Let's make history…by recording it - StoryCorps & TED Prize

翻译人员: Cissy Yun 校对人员: Mingyu Cui

StoryCorps Founder & TED Prize winner Davey Isay has created an app that aims

StoryCorps创始人兼TED大奖获奖者Dave Isay创建了一款手机应用程序。 这个程序致力于把人们聚集在一个关于倾听，联系与慷慨的一个项目中。原因如下：

to bring people together in a project of listening, connection, and generosity.

Here's why...

This is the library of lost stories.

这是一个储存着被遗忘的故事的图书馆。

It's where you'll find the true origins of the Sphinx and Stonehenge,

这里你能找到狮身人面像和巨石阵的真正起源，

the text lost in the fire of Alexandria,

在亚历山大图书馆的那次火灾中所遗失的书籍，

all of the great ideas that Einstein never thought to write down,

爱因斯坦从未写出的那些伟大的想法，

the dream you can't quite remember from last night,

你无法想起来的昨晚的梦，

your ancestor's first words,

你的祖先的第一句话、

her last words.

她的最后一句话。

And it's the fastest growing library in the world.

这还是世界上发展最快的图书馆，

In the next year,

明年，将有再也不会被听到的25种语言，

25 languages will be added to the collection,

never to be heard aloud again,

被录入并收藏。

50 million points of view never related,

五千万种从未交集过的想法，

the last eyewitness account of an incredible act of athleticism,

最后一个对一场精彩的运动比赛的见证，

disobedience,

反抗，

courage,

勇气；

unread,

未曾被读到的，

unheard,

未曾被听到的，

unwatched.

未曾被看到的。

But this is the StoryCorps archive at the Library of Congress

但是这些都存于国会图书馆中StoryCorps的档案。

where everything recorded by StoryCorps is preserved for posterity.

这些是 StoryCorps为人类后代保存下来的东西。

This is where,

如果你在这里

if you record your parents,

记录下你的父母、

your grandparents,

你的祖父母、

your neighbors,

你的邻居、

your children,

你的小孩的故事，

their stories will live on.

它们将在这里长存。

What if Anne Frank hadn't kept her diary?

如果安妮·弗兰克没有写日记呢？

What if no one could listen to Martin Luther King's Mountaintop speech?

如果没有人听到了马丁·路德·金的《我已达至峰顶》呢？

What if the camera hadn't been rolling during the first moon landing?

如果在第一次登月时相机并未开启呢？

But what if, this Thanksgiving,

但是，如果这个感恩节，

the youngest member of every family interviewed the oldest?

每个家中年纪最小的成员采访了最年长的长辈呢？

"It's like the only thing on his mind was to tell the kids that he loved them."

“他脑中想的唯一的事的就是告诉孩子们，他爱他们。

Or if on February 14th, you asked a person you love some questions

又或者，在情人节那天，你问你爱的人

you've never thought to ask.

一些你从未想过要问的问题。

"Being married is like having a color television set,

“结婚了就像是拥有了一台彩色电视机——

you never want to go back to black and white."

你绝对不会想回到只能看黑白屏的时候。"

History is all of these things,

这些就是历史。

the testament to tragedy,

悲剧的证明、

the progress of civilization,

文明的进步、

the heroic triumphs,

英雄的凯旋、

and the moments and stories that are our lives.

还有由点滴和故事组成的我们的生活。

It's also the act of actively listening to the voices of the past

当然还有聆听来自岁月的声音，

and the people who matter to us.

聆听那些对我们来说重要的人。

"Grand Central Station, now,

“中央火车站！”

we know there's an architect, but who hung the iron?

“我们现在知道这是一个伟大的建筑 但是是谁支起了铁架？”

Who were the brick masons?

“谁垒砌了砖瓦？”

Who swept the floor?

“谁清扫了地板？”

Who kept the trains going?

“谁开着火车？”

We shall begin celebrating the lives of the uncelebrated."

“我们应该开始铭记那些未被重视的生命。”

So you can make history by recording it.

从记录开始，你也可以创造历史。