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Rives: The 4 a.m. mystery
Rives 談凌晨四點鐘
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詩人 Rives 利用八分鐘的時間，帶你瀏覽一連串巧合、離奇的凌晨四點鐘歷史。
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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This is a recent comic strip from the Los Angeles Times.
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這是最近洛杉磯時報裡的一幅漫畫
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The punch line?
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笑點是？
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"On the other hand, I don't have to get up at four
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「另一方面，我不用每天凌晨四點起床」
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every single morning to milk my Labrador."
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「替我的拉布拉多餵奶」
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This is a recent cover of New York Magazine.
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這是紐約雜誌最近一期封面
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Best hospitals where doctors say they would go for cancer treatment,
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醫生都會去的最佳醫院，提供癌症治療、
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births, strokes, heart disease, hip replacements, 4 a.m. emergencies.
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婦產、中風、心臟病、髖關節置換、凌晨四點的急救
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And this is a song medley I put together --
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這是一首我自己接的歌
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(Music)
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(音樂)
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Did you ever notice that four in the morning has become
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有沒有發現凌晨四點已經
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some sort of meme or shorthand?
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變成一種代稱了？
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It means something like you are awake at the worst possible hour.
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它表示，你在世上最糟糕的時間還醒著
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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A time for inconveniences, mishaps, yearnings.
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不方便、悲劇、打哈欠的時間
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A time for plotting to whack the chief of police,
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像是《教父》裡的經典鏡頭
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like in this classic scene from "The Godfather."
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這密謀攻擊警察局長的時間
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Coppola's script describes these guys as, "exhausted in shirt sleeves.
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柯波拉的劇本對這些人的描述是：「穿著短袖、精疲力盡」
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It is four in the morning."
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「已經凌晨四點了」
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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A time for even grimmer stuff than that,
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還有更糟的
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like autopsies and embalmings in Isabel Allende's
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像是伊莎貝爾．阿言德小說《精靈之屋》裡
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"The House of the Spirits."
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解剖防腐的時間
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After the breathtaking green-haired Rosa is murdered,
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就在美麗的綠髮少女Rosa被害後
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the doctors preserve her with unguents and morticians' paste.
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醫生們用油膏、防腐劑來保存屍體
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They worked until four o'clock in the morning.
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他們工作到凌晨四點
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A time for even grimmer stuff than that,
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更糟的還沒完
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like in last April's New Yorker magazine.
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去年四月的《紐約客》雜誌裡
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This short fiction piece by Martin Amis
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有部馬丁．艾米斯(Martin Amis)寫的短篇小說
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starts out, "On September 11, 2001, he opened his eyes
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小說開頭：「2001年9月11日，他張開雙眼，」
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at 4 a.m. in Portland, Maine,
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「就在凌晨四點，於緬因州的波特蘭市」
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and Mohamed Atta's last day began."
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「Mohamed Atta的最後一天開始了。」
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For a time that I find to be the most placid
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這個我覺得很平靜、悠閒的時間
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and uneventful hour of the day, four in the morning sure gets
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凌晨四點鐘竟然有這麼多
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an awful lot of bad press --
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負面評價
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(Laughter)
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across a lot of different media from a lot of big names.
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各大媒體都這樣報
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And it made me suspicious.
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害我生疑了起來
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I figured, surely some of the most creative artistic minds in the world, really,
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我想，世界上這麼多極富創意的人
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aren't all defaulting back to this one easy trope
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不可能就這樣接受這比喻
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like they invented it, right?
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還好像他們發明的一樣
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Could it be there is something more going on here?
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是不是有更多原因？
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Something deliberate, something secret,
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故意的、 神秘的原因
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and who got the four in the morning bad rap ball rolling anyway?
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還有，到底是誰開始講凌晨四點壞話的？
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I say this guy -- Alberto Giacometti, shown here
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我說，就是這個人：阿貝特．傑克梅第(Alberto Giacometti)
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with some of his sculptures on the Swiss 100 franc note.
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以及他印在瑞士百元鈔的雕像
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He did it with this famous piece
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他在紐約現代藝術博物館
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from the New York Museum of Modern Art.
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展出的這個作品：
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Its title -- "The Palace at Four in the Morning --
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《凌晨四點的宮殿》
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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1932.
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於1932年
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Not just the earliest cryptic reference
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我不止因此找到最早的
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to four in the morning I can find.
