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Frank Warren: Half a million secrets
Frank Warren: 50萬秘密
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“秘密可以有各種不同的形式 ─可能令人震驚，或很傻，或是充滿熱情。”Frank Warren， PostSecret.com網站的創辦人，分享了一些陌生人寫在明信片上寄給他的50萬秘密。
Frank Warren - Secret keeper
Frank Warren is the creator of the PostSecret Project, a blog full of secrets anonymously shared via postcard. Full bio
Frank Warren is the creator of the PostSecret Project, a blog full of secrets anonymously shared via postcard. Full bio
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Hi, my name is Frank,
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嗨，我叫 Frank，
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and I collect secrets.
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我收集秘密。
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It all started with a crazy idea
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這起因於一個瘋狂的主意
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in November of 2004.
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在2004年11月
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I printed up 3,000 self-addressed postcards,
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我印了3000張附回郵的明信片 ，
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just like this.
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就像這個樣子 ，
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They were blank on one side,
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一面是空白的 ，
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and on the other side
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另外一面
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I listed some simple instructions.
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我列了一些簡單的提示
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I asked people to anonymously share an artful secret
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我请大家匿名分享一個構思精巧的秘密
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they'd never told anyone before.
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而且是之前從未告訴過別人的
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And I handed out these postcards randomly
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我隨意把這些明信片分給別人
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on the streets of Washington, D.C.,
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就在華盛頓特區的大街上
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not knowing what to expect.
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也沒有想太多
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But soon the idea began spreading virally.
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但是很快地這個主意開始像病毒般蔓延開來
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People began to buy their own postcards
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人們開始去買他們自己的明信片
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and make their own postcards.
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而且做自己的明信片
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I started receiving secrets in my home mailbox,
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我開始在自家的信箱裏收到秘密
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not just with postmarks from Washington, D.C.,
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不只蓋有來自華盛頓特區的郵戳
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but from Texas, California,
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也有來自德州 、加州
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Vancouver, New Zealand, Iraq.
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溫哥華 、 紐西蘭 、伊拉克的
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Soon my crazy idea didn't seem so crazy.
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很快地 ，我那瘋狂的注意變得似乎不那麼瘋狂了
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PostSecret.com
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PostSecret.com
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is the most visited advertisement-free blog in the world.
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是人們最常訪問的無廣告部落格
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And this is my postcard collection today.
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而這些是我至今收集的明信片
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You can see my wife
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你們可以看到我的太太
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struggling to stack a brick of postcards
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吃力地用明信片磚塊
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on a pyramid of over a half-million secrets.
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堆出超過50萬秘密的金字塔
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What I'd like to do now
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我現在想做的
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is share with you a very special handful of secrets
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就是和大家分享一些很特別的秘密
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from that collection,
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這些秘密來自於我們的收集
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starting with this one.
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先從這封開始
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"I found these stamps as a child,
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當我還是個孩子的時候，我找到了這些郵票
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and I have been waiting all my life
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我一生都在等待
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to have someone to send them to.
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能把這些郵票送給某人
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I never did have someone."
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但是我從未送出
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Secrets can take many forms.
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秘密可以有各種不同的形式
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They can be shocking
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可能令人震驚
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or silly or soulful.
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或很傻或者充滿感情
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They can connect us to our deepest humanity
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它們可以連接到靈魂深處的人性
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or with people we'll never meet.
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或是素未謀面的人
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(Laughter)
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(觀眾大笑)
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Maybe one of you sent this one in.
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這個可能是你們其中之一寄來的
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I don't know.
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我不知道
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This one does a great job of demonstrating
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這封信做了一個很棒的示範
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the creativity that people have
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那就是人的創意
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when they make and mail me a postcard.
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當他們做好了而且寄給我一張明信片
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This one obviously was made out of half a Starbucks cup
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這張明信片很明顯是用半個星巴克杯做的
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with a stamp and my home address written on the other side.
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上面貼了郵票，而且另一面寫著我家的地址 。
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"Dear Birthmother, I have great parents.
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“親愛的生母 ，我有一對很棒的養父母
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I've found love. I'm happy."
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我找到愛了 ，我很快樂。“
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Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas,
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秘密會使我們想起數不清的關于人性的弱點和英雄主義的
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of frailty and heroism,
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人類悲喜劇
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playing out silently
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他們無聲地展開
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in the lives of people all around us
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出現在我們周圍人們的生活裏
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even now.
