Rives: A mockingbird remix of TED2006

翻译人员: 王 林 校对人员: zhang he

Mockingbirds are badass.

嘲鸟都是坏蛋

(Laughter)

（笑）

They are.

确实如此

Mockingbirds -- that's Mimus polyglottos --

嘲鸟--是会说不同语言的鸣禽--

are the emcees of the animal kingdom.

是动物王国的主持人

They listen and mimic and remix what they like.

他们边听边模仿，再组合成他们喜欢的东西

They rock the mic outside my window every morning.

它们每早都在我的窗口大展歌喉

I can hear them sing the sounds of the car alarms

它们把汽车鸣笛声

like they were songs of spring.

唱的宛如春之颂

I mean, if you can talk it, a mockingbird can squawk it.

我的意思是，只要你能说出来的，嘲鸫就能唱出来

So check it, I'm gonna to catch mockingbirds.

为了检验他们这个能力，我要去抓嘲鸫

I'm going to trap mockingbirds all across the nation

我将在全国都设下陷阱

and put them gently into mason jars like mockingbird Molotov cocktails.

再轻轻把它们放到罐子里，就像一个“嘲鸟级”燃烧弹

(Laughter)

（笑）

Yeah. And as I drive through a neighborhood,

在我开车穿过一个

say, where people got-a-lotta, I'll take a mockingbird I caught

富裕的社区时，我要抓只嘲鸫

in a neighborhood where folks ain't got nada and just let it go, you know.

在一个贫穷的社区就给它条生路

Up goes the bird, out come the words, "Juanito, Juanito,

鸟儿飞走时还说道：“华尼托，华尼托，

vente a comer mi hijo!"

我的孩子在吃风！“（西班牙语）

Oh, I'm going to be the Johnny Appleseed of sound.

哦！我将会拥有Johnny Appleseed的声音

(Laughter)

（笑）

Cruising random city streets, rocking a drop-top Cadillac

开着敞篷凯迪拉克游荡在街上

with a big backseat, packing like 13 brown paper Walmart bags

车上有个大后座，后座上有13个棕色的沃尔玛纸袋

full of loaded mockingbirds, and I'll get everybody.

里面都是嘲鸫，这样我就能搜集到每个人的声音

(Laughter)

（笑）

I'll get the nitwit on the network news saying,

我会记录下在新闻上说：

"We'll be back in a moment with more on the crisis."

”广告过后为您带来更多灾难详情。”的傻子

I'll get some asshole at a watering hole asking what brand the ice is.

我会记下在卖酒商店里问冰块的品牌的混球。

I'll get that lady at the laundromat who always seems to know what being nice is.

我会记下洗衣店里不知好歹的女士

I'll get your postman making dinner plans.

我会记下计划晚餐食谱的邮递员

I'll get the last time you lied.

还有你上一次说谎的时候

I'll get, "Baby, just give me the frickin' TV guide."

我会记下：”亲爱的，给我那该死的节目预告。“

I'll get a lonely, little sentence with real error in it,

还会记下一个孤独、简短的错句

"Yeah, I guess I could come inside, but only for a minute."

”我想我会进来，不过就一分钟。“

(Laughter)

（笑）

I'll get an ESL class in Chinatown learning "It's Raining, It's Pouring."

我会记下中国城的一堂非母语英语课程，能听到”下雨了，倾盆大雨。“

I'll put a mockingbird on a late-night train just to get an old man snoring.

为了记录到夜班车上老头的鼾声，我会放只嘲鸠

I'll get your ex-lover telling someone else, "Good morning."

我还能得到你昔日恋人给别人的甜言蜜语

I'll get everyone's good mornings.

我会记录下每个人的早晨问候

I don't care how you make 'em.

不管是什么语言的

Aloha. Konichiwa. Shalom. Ah-Salam Alaikum.

你好（夏威夷语）、你好（日语）、你好（希伯来语）

Everybody means everybody, means everybody here.

每个人意味着所有的人，包括在座的各位

And so maybe I'll build a gilded cage.

我会建成一个丰富多彩的笼子

I'll line the bottom with old notebook pages.

下面铺满了一页页旧笔记

Inside it, I will place a mockingbird for --

在笼子里放只嘲鹊

short explanation, hippie parents.

