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1、www.XiYuS锡育软件So,my journey began in the Bronx,New York,in a one-bedroom apartment,with my two sisters and immigrantmother.我的生命旅途,是从纽约布朗克斯区的一间 一房一厅公寓开始的。00:12I loved our neighborhood.我有两个姐姐和移民的妈妈。00:22It was lively.我很喜爱我们的社区,00:26There was all this merengue blasting,neighbors socializingon building s

2、toops and animated conversations overdomino playing.那里非常热闹。经常有人在大跳美伦格舞。邻居们在门廊上聊天,玩骨牌时参杂着生动活泼的对话。00:28It was home,and it was sweet.那是我的家,一个甜蜜的家。00:37But it wasnt simple.但是我们的社区并不单纯。00:42In fact,everyone at school knew the block where we lived,because it was where people came to buy weed and otherdrug

3、s.事实上,学校的每个人 都知道我们住的那个区域,因为大家都知道那里 可以买到大麻和其他的毒品。00:44And with drug-dealing comes conflict,so we often went tosleep to the sound of gunshots.而伴随着毒品交易 就一定有冲突事件,所以我们时常在枪声中入眠。00:53I spent much of my childhood worried,worried about oursafety.我小时候经常很担心,担心我们的安全。01:00And so did our mother.我的母亲也一样。01:07Bronx

4、:n.布朗克斯(纽约市最北端的一区);布朗克斯鸡尾酒 lively:adj.活泼的;生动的;真实的;生气勃勃的 merengue:n.梅伦格舞(海地和多米尼加的一种交际舞);梅伦格舞曲/vi.跳默朗格舞 blasting:n.爆炸;破坏;由爆破而产生的碎石块;枯萎/v.爆炸(blast的ing形式)socializing:n.交往,交际/v.社交,交际(socialize的现在分词形式)animated:adj.活生生的;活泼的;愉快的/vt.使有生气(animate的过去式)domino:n.多米诺骨牌;面具;化装外衣 weed:vt.除草;铲除/n.杂草,野草;菸草/vi.除草gunsho

5、ts:n.射击;射程;炮击/adj.射击的;枪炮射击所致的She worried that the violence we witnessed would overtakeour lives;that our poverty meant that the neighbors withwhom we lived and shared space would harm us.她担心我们目睹的暴力行为,会在我们的生命里留下阴影;而我们的贫穷也意味着 与我们住在同一空间的邻居,可能会伤害我们。01:10Our entire life was in the Bronx,but my mothers an

6、xietyspurred her into action,and soon we were driving so fast toConnecticut 我们的整个生活圈都在布朗克斯区,但是我母亲的忧虑 促使她采取行动。不久后,我们驱车前往 康乃狄克州,一路狂飙,01:21(Laughter)to boarding school campuses,with fullscholarships in tow.（笑声）去到一所有全额奖学金的寄宿学校。01:34Man,dont underestimate the power of a motherdetermined to keep her child

7、ren safe.老兄,千万不要低估 一个母亲的能力,尤其是当她决心保护孩子的安全的时候。01:40(Cheers)（欢呼）01:48(Applause)At boarding school,for the first time,I was able tosleep without worry.（鼓掌）在住宿学校,平生第一次,我得以无忧无虑的入睡。01:49I could leave my dorm room unlocked,walk barefoot in thegrass,and look up to see a night sky full of stars.我可以不用锁宿舍的门,赤脚

8、走在草地上,仰头看着布满星星的夜空。02:03Happy novelties.这些是让我很快乐的新鲜事。02:14witnessed:n.证人;目击者;证据/vt.目击;证明;为作证/vi.作证人 spurred:adj.装有马刺的;有花距的/v.鞭策;教唆(spur的过去分词)Connecticut:n.美国康乃迪克州(位于美国东北部)campuses:(大学)校园/大学/校园内的草地(campuse的复数)scholarships:n.奖学金/学问成就 underestimate:vt.低估;看轻/n.低估 barefoot:adj.赤脚的/adv.赤着脚地 look up to:尊敬 n

