Helder Guimarães: A magical search for a coincidence

翻译人员: Yumeng Guo 校对人员: Caroline Xu

I'd like to start my performance by saying 90 percent of everything is crap.

我想引用一句话来开始我的表演： 世间万物，90%都是渣滓。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

It's called Sturgeon's law, and what that means

这是史特金定律，其含义是

is that the majority of anything is always bad.

任何事情的大部分都是糟糕的。

I have a giraffe here.

我有个长颈鹿玩偶，

I'm going to throw the giraffe behind my back

我要背对你们把它扔出去，

and whoever catches it is going to help me on this next thing.

接到它的人要协助我后面的一项表演。

Sir, you caught the giraffe.

先生，你接到了长颈鹿。

I have a playing card in my hand.

我手里有一张扑克牌，

Freely name any card in the deck.

请随便说出一副牌中的任意一张牌。

Audience member: 10 of hearts.

观众：红桃10。

Helder Guimarães: 10 of hearts.

Guimarães：红桃10。

You could have named any card in the deck,

你可以选择一副牌中的任意一张，

but you said the 10 of hearts.

但你偏偏选了红桃10。

Ninety percent of everything is crap,

90%的东西都是渣滓，

so there's this to prove that Sturgeon was correct.

这将会证明史特金是正确的。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

(Applause)

（掌声）

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Sir, this is not your show.

先生，不要抢镜。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Keep the giraffe for a moment, okay?

长颈鹿暂时搁在你那儿，好吗？

Jesus.

天啊。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Crazy people.

疯狂的人啊。

Well, the truth is,

事实上，

why is the majority of everything bad?

为什么大多事情都是糟糕的？

And my answer is: I think we stop thinking too soon.

我的回答是，我们总是过早地停止思考。

I'll give you a clear little example,

我给你们举一个简单明了的例子，

something that people used to do around the turn of the century --

在世纪之交那阵子，人们经常这样做—

not this century, the other one.

不是在这个世纪，是上一个。

The idea was to take a piece of paper

是这样的：拿起一张纸，

and fold it inside out using only your weaker hand,

用那只不常用的手，将其向内折叠，

in my case, the left hand.

对我而言，是左手。

Something that would look like this.

看起来像这样。

By the way you reacted, I can see your lack of interest.

通过你们的反应， 我知道你们不感兴趣。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

But that's okay, I understand why.

但没关系，我知道为什么。

We stop thinking too soon.

我们过早地停止思考。

But if we give it a little bit more thought,

但如果我们考虑得稍稍多些呢？

like a paper clip.

比如一颗回形针。

A paper clip makes this a little bit more interesting.

一颗回形针会让你们更有一些兴趣吧。

Not only that, if instead of using my hand with the fingers,

更进一步，如果不用手指，

I use my hand closed into a fist,

而是握成拳头，

that makes this even a little bit more interesting.

会让你们更有一点点儿兴趣。

Not only that, but I will impose myself a time limit of one second,

而且，我会给自己限定一秒钟的时间，

something that would look like this.

看起来像这样。

Now -- no, no, no.

不不不。

Sturgeon may be correct.

史特金也许说得对。

But he doesn't have to be correct forever.

但他不可能永远是对的。

Things can always change.

事情总是在变化着。

Sir, what was the card?

先生，您说的是哪张牌？

The 10 of hearts?

红桃10吗？

There's this to prove that things can always change --

这奇迹的时刻证明事情总是在变化——

the 10 of hearts.

红桃10。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Secrets are important.

秘密是重要的，

And secrets are valuable.

而且秘密是有价值的。

And this is the best secret I've ever experienced.

这是我所知的最神奇的秘密。

It starts with a deck of cards onto the table,

最开始桌子上有一副牌，

an old man and a claim,

一位老先生说，

"I will not touch the deck till the end."

「直到最后我才会碰这副牌。」

It doesn't matter who the man was,

这个人是谁不要紧，

all that matters was that sentence ringing in my head:

要紧的是萦绕在我耳际的那句话，

"I will not touch the deck till the end."

「直到最后我才会碰这副牌。」

Now, during all this time,

在整个过程中，

he was holding a small notebook

他都握着一个小本子，

that sometimes he would open and flip through the pages

时不时翻开本子，翻动纸张，

and look at something.

