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Rives: The Museum of Four in the Morning
里夫斯: 凌晨四时的妙境
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须知：里夫斯疯狂地迷恋于凌晨四点这一现象。在2007 TED中，这个诗人与我们分享了这一个固定的时间搭配如何出现在生活中每一个角落。但是在这次讲话之后，他收到了无数的邮件，都在诉说这些尴尬或搞笑的巧合---从“今日花边”的杂志封面到在"摩登原始人"和“摩登家庭”的两次提名。一起领略优美的凌晨四点的巧合之境，充满着惊喜的宝藏。
Rives - Performance poet, multimedia artist
Performance artist and storyteller Rives has been called "the first 2.0 poet," using images, video and technology to bring his words to life. Full bio
Performance artist and storyteller Rives has been called "the first 2.0 poet," using images, video and technology to bring his words to life. Full bio
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对我来说，网络世界中发生过最浪漫的事情
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The most romantic thing to ever happen to me online
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started out the way most things do:
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和大多数其它事情一样地开始：
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without me, and not online.
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与我无关，并且不在网上。
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On December 10, 1896, the man on the medal,
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1896年12月，那个金牌上的男人，
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Alfred Nobel, died.
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阿尔佛雷德·诺贝尔去世了。
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One hundred years later, exactly, actually,
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100年后，确切的说，
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December 10, 1996,
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实际上是1996年12月10号，
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this charming lady, Wislawa Szymborska,
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这位迷人的女士，维斯拉娃.斯滋莫博思卡，
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won the Nobel Prize for literature.
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获得了诺贝尔文学奖。
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She's a Polish poet.
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她是位波兰诗人。
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She's a big deal, obviously,
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显然，她是一位了不起的诗人，
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but back in '96, I thought I had never heard of her,
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但是在1996年之前，我从未听说过她的大名，
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and when I checked out her work,
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当我拜读她的大作时，
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I found this sweet little poem,
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我发现这首可爱的小诗，
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"Four in the Morning."
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“凌晨四时。”
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"The hour from night to day.
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”从夜到昼。
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The hour from side to side.
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时光穿梭于两边。
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The hour for those past thirty..."
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整点转瞬已过半...“
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And it goes on, but as soon as I read this poem,
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这首诗的格调就是这样，但当我阅读这首诗
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I fell for it hard,
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我深深地为之吸引
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so hard, I suspected we must have met
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这吸引如此强烈，以至于我怀疑我们以前一定
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somewhere before.
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在某处有过相遇。
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Had I shared an elevator ride with this poem?
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或许是在电梯间的广告栏
或许我
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Did I flirt with this poem
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in a coffee shop somewhere?
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在某个咖啡厅里与这首诗一笑而过？
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I could not place it, and it bugged me,
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我不能将它定位，而它在我脑中挥之不去
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and then in the coming week or two,
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接着之后的一两周，
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I would just be watching an old movie,
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我正在欣赏一部老电影，
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and this would happen.
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奇迹发生了。
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(Video) Groucho Marx: Charlie, you
should have come to the first party.
should have come to the first party.
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（视频）Groucho Marx：Charlie，你应该参加第一次聚会的。
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We didn't get home till around four in the morning.
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我们直到凌晨四点才回家。
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Rives: My roommates would have the TV on,
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莱夫斯：当我室友把电视打开时，
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and this would happen.
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它又发生了。
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(Music: Seinfeld theme)
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（音乐：Seinfeld主旋律）
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(Video) George Costanza: Oh boy,
I was up til four in the morning
I was up til four in the morning
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（电影）George Costanza：天哪，我一直在看凶兆三部曲
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watching that Omen trilogy.
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直到凌晨四点钟。
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Rives: I would be listening to music,
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莱夫斯：当我在听音乐时，
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and this would happen.
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这又发生了。
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(Video) Elton John: ♪ It's four o'clock
in the morning, damn it. ♪
in the morning, damn it. ♪
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(视频)Elton John：已经凌晨四点了，该死。
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Rives: So you can see what was going on, right?