9、ovelties:n.新奇礼品;纪念品;新奇产品;新奇事物(novelty的复数)But there were other novelties as well.但是还有其他的新鲜事。02:18Very quickly,I felt like I didnt belong.很快地,我觉得格格不入。02:21I learned that I didnt speak the right way,and to我发现我说话的方式 和其他人不一样,为了示范如何正确地说话,我的老师经常当众纠正我,如何正TED演讲者：Dena Simmons|蒂娜 赛门斯演讲标题：How students of color

10、confront impostor syndrome|有色人种学生如何面对冒牌者症候群内容概要：As a black woman from a tough part of the Bronx who grew up to attain all themarkers of academic prestige,Dena Simmons knows that for students of color,success inschool sometimes comes at the cost of living authentically.Now an educator herself,Simmons

11、discusses how we might create a classroom that makes all students feel proud of who they are.Every child deserves an education that guarantees the safety to learn in the comfort of onesown skin,she says.一位（纽约）布朗克斯毒品区出身的黑人女性，蒂娜赛门斯（Dena Simmons）在成长的过程中获得了所有学术声望的奖项。蒂娜知道，有色人种的学生，要在学校成功，有时候是需要牺牲真实做自己为代价的

12、。现在身为教育家的她，西蒙斯与我们一起讨论如何创建一个使所有学生对自己的出身感到自豪的教室。她说：每个小孩，无论肤色，都有安心学习的权利。I learned that I didnt speak the right way,and todemonstrate the proper ways of speaking,my teachers gaveme frequent lessons,in public,on the appropriate way toenunciate certain words.何正确地说话,我的老师经常当众纠正我,如何正确地念一些语词。02:25A teacher on

13、ce instructed me in the hallway:Aaaaaas-king.有一次,老师直接在走廊上教我:Aaaaaas-king（问）02:41She said this loudly.她说得很大声。02:49Dena,its not axing,like youre running around with anaxe.蒂娜,不是axing 那是你拿着一把斧头到处走。02:53Thats silly.那很可笑。02:58Now at this point,you can imagine the snickers of myclassmates,but she continued

14、:Think about breaking theword into ass and king,and then put the two together tosay it correctly Asking.在那时,你可想像 我的同班同学都在窃笑,但是她继续说:试试把这个字分成ass 和king两个字,然后把这两个字连起来,正确地念出来Asking。03:00There were some other moments that reminded me that Ididnt belong.其它时候我也经常觉得格格不入。03:21Once,I walked into a classmates d

15、orm room,and I watchedher watch her valuables around me.有一次,我走进一个 同学的宿舍房间,我注意到她一直在注意 在我身边的贵重物品。03:27enunciate:vt.发音;阐明;宣布/vi.阐明;清晰地发音 instructed:adj.受教育的;得到指示的/v.指示;教育(instruct的过去分词形式)hallway:n.走廊;门厅;玄关 loudly:adv.大声地,响亮地 axing:v.用斧砍断;裁减(axe的ing形式)snickers:偷笑/窃笑/窃笑着说(snicker的第三人称单数)valuables:n.贵重物品L

16、ike,why would she do that?I thought to myself.我那时想,她为什么会这样呢？03:35And then there was the time when another classmate walkedinto my dorm room,and yelled,Ew!as I was applying hairgrease to my scalp.另一次是,有另一位同学走进我的宿舍房间,当她看到我在头发上抹油。她大声叫,恶！03:39There is emotional damage done when young people cantbe thems

17、elves,when they are forced to edit who they are inorder to be acceptable.年轻人会有情绪伤害,如果他不能做他自己,或是他被迫改变自己 来让别人接纳他们。03:50Its a kind of violence.那是一种暴力行为。04:03Ultimately,Im a quintessential success story.终究,我是一个典型的成功故事。04:06I attended boarding school and college in New England,studied abroad in Chile and

18、 returned to the Bronx to be amiddle school teacher.我就学于新英格兰州的 寄宿学校和大学,也去过智利留学,然后我回到布朗柯斯区 当一位中学老师。04:12I received a Truman Scholarship,a Fulbright and a SorosFellowship.我拿过杜鲁门奖学金、富布莱特奖学金、和索罗斯奖学金。04:22And I could list more.我可以继续告诉你其它的。04:29(Laughter)But I wont.（笑声）但我不会。04:29(Laughter)I earned my doct

