TED英文演讲：用新词改变世界

2021年1月26日发(作者：合成照)
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英文演讲：用新词改变世界

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演讲者：
John Koenig


中英对照翻译



Today I want to talk about the meaning of words, how we
define them and how they, almost as revenge,define us.


今天我想和大家谈谈单词的含义，
我们是如何定义它们的，
反过
来 它们又是如何，像复仇一般的

定义了我们。英语语言就像是一块
华丽的吸水海绵，



The English language is a magnificent sponge. I love the
English language. I'm glad that I speak it. But for all that,
it has a lot of holes. In Greek, there's a word,
which is the hunger for disaster. You know, when you see a
thunderstorm
on
the
horizon
and
you
just
find
yourself
rooting
for the storm.


我喜爱英语 ，很高兴我会说英语，但是，它依然有很多缺陷。在
希腊语中有一个词，“Lachesism
你看到远方地平线的雷雨，发现自己已对风暴做好了一切准备。



In Mandarin, they have a word
-- I'm not
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pronouncing that correctly -- which means the longing to feel
intensely
again
the
way
you
did
when
you
were
a
kid.
In
Polish,
they have a word
conversation that you compulsively play out in your head. And
finally,
in
German,
of
course
in
German,
they
have
a
word
called



在中文里，有一个词叫“yù yī ”
----
不好意思，我
发音不准
----
意思是希望再次强烈体会到当你还是个孩子 时的感觉。
在波兰语里，他们有一个词叫“Jouska
自己的脑海里被迫上演。最后，在德语 里，当然，是德语。他们有一
个词叫做“Zielschmerz”，意思是害怕得到你想要的。



Finally
fulfilling
a
lifelong
dream.
I'm
German
myself,
so
I know exactly what that feels like.


虽然最后实现了你毕生的梦想。
我自己是个德 国人，
所以很了解
那是什么感觉。



Now, I'm not sure if I would use any of these words as I
go about my day, but I'm really glad they exist. But the only
reason they exist is because I made them up.


在我的日常生活里，
不确定我会不会用这些词，
但是我对这些单
词的存在感到高兴。仅仅因为，我编造了它们。< br>


I am the author of
which
I've
been
writing
for
the
last
seven
years.
And
the
whole
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mission of the project is to find holes in the language of
emotion and try to fill them so that we have a way of talking
about all those human peccadilloes and quirks of the human
condition that we all feel but may not think to talk about
because we don't have the words to do it.


我是
《自造词典》
的创始人，
(The
Dictionary
of
ObscureSorrows)
这是我在 过去七年里所编写的东西。
整个计划的目标，
是为了找到语
言情感里的漏洞，去填补它 们，如此我们就有了一种全新的方式

去
讨论人类情感里的种种小缺失，
那种 我们常常能感受，
却无法去形容
的概念，因为我们没有适合的词去表达。



And
about
halfway
through
this
project,
I
defined

the idea that we all think of ourselves as the main character
and
everyone
else
is
just
extras.
But
in
reality,
we're
all
the
main
character,
and
you
yourself
are
an
extra
in
someone
else's
story.


在我的计划进行了一半的时候，
我创造了一个词“Sonder”，
这
个点子是关于我们把自己想象成世间的主角，其 他人都是临时演员。
但是在现实中，
你认为自己是主角，
可是你在其他人的故事中却只 是
个配角罢了。



And
so
as
soon
as
I
published
that,
I
got
a
lot
of
response
from people saying,
I had felt all my life but there was no word for that.
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made them feel less alone. That's the power of words, to make
us feel less alone.


当我发表了这一想法时，很多人来告诉我，“谢谢你，你为我一< br>生都感觉到却一直没能找到合适的词去表达的感觉下了定义。” 这
使得他们不再那么孤单。这就是文字的魅力，让我们不再孤独。



And it was not long after that that I started to notice
sonder being used earnestly in conversations online,and not
long after I actually noticed it, I caught it next to me in an
actual conversation in person. There is no stranger feeling
than making up a word and then seeing it take on a mind of its
own. I don't have a word for that yet, but I will.


在那不久以后，我开始注意到
Sonder
这个词，很多人真的已经
开始在

网络交谈中使用了，就在我注意到这个没多久，我就发现这
个词已经用在我 身边人与人直接的交谈中了。没有什么感觉比

自己
造了一个单词，然后发现它被所有人

所接受更奇怪了。现在还没有
能形容这种感觉的词，但我会造一个出来的。



I'm working on it.


我已经在想了。



I started to think about what makes words real, because a
lot of people ask me, the most common thing I got from people
is,

are
these
words
made
up?
I
don't
really
understand.
And I
didn't
really
know
what
to tell
them
because
once
sonder
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started to take off, who am I to say what words are real and
what aren't.


我开始想，到底是什么让一个单词具象化，因为很多人问过我，
我也最常听到的提问是，“好吧，这些单 词是造出来的
?
我真的不明
白。
” 我也真的不知道该怎么解释，
因 为一旦
sonder
开始流行起来，
我又该跟谁说哪些单词是真实的，哪些不是
?


And so I sort of felt like Steve Jobs, who described his
epiphany as when he realized that most of us, as we go through
the day, we just try to avoid bouncing against the walls too
much and just sort of get on with once you realize
that people -- that this world was built by people no smarter
than
you,
then
you
can
reach
out
and
touch
those
walls
and
even
put your
hand through them
and
realize
that you
have
the
power
to change it.


我有点感觉像是乔布斯在描述他的顿悟，
当他意识到，
我们中的
很多人在生活中，都在为了避免给自己制造太多的麻烦，
只是希望一
切都顺利。但是一旦你了解到那些人----
了解到这个世界是由并不
比

你聪明多少的人所建立的，那么 你就会试着去跨越这些高墙，甚
至会用手去推翻它们，你就会意识到，原来你也有改变世界的力量。


And when people ask me,
variety of answers that I tried out. Some of them made sense.
Some of them didn't. But one of them I tried out was,
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