David Hoffman: How would you feel if you lost everything?

翻译人员: Jenny Yang 校对人员: Wang Qian

I had a fire nine days ago.

九天前家里着火了。

My archive:

我的存档：

175 films, my 16-millimeter negative,

175部电影，我的16毫米胶片，

all my books, my dad's books, my photographs.

我所有的书，我父亲的书，

I'd collected --

我这些年来收集的---

I was a collector, major, big-time.

我是个收集者，资深的，一流的---

It's gone.

全都完了。

I just looked at it,

我看着这一切，

and I didn't know what to do.

不知所措。

I mean, this was --

我的意思是，这是----

was I my things?

我就是我的所有吗？

I always live in the present -- I love the present.

我总是生活在现在----我爱现在。

I cherish the future.

珍视未来

And I was taught some strange thing as a kid,

小时候我也学到些奇怪的东西，

like, you've got to make something good out of something bad.

比如，塞翁失马焉知非福。

You've got to make something good out of something bad.

你得从坏事情中找到好的一面。

This was bad! Man, I was --

我已经够糟了，

I cough. I was sick.

我咳嗽，我病了。

That's my camera lens. The first one --

这是我的照相机镜头，我的第一个镜头

the one I shot my Bob Dylan film with 35 years ago.

35年前我用它拍了鲍勃·迪伦的纪录片。

That's my feature film. "King, Murray"

这是我的专题片，“国王，穆雷”

won Cannes Film Festival 1970 --

在1970戛纳电影节上获奖----

the only print I had.

我拥有的唯一的拷贝。

That's my papers.

这是我的论文。

That was in minutes -- 20 minutes.

就在二十分钟时间里。

Epiphany hit me. Something hit me.

我突然明白了，我突然想到了：

"You've got to make something good out of something bad,"

“你得将坏事变好事”

I started to say to my friends, neighbors, my sister.

我开始告诉我的朋友，我的邻居，我的妹妹。

By the way, that's "Sputnik." I ran it last year.

啊，顺便说一句，这是“人造卫星”，我去年拍的。

"Sputnik" was downtown, the negative. It wasn't touched.

“人造卫星”的胶片在市区，没有受到伤害。

These are some pieces of things I used in my Sputnik feature film,

这些是我在拍“人造卫星”时用到的一些材料。

which opens in New York in two weeks

两个星期后在纽约上演

downtown.

纽约市区

I called my sister. I called my neighbors. I said, "Come dig."

我打电话给我妹妹，我的邻居。我说:“来挖吧。”

That's me at my desk.

这是我在我的桌子边

That was a desk took 40-some years to build.

这张桌子有我四十多年的心血。

You know -- all the stuff.

你知道，所有的东西。

That's my daughter, Jean.

这是我的女儿，琼。

She came. She's a nurse in San Francisco.

她来了。她在三藩市是一名护士。

"Dig it up," I said. "Pieces.

“挖出来，”我说，“一点一滴的也要挖出来。”

I want pieces. Bits and pieces."

我要这些东西。哪怕是零碎的。

I came up with this idea: a life of bits and pieces,

我想到了这个：零零碎碎组成的生活。

which I'm just starting to work on -- my next project.

这正是我将要开始努力的----我的下一个项目

That's my sister. She took care of pictures,

这是我妹妹。她收拾照片

because I was a big collector of snapshot photography

我非常热衷于收集摄影作品

that I believed said a lot.

我认为它们可以表现很多内涵

And those are some of the pictures that --

这些是照片的一部分

something was good about the burnt pictures.

这些被烧毁的照片也挺好

I didn't know. I looked at that --

我不知道。我看着这些---

I said, "Wow, is that better than the --"

我说：“哇， 这是不是比原来的更好啊。。。”

That's my proposal on Jimmy Doolittle. I made that movie for television.

这是我拍“吉米·杜立德”的方案，是我为电视拍的电影

It's the only copy I had. Pieces of it.

这是我唯一的备份，它的一些碎片

Idea about women.

关于女人的一些想法

So I started to say, "Hey, man, you are too much!

所以我开始说：“老兄， 你太过分了！

You could cry about this." I really didn't.

你还是哭出来吧。” 我真的没有

I just instead said,

我只是说：

"I'm going to make something out of it, and maybe next year ... "

“我的得拿这些做点什么， 也许明年。。。”

And I appreciate this moment

我很感谢此时此刻

to come up on this stage with so many people

我可以在台上与你们那么多人在一起

who've already given me so much solace,

你们给了我很多安慰

and just say to TEDsters:

我只想对TED的与会者说：

I'm proud of me. That I take something bad,

我为自己而感到骄傲，我拿着一些被毁了的东西

I turn it, and I'm going to make something good out of this,

我要改变它，我将用所有这些支离破碎的东西

all these pieces.

做出好东西来

That's Arthur Leipzig's original photograph I loved.

这是我钟爱的Arthur Leipzig的照片原件

I was a big record collector --

我是唱片的大收藏家

the records didn't make it. Boy, I tell you,

唱片都没有能够保存下来，哎， 我告诉你

film burns. Film burns.

胶片易燃，胶片易燃啊

I mean, this was 16-millimeter safety film.

我是说， 这是16毫米的安全胶片

The negatives are gone.

底片都毁了

That's my father's letter to me, telling me to

这是我父亲写的信， 信里要我和

marry the woman I first married when I was 20.

那位我20岁第一次结婚时就娶回家的女人结婚

That's my daughter and me.

这是我的女儿和我

She's still there. She's there this morning, actually.

她还在那里，事实上今天早上还在。

That's my house.

这是我的房子

My family's living in the Hilton Hotel in Scotts Valley.

我的家人现在住在Scotts山谷的希尔顿酒店

That's my wife, Heidi,

这是我的妻子，海蒂

who didn't take it as well as I did.

她还不能跟我一样接受这个事实

My children, Davey and Henry.

这是我们的孩子Davey和Henry

My son, Davey, in the hotel two nights ago.

我的儿子，Davey, 两个晚上前在酒店

So, my message to you folks,

所以在我的三分钟讲话中，

from my three minutes, is that I appreciate the chance

我想告诉你们的是， 我感谢你们给予我这个机会

to share this with you. I will be back. I love being at TED.

与你们分享，我会回来的， 我热爱TED

I came to live it, and I am living it.

我来就是为了活在其中， 我现在正活在其中

That's my view from my window outside of Santa Cruz, in Bonny Doon,

这是我在聖克魯斯，邦尼杜恩家窗口外面的风景

just 35 miles from here.

离这儿只有35英里

Thank you everybody.

谢谢大家。

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