 | It's absolutely amazing. | 这是绝对惊人的。 |
| 608 | I love the story. | 我爱这个故事。 |
| 609 | I have just a couple of questions for you, but throwing this aside for a moment, just about the | 我有几个问题要问你, 但把这个问题放在一边一会儿, |
| 610 | story. | 故事的情节。 |
| 611 | I was wondering what the creative process was like. | 我在想创意过程是怎样的。 |
| 612 | Were you talking with your | 你和你说话的时候 |
| 613 | grandfather through the whole thing, or was it from childhood memories of conversations with | 爷爷通过整个事情, 或它是从童年的记忆 谈话与 |
| 614 | grandpa? | 爷爷? |
| 615 | How did the whole project came to be? | 整个工程是怎么样的? |
| 616 | So some of the background stories is my father | 所以有些背景故事是我父亲 |
| 617 | is the youngest of six siblings, so my grandfather had six kids. | 是六个兄弟姐妹中最小的 所以我祖父有六个孩子 |
| 618 | They're all spaced two years apart. | 他们都分开了两年 |
| 619 | My grandmother was a very organized woman, but by the time my father was born, my grandfather was | 我祖母是个很有组织的女人 但到了我父亲出生的时候 我的祖父是 |
| 620 | getting up there in years, so he passed when my father was nine. | 几年后就上去了 我父亲九岁的时候他就去世了 |
| 621 | He's someone who haunts me as | 他是缠着我的人 |
| 622 | someone who I haven't had the opportunity to meet. | 我还没有机会认识的人 |
| 623 | As a part of the Light Fellowship at Yale between | 作为耶鲁大学光明奖学金的一部分 |
| 624 | 2017 and 2018, I returned between my junior and senior years to China to do some research | 2017年和2018年,我从小到大三回到中国做一些研究 |
| 625 | supported by Yale on his life, reading from sources about his life, about the Red Army, | 在耶鲁的帮助下 他从消息来源读到他的生活 关于红军 |
| 626 | that led me to work on this project. | 这让我开始研究这个项目 |
| 627 | Speaking of your life at Yale, would you like to share some | 说到在耶鲁大学的生活 你想分享一下吗? |
| 628 | experiences of people there who left lasting impressions on you? | 在那里留下持久印象的人的经历? |
| 629 | What are some maybe about | 可能是因为什么 |
| 630 | writing or maybe otherwise? | 写作还是别的东西? |
| 631 | I think there are going to be lots of those. | 我认为会有很多这样的。 |
| 632 | This is like 40 years, | 这就像40年, |
| 633 | which is like a quarter, a significant portion of our lives, especially when we're as young as we | 这就像四分之一, 我们生活的很大一部分, 特别是当我们年轻的时候 |
| 634 | are. | 对 |
| 635 | One person who I think who comes to mind most recently is one of my roommates who studied | 我最近想到的一个人 是我一个学习的室友 |
| 636 | applied math. | 应用数学。 |
| 637 | After work, we worked in Chicago. | 下班后,我们在芝加哥工作. |
| 638 | She worked for the government, | 她为政府工作 |
| 639 | who is currently in business school. | 现就读于商学院。 |
| 640 | I think one thing that I learned from a lot of students | 我从很多学生那里学到了一件事 |
| 641 | at Yale is that the admissions office told me, so I am not speaking on behalf of the admissions | 在耶鲁是招生办公室告诉我的 所以我不是在代表招生 |
| 642 | office, please don't sue me, is that they're looking for students who are very good at one | 办公室,请不要告我, 是他们寻找的学生 谁很擅长一个 |
| 643 | particular thing and then they'll have a well-rounded class. | 特别的东西,然后他们会有一个 周而复始的阶级。 |
| 644 | What I find after coming | 来后我发现的 |
| 645 | to campus is people are also very well-rounded. | 对校园来说,人们也是非常周到的。 |
| 646 | I think one thing that I've really learned from | 我觉得有件事我真的从 |
| 647 | the experience and from those people is these are the writing projects you see that have come out, | 这些是你们看到的写作项目, |
| 648 | but working as a writer is more you have like five balls projects that you're juggling at any | 但做一个作家 更多的是你有五个球的项目 你正在任何杂耍 |
| 649 | given time. | 时间。 |
| 650 | There are like opportunities that will show up like goals in the world around you | 在你周围的世界里,有类似机会出现 |
| 651 | and then while juggling the balls and keeping them in the air, you throw them at the goals and hope | 然后在搅拌球 把它们留在空中时 扔在球门和希望上 |
