Ben Dunlap: The life-long learner

譯者: Eric Hsieh 審譯者: Zhu Jie

"Jó napot, pacák" Which, as somebody here must surely know,

"Yo napot, pacak!" 在座一定有人知道,

means "What's up, guys?" in Magyar,

在匈牙利語是"大家好"的意思

that peculiar non-Indo-European language spoken by Hungarians

這種罕見的非印歐語系的語言來自匈牙利

for which, given the fact that cognitive diversity is

事實上認知多樣性與生物多樣性

at least as threatened as biodiversity on this planet,

在這地球上受到同樣的威脅

few would have imagined much of a future even a century or two ago.

一兩世紀以前很少人會想像未來是如何的

But there it is: "Jó napot, pacák"

但我們還是可以聽到"大家好"

I said somebody here must surely know, because

我剛剛說在座一定有人知道,因為

despite the fact that there aren't that many Hungarians to begin with,

事實上匈牙利不是一個人口眾多得民族

and the further fact that, so far as I know, there's not a drop

而且就我所知，我完全沒有匈牙利的血统，

of Hungarian blood in my veins, at every critical juncture of my life

但在我生命中重要的時候

there has been a Hungarian friend or mentor there beside me.

都會有一位匈牙利朋友和導師，在我後面支持我。

I even have dreams that take place in landscapes

我甚至會夢到匈牙利的風景

I recognize as the landscapes of Hungarian films,

我在匈牙利電影中得景象，

especially the early movies of Miklos Jancso.

特别是那些Miklos Jancso早期的電影。

So, how do I explain this mysterious affinity?

我要如何和解釋這些神奇得關係呢？

Maybe it's because my native state of South Carolina,

也許這是我來是南卡羅來納州，

which is not much smaller than present-day Hungary,

他的面積與現在匈牙利相當，

once imagined a future for itself as an independent country.

我曾經想像未來他會成為一個獨立的國家

And as a consequence of that presumption,

跟這樣得結果推測，

my hometown was burned to the ground by an invading army,

我的家鄉被軍人夷為平地

an experience that has befallen many a Hungarian town and village

許多匈牙利的城鎮香村，在漫長得歷史上，也受過外敵入侵，

throughout its long and troubled history.

也有過這樣糟糕的經驗。

Or maybe it's because when I was a teenager back in the '50s,

或又在那五十年代，當我還是十幾來歲時，

my uncle Henry -- having denounced the Ku Klux Klan

我的叔叔亨利，曾被3K黨譴折過

and been bombed for his trouble and had crosses burned in his yard,

和受到攻擊及在他的後院燃燒十字架，

living under death threat -- took his wife and children to Massachusetts for safety

在生活中充滿死亡的威脅，為了安全的考量帶著他的妻子和小孩到麻州

and went back to South Carolina to face down the Klan alone.

之後一個人回到南卡羅納州對抗3K黨。

That was a very Hungarian thing to do,

那是ㄧ種很匈牙利的行為，

as anyone will attest who remembers 1956.

任何記的1956年的人都可以證明。

And of course, from time to time Hungarians

當然，匈牙利人有時候

have invented their own equivalent of the Klan.

也組成相當於3K黨的組織

Well, it seems to me that this Hungarian presence in my life

這對我來說匈牙利人一直都存在我得生命中

is difficult to account for, but ultimately I ascribe it to an admiration

這很難去計算的，最終我把他

for people with a complex moral awareness,

歸為複雜的道德意識的欽佩

with a heritage of guilt and defeat matched by defiance and bravado.

他們繼承內就與失敗，卻同時戴著藐視及勇氣。

It's not a typical mindset for most Americans,

這不是大部分美國人心態

but it is perforce typical of virtually all Hungarians.

但這卻是匈牙利典型的心態。

So, "Jó napot, pacák!"

所以，"Yo napot, pacak!"

I went back to South Carolina after some 15 years amid the alien corn

我在約15年後從異鄉返回到南卡邏萊納州，

at the tail end of the 1960s,

那是在60年代後期，

with the reckless condescension of that era

懷抱著那個年代的魯莽和自以爲是，

thinking I would save my people.

心想我會拯救自己的同胞，

Never mind the fact that they were slow to acknowledge they needed saving.

