英语播客: 我为什么不回美国 | The Jon Peng
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| 0:00 | Recently, somebody asked me if I'd ever move back to the USA, and the answer is absolutely not. | 最近,有人问我是否愿意搬回美国, 答案绝对不是。 |
| 0:08 | You see, I'm an expat. | 你看,我是一个外星人。 |
| 0:10 | I've been living abroad in Asia for over 15 years. | 我在国外生活了15年多。 |
| 0:14 | And today, I want to share with you the pros and cons I see living in the USA. | 今天,我想和你们分享我在美国看到的利弊。 |
| 0:22 | Hello, everyone. | 大家好,你们好 |
| 0:23 | Welcome to the John Peng Podcast. | 欢迎来到约翰彭波德克 |
| 0:25 | If it's your first time here, | 如果这是你第一次来这里 |
| 0:26 | don't forget to subscribe, like, leave a comment, and happy to have you here. | 不要忘记订阅,喜欢,留下一个评论, 很高兴你在这里。 |
| 0:32 | With that said, let's begin. | 说到这里 我们开始吧 |
| 0:34 | So, I'm American, born and raised in Los Angeles, California. | 所以,我是美国人,出生和长大 在洛杉矶,加利福尼亚。 |
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| 1 | Recently, somebody asked me if I'd ever move back to the USA, and the answer is absolutely not. | 最近,有人问我是否愿意搬回美国, 答案绝对不是。 |
| 2 | You see, I'm an expat. | 你看,我是一个外星人。 |
| 3 | I've been living abroad in Asia for over 15 years. | 我在国外生活了15年多。 |
| 4 | And today, I want to share with you the pros and cons I see living in the USA. | 今天,我想和你们分享我在美国看到的利弊。 |
| 5 | Hello, everyone. | 大家好,你们好 |
| 6 | Welcome to the John Peng Podcast. | 欢迎来到约翰彭波德克 |
| 7 | If it's your first time here, | 如果这是你第一次来这里 |
| 8 | don't forget to subscribe, like, leave a comment, and happy to have you here. | 不要忘记订阅,喜欢,留下一个评论, 很高兴你在这里。 |
| 9 | With that said, let's begin. | 说到这里 我们开始吧 |
| 10 | So, I'm American, born and raised in Los Angeles, California. | 所以,我是美国人,出生和长大 在洛杉矶,加利福尼亚。 |
| 11 | But in my 20s, I moved to China. | 但在20多岁的时候,我搬到了中国. |
| 12 | And I've been here for a long time, over 10 years. | 我在这里已经很长一段时间, 超过10年。 |
| 13 | Now, I visit the USA once or twice a year. | 现在,我访问美国一年一两次。 |
| 14 | I try to go for at least two weeks to a month. | 我试着去至少两周到一个月。 |
| 15 | And every time I go back, I feel that I'm experiencing reverse culture shock. | 每当我回去的时候,我觉得自己正在经历反向文化的冲击。 |
| 16 | If you don't know what reverse culture shock is, that means that you experience culture | 如果你不知道什么是反向文化冲击, 这意味着你体验文化 |
| 17 | shock from your original culture. | 被你原始文化所震惊 |
| 18 | When I go back to the USA, I feel weird. | 当我回到美国,我觉得很奇怪。 |
| 19 | I feel awkward. | 我感觉很尴尬 |
| 20 | I feel like an outsider sometimes. | 有时候我觉得自己是个外人 |
| 21 | I'm just not used to being there. | 我只是不习惯在那里。 |
| 22 | And there's a number of reasons for that. | 然此亦有数种因缘. |
| 23 | I think today, because I've lived abroad for so long, | 我想今天 因为我在国外住了这么久 |
| 24 | I'm like 60% Chinese, 40% American right now. | 我现在就像60%的中国人,40%的美国人。 |
| 25 | And if you are an expat, | 如果你是外卖 |
| 26 | you might kind of resonate with what I'm saying. | 你可能会对我说的有共鸣 |
| 27 | And if you're not, that's okay. | 如果你没有,没关系。 |
| 28 | Because in today's episode, I'm going to be sharing a lot of interesting | 因为在今天的剧集里 我会分享很多有趣的 |
| 29 | facts and thoughts about these two countries. | 关于这两个国家的事实和想法。 |
| 30 | Now, the first culture shock I experience, | 现在,我经历的第一个文化冲击, |
| 31 | and especially recently, life is slow in the USA. | 特别是最近,美国的生活很缓慢。 |
| 32 | The pace, the tempo, it's slow. | 节奏,节奏,是缓慢的. |
| 33 | For me, | 对我来说 |
| 34 | glacially slow. | 慢慢来 |
| 35 | And I think that's because I'm living in a country like China. | 我认为这是因为我生活在一个像中国这样的国家. |
| 36 | And a lot of | 还有很多 |
| 37 | countries I find in China, like Southeast Asia, are like this as well, where things move very fast. | 我在中国发现的国家,像东南亚, 也是这样的, 那里的事情进展非常快。 |
| 38 | You see it. | 汝见之. |
| 39 | You feel it in the culture. | 你在文化中感觉到它。 |
| 40 | You see the people. | 汝见众生. |
| 41 | People are hustling. | 人们在胡思乱想。 |
| 42 | You walk outside. | 你走出去。 。 。 |
| 43 | Things are happening fast. | 事情发生得很快 |
| 44 | There are people everywhere. | 到处都有人 |
| 45 | Things are getting delivered fast. | 事情得到快递。 |
| 46 | You want something. | 你想要的东西。 |
| 47 | You get it. | 你明白吗? |
| 48 | People are hustling. | 人们在胡思乱想。 |
| 49 | Entrepreneurs, this and that. | 企业家,这个和那个。 |
| 50 | All | 全体 |
| 51 | kinds of different things. | 不同的东西 |
| 52 | But when I go back to the USA, I feel like things just move really slow. | 但是当我回到美国的时候 我觉得事情进展很慢 |
| 53 | Nothing's really happening. | 什么都没有发生。 |
| 54 | Now, this could be, again, because I'm staying with my parents, | 现在,这可能是,再次, 因为我住我的父母, |
| 55 | who are not that old, by the way. | 顺便说一句,他们没有那么老。 |
| 56 | My parents are not old. | 我父母不老. 师曰. |
| 57 | They're all in their 60s. | 皆于六十多岁. |
| 58 | But I feel like the day-to-day is just like you wake up and then you get in your car, | 但我觉得每天就像你醒来,然后上车一样 |
