How I Imitate Nature’s Voices | Snow Raven | TED

翻译人员: Jinnie Sun 校对人员: Yanyan Hong

(Sakha) Neruen-Nerguy.

（萨哈语）Neruen-Nerguy。

(English) This is the way Indigenous Sakha people greet one another.

这是萨哈土著人互相问候的方式。

This phrase has no exact English translation,

这句话没有精确的英文翻译，

but it means "I greet the universe in your person."

但它的意思是“我以你的名义向宇宙致意”。

My name is Snow Raven,

我的名字叫雪鸦，

and I'm from the Republic of Sakha Yakutia

我来自萨哈雅库特共和国，

in Arctic Siberia,

位于北极西伯利亚，

the most cold settled place on Earth,

那里是地球上最寒冷的定居地，

where winter’s temperature can drop

冬天的气温可能低至

as low as negative 96 Fahrenheit.

-96 华氏度（-71 摄氏度）。

Brrr.

So after six years being away from Sakha Yakutia,

在离开萨哈雅库特六年后，

I returned this summer

我今年夏天回去

to see my family and also visit our ancestral home.

看望家人并拜访我们的祖居。

The first thing I did when I arrived

我到达时做的第一件事

was drop into silence and listen.

就是安静地聆听。

Listening is one of the powerful gifts

聆听是宇宙赋予人类的强大天赋之一，

the universe has given humans to connect with nature.

使人类与自然建立联系。

(Vocalizing wind)

（风声）

(Vocalizing raven calls)

（乌鸦叫声）

It is by listening that I have learned how to mimic nature.

正是通过聆听，我学会了 如何模仿大自然。

I listen with my imagination

我聆听时发挥想象，

and become an animal that I hear.

变成我听见的动物。

I move like it moves.

我像它一样移动。

I seek what it seeks.

我寻找它在寻找的东西。

I cry with its cry.

它哭时我也哭泣。

(Vocalizing owl calls)

（猫头鹰叫声）

The owl, khakhan, for instance.

例如猫头鹰，（萨哈语）khakhan。

It has night vision.

它有夜视功能。

It can see all around him,

它可以看到周围的所有东西，

and it also flies without making a sound.

而且它也能在飞行时不发出声音。

The elie, brown kite,

（萨哈语）Elie，黑鸢，

soars on heated air

在温热的空气中翱翔，

and with joy, announces the arrival of the summer.

高兴地宣布夏天的到来。

(Vocalizing elie calls)

（Elie叫声）

When I hear the loon,

当我听到潜鸟的声音时，

I feel its longing for its partner

我会感觉到它对伴侣的渴望

alongside its love of the baby it carries.

以及它对自己宝宝的爱。

(Vocalizing loon calls)

（潜鸟叫声）

The crane, the dance of this beautiful bird

鹤，这只漂亮鸟儿的舞蹈

is so stunning and divine

是如此惊艳而神圣，

that Sakha people believe that happy are the eyes

以至于萨哈人相信

who even once witnessed the dance of a crane in a wilderness.

曾经目睹过鹤在荒野中 起舞的眼睛是幸福的。

(Vocalizing crane calls)

（鹤叫声）

The ehe, the brown bear.

（萨哈语）Ehe，棕熊。

It's so mighty

它太强大了，

and it terrifies everything all around him

它会吓到周围的一切，

while even he eats but little berries.

即便他只吃小浆果。

(Vocalizing bear grunts)

（熊咕噜声）

The reindeer, taba, are lords of tundra,

驯鹿，（萨哈语）taba，是苔原之主，

and they run thousands of miles in huge herds.

它们成群结队地奔跑数千英里。

To restore and recover their energy,

为了储存和恢复能量，

they have a special breath.

他们有特殊的呼吸方式。

(Vocalizing reindeer breathing)

（驯鹿呼吸声）

Bërë.

（萨哈语）Bërë。

In a wolf’s cry, I can hear the loneliness of the hunter

在狼的哭嚎声中， 我能听到猎人的孤独

and its yearning for freedom beyond the body.

以及它对身体之外的自由的向往。

It sees the moon and wants to join it in the sky.

它看到月亮并想到天空上加入它。

(Vocalizing wolf howling)

（狼嚎声）

So the superpower of listening

聆听的超能力在于

is that it leaves the room for imagination

它为想象留出了空间，

to dance with sound.

使人能够与声音共舞。

Let’s listen,

让我们聆听，

ignite our imagination

激发我们的想象力，

and summon our animal superpowers

并唤起我们身为动物的超能力，

here and now.

就在此时此地。

(Drumming)

（鼓声）

(Vocalizing bird calls)

（鸟叫声）

(Vocalizing animal calls)

（动物叫声）

(Cheers and applause)

（欢呼和掌声）

(Sahka) Makhtal. Thank you.

（萨哈语）Makhtal。谢谢。

(Applause)

（掌声）