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1、www.XiYuS锡育软件Having spent 18 years as a child of the state in childrenshomes and foster care,you could say that Im an expert onthe subject,and in being an expert,I want to let you knowthat being an expert does in no way make you right in lightof the truth.我是一个孤儿,由国家抚育成人 在18岁之前都生活在“儿童之家”或者“寄养家庭”,所以对于

2、今天的话题,你可能会称我为专家,不过作为专业人士,我希望你能理解 即使是专家也不一定能告知你00:13If youre in care,legally the government is your parent,locoparentis.如果你是被收养的孩子,法律上来说 政府就是你的父母。00:35Margaret Thatcher was my mother.(Laughter)Lets not talkabout breastfeeding.(Laughter)Harry Potter was a fosterchild.撒切尔夫人就是我的母亲。（笑声）哈利波特就是一个被收养的孩子。00:

3、43Pip from Great Expectations was adopted;Superman was afoster child;Cinderella was a foster child;远大前程里的皮普是个孤儿;超人也没有双亲;灰姑娘受尽继母的虐待;00:53Lisbeth Salander,the girl with the dragon tattoo,wasfostered and institutionalized;Batman was orphaned;蝙蝠侠是孤儿;01:05Lyra Belacqua from Philip Pullmans Northern Light

4、s菲利普普尔曼所著北极之光中的贝拉奎亚01:16foster:vt.培养;养育,抚育;抱(希望等)/adj.收养的,养育的 in no way:决不 in light of:根据;鉴于;从观点 loco:n.火车头;疯子;疯草病/adj.发疯的,发狂的/vt.使发疯;用疯草毒害 parentis:n.代人尽父母责任 Thatcher:n.盖屋匠 breastfeeding:n.母乳哺育/v.用母乳喂养(breastfeed的现在分词)Potter:n.陶艺家,制陶工人/vt.闲混,虚度/vi.闲逛;慢条斯理地做事 tattoo:n.纹身/vt.刺花纹于/vi.刺花样 fostered:vt.培

5、养;养育,抚育;抱(希望等)/adj.收养的,养育的 Lyra:n.天琴座was fostered;Jane Eyre,adopted;Roald Dahls James fromJames and the Giant Peach;是被收养的;01:20Matilda;Moses-Moses!(Laughter)Moses!(Laughter)-the boys in Michael Morpurgos Friend or Foe;迈克尔莫波格所著朋友或敌人中的孩子们01:29Alem in Benjamin Zephaniahs Refugee Boy;本杰明泽范尼所著逃难的男孩中的阿雷姆;

6、01:41Luke Skywalker-Luke Skywalker!(Laughter)-Oliver Twist;Cassia in The Concubine of Shanghai by Hong Ying;天行者卢克 虹影所著上海王中的小月桂;01:45Celie in Alice Walkers The Color Purple.01:57All of these great fictional characters,all of them who werehurt by their condition,all of them who spawned thousandsof oth

7、er books and other films,all of them were fostered,adopted or orphaned.都是生来因成长环境所伤害,他们催生出数以千计的著作 以及影视作品,无一例外 都是被收养,收容或者流浪的。02:00It seems that writers know that the child outside of familyreflects on what family truly is more than what it promotesitself to be.这早已超出它本身所能提供的温暖。02:20Moses:n.摩西(圣经故事中犹太人古

8、代领袖);立法者;领导者 Benjamin:n.本杰明(男子名);受宠爱的幼子 Oliver:n.奥利弗(男子名)Cassia:n.肉桂;桂皮 Concubine:n.妾;情妇;姘妇 fictional:adj.虚构的;小说的 spawned:v.引起(spawn的过去分词);孵出 adopted:adj.被收养的;被采用的/v.采用;接受(adopt的过去式和过去分词)orphaned:使成孤儿(orphan的过去式)outside of:在的外面;超出的范围 reflects:反照/反射 promotes:促进/提升That is,they also use extraordinary s

9、kills to deal withextraordinary situations on a daily basis.又因他们运用超凡的写作技巧02:36How have we not made the connection?02:46And why have we not made the connection,betweenbetween these incredible characters of popular culture andreligions,and the fostered,adopted or orphaned child in ourmidst?Its not our