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直到現在
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"Everyone who knew me before 9/11
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“任何在911前認識我的人
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believes I'm dead."
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相信我死了。”
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"I used to work with a bunch of uptight religious people,
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“我曾經和一羣拘束又傳統的宗教人士共事，
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so sometimes I didn't wear panties,
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所以有時候我不穿內褲
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and just had a big smile and chuckled to myself."
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而且只能對著自己暗自發笑。”
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(Laughter)
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(觀眾大笑)
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This next one takes a little explanation before I share it with you.
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在和你們分享下一個秘密之前，请容我做個小小的解釋
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I love to speak on college campuses
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我喜歡在大學校園內演講
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and share secrets and the stories with students.
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和學生分享秘密和故事
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And sometimes afterwards I'll stick around
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有時我會到處走走
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and sign books and take photos with students.
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為同學簽書 和他們一起拍照
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And this next postcard was made
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下一張明信片取材於
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out of one of those photos.
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下面這些照片中的其中一張
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And I should also mention that, just like today,
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我還要插一句，就像今天一樣
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at that PostSecret event,
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那還是在PostSecret發生的事
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I was using a wireless microphone.
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我當時正在使用無線麥克風
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"Your mic wasn't off during sound check.
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“你的麥克風在試音時沒關
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We all heard you pee."
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我們都聽到了你撒尿的聲音了。”
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(Laughter)
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(觀眾大笑)
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This was really embarrassing when it happened,
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當時我真得很尷尬
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until I realized it could have been worse.
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後來我又意識到那也許會變得更糟
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Right. You know what I'm saying.
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對。你知道我在說什麼
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(Laughter)
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(觀眾大笑)
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"Inside this envelope
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“在信封裏
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is the ripped up remains
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是我一直沒有用到的
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of a suicide note I didn't use.
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被撕碎的遺書。
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I feel like the happiest person on Earth (now.)"
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(現在)我覺得我是世上最快樂的人了。 ”
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"One of these men is the father of my son.
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”這些人中的某一位是我兒子的父親。
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He pays me a lot to keep it a secret."
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他可是給了我很多的封口費啊。“
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(Laughter)
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(觀眾大笑)
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"That Saturday when you wondered where I was,
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”那個星期六 當你在猜着我到底在哪兒的時候，
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well, I was getting your ring.
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嗯，我在拿你的戒指。
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It's in my pocket right now."
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現在它在我的口袋裏。“
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I had this postcard posted on the PostSecret blog
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我把這張明信片張貼在PostSecret部落格
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two years ago on Valentine's Day.
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那是在兩年前的情人節
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It was the very bottom, the last secret in the long column.
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它被貼得很低，算是長長一欄的最後一個秘密了
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And it hadn't been up for more than a couple hours
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没過幾個小時的時間
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before I received this exuberant email
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我就收到了一封令人欣喜的信
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from the guy who mailed me this postcard.
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寄信人正是那個給我寄來這張明信片的人
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And he said, "Frank, I've got to share with you
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他說，“Frank, 我一定要和你分享
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this story that just played out in my life."
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發生在我真實生活中的這個故事。”
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He said, "My knees are still shaking."
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他說：“我的膝蓋還在抖得不停。”
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He said, "For three years, my girlfriend and I,
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他說：“三年了 ，我和我的女朋友
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we've made it this Sunday morning ritual
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養成了在每個這樣的週日早晨
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to visit the PostSecret blog together
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一起看PostSecret部落格
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and read the secrets out loud.
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而且大聲唸出這些秘密的習慣。
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I read some to her, she reads some to me."
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我們互相讀給對方聽。”
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He says, "It's really brought us closer together
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他說 ："這樣做真的讓我們在這些年
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through the years.
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變得越來越親密。
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And so when I discovered
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所以當我發現
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that you had posted
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你在最底層張貼了
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my surprise proposal to my girlfriend at the very bottom,
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我給女朋友的求婚大驚喜，
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I was beside myself.
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我簡直樂翻天了。
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And I tried to act calm, not to give anything away.
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我試著冷靜下來，防止自己讓這到手的幸福溜掉。
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And just like every Sunday,
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就像每一個星期天，
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we started reading the secrets out loud to each other."
