The clues to a great story | Andrew Stanton | TED

翻译人员: Ricki Xie 校对人员: Yuguo Zhang

A tourist is backpacking

一个背包客徒步

through the highlands of Scotland,

穿过苏格兰高地

and he stops at a pub to get a drink.

他进了一个酒馆准备喝一杯

And the only people in there is a bartender

酒馆里面只有一位侍者

and an old man nursing a beer.

和一个揣着啤酒暗自神伤的老人

And he orders a pint, and they sit in silence for a while.

他要了一品托酒，然后和大家各自安静喝着酒

And suddenly the old man turns to him and goes,

突然，老人朝着他走过来

"You see this bar?

“看见这间酒吧了没有？

I built this bar with my bare hands

我就凭着这双手，用郡里

from the finest wood in the county.

最好的木材建造了它

Gave it more love and care than my own child.

对它的关爱甚至超过了对自己的孩子

But do they call me MacGregor the bar builder? No."

但是他们称我酒吧建筑师麦格雷戈了吗？并没有。”

Points out the window.

又指着窗户说

"You see that stone wall out there?

“你看见那边的石头墙了吗？

I built that stone wall with my bare hands.

我就凭这双手砌了这面墙

Found every stone, placed them just so through the rain and the cold.

亲手挑选每一块石头，不论下雨还是严寒把它们堆砌起来

But do they call me MacGregor the stone wall builder? No."

但是他们称我为石墙建筑师麦格雷戈了吗？也没有。”

Points out the window.

指着另一边的窗口

"You see that pier on the lake out there?

“你看见那边湖上的码头了吗？

I built that pier with my bare hands.

我就凭这双手造了那个码头

Drove the pilings against the tide of the sand, plank by plank.

一块一块载着木桩,划过沙地,风雨无阻

But do they call me MacGregor the pier builder? No.

他们称我码头建筑师麦格雷戈了吗？没有。

But you fuck one goat ... "

但倘若你上了一头山羊…”(即goatfucker,美国俚语,指一个尽管做了很多好事,但由于一件坏事得到了坏名声的人.)

(Laughter)

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Storytelling --

讲故事－

(Laughter)

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is joke telling.

就像讲笑话

It's knowing your punchline,

要明确点睛之笔

your ending,

也就是结局

knowing that everything you're saying, from the first sentence to the last,

要明确，你所说的一切，从第一句到最后一句

is leading to a singular goal,

都引导着一个唯一的目标

and ideally confirming some truth

同时完美证实一些事实

that deepens our understandings

即加深我们对于

of who we are as human beings.

我们为何而存在

We all love stories.

我们都爱故事

We're born for them.

与生俱来

Stories affirm who we are.

故事决定了我们是谁

We all want affirmations that our lives have meaning.

我们都想得到那样的肯定，即我们的生命是有意义的

And nothing does a greater affirmation

当我们通过故事联系到一起的时候

than when we connect through stories.

没什么比这个更好了

It can cross the barriers of time,

它可以跨越时间的障碍

past, present and future,

过去，现在和未来

and allow us to experience

允许我们去体验

the similarities between ourselves

我们自己和其他人，真实与虚幻之间

and through others, real and imagined.

的各种相似点

The children's television host Mr. Rogers

儿童电视节目主持人罗杰斯先生

always carried in his wallet

总是在他的皮夹中放着

a quote from a social worker

一位社会工作者的箴言

that said, "Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love

“坦白的说，任何人都值得去爱，

once you've heard their story."

一旦你听过了他们的故事”

And the way I like to interpret that

就我自己更想表达的方式

is probably the greatest story commandment,

这也许是最有力的讲故事的诫言

which is "Make me care" --

“让我在乎”——

please, emotionally,

从情感上

intellectually, aesthetically,

理性上，美学的角度上

just make me care.

令我牵挂

We all know what it's like to not care.

我们都清楚，什么是毫不在乎

You've gone through hundreds of TV channels,

你看过数以百计的电视节目

just switching channel after channel,

在台与台之间不停切换着

and then suddenly you actually stop on one.