| 652 | they hit and then if they hit, you get even more balls to juggle until they actually become projects. | 他们打,然后如果他们打, 你得到更多的球 杂耍,直到他们真正成为项目。 |
| 653 | So it was really inspiring to me to have a lot of people around me who were doing similar | 因此,我真的很鼓舞人心 身边有很多人 做类似的 |
| 654 | sorts of juggling, managing like a lot of projects. | 杂耍,管理像很多项目。 |
| 655 | I remember like the workshop experiences | 我记得像车间的经验 |
| 656 | in your creative writing classes, everyone was just writing multiple things at the same time | 在你创作的写作课上, 每个人都只是写多件事情 同时 |
| 657 | trying to work that out. | 试图解决这个问题。 |
| 658 | You mentioned your creative process when you were doing the | 你提到你的创造过程 当你做 |
| 659 | Tea House of the Gods. | 诸神茶舍. |
| 660 | You said that's not something you would like to repeat again | 你说你不想再说一次 |
| 661 | for your quality of life or writing, but it's kind of amazing especially to me as an English major | 对你的生活或写作的质量来说 特别让我惊讶的是 作为英语专业 |
| 662 | that you are able to do a part-time software engineering master's full-time job while keeping | 能够做兼职软件工程硕士的全职工作,同时保持 |
| 663 | up your passion in writing. | 在写作时增加你的热情 |
| 664 | So how are you able to find that work-writing balance and do you think | 所以,你是如何找到 写作平衡 你觉得 |
| 665 | your job necessarily has a connection or does it not have to? | 您的工作必然有联系 还是没有关系? |
| 666 | So there are two questions here. | 所以这里有两个问题。 |
| 667 | The first thing that I think is more useful that I'll address first is like finding a balance | 我首先要谈的第一件事是 找到平衡 |
| 668 | between your day-to-day work and your passions, right? | 你的日常工作与激情之间,对不对? |
| 669 | I think there's three ways to go about | 我想还有三条路要走 |
| 670 | doing this. | 这样做。 |
| 671 | One is like you said work-life balance, so having a job that gets you spare time to do the | 一个就像你说的 工作与生活的平衡 所以有一份工作 让你有时间做 |
| 672 | things that you want regardless of what the job is. | 无论工作是什么,你想要的东西 |
| 673 | The job provides for your living necessities | 工作为您提供生活必需品 |
| 674 | of well-lit room, food, shelter. | 房间、食物、住所 |
| 675 | There's also the approach of a lot of the internships that I did | 也有很多实习的方法 我做了 |
| 676 | during college were marketing. | 在大学期间是营销。 |
| 677 | A lot of the internships that I did during college were | 我大学期间做的许多实习都是 |
| 678 | marketing but I was telling some of the most visible stories in the world to audiences. | 但我向观众讲述了一些世界上最引人注目的故事。 |
| 679 | So that was another way of trying to get at my passions while working on them into my day-to-day | 所以,这是另一种方式 试图得到我的激情 同时工作 他们进入我的日常 |
| 680 | like the last one which is to make your passion into a full-time day job. | 就像最后的一样 就是让你的激情成为全职的日常工作 |
| 681 | So this is something | 所以,这是东西 |
| 682 | that I've gotten a lot of advice as someone who's interested in the creative world about like | 我得到了很多建议 作为一个谁感兴趣的 创意世界喜欢 |
| 683 | what if you end up doing your passion as your full-time job and you hate it but then like what | 如果你最后做你的激情 作为你的全职工作 你讨厌它,然后喜欢什么 |
| 684 | if if you start start out doing something you hate and then you just hate it throughout right | 如果你开始做一些你讨厌的事 然后你只是讨厌它 整个正确 |
| 685 | that that's not any is that any better necessarily but the issue with most creative | 这不是什么 任何更好的必然 但问题最有创意 |
| 686 | lives is that there is like an income trajectory and it turns it tends to start out very low so | 生活就像一个收入轨迹 它会变成非常低的开始 |
| 687 | it's a matter it's not only a matter of do I want to do this but also a matter of building off | 这是一件事情... ...它不仅仅是一件事情... ...我想这样做... |
| 688 | an income stream that can replace your right you're very poor until you're suddenly very rich is is the | 收入流可以取代你的权利 你非常贫穷 直到你突然变得非常富有 |
| 689 | at least the outside opinion for creative writers exactly and it's if I were to do a talk | 至少对创作作家的外在观点是准确的 如果我做一个演讲 |