| 59 | you go to work, you come back, you watch TV. | 你去上班 你回来看电视 |
| 60 | That's kind of it. | 就是这样 |
| 61 | Then the weekend happens | 周末就来了 |
| 62 | and you do something. | 做点什么 |
| 63 | But it's that whole process of just being in your car, being isolated, | 但是,这是整个过程 只是在你的车, 被隔离, |
| 64 | not seeing anybody. | 没有看到任何人。 |
| 65 | A lot of the suburbs and neighborhoods in the USA, and I'm talking about | 在美国很多郊区和邻里 我说的是 |
| 66 | Los Angeles. | 洛杉矶。 |
| 67 | I'm not talking about other places. | 我不是说别的地方 |
| 68 | Other places are more isolated. | 其他地方比较孤立. |
| 69 | In Los Angeles, | 在洛杉矶 |
| 70 | a lot of these cities and suburbs you go to, it's very common. | 你去过的很多城市和郊区很常见 |
| 71 | You step out your front door | 你走出你的前门 |
| 72 | and you see nobody. | 你却看不到任何人 |
| 73 | Nobody at all. | 没有人。 |
| 74 | Whereas in China, if I step out my front door, | 而在中国,如果我走出我的前门, |
| 75 | I'm pretty much guaranteed to see at least five to 10 people within one minute. | 我几乎可以保证在一分钟内看到至少5到10个人 |
| 76 | Now, granted, this is an interesting thing because for me now, as a middle-aged man, | 现在,当然,这很有趣 因为对我来说,作为一个中年男人, |
| 77 | I'm finding that as I get older, I kind of like less people, | 我发现随着我变老, 我有点喜欢更少的人, |
| 78 | less noise, less commotion. | 少声,少骚动. |
| 79 | It's the stereotypical old man saying, | 陈规定型的老人说, |
| 80 | get off my yard, get off my lawn, get out of here, you crazy kids. | 离开我的院子,离开我的草坪,离开这里,你们这些疯狂的孩子。 |
| 81 | What's all that noise? | 什么声音? |
| 82 | So I'm feeling that the older I get. | 所以我觉得年纪越大了 |
| 83 | I'm not there yet where I need everything to be | 我还没到需要一切的地方 |
| 84 | so slow-paced and relaxed. | 这么慢节奏和放松。 |
| 85 | I'm not retired, that's the thing. | 我没有退休,这就是问题所在。 |
| 86 | Right now, I'm hustling, | 现在,我胡思乱想, |
| 87 | I'm bustling, I'm moving and shaking. | 我颤抖,我动静不已 |
| 88 | I'm building my empire right now. | 我正在建立我的帝国 |
| 89 | Right now, | 现在 |
| 90 | I'm in hustle mode and I like that and I need that and I want that. | 我身处险境,我喜欢,我需要,我想要 |
| 91 | Whereas I feel like in the | 而我感觉就像在 |
| 92 | USA, I'm kind of like living to die in a sense. | 美国,我就像活在某种意义上 |
| 93 | Now, granted, again, as kids come along, | 现在,同意,再次, 当孩子们来了, |
| 94 | as retirement comes along, I think I definitely may prefer that kind of lifestyle. | 随着退休的到来 我想我肯定更喜欢这种生活方式 |
| 95 | Now, what contributes to this slow pace of life? | 现在,是什么促成了这种缓慢的生命速度? |
| 96 | It's the driving. | 这是驱动。 |
| 97 | My God, it's the driving. | 我的上帝,这是驱动。 |
| 98 | You have to drive everywhere in the USA. | 在美国必须到处开车 |
| 99 | The USA is very much a driving and car culture | 美国是一个非常 驱动和汽车文化 |
| 100 | and I hate that. | 我讨厌这样 |
| 101 | I hate that there is just no good public transportation. | 我讨厌没有良好的公共交通。 |
| 102 | This is coming from | 这是来自 |
| 103 | a country where I live in right now in China where high-speed rail, subway, metro, whatever | 我现在住在中国的一个国家 那里有高速铁路、地铁、地铁等等 |
| 104 | you want to call it, is impeccable. | 你想叫它,是无可挑剔的。 |
| 105 | For example, me, I live in Shenzhen, China. | 例如我,我住在中国深圳. |
| 106 | It's right next to | 就在旁边 |
| 107 | Hong Kong and at the front gate of my apartment, there is literally a subway stop right there. | 香港和我公寓前门 有个地铁站 |
| 108 | Wherever I want to go, whatever I want to do, the subway is right there. | 无论我想去哪里,不管我想做什么,地铁就在那里。 |
| 109 | It's super easy. | 这是超级容易的。 |
| 110 | It's very convenient. | 甚为方便. |
| 111 | In fact, I would argue that living in China for over 10 years, I see | 事实上,我会说,在中国生活了10多年,我明白了 |
| 112 | absolutely no reason to buy a car. | 绝对没有理由买车。 |
| 113 | In fact, I would say that for me to have a car right now | 事实上,我现在要说有车 |
| 114 | would be more of a pain in the butt. | 会更痛的屁股。 |
| 115 | It'd be more expensive. | 那会更贵的 |
| 116 | It'd be more annoying to find a parking | 找停车会更烦人 |
| 117 | spot. | 地点。 |
| 118 | It'd be more trouble than it would to have one. | 会有麻烦的 |
| 119 | So public transportation is amazing here, | 所以这里的公共交通非常惊人 |
| 120 | as well as in a lot of different countries as well. | 以及许多不同的国家。 |
| 121 | But for some reason, the USA just | 但出于某种原因,美国 |
| 122 | can't get it down, especially Los Angeles. | 不能让它下来,尤其是洛杉矶。 |
| 123 | A lot of people talk to me about Los Angeles' | 很多人都跟我说洛杉矶的事 |
| 124 | public transportation. | 公共交通。 |
| 125 | It's garbage. | 这是垃圾。 |
| 126 | It sucks. | 烂透了 |
| 127 | Too slow, too inconvenient and if I want to get to | 太慢,太不方便了,如果我想去的话 |
| 128 | where I need to go, it's not going to be easy. | 我需要去的地方, 这将是不容易的。 |
| 129 | Now, it is getting better. | 现在,它越来越好。 |
| 130 | I'll admit that. | 我会承认的 |
| 131 | I'm | и琌 |
| 132 | not going to sit here and completely crap over it, but driving is key in the USA. | 但驾驶是美国的关键 |
