"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

翻译人员: Ziyun Liao 校对人员: 소연 이

There are some chasms so deep and so wide,

有一些鸿沟是那么深、那么宽。

we find it hard to imagine how we'll ever make it to the other side.

我们发现， 很难想象如何才能到达彼岸。

That space between who we are and who we want to be,

即“我们本身是谁”， 以及“我们想成为谁”之间的空间；

the gaps between our high ideals

我们崇高的理想，

and our base realities.

和既有现实之间的缺口；

The distance between what we say

我们所说的话，

and what we really mean.

及其真实含义的差距；

The raging river that flows between what actually happened

还有事实和回忆

and our convenient memories.

之间汹涌流淌的河流。

The lies we tell ourselves are lakes,

我们所说的谎言是湖泊，

overflowing their banks,

湖水决堤，

flooding our speech with waters, caustic and rank.

恶臭的谎言之水 淹没、腐蚀了我们言辞。

The only bridge is the truth,

而唯一到达彼岸的桥梁便是真相，

passing through me and you, as we look one another eye to eye.

当我们四目相交时， 真相就会在你我之间传递。

But so often, that look is filled with our hesitations,

但大多数时候， 我们的眼神充满了迟疑，

and we can't help but glance to the side.

所以我们不禁侧目回避。

See, we've long ago let go of the language

瞧，很久以前， 我们就已经放弃使用语言

with which we describe our softer parts.

来表达我们柔弱的一面。

We learn early that those with softer hearts suffer.

我们早就知道， 那些相对柔弱的人是要受苦的，

So we allow lean emotion to reign,

所以我们就让淡漠的感情 支配了我们，

never noticing that only strain has been the fruit of our restraints.

从来没有注意到，我们的焦虑感 是源于我们对情感的克制。

We haven't escaped pain.

我们仍没有摆脱痛苦，

And our battle scars are far from faint.

战场上留下来的伤疤还很清晰。

Yet and still, despite our desire and willingness to heal,

然而，虽然我们渴望， 也愿意尽早痊愈，

we often find ourselves fighting hard in the paint,

但往往发现， 我们不断的努力奋斗，

holding onto false images of everything we ain't.

坚持的却只是的虚假的幻象， 觉得自己什么都不是。

So while our dream coincide, our fears collide.

所以，当我们的梦想相交， 我们的恐惧就碰撞了。

And we want to know one another, but think we can't.

我们虽然想要了解彼此， 却不相信自己能办到。

The gulf between empathy and equity

同理心和公平之间的深渊，

is as unfathomable as the fissures that line our collective integrity.

就像横亘在我们的 集体诚信间的裂缝般深不可测。

And we spend eternal eternities

我们穷尽一生，

trying to translate that into virtue.

都想将那转化成为美德。

Perhaps you have met one or two of the virtuous on your path.

也许你曾在前进的道路上， 遇到过一二有德之士，

They are only very few,

但他们也只是少数罢了。

and I know that I have, from time to time,

我也知道，时不时，

mistaken pretenders for real,

我会错把一些虚情假意当真，

yet still make room for the possibility that it's I who's been pretending.

但说不定，其实一直在假装和善的人 是我才对。

Please, bear with me, I'm still mending,

请诸位，与我一起忍耐吧， 我的伤口正在愈合，

but I'm no longer bending to the will of my injuries,

但是，我再也不会对我的伤口， 或伤害过我的人

nor my injurers.

卑躬屈膝。

I much prefer to stretch my arms like Nüt until I become the sky.

我愿像Nüt一样张开我的双臂， 直到我成为了广阔的天。

I'd rather stretch my tongue with truth,

我愿用真相，延伸我的舌头，

our bridge to cross when we look one another in the eye.

成为我们四目相交时 你我沟通的桥梁。

But the tongue, like the heart, gets tired.

但是舌头，就像心一样， 会疲惫。

The weak make it hard for the strong to stay inspired,

弱者会阻碍强者保持积极的心态，

like the lost prevent the found from escaping the mire,

就像损伤惨重的人 不想让失而复得的人逃离痛苦的沼泽，

and the degraded stop the enlightened from taking us higher.

堕落之人不想让智慧之人 带领我们走向高处。

But no matter what you hear from the mouths of these liars,

但无论你从这些骗子的 嘴里听到什么，

we are one people

我们都属于同一个民族，

with one destiny and the common enemy,

有着同样的命运， 和共同的敌人。

that's why it really stresses me to see our hearts so tattered,

这就是为什么我如此忧虑， 每当看到我们的心伤痕累累，

our minds so scattered,

我们的心思如此涣散，

our egos so easily flattered.