| 690 | I think about navigating the current process it would be called how to be an artist with starving | 我想在目前这个过程中 它会被称为 如何成为一个艺术家与饥饿 |
| 691 | crossed out between an artist it's the financial aspect of managing that like I mentioned Yale is | 我提到耶鲁大学时, |
| 692 | a school where 69 percent of students are in the top 20 percent of the income bracket so a lot of | 69%的学生在收入最高的20%的学校 如此多的 |
| 693 | people have money if that's not the case then you make your own yeah I can imagine many artists | 人有钱,如果不是这样的话... ...那你就自己做吧... |
| 694 | would like to come to the talk of how to not starve while maintaining their artistry and | 我想来谈谈如何不饿死 同时保持他们的艺术和 |
| 695 | Yale is in a sense a skill model of society at least part of it | 耶鲁在某种意义上是社会的一种技能模式,至少是社会的一部分 |
| 696 | right you mentioned your current writing experiences especially with like-minded people | 对了,你提到你现在的写作经历 尤其是和志同道合的人 |
| 697 | what about outside of you once you've begun working began writing outside of a college | 等你开始工作后 大学外写作怎么样? |
| 698 | environment what's the writing scene like here in Beijing or in America so let's start with the | 北京或美国的写作场景是什么 让我们从 |
| 699 | writing scene in general the type of writing that I was exposed to at Yale is a very literary stream | 写作一般的场景 我在耶鲁大学接触到的写作类型 是一个非常文学流派 |
| 700 | which if we are talking about there's like publishers so publishers are one of the big | 如果我们在谈论,有像 出版商 所以出版商是一个大 |
| 701 | organizers of this world of storytelling right they get their money from publications like | 这个讲故事世界的组织者 他们从杂志上拿钱 |
| 702 | magazine like genre fiction and their money is used to support purchases like the literary | 像流派小说这样的杂志 他们的钱被用来支持像文学家一样的采购 |
| 703 | funds so the literary one great thing about the literary projects is that they can be very | 所以文学作品的一件伟大事情就是 他们可以非常 |
| 704 | unrelated to profitability people are interested in reading stories people are interested in | 与盈利无关 人们感兴趣 阅读故事 人们感兴趣 |
| 705 | the next say like Walden regardless of how well Walden sells publishers want to be the people who | 接下来的话就像Walden一样 不管Walden卖的出版商有多好 |
| 706 | have brought that sort of storytelling onto the scene so as a result as a literary writer you | 将那种讲故事的手法带到了现场 这样你才能成为文学作家 |
| 707 | will be your income is tied less to the day-to-day sales but unfortunately um yeah there is also an | 你的收入与日常的销售额没有多少关系 但不幸的是... |
| 708 | approach what I love about popular fiction right is its visibility like these are the stories that | 我最喜欢的就是它能见度 像这些故事一样 |
| 709 | I think these are the stories that I want to tell but um yeah that's uh that's another process | 我想这些是我想讲的故事 但是嗯,是的,这是另一个过程 |
| 710 | of navigating in that in the modern day there will be less and less stories like harry potter | 现代将越来越少像哈瑞陶工的故事 |
| 711 | because there's no longer like a publisher monopoly there's much more sources of media | 因为不再像出版社那样垄断媒体 |
| 712 | and places to spread people's attention so netflix one of the ways they run their business right is | 以及传播人们注意力的地方 所以网友们经营自己生意的方式之一是 |
| 713 | a lot of ips and selling different stories that's how they differentiate themselves from | 很多当然和销售 不同的故事 他们如何区分自己与 |
| 714 | competitors in having access to lots of stories to be able to entertain you and take up your time | 竞争者可以接触很多故事 来娱乐你 占用你的时间 |
| 715 | so as a creator this is really exciting for us in that they want lots of ips they're hungry for | 作为创造者 这对我们来说真的很刺激 他们想要很多 他们当然渴望 |
| 716 | different stories but it's also challenging in that it's harder to make a big story than | 不同的故事,但也具有挑战性 因为做一个大的故事比 |
| 717 | ever before because attention is being drawn in so many different ways right it's very hard to be | 之前,因为吸引了这么多的注意 不同的方式,这是非常困难的 |