目光游走。

But I was not really paying attention to the book

说实在的，我没大注意那个本子，

because I was paying attention the deck and the claim he had made before,

因为我始终盯着那副牌，时刻想着那句话，

"I will not touch the deck till the end."

「直到最后我才会碰这副牌。」

Now sir, you have the giraffe.

先生，拿着长颈鹿的那位先生，

Go ahead, throw it in any direction

请把它朝任意方向扔出去，

so that you can find someone else at random.

随意扔给某个人。

Perfect. Sir, you're going to play my role in this story.

太完美了。先生， 你将在这个故事中扮演我的角色。

The old man turned to me and he said,

那位老先生转向我，说，

"You could pick a red card or a black card."

「你来选择一张牌，花色是红色还是黑色？」

My answer was ...

我的回答是……

Audience member 2: The black card.

观众2：黑色。

HG: Indeed!

HG：没错！

It was a black card.

是黑色花色的牌。

He said, "It could be a club or a spade,"

「是梅花还是黑桃。」

and my answer was ...

我的回答是……

Audience member 2: Spade.

观众2：黑桃。

HG: Indeed! It was a spade.

HG：没错！是一张黑桃。

He said, "It could be a high spade or a low spade."

他说，「牌面是大是小。」

And my answer was ...

我的回答是……

Audience member 2: A high spade.

观众2：大的。

HG: Indeed! It was a high spade.

HG：没错，是大的牌面，

Since it's a high spade, it could be a nine, a 10,

既然如此，它可以是黑桃9，10，

a jack, king, queen or the ace of spades.

J，K，Q或A。

And my answer was ...

我的回答是……

Audience member 2: The king.

观众2：K。

HG: The king of spades, indeed.

HG：黑桃K，没错。

Now sir, let's be fair.

先生，公平起见，

You selected black, you selected spade,

你选了黑色花色，你选了黑桃。

you selected the high spade, and you selected -- sorry?

你选了大牌面，你选了——不好意思？

Audience member 2: King. HG: King of spades.

观众2：K。HG：黑桃K。

Did you feel I influenced you in any decision?

你感觉到我影响了你某个选择吗？

Audience member 2: No, I just felt your energy.

观众2：没有，我只是感觉到你的气势了。

HG：但你是自己做的选择，没错吧？

HG: But it was a free choice, correct?

Because if not, we could start all over again.

因为如果不是的话，我们可以从头再来。

这些选择真的都是由你自己做出的吗？ 观众2：完全是。

But it was really fair? Audience member 2: Absolutely.

HG: Now, the old man turned to me and he asked me one more question,

HG：那老先生转向我，又问了我一个问题，

a number between one and 52.

从1到52之间选一个数字。

And the first number I thought of was ...

我脑中蹦出的第一个数字就是……

Audience member 2: 17.

观众2：17。

HG: Indeed! It was the 17.

HG：没错！是17。

The old man only said one more thing:

那老先生又说了一句，

"This is the end."

「表演结束了。」

And I knew exactly what that meant.

我完全明白这意味着什么。

I knew that he was going to touch the deck.

我知道他要去碰那副牌了。

Everything that you're about to see is exactly as it looked.

你们马上要看到的跟我当时看到的如出一辙。

He took the deck out of the box.

他从盒子中拿出那副牌。

Nothing in the box.

盒子里空了，

He counted, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10."

他数到，「1，2，3，4，5，6， 7，8，9，10。」

The tension was building.

我越来越紧张了。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

"11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17."

「…11，12，13，14，15，16，17。」

And on the 17, instead of the king of spades,

数到17的时候，那张牌不是黑桃K，

something appeared in the middle of the deck,

牌中出现了什么，

that later, I would realize was actually a secret.

后来，我意识到这是个秘密。

The old man stood up, he left.

那位老先生站了起来，离开了。

I never saw him again.

后来我再也没见到过他。

But he left his notebook

但他留下了那个本子，

that was there from the beginning.

一开始就在那里的本子。

And when I picked it up,

当我拿起那本书时，

that was the best secret I've ever experienced.

