How the jump rope got its rhythm | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series

Translator: Krystian Aparta Reviewer: Camille Martínez

翻译人员: Marshall Hu 校对人员: Echo Sun

If you do it right, it should sound like:

如果你做得正确， 声音听起来应该是：

TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat.

滴答，滴答，滴答， 滴答，滴答，滴答，

If you do it wrong, it sounds like:

如果你做得不正确，它听起来像：

Tick-TAT, tick-TAT, tick-TAT.

滴哒，滴哒，滴哒。

[Small thing. Big idea.]

【小事情，大想法。】

[Kyra Gaunt on the Jump Rope]

【Kyra Gaunt与跳绳】

The jump rope is such a simple object.

跳绳是一个非常简单的东西，

It can be made out of rope, a clothesline, twine.

它可以由绳子、晒衣线 或者麻线制成。

It has, like, a twirl on it. (Laughs)

跳绳上还有螺纹一样的结构。（笑）

I'm not sure how to describe that.

我不确定该怎么去形容它。

What's important is that it has a certain weight,

重要的是它自身有一定重量，

and that they have that kind of whip sound.

并且有那种挥鞭子的声音。

It's not clear what the origin of the jump rope is.

我们不清楚跳绳是如何起源的。

There's some evidence that it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia,

有一些证据表明它最初 出现在古埃及、腓尼基，

and then it most likely traveled to North America with Dutch settlers.

后来很有可能是被 荷兰移民带到了北美洲。

The rope became a big thing when women's clothes became more fitted

随着女性的衣服变得 更合身和马裤的兴起后，

and the pantaloon came into being.

跳绳变得流行起来。

And so, girls were able to jump rope

就这样，女孩们可以跳绳了，

because their skirts wouldn't catch the ropes.

因为她们的裙子不会再绊到绳子了。

Governesses used it to train their wards to jump rope.

家庭教师用它来训练孩子们跳绳。

Even formerly enslaved African children in the antebellum South

甚至在南北战争前的南方， 那些被奴役的非洲孩子们，

jumped rope, too.

也在跳绳。

In the 1950s, in Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,

二十世纪五十年代，在哈莱姆、 布朗克斯、布鲁克林、皇后区，

you could see on the sidewalk, lots of girls playing with ropes.

你都能在路边看到许多女孩在跳绳。

Sometimes they would take two ropes and turn them as a single rope together,

有时她们拿着两根绳子， 并把它们绕成一根，

but you could separate them and turn them in like an eggbeater on each other.

但也可以将它们 像打蛋器一样交叉使用。

The skipping rope was like a steady timeline --

跳绳时，这绳子就像是 一个稳定的时间轴——

tick, tick, tick, tick --

哒，哒，哒，哒——

upon which you can add rhymes and rhythms and chants.

你可以在上面加上韵律、 节奏和小段吟唱。

Those ropes created a space

那些绳子为我们创造了一个空间，

where we were able to contribute to something

在这个空间里，我们可以去 创造更伟大的事物，

that was far greater than the neighborhood.

一种超越邻里街坊的事物。

Double Dutch jump rope remains a powerful symbol of culture and identity

相绕绳单人跳为黑人女性 保留了一个强有力的文化和

for black women.

身份的标志。

Back from the 1950s to the 1970s,

追溯回二十世纪 五十年代到七十年代，

girls weren't supposed to play sports.

女孩们是不能去参加体育运动的。

Boys played baseball, basketball and football,

男孩们玩着棒球，篮球，橄榄球，

and girls weren't allowed.

女孩们却被禁止参与。

A lot has changed, but in that era,

现状已经大不相同， 但是在那个年代，

girls would rule the playground.

女孩们可是操场之王。

They'd make sure that boys weren't a part of that.

她们还不让男孩子们参与进来。

It's their space, it's a girl-power space.

因为这是属于她们自己的空间， 一个“女孩能量”空间。

It's where they get to shine.

这是她们闪光的地方。

But I also think it's for boys,

但我认为跳绳也是属于男孩们的，

因为男孩们会无意中 听到那些歌词，

because boys overheard those,

which is why, I think, so many hip-hop artists

这就是为什么，我认为有 很多的嘻哈艺术家

sampled from things that they heard in black girls' game songs.

会从他们听到的黑人女孩们的 游戏歌中借鉴一番。

(Chanting) ... cold, thick shake, act like you know how to flip,

（歌词）“...冰凉，醇厚的奶昔， 秀出你的翻转能力吧，

Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, french fries, ice cold, thick shake,

麦香鱼, 至尊牛肉堡, 炸薯条，冰凉，醇厚的奶昔，

act like you know how to jump.

秀出你的跳跃能力吧。”

Why "Country Grammar" by Nelly became a Grammy Award-winning single

为什么Nelly的“Country Grammar” 可以获得格莱美奖，

was because people already knew

是因为人们早已知道

"We're going down down baby your street in a Range Rover ... "

“我们坐在路虎车里 沿着你的街道往下走 ...”

That's the beginning of "Down down, baby, down down the roller coaster,

这句歌词是借鉴了“下来，下来， 宝贝，从过山车上下来,

sweet, sweet baby, I'll never let you go."

甜心宝贝儿，我永远不会让你离开。”

All people who grew up in any black urban community

所有在市镇的黑人社区里长大的人

would know that music.

都会知道那首歌。

And so, it was a ready-made hit.

这首歌本来就很火。

The Double Dutch rope playing helped maintain these songs

通过相绕绳单人跳这项运动，

and helped maintain the chants and the gestures that go along with it,

这些歌以及吟唱、手势 得到了很好的保留，

which is very natural to what I call "kinetic orality" --

这其实是很自然的一件事， 我称之为“运动的口头形态”——

word of mouth and word of body.

嘴部语言和身体语言。

It's the thing that gets passed down over generations.

这是由一代代人传承下来的，

In some ways, the rope is the thing that helps carry it.

而跳绳则起到了至关重要的作用。

You need some object to carry memory through.

需要一些物件来承载回忆。

So, a jump rope, you can use it for all different kinds of things.

而跳绳就是这么一样物件， 你可以借它来传递很多不同的文化。

It crosses cultures.

它跨越了文化。

And I think it lasted because people need to move.

我认为它能保留下来的原因 是人们依旧需要向前，

And I think sometimes the simplest objects can make the most creative uses.

而最简单的事物往往能 发挥最富有创意的用途。