也不管他們很遲才會承認他們需要被拯救。

I labored in that vineyard for a quarter century before

我在那個葡萄園勞作過四分之一個世紀，

making my way to a little kingdom of the just in upstate South Carolina,

前往南卡羅萊納州北部的一個小王國，

a Methodist-affiliated institution of higher learning called Wofford College.

壹所名爲Wofford College的衛理公會附屬高等教育機構。

I knew nothing about Wofford

我對Wofford壹無所知，

and even less about Methodism,

對衛理公會更是毫無概念，

but I was reassured on the first day that I taught at Wofford College

但是在我任教Wofford College的第一天，我就感到放心，

to find, among the auditors in my classroom,

我在教室裏的旁聽者中發現，

a 90-year-old Hungarian, surrounded by a bevy of middle-aged European women

一位90高齡的匈牙利人，被一群中年歐洲婦女圍繞，

who seemed to function as an entourage of Rhinemaidens.

她們就像一群隨從的萊茵河少女。

His name was Sandor Teszler.

他名叫Sandor Teszler。

He was a puckish widower whose wife and children were dead

他是個淘氣的人，他的妻兒都已離世了

and whose grandchildren lived far away.

而他的孫子又住得很遠的地方。

In appearance, he resembled Mahatma Gandhi,

他的外表看起來就像甘地...

minus the loincloth, plus orthopedic boots.

只是少了遮羞布，和多了矯形靴子。

He had been born in 1903 in the provinces

他出生在1903年的奧匈帝國，

of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire,

他出生的省份，

in what later would become Yugoslavia.

後來會成爲南斯拉夫。

He was ostracized as a child, not because he was a Jew --

他自小就被排斥，而那不是因為他是猶太人...

his parents weren't very religious anyhow --

不管怎麽說他的父母也不是虔誠的猶太教徒...

but because he had been born with two club feet,

他被排斥是因爲他天生雙足畸形，

a condition which, in those days, required institutionalization

在那個年代，像他這樣的小孩必須送進治療院，

and a succession of painful operations between the ages of one and 11.

必須在1歲到11歲接受痛苦的治療。

He went to the commercial business high school as a young man

他年輕時到布達佩斯上商業專科學校，

in Budapest, and there he was as smart as he was modest

他是個聰明謙虛的學生，

and he enjoyed a considerable success. And after graduation

在學校裏相當的成功，畢業以後，

when he went into textile engineering, the success continued.

他進入紡織行業，同樣獲得了成功。

He built one plant after another.

他蓋了一家又一家的工廠，

He married and had two sons. He had friends in high places who

結了婚，生了兩個小孩。他有身居高位的朋友，

assured him that he was of great value to the economy.

使他確信自己對經濟有很大的價值貢獻。

Once, as he had left instructions to have done,

有一次，順著他的指示，

he was summoned in the middle of the night by the night watchman at one of his plants.

他壹間工廠的夜間看守人在半夜把他召去。

The night watchman had caught an employee who was stealing socks --

那個夜間看守人逮到了一個偷襪子的工人...

it was a hosiery mill, and he simply backed a truck up to the loading dock

那是個針織廠，那個工人把卡車退到裝卸口

and was shoveling in mountains of socks.

在那裏鏟起堆積成山的襪子。

Mr. Teszler went down to the plant and confronted the thief and said,

Mr. Teszler 走下工場面對小偷說，

"But why do you steal from me? If you need money you have only to ask."

為什麼妳要偷我的東西呢？如果妳需要錢的話

The night watchman, seeing how things were going and waxing indignant,

晚上值班的保全，憤怒的看了整件事情得經過，

said, "Well, we're going to call the police, aren't we?"

他說我們是否該叫警察來呢？

But Mr. Teszler answered, "No, that will not be necessary.

但Mr. Teszler 說不了不需要。

He will not steal from us again."

他不會偷我們的東西了。

Well, maybe he was too trusting, because he stayed where he was

也許他太相信他人了，因為，德國納粹住進奧地利一段時間

long after the Nazi Anschluss in Austria

還留在奧地利不走，

and even after the arrests and deportations began in Budapest.

甚至有些Budapest的人民被拘留和流放。

He took the simple precaution of having cyanide capsules placed in lockets

Mr. Teszler 早已準備好氫氧化物在身邊。

that could be worn about the necks of himself and his family.

以被他合家人不實之需。

And then one day, it happened: he and his family were arrested

然後，有一天事情真得發生了：他和他的家人被抓了，

and they were taken to a death house on the Danube.