| 133 | I imagine other | 我想象着其他的 |
| 134 | parts of the states as well. | 州内也有一部分 |
| 135 | You just have to have a car and you have to drive. | 你只需要有车和开车。 |
| 136 | I hate that | 我讨厌这样 |
| 137 | there is just no good public transportation. | 这里没有好公共交通 |
| 138 | Now, besides that, it's the inconvenience of | 现在,除此之外,这是不方便的 |
| 139 | everything. | 一切众生. |
| 140 | I think I'm very lucky and blessed that the fact in China that things are very convenient. | 我感到非常幸运和幸运的是,在中国,事情非常方便。 |
| 141 | As an example, if I need to go to like a convenience store, I could walk from my apartment | 举个例子,如果我需要去 像便利店,我可以从我的公寓走 |
| 142 | and pretty much within a five to ten minute walk, I'm most likely going to encounter a | 几乎在5到10分钟的路程里 我最有可能遇到一个 |
| 143 | convenience store somewhere, right? | 便利店的某个地方,对不对? |
| 144 | Or if I want, I can get it delivered very fast within 20 to 30 | 或者,如果我想, 我可以得到它非常快 在20到30 |
| 145 | minutes, sometimes even 15 minutes. | 几分钟,有时甚至15分钟。 |
| 146 | But in the states, Los Angeles, if I wanted to, for example, | 但是在各州,洛杉矶,如果我想, |
| 147 | walk to a 7-Eleven, 7-Eleven being the most common convenience store, we're looking at like a, | 走到一个7 -11,7 -11 即使是最常见的便利店, 我们看着像一个, |
| 148 | it could be 30 minute walk. | 它可能是30分钟步行。 |
| 149 | Some places like, you know, 45 an hour to walk as well. | 有些地方,像,你知道, 45个小时步行。 |
| 150 | I know some friends, they tell me they live in the middle of nowhere. | 我认识一些朋友 他们告诉我他们住在荒郊野外 |
| 151 | And so if they want | 所以如果他们愿意 |
| 152 | something from the market or convenience store, they got to drive far. | 来自市场或便利店的东西, 他们得开车很远。 |
| 153 | And that's crazy to me, | 这对我来说是疯了, |
| 154 | right? | 对吧? |
| 155 | Now, again, what are the pros and cons of this? | 再说一遍,这有什么利弊? |
| 156 | Of course, yes, the pros of it is the | 当然,是的,它的亲信是 |
| 157 | convenience life is easier. | 方便寿命更方便. |
| 158 | That's fantastic, right? | 这太棒了,对不对? |
| 159 | But then it becomes a thing of, well, | 但后来它变成了一种东西,嗯, |
| 160 | urban sprawl, concrete jungle. | 城市扩张,混凝土丛林. |
| 161 | Does one really want to live in a place like this where there | 一个人真的想住在这样的地方 那里 |
| 162 | are stores and businesses and people everywhere? | 商店、企业和人 到处都是吗? |
| 163 | I'll give you an example. | 举个例子 |
| 164 | I remember when I first | 我记得我第一次 |
| 165 | came to China to learn Chinese, and we were a class of a bunch of people from different countries, | 来到中国学习中文,我们是一群来自不同国家的人的班级, |
| 166 | Americans like me, you had Asians, you had South Americans, you know, the Africans, | 美国人喜欢我,你有亚洲人, 你有南美人, 你知道,非洲人, |
| 167 | Middle Easterners, blah, blah, blah. | 中东人,等等,等等。 |
| 168 | And there was one guy, he was from Chicago, Illinois. | 还有一个人,他来自伊利诺伊州芝加哥 |
| 169 | He told | 他告诉 |
| 170 | me the place he lived was more of like a quieter place, not a big city, more like the, you know, | 他住的地方更像一个安静的地方 而不是一个大城市 更像,你知道, |
| 171 | not so many buildings, not so many people. | 没有这么多的建筑, 没有这么多的人。 |
| 172 | And the program was supposed to last for a year. | 这个计划应该持续一年 |
| 173 | He quit after two months. | 两个月后就辞职了 |
| 174 | Why? | 为什么? |
| 175 | Because he told me that living in Shanghai, China, | 因为他告诉我 住在中国上海 |
| 176 | it was too much for him. | 对他来说太过分了 |
| 177 | The pollution, the buildings everywhere, the people everywhere, | 污染 到处都是建筑物 到处都是人 |
| 178 | the noise pollution. | 噪音污染。 |
| 179 | This is a big thing as well. | 这也是一件大事。 |
| 180 | And I think a lot of people living in Asia don't | 我认为很多生活在亚洲的人不会 |
| 181 | realize the noise pollution. | 意识到噪音污染。 |
| 182 | When you sleep, you hear a lot of noise. | 睡时闻声大噪. |
| 183 | And even if you live in a | 即使你生活在一个 |
| 184 | better area, you're mostly going to hear something once in a while. | 更好的区域,你大多会听到一些东西 偶尔。 |
| 185 | So there's so much noise pollution. | 所以有这么多的噪音污染。 |
| 186 | When you're outside, you hear things all the time. | 出门时常闻声. |
| 187 | You hear scooters, you hear motorcycles, | 你听到摩托车,你听到摩托车, |
| 188 | you hear cars, you hear people, you hear businesses, you hear these stores and their music and their | 你听到汽车,你听到人们,你听到企业, 你听到这些商店,他们的音乐和他们的 |
| 189 | sounds, whatever. | 听起来,随便。 |
| 190 | But a lot of places in the USA, even the popular places, it's very common. | 但是在美国很多地方,甚至流行的地方,都非常常见. |
| 191 | You're not hearing a thing. | 你什么都没听到 |
| 192 | It's very quiet. | 非常安静 |
| 193 | And again, that can be a good thing for a lot of people. | 再说一次,这对很多人来说是件好事。 |
| 194 | And for someone like me, a little eerie sometimes. | 对像我这样的人来说,有时候会有点紧张 |
| 195 | Last time I went back to my dad's place to sleep | 上次我回我爸家睡觉 |
| 196 | there for the night, I remember going to sleep and I was like, I don't hear anything. | 在那过夜,我记得要睡觉了 我好像什么也听不到 |
