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演讲简介：
诗人Rives用一段8分钟的抒情折纸，将一系列历史的巧合折叠到最让人震惊的一刻：凌晨4点。
n. 巧合，同时发生
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- It works a little something like -- this is a recent Google search for four in the morning.
- 这是结果，请看最近的一个谷歌搜索。搜索：凌晨4点
- Results vary, of course. This is pretty typical.
- 当然搜索的结果不一，这是其中最典型的一个。
- The top 10 results yield you four hits for Faron Young's song, "It's Four in the Morning,"
- 最上面的10个结果中，4个是Faron Young的歌：“现在是凌晨4点。”
- three hits for Judi Dench's film, "Four in the Morning,"
- 3个是Judi Dench的电影：“凌晨4点。”
- one hit for Wislawa Szymborska's poem, "Four in the Morning."
- 1个是Wislawa Szymborska的诗：“凌晨4点。”
- But what, you may ask, do a Polish poet, a British Dame, a country music hall of famer all have in common
- 但你们也许会问，一个波兰诗人，一个英国贵妇，一个乡村音乐圣殿的歌星间有什么共同的地方？
- besides this totally excellent Google ranking?
- 除了他们在谷歌搜索结果上都有很高的排名以外
- Well, let's start with Faron Young -- who was born incidentally in 1932.
- 我们从Faron Young开始吧，他不小心生于：1932年。
- In 1996, he shot himself in the head on December ninth -- which incidentally is Judi Dench's birthday.
- 1996年12月9日他往自己头上开枪自杀那天--正巧是Judi Dench的生日。
- But he didn't die on Dench's birthday.
- 但是他并没在Dench的生日死去。
- He languished until the following afternoon when he finally succumbed to a supposedly self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 64
- 他滞留到第二天下午才绝别人世，终年64岁，据称是开枪自伤--
- which incidentally is how old Alberto Giacometti was when he died.
- 碰巧的是，阿尔贝托·贾科梅蒂也是这年龄去世的。
- Where was Wislawa Szymborska during all this?
- 那这段时间Wislawa Szymborska都在干什么呢？
- She has the world's most absolutely watertight alibi.
- 她有着世上最无懈可击的不在场证明，
- On that very day, December 10, 1996 while Mr. Four in the Morning,
- 1996年12月10日那天，当凌晨4点钟先生，
- Faron Young, was giving up the ghost in Nashville, Tennessee,
- Faron Young在田纳西州纳什维尔向鬼神投降的时候，
- Ms. Four in the Morning -- or one of them anyway -- Wislawa Szymborska
- 凌晨4点钟女士中的一位，Wislawa Szymborska
- was in Stockholm, Sweden, accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- 在瑞典首都斯德哥尔摩，接受诺贝尔文学奖。
- 100 years to the day after the death of Alfred Nobel himself. Coincidence? No, it's creepy.
- 那也是阿尔弗雷德诺贝尔本人去世100年纪念日。巧合？不，那是“鬼异”。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| coincidence | [kəu'insidəns] | |||
| alibi | ['æli.bai] | 联想记忆 | ||
| incidentally | [.insi'dentəli] | |||
| absolutely | ['æbsəlu:tli] | |||
| typical | ['tipikəl] | |||
| yield | [ji:ld] | |||
| vary | ['vɛəri] | |||
| polish | ['pɔliʃ] | 联想记忆 |
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