突然你会停在某个台上

It's already halfway over,

它已经播到了一半

but something's caught you and you're drawn in and you care.

即便如此，你被某些东西吸引住了，而且你在乎这东西

That's not by chance,

这并不是偶然的

that's by design.

而是设计好的

So it got me thinking, what if I told you my history was story,

于是，这就让我思考，如果我告诉你我的人生是个故事

how I was born for it,

我是如何为其而生的

how I learned along the way this subject matter?

我是如何沿着这个主题的方式学习的

And to make it more interesting,

然后让它变得更有趣的

we'll start from the ending

我们从结尾讲起

and we'll go to the beginning.

然后回溯到开始

And so if I were going to give you the ending of this story,

如果我把故事的结尾告诉你

it would go something like this:

就会出现这样的情况：

And that's what ultimately led me

“这东西就是基本上启发我

to speaking to you here at TED

今天在TED上给你们讲的

about story.

关于故事的演讲。”

And the most current story lesson that I've had

我最近的一个关于讲故事的课程

was completing the film I've just done

是关于一部我刚在2012年

this year in 2012.

完成的电影

The film is "John Carter." It's based on a book called "The Princess of Mars,"

叫做“异星战场:约翰·卡特传奇”，改编自“火星公主”这本书

which was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

其作者是埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯

And Edgar Rice Burroughs actually put himself

同时埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯自己

as a character inside this movie, and as the narrator.

也参与到了这部电影中，出任旁白

And he's summoned by his rich uncle, John Carter, to his mansion

他收到他富有的叔叔约翰·卡特的电报，要他马上到

with a telegram saying, "See me at once."

他的豪宅里会面，电报写着 “欲见从速”

But once he gets there,

当他到了那里

he's found out that his uncle has mysteriously passed away

却发现他的叔叔却离奇死亡了

and been entombed in a mausoleum on the property.

而且已经被埋葬在墓地里

(Video) Butler: You won't find a keyhole.

（视频）巴特勒：你不可能找到钥匙孔

Thing only opens from the inside.

这东西只能从里面打开

He insisted,

他坚持

no embalming, no open coffin,

没有防腐剂，没有打开的棺材

no funeral.

没有葬礼

You don't acquire the kind of wealth your uncle commanded

我们其他人就是无法理解

by being like the rest of us, huh?

你叔叔有着这般财富的人的想法，是吧

Come, let's go inside.

好了，我们回去吧

AS: What this scene is doing, and it did in the book,

这个场景在做的，也就是书里已经告诉我们的

is it's fundamentally making a promise.

这实际上是在许下一个承诺

It's making a promise to you

向大家作出承诺

that this story will lead somewhere that's worth your time.

这个故事的走向将对得起您的时间

And that's what all good stories should do at the beginning, is they should give you a promise.

同时这是所有好的故事都应该在最开始做的，他们应该给观众们一个承诺

You could do it an infinite amount of ways.

应该用各种方式完成这个承诺

Sometimes it's as simple as "Once upon a time ... "

有的时候，也就是“从前有一个…”这么简单

These Carter books always had Edgar Rice Burroughs as a narrator in it.

这些关于主人公卡特的书总是有作者巴勒斯的旁白

And I always thought it was such a fantastic device.

我一向认为这是一个极其巧妙的技巧

It's like a guy inviting you around the campfire,

这就好像有人邀请你到篝火旁

or somebody in a bar saying, "Here, let me tell you a story.

或者某个酒吧里的人对你说，“来，让我给你讲个故事

It didn't happen to me, it happened to somebody else,

这不是我的亲身经历，但真实的发生在别人的身上

but it's going to be worth your time."

而且绝不浪费你的时间”

A well told promise

一个完美的口述许诺

is like a pebble being pulled back in a slingshot

就好像弹弓的上的鹅卵石弹出的曲线

and propels you forward through the story

不断地激起你的兴趣

to the end.