他們被帶到多瑙河旁的死亡之屋，

In those early days of the Final Solution, it was handcrafted brutality;

幾天前這裡的情況是慘不人睹

people were beaten to death and their bodies tossed into the river.

人們被打死後，師體直接被丟到河裡面--

But none who entered that death house had ever come out alive.

而進入死亡之屋的人們幾乎沒有一格人存活。

And in a twist you would not believe in a Steven Spielberg film --

而情況的轉折比電影還要戲劇化，

the Gauleiter who was overseeing this brutal beating was the very same thief

監督這頓毒打的（納粹德國）長官，竟然就是

who had stolen socks from Mr. Teszler's hosiery mill.

當初Teszler先生針織廠裏的的那個偷襪賊.

It was a brutal beating. And midway through that brutality,

被慘忍得暴行酷刑， Mr. Teszler's 的一個兒子 Andrew看不下去，

one of Mr. Teszler's sons, Andrew, looked up and said,

Andrew看著父親說，

"Is it time to take the capsule now, Papa?"

走的時間到了喔，父親?

And the Gauleiter, who afterwards vanishes from this story,

納粹黨就從這裡離開了，

leaned down and whispered into Mr. Teszler's ear,

那賊已躺在那小聲的對 Mr. Teszler說

"No, do not take the capsule. Help is on the way."

別走，救援馬上就到了，

And then resumed the beating.

然後毒打繼續。

But help was on the way, and shortly afterwards

救援正在趕來的路上

a car arrived from the Swiss Embassy.

一台從瑞士的大使來了。

They were spirited to safety. They were reclassified as Yugoslav citizens

他把他們帶到一個安全的地方。他們重新的規劃南斯拉夫，

and they managed to stay one step ahead of their pursuers

在這戰真時期，他們比追兵提早一步管理這裡

for the duration of the War, surviving burnings and bombings

的一些爆炸知後的生還者

and, at the end of the War, arrest by the Soviets.

在戰爭結束時，Mr. Teszler被俄軍逮捕了。

Probably, Mr. Teszler had gotten some money into Swiss bank accounts

因該是他在瑞士有大筆的存款

because he managed to take his family first to Great Britain,

因為他和他的家人都逃到英國去了，

then to Long Island and then to the center of the textile industry in the American South.

之後到長島，然後到美國南部紡織廠

Which, as chance would have it, was Spartanburg, South Carolina,

非常巧合的是，他到的就是南卡羅那纳州的斯帕坦堡

the location of Wofford College.

就是在 Wofford大學的所在處。

And there, Mr. Teszler began all over again and once again achieved immense success,

在這裡，Mr. Teszler 他又重新開始，並且有獲得了成功，

especially after he invented the process

特別的是他又發明了一項產品

for manufacturing a new fabric called double-knit.

叫做雙針織品

And then in the late 1950s, in the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education,

在1950末，布朗教育委員會案的影響下，

when the Klan was resurgent all over the South,

3K黨又在南邊復興了

Mr. Teszler said, "I have heard this talk before."

Mr. Teszler說"我已經聽說了"

And he called his top assistant to him and asked,

他問他的高級助理，

"Where would you say, in this region, racism is most virulent?"

妳說哪裡是種族歧視最嚴重的地方？

"Well, I don't rightly know, Mr. Teszler. I reckon that would be Kings Mountain."

恩...Mr.Teszler我不確定耶.有可能是Kings山

"Good. Buy us some land in Kings Mountain

很好，到Kings山那買ㄧ些地，

and announce we are going to build a major plant there."

然後宣布我們要在那蓋大房子。

The man did as he was told, and shortly afterwards,

住裡把事情都除裡好，沒多久

Mr. Teszler received a visit from the white mayor of Kings Mountain.

Mr. Teszler就接受Kings山的白人市長邀請。

Now, you should know that at that time,

妳知道那個年代

the textile industry in the South was notoriously segregated.

南部的紡織業種族歧視非常的嚴重

The white mayor visited Mr. Teszler and said,

那白人市長對 Mr. Teszler 說，

"Mr. Teszler, I trust you’re going to be hiring a lot of white workers."

我相信妳因該會雇用很多白種人當工人

Mr. Teszler told him, "You bring me the best workers that you can find,

Mr. Teszler 跟他說，妳把這裡最好的工人給我找來

and if they are good enough, I will hire them."