10、 pity that they need.在我们身边的这些被收养或流浪荡孤儿02:50Its our respect.03:09I know famous musicians,I know actors and film stars andmillionaires and novelists and top lawyers and televisionexecutives and magazine editors and national journalistsand dustbinmen and hairdressers,all who were我认识演员和影星,百万富翁和作家 高级律师和电

11、视高管03:12looked after children,fostered,adopted or orphaned,and他们中的绝大部分成年以后 都害怕谈论到这些背景,因为这样做可能会 或多或少会黯淡他们的表面TED演讲者：Lemn Sissay|莱姆.西塞演讲标题：Lemn Sissay:A child of the state|国家的孤儿内容概要：An award-winning playwright and popular broadcaster in the UK,as well as theauthor of five poetry books,Lemn Sissay has a

12、 way with words.文学作品中充满了大量被领养、收容和流浪的孤儿，从先知摩西、灰姑娘、雾都孤儿、到哈利.波特等等。这些书中人物让我们如此着迷，然而现实却相反，为什么这么多失去双亲的孩子却选择隐藏自己的过去?作为诗人和剧作家的 Lemn Sissay 就此向我们述说了他的感人经历。looked after children,fostered,adopted or orphaned,andmany of them grow into their adult lives in fear of speakingof their background,as if it may somehow

13、 weaken theirstanding in the foreground,景,因为这样做可能会 或多或少会黯淡他们的表面光鲜,03:28midst:n.当中，中间/prep.在中间(等于amidst)millionaires:n.经百万富翁(millionaire的复数形式)novelists:n.小说家(novelist的复数)executives:n.高管们;主管们;执行管理者,执行主管(executive的复数)journalists:n.新闻记者(journalist的复数)hairdressers:n.美发师 foreground:n.前景;最显著的位置as if it wer

14、e somehow Kryptonite,as if it were a time bombstrapped on the inside.Children in care,whove had a life incare,deserve the right to own and live the memory of theirown childhood.埋在内心深处。那些生来得到呵护的孩子,注定有权享受被关爱的人生,03:43It is that simple.04:00My own mother?and I should say this here?she sameto this countr

15、y in the late 60s,and she was,you know,shefound herself pregnant,as women did in the late 60s.Youknow what I mean?我的生母在这里不得不这么说 然后,你们都能理解,她发现自己怀孕了,如同60年代女性那样,你们应该知道我指的是什么？04:02They found themselves pregnant.04:16And she sort of,she had no idea of the context in which shedlanded.她是那种,浑然不觉,对自己所来到的国家毫无

16、概念。04:18In the 1960s-I should give you some context-in the1960s,if you were pregnant and you were single,you wereseen as a threat to the community.在60年代,我应该给你们一些那个时期的背景描述,04:27You were separated from your family by the state.你会被国家赶出你的家庭。04:37You were separated from your family and placed into mother

17、and baby homes.母婴看护所。04:43You were appointed a social worker.04:48The adoptive parents were lined up.04:51Kryptonite:n.氪星石 strapped:adj.用皮绳捆住的;用皮带装饰的;身无分文的;资金短少的/v.strap的过去式和过去分词appointed:adj.约定的,指定的/v.任命;指定;约定时间,地点(appoint的过去分词形式)adoptive:adj.采用的;有收养关系的It was the primary purpose of the social worke

18、r,the aim,toget the woman at her most vulnerable time in her entire life,to sign the adoption papers.这一社工的基本目的和目标,就是趁一个女人在她一生中04:53So the adoption papers were signed.就这样,我的收养协议被签下了。05:06The mother and babys homes were often run by nuns.05:08The adoption papers were signed,the child was given to thea

19、doptive parents,and the mother shipped back to hercommunity to say that shed been on a little break.在收养协议被签署之后,重返她所在的社区 告诉大家,她刚刚休了个假。05:11A little break.05:24A little break.05:26The first secret of shame for a woman for being a woman,alittle break.05:28The adoption process took,like,a matter of mont