| 718 | one right now exactly but but it's it might be a bit easier to make something right so it's | 准确的说,但做正确的事情可能比较容易 |
| 719 | it's exciting it's an exciting time to be putting out projects I see and um any particular experiences | 令人兴奋的是,这是一个令人兴奋的时间 推出项目 我看到,嗯任何特定的经验 |
| 720 | {\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}有两组北京人 | |
| 721 | I've written with when I was here in 2017-18 that I'm happy to connect anyone with if they're | 2017-18年我在这里时曾写信表示,我很愿意与任何人联系,如果他们是 |
| 722 | interested one is spittoon which is the Beijing bilingual multilingual literary magazine for | 是北京双语多语言文学杂志 |
| 723 | mainly fiction and then the other is an organization of like about 500 people called the Beijing's | 主要是虚构的,另一个是大约500人的组织 被称为北京的 |
| 724 | writers network which tries to meet about once a month and do some readings I ran that for about | 写作网试图每月约一次见面 做一些阅读 我运行的关于 |
| 725 | half a year while I was here it's very informal um they're yeah they're very chill it's just nice | 半年我在这里的时候,很非正式,嗯,他们很冷酷,很好 |
| 726 | to have a nice place to share their stories the one drawback is that being English writers in | 要有一个好地方分享他们的故事 一个缺点是当英国作家 |
| 727 | Beijing it's an expat community people move through very quickly um so it's still important | 北京是个外出社区的人 很快地走进来 所以还很重要 |
| 728 | to build like your own network of friends I see yeah yeah it's nice when you're a writer to not | 就像你自己的朋友网络一样... ... |
| 729 | be you know the only writer that you know no it's terribly lonely like yeah I think 250,000 words | 你知道唯一一个你不知道的作家 它非常孤独 就像是的,我想25万字 |
| 730 | by yourself you gotta have some friends to to look at the stories at least yeah and I think | 单靠你自己 你得找些朋友看故事 |
| 731 | that's one thing that's so interesting about like digital and modern media in that I can write | 数字媒体和现代媒体的有趣之处之一 就是我能写 |
| 732 | something have it online have feedback about it within a day right and then be able to explain | 有东西在网上有反馈 一天之内,正确的,然后可以解释 |
| 733 | like the ones you showed in the slide exactly that's why I find new media so exciting yeah | 就像你在幻灯片上展示的一样 这就是为什么我发现新媒体如此令人兴奋 |
| 734 | that's um that sounds amazing and thank you for sharing those writing circles with us | 这听起来很棒 谢谢你跟我们分享那些写作圈子 |
| 735 | and let's go back to your your experiences a little bit um we mentioned your fellow writers | 让我们回到你的经验 一点点,嗯,我们提到 你的同行作家 |
| 736 | a lot what about the people that taught writing to you um at Yale they I know that you often | 在耶鲁教书的人... 我知道你们经常 |
| 737 | like has outside writers famous writers come and teach seminars and workshops | 就像外面的作家 著名的作家来 教授研讨会和讲习班 |
| 738 | uh that's at least that's what they I imagine that nothing much changed over two years apart | 嗯,这至少是他们我想象的 在两年的间隔里没有什么变化 |
| 739 | that we're at you know so what are of course with the writers you encountered and uh what are some | 我们是在你知道,所以什么 当然与作家 你遇到,嗯是什么 |
| 740 | classes that you remember most clearly yeah so the class I probably remember most clearly is | 你记得最清楚的课 是的 所以我可能记得最清楚的是 |
| 741 | Intro to Fiction with Michael Cunningham I took his class yes who later became my thesis advisor | 我和迈克尔·坎宁安一起上过小说课 他后来成为我的论文顾问 |
| 742 | for this project and who I've stayed in touch with yeah for years since um as I've so after | 我和谁联系了好几年了 自从... |
| 743 | I received like the contract for my first like game I wrote to some of my professors and was like | 我收到了像合同 我的第一个像游戏 我写给我的一些教授 |
| 744 | help help I have an eight page legal document in my email that I hypothetically need to sign and I | 帮我把8页的法律文件放在我的电子邮件里 假设我需要签名,我 |
| 745 | was first of all like I really appreciate the professors for what they taught me in the course | 首先,我很欣赏教授们在课程中教我的 |