由始至终

In 2008,

在2008年，

I pushed all the theories that I had on story at the time

我把所有在当时我知道的关于故事的理论和理解

to the limits of my understanding on this project.

发挥到了极限并运用到了这个项目上

(Video) (Mechanical Sounds)

（视频）机械的声音

♫ And that is all ♫

♫ 这就是 ♫

♫ that love's about ♫

♫ 爱情的诠释 ♫

♫ And we'll recall ♫

♫我们将会回忆起 ♫

♫ when time runs out ♫

♫ 在年华逝去时♫

♫ That it only ♫

♫ 这是唯一的 ♫

(Laughter)

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AS: Storytelling without dialogue.

没有对话的叙事

It's the purest form of cinematic storytelling.

是电影中最单纯的讲故事的方式

It's the most inclusive approach you can take.

是你能采取的最包容的方式

It confirmed something I really had a hunch on,

它证明了某个我非常在乎的直觉

is that the audience

那就是观众们

actually wants to work for their meal.

其实更喜欢自己烹饪他们的饕餮盛宴

They just don't want to know that they're doing that.

只不过他们不想知道自己亲自动手了

That's your job as a storyteller,

这就是讲故事的人的任务

is to hide the fact

隐瞒这些事实

that you're making them work for their meal.

你实际上在让他们亲自为他们的盛宴下厨

We're born problem solvers.

我们生来就是个问题解决者

We're compelled to deduce

我们总忍不住反复去推想

and to deduct,

去演绎

because that's what we do in real life.

因为这就是我们在现实生活中所做的事情

It's this well-organized absence of information

正是这个设计好的信息缺漏

that draws us in.

吸引了我们的注意力

There's a reason that we're all attracted to an infant or a puppy.

这就是为什么我们总是被婴儿或者小狗吸引住

It's not just that they're damn cute;

不是因为他们太可爱

it's because they can't completely express

而是因为他们完全无法表达

what they're thinking and what their intentions are.

自己在想什么和他们的目的是什么

And it's like a magnet.

像吸铁石一样吸引我们

We can't stop ourselves

我们无法克制自己

from wanting to complete the sentence and fill it in.

去想方设法的把这些空白填满

I first started

我第一次开始

really understanding this storytelling device

确切的理解这个讲故事的技巧

when I was writing with Bob Peterson on "Finding Nemo."

是我在和鲍勃·彼德森一起写“海底总动员”的时候

And we would call this the unifying theory of two plus two.

我们称之为“2+2的统一定理”

Make the audience put things together.

让观众自己把东西拼起来

Don't give them four,

不要给他们一个4

give them two plus two.

而给他们2+2

The elements you provide and the order you place them in

你们提供的元素和其排列顺序

is crucial to whether you succeed or fail at engaging the audience.

对决定你是否成功的与观众互动是至关重要的

Editors and screenwriters have known this all along.

编辑和剧作家都默契的知道

It's the invisible application

正是这无形中的运用

that holds our attention to story.

牢牢抓住了我们的对故事的注意力

I don't mean to make it sound

我的意思不是把它实施得很确切

like this is an actual exact science, it's not.

好像门精确的科学研究一样，不是的。

That's what's so special about stories,

这就是为什么故事是如此的独特

they're not a widget, they aren't exact.

他们不是零固件，他们不要求精密准确。

Stories are inevitable, if they're good,

故事总是存在的，如果他们很赞

but they're not predictable.

但不见得可以预知

I took a seminar in this year

我今年曾上过一个研讨会

with an acting teacher named Judith Weston.

和一个叫朱迪·韦斯顿的表演课老师

And I learned a key insight to character.

从中我学到了一个关于人物角色的关键点

She believed that all well-drawn characters

她相信所有的成功的的人物角色描写

have a spine.

都有一个支撑骨

And the idea is that the character has an inner motor,

这个想法是说每个人物都有一个内驱动力

a dominant, unconscious goal that they're striving for,

有一个不断追逐的占主导位置却无法察觉的目标

an itch that they can't scratch.

