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小说家谭恩美寻找她发展创意的过程，探讨创意从何而来。
n. 创造力，创造
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- Also, one of the principles of creativity is to have a little childhood trauma.
- 创意的其中一项原则是拥有童年的心理创伤。
- And I had the usual kind that I think a lot of people had, and that is that, you know, I had expectations placed on me.
- 我想我有的创伤和一般人一样，来自父母对子女过分热切的期望。
- That figure right there, by the way, figure right there was a toy given to me when I was but nine years old,
- 那具人体模型，是我在九岁的时候得到的一件玩具，
- and it was to help me become a doctor from a very early age.
- 以助我在童年时期就能踏上成为医生康庄大道。
- I have some ones that were long lasting:
- 还有一些持续比较久的心理创伤：
- from the age of five to 15, this was supposed to be my side occupation, and it led to a sense of failure.
- 从五到十五岁，成为一个钢琴家理应变成我的第二职业，但最终它只变成我感觉失败的来源。
- But actually, there was something quite real in my life that happened when I was about 14.
- 但事实上，在我人生中是有一些真实的心理创伤，发生在我十四岁的时候。
- And it was discovered that my brother, in 1967, and then my father, six months later, had brain tumors.
- 就是在1967年发现我的兄弟，以及六个月后发现我的父亲，双双长了脑瘤。
- And my mother believed that something had gone wrong, and she was gonna find out what it was, and she was gonna fix it.
- 我母亲相信有些事情出错了，她想找出原因，然后解决它。
- My father was a Baptist minister, and he believed in miracles, and that God's will would take care of that.
- 我父亲是个牧师，他相信神迹，他相信神会解决那些问题。
- But, of course, they ended up dying, six months apart.
- 但当然，他们都过世了，中间隔了六个月。
- And after that, my mother believed that it was fate, or curses
- 在那之后，我母亲相信那是命运，是诅咒，
- she went looking through all the reasons in the universe why this would have happened.
- 她找遍了宇宙间为什么这件事会发生的所有可能的理由。
- Everything except randomness. She did not believe in randomness. There was a reason for everything.
- 除了偶然以外所有的理由。她不相信偶然。每件事都有原因。
- And one of the reasons, she thought, was that her mother, who had died when she was very young, was angry at her.
- 她相信其中一件原因是在她的母亲，她相信在她幼年就过世的母亲怨恨她。
- And so, I had this notion of death all around me, because my mother also believed that I would be next, and she would be next.
- 所以我总被死亡的阴影笼罩着，因为我母亲还相信我会是下一个，或是她会是下一个。
- And when you are faced with the prospect of death very soon, you begin to think very much about everything.
- 当你面对死亡的时候，你开始认真思考每件事情。
- You become very creative, in a survival sense.
- 从一种争取生存的角度来说，你开始非常有创造力。
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