| 746 | about how to write but also after leaving college I have realized so much of the professional | 关于如何写作, 也从大学毕业后, 我意识到这么多的专业 |
| 747 | experience and building a career has nothing to do with actually just the putting words on a page | 体验和建设事业 和把字写在一页无关 |
| 748 | right so it's very I've been very appreciative because of how small the classes were and being | 对,所以我非常感激 因为班级很小 |
| 749 | able to sort of build a connection with my classmates and students or and um teachers | 和同学、学生或老师建立联系 |
| 750 | but also how professors have continued to be supportive of my work afterwards so helping me | 教授们一直支持我的工作 帮助我 |
| 751 | {\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}谈判合同 {\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}就像现在这样 {\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}我有过这些经历 | |
| 752 | questions helping me navigate the other process of growing as a writer and how exactly that works | 帮助我度过另一个作为作家成长的过程 以及它究竟如何工作 |
| 753 | was he already holding all those hours in like the study hotel yes yeah all of our um like thesis | 他已经在书房里呆了这么多小时了 是的,是啊,我们所有的,嗯,就像论文一样 |
| 754 | meeting sessions were in the study yeah he also tried to get us out to drinks after finals | 在研究室开会,他还想让我们在决赛后喝酒 |
| 755 | in a semester yeah he usually does that for his courses it's very he's a very classy gentleman | 在学期是的 他通常这样做 对于他的课程 他是一个非常优雅的绅士 |
| 756 | yeah um we can reference about um professor coming home later on but um what are some of your advice | 是的,嗯,我们可以参考 关于嗯教授回来以后,但嗯... ...一些你的建议 |
| 757 | to young aspiring writers as I'm sure there are many in the audience here tonight um as perhaps | 向有志向的年轻作家致敬 因为我相信今晚观众很多 |
| 758 | Michael Cunningham helped you like how what are some words you would like to share with aspiring | 迈克尔·坎宁安帮助你 喜欢一些你想要分享的话 |
| 759 | Chinese writers here I think the general tactical is what I said about the process of your juggling | 这里的中国作家,我想一般的战术 就是我说的关于你们杂耍的过程 |
| 760 | by balls and throwing them at whatever opportunities that is what the professional | 球和扔 任何机会,这是专业 |
| 761 | process will be like and something you should be prepared to do or at least think a lot about | 过程会是这样,你应该准备好做一些事情 或者至少想了很多 |
| 762 | doing and that it's aside from just the writing on the page right right the process that goes | 并且除了写在页面上 右侧的流程之外 |
| 763 | into it um it's very important to learn about the whole industry at least to me in my the way I | 了解整个行业很重要 至少对我而言 |
| 764 | approach things to learn about the industry the financial forces and um especially legal | 了解金融力量 特别是法律 |
| 765 | protection so like one very specific tactical advice is whenever someone offers you a contract | 保护就像一个非常特别的战术建议 是每当有人给你一个合同 |
| 766 | do not sign it until you have had a legal opinion or at least have some confidence | 在你得到法律意见或至少有信心之前,不要签字 |
| 767 | that you understand what you're signing because these are these are your rights and these this is | 你明白你要签什么 因为这是你的权利,这是 |
| 768 | like your profitability and your income sources later it's also learning to navigate this | 就像你的盈利和你的收入来源 之后它也学会了导航 |
| 769 | professional process will help prepare you for the entire the aspect of building of writing | 专业过程将有助于您为构建写作的整个方面做好准备 |
| 770 | that's not only publishing stories but also supporting yourself and making a career out of it | 这不仅是发表故事 而且还是支持自己 并以此为生 |
| 771 | yeah some very valuable advice especially about the practical side of writing that I don't think | 是的,一些非常有价值的建议 特别是关于写作的实际方面 我不认为 |
| 772 | especially um writers who are starting off we often don't think about those things when we | 特别是作家,他们开始 我们常常不考虑那些东西 当我们 |
| 773 | really should be thinking about them yeah it's something I'm still learning how to think about | 真的应该思考他们 是的,这是的东西 我仍在学习如何思考 |