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我們開始大聲唸秘密給對方聽。”
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He said, "But this time it seemed like it was taking her forever
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他說：“但這次她似乎花了很長的時間
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to get through each one."
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去唸完每一個祕密。“
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But she finally did.
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但最後她還是唸完了。
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She got to that bottom secret, his proposal to her.
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她知道了最底層的秘密，她男友的求婚
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And he said, "She read it once and then she read it again."
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她男友說 ：”她唸過一遍又一遍
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And she turned to him and said,
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然後她轉身對她男友說：
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"Is that our cat?"
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“這是我們的貓嗎?”
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(Laughter)
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(觀眾大笑)
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And when she saw him,
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當她看到自己的男友的時候
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he was down on one knee, he had the ring out.
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他正單膝下跪 ，拿出戒指
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He popped the question, she said yes. It was a very happy ending.
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他向她求婚，而她也同意了。這是個非常快樂的結局
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So I emailed him back
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所以我回了一封信給他
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and I said, "Please share with me an image, something,
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我說，“請和我分享一個類似照片的
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that I can share with the whole PostSecret community
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我可以和整個PostSecret社群分享的東西吧
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and let everyone know your fairy tale ending."
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讓每個人都知道你的童話故事的結局。”
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And he emailed me this picture.
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然後他就把這張照片用電子郵件寄給了我。
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(Laughter)
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(觀眾大笑)
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"I found your camera at Lollapalooza this summer.
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“今年夏天我在洛拉帕羅扎(美國芝加哥地名)發現了你的相機
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I finally got the pictures developed
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最後我把相片洗了出來
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and I'd love to give them to you."
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我想把他們還給你。”
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This picture never got returned back
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但是這張照片從未
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to the people who lost it,
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回到遺失者的手上，
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but this secret has impacted many lives,
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但是這個秘密影響了許多人
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starting with a student up in Canada
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讓我們從一個加拿大的學生說起
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named Matty.
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他叫做Matty
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Matty was inspired by that secret
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Matty被那個秘密所啟發
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to start his own website,
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開始架設他自己的網站，
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a website called IFoundYourCamera.
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一個叫做IFoundYourCamera的網站，
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Matty invites people
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Matty請大家
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to mail him digital cameras that they've found,
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把他們找到的數碼相機寄給他
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memory sticks that have been lost
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這些相機裏已經沒有了記憶棒
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with orphan photos.
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但是有一些大家都不要的照片
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And Matty takes the pictures off these cameras
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Matty把這些照片從相機裏取出
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and posts them on his website every week.
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每週把照片貼上他的網站
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And people come to visit
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人們前來瀏覽
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to see if they can identify a picture they've lost
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看看是否可以認出他們自己遺失的照片
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or help somebody else get the photos back to them
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或者是幫助他人找回照片
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that they might be desperately searching for.
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他們可能拼了命地找
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This one's my favorite.
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這是我的最愛
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(Laughter)
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(觀眾大笑)
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Matty has found this ingenious way
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Matty找到了這個巧妙的方法
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to leverage the kindness of strangers.
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來激發陌生人的仁慈
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And it might seem like a simple idea, and it is,
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看起來是個簡單的主意，而且的確是
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but the impact it can have on people's lives can be huge.
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但是它卻極大地影響了人們的生活
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Matty shared with me
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Matty和我分享了
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an emotional email he received
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他收到的一封滿懷感激的郵件
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from the mother in that picture.
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是照片中的母親寄來的
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"That's me, my husband and son.
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“那是我，我先生和我兒子。
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The other pictures are of my very ill grandmother.
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其他照片裏的人是我生重病的祖母
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Thank you for making your site.
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謝謝你創建了這個網站
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These pictures mean more to me than you know.
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這些照片對我的意義重大超乎你的想像
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My son's birth is on this camera.
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這個相機見證了我兒子的出生
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He turns four tomorrow."
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他明天就四歲了。”
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Every picture that you see there
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你看到的每張照片
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and thousands of others
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還有其它數千張照片
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have been returned back to the person who lost it --
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已經回到失主那兒
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sometimes crossing oceans,
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它們有時會跨過海洋
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sometimes going through language barriers.