20、hs,so it wasa closed shop,you know,sealed deal,an industrious,utilitarian solution:the government,the farmer,theadopting parents,the consumer,the mother,the earth,andthe child,the crop.所以这是一个闭门企业,敲定协议,政府扮演了农民,生母是大地,而孩子,就是那庄稼。05:37Its kind of easy to patronize the past,to forego ourresponsibilities i

21、n the present.06:02vulnerable:adj.易受攻击的，易受的攻击；易受伤害的；有弱点的 adoption:n.采用;收养;接受 nuns:修女/尼姑(nun的复数)industrious:adj.勤勉的 utilitarian:adj.功利的;功利主义的;实利的/n.功利主义者 adopting:vt.采取;接受;收养;正式通过/vi.采取;过继 patronize:vt.以高人一等的态度对待;经常光顾,惠顾;资助;保护 forego:vt.放弃;居先;在之前responsibilities:n.责任;职责(responsibility的复数)What happene

22、d then is a direct reflection of what ishappening now.Everybody believed themselves to be doingthe right thing by God and by the state for the big society,fast-tracking adoption.06:12So anyway,she comes here,1967,shes pregnant,and shecomes from Ethiopia that was celebrating its own jubilee atthe tim

23、e under the Emperor Haile Selassie,来纪念希利王,06:32and she lands months before the Enoch Powell speech,theRivers of Blood speech.她来到这里的几个月后06:48She lands months before the Beatles release The WhiteAlbum,她来到这里的几个月后,披头士发行了白色专辑06:55months before Martin Luther King was killed.她来到这里的几个月后,马丁路德金的遇害。months befo

24、re Martin Luther King was killed.07:00It was a summer of love if you were white.07:03If you were black,it was a summer of hate.07:05So she goes from Oxford,shes sent to the north of Englandto a mother and baby home,and appointed a social worker.所以她离开牛津,被送到了英国北部的 一个母婴看护所,并被指派了一个社工。07:09Its her plan.Y

25、ou know,I have to say this in the Houses-Itsher plan to have me fostered for a short period of time whileshe studies.But the social worker,he had a different agenda.在她这么考虑时,那位社工,他却有着另一个计划。07:19jubilee:n.(犹太史)五十年节(每五十年举行一次庆祝希伯来奴隶的解放);大赦年(天主教每二十五年一次的);欢乐的佳节,欢乐的节日;重要的周年纪念 Beatles:n.披头士合唱(摇滚乐队)He found

26、the foster parents,and he said to them,Treat thisas an adoption.Hes yours forever.“把这当成一次收养,他将永远都是你们的,07:34His name is Norman.(Laughter)Norman!(Laughter)Norman!他的名字就叫做诺曼。“（笑声）07:42www.XiYuS锡育软件So they took me.I was a message,they said.07:50I was a sign from God,they said.07:57I was Norman Mark Green

27、wood.我从此就成了诺曼马克格林伍德。07:59Now,for the next 11 years,all I know is that this woman,thisbirth woman,should have her eyes scratched out for notsigning the adoption papers.She was an evil woman tooselfish to sign,so I spent those 11 years kneeling andpraying.太过自私,以至于那11年08:03I tried praying.I swear I tri

28、ed praying.我试着祈祷,我发誓我这么做过。08:18God,can I have a bike for Christmas?08:21But I would always answer myself,Yes,of course you can.我总听到内心中有声音回答,“行,你当然可以。”08:24(Laughter)And then I was supposed to determine whetherthat was the voice of God or it was the voice of the Devil.这样,我就想来确认,这声音是来自 上帝？还是来自魔鬼。08:29

29、And it turns out Ive got the Devil inside of me.结果证明,那是魔鬼的欺骗。08:37Greenwood:n.绿林;未枯干的树 scratched:adj.受抓损的;有刮痕/v.抓;搔(scratch的过去式及过去分词)kneeling:n.跪着,跪下/v.跪着(kneel的ing形式);跪下Who knew?(Laughter)So anyway,two years sort of passed,and they had a child of their own,and then another twoyears passed,and they

30、had another child of their own,andthen another time passed谁知道呢？（笑声）总之,收养我之后过去了两年,又过去了几年08:44and they had another child that they called an accident,which I thought was an unusual name.(Laughter)他们迎来了第三个孩子,给他起名“意外”,08:56And I was on the cusp of,sort of,adolescence,so I wasstarting to take biscuits fr