我发现了有史以来最神奇的秘密。

We are defined by the secrets we keep

每个人都有藏在心里的秘密，

and by the secrets we share.

也有跟别人分享的秘密。

And this was his way of sharing a secret with me.

而这是他跟我分享他的秘密的方式。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Crazy shit! Now --

太TM神奇了！

(Laughter)

（笑声）

I believe that amazing things happen all the time.

我相信神奇的事情总在不停地上演，

I really do.

我真的相信。

And the reason why we don't see them as often,

而往往发现不了那么多神奇的原因

it's because we don't place ourselves in a position

是我们似乎总是不去

to search for those amazing things.

发现神奇的事物。

But what if we decided to search for those amazing things,

但是如果我们决定去探寻那些神奇的事情，

for those small coincidences in life that are truly amazing?

那些生活中的神奇的巧合，会怎么样？

So you have the giraffe,

那位拿着长颈鹿的先生，

go ahead, throw it in any direction so you find one last person at random.

请继续，把它扔出去，任意方向， 找到最后一位要跟我配合的观众。

Sir, I'm going to ask you,

先生，我要问你，

do you have, with you, a United States $1 bill?

你身上有没有带着1美元纸钞？

Audience member 3: I think so.

观众3：我身上有。

HG: Yes? You see, a coincidence!

HG：是吗？你们看，又是一个巧合！

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Let's make sure you have it.

我需要确认一下。

Do you have it?

你真的带着了吗？

Audience member 3: Yes. HG: Yes! Perfect.

观众3：是的。 HG：太好了！完美。

Now, I want you to do exactly the same thing I am about to do.

好，现在我需要你跟着我做， 我做什么你就做什么。

I have a dollar bill here to explain.

我也拿着一张钞票来演示。

I want you to take the dollar bill,

我需要你将钞票折叠，

and fold the Washington part inside, like this.

有总统像的这面朝里，像这样。

So you get this kind of big square, okay?

像一个大的正方形，没问题吧？

Now, I want you to take the bill and fold it like this, lengthwise,

我需要你把它这样折叠，纵向折叠，

so it becomes like a rectangle,

它就成了一个矩形，

and then again -- really fold it, really crease it --

然后——折叠它，折出痕迹——

and when you have it,

到这一步时，

please fold the bill again into a little square like this

再折叠一下，折成更小的正方形，

and let me know when you have it.

叠好后跟我说一声。

Do you have it? Perfect.

叠好了吗？完美。

Now, I'm going to approach,

我要开始表演了，

and before we start,

但在此之前，

I want to make sure that we do this in very, very serious conditions.

我想确保我们要严肃认真地进行这个表演。

First of all, I want to ensure that we have a marker and we have a paper clip.

首先，我想确认我们有记号笔和回形针。

First of all, take the marker and go ahead and sign the bill.

第一步，拿着记号笔在纸钞上签个名，

And this is the reason why:

原因是：

later, I'm going to be doing a bunch of stuff on stage

后面，我要在舞台上做一系列表演，

and I don't want you to think,

我不希望你们会想，

oh, while I was distracted by Helder,

Helder分散了我的注意力，

someone came onstage and swapped the bill.

某个人趁机到台上换了一张钱。

So I want to make sure it's exactly the same bill.

因此，我想确保前后是同一张纸币。

Now not only that, I want you to take the paper clip

而且，我要把回形针

and put it around the bill.

别在钱上。

So even if nobody comes onstage and switches the bill,

这样，即便没人上台换了纸币，

I don't have enough time to go open the bill and close it

我也没有足够的时间来展开合上，

and see what I don't want to see.

看到我不想看的东西。

Is that fair?

没问题吧？

Now you can give me the marker back.

现在你可以给我记号笔了。

And just like that, very clearly,

就像那样，非常清楚，

I want to make sure that we place this in full view

我想确保从一开始就把

from the beginning of this experience

这个表演的全貌展现出来，

and to make sure that everyone is going to see it,

确保每个人都会看到，

we're going to actually have a camera man onstage.

我们会让一个摄影师上台。

Yes, perfect, so that you can see.

好，完美，这样你们都能看到了。

That's your signature? Yes? Perfect.

这是你的签名吗？没错？完美。

Now, we're going to use also the deck and a glass for this.