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凌晨四點神秘來源
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I believe that this so-called first surrealist sculpture
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我相信這個所謂的第一個超現實主義雕塑
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may provide an incredible key to virtually
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就是往後的創作者
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every artistic depiction of four in the morning to follow it.
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對於凌晨四點描述的關鍵
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I call this The Giacometti Code, a TED exclusive.
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我取名為：傑克梅第密碼，TED獨家
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No, feel free to follow along on your Blackberries
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如果手上有黑莓機、iPhone的
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or your iPhones if you've got them.
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歡迎上網搜尋一下
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It works a little something like -- this is a recent Google search
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結果大概像這樣，這是最近用Google作的
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for four in the morning.
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凌晨四點搜尋
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Results vary, of course. This is pretty typical.
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結果當然很多，一定的
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The top 10 results yield you
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前十名的結果裡
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four hits for Faron Young's song, "It's Four in the Morning,"
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有四個是費倫楊(Faron Young)的歌：凌晨四點鐘
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three hits for Judi Dench's film, "Four in the Morning,"
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有三個是茱蒂丹契的電影《凌晨四點鐘》
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one hit for Wislawa Szymborska's poem, "Four in the Morning."
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一個是辛波斯卡(Wislawa Szymborska)的詩《凌晨四點鐘》
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But what, you may ask, do a Polish poet, a British Dame,
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你會問，一個波蘭詩人、一個英國女爵士、
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a country music hall of famer all have in common
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與一個鄉村名歌手的共通點在哪？
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besides this totally excellent Google ranking?
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當然除了Google排行前幾名以外
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Well, let's start with Faron Young -- who was born incidentally
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先講費倫楊好了，他正好在
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in 1932.
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1932年出生
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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In 1996, he shot himself in the head on December ninth --
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1996年12月9日，他舉槍自盡
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which incidentally is Judi Dench's birthday.
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那天正好是茱蒂丹契的生日
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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But he didn't die on Dench's birthday.
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但他其實不是在丹契的生日當天死掉
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He languished until the following afternoon when he finally succumbed
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他命危到隔天下午才離開人世
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to a supposedly self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 64 --
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因為自己造成的槍傷，享年64歲
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which incidentally is how old Alberto Giacometti was when he died.
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竟然和傑克梅第以同樣的年齡去世
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Where was Wislawa Szymborska during all this?
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那辛波斯卡到哪去了？
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She has the world's most absolutely watertight alibi.
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她有全世界最完美的不在場證明
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On that very day, December 10, 1996 while Mr. Four in the Morning,
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1996年12月10日這天，凌晨四點鐘先生
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Faron Young, was giving up the ghost in Nashville, Tennessee,
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費倫楊在田納西州的納什維爾歸西天時
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Ms. Four in the Morning -- or one of them anyway -- Wislawa Szymborska
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凌晨四點鐘女士之一的辛波斯卡
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was in Stockholm, Sweden, accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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正在瑞典首都接受諾貝爾文學獎
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100 years to the day after the death of Alfred Nobel himself.
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正好是諾貝爾本人去世第100年
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Coincidence? No, it's creepy.
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巧合嗎？不，超毛的
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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Coincidence to me has a much simpler metric.
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巧合還比較簡單一點
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That's like me telling you,
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好像我說：
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"Hey, you know the Nobel Prize was established in 1901,
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「你知道諾貝爾獎在1901年設立」
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which coincidentally is the same year Alberto Giacometti was born?"
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「那年正好是傑克梅第的出生年」
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No, not everything fits so tidily into the paradigm,
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當然不是每件事都這麼巧合
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but that does not mean there's not something going on
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但不表示沒有其他詭異的事
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at the highest possible levels.
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也發生著
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In fact there are people in this room
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事實上，在座一定有人
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who may not want me to show you this clip we're about to see.
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不想看我將要播的影片
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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Video: Homer Simpson: We have a tennis court, a swimming pool, a screening room --
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我們有網球場、游泳池、影音室
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You mean if I want pork chops, even in the middle of the night,
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你是說，如果我半夜想吃豬排
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your guy will fry them up?
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有人會幫我煎？
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Herbert Powell: Sure, that's what he's paid for.
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當然，我花錢請來的
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Now do you need towels, laundry, maids?
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你需要毛巾、洗衣服、女傭嗎？
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HS: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait -- let me see if I got this straight.
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等等、等等，讓我搞清楚
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It is Christmas Day, 4 a.m.
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如果是耶誕節凌晨四點
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There's a rumble in my stomach.
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我肚子餓了
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Marge Simpson: Homer, please.