和一个怎么也抓不到的痒处

She gave a wonderful example of Michael Corleone,

她给我们举了一个关于迈克·柯里昂

Al Pacino's character in "The Godfather,"

阿尔·帕西诺在“教父”里的角色

and that probably his spine

他的支撑骨大概就是

was to please his father.

取悦自己的父亲

And it's something that always drove all his choices.

这也是驱使他做出各种决定的原因

Even after his father died,

即时在他的父亲去世以后

he was still trying to scratch that itch.

他仍然想要挠到那块心痒点

I took to this like a duck to water.

这对我来说如鱼得水

Wall-E's was to find the beauty.

Wall-E想要找到它心目中的美

Marlin's, the father in "Finding Nemo,"

马林，海底总动员里的父亲

was to prevent harm.

想要保护自己的儿子

And Woody's was to do what was best for his child.

（玩具总动员）胡迪则是做对它的孩子正确的事情

And these spines don't always drive you to make the best choices.

这些支撑骨并不总带领你做出最正确的选择

Sometimes you can make some horrible choices with them.

有时候你可能会犯下严重的错误

I'm really blessed to be a parent,

我很幸运能作为一个父母

and watching my children grow, I really firmly believe

看着自己的孩子成长，我也很坚信

that you're born with a temperament and you're wired a certain way,

每个人都有某种与生俱来的气质和某些特定的行为

and you don't have any say about it,

你也说不出为什么会这样

and there's no changing it.

你也无法改变它

All you can do is learn to recognize it

我们需要做的就是发现它

and own it.

并拥有它

And some of us are born with temperaments that are positive,

有的人的个性天生是积极地

some are negative.

有的人是消极的

But a major threshold is passed

一旦跨过了这主要的坎

when you mature enough

当你足够成熟的时候

to acknowledge what drives you

能够意识到是什么在驱使你的时候

and to take the wheel and steer it.

应该抓过方向盘，勇敢前进

As parents, you're always learning who your children are.

作为父母，你总在不断认知你的孩子是怎么样的

They're learning who they are.

他们自己的也在认识自己

And you're still learning who you are.

而你自己也在仍在不断地了解你自己

So we're all learning all the time.

所以我们总是在不断地在学习和了解的过程中的

And that's why change is fundamental in story.

这也是为什么变化是故事的基本

If things go static, stories die,

如果东西变得静止了，故事也就结束了

because life is never static.

因为人生永远是动态而变化的

In 1998,

1998年的时候

I had finished writing "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life"

我刚写完“玩具总动员”和“虫虫危机”

and I was completely hooked on screenwriting.

我被剧本创作深深地吸引住了

So I wanted to become much better at it and learn anything I could.

我想要成为更好，去学习任何我能获得的东西

So I researched everything I possibly could.

所以我翻遍了所有我能找到的资料

And I finally came across this fantastic quote

直到有一天我遇到这个精彩的句子

by a British playwright, William Archer:

来自一位英国剧作家，威廉·阿彻

"Drama is anticipation

“戏剧是夹杂着不确定性

mingled with uncertainty."

的期待

It's an incredibly insightful definition.

这是一个非常有深度的解释

When you're telling a story,

当你在讲故事的时候

have you constructed anticipation?

你有想过制造悬念么

In the short-term, have you made me want to know

你有想过让我在短时间里就想要知道

what will happen next?

接下来什么会发生么

But more importantly,

更重要的的是

have you made me want to know

即便在一段时间后，你有让我想要

how it will all conclude in the long-term?

猜测整个结局会是什么的冲动么

Have you constructed honest conflicts

你有将矛盾冲突和事实结合

with truth that creates doubt

制造出重重疑团

in what the outcome might be?

甚至影响最后的结果么

An example would be in "Finding Nemo,"

举一个在“海底总动员”里的例子

in the short tension, you were always worried,

在一段时间内，你总在担心

would Dory's short-term memory

多瑞的短时间记忆

make her forget whatever she was being told by Marlin.

