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这个世界上有很多“格格不入者”，他们不合群，怯懦，胆小和自卑，命运对他们也常常不公。本期的TED演讲者Lidia Yuknavitch女士就是这样一个人，她的故事和经历足以让她为“格格不入者”们代言。让我们听听她的故事，心声和感悟。
n. 同意，许可，允许
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- The three writers I wanted to meet were Carole Maso, Lynne Tillman and Peggy Phelan.
- 我想见的三位作家是卡罗尔·马索，琳恩·蒂尔曼和佩吉·费伦。
- These were not famous, best-selling authors,
- 她们不算是最知名和畅销的作家，
- but to me, they were women-writer titans.
- 但是我把她们奉若神明。
- Carole Maso wrote the book that later became my art bible.
- 卡罗尔·马索的书后来成为了我的艺术指导。
- Lynne Tillman gave me permission to believe that there was a chance my stories could be part of the world.
- 琳恩·蒂尔曼给了我信心让我相信，将来我的故事会被世界上的人所知晓。
- And Peggy Phelan reminded me
- 佩吉·费伦则提醒我
- that maybe my brains could be more important than my boobs.
- 我的头脑比胸部更加重要。
- They weren't mainstream women writers,
- 她们不是主流女作家，
- but they were cutting a path through the mainstream with their body stories,
- 但是她们用自己的故事题材在主流文学中独树一帜，
- I like to think, kind of the way water cut the Grand Canyon.
- 另辟蹊径。
- It nearly killed me with joy to hang out with these three over-50-year-old women writers.
- 能和这三位50多岁的女作家聊天，快把我乐疯了。
- And the reason it nearly killed me with joy is that I'd never known a joy like that.
- 因为我从来不知道 生活可以这么开心。
- I'd never been in a room like that.
- 我的生活中从来没有打开过这样美好的一扇门。
- My mother never went to college.
- 我的母亲没有上过大学。
- And my creative career to that point was a sort of small, sad, stillborn thing.
- 从这一点来说我的创作生涯本来就是一个很小的，卑微的，会胎死腹中的事。
- So kind of in those first nights in New York I wanted to die there.
- 在纽约的前几天我希望就死在那里。
- I was just like, "Kill me now. I'm good. This is beautiful."
- 我想说“杀了我吧。我要葬在这美好之中。”
- Some of you in the room will understand what happened next.
- 接下来发生了什么，屋子里的一些人会理解。
- First, they took me to the offices of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- 首先，他们把我带到了法勒，斯特劳斯和吉鲁的办公室。
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux was like my mega-dream press.
- 法勒，斯特劳斯和吉鲁是我的终极梦想出版社。
- I mean, T.S. Eliot and Flannery O'Connor were published there.
- 艾略特的诗集和弗兰纳里·奥康纳的小说都在那里出版。
- The main editor guy sat me down and talked to me for a long time,
- 主编让我坐下和我聊了很久，
- trying to convince me I had a book in me about my life as a swimmer.
- 一直在试图让我相信我写了一本关于我自己是游泳运动员的书。
- You know, like a memoir.
- 就像用备忘录让我回忆一样。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| permission | [pə'miʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| canyon | ['kænjən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| understand | [.ʌndə'stænd] | |||
| convince | [kən'vins] | 联想记忆 | ||
| memoir | ['memwɑ:] | |||
| creative | [kri'eitiv] | 联想记忆 |
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