31、om the tin without asking.09:02I was starting to stay out a little bit late,etc.,etc.我开始在户外玩而晚回家,等等,等等09:10Now,in their religiosity,in their naivete,my mom and dad,which I believed them to be forever,as they said they were,my mom and dad conceived that I had the Devil inside ofme.我的母亲和父亲,我曾经以为是永远的父母

32、,09:14And what-I should say this here,because this is how theyengineered my leaving.策划着让我离去。09:30They sat me at a table,my foster mom,and she said to me,You dont love us,do you?At 11 years old.他们让我坐在桌前,我的养母开始对我说,“你不爱我们了,是不是？”,那时我11岁。09:34cusp:n.尖头;尖端 adolescence:n.青春期 biscuits:n.饼干;小面包(biscuit的复数形式)

33、tin:n.锡;罐头,罐;马口铁/adj.锡制的/vt.涂锡于;给包马口铁 stay out:呆在户外;不回家;持续到.结束 religiosity:n.虔诚;宗教狂;虚伪信仰 conceived:v.构思;设想(conceive的过去式)engineered:adj.设计的,工程/v.设计;指导(engineer的过去分词)Theyve had three other children.Im the fourth.The thirdwas an accident.他们已经有了三个孩子,我是第四个。第三个是个意外。09:39And I said,Yeah,of course I do.Beca

34、use you do.09:43My foster mother asked me to go away to think about loveand what it is and to read the Scriptures and to come backtomorrow and give my most honest and truthful answer.我的养母要求我离开去想一想什么是爱09:47So this was an opportunity.If they were asking me whether Iloved them or not,then I mustnt love

35、 them,which led me tothe miracle of thought that I thought they wanted me to getto.我是否爱着他们,然后我又不能回答爱着他们,09:55I will ask God for forgiveness and His light will shine照耀到他们。多么美好啊！”这一定是一个机会。10:03I will ask God for forgiveness and His light will shinethrough me to them.How fantastic.This was an opportuni

36、ty.10:03The theology was perfect,the timing unquestionable,andthe answer as honest as a sinner could get.理论是完美的,时机也是恰到好处的,10:09I mustnt love you,I said to them.But I will ask God forforgiveness.“我不能爱你们”,我对他们说。“但是我会恳求上帝的原谅。”10:15Because you dont love us,Norman,clearly youve chosenyour path.10:20Scrip

37、tures:n.经文,经典著作 truthful:adj.真实的;诚实的 theology:n.神学;宗教体系 unquestionable:adj.毫无疑问的;确实的;无可挑剔的 sinner:n.罪人;有错者Twenty-four hours later,my social worker,this strange manwho used to visit me every couple of months,hes waiting forme in the car as I say goodbye to my parents.二十四小时之后,我的那位社工,10:24I didnt say g

38、oodbye to anybody,not my mother,my father,my sisters,my brothers,my aunts,my uncles,my cousins,mygrandparents,nobody.但我没对任何一个人说再见,没有对妈妈,没有对爸爸,我的堂弟们,我的祖父母,没和任何一个人。10:33On the way to the childrens home,I started to ask myself,Whats happened to me?10:42Its not that Id had the rug pulled from beneath me

39、 as muchas the entire floor had been taken away.这种感觉不仅仅是从我脚下抽走地毯10:48For the next four,five years,I was held in four differentchildrens homes.在接下来的四、五年 我到了四个不同的儿童收容所,11:00On the third childrens home,at 15,I started to rebel,andwhat I did was,I got three tins of paint,Airfix paint that youuse for mod

40、els,and I was-it was a big childrens home,bigVictorian childrens home-and I was in a little turret at thetop of it,and I poured them,red,yellow and green,thecolors of Africa,down the tiles.我拿到三罐油漆,是那种用于做模型的蚀刻片漆,我在一个小角楼的顶部,那种非洲的色彩,沿着砖墙着落。11:09aunts:n.阿姨;姑妈;伯母;舅妈 uncles:n.叔伯 grandparents:n.祖父母(grandpa

