TED演讲:美国废弃的购物中心(4)

 And then there's a guy standing¹ next to her, with, like, an espresso cup, and he's like... 然后她旁边站着一个男人，拿着 一个咖啡杯，他就这样...

And it says, "What brings you today?" 然后照片还写着，“哪阵风把你吹来了？”

I wanted to be scared and depressed². Thank you. 我是想要觉得害怕压抑的好吗，拜托。

So the comments just kept pouring in on the videos, from all over the country, and then all over the world. 所以评论一直大量地涌来，堆积在我的这些视频下面。评论来自全国各地，后来甚至覆盖到全世界。

And I started to think, this could really be something, but I had to get creative, 这让我开始思考，这可能是个好事，但是我必须有创意，

because I'm like, how long are people going to sit and watch me waddling³ through an empty mall? 因为，人们坐在那里看我在空荡荡的商场里晃悠，能看多久？

So the original episodes I filmed with an iPhone. 一开始的几集，我是用苹果手机录下来的。

So I'd walk through the mall with an iPhone, and, you know. Like that. 我拿着手机在商场里走来走去，就像这样。

And security -- because malls, they don't like photography 保安们--因为这些商场，他们不欢迎摄影，

so the security would come up and be like, "Put that away," and I'm like, "OK." 所以保安们就走过来说，“把那个收起来。” 然后我就说，“好好好。”

So I had to get creative and sneaky, so I started using a hidden camera and different techniques to get the footage that I needed, 所以后来我必须更有想象力，更狡猾，我开始用隐藏摄像头和不同的技术来获取我需要的素材，

and basically what I wanted to do was make the video like it was a first-person experience, like you are sitting 基本上我想做的，就是制作这个视频，会像第一人称角度的经历，就像你坐着，

put your headphones on watching the screen -- it's like, you're there in the video, like a video game, basically. 戴着耳机，看着屏幕，你就感觉自己在视频里面，基本上就在玩视频游戏。

I also started to use music, collaborating⁴ with artists who create music called vaporwave. 我也开始用音乐，和一些制作蒸汽波音乐的艺术家合作。

And vaporwave is a music genre⁵ that emerged in the early 2010s among internet communities. Here's an example. 蒸汽波是一种音乐类型，从2010年初开始在网络上流行。这里有一段。

1 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

2 depressed   

adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的

参考例句：

• When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
• His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。

3 waddling   

v.（像鸭子一样）摇摇摆摆地走( waddle的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Rhinoceros Give me a break, were been waddling every day. 犀牛甲：饶了我吧，我们晃了一整天了都。 来自互联网
• A short plump woman came waddling along the pavement. 有个矮胖女子一摇一摆地沿人行道走来。 来自互联网

4 collaborating   

合作( collaborate的现在分词 )； 勾结叛国

参考例句：

• Joe is collaborating on the work with a friend. 乔正与一位朋友合作做那件工作。
• He was not only learning from but also collaborating with Joseph Thomson. 他不仅是在跟约瑟福？汤姆逊学习，而且也是在和他合作。

5 genre   

n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格

参考例句：

• My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
• Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。