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莱夫斯：所以你发现了什么，对不对？
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Obviously, the demigods of coincidence
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显然的，巧合之神
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were just messing with me.
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在和我开玩笑。
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Some people get a number stuck in their head,
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一些人脑海中有一个数字挥之不去，
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you may recognize a certain name or a tune,
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你可能会选择一个特定的名字或音符，
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some people get nothing, but four in the morning
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一些人什么都记不住，但是凌晨四点钟
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was in me now, but mildly,
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就在我脑海里，轻轻地，
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like a groin injury.
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像穹窿般地划下一痕
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I always assumed it would just go away
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我常常想这感觉很快
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on its own eventually,
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就会自己逐渐消失了，
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and I never talked about it with anybody,
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而且我从来没和任何人讨论过这些，
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but it did not, and I totally did.
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但是它没有，而我和别人说了这件事。
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In 2007, I was invited to speak at TED
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2007年，我被TED邀请去做演讲
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for the second time,
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那是第二次，
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and since I was still an authority on nothing,
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因为我并不是任何领域的权威人物，
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I thought, what if I made a multimedia presentation
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我想，我可以做一个多媒体的演示，
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on a topic so niche
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在一个不太重要的话题上
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it is actually inconsequential
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这实际上无关紧要
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or actually cockamamie.
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或者实际上很繁琐。
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So my talk had some of my
four in the morning examples,
four in the morning examples,
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所以我的演讲有着许多我所经历”凌晨四点“的例子，
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but it also had examples
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但是其中也包含了一些例子
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from my fellow TED speakers that year.
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是我同年的TED演讲者的经历。
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I found four in the morning in a novel
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我在一本小说中发现了凌晨四点
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by Isabel Allende.
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是Isabel Allende所著。
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I found a really great one
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我发现了一个很棒的例子
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in the autobiography of Bill Clinton.
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在比尔.克林顿自传中。
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I found a couple in the work of Matt Groening,
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我还在在迈特.格拉宁的作品中发现了一些，
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although Matt Groening told me later
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尽管迈特.格拉宁之后告诉我
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that he could not make my talk
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他不能来听我的演讲
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because it was a morning session
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因为是清晨的时间段
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and I gather that he is not an early riser.
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我知道他不是一个早起的人。
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However, had Matt been there,
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然而，如果迈特来过这里，
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he would have seen this mock conspiracy theory
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他就可以看到这个虚拟的理论
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that was un-freaking-canny for me to assemble.
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那是我多么用心才构建起来的。
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It was totally contrived
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而这完全是瞎编的
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just for that room, just for that moment.
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仅仅是那个房间，仅仅在那个时刻。
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That's how we did it in the pre-TED.com days.
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这是我们在为TED演讲做准备的那些天。
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It was fun. That was pretty much it.
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那很有意思。大概就这样了。
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When I got home, though,
the emails started coming in
the emails started coming in
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然后，当我回家后，我收到了很多邮件
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from people who had seen the talk live,
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是来自观看过这期节目的观众，
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beginning with, and this is still my favorite,
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开始的一个，是我最喜欢的，
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"Here's another one for your collection:
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“又一个例子供你收集：
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'It's the friends you can call
up at 4 a.m. that matter.'"
up at 4 a.m. that matter.'"
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重要的是，有一个能在凌晨四点打电话的朋友。”
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The sentiment is Marlene Dietrich.
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这是玛丽琳.狄耶翠绮的感悟。
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The email itself was from another very
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这份邮件本身有着
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sexy European type,
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非常性感的欧洲风格，
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TED Curator Chris Anderson.
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是TED的创始人克里斯.安德森。
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(Laughter)
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（笑声）
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Chris found this quote
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克里斯发现了这句话
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on a coffee cup or something,
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在一个什么咖啡杯的上面，
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and I'm thinking, this man is the Typhoid Mary
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我就想，这个男人是专门传播思想的
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of ideas worth spreading, and I have infected him.
