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

譯者: Wilson Li 審譯者: Max Chern

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

故事公司創辦人，同時也是TED大獎 獲獎人大衛．伊賽設計一個應用程式

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

目的是以一個計劃藉著傾聽、 聯繫及寛容，將人們凝聚在一起

Here's why...

這就是為什麼…

This is the library of lost stories.

這間是收藏許多被遺忘故事的「圖書館」

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

在這裡你將能找到 人面獅身像、巨石陣的真正源起

the text lost in the fire of Alexandria,

在亞歷山大圖書館 大火中所失去的文稿

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

所有愛因斯坦從沒想到 要寫下的偉大想法

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

你無法完全記得的昨夜夢境

your ancestor's first words,

你的祖先最早學會的幾句話

her last words.

以及最後的遺言

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

它是全世界成長最迅速的「圖書館」

In the next year,

在未來一年

25 languages will be added to the collection,

會有 25 個語言將被加入珍藏

never to be heard aloud again,

而它們再也不會被聽見了

50 million points of view never related,

五千萬種從未被敘述的觀點

the last eyewitness account of an incredible act of athleticism,

最後見證人陳述 那驚人的運動表現、

disobedience,

抗爭行動、

courage,

英勇事蹟，

unread,

不會被讀到了

unheard,

不會被聽到了

unwatched.

不會被看到了。

But this is the StoryCorps archive at the Library of Congress

但是，這間是美國國會圖書館中的 故事公司檔案館

where everything recorded by StoryCorps is preserved for posterity.

在這裡，所有被故事公司 錄下的事物都將被保存給後世

This is where,

在此

if you record your parents,

如果你錄下你父母的聲音

your grandparents,

你的祖父母

your neighbors,

你的鄰居

your children,

你的孩子

their stories will live on.

他們的故事將永存下來

What if Anne Frank hadn't kept her diary?

如果安妮．法蘭克 沒有寫下她的日記，將會怎樣？

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

如果沒有人能聽到 馬丁·路德·金恩的峰頂演說呢？

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

如果第一次登陸月球 攝影機沒有錄下當時景像呢？

But what if, this Thanksgiving,

但如果，今年感恩節

the youngest member of every family interviewed the oldest?

每個家中最年輕的成員 訪問家中最年長者，好嗎？

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

「就好像那時在他心中唯一的事， 就是告訴孩子們 -- 他愛他們。」

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

或是在二月十四日 問一個你所愛的人

you've never thought to ask.

一些你從沒想要問的問題

"Being married is like having a color television set,

「婚姻就如同擁有一台彩色電視，

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

你永遠不會要再回去使用黑白的了。」

History is all of these things,

歷史全都是這些事情

the testament to tragedy,

悲劇的認定

the progress of civilization,

文明的進展

the heroic triumphs,

英勇的壯舉

and the moments and stories that are our lives.

以及我們生活中的瞬間片刻與故事

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

這也是個仔細傾聽過去以及

and the people who matter to us.

對我們而言是重要的人 的聲音之舉動

"Grand Central Station, now,

「大中央火車站，

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

我們都知道有位建築師， 但是誰吊掛鐵架？

Who were the brick masons?

那些人是砌磚的泥水匠？

Who swept the floor?

誰將地板掃乾淨？

Who kept the trains going?

那些人讓火車能行駛？

We shall begin celebrating the lives of the uncelebrated."

我們將開始向這些無名者喝采。」

So you can make history by recording it.

所以，你可以藉著錄音寫下歷史