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对于那些不可思议的伟大艺术作品，当代社会常将之归功于创作者本身，人们从而对艺术天才抱有超乎寻常的期望，伊丽莎白.吉尔伯特对这一点进行了探索和思考，提出了对于创造天才的独到观点：与其认为某个个人是“天才”，不如说他/她在创作中获得了“天才”的帮助。这一演讲生动有趣、充满个人色彩、令人感动而充满启发。
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- I am a writer. Writing books is my profession but it's more than that, of course.
- 我是个作家，写作不仅仅是我的职业，
- It is also my great lifelong love and fascination. And I don't expect that that's ever going to change.
- 更是我一辈子的挚爱与迷恋，我认为这是永远不会改变的事情。
- But, that said, something kind of peculiar has happened recently in my life and in my career,
- 尽管如此，最近在我的生活工作中，发生了一个特殊事件。
- which has caused me to have to recalibrate my whole relationship with this work.
- 使我不得不重新思考我与我的工作之间的关系。
- And the peculiar thing is that I recently wrote this book, this memoir called "Eat, Pray, Love" which,
- 这个特殊事件就是：我最新出版的那本回忆录《美食、祈祷、爱》，
- decidedly unlike any of my previous books, went out in the world for some reason, and became this big, mega-sensation, international bestseller thing.
- 与我以前那些普普通通的作品大不一样，不知怎么的，它成了一本轰动一时、令人激动的国际畅销书。
- The result of which is that everywhere I go now, people treat me like I'm doomed.
- 结果是，现在不论我到哪里，人们都觉得我这一辈子就这样了。
- Seriously -- doomed, doomed! Like, they come up to me now, all worried, and they say, "Aren't you afraid you're never going to be able to top that?
- 真的，就这样了，彻底地，没救了，玩完了！他们会非常忧虑地过来跟我说：“你不怕吗? 不怕你这辈子都超越不了那本书了吗?”
- Aren't you afraid you're going to keep writing for your whole life and you're never again going to create a book that anybody in the world cares about at all, ever again?"
- “你不怕你会这样写一辈子，却永远再也写不出世人热爱的作品了吗？”
- So that's reassuring, you know. But it would be worse, except for that I happen to remember that over 20 years ago,
- 他们可真是会安慰人呀，我的日子本来会很难熬，幸运的是，我想起了20年前决定成为作家的事情。
- when I was a teenager, when I first started telling people that I wanted to be a writer, I was met with this same sort of fear-based reaction.
- 那时我才十几岁，我当时遭遇到了同样的质疑，
- And people would say, "Aren't you afraid you're never going to have any success?
- 人们说：你不怕永远都不会成功吗？
- Aren't you afraid the humiliation of rejection will kill you?
- 你不怕拒绝的耻辱会把你击垮吗？
- Aren't you afraid that you're going to work your whole life at this craft and nothing's ever going to come of it
- 你不怕努力终身却一无所成吗？
- and you're going to die on a scrap heap of broken dreams with your mouth filled with bitter ash of failure?"
- 你最后会在支离破碎的梦想中绝望死去，满含着失败的痛楚，你最后会在支离破碎的梦想中绝望死去。
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