会不会让她忘记马文要她做的事情

But under that was this global tension

但整个故事的悬念就是

of will we ever find Nemo

我们到底能不能找到尼莫

in this huge, vast ocean?

在这个一望无际的大海里

In our earliest days at Pixar,

早期在皮克斯

before we truly understood the invisible workings of story,

在我们真正了解到什么是故事的精髓之前

we were simply a group of guys just going on our gut, going on our instincts.

我们就是一群做事只会凭胆子、凭直觉的家伙

And it's interesting to see

这倒也挺有趣

how that led us places

它给我们带来的东西

that were actually pretty good.

其实还挺不错的

You've got to remember that in this time of year,

不得不提在那时候

1993,

1993年

what was considered a successful animated picture

正是动画的鼎盛时期

was "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast,"

比如“小美人鱼”，“美女与野兽”

"Aladdin," "Lion King."

“阿拉丁”，“狮子王”

So when we pitched "Toy Story" to Tom Hanks for the first time,

所以当我们挑选汤姆·汉克斯为“玩具总动员”配音的时候

he walked in and he said,

他走进来然后说

"You don't want me to sing, do you?"

“你该不会是想要我唱歌吧，是吗”

And I thought that epitomized perfectly

我想这简短的说明了

what everybody thought animation had to be at the time.

那时候的大家认为动画都是怎样的

But we really wanted to prove

但我们那时候想要证明

that you could tell stories completely different in animation.

在动画里，你可以用完全不同的方式来讲故事

We didn't have any influence then,

当时候我们没什么影响力

so we had a little secret list of rules

所以我们有一份自己的

that we kept to ourselves.

神秘的小规则

And they were: No songs,

它们有：不唱歌

no "I want" moment,

没有“我想要”片段

no happy village,

没有快乐的小镇

no love story.

没有爱情故事

And the irony is that, in the first year,

最有讽刺意义的是，在我们的第一年

our story was not working at all

我们的故事没有任何进展

and Disney was panicking.

迪士尼就开始慌虑了

So they privately got advice

私下里他们从一个著名的词作家

from a famous lyricist, who I won't name,

得到了些建议，名字我就不在这里提了

and he faxed them some suggestions.

他给迪士尼传真了一些建议

And we got a hold of that fax.

当我们拿到那张纸的时候

And the fax said,

上面写着

there should be songs,

应该要有唱歌

there should be an "I want" song,

应该要有个“我想要”的歌曲

there should be a happy village song,

要有个关于快乐小镇的歌曲

there should be a love story

还得有个爱情故事

and there should be a villain.

和一个反派角色

And thank goodness

幸好，当时的我们

we were just too young, rebellious and contrarian at the time.

年轻气旺、叛逆、与众不同

That just gave us more determination

这些让我们更加决心

to prove that you could build a better story.

去证明我们可以编出更好的故事

And a year after that, we did conquer it.

一年以后，我们做到了

And it just went to prove

这也证明了

that storytelling has guidelines,

讲故事是有指导方法的

not hard, fast rules.

不难但也不见效快的规则

Another fundamental thing we learned

我们学到的另一个重要的东西

was about liking your main character.

就是学会喜欢你的人物特点

And we had naively thought,

我们总天真的以为

well Woody in "Toy Story" has to become selfless at the end,

“玩具总动员”里的胡迪至始至终都要是个自私的角色

so you've got to start from someplace.

所以你得从某个点开始来展示

So let's make him selfish. And this is what you get.

于是我们做出了这个

(Voice Over) Woody: What do you think you're doing?

（配音）胡迪：你这是在干什么？

Off the bed.

离开这个床

Hey, off the bed!

嘿，下去！

Mr. Potato Head: You going to make us, Woody?

蛋头先生：你想要惹我们吗，胡迪？

Woody: No, he is.

胡迪：不，他才是。

Slinky? Slink ... Slinky!

弹簧狗？弹……簧狗！

Get up here and do your job.

快上来把事做好

Are you deaf?

你耳聋了吗？

I said, take care of them.