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包打听，而我也传染了他。
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I am contagious,
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我是传染性的，
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which was confirmed less than a week later
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这在不到一周后得到确认
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when a Hallmark employee scanned and sent
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当一个豪马公司的员工扫描发送了
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an actual greeting card
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一张贺卡
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with that same quotation.
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上面印着同样的寄语。
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As a bonus, she hooked me up
with a second one they make.
with a second one they make.
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作为奖励，她让我跟他们一起制作另一种贺卡。
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It says, "Just knowing I can call you
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上面写着，“仅仅知道当我需要你时
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at four in the morning if I need to
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我可以在凌晨四点给你打电话
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makes me not really need to,"
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就已足够安慰，”
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which I love, because together these are like,
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我很喜欢这两句话，因为在一起就像是，
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"Hallmark: When you care enough
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“Hallmark："当你足够在意一个人
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to send the very best twice,
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时，你就会发了两次
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phrased slightly differently."
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用词稍许不同的贺卡。”
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I was not surprised at the TEDster
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我丝毫不惊讶TED和
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and New Yorker magazine overlap.
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纽约客杂志会有重合的地方。
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A bunch of people sent me this when it came out.
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许多人在这个信息出现时立刻发给我
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"It's 4 a.m.—maybe you'd sleep
better if you bought some crap."
better if you bought some crap."
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“现在凌晨四点-或许入睡比
你买了什么垃圾要强。”
你买了什么垃圾要强。”
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I was surprised at the TEDster/"Rugrats" overlap.
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我惊讶于TEDster和Rugrats的重叠之处。
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More than one person sent me this.
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不止一个人给我发过这个。
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(Video) Didi Pickles: It's
four o'clock in the morning.
four o'clock in the morning.
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（视频）迪迪.皮克斯:现在凌晨四点。
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Why on Earth are you making chocolate pudding?
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你竟然在做巧克力布丁？
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Stu Pickles: Because I've lost control of my life.
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司徒.皮克斯:因为我的生活已经失控了。
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(Laughter)
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（笑声）
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Rives: And then there was the lone TEDster
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拉夫斯:有一个孤独的TED爱好者
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who was disgruntled I had overlooked
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很不满我忽视了一个
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what he considers to be a classic.
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他认为堪称经典的视频。
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(Video) Roy Neary: Get up, get up! I'm not kidding.
Ronnie Neary: Is there an accident?
Ronnie Neary: Is there an accident?
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（视频）罗易.奈儿瑞： 起来，快起来！我不是在开玩笑。
罗尼.奈儿瑞: 有意外吗？
罗尼.奈儿瑞: 有意外吗？
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Roy: No, it's not an accident. You
wanted to get out of the house anyway, right?
wanted to get out of the house anyway, right?
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罗易:不，不是意外，你就是想要出去是不是？
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Ronnie: Not at four o'clock in the morning.
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罗尼:但不是凌晨四点！
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Rives: So that's "Close Encounters,"
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拉夫斯:所以那是“人与外星人亲密接触，”
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and the main character is all worked up
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所有的主人公都行动起来
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because aliens, momentously,
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因为重要的是，外星人，
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have chosen to show themselves to earthlings
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都选择在凌晨四点钟
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at four in the morning,
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出现在凡人世界。
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which does make that a very solid example.
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这也是个强有力的例子。
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Those were all really solid examples.
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非常强的例证。
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They did not get me any closer to understanding
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虽然这些并没有使我更明白
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why I thought I recognized this one particular poem.
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我为何能够辨认出那首特别的小诗。
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But they followed the pattern. They played along.
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但是他们都遵循同一种风格。彼此符合。
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Right? Four in the morning as this scapegoat hour
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是不是？凌晨四点像替罪羊
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when all these dramatic occurrences
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当这一切戏剧性的事件发生时
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allegedly occur.
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或者据说是发生了。
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Maybe this was some kind of cliche
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或许这是一些陈词滥调
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that had never been taxonomized before.
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只是从前从未被归类。
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Maybe I was on the trail
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或许我是走在一条小路上
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of a new meme or something.