我们自尊这么容易被奉承满足。

We're enslaved, yet think of our shackles as gifts.

沦为囚徒， 却把镣铐视为主人的馈赠，

Rather than resist our masters, we let them widen our rifts,

不去反抗权势， 还让他们进一步分裂我们，

like mindless, material junkies,

就像愚蠢、势利的瘾君子，

we seek that which lowers, not lifts.

一心寻求堕落，而非上升进步。

But somewhere in our midst,

但所幸，在我们之中，

there's been a paradigm shift.

巨大的变化悄然降临。

Justice is getting restless in its chains.

正义在枷锁中躁动不安，

Our youth find it useless to separate their souls from their brains,

青年一辈积极统一起灵魂和思想，

their truth is ingrained, their integrity insustained.

他们的真理根深蒂固， 他们的正值不容挑战。

Let me call your attention to those who serve as examples.

请大家把目光转到那些榜样身上。

Those who daily give their all,

那些每天付出一切的人，

but their reserves are still ample.

但他们的储备依然充足。

Those who battle friend and foe,

那些敢于质疑朋友和 挑战敌人的人，

yet their hope is never trampled,

但他们的希望从未被践踏。

they make music, never sample,

他们创作音乐，从不糊弄抄袭，

and the world's ugly could never cancel

世间的丑陋永远无法侵蚀

the fullness and the sweetness of their composition.

他们音乐里的饱满和甜美，

Nor the unadulterated truth of their mission.

或为完成使命所持有的纯粹真理。

It's time we shut our mouths and listen.

是时候闭上我们的嘴， 用心聆听了。

Close our eyes and pray

让我们闭上双眼一起祈祷，

为了谦逊，为了指引，

for the humility and the guidance

to follow them to the way.

让我们追随他们走下去吧。

Thank you.

谢谢大家。

(Applause)

（掌声）

(Cheers)

（欢呼）

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

（掌声）

(Cheers)

（欢呼）

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Thank you all so much,

非常感谢。

you have no idea how fulfilling and energizing that is.

你们想象不到，那是多么的 具有成就感，多么的激励人心。

For the past three years,

在过去三年里，

I've had the privilege of codesigning with my neighbors

我很荣幸能够我和的邻居们

a space in New Orleans known as Under the Bridge.

在新奥尔良共同设计一个社区空间， 这个社区被誉为“桥底之下”。

In 1966, Interstate 10 landed on the Tremé neighborhood,

1966年，10号州际公里， 建成于 Tremé 社区，

displacing 326 black-owned businesses,

取代了326家黑人创办的企业，

over 300 live oak trees,

逾300棵橡树，

effectively destroying the region's most successful black commercial district,

“有效”的摧毁了当地最成功的 黑人商业区，

disrupting intergenerational wealth

侵害了几代人积累的财富，

and truly unraveling the fabric

切切实实的瓦解了

全国最古老的非裔美国人社区。

of the nation's oldest African American neighborhood.

Today, after 45 years of community advocacy,

如今，在经历了45年， 坚持不懈的社区倡议后，

after 500 hours of community engagement

在经历了500个小时 的社区互动后，

and 80 hours of community design,

以及80个小时的社区设计后，

we are so excited that in 2018,

我们真的很兴奋，因为在2018年，

after capturing the voices of thousands of residents

在聆听了成千上万个居民的声音，

and the support of our local, federal and philanthropic partners,

和得到了我们当地联邦 慈善合作伙伴的支持后，

as the city celebrates 300 years of transforming the world,

由于要庆祝地球改革300年，

we will get to transform 19 blocks under the Interstate into community space,

我们将有机会改变把州际公路下的 19个街区转变成社区空间，

into black-owned businesses,

变成黑人持有的商铺，

in the form of the Claiborne Corridor Cultural Innovation District.

以克莱本走廊文化创新区的形式。

(Cheers)

（欢呼）

(Applause)

（掌声）

We will be bridging time, we will bridge memory,

我们将能够弥合缺失的时光， 我们将能够弥合过去现在的回忆，

we will bridge disparity and injustice,

我们将能消除贫困和不公。

and we can't wait to see you all on the other side.

我已经迫不及待想看到大家 站在幸福的彼岸。

Thank you.

谢谢大家。

(Applause)

（掌声）