| 197 | Am I going to die? | 我会死吗? |
| 198 | Someone going to kill me? | 有人要杀我吗? |
| 199 | Freak me out, man. | 吓死我了,伙计。 |
| 200 | So there's a noise pollution. | 所以这里有噪音污染 |
| 201 | You know, there's that, there's the inconvenience of everything. | 你知道,有,这是所有事情的不便。 |
| 202 | But again, for some people, this could be a good thing and a bad thing. | 但是,对有些人来说,这可能是一件好事和一件坏事。 |
| 203 | It's hard to say. | 难说. |
| 204 | The next thing is life in the USA is expensive, especially living in Los Angeles, California. | 接下来的事情是在美国的生活是昂贵的,特别是生活在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶. |
| 205 | Yee. | 叶曰. |
| 206 | I'll give you an example. | 举个例子 |
| 207 | Just talking about having a meal. | 只是说吃顿饭 |
| 208 | The other day I went with a friend, | 前几天我和一个朋友去了 |
| 209 | we went to a restaurant and we had a coffee, two coffees, I'm sorry, we had two coffees, | 我们去了一家餐馆 喝了一杯咖啡 两杯咖啡 抱歉 我们喝了两杯咖啡 |
| 210 | a sandwich and a salad. | 一个三明治和一个沙拉。 |
| 211 | And that ended up being 70 dollars, 70 US dollars on top of tax and tip. | 最后是70美元, 70美元在税收和小费之外。 |
| 212 | Now, if I was here in Southeast Asia or China, that would be a fraction of the cost. | 现在,如果我在这里 东南亚或中国,这将是成本的一小部分。 |
| 213 | A lot cheaper. | 更便宜一点 |
| 214 | And the service would be just as good. | 服务也一样好 |
| 215 | Now, there are pros and cons of this as well. | 现在,也有一些利弊。 |
| 216 | And honestly, if we're talking about quality of food, yes, especially Western food, | 老实说,如果我们谈论食物的质量,是的,特别是西方食物, |
| 217 | I'm going to get much better Western food in the USA. | 我要在美国买到更好的西餐 |
| 218 | When I talk about Western food, | 当我谈论西方食物时, |
| 219 | I'm talking about sandwiches, pizza, steaks, all these different kinds of things. | 我说的是三明治,比萨饼,牛排,所有这些不同的东西。 |
| 220 | But again, | 但再说一遍 |
| 221 | we're looking at a premium cost here. | 我们正在寻找一个溢价在这里。 |
| 222 | And then again, there's the factor of tip. | 再说一遍,有小费的因素。 |
| 223 | First of all, tipping culture. | 首先是小费文化. |
| 224 | It's a sensitive subject. | 这是一个敏感的主题。 |
| 225 | I remember when I first came to China, | 我记得我第一次来中国的时候 |
| 226 | I tried to tip the waiters, tried to tip the hotel staff and they said, oh, no, no, no, no, | 我试图给服务员小费, 试图给酒店员工小费 他们说,哦,不,不,不, |
| 227 | right. | 对 |
| 228 | They actually rejected it. | 他们实际上拒绝了。 |
| 229 | Of course, some places would take it. | 当然,有些地方会接受 |
| 230 | But most of the time, | 但大多数时候 |
| 231 | tipping culture doesn't exist here. | 这里不存在尖端文化。 |
| 232 | Now, this is a tough one for me because I feel like if somebody | 这对我来说很艰难 因为我觉得如果有人 |
| 233 | does good service, especially in the service industry, they deserve a tip, right? | 特别是在服务行业 他们应该得到小费 对吧? |
| 234 | These people | 这些人 |
| 235 | work their butts off. | 工作他们的屁股关闭。 |
| 236 | The problem I'm seeing in the USA is that everything is requiring a tip now. | 我在美国看到的问题是 现在一切都需要小费 |
| 237 | And a lot of times, tips are presented to you in a way to almost make you feel guilty in a sense, | 很多时候,小费 被呈现给你的方式 几乎让你感到内疚 从某种意义上, |
| 238 | right? | 对吧? |
| 239 | I'll give you an example. | 举个例子 |
| 240 | So when I was a kid, the average tip would be like, | 所以当我还是个孩子时, 平均小费会像, |
| 241 | you know, like 10 percent. | 你知道,像10%。 |
| 242 | Now the average tip is 20 percent, 15 to 20 percent. | 现在平均小费是20%,15%到20%。 |
| 243 | That's a huge | 真是个大人物 |
| 244 | increase, right? | 增加,对不对? |
| 245 | Now, before it used to be, okay, well, you know, just tip your server | 现在,在它以前, 好吧,嗯,你知道, 只是小费你的服务器 |
| 246 | at a restaurant. | 在一家餐厅。 |
| 247 | You know, maybe if you go to a hotel, you give the guy a tip there, right? | 你知道,也许如果你去酒店, 你给那家伙一个提示在那里,对不对? |
| 248 | Now I'm finding that in the States, every single transaction is asking for a tip in a sense. | 现在,我发现在美国, 每一个交易 都要求得到某种意义上的提示。 |
| 249 | As an example, if I'm getting a coffee, right, for my barista, if I'm going to a counter service, | 举个例子,如果我要喝咖啡,对,给我的女律师, 如果我要去一个柜台服务, |
| 250 | if I'm going to a food truck, if any kind of service, basically, which is fine. | 如果我要去餐车,如果任何服务, 基本上,这很好。 |
| 251 | Again, | 再说一遍 |
| 252 | I support tipping. | 我支持小费。 |
| 253 | I like it, right? | 我喜欢,对吧? |
| 254 | I like that if someone can make a living for their hard work | 我喜欢这样 如果有人能靠辛勤工作维生 |
| 255 | and you appreciate what they do, that's great. | 你欣赏他们所做的, 这是伟大的。 |
| 256 | The problem, though, is I see sometimes the way | 问题是,我有时会看到路 |
| 257 | it's presented, as an example, when I'm going to get a coffee, right, I go to Starbucks there, | 举个例子,当我要喝咖啡时,我去星巴克那儿 |
| 258 | I go to the counter, I kind of got iced Americano. | 我去柜台, 我有点冰美国。 |
| 259 | Yeah, here you go. | 对,给你 |
| 260 | Okay, what's your name? | 好吧,你叫什么名字来着? |