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一个新的文化现象什么的。
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Just when things were getting pretty interesting,
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只是因为当事情变得有趣起来的时候，
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things got really interesting.
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就变得真的很有趣了。
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TED.com launched, later that year,
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去年下半年，TED.com正式推出了
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with a bunch of videos from past talks,
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许多之前讲座的视频，
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including mine,
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包括我的，
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and I started receiving "four in the morning" citations
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从那时起我开始收到各种“凌晨四点”的引用
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from what seemed like every
time zone on the planet.
time zone on the planet.
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从似乎这个星球的每个角落。
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Much of it was content I never would have found
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那些内容如果我自己去找
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on my own if I was looking for it,
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我绝对无法找到，
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and I was not.
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而且我也没有去找。
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I don't know anybody with juvenile diabetes.
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我不认识任何有青少年糖尿病的人。
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I probably would have missed the booklet,
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我就可能错过这个小册子，
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"Grilled Cheese at Four O'Clock in the Morning."
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“凌晨四点的煎奶酪三明治。”
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(Laughter)
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（笑声）
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I do not subscribe to Crochet Today! magazine,
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我不订阅“今日花边”杂志，
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although it looks delightful. (Laughter)
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尽管它看起来很可爱。（笑声）
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Take note of those clock ends.
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记下这些结束的时间。
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This is a college student's suggestion
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这是一个大学生
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for what a "four in the morning" gang sign
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为一个“凌晨四点”的团伙标志
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should look like.
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的建议。
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People sent me magazine ads.
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人们寄给我杂志广告。
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They took photographs in grocery stores.
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他们从杂货市场里照照片。
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I got a ton of graphic novels and comics.
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我收到了数不清的图画书和动画。
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A lot of good quality work, too:
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还有一些很棒的作品。
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"The Sandman," "Watchmen."
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“沙人”，“钟表人。”
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There's a very cute example
here from "Calvin and Hobbes."
here from "Calvin and Hobbes."
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这是一些从“凯尔文和嗜好”里很可爱的例子。
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In fact, the oldest citation anybody sent in
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实际上，人们寄来的最原始的引用
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was from a cartoon from the Stone Age.
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来自一个石器时代的动画。
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Take a look.
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我们看一看。
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(Video) Wilma Flintstone: Like how early?
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（视频）威尔玛.福林斯通:能有多早？
05:53
Fred Flintstone: Like at 4 a.m., that's how early.
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弗雷德.福林斯通: 凌晨四点，就这么早。
05:56
Rives: And the flip side of the timeline,
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莱夫斯: 时间轴的另一面，
05:58
this is from the 31st century.
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那是31世纪
05:59
A thousand years from now,
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一千年后，
06:00
people are still doing this.
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人们还在做这些。
06:03
(Video): Announcer: The time is 4 a.m.
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（视频）播报：现在是凌晨四点。
06:06
(Laughter)
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（笑声）
06:07
Rives: It shows the spectrum.
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莱夫斯:这是个范围。
06:08
I received so many songs, TV shows, movies,
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我收到那么多的歌曲，电视节目，电影，
06:12
like from dismal to famous,
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从不知名的到众所周知的，
06:14
I could give you a four-hour playlist.
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我光列单子就能列四个小时。
06:16
If I just stick to modern male movie stars,
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如果我只选用现代男性影星，
06:18
I keep it to the length
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这个单子的时间
06:19
of about a commercial.
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有一个电视广告那么长。
06:21
Here's your sampler.
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这是你的例子。
06:22
(Movie montage of "It's 4 a.m.")
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（“凌晨四点“电影剪辑）
06:49
(Laughter)
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（笑声）
06:52
Rives: So somewhere along the line,
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莱夫斯：在这期间，
06:54
I realized I have a hobby
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我意识到我有一个习惯
06:56
I didn't know I wanted,
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我并不一定喜欢，
06:58
and it is crowdsourced.
