TED演讲:关于人性名利和爱(5)

 　　Four years ago, my lovely wife Gauri and me decided¹ to have a third child. 四年前，我和我太太高丽决定要第三个孩子。

　　It was claimed on the net that he was the love child of our first child who was 15 years old. 结果网上居然说，那是我的大儿子的小孩，我的大儿子，他四年前只有15岁。

　　Apparently², he had sown his wild oats with a girl while driving her car in Romania. 网上居然说，是他在罗马尼亚和他的女友搞车震，播下的野种。

　　And yeah, there was a fake video to go with it. 而且啊还流出一段假视频。

　　And we were so disturbed as a family. 我们全家都不堪其扰。

　　My son, who is 19 now, even now when you say "hello" to him, 我的儿子，现在19岁了，现在就算你只是跟他打个招呼说“你好"，

　　he just turns around and says, "But bro, I didn't even have a European driving license³." 他都会马上说，“嘿伙计，我根本没有欧洲驾照。”

　　Yeah. In this new world, slowly, reality became virtual and virtual became real, 是啊。在这个崭新的世界里，慢慢地真假变得难以区分，

　　and I started to feel that I could not be who I wanted to be or say what I actually thought, 我开始觉得，我不能做我自己，我不能随便发表我的想法，

　　and humanity at this time completely identified with me. 而此时的人性就跟我一模一样。

　　I think both of us were going through our midlife crisis, and humanity, like me, was becoming an overexposed prima donna. 和我一起步入了中年危机，人性就像我，变成了一个整天被狗仔队追赶的主角。

　　I started to sell everything, from hair oil to diesel⁴ generators⁵. 我开始贩卖一切，从发油到柴油发电机。

　　Humanity was buying everything from crude oil to nuclear reactors⁶. 而人性开始收买一切，从原油到核反应堆。

　　You know, I even tried to get into a skintight superhero suit to reinvent myself. I must admit I failed miserably⁷. 你知道，为了重新塑身，我甚至还想过穿超人紧身衣，我必须承认我彻底失败了。

　　And just an aside I want to say on behalf of all the Batmen, Spider-Men and Supermen of the world, 在此打个岔，代表蝙蝠侠、蜘蛛人还有这个世界的超人们，

　　you have to commend them, because it really hurts in the crotch, that superhero suit. 请各位把掌声送给他们，因为穿超人装，胯下超疼。

1 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

2 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

3 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

4 diesel   

n.柴油发动机，内燃机

参考例句：

• We experimented with diesel engines to drive the pumps.我们试着用柴油机来带动水泵。
• My tractor operates on diesel oil.我的那台拖拉机用柴油开动。

5 generators   

n.发电机，发生器( generator的名词复数 )；电力公司

参考例句：

• The factory's emergency generators were used during the power cut. 工厂应急发电机在停电期间用上了。
• Power can be fed from wind generators into the electricity grid system. 电力可以从风力发电机流入输电网。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 reactors   

起反应的人( reactor的名词复数 )； 反应装置； 原子炉； 核反应堆

参考例句：

• The TMI nuclear facility has two reactors. 三哩岛核设施有两个反应堆。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• The earliest production reactors necessarily used normal uranium as fuel. 最早为生产用的反应堆，必须使用普通铀作为燃料。

7 miserably   

adv.痛苦地；悲惨地；糟糕地；极度地

参考例句：

• The little girl was wailing miserably. 那小女孩难过得号啕大哭。
• It was drizzling, and miserably cold and damp. 外面下着毛毛细雨，天气又冷又湿，令人难受。 来自《简明英汉词典》