| 261 | Great. | 不错 |
| 262 | That'll be three dollars. | 即为三元. |
| 263 | Okay, perfect. | 好吧,完美无缺。 |
| 264 | I go to pay my credit card and then right there it says, | 我去支付我的信用卡 然后就在那里说, |
| 265 | would you like to tip? | 你想给小费吗? |
| 266 | And then immediately, you know, 15 percent, 20 percent, blah, blah, blah. | 然后立即,你知道,15%,20%,等等。 |
| 267 | I have three options right there in my face. | 我脸上有三个选择 |
| 268 | And it's always like this like awkward thing of like, | 它总是像这样 像尴尬的事情一样, |
| 269 | well, I kind of, no, not really. | 嗯,我有点,没有,不是真的。 |
| 270 | I mean, yes, this person deserves a tip, but this seems like kind of | 我的意思是,是的,这个人值得一个小费, 但是这似乎是一种 |
| 271 | like a very fast transaction here, right? | 像一个非常快的交易在这里,对不对? |
| 272 | And so it becomes like this guilty thing of like, | 所以它变得像这种有罪的东西一样, |
| 273 | okay, I guess I will, as opposed to, wow, this person really wowed me, really gave me great | 好吧,我想我会, 相对于,哇, 这个人真的哇我, 真的给了我伟大的 |
| 274 | service. | 服务。 |
| 275 | I want to give them a tip. | 我想给他们点小费 |
| 276 | You see what I'm saying here? | 你明白我的意思吗? |
| 277 | The psychological aspect of it | 其心理方面 |
| 278 | has changed in a sense for me, in a sense where it used to be, wow, this person deserves it. | 从某种意义上来说,我变了, 从某种意义上来说,它曾经是,哇,这个人值得的。 |
| 279 | Let | 让 |
| 280 | me tip them, right? | 我告诉他们,对不对? |
| 281 | Let me give them a great tip. | 让我给他们一个很好的提示。 |
| 282 | Now it's become more like, are you going to tip? | 现在它变得更像, 你会给小费吗? |
| 283 | You should tip. | 你应该小费。 |
| 284 | You better tip, in a sense. | 从某种意义上来说,你最好小费 |
| 285 | Now, I'm not saying that people do that all the time, | 我不是说人们总是这么做 |
| 286 | or, you know, servers really kind of push out of my face. | 或者,你知道,服务器 真的有点推出我的脸。 |
| 287 | I'm just saying that most of the transactions | 我只是说大多数交易 |
| 288 | I see, especially at like countertop businesses, things like that, really push in your face. | 我看得出来,尤其是像反顶级企业, 类似的东西,真的推到你脸上。 |
| 289 | There are also a lot of places, too, where they will say things like, put up signs like, | 也有很多地方, 在那里,他们会说的东西, 设置标志, |
| 290 | tip your server. | 提示您的服务器。 |
| 291 | Tip your server. | 提示你的服务器。 |
| 292 | That helps them make a living wage. | 这有助于他们挣钱 |
| 293 | And the argument has always | 而争论总是 |
| 294 | been, well, why am I paying your server? | 我为什么要付你的服务费? |
| 295 | Why don't you, the boss, the restaurant, the company, | 你为什么不,老板,餐厅,公司, |
| 296 | the business, why don't you pay your staff a living wage, where they do not have to rely so much | 企业,为什么不给你的员工 维持生计的工资, 他们不需要依赖这么多 |
| 297 | on the generosity of the customer, the tipping? | 顾客的慷慨,小费? |
| 298 | So I think tipping culture, there's good and | 所以,我认为小费文化, 有好的和 |
| 299 | obviously, of course, I want people to be able to make a living. | 很明显,当然,我希望人们能够维持生计。 |
| 300 | I want people to be able to | 我希望人们能够 |
| 301 | make good money, right? | 赚大钱,对吧? |
| 302 | And of course, be rewarded for their efforts. | 当然,要奖励他们的努力。 |
| 303 | But at the same time, | 但与此同时, |
| 304 | where does it stop for the consumer as well, right? | 对于消费者来说,它在哪里停止,对不对? |
| 305 | I need the same money as well. | 我需要同样的钱。 |
| 306 | I need to think about my expenses. | 我要考虑一下我的开销 |
| 307 | It can't be that if I go to a restaurant, I go to this service, | 不可能,如果我去餐馆, 我去这个服务, |
| 308 | I know that besides the increased cost of everything, well, I also need to consider | 我知道除了增加一切成本之外 我还需要考虑 |
| 309 | the tip as well. | 还有小费 |
| 310 | That's a lot of additional money, right? | 这是很多额外的钱,对不对? |
| 311 | You're talking a lot of times, | 你说话很多时候, |
| 312 | you know, 20 to $50 and then up, right? | 你知道,20到50美元 然后上升,对不对? |
| 313 | If that's the case, then well, I might as well just eat at | 如果是这样,那么好吧,我还是吃吧 |
| 314 | home. | 回家去 回家来 |
| 315 | I might as well just do things at home instead. | 我不如在家里做点事 |
| 316 | And I think that's changed a lot that | 我觉得这改变了很多 |
| 317 | culture people, especially since COVID as well, right? | 特别是从COVID时代开始,对吧? |
| 318 | So it's a lot, the tipping culture thing. | 所以这是很多, 小费文化的事情。 |
| 319 | And it's always something I consider when I go back to the USA where I'm like, whoa, | 当我回到美国时,我总是会想到一些事,我很喜欢,哇, |
| 320 | all my expenses just tripled, doubled basically, right? | 我所有的开销都翻了三倍 基本上翻了一番 对吧 |
| 321 | Now, the next thing I experienced a lot is | 现在,接下来我经历了很多事情 |
| 322 | safety. | 保证安全 |
| 323 | So this is also a controversial one as well, because remember, we're talking about | 这也是个有争议的问题 因为记住 我们在谈论 |
| 324 | the pros and cons, right? | 利弊,对不对? |
| 325 | So yes, you see the videos, you see a lot of things. | 所以,你看到了视频,看到了很多东西。 |
| 326 | Yes, | 对 |
| 327 | China is a very, very, very safe place. | 中国是一个非常,非常,非常安全的地方. |