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有時會穿過語言障礙
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This is the last postcard I have to share with you today.
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這是我今天和大家分享的最後一張明信片
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"When people I love
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每當我愛的人
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leave voicemails on my phone
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在我的電話裏留言
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I always save them in case they die tomorrow
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我都會把它們一一保留 以防他們明天會永遠離開這個世界
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and I have no other way
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這樣我就再也不能
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of hearing their voice ever again."
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再一次聽到他們的聲音了
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When I posted this secret,
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當我公開這個秘密的時候
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dozens of people
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很多的人
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sent voicemail messages from their phones,
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用他們的電話給我發了語音信息
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sometimes ones they'd been keeping for years,
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其中的一些是他們保留了數年之久的
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messages from family or friends
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這些信息來自
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who had died.
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他們已經死去的親人或朋友
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They said that by preserving those voices
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他們說藉由保存這些聲音
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and sharing them,
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而且將其分享的方式
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it helped them keep the spirit of their loved ones alive.
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它們可以讓自己愛的人永存
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One young girl
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一個年輕的女孩
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posted the last message
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貼上最後的消息
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she ever heard from her grandmother.
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她聽到她的祖母
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Secrets can take many forms.
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秘密有多種形態
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They can be shocking or silly
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可能很驚人或愚蠢
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or soulful.
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或深情
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They can connect us with our deepest humanity
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他們可以與我們最深的人性連繫
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or with people we'll never meet again.
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或和我們從未再連絡的人
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Voicemail recording: First saved voice message.
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語言留言：第一則留言
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Grandma: ♫ It's somebody's birthday today ♫
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祖母：♫今天是某人的生日♫
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♫ Somebody's birthday today ♫
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♫ 今天是某人的生日 ♫
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♫ The candles are lighted ♫
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♫點上蠟燭♫
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♫ on somebody's cake ♫
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♫ 在某人的蛋糕上♫
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♫ And we're all invited ♫
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♫我們都被邀請了♫
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♫ for somebody's sake ♫
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♫ 為了某人的緣故♫
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You're 21 years old today.
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你今天21歲了
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Have a real happy birthday, and I love you.
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有一個真正的生日，我愛你
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I'll say bye for now.
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我暫時跟你說再見了
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FW: Thank you.
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FW:謝謝你
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(Applause)
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觀眾鼓掌
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Thank you.
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謝謝你
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(Applause)
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June Cohen: Frank, that was beautiful,
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June Cohen: Frank，那很美
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so touching.
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很感人
10:33
Have you ever sent yourself a postcard?
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你有沒有送給自己一張明信片?
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Have you ever sent in a secret to PostSecret?
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我你有沒有把自己的秘密貼在PostSecret網站？
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FW: I have one of my own secrets in every book.
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FW:在每本書上有一個我自己的秘密
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I think in some ways, the reason I started the project,
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我想在某些方面，我開始這計劃的原因
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even though I didn't know it at the time,
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即使那時我不知道
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was because I was struggling with my own secrets.
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是因為我正與我自己的秘密奮鬥
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And it was through crowd-sourcing,
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是經由人群模式
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it was through the kindness that strangers were showing me,
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是經由陌生人給我的善良
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that I could uncover
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我才能透露
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parts of my past that were haunting me.
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部份是因為困擾我的過去
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JC: And has anyone ever discovered
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JC: 有沒有任何人發現?
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which secret was yours in the book?
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書上哪一個是你的秘密?
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Has anyone in your life been able to tell?
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你生命中有沒有人可以傾訴?
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FW: Sometimes I share that information, yeah.
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FW: 有時我分享那個資訊，耶
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(Laughter)
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(大笑)
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(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Frank Warren - Secret keeperFrank Warren is the creator of the PostSecret Project, a blog full of secrets anonymously shared via postcard.
Why you should listen
Frank Warren is the creator of The PostSecret Project, a collection of highly personal and artfully decorated postcards mailed anonymously from around the world, displaying the soulful secrets we never voice. Since November 2004, Warren has received more than 500,000 postcards, with secrets that run from sexual taboos and criminal activity to confessions of secret beliefs, hidden acts of kindness, shocking habits and fears. PostSecret is a safe and anonymous "place" where people can hear unheard voices and share untold stories.
Frank Warren | Speaker | TED.com