我说，注意好他们。

Slinky: I'm sorry, Woody,

弹簧狗：我很抱歉，胡迪。

but I have to agree with them.

但我同意他们意见

I don't think what you did was right.

我不认为你所做的是正确的

Woody: What? Am I hearing correctly?

胡迪：什么？我没有听错吧？

You don't think I was right?

你不认为我是正确的？

Who said your job was to think, Spring Wiener?

谁说你可以考虑的？弹簧香肠？

AS: So how do you make a selfish character likable?

所以，我们怎么让一个自私的角色变得讨人喜欢？

We realized, you can make him kind,

我们意识到，你也可以他变得善良起来

generous, funny, considerate,

慷慨的、风趣的、贴心的

as long as one condition is met for him,

只要一个条件满足了

is that he stays the top toy.

那就是让他做最受宠爱的玩具

And that's what it really is,

而现实也是如此

is that we all live life conditionally.

我们过着有条件的生活

We're all willing to play by the rules and follow things along,

我们心甘情愿的遵循规则

as long as certain conditions are met.

只要某些条件符合了

After that, all bets are off.

在这之后，没什么好纠结的

And before I'd even decided to make storytelling my career,

在我决定要将讲故事作为我的职业的之前

I can now see key things that happened in my youth

我无法理解那些发生在我青年时的关键事件

that really sort of opened my eyes

那些真正开放我的眼界

to certain things about story.

对于故事的一些事情

In 1986, I truly understood the notion

在1986年的时候，我理解到

of story having a theme.

故事总是有一个主题的

And that was the year that they restored and re-released

而正是那一年，电影“阿拉伯的劳伦斯”

"Lawrence of Arabia."

重新上映

And I saw that thing seven times in one month.

我把那部片子在一个月里看了七次

I couldn't get enough of it.

怎么看都不够

I could just tell there was a grand design under it --

我可以分辨出这里面有精心设计的内容——

in every shot, every scene, every line.

每个镜头、每个场景、每句台词

Yet, on the surface it just seemed

但是，从表面上来看

to be depicting his historical lineage

故事好像只是在讲述他古老的血统

of what went on.

和之后发生的事情

Yet, there was something more being said. What exactly was it?

不过，有些东西还是被提到了。到底是什么呢？

And it wasn't until, on one of my later viewings,

直到我最近几次观看，我才发现它

that the veil was lifted

这块神秘面纱才被揭露

and it was in a scene where he's walked across the Sinai Desert

这个场景里，他在穿越西奈沙漠

and he's reached the Suez Canal,

这时他到达了苏伊士运河

and I suddenly got it.

然后我一下子就顿悟了

(Video) Boy: Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

（视频）男孩：嗨！嗨！嗨！嗨！

Cyclist: Who are you?

骑行者：你们是谁？

Who are you?

你们是谁？

AS: That was the theme: Who are you?

这就是故事的主题：你们是谁？

Here were all these seemingly disparate

看上去这些零散的

events and dialogues

事件和对话

that just were chronologically telling the history of him,

好像只是按历史顺序在叙述他的故事

but underneath it was a constant,

然而深层次里有一个坚持的

a guideline, a road map.

指南方向，一个旅行地图

Everything Lawrence did in that movie

每一件劳伦斯在电影里所做的事情

was an attempt for him to figure out where his place was in the world.

都是在帮助他搞明白他自己是在世界上的哪个地方

A strong theme is always running through

一个强烈的主题总是贯穿于

a well-told story.

一个动听的故事

When I was five,

在我五岁的时候，

I was introduced to possibly the most major ingredient

我被告知什么是讲故事

that I feel a story should have,

我觉得的最主要的元素

but is rarely invoked.

但这很少被提到

And this is what my mother took me to when I was five.

这是我在五岁的时候妈妈带我去看的东西

(Video) Thumper: Come on. It's all right.

（视频）小兔桑普：来，没事的。

Look.

看

The water's stiff.

这河水很牢固

Bambi: Yippee!