我们还需要一副牌和一个杯子。

And we're going to put ourselves in a position

而且，我们要做好

to search for an amazing coincidence.

探寻神奇巧合的准备。

Do you mind, can you help me with this?

你能帮一下我吗？不介意吧？

Go ahead and take some cards and shuffle.

拿一些牌然后洗一下。

And do you mind, can you take some cards and shuffle?

你能帮一下我吗？拿一些牌然后洗一下。

You can take some cards and shuffle.

你可以拿一些牌然后洗一下。

You can shuffle cards in a variety of ways.

你可以用不同的方式来洗，

You can shuffle cards like this.

像这样。

You can shuffle cards in a more messed up way,

你可以把牌洗得更乱一些，

something like this.

像这样。

You can shuffle cards in the American way.

你可以用美国人的方法洗牌。

As a Portuguese, I don't feel entitled to teach you guys how to do it.

作为一个葡萄牙人， 教你们如何洗牌我不觉得荣幸。

But the important part is after shuffling the cards,

重要的是洗好之后，

always remember to cut and complete the cards.

记得把它们高高举起。

Do you mind doing that for me, sir?

你不介意吧，先生？

Please cut and complete.

把它们高高举起。

And when you have it, place the cards up in the air.

洗好之后，把牌高高举起。

And you too, cut and complete and up in the air.

你也是，把它们高高举起。

Up in the air.

举在空中。

A deck of cards cut and shuffled by one, two, three, four and five people.

一副牌分成多份，由一个、两个、三个、 四个、五个人洗乱。

Now, very clearly, I'm going to gather the deck together.

好，毫无疑问，我要把牌收到一起，

And just like that.

就像这样。

I'm going to search for a coincidence in front of everyone.

我要在所有人面前探索神奇的巧合。

I'm going to try.

我要开始了。

I have some cards that maybe,

我手里拿着一些牌，

maybe they don't mean anything.

也许它们不能说明什么，

But maybe that's because we are not paying close attention.

但这或许是因为我们观察得还不够仔细。

Because maybe, maybe they mean a lot.

因为，没准这些牌内涵很深。

Before we start, sir, you gave me a dollar bill.

在开始之前，先生，你给我的那一美金钞票。

Is that your signature?

这是你的签名吗？

Audience member 3: Yes it is.

观众3：没错。

HG: I want you to see very clearly

HG：我需要你们仔细看，

that I'm going to open your bill

我要展开这张钞票，

and reveal a small secret that we created.

向你们揭示我们创造的一个小秘密。

And the secret of this dollar bill is the serial number.

秘密就藏在这张钞票的序列号上。

Madam, can you take the dollar bill?

女士，你可以拿着这张钞票吗？

In the serial number, there is a letter.

在序列号中，有一个字母，

What is the first number after the letter?

字母后面第一个数字是什么？

Audience member 4: Seven.

观众4：7。

HG: Seven.

HG：7，

Seven.

7。

But, that's maybe just one coincidence.

但是，也许就这一个巧合吧。

What is the second number? Audience member 4: Nine.

第二个数字是什么？观众4：9。

So after the seven, we have a nine.

HG：好，7之后是9，

And after the nine?

9之后呢？

Audience member 4: Two.

观众4：2。

HG: The two. And after the two?

HG：2，2之后呢？

Audience member 4: Three.

观众4：3。

HG: Three, and after?

HG：3，再后呢？

Audience member 4: Three. HG: Three.

观众4：3。 HG：3。

Audience member 4: Seven. HG: Seven.

观众4：7。 HG：7。

Audience member 4: Four. HG: Four.

观众4：4。 HG：4。

Audience member 4: Two. HG: Two, and?

观众4：2。 HG：2，然后？

Audience member 4: Q.

观众4：Q。

HG: Q like in queen?

HG：就是扑克牌中的Q？

(Applause)

（掌声）

The queen of clubs!

梅花Q！

All the cards in order, just for you.

所有的牌次序完全正确， 这是奉献给你们的奇迹。

And that's my show.

以上就是我的演出，

Thank you very much and have a nice night.

非常感谢你们，希望你们今晚过得开心。

(Applause)

（掌声）