如果他們都很優秀，我會雇用他們，

He also received a visit from the leader of the black community,

Mr. Teszler 也受到了黑人社區領導人的邀請，

a minister, who said, "Mr. Teszler, I sure hope you're going to

有一個部長說Mr. Teszler我相信妳會

hire some black workers for this new plant of yours."

去雇用ㄧ些黑人工作者。

He got the same answer: "You bring the best workers that you can find,

他跟他說，把妳這最好的工人給帶來，

and if they are good enough, I will hire them."

如果他們都很優秀的話，我會雇用他們。

As it happens, the black minister did his job better than the white mayor,

事實上黑人部長比白人市長能幹，

but that's neither here or there.

但他們勢均力敵。

Mr. Teszler hired 16 men: eight white, eight black.

Mr.Teszler雇用了16個男人，8個白人，8個黑人。

They were to be his seed group, his future foremen.

他們會成為以後的組長公司的核心。

He had installed the heavy equipment for his new process

他們引進了大型機器在

in an abandoned store in the vicinity of Kings Mountain,

在Kings山附近的廢棄工廠，

and for two months these 16 men would live and work together,

接下來兩隔月我要這16個人一起工作一起生活，

mastering the new process.

熟悉這心得工作

He gathered them together after an initial tour of that facility

Mr.Teszler 把他們及合在一起

and he asked if there were any questions.

問他們有沒有什麼疑問。

There was hemming and hawing and shuffling of feet,

這些工人欲言又止

and then one of the white workers stepped forward and said,

終於有ㄧ位站出來說白人說

"Well, yeah. We’ve looked at this place and there's only one place to sleep,

恩..我們被關在這個地方--睡覺的地方只有一個，

there's only one place to eat, there's only one bathroom,

吃東西的地方和廁所也只有一個，

there's only one water fountain. Is this plant going to be integrated or what?"

也只有一個飲水的地方，這間工廠是要給我們隔離起來嗎？

Mr. Teszler said, "You are being paid twice the wages of any other textile workers in this region

Mr. Teszler 說你們在這已經拿了別人兩倍的薪水了

and this is how we do business. Do you have any other questions?"

我們就是這樣晚裡的，還有什麼問題呢？

"No, I reckon I don't."

我覺得沒有了。

And two months later when the main plant opened

兩個月過後，開始營業

and hundreds of new workers, white and black,

有上百位的黑人白人的員工，

poured in to see the facility for the first time,

蜂擁而至這家工廠來參觀，

they were met by the 16 foremen, white and black, standing shoulder to shoulder.

他們看見有16位工頭，白人和黑人，並肩作戰。

They toured the facility and were asked if there were any questions, and

他們參觀設施，然後提出了問題。

inevitably the same question arose:

不可避免得是發生了，還是同樣的問題

"Is this plant integrated or what?"

是為了把他們聚在一起，還是有其他原因？

And one of the white foremen stepped forward and said,

有一個工頭向前一步說，

"You are being paid twice the wages of any other workers

你們在這裡可以拿到普通工人的兩倍薪資

in this industry in this region and this is how we do business.

我們就是這樣管理的。

Do you have any other questions?"

你還有什麼問題嗎？

And there were none. In one fell swoop,

沒有人有問題了，

Mr. Teszler had integrated the textile industry in that part of the South.

Mr. Teszler 改善了當地紡織業特有的種族隔離制度。

It was an achievement worthy of Mahatma Gandhi,

他達到的效益比甘地還要大，

conducted with the shrewdness of a lawyer and the idealism of a saint.

兼具了律師的智慧和理想主義者。

In his eighties, Mr. Teszler, having retired from the textile industry,

當Mr. Teszler80歲時他從紡織工業退休了，

adopted Wofford College,

到Wofford大學去學習，

auditing courses every semester,

每個學期都去旁聽，

and because he had a tendency to kiss anything that moved,

他總是對人事非常輕切的，

becoming affectionately known as "Opi" -- which is Magyar for grandfather --

非常受歡迎，大家稱他為Opi -匈牙利語是祖父的意思，

by all and sundry. Before I got there, the library of the college

我到Wofford大學時，那裡的圖書館就是以Mr. Teszler命名的。

had been named for Mr. Teszler, and after I arrived in 1993,

當1993年我在次回到Wofford大學

the faculty decided to honor itself by naming Mr. Teszler Professor of the College --

全校教師決定稱 Mr. Teszler 教授。

partly because at that point he had already taken

因為他已經拿完全部的課程，

all of the courses in the catalog, but mainly because

但主要還是

he was so conspicuously wiser than any one of us.