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而且这是大众性的。
07:00
But I was also thinking what you might be thinking,
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但是我想你或许在想，
07:03
which is really, couldn't you do this
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真的么？你就不能在一天抽出一小时
07:04
with any hour of the day?
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去做这些？
07:06
First of all, you are not getting clips like that
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首先，不是你
07:07
about four in the afternoon.
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收到这些“凌晨四点钟”的片段。
07:09
Secondly, I did a little research.
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其次，我做了一些调查。
07:10
You know, I was kind of interested.
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你知道，我有点儿感兴趣了。
07:12
If this is confirmation bias,
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是否这些是真实的偏见，
07:14
there is so much confirmation, I am biased.
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有太多的证明，我是有偏见的。
07:17
Literature probably shows it best.
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文学本身或许能最好地展示。
07:18
There are a couple three in
the mornings in Shakespeare.
the mornings in Shakespeare.
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在莎士比亚作品中有许多凌晨三点。
07:20
There's a five in the morning.
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也有凌晨五点。
07:22
There are seven four in the mornings,
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还有早上七点四分，
07:23
and they're all very dire.
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他们都很可怕。
07:24
In "Measure for Measure," it's
the call time for the executioner.
the call time for the executioner.
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在“量罪记”中，这是刽子手即将行刑的时间。
07:27
Tolstoy gives Napoleon insomnia
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托尔斯泰令拿破仑彻夜难眠是在
07:30
at four in the morning right before battle
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“战争与和平”中的大战
07:32
in "War and Peace."
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之前的凌晨四点。
07:34
Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" has got kind of
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夏绿蒂.布朗提的“简爱”中有一些
07:35
a pivotal four in the morning,
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关键的凌晨四时，
07:36
as does Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights."
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还有艾米丽.布朗题的“呼啸山庄。”
07:40
"Lolita" has as a creepy four in the morning.
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洛丽塔有恐怖的凌晨四时。
07:43
"Huckleberry Finn" has one in dialect.
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“哈扣贝利.分历险记”有方言版的凌晨四点
07:47
Someone sent in H.G. Wells' "The Invisible Man."
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有人寄给我了H.G.Wells的《那个看不见的人》
07:50
Someone else sent in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man."
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还有人寄给我劳夫.爱丽深的《看不见的人》
07:53
"The Great Gatsby" spends the last
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《了不起的盖茨比》用了生命中最后的
07:55
four in the morning of his life
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凌晨的四个小时
07:57
waiting for a lover who never shows,
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来等待他没有出现的恋人，
07:59
and the most famous wake-up in literature, perhaps,
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还有可能最出名的文学史创举，
08:02
"The Metamorphosis."
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《变形记》
08:03
First paragraph, the main character wakes up
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第一段中，主人公
08:05
transformed into a giant cockroach,
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醒来变成了一只大的甲虫，
08:07
but we already know, cockroach notwithstanding,
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但是我们都知道，尽管是甲虫，
08:10
something is up with this guy.
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他还是要做些什么。
08:12
Why? His alarm is set for four o'clock in the morning.
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为什么？因为他的闹钟定在了凌晨四点
08:15
What kind of person would do that?
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什么人会做这种事？
08:19
This kind of person would do that.
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这种人就是会这样做。
08:21
(Music)
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（音乐）
08:25
(4 a.m. alarm clock montage)
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（凌晨四点钟闹铃剪辑）
08:30
(Video) Newcaster: Top of the hour.
Time for the morning news.
Time for the morning news.
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（视频）新闻广播：凌晨四点新闻播报。
08:33
But of course, there is no news yet.
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但是当然，凌晨四点还没什么新闻。
08:34
Everyone's still asleep in their comfy, comfy beds.
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人们都还在梦中安眠。
08:37
Rives: Exactly.