| 774 | as well and um to risk being overly broad as a question ask a writer yourself why do you think | 也冒着太宽泛的风险 问一个作家自己为什么认为 |
| 775 | we need creative writing be it fiction or non-fiction in society so I actually spent most | 我们需要创造性的写作 无论是虚构的还是非虚构的 |
| 776 | of my life in Kentucky and this is something I will always remember from high school in Kentucky | 这是我在肯塔基州的生活 我将永远记得 在肯塔基州高中 |
| 777 | one of my English teachers taught because I actually started out as pre-med so it was talking one of | 我的一个英语老师教的 因为我是医学预科生 所以说 |
| 778 | humanities right and the way he thought about stem was it's a place it's the science that teaches | 人文科学的正确性 和他对于干法的思考 是一个地方 它是科学的教导 |
| 779 | us how to get from point a to point b but humanities is what we use to think about where we're going | 我们如何从一点到二点 但是人文学科是我们用来思考 我们要去哪里的 |
| 780 | and it's not just the process of getting from a to point b but also | 不仅仅是从一个点到b点的过程 而且也是 |
| 781 | thinking about where we're going that's something that we that yeah that I'm curious about doing | 想想我们要去的地方... ...这就是我们... |
| 782 | yeah that's one of my biggest questions right where we come from where we're going | 是啊,这是我最大的问题之一 我们从哪里来,我们要去哪里 |
| 783 | we have not I have not answered the question but humanities is helping me hypothetically figure it | 我们还没回答问题 但人文学科帮助我假设 |
| 784 | out at least we're posting the question we're posing the question and we're trying to answer | 至少我们在张贴问题 我们提出问题 我们试图回答 |
| 785 | and it's the process that matters right yeah yeah and um last but definitely not the least um | 这过程很重要 是的,嗯,最后,但肯定不是最不重要的 |
| 786 | what is something you would recommend all of us read or see depending so I'm someone who like | 你建议我们看什么看什么看 所以我是喜欢的人 |
| 787 | devil may cry on like this power point so I'm just going to go out there and be like | 魔鬼可能像这个电源点一样哭 所以我要出去 |
| 788 | do people watch anime what some raise your hand if you watch anime or read manga | 人们会看动画片 如果你看动画片或读漫画 举起你的手 |
| 789 | okay so I'm really into Gintama recently and I think just um what I find interesting about like | 好吧,所以我真的很喜欢金塔马 最近,我想... ... |
| 790 | a lot of shonen manga and like a lot of shonen stories and YA stories which is the genre I'm | 很多闪闪发光的漫画 就像很多闪闪发光的故事 和YA的故事 |
| 791 | interested in is about people who are 18 right except what I find really interesting about | 感兴趣的是18岁左右的人 除了我发现真正有趣的 |
| 792 | Gintama is like you are taking someone who's like pushing 30 or like and making him the hero of a | 银山就像你带了一个人 谁像推30或喜欢 并让他的英雄一个 |
| 793 | shonen story so it's it's a story about um so after Japan was taken over by aliens these are | 所以日本被外星人占领后 |
| 794 | the heroes the samurai who have like tried to fought the aliens and failed so thinking about | 武士们的英雄们 曾试图与外星人作战 却未能如愿以偿 |
| 795 | as a hero what happens after the story so what happens after you fail and how do you deal with | 作为英雄 故事发生后会发生什么 失败后会发生什么 |
| 796 | failure and how do you live a good life is something I think yeah it's something that I | 失败了,你如何过上美好的生活 我认为是的 |
| 797 | think we can all learn a lot from because life will always be all about success and it's the | 我们都能从中吸取很多教训 因为生活永远是成功的所在 |
| 798 | process of living a good life after the hero's journey that I am now trying to learn like what | 在英雄之旅之后过上美好生活的过程 我现在在努力学习什么 |
| 799 | life looks like for for me all right thank you for the recommendation I guess well we'll check | 我的生活对我来说是好的 谢谢你的推荐 我想我们去看看 |
| 800 | out that after after today and uh uh now let's uh throw it to the audience um see if you guys | 今天过后,呃,现在,让我们把它扔给观众... ... |
| 801 | any questions | 任何问题 |
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