他非常的有智慧。

To me, it was immensely reassuring that the presiding spirit

對我來說這是很大的鼓勵精神支柱

of this little Methodist college in upstate South Carolina

對於南卡羅來纳州偏僻地區

was a Holocaust survivor from Central Europe.

有一個歐洲大屠殺倖存下來的，

Wise he was, indeed, but he also had a wonderful sense of humor.

他是ㄧ聰明的人，同時也是非常的幽默。

And once for an interdisciplinary class,

有一次跨科學的課程，

I was screening the opening segment of Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal."

正在播放 英格瑪·伯格曼“第七封印”片段

As the medieval knight Antonius Block returns from the wild goose chase

骑士布洛克從十字軍東征回到故土

of the Crusades and arrives on the rocky shore of Sweden,

到了瑞典的礁石岸，

only to find the specter of death waiting for him,

直到他遇到死亡者靈魂

Mr. Teszler sat in the dark with his fellow students. And

Mr. Teszler合他得同學坐在暗處。

as death opened his cloak to embrace the knight

當死亡的斗篷包圍騎士時，

in a ghastly embrace, I heard Mr. Teszler's tremulous voice:

當黑暗壟罩時，我聽見Mr. Teszler's顫抖的聲音：

"Uh oh," he said, "This doesn't look so good." (Laughter)

喔，喔，他說情況不妙了。

But it was music that was his greatest passion, especially opera.

Mr. Teszler's 最喜歡音樂了，尤其是歌劇，

And on the first occasion that I visited his house, he gave me

當我第一次到Mr. Teszler家時，

honor of deciding what piece of music we would listen to.

他就請我選我想聽的音樂，

And I delighted him by rejecting "Cavalleria Rusticana"

我沒有選 "Cavalerria Rusticana"

in favor of Bela Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle."

而選了Bela Bartok 的 "Bluebeard's Castle."

I love Bartok's music, as did Mr. Teszler,

我和 Mr. Teszler都喜愛 Bartok音樂

and he had virtually every recording of Bartok's music ever issued.

他幾乎收集完所有Bartok的音樂

And it was at his house that I heard for the first time

就是在他家我第一次聽到

Bartok's Third Piano Concerto and learned from

Bartok的第三鋼琴協奏曲

Mr. Teszler that it had been composed in nearby Asheville, North Carolina

Mr. Teszler知道他在南卡羅萊納寫譜的，

in the last year of the composer's life.

當他在人生的最後

He was dying of leukemia and he knew it,

他知道他換了白血病而且時間不多了，

and he dedicated this concerto to his wife,

他譜了這首曲子給了他的太太Dita，

Dita, who was herself a concert pianist.

他太太是鋼琴演奏家。

And into the slow, second movement, marked "adagio religioso,"

在緩慢的第二章 "adagio religioso," 中

he incorporated the sounds of birdsong that he heard

他把小鳥叫融入了音樂中，

outside his window in what he knew would be his last spring;

那時他知道哪將會是他最後一個春天。

he was imagining a future for her in which he would play no part.

他想像以後妻子沒有他的未來，

And clearly this composition is his final statement to her --

這首曲子將會是最後跟妻子的告白，

it was first performed after his death --

這將會在他死後才會演奏出來，

and through her to the world.

通過她的妻子傳到世界去。

And just as clearly, it is saying, "It's okay. It was all so beautiful.

這好像是說，事情沒有這麼糟，世界依然美好。

Whenever you hear this, I will be there."

當你聽到著首歌，我依然在你身邊。

It was only after Mr. Teszler's death that I learned

Mr. Teszler先生死後我才得知。

that the marker on the grave of Bela Bartok in Hartsdale, New York

Bela Bartok 在New York 的Hartsdale正的墓碑

was paid for by Sandor Teszler. "Jó napot, Bela!"

是Teszler捐住的"Yo napot, Bela!"

Not long before Mr. Teszler’s own death at the age of 97,

不久之後Mr. Teszler’s 97歲過世，

he heard me hold forth on human iniquity.