41、rent的复数);外祖父母 tins:abbr.炮塔综合夜间瞄准镜(TurretIntegratedNightSight)turret:n.炮塔;角楼;小塔;攻城用仰冲车 poured:n.倾泻;流出;骤雨/vt.灌,注;倒;倾泻;倾吐/vi.倾泻;涌流;斟茶 tiles:n.建瓷砖(tile的复数形式)/v.铺砖(tile的第三人称单数形式)You couldnt see it from the street,because the home wassurrounded by beech trees.被山毛榉树重重包围。11:34For doing this,I was incarcerat

42、ed for a year in an assessmentcenter which was actually a remand center.It was a virtualprison for young people.因为做了这样的事,我被关了一年禁闭 事实上是一个羁押所,一个虚拟的监狱11:39By the way,years later,my social worker said that I shouldnever have been put in there.我其实不应该被囚禁在那里,11:55I wasnt charged for anything.I hadnt done a

43、nything wrong.11:59But because I had no family to inquire about me,they coulddo anything to me.12:02在我17岁的时候,他们有一个墙四周塞满软垫的囚室。12:11They would march me down corridors in last-size order.12:18They-I was put in a dormitory with a confirmed Nazisympathizer.12:24All of the staff were ex-police-interesting

44、-and ex-probation officers.以及“前试用官员”。12:30The man who ran it was an ex-army officer.12:35beech:n.山毛榉/adj.山毛榉木材的 incarcerated:adj.箝闭的/v.监禁(incarcerate的过去式);下狱 assessment:n.评定;估价remand:n.送还,遣回;还押/vt.还押,还押候审;遣回 inquire about:询问,查问;打听 corridors:n.廊道,建走廊(corridor的复数形式)dormitory:n.宿舍，学生宿舍/adj.住宅区的 sympath

45、izer:n.同情者;支持者;交感患病的眼睛(等于sympathiser)Every time I had a visit by a person who I did not know whowould feed me grapes,once every three months,每一次我都由一个不认识的人来探望 他将喂我一些葡萄,三个月一次,12:40I was strip-searched.我被当成嫌疑犯进行裸身搜查。12:46That home was full of young boys who were on remand forthings like murder.犯有类似谋杀的罪

46、行。12:49And this was the preparation that I was being given after 17years as a child of the state.结束了17年作为一个国家的孩子的身份。12:57I have to tell this story.我不得不向大家述说这个故事。13:07I have to tell it,because there was no one to put two and twotogether.我不得不述说这些,因为这里没有一个人13:10I slowly became aware that I knew nobody

47、that knew me for我慢慢的开始意识到,我发现没有人 会和我在一起超过一年。13:15I slowly became aware that I knew nobody that knew me forlonger than a year.超过一年。13:15See,thats what family does.看,这就是家庭所能带来的。13:22It gives you reference points.它能给你参考点。13:24Im not defining a good family from a bad family.我不去区分哪些好的家庭或坏的家庭。13:27Im just

48、 saying that you know when your birthday is by virtueof the fact that somebody tells you when your birthday is,amother,a father,a sister,a brother,an aunt,an uncle,acousin,a grandparent.It matters to someone,and thereforeit matters to you.Understand,会有人来告诉你,生日到了,会有母亲,父亲,姐姐,哥哥,婶婶,叔叔,也因此牵系着你。请理解,13:29

49、grapes:n.园艺葡萄(grape的复数)strip-searched:vt.对(嫌疑犯)进行光身搜查 defining:adj.最典型的;起决定性作用的/v.规定(define的ing形式);给下定义;表明特征 by virtue of:由于,凭借 grandparent:n.祖父母;祖父或祖母;外祖父母;外祖父或外祖母I was 14 years old,tucked away in myself,into myself,and Iwasnt touched either,physically touched.我不去与人交往,也没有肢体接触。13:40Im reporting back

50、.Im reporting back simply to say thatwhen I left the childrens home I had two things that I wantedto do.One was to find my family,and the other was to writepoetry.另一个是写诗。13:49In creativity I saw light.在创作中,我看到了曙光。14:06In the imagination I saw the endless possibility of life,theendless truth,the perm