19、orate at Columbia University.（笑声）我从哥伦比亚大学得到博士学位。04:32yelled:叫喊,号叫,叫着说(yell的过去式和过去分词)grease:vt.涂脂于;贿赂/n.油脂;贿赂 scalp:n.头皮;战利品/vt.剥头皮/vi.剥头皮 emotional:adj.情绪的；易激动的；感动人的 quintessential:adj.精髓的,精萃的 Fulbright:n.富布莱特奖学金/adj.富尔布赖特奖学金的 Fellowship:n.友谊;奖学金;研究员职位 doctorate:n.博士学位;博士头衔(Cheers)（欢呼）04:38(Applause

20、)And then I landed a job at Yale.（掌声）然后从耶鲁大学拿到一个工作。04:39(Applause)I am proud of everything that Ive been able toaccomplish on my journey thus far.（掌声）我对我到目前为止的所有成就 感到骄傲。04:44I have eternal imposter syndrome.但是我一直有冒牌者症候群。04:53Either Ive been invited because Im a token,which really isntabout me,but ra

21、ther,about a box someone needed to checkoff.我被邀请的原因,是因为我象征着某一群人,而不是因为我个人,又或者因为我在别人的待办事项上。04:59Or,I am exceptional,which means Ive had to leave thepeople I love behind.或是,我的出类拔萃,是因为我必须抛下我深爱的人。05:09Its the price that I and so many others pay for learning whileblack.但这些是我和其他许多黑人 为了学习所付出的代价。05:17(Applau

22、se)I police myself all the time.（掌声）我常常檢视自己。05:25Are my pants too tight?我的裤子太紧吗？05:38Should I wear my hair up or in a fro?我应该把头发盘上去或是让它自然蓬鬆？05:41Should I speak up for myself,or will the power of my wordsbe reduced to:Shes angry?我是否应该为自己发言,或者我说话的力道是否 被解读为她生气了？05:45Why did I have to leave the Bronx to

23、 gain access to a bettereducation?我为何要离开布朗克斯区 去得到更好的教育？05:53eternal:adj.永恒的;不朽的 imposter:n.骗子;冒名顶替者 syndrome:n.临床综合征;综合症状;并发症状;校验子;并发位check off:核对;经查对无误而在上作记号;扣除 exceptional:adj.异常的，例外的/n.超常的学生 speak up:更大声地说;无保留地说出www.XiYuS锡育软件And why,in the process of getting that better education,did I have to en

24、dure the trauma of erasing what made me,me a black girl from the Bronx,raised by an Antiguanmother?还有为什么,为了得到更好的教育过程当中,我必须忍受不能当自己的创伤？不能当一位来自布朗克斯区,由安提瓜母亲所养大的黑人女孩？06:01So when I think about our current education reforminitiatives,I cant help asking:What are our students of colorlearning about themselv

25、es?所以当我思考 我们现在的教育改革计划,我不禁要问:我们有色人种的学生,对他们自己了不了解？06:19Three three decades of research reveal that students ofcolor are suspended and expelled at a rate three timesgreater than white students,and are punished in harsherways for the same infractions.30 年来的研究显示,有色人种学生被休学和退学的比率,是白人学生的三倍,同样的违规行为,他们被处罚得较严厉

26、。06:33They also learn this through the absence of their lives andnarratives in the curricula.他们也了解 课本中缺少了他们的生活与故事。06:51The Cooperative Childrens Book Center did a review ofnearly 4,000 books and found that only three percent wereabout African-Americans.合作儿童图书中心 做了近四千本书的审查,发现只有百分之三的书 是有关非裔美国人的。06:57i

27、n the process of:在的过程中 trauma:n.外科创伤(由心理创伤造成精神上的异常);外伤 erasing:v.擦除;清除;取消(erase的现在分词)initiatives:n.积极性;主动权(initiative的复数);创始 expelled:v.开除;驱逐(expel的过去分词);逐出;除名harsher:刺耳的/粗糙的/严厉的(harsh的比较级)infractions:n.违反 narratives:n.叙述,故事;叙述的手法(narrative复数)curricula:n.课程(curriculum的复数形式)And they further learn thi

