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Jok Church: A circle of caring
乔克·切奇：照料的循环
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在3分钟的演讲中，漫画家和教育家乔克·切奇告诉了我们一个动人的故事，从来没有人像这个老师一样照顾他--以及他如何回报她的照顾。
Jok Church - Cartoonist
Jok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World." Full bio
Jok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World." Full bio
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You know, what I do is write for children,
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正如你们所知，我的工作是写儿童读物
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and I'm probably America's
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实际上，我也许是美国
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most widely read children's author, in fact.
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最广泛的儿童读物作者
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And I always tell people
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我经常告诉其他人
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that I don't want to show up looking like a scientist.
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我不想被看成一个科学家
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You can have me as a farmer, or in leathers,
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你能把我当做一个农民，或者穿着皮衣的人
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and no one has ever chose farmer.
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但是没人曾选是农民
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I'm here today to talk to you
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我今天来告诉你们
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about circles and epiphanies.
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是关于循环和顿悟
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And you know, an epiphany
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顿悟
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is usually something you find that you dropped someplace.
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通常指你发现你陷入某些境况
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You've just got to go around the block
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你需要四处的碰壁
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to see it as an epiphany.
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去寻找顿悟
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That's a painting of a circle.
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这是一幅循环的图片
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A friend of mine did that -- Richard Bollingbroke.
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我的一个朋友画的--理查德·鲍林布罗克
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It's the kind of complicated circle
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这是中很复杂的
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that I'm going to tell you about.
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我将要告诉你们的
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My circle began back in the '60s
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我的循环起源于60世纪
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in high school in Stow, Ohio
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源于俄亥俄州，斯朵高中
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where I was the class queer.
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当我还是个捣蛋鬼
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I was the guy beaten up bloody
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我是那种每周在男生宿舍
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every week in the boys' room,
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被打到出血的那种人
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until one teacher saved my life.
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直到一个老师把我从这种生活中解救出来
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She saved my life by letting me go to the bathroom
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她把我解救出这种生活让我住在
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in the teachers' lounge.
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老师休息室的浴室里
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She did it in secret.
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她悄悄的做着
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She did it for three years.
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她一做就做了3年
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And I had to get out of town.
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但是我不得不离开这个城镇
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I had a thumb, I had 85 dollars,
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带着特长，还有85美元，
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and I ended up in San Francisco, California --
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最终我落脚在斯圣弗朗西科（旧金山），加利福尼亚--
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met a lover --
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遇到了我的爱人--
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and back in the '80s, found it necessary
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回想到80年代，我发现
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to begin work on AIDS organizations.
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开始在艾滋病组织工作是很必要的
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About three or four years ago,
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大约三四年之前
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I got a phone call in the middle of the night
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我在深夜接到了一通
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from that teacher, Mrs. Posten,
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来自于那个老师，普斯顿老师的电话
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who said, "I need to see you.
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她说，“我需要见你
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I'm disappointed
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我很失望
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that we never got to know each other as adults.
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我们从来没有以成年人的姿态互相了解
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Could you please come to Ohio,
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你能来俄亥俄吗
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and please bring that man
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请把那个你
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that I know you have found by now.
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寻找到的人也带过来
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And I should mention
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我应该提一下
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that I have pancreatic cancer,
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我有胰脏癌
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and I'd like you to please
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但我想请你
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be quick about this."
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能忽略这部分
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Well, the next day we were in Cleveland.
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那，第二天我们就到了克利夫兰市
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We took a look at her, we laughed, we cried,
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我们遇见了她，交谈着，哭泣着
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and we knew that she needed to be in a hospice.
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我们知道她需要住进晚期病人的安养院
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We found her one, we got her there,
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我们为她找了一个，带她过去
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and we took care of her
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照顾她
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and watched over her family,
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并照料她的家庭
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because it was necessary.
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因为这是必须的
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It's something we knew how to do.
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有些事我们需要知道如何去做
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And just as the woman who wanted to know me as an adult
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就是这个把我当做成年人看待
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got to know me,
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想了解我的女生
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she turned into a box of ashes
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最终化成了盒中的粉末
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and was placed in my hands.
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安置在我的手中
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And what had happened
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所发生的
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was the circle had closed,
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就是循环的结束
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it had become a circle --
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这就形成了一个循环--
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and that epiphany I talked about
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其中我所说的顿悟
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presented itself.
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就得到了自我体现
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The epiphany is
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这顿悟是
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that death is a part of life.
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死亡是生命的一部分
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She saved my life;
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她救了我的命
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I and my partner saved hers.
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我和我朋友救了她的命
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And you know, that part of life needs everything
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那段日子需要的东西
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that the rest of life does.
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生命来完成（TBR）
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It needs truth and beauty,
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它需要真实和美好
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and I'm so happy it's been mentioned so much here today.
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我很高兴这些今天被多次的提到
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It also needs --
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它还需要--
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it needs dignity,
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它需要尊严
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love and pleasure,
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爱和欢乐
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and it's our job to hand those things out.
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我们的工作就是把这些散步开去
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Thank you.
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谢谢
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(Applause)
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（掌声）
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jok Church - CartoonistJok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World."
Why you should listen
In his work, Jok Church loved helping kids learn basic concepts of science and experimentation -- with a healthy dash of fun. He created his comic strip You Can with Beakman & Jax in 1991 for his local newspaper in Marin County, California -- inspired by a stint answering kids' letters for Lucasfilm. The comic strip does not answer readers' questions directly. Rather, it gives directions to do a thing, a procedure, an experiment to learn the answer. It's about learning by doing. Active. Not passive.
Six Beakman & Jax books are best-sellers. Church created the long-running TV series Beakman's World, a hit in English and Spanish, and helped create the Beakman's World on Tour exhibit for science centers and museums. A longtime techie, he also served as the webmaster for artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Church died April 29, 2016, and will be much missed.
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