| 328 | Now, granted, let's be honest here, okay? | 现在,同意,让我们在这里诚实,好吗? |
| 329 | To say there | 说到那里 |
| 330 | is zero crime is absolutely not true. | 绝对不是犯罪 |
| 331 | Every place has crime, okay? | 每个地方都有犯罪,好吗? |
| 332 | Every place has bad things happen. | 每个地方都有坏事发生. |
| 333 | But I will say for me, at least living in tier one cities, I cannot comment on tier two, tier three, | 但我会说,至少 生活在一级城市, 我不能评论二级,三级, |
| 334 | tier four, tier five villages. | 四级,五级村. |
| 335 | Yes, there are a lot of villages and a lot of rural areas in China | 是的,中国有很多村庄和农村地区 |
| 336 | as well. | 临Τ |
| 337 | I don't know anything about that. | 我对此一无所知 |
| 338 | I'm just talking about my experience living in tier | 我只是在说,我的经验 生活在层次 |
| 339 | one cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen. | 一个城市,如上海和深圳 |
| 340 | Petty crime is at an all-time low. | 轻罪创历史新低. |
| 341 | In fact, I couldn't | 事实上,我不能 |
| 342 | tell you the last time you heard something like theft or even like physical altercations. | 告诉你上次你听到的 像是偷窃,甚至是身体上的争吵 |
| 343 | Yes, | 对 |
| 344 | fights happen, they do, but not like they used to. | 战斗是经常发生的 但不像以前那样 |
| 345 | And why? | 为什么? |
| 346 | That's because CCTV. | 那是因为闭路电视 |
| 347 | That's because | 那是因为 |
| 348 | there are cameras everywhere. | 到处都是摄像头 |
| 349 | And for someone to commit a crime like stealing something | 和某人犯罪 像偷东西 |
| 350 | or even assaulting someone, it is literally so easy to track you down. | 或甚至攻击某人, 它实际上是如此容易 追踪你。 |
| 351 | It would be a foolish endeavor. | 这将是一个愚蠢的努力。 |
| 352 | The chance that you will be caught doing a crime like that | 你这样犯罪的机会 |
| 353 | is pretty high and easily solvable and easily punishable. | 相当高 容易溶解 容易受罚 |
| 354 | Now, when I go back to the States, | 现在,当我回到美国, |
| 355 | there are very much times where I feel danger. | 很多时候我感到危险 |
| 356 | I'm not sure what could happen. | 我不知道会发生什么 |
| 357 | Yeah, it's true. | 是的,这是真的。 |
| 358 | There is a lot of crime in the USA, right? | 美国有很多犯罪 对吧? |
| 359 | And that's due to a number of reasons, right? | 原因很多 对吧? |
| 360 | Due to, for example, one, not being that level of surveillance like there is in China. | 例如,由于中国国内的监控水平不同。 |
| 361 | Number two, the accessibility of weapons, drugs, et cetera, et cetera, and crime and gangs and | 第二,获取武器、毒品等,以及犯罪、帮派和 |
| 362 | like that. | 像这样 |
| 363 | But here's the thing as well. | 但问题也在这里。 |
| 364 | I think because I've lived here for so long, I'm like, | 我想是因为我在这里住了这么久,我... |
| 365 | I'm cool with that. | 我无所谓 |
| 366 | Fine. | 还好 |
| 367 | Whatever. | 随便吧 |
| 368 | Right. | 对 |
| 369 | Whereas if I live in the States, if I always live there, | 如果我住在美国 如果我一直住在那里 |
| 370 | I would be kind of on the same thought process and kind of mindset with a lot of people saying, | 很多人说, |
| 371 | I don't want to be constantly monitored 24 seven. | 我不想经常被监视247 |
| 372 | I don't want to be constantly watched | 我不想被不断监视 |
| 373 | every single day by some force out there. | 每天都有强力出击 |
| 374 | Right. | 对 |
| 375 | Again, it's, you know, pros and cons, right? | 再说一遍,是利弊,对吧? |
| 376 | In a sense that the pro is that essentially living here, I know that I can walk. | 从某种意义上说,职业是 基本上住在这里,我知道我可以走。 |
| 377 | I could be black | 我可以变成黑人 |
| 378 | out drunk three o'clock in the morning, walk from the club, walk back to my place, get home, | 凌晨三点喝醉 从俱乐部走回我家 回家 |
| 379 | and I'm not going to get robbed. | 我不会被抢劫的 |
| 380 | I'm not going to get assaulted. | 我不会被攻击的 |
| 381 | Right. | 对 |
| 382 | Ninety nine percent, | 百分之九十九,我们... |
| 383 | ninety nine point nine percent. | 百分之九十九点九 |
| 384 | It's not going to happen. | 终不生灭. |
| 385 | Hopefully, knock on wood, | 希望,敲打木头, |
| 386 | please don't come from you. | 请不要来自你。 |
| 387 | OK, guys and girls, maybe girls do. | 好吧,伙计们,女孩,也许女孩。 |
| 388 | Right. | 对 |
| 389 | But I can tell you that if you were to ask me to do that in L.A., downtown L.A., | 但我可以告诉你 如果你让我在洛杉矶市中心这么做 |
| 390 | I would not be too sure. | 我不会太确定。 |
| 391 | I would be weary of doing something like that. | 我会厌倦做这样的事。 |
| 392 | OK. And I'm a dude too. | 摆 我也是个男人 |
| 393 | You | 你们 |
| 394 | know, unfortunately, I just can't say that I feel safer in the States. | 很遗憾,我不能说我在美国感觉更安全 |
| 395 | But again, it's also about | 再说一遍,也是关于 |
| 396 | what are you willing to give up? | 你愿意放弃什么? |
| 397 | Right. | 对 |
| 398 | It's a controversial subject. | 这是一个有争议的主题. |
| 399 | It's a subject for another | 这是另一个主题 |
| 400 | day. | 日报. |
| 401 | All right. | 好吧,我们走。 |
| 402 | Now, the question is, on top of all that, again, I'm talking from my personal | 现在,问题是,最重要的是, 我再说一遍,我的个人话 |
| 403 | experience. | 经验 |