28、s through the lack of teachers thatlook like them.他们更进一步知道 和他们面貌相同的教师也很少。07:08An analysis of data from the National Center for EducationStatistics found that 45 percent of our nations pre-K to highschool students were people of color,while only 17 percent ofour teachers are.国家教育统计中心的 分析资料当中发现,我们国家从学

29、前到高中 有 45%的学生是有色人种,但有色人种的 教师只有 17%。07:14Our youth of color pay a profound price when theirschooling sends them the message that they must becontrolled,that they must leave their identities at home inorder to be successful.我们的有色人种青年 付出了相当大的代价,因为他们的学校给他们的讯息是 他们必须被控制,他们必须将他们的身分留在家里,才能够出人头地。07:34Every c

30、hild deserves an education that guarantees the safetyto learn in the comfort of ones own skin.每个小孩 无论肤色,都有安心学习的权利。07:48(Applause)It is possible to create emotionally and physicallysafe classrooms where students also thrive academically.（掌声）创造身心安全的教学环境 学生的课業才有可能 表现得越来越好。08:02I know,because I did it i

31、n my classroom when I returned toteach in the Bronx.我知道这点,因为当我回到朗克斯区去教书的时候,我的班级就是如此。08:19So what did that look like?所以那是什么样子呢？08:26Statistics:n.统计;统计学;统计统计资料 schooling:n.学校教育;学费/v.教育(school的ing形式);培养 identities:身份/特性guarantees:v.保证(guarantee的第三人称单数)/n.保证,法担保;抵押物(guarantee的复数)emotionally:adv.感情上;情绪上;

32、令人激动地;情绪冲动地 academically:adv.学术上;学业上I centered my instruction on the lives,histories and identitiesof my students.我的教学是以 学生的生活、历史 和他们的身分为中心。08:29And I did all of this because I wanted my students to knowthat everyone around them was supporting them to be theirbest self.我如此做是因为我要我的学生知道,他们周围的所有人都支持他们

33、发挥最好的一面。08:37So while I could not control the instability of their homes,theuncertainty of their next meal,or the loud neighbors thatkept them from sleep,虽然我无法控制 他们的家庭稳不稳定,他们的下一餐在哪里,或者吵闹的邻居让他们无法睡觉,08:47I provided them with a loving classroom that made them feelproud of who they are,that made them kn

34、ow that theymattered.但我可以提供他们一个爱的教室,让他们对自己是谁感到骄傲,让他们知道他们很重要。09:00You know,every time I hear or say the word asking,你知道,每次我听到或要说 asking这个字的时候,09:10I am in high school again.我就又回想到高中时期。09:19I am thinking about ass and king我会想把ass和king09:24and putting the two together so that I speak in a way wheresome

35、one in power will want to listen.两个字连在一起说出来,因为这样的说话方式,有权势的人才能听见我说的话。09:30There is a better way,one that doesnt force kids of color intoa double bind;a way for them to preserve their ties to theirfamilies,homes and communities;a way that teaches them totrust their instincts and to have faith in their

36、 own creativegenius.但有一种更好的方式,一种不用迫使有色人种孩子进退两难的方式;一种让他们可以与他们的亲人、家庭和社区维持紧密关系的方式;一种教导他们相信自己的本能,并对自己的创造天分有信心的方式。09:39centered:adj.居中的;有圆心的/v.集中;居中(center的过去式和过去分词形式)instability:n.不稳定(性)；基础薄弱；不安定uncertainty:n.不确定,不可靠 mattered:n.物质;原因;事件/vi.有关系;要紧 in a way:在某种程度上;有点儿;十分激动preserve:vt.保存;保护;维持;腌;禁猎/n.保护区;禁猎地;加工成的食品 instincts:n.生物本能(instinct的复数);心理直觉Thank you.谢谢。10:06(Applause)（掌声）10:08*Warning:本文是由生成导出，请用于个人学习，不要用于商业用途。否则，导致的一切法律后果，均由您个人承担，锡育软件概不负责。*