他聽我說人性是本是邪惡的，

I delivered a lecture in which I described history

在一次的演講我把歷史描述的

as, on the whole, a tidal wave of human suffering and brutality,

人類是製造痛苦的和暴力的，

and Mr. Teszler came up to me afterwards with gentle reproach and said,

Mr. Teszler走到我面前溫柔又帶指責的跟我說，

"You know, Doctor, human beings are fundamentally good."

你知道嗎，博士，人類本性是善良的。

And I made a vow to myself, then and there,

我對自己發誓

that if this man who had such cause to think otherwise

如果這個人有什麼想法

had reached that conclusion,

我會支持他的言論，

I would not presume to differ until he released me from my vow.

除非他有錯，不然我不會違背誓言。

And now he's dead, so I'm stuck with my vow.

他已經過世了，但我還是堅持諾言。

"Jó napot, Sandor!"

"Yo napot, Sandor!"

I thought my skein of Hungarian mentors had come to an end,

我以為我跟匈牙利人得緣份就到這裡了，

but almost immediately I met Francis Robicsek, a Hungarian doctor --

我馬上就認識了匈牙利的醫生Francis Robicsek

actually a heart surgeon in Charlotte, North Carolina, then in his late seventies --

他是ㄧ名心臟外科醫生，他年紀已經近80了

who had been a pioneer in open-heart surgery,

他是心臟外科手術的先鋒，

and, tinkering away in his garage behind his house,

我見到他時他正在他家後面的倉庫修理車，

had invented many of the devices that are standard parts of those procedures.

他發明了許多裝置驅動的東西。

He's also a prodigious art collector, beginning as an intern in Budapest

她那時還是一個實習生，

by collecting 16th- and 17th-century Dutch art and Hungarian painting,

他收了16到17世紀的荷蘭藝術品和匈牙利的油畫，

and when he came to this country moving on to Spanish colonial art,

他還到美國收集西班牙殖民時的藝術品，

Russian icons and finally Mayan ceramics.

俄國的硬幣，瑪雅的陶瓷。

He's the author of seven books, six of them on Mayan ceramics.

他一共有7本書6本跟瑪雅陶瓷文化有關的，

It was he who broke the Mayan codex, enabling scholars to relate

他打破了瑪雅人的法規，讓學者能夠

the pictographs on Mayan ceramics to the hieroglyphs of the Mayan script.

將雅瑪陶瓷上的象形文及雅瑪人的手寫文關係在一起

On the occasion of my first visit, we toured his house

當我第一次拜訪他家時

and we saw hundreds of works of museum quality,

他帶我參觀上百件博物館等級的收藏品，

and then we paused in front of a closed door and Dr. Robicsek said,

我們在參觀時他突然停在一扇門前驕傲的說

with obvious pride, "Now for the piece De resistance."

讓我們來無價之寶。

And he opened the door and we walked into a

我們打開門，走了近去

windowless 20-by-20-foot room with shelves from floor to ceiling, and

看見了沒有窗戶20*20英呎的房間櫃子從地面上到天花板，

crammed on every shelf his collection of Mayan ceramics.

櫃子裡集滿了瑪雅文化的陶瓷品。

Now, I know absolutely nothing about Mayan ceramics,

當然我對瑪雅文化陶瓷一無所知，

but I wanted to be as ingratiating as possible so I said,

我跟博士說我很樂意去了解，

"But Dr. Robicsek, this is absolutely dazzling."

博士這真得太壯觀了，

"Yes," he said. "That is what the Louvre said.

沒錯，聯羅浮宮的專家也這麼說。

They would not leave me alone until I let them have a piece,

他們一直纏著我直到我送他們一件物品，

but it was not a good one." (Laughter)

但那不是一件好的陶瓷品

Well, it occurred to me that I should invite Dr. Robicsek

我想我因該邀請Dr. Robicsek到

to lecture at Wofford College on -- what else?

Wofford大學去做一個演講，有關...？

-- Leonardo da Vinci. And further, I should invite him to meet

我因該把達芬奇介紹給你，

my oldest trustee, who had majored in French history at Yale

他是我的老朋友，他在耶魯主修法國歷史

some 70-odd years before and, at 89, still ruled the world's

70年到89年還是紡織廠

largest privately owned textile empire with an iron hand.