小鹿斑比：呀！

Thumper: Some fun,

小兔桑普：挺好玩的，

huh, Bambi?

是吧，斑比？

Come on. Get up.

快来，站起来

Like this.

像这样

Ha ha. No, no, no.

哈哈，不不不

AS: I walked out of there

当我走出影院时

wide-eyed with wonder.

睁大的眼睛里充满了疑问

And that's what I think the magic ingredient is,

这就是我认为的神奇配方

the secret sauce,

这个神秘配料

is can you invoke wonder.

就是激起你惊疑

Wonder is honest, it's completely innocent.

惊疑代表着诚实，它是绝对的天真无邪

It can't be artificially evoked.

这是无法人为的制造出来的

For me, there's no greater ability

对我来说，没有什么比

than the gift of another human being giving you that feeling --

拥有一个来自别人给你带来的一种感觉--

to hold them still just for a brief moment in their day

那个让人在某一天的短暂的时刻里

and have them surrender to wonder.

屈服于惊疑

When it's tapped, the affirmation of being alive,

当它出现的时候，灵动了起来

it reaches you almost to a cellular level.

这就好像一个循环系统一样

And when an artist does that to another artist,

当一个艺术家对另一个艺术家表现的时候

it's like you're compelled to pass it on.

你不得不传递下去

It's like a dormant command

就像是一个潜在的命令般

that suddenly is activated in you, like a call to Devil's Tower.

突然间激活了你，就像恶魔塔的召唤一样

Do unto others what's been done to you.

别人怎么对你你就怎么对他们

The best stories infuse wonder.

好故事总是伴随着惊疑

When I was four years old,

在我四岁的时候，

I have a vivid memory

我有这么一段鲜明的记忆

of finding two pinpoint scars on my ankle

关于寻找我的脚裸上的两个大头针伤疤

and asking my dad what they were.

当我问我爸爸它们在哪里的时候

And he said I had a matching pair like that on my head,

他告诉我我还有一对这样的伤疤在头上

but I couldn't see them because of my hair.

但因为头发的缘故我看不到它们

And he explained that when I was born,

他解释说在我出生的时候

I was born premature,

我早产了

that I came out much too early,

我出来的时间过于早

and I wasn't fully baked;

我没有完全准备好

I was very, very sick.

那时的我非常，非常虚弱

And when the doctor took a look at this yellow kid with black teeth,

当医生看着这个黄黄的婴儿和他黑乎乎的牙齿

he looked straight at my mom and said,

他盯着我的母亲说

"He's not going to live."

“他没办法活下来”

And I was in the hospital for months.

我在医院里呆了数个月

And many blood transfusions later,

在许多次的血液更换以后

I lived,

我活下来了

and that made me special.

而这是我独特的地方

I don't know if I really believe that.

我不知道自己是不是真的相信这个说法

I don't know if my parents really believe that,

我也不知道我的父母是否同意

but I didn't want to prove them wrong.

不过我不想去颠覆它们的真实性

Whatever I ended up being good at,

每当我获得成功的时候

I would strive to be worthy of the second chance I was given.

我会努力去珍惜着这个二次机会的给予

(Video) (Crying)

（视频）（哭声）

Marlin: There, there, there.

马文：好了，好了，好了。

It's okay, daddy's here.

没事了，爹地在这里。

Daddy's got you.

爹地找到你了。

I promise,

我保证，

I will never let anything happen to you, Nemo.

我不会让任何意外发生在你的身上，尼莫。

AS: And that's the first story lesson I ever learned.

而那就是我学到的第一个关于故事的课程

Use what you know. Draw from it.

用你所知道的，从中取经

It doesn't always mean plot or fact.

这不是说总得写情节或者事实

It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it,

它是指从你经历中的捕捉真谛

expressing values you personally feel

表达那些你切身体会到的有价值的东西

deep down in your core.

而且扎根在你的核心

And that's what ultimately led me to speaking to you

这就是基本上启发我

here at TEDTalk today.

今天在TED上给你们带来的演讲

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

（掌声）