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莱夫斯:毫无疑问，
08:39
So that's Lucy from the Peanuts,
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所以这是来自“花生”的露西，
08:41
"Mommie Dearest", Rocky, first day of training,
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“亲爱的妈妈”,罗克的第一天培训
08:43
Nelson Mandela, first day in office,
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纳尔逊.曼德拉第一天上班，
08:45
and Bart Simpson, which combined with a cockroach
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而巴特.辛普深,跟一个甲虫混合一起
08:48
would give you one hell of a dinner party
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可以毁了你的晚餐派对的同时
08:50
and gives me yet another category,
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也给了我另一个分类，
08:52
people waking up, in my big old database.
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在我的大数据库中，人们醒着。
08:55
Just imagine that your friends and your family
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想象一下，你的朋友和家人
08:57
have heard that you collect, say, stuffed polar bears,
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听说过你的收藏，比如说北极毛毛熊，
09:00
and they send them to you.
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于是他们寄给你这些毛毛熊。
09:02
Even if you don't really, at a certain point,
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尽管你不是真的想，只不过在一个特定的时候，
09:05
you totally collect stuffed polar bears,
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你收藏了北极毛毛熊，
09:08
and your collection is probably pretty kick-ass.
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而且你的收藏可能是很高大上。
09:10
And when I got to that point, I embraced it.
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当我知道这一点时，我接受了这个现实。
09:12
I got my curator on. I started fact checking,
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我继续做着我的收藏馆长。并且我开始进行事实核查，
09:15
downloading, illegally screen-grabbing.
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下载，非法截屏。
09:18
I started archiving.
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我开始储藏资料。
09:19
My hobby had become a habit,
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我的爱好变成了习惯，
09:21
and my habit gave me possibly the world's
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而且我的习惯给了我这个世界上
09:24
most eclectic Netflix queue.
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范围最广的Netflix的列表。
09:27
At one point, it went, "Guys and Dolls: The Musical,"
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一度，它包括《红男绿女：音乐剧版》
09:30
"Last Tango in Paris,"
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《巴黎最后的探戈》
09:31
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid,"
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《小屁孩日记》
09:32
"Porn Star: Legend of Ron Jeremy."
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《色情明星：Ron Jeremy的传奇》
09:34
Why "Porn Star: Legend of Ron Jeremy"?
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为什么是《色情明星：Ron Jeremy的传奇》？
09:36
Because someone told me I
would find this clip in there.
would find this clip in there.
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因为有人告诉我能在那里找到一个片段。
09:39
(Video) Ron Jeremy: I was born
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”视频“Ron Jemery说：我出生在
09:40
in Flushing, Queens
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法拉盛，皇后区
09:42
on March, 12, 1953,
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1953年三月12日，
09:45
at four o'clock in the morning.
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凌晨四时。
09:47
Rives: Of course he was. (Laughter) (Applause)
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莱夫斯:毫无疑问他是。（笑声）（掌声）
09:48
Yeah. Not only does it seem to make sense,
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当然，这不仅说得通，
09:51
it also answers the question,
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而且还回答了这个问题，
09:54
"What do Ron Jeremy and Simone de Beauvoir
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”Ron Jeremy和Simone de Beauvoir
09:56
have in common?"
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有什么共同点？
09:58
Simone de Beauvoir begins her entire autobiography
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Simone de Beauvoir的自传开始于这样一句
10:01
with the sentence, "I was born
at four o'clock in the morning,"
at four o'clock in the morning,"
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”我出生在凌晨四点。“
10:03
which I had because someone
else had emailed it to me,
else had emailed it to me,
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这是有人通过邮件发给我的
10:05
and when they did, I had another bump up
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而当他们发给我这个的时候，和我的记录里
10:08
in my entry for this, because porn star Ron Jeremy
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另一个例子有了冲撞。因为色情明星Ron Jeremy
10:11
and feminist Simone de Beauvoir
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和女权主义者 Simone de Beauvoir
10:13
are not just different people.
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不仅仅是不同的人。
10:14
They are different people that
have this thing connecting them,
have this thing connecting them,
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他们是不同的人但有着凌晨四点连接了他们，
10:17
and I did not know if that is trivia or knowledge
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我不知道这是一个难题或是个知识
10:20
or inadvertent expertise, but I did wonder,
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或是疏忽，但是我不禁想知道，
有没有更酷的方式去做这些？
10:23
is there maybe a cooler way to do this?