的巨頭。

His name is Roger Milliken. And Mr. Milliken agreed,

他的名子是 Roger Milliken和Milliken先生，

and Dr. Robicsek agreed. And Dr. Robicsek visited

Dr. Robicsek同意見面了，

and delivered the lecture and it was a dazzling success.

也同意了演講，那是一場精彩很成功的演講。

And afterwards we convened at the President's House with Dr. Robicsek

之後我們在校長室見面

on one hand, Mr. Milliken on the other.

和Mr. Milliken和Dr. Robicsek

And it was only at that moment, as we were sitting down to dinner,

我們一起坐下來吃飯時，

that I recognized the enormity of the risk I had created,

我才突然發現這是多麼有風險的事情

因為我把世界兩大巨頭邀請一起吃飯，

because to bring these two titans, these two masters of the universe

together -- it was like introducing Mothra to Godzilla over the skyline of Tokyo.

舉例來說把Mothra 和 Godzilla 帶到東京來。

If they didn't like each other, we could all get trampled to death.

如果他們互相不喜歡，我就無疑了，

But they did, they did like each other.

但他們沒有，他們互相喜歡

They got along famously until the very end of the meal,

他們一直相處得很好，直到用餐即將結束，

and then they got into a furious argument.

他們爭論了起來，

And what they were arguing about was this:

他們爭論的事情是：

whether the second Harry Potter movie was as good as the first. (Laughter)

第二集的哈利波特沒有比第一集的好看，

Mr. Milliken said it was not. Dr. Robicsek disagreed.

Mr. Milliken這樣覺得，但Mr. Milliken不覺得。

I was still trying to take in the notion that these titans,

我納悶得想，

these masters of the universe, in their spare time watch Harry Potter movies,

難道這兩位巨頭空閒時都在看哈利波特？

Mr. Milliken 的說詞站了上風

when Mr. Milliken thought he would win the argument by saying,

"You just think it's so good because you didn't read the book."

但你覺的第二部不錯是因為你沒有看過原作。

And Dr. Robicsek reeled back in his chair, but quickly gathered his wits,

Dr. Robicsek暈眩所以回到他的做位，但他很快的恢復他的智慧，

leaned forward and said, "Well, that is true, but I'll bet you went

他斜斜的向前傾說，我的確沒有看過，但我敢跟你打賭

to the movie with a grandchild." "Well, yes, I did," conceded Mr. Milliken.

你因該是跟你的孫子一起去看的，Mr. Milliken承認說他是跟孫子一起看的。

"Aha!" said Dr. Robicsek. "I went to the movie all by myself." (Laughter) (Applause)

哈! Dr. Robicsek說我都是一個人去看的。

And I realized, in this moment of revelation,

我突然我意識到這個啟示，

that what these two men were revealing was the secret

他們互相的接漏秘密

of their extraordinary success, each in his own right.

是使得成就的方法。

And it lay precisely in that insatiable curiosity,

以永不滿足的好奇心

that irrepressible desire to know, no matter what the subject,

無論如何，任何事務，

no matter what the cost,

不論付出多少，

even at a time when the keepers of the Doomsday Clock

就算是世界末世的管理者

are willing to bet even money that the human race won't be around

也願意力一搏，但人們無法左右

to imagine anything in the year 2100, a scant 93 years from now.

也無法想像2100的樣子。

"Live each day as if it is your last," said Mahatma Gandhi.

甘地說活在當下把每一天都當作最後一天

"Learn as if you'll live forever."

學習你將會有永遠的活著

This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this.

這就是我得熱情所在。

It is this inextinguishable, undaunted appetite for learning and experience,

一種知識不畏畏懼學習和經驗，

no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric,

不管多滑稽，不管多難理解，

no matter how seditious it might seem.

不管看起來有多煽動性

This defines the imagined futures of our fellow Hungarians --

這決定了匈牙利想像中的未來，

Robicsek, Teszler and Bartok -- as it does my own.

Robicsek 和 Teszler 和 Bartok 和我都是這樣的。

As it does, I suspect, that of everybody here.

我想在做的各位因該也是這樣。

To which I need only add, "Ez a mi munkank; es nem is keves."

我想說"Ez a mi munkank; es nem is keves."

This is our task; we know it will be hard.

我們都知道這個任務很難達成。

"Ez a mi munkank; es nem is keves. Jó napot, pacák!" (Applause)

"Ez a mi munkank; es nem is keves." Yo napot, pacak!