| 404 | I'm also talking about where I am in life right now. | 我也在谈论我现在的生活 |
| 405 | You also have to consider for me | 你也要为我考虑 |
| 406 | my lifestyle and the way I work, the way I make my living is not very like common. | 我的生活方式和工作方式, 我的生活方式 并不是很普通。 |
| 407 | I'm a content | 我是一个满足 |
| 408 | creator. | 创造者。 |
| 409 | I'm essentially a digital nomad in the sense where I can make money doing my job | 我基本上是一个数字游牧人 意思是,我可以赚钱做我的工作 |
| 410 | anywhere I want in the world. | 我想在世界上的任何地点 |
| 411 | Right. | 对 |
| 412 | But I have chosen China as my home. | 但我选择中国为家 |
| 413 | My family is here. | 我的家人来了 |
| 414 | And | 还有 |
| 415 | that's where my career and everything's blossoming right here. | 我的事业和一切都在这里开花 |
| 416 | But all those things I just mentioned | 但我刚才提到的那些事 |
| 417 | right now, a slower pace of lifestyle, right? | 现在,生活方式慢一点,对吗? |
| 418 | Just kind of the things being more spread out, | 只是那种事情 更加分散, |
| 419 | you know, things kind of being inconvenient. | 事情有点不方便 |
| 420 | These things right now, no, not for me, | 这些东西现在,不,不对我来说, |
| 421 | because I'm very much in hustle mode right now. | 因为我现在很在行 |
| 422 | But late 40s, if I have kids, my kids are getting | 但40年代末,如果我有孩子,我的孩子会得到 |
| 423 | older. | 年长。 |
| 424 | These are things I consider. | 这些都是我的想法。 |
| 425 | You know, living in China, the education system is not | 你知道,生活在中国, 教育制度不是 |
| 426 | easy. | 轻点 |
| 427 | It's very stressful. | 压力很大 |
| 428 | That's also a big comparison I see as well. | 这也是我所看到的比较 |
| 429 | As a guy with no kids | 作为一个没有孩子的男人 |
| 430 | right now, sure, whatever, who cares, right? | 现在,当然,随便,谁在乎,对不对? |
| 431 | But the things I see Chinese kids go through, | 但我看到中国孩子经历的事情 |
| 432 | waking up the crack of dawn, studying all day, get out of school, more studying, more of these | 醒来 黎明的裂缝, 学习一整天, 离开学校,更多的学习,更多的这些 |
| 433 | studying activities, and homework all day, all night, testing, examinations that are so stressful | 学习活动,做作业 整天,彻夜,测试,考试 |
| 434 | that unfortunately a lot of kids decide it's not worth it anymore. | 不幸的是,很多孩子决定 它不值得了。 |
| 435 | And those things happen. | 而那些事情发生。 |
| 436 | I'm not going to say what it is. | 我不会说它是什么。 |
| 437 | You know what I'm talking about. | 尔时世尊闻已. |
| 438 | That's something I consider. | 这是我的想法。 |
| 439 | Do I | 我确实 |
| 440 | want that for my children? | 是为了我的孩子吗? |
| 441 | Whereas when I see and think about my experience growing up in the USA, | 当我看到和思考 我的经验在美国长大, |
| 442 | the US education system there, right? | 美国的教育系统,对不对? |
| 443 | When I see kids today in the USA, of course, right, you could | 当我今天在美国看到孩子, 当然,对,你可以 |
| 444 | say, well, the testing scores are not that great. | 说,好吧,测试成绩不是那么好。 |
| 445 | But I see kids there and they do sports, the | 但我看到孩子们在那里 他们做运动, |
| 446 | education system, they're allowed to express themselves in a lot more different ways. | 教育系统,允许他们以更不同的方式表达自己. |
| 447 | Not every classroom is as packed as they are. | 并不是每个教室都像他们一样拥挤 |
| 448 | Of course, yes, there are a lot of differences | 当然,是的,有很多不同 |
| 449 | in schools and classes. | 学校和班级。 |
| 450 | All schools and classes are different. | 所有学校和班级都是不同的. |
| 451 | Yes, I understand that, right? | 是的,我明白了,对不对? |
| 452 | But at least from my experience, right, it was usually a class of like 15 to 20 people. | 但至少从我的经验来看, 没错,它通常有15到20人。 |
| 453 | And this | 还有这个 |
| 454 | again was a long time ago. | 还是很久以前的事了 |
| 455 | Now I'm not sure. | 现在我不确定了 |
| 456 | I apologize about that. | 我为此道歉。 |
| 457 | Just my experience. | 只是我的经验 |
| 458 | Whereas for me, in the past, when I did teach at Chinese schools here, because I am an English | 而对我来说,过去,当我在华人学校教书, 因为我是英语 |
| 459 | teacher, you have classes like 40 kids a lot of times, right? | 老师,你经常上课 像40个孩子,对不对? |
| 460 | And very, very rigid, very, | 非常,非常僵硬,非常,非常, |
| 461 | very, very stressful, right? | 非常,非常紧张,对不对? |
| 462 | I have a lot of Chinese friends and a lot of them, they say, | 我有很多中国朋友 他们都说 |
| 463 | why do you want to put your kids through the Chinese schooling system? | 为什么你想让孩子 进入中国的学校? |
| 464 | It's very stressful. | 压力很大 |
| 465 | Again, good and bad, right? | 再来一次,好坏的,对不对? |
| 466 | But I do feel that going to school in the USA, there's a lot more | 但我确实觉得在美国上学 还有很多 |
| 467 | lenience. | 莱妮丝 |
| 468 | You know, you can do other things. | 你知道,你可以做别的事情。 |
| 469 | You don't have to be that perfect academic student. | 你不必是那个完美的学术学生 |
| 470 | Not everything is study, study, study, study. | 不是所有的东西都是学习,学习,学习,学习. |
| 471 | And if you don't study well, it's over. | 如果你不好好学习 就结束了 |
| 472 | Again, | 再说一遍 |
| 473 | different situations. | 不同情况 |
| 474 | There are some senses where they are, right? | 这里有些感觉,对吧? |
| 475 | But as an example, | 但是作为一个例子, |