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10:25
So last October, in gentleman scholar tradition,
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于是去年十月，按照绅士学者的传统，
我把所有的收藏公布在网上
10:29
I put the entire collection online
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10:31
as "Museum of Four in the Morning."
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叫做”凌晨四时的妙境。“
10:33
You can click on that red "refresh" button.
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你可以点击红色的”刷新“按钮。
10:35
It will take you at random to one of
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这会把你链接到数以百计收藏中
10:37
hundreds of snippets that are in the collection.
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的任意一个片段。
10:40
Here is a knockout poem
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这是一首绝佳的小诗
10:41
by Billy Collins called "Forgetfulness."
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出自Billy Collins"健忘症“
10:44
(Video) Billy Collins: No wonder you rise
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（视频）Billy Collins:难怪你会在
10:45
in the middle of the night
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午夜坐起
10:47
to look up the date of a famous battle
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在书中寻找
10:49
in a book on war.
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那场著名战役的日期。
10:51
No wonder the moon in the window
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难怪窗口的月光
10:54
seems to have drifted out of a love poem
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好像流淌出一首可爱的小诗
10:56
that you used to know by heart.
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曾经篆刻在心间。
10:59
Rives: So the first hour of this project
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莱夫斯:所以这个项目的第一个小时
11:03
was satisfying.
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是满足感。
11:04
A Bollywood actor sang a line on a DVD in a cafe.
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一个宝莱坞演员在一家咖啡厅的DVD中的歌词。
11:08
Half a globe away, a teenager
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在半个世界以外，一个青年
11:11
made an Instagram video of it and sent it to me,
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在Instagram网站做了视频发给我
11:13
a stranger.
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一个陌生人。
11:14
Less than a week later, though,
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不到一周之后，尽管，
11:16
I received a little bit of grace.
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我收到了一点安慰。
11:19
I received a poignant tweet.
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我又收到了一条讽刺的推特。
11:23
It was brief.
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很简短。
11:25
It just said, "Reminds me of an ancient mix tape."
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只说，“让我想起了一盘古老的的混和歌带。”
11:29
The name was a pseudonym,
actually, or a pseudo-pseudonym.
actually, or a pseudo-pseudonym.
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作者是个匿名，实际上，或者是假的匿名者。
11:32
As soon as I saw the initials, and the profile pic,
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当我看到这些简写，和这些主页图片时，
11:35
I knew immediately, my whole body knew
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我立刻知道，我整个人都知道
11:37
immediately who this was,
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这个人是谁，
11:40
and I knew immediately
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而且我立刻知道
11:42
what mix tape she was talking about.
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她在说哪一个混合歌带。
11:45
(Music)
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（音乐）
11:48
L.D. was my college romance.
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L.D.是我的大学时期的恋人。
11:51
This is in the early '90s. I was an undegrad.
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那是90年代初，我还是个大学生。
11:53
She was a grad student in the
library sciences department.
library sciences department.
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她是图书科学系的研究生。
11:57
Not the kind of librarian that takes her glasses off,
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不是那种如果摘下眼镜放下头发，
11:59
lets her hair down, suddenly she's smoking hot.
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就会变得火辣的管理员。
12:01
She was already smoking hot,
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她已经非常火辣，
12:03
she was super dorky,
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而且书卷气十足，
12:04
and we had a December-May romance,
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我们的感情从12月持续到5月，
12:06
meaning we started dating in December,
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意味着我们在12月开始约会，
12:08
and by May, she had graduated
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而五月份，她毕业了
12:11
and became my one that got away.
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我们的感情也就结束了。
12:14
But her mix tape did not get away.
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但是她的混合歌带并没有消失。
12:18
I have kept this mix tape in a box
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我把这个混合歌带保存在一个盒子里
12:21
with notes and postcards, not just from L.D.,
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和其他一下笔记以及明信片一起，不只是包括L.D.的，
12:24
from my life, but for decades.
