Weird, or just different? | Derek Sivers

625,350 views ・ 2010-01-29

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譯者: Jeannie Cheng 審譯者: Bill Hsiung
00:15
So, imagine you're standing on a street anywhere in America
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想像你站在美國的一條街道上,
00:19
and a Japanese man comes up to you and says,
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有一個日本人走過來跟你說:
00:22
"Excuse me, what is the name of this block?"
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「對不起,請問這一個街區叫什麼名字呢?」
00:24
And you say, "I'm sorry, well, this is Oak Street, that's Elm Street.
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你會回答:「什麼?這個嘛,這條是橡樹街,那條是榆樹街。
00:28
This is 26th, that's 27th."
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這是二十六街,那是二十七街。」
00:30
He says, "OK, but what is the name of that block?"
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他說:「噢,是的。那麼這個街區叫什麼名字呢?」
00:32
You say, "Well, blocks don't have names.
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你回答說:「街區是沒有名字的。
00:35
Streets have names; blocks are just the
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街道有名字,
00:37
unnamed spaces in between streets."
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而街區只是被街道包圍,沒有名字的空間。」
00:39
He leaves, a little confused and disappointed.
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他帶著困惑與失望的走了。
00:43
So, now imagine you're standing on a street, anywhere in Japan,
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現在,想像你站在日本的任何一條街道上,
00:46
you turn to a person next to you and say,
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你轉向身旁的人問到:
00:48
"Excuse me, what is the name of this street?"
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「對不起,請問這條街道叫什麼名字呢?」
00:50
They say, "Oh, well that's Block 17 and this is Block 16."
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他們會回答說:「喔,那一個是十七街區,而這是十六街區。」
00:54
And you say, "OK, but what is the name of this street?"
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你說:「好,但這條街是什麼名字呢?」
00:57
And they say, "Well, streets don't have names.
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他們說:「街道是沒有名字的。
00:59
Blocks have names.
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街區才有名字。
01:01
Just look at Google Maps here. There's Block 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
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你可以看看這個谷歌地圖。這是 14 街區,15 街區,16 街區,17 街區,18 街區,19 街區。
01:05
All of these blocks have names,
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所有的街區都有名字的。
01:07
and the streets are just the unnamed spaces in between the blocks.
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街道只有街區與街區中間沒有名字的地方。」
01:11
And you say then, "OK, then how do you know your home address?"
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那麼你會問:「好,那麼你怎麼知道你的住址呢?」
01:14
He said, "Well, easy, this is District Eight.
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他回答說:「很簡單,這是第八行政區,
01:17
There's Block 17, house number one."
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第 17 街區,一號屋。」
01:20
You say, "OK, but walking around the neighborhood,
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你說:「但當我在這周遭四處走動時,
01:22
I noticed that the house numbers don't go in order."
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我發現房屋的號碼是不規則的。」
01:24
He says, "Of course they do. They go in the order in which they were built.
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他回答說:「它們當然有規則。它們是跟據興建的時間排序的。
01:27
The first house ever built on a block is house number one.
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第一間在這個街區興建的房子是一號,
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The second house ever built is house number two.
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第二間興建的是二號,
01:33
Third is house number three. It's easy. It's obvious."
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第三間是三號。很簡單。非常明顯。」
01:35
So, I love that sometimes we need to
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因此,我喜歡說,
01:38
go to the opposite side of the world
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你有時需要走到世界的彼岸,
01:40
to realize assumptions we didn't even know we had,
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才會注意到連我們自己都不自覺的,先入為主的觀念,
01:42
and realize that the opposite of them may also be true.
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了解到,這些觀念的反面,也許也是對的。
01:45
So, for example, there are doctors in China
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又例如,中國的醫生,
01:47
who believe that it's their job to keep you healthy.
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相信他們的工作是讓你保持健康。
01:50
So, any month you are healthy you pay them,
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當你健康時,你付錢給他們,
01:52
and when you're sick you don't have to pay them because they failed
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但當你生病時,你不需要付錢給他們,因為他們失職。
01:54
at their job. They get rich when you're healthy, not sick.
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他們的收入來自於使你保持健康,而不是疾病。
01:56
(Applause)
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(掌聲)
01:59
In most music, we think of the "one"
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在大部份的音樂中,我們認為第一拍是重拍,
02:01
as the downbeat, the beginning of the musical phrase: one, two, three, four.
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是音樂段落的開端。一、二、三、四。
02:05
But in West African music, the "one"
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但在非州西部的音樂,
02:07
is thought of as the end of the phrase,
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「一」被認為是音樂段落的完結,
02:09
like the period at the end of a sentence.
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就好像是句子的句號。
02:11
So, you can hear it not just in the phrasing, but the way they count off their music:
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你不只可從它們的段落中聽到,而且從他們數音樂的方法
02:13
two, three, four, one.
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二、三、四、一。
02:16
And this map is also accurate.
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而這個地圖也是正確的。
02:19
(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
02:21
There's a saying that whatever true thing you can say about India,
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又有句話說,關於印度,如論你如何陳述一個事實,
02:24
the opposite is also true.
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其反面亦為真。
02:26
So, let's never forget, whether at TED, or anywhere else,
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所以,請不要忘記,不管你在 TED 或其他任何地方,
02:28
that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear,
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你想到或聽到的任何出色的點子,
02:31
that the opposite may also be true.
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其反面亦有可能是正確的。
02:33
Domo arigato gozaimashita.
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(日文)非常感謝各位。
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