| 476 | I have a little brother. | 我有个弟弟 |
| 477 | He does school. | 他上学。 |
| 478 | He does sports. | 他做运动。 |
| 479 | And he's flourishing in baseball right now. | 他现在在棒球界蓬勃发展 |
| 480 | He could do both. | 他可以做到两个。 |
| 481 | It's not only study, study, study, feed you with testing, testing, testing, | 不只是研究 研究 研究 提供测试 |
| 482 | every single second, every single day. | 每一秒钟,每一天。 |
| 483 | Again, that's just me from my outside point of view. | 再说一遍,从我的外表来看,这只是我。 |
| 484 | But my Chinese friends do tell me a lot, yeah, if you have the chance, | 但是,我的中国朋友确实告诉我了很多,是的,如果你有机会的话, |
| 485 | have your kids go to school in the USA. | 让你的孩子在美国上学 |
| 486 | It's just less stressful. | 它只是不那么紧张。 |
| 487 | Kids can be kids. | 小孩可以当小孩 |
| 488 | Kids can just relax a bit more. | 孩子们可以放松一点 |
| 489 | But you, as a viewer, you can tell me, wherever you are, | 但你,作为一个观众, 你可以告诉我,无论你在哪里, |
| 490 | what your country's education is like, if there's a difference, right? | 你的国家的教育是怎样的, 如果有区别,对不对? |
| 491 | Going back to what I was saying, and I apologize. | 回到我刚才说的话,我道歉。 |
| 492 | I ramble a lot. | 我经常乱扯 |
| 493 | I apologize about that. | 我为此道歉。 |
| 494 | Would I ever go back to the USA? | 我还会回美国吗? |
| 495 | Not now. | 现在不行。 |
| 496 | But I think eventually, yes. | 但我认为最终,是的。 |
| 497 | As I was saying, things change. | 正如我所说 事情会变的 |
| 498 | As I'm getting older as well, I used to be a big party animal. | 随着年龄的增长,我曾经是大型的聚会动物. |
| 499 | I used to love to be a social butterfly. | 我以前喜欢当社交蝴蝶 |
| 500 | I used to go out and network with people. | 我以前经常和人联络 |
| 501 | Now I'm very much like, kind of like, just doing my own thing. | 现在我非常喜欢, 那种喜欢, 只是做我自己的事情。 |
| 502 | Just solo now. | 现在就独唱吧 |
| 503 | I see my friends. | 我看到我的朋友们了 |
| 504 | But the truth is, I moved away from them. | 但事实是 我远离了他们 |
| 505 | All my friends are in Shanghai, | 我所有的朋友们都在上海 |
| 506 | a different province of China, about a two-hour plane ride from where I am. | 大约从我所在的地方乘两小时的飞机 |
| 507 | I'm in Shenzhen right | 我在深圳右转 |
| 508 | now. | 现在 |
| 509 | And in the USA. | 和在美国。 |
| 510 | And I see my friends once a quarter. | 我每25年见我的朋友一次 |
| 511 | We talk every day, but it's not like in | 我们每天都在聊天,但不是那样的 |
| 512 | the past where every weekend I had to go out. | 过去的每个周末我都要出去 |
| 513 | So this slower pace of life, this more nature, | 生命的这一步更慢 更自然 |
| 514 | that's a big thing as well. | 这也是一件大事。 |
| 515 | A lot more natural nature in the States, whereas a lot of nature | 在美国自然性要强得多,而自然性却多得多 |
| 516 | in China, a lot of it is okay, but there's also a lot that's kind of like man-made in a sense, | 在中国,很多是好的, 但也有很多类似人造的, |
| 517 | because you have to. | 因为你必须这样做。 |
| 518 | It's a concrete jungle in a lot of places. | 多处是混凝土丛林. |
| 519 | This quieter, slower pace of life, | 更安静 更慢的人生速度 |
| 520 | I feel eventually I will gravitate towards it. | 我觉得我最终会向它倾斜 |
| 521 | But just not now. | 但现在不行 |
| 522 | So for you, everyone, | 所以,对于你,每个人, |
| 523 | ladies and gentlemen, you can tell me, what do you think about what I said today? | 女士们,先生们,你可以告诉我, 你觉得我今天说的话怎么样? |
| 524 | How do you feel about your life where you live in your country? | 你对生活的感觉如何? |
| 525 | Maybe it's not necessarily China. | 也许它不一定是中国。 |
| 526 | Maybe you live in the USA right now. | 也许你现在住在美国 |
| 527 | Maybe you live somewhere else. | 也许你住在别的地方 |
| 528 | But you can tell me | 但你可以告诉我 |
| 529 | about the things I said today. | 关于我今天说的话 |
| 530 | How do you feel about your quality of life? | 你对自己的生活质量有什么感觉? |
| 531 | How do you feel about | 你觉得怎么样 |
| 532 | the pacing? | 节奏? |
| 533 | How do you feel about people everywhere, your social circles, your communities? | 你对各地的人,你的社交圈子,你的社区有什么感觉? |
| 534 | How do you feel about all these things? | 你对这些事情有什么感觉? |
| 535 | Please let me know in the comments, everybody. | 请大家在评论中告诉我 |
| 536 | Again, I want to say for everyone, thank you for your support. | 再次,我想代表大家感谢你们的支持。 |
| 537 | The podcast is growing, growing, | 播客在成长 成长 |
| 538 | growing so fast right now. | 长得真快 |
| 539 | And the most important thing you can do is please subscribe. | 最重要的是请您订阅 |
| 540 | And whenever | 无论何时 |
| 541 | you watch this, please leave a comment. | 你看,请留下一个评论。 |
| 542 | That helps me tremendously. | 这对我有很大帮助。 |
| 543 | So again, everyone, | 再说一遍,各位 |
| 544 | don't get mad at me. | 别生我的气 |
| 545 | These are just my thoughts, my opinions. | 这些只是我的想法,我的看法。 |
| 546 | Please let me know what you thought | 请告诉我你的想法 |
| 547 | about today's episode. | 关于今天的剧集。 |
| 548 | Okay. | 摆 |
| 549 | Thanks, everyone. | 谢谢各位 |
| 550 | I'll see you next time. | 下次见 |
| 551 | Bye bye. | 再见 |
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