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还有我生命中所有的过往。
12:27
It's the kind of box where,
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我保存了这个盒子几十年
12:28
if I have a girlfriend, I tend to hide it from her,
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如果我有了女朋友，我会把它藏起来，
12:30
and if I had a wife, I'm sure I would share it with her,
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而如果我有了妻子，我会把它分享给她，
12:32
but the story — (Laughter) — with this mix tape
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但这个故事-（笑声）-这个混合歌带
12:35
is there are seven songs per side,
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里面每一边都有七首歌，
12:37
but no song titles.
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但是没有歌名。
12:39
Instead, L.D. has used the U.S. Library of Congress
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取而代之的是，L.D.用了美国国会图书馆
12:42
classification system, including page numbers,
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的分类系统，包括页码，
12:45
to leave me clues.
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给我留下了线索。
12:47
When I got this mix tape,
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当我拿到这个混合歌带时，
12:49
I put it in my cassette player,
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我把它放进播放机，
12:50
I took it to the campus library, her library,
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我带着它去了学校图书馆，她的图书馆，
12:54
I found 14 books on the shelves.
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我在书架上找到了十四本书。
12:56
I remember bringing them all
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我记得我把它们全部
12:57
to my favorite corner table,
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放到我最喜欢坐的一个角落的书桌上，
12:59
and I read poems paired to songs
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边听歌边读诗
13:03
like food to wine,
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好像红酒配食物一样，
13:04
paired, I can tell you,
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成双成对，我可以说，
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like saddle shoes
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就像马靴
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to a cobalt blue vintage cotton dress.
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搭配复古的蓝色棉裙。
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I did this again last October.
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去年十月我又这样做了一次。
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I'm sitting there, I got new earbuds,
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我坐在那里，带上耳机，
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old Walkman, I realize this is just the kind
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老式的随声听，我意识到
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of extravagance I used to take for granted
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这种奢侈我曾经以为理所当然
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even when I was extravagant.
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即便当我在恣意挥霍的时候。
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And then I thought, "Good for him."
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然后我想，“这也不错。”
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"PG" is Slavic literature.
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“PG”是斯拉夫文学。
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"7000" series Polish literature.
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“7000”代表波斯文学。
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Z9A24 is a collection of 70 poems.
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Z9A24是70首诗的收藏。
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Page 31 is Wislawa Szymborska's poem
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页码31是的Wislawa Szymborska'诗
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paired with Paul Simon's "Peace Like a River."
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配合着Paul Simon的“平静如河流。”
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(Music: Paul Simon, "Peace Like a River")
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（音乐： Paul Simon."平静如河流"）
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(Video) Paul Simon: ♪ Oh, four in the morning ♪
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（视频）Paul Simon: 哦，凌晨四点
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♪ I woke up from out of my dream ♪
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我从梦中醒来
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Rives: Thank you. Appreciate it. (Applause)
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莱夫斯:谢谢大家。（掌声）
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rives - Performance poet, multimedia artistPerformance artist and storyteller Rives has been called "the first 2.0 poet," using images, video and technology to bring his words to life.
Why you should listen
Part poet, part storyteller, part philosopher, Rives is the co-host of TEDActive as well as a frequent TED speaker. On stage, his poems burst in many directions, exposing multiple layers and unexpected treats: childhood memories, grown-up humor, notions of love and lust, of what is lost forever and of what's still out there waiting to unfold. Chimborazo.
A regular on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Rives also starred alongside model Bar Refaeli in the 2008 Bravo special Ironic Iconic America, touring the United States on a "roller coaster ride through the eye-popping panorama of American pop culture." Flat pages can't contain his storytelling, even when paper is his medium. The pop-up books he creates for children unfold with surprise: The Christmas Pop-Up Present expands to reveal moving parts, hidden areas and miniature booklets inside.
His latest project—the Museum of Four in the Morning—is an ode to a time that may well be part of a global conspiracy. In a good way.
Rives | Speaker | TED.com