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荷馬，拜託
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Rives: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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等等、等等
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Let me see if I got this straight, Matt.
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讓我搞清楚，Matt (辛普森家庭作者)
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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When Homer Simpson needs to imagine
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當荷馬辛普森想著
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the most remote possible moment of not just the clock,
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世界上最糟的時刻
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but the whole freaking calendar, he comes up with 0400
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他想到的是，耶穌誕生這天
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on the birthday of the Baby Jesus.
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的凌晨四點鐘
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And no, I don't know how it works
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我不知道是怎麼搞的
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into the whole puzzling scheme of things, but obviously
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這整個難解的陰謀，不過
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I know a coded message when I see one.
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我看到密碼就知道
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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I said, I know a coded message when I see one.
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我說，我看到密碼就知道
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And folks, you can buy a copy of Bill Clinton's "My Life"
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各位可以到旁邊書局
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from the bookstore here at TED.
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買本柯林頓回憶錄《我的人生》
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Parse it cover to cover for whatever hidden references you want.
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從頭到尾找尋神秘線索
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Or you can go to the Random House website where there is this excerpt.
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或者可以到藍燈書屋網站找節錄
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And how far down into it you figure we'll have to scroll
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你滑鼠要捲多久才找的到
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to get to the golden ticket?
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神秘寶物？
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Would you believe about a dozen paragraphs?
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你相信嗎？大概就十幾段
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This is page 474 on your paperbacks if you're following along:
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這是平裝版第474頁，可以看到：
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"Though it was getting better, I still wasn't satisfied
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「就職演說稿已經寫得很好了，」
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with the inaugural address.
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「但我還是不滿意，」
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My speechwriters must have been tearing their hair out
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「我的撰稿人一定快抓破頭了，」
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because as we worked between one and four in the morning
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「因為我們在就職典禮當天，從凌晨一點弄到四點」
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on Inauguration Day, I was still changing it."
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「還是沒弄出最終稿。」
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Sure you were, because you've prepared your entire life
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最好是，好像你等一輩子的這個
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for this historic quadrennial event that just sort of sneaks up on you.
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四年一次的典禮，就這樣偷偷來到一樣
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And then --
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然後－
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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three paragraphs later we get this little beauty:
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三段之後果然發現了
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"We went back to Blair House to look at the speech for the last time.
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「我們回到布萊爾賓館，檢查最終稿，」
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It had gotten a lot better since 4 a.m."
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「四點過後果然好多了。」
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Well, how could it have?
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真的是這樣嗎？
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By his own writing, this man was either asleep,
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照他的邏輯，這個人不是在睡覺
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at a prayer meeting with Al and Tipper or learning how to launch
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就是和高爾夫婦一起禱告，或是學著
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a nuclear missile out of a suitcase.
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怎麼將核彈從手提包裡發射
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What happens to American presidents at 0400 on inauguration day?
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就職典禮當天凌晨四點的美國總統們到底在幹嘛？
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What happened to William Jefferson Clinton?
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柯林頓那時候到底在幹嘛？
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We might not ever know.
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我們無從得知
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And I noticed, he's not exactly around here today
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我也注意到，他今天沒有來現場
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to face any tough questions.
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無法接受提問
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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It could get awkward, right?
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這樣應該很尷尬
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I mean after all, this whole business happened on his watch.
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我是說，這些事都在他眼下發生
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But if he were here --
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他如果有來－
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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he might remind us, as he does in the wrap-up to his fine autobiography,
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他可能會提醒我們，就如他自傳裡寫的
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that on this day Bill Clinton began a journey --
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從這天起，柯林頓開始了他的旅程
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a journey that saw him go on to become
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這旅程，他成為
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the first Democrat president elected
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好幾世代以來
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to two consecutive terms in decades.
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民主黨首位
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In generations.
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連任的總統
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The first since this man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
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自羅斯福總統以後的首位
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who began his own unprecedented journey
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羅斯福總統前所未見的旅程
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way back at his own first election,
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從他第一次選舉
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way back in a simpler time, way back in 1932 --
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正是簡單的那年－1932
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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the year Alberto Giacometti
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傑克梅第創作
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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made "The Palace at Four in the Morning."
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《凌晨四點的宮殿》那年
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The year, let's remember, that this voice, now departed,
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那年，讓我們記得，這逝去的聲音...
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first came a-cryin' into this big old crazy world of ours.
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首度來到這個瘋狂的世上
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(Music)
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(音樂)
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(Applause)
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(掌聲)
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.
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