简而言之，是为嬉皮父母准备的

(Laughter)

（笑）

What does a violin have to do with technology?

小提琴和科技有什么关系？

Where in the world is this world heading?

这个世界会前往何方？

On one end, gold bars --

一端是，金色的栅栏

on the other, an entire planet.

另一端是整个星球

We are 12 billion light years from the edge.

我们离宇宙的边际有120亿光年

That's a guess.

这只是推测

Space is length and breadth continued indefinitely,

宇宙横向纵向不断扩大

but you cannot buy a ticket to travel commercially to space in America

但在美国你却买不到漫游宇宙的飞机票

because countries are beginning to eat like us, live like us and die like us.

因为其他国家开始像我们人类一样吃饭、生活、死去

You might wanna avert your gaze, because that

你也许想转移注意力了，因为

is a newt about to regenerate its limb,

一个水螈将要伸展它的四肢

and shaking hands spreads more germs than kissing.

摇晃着手臂传播更多的细菌而不是吸血

There's about 10 million phage per job.

每一次抖动大约有100万德噬菌体散播出去

It's a very strange world inside a nanotube.

从纳米的视角来看，这是一个奇怪的世界

Women can talk; black men ski; white men build strong buildings;

女人们交谈着，黑人们在滑雪，白人在建造坚实的建筑

we build strong suns.

我们建造了许多繁荣

The surface of the Earth is absolutely riddled with holes,

地球的表面充满了各种洞

and here we are, right in the middle.

我们就在这里，正好在最中央

(Laughter)

（笑声）

It is the voice of life that calls us to come and learn.

生活呼唤我们来学习

When all the little mockingbirds fly away,

当所有的小嘲鸟飞走了

they're going to sound like the last four days.

它们的言语里全是过去的这四天（TED大会的4天）

I will get uptown gurus, downtown teachers,

我将会记录下居民区的专家，闹市区的教师

broke-ass artists and dealers, and Filipino preachers, leaf blowers,

愚蠢的艺术家和商人，还有菲律宾的牧师，金属薄片制作工人

bartenders, boob-job doctors, hooligans, garbage men,

酒间侍者，乳房切割手术的医生，街头恶棍还有拾荒者

your local Congressmen in the spotlight, guys in the overhead helicopters.

聚光灯下众议员，头顶上直升飞机中的小伙子

Everybody gets heard.

每个人都听到

Everybody gets this one, honest mockingbird as a witness.

每个人都会听到这些声音，诚实的嘲鸟是见证者

And I'm on this.

我已经准备就绪了

I'm on this 'til the whole thing spreads,

我将会支持这一切直到所有的思想都散播出去

with chat rooms and copycats and moms maybe tucking kids into bed

聊天室里的谈论，模仿者的出现，还有妈妈们把她们床上的孩子盖好被子

singing, "Hush, little baby, don't say a word.

哼唱着：“嘘~，小宝贝，一句话也不要说，

Wait for the man with the mockingbird."

等那个拥有嘲鸟的男人。”

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Yeah. And then come the news crews, and

嗯，然后新闻界的一群人会出来

the man-in-the-street interviews, and the letters to the editor.

普通人也会出来采访，写好文章给编辑

Everybody asking, just who is responsible for this citywide,

每个人都在问：“谁对这个全市的

nationwide mockingbird cacophony, and somebody finally is going to tip

甚至是全国性的嘲鸟的吵闹声负责？“最后，某个人前去

the City Council of Monterey, California off to me,

建议加州的蒙特利市政会来找我

and they'll offer me a key to the city.

然后，他们会给我一把这个城市的钥匙

A gold-plated, oversized key to the city

一个镀金的，大号的钥匙

and that is all I need, 'cause if I get that, I can unlock the air.

这正是我所需要的，因为，一旦我得到它，我就可以打开天空的枷锁

I'll listen for what's missing, and I'll put it there.

我会倾听缺少了什么，然后我将把缺憾填补上

Thank you, TED.

谢谢！TED

(Applause)

（掌声）

Chris Anderson: Wow.

Chris Anderson说：”哇~“

(Applause)

（掌声）

Wow.

哇~

(Applause)

（掌声）