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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。
n. 反映，映像，折射，沉思，影响
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- And the question that I want to ask everybody here today is are you guys all cool with that idea?
- 我今天想问在座各位的是：你们大家都对此毫无异议吗？
- Are you comfortable with that? Because you look at it even from an inch away and, you know -- I'm not at all comfortable with that assumption.
- 你们都觉得这一观点毫无问题吗? 哪怕稍稍离远点看这个观点，我也不能同意这种臆断。
- I think it's odious. And I also think it's dangerous, and I don't want to see it perpetuated into the next century.
- 这个观点不但可憎，而且可怕，我不希望这样的想法一直延续到下个世纪。
- I think it's better if we encourage our great creative minds to live.
- 我觉得鼓励我们伟大的创作天才们继续活下去会更加好。
- And I definitely know that, in my case -- in my situation -- it would be very dangerous for me to start sort of leaking down that dark path of assumption,
- 而且就我自己来说，持这一观点必然将我引入黑暗的绝境，
- particularly given the circumstance that I'm in right now in my career.
- 尤其是在我目前的事业阶段。
- Which is -- you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old.
- 你看，我还年轻，我才四十来岁。
- I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me.
- 我今后还有大约四十年的创作生涯。
- And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
- 而且很有可能的是，从这一刻起，我所写的每一部作品，都会被用来和我上一本轰动一时的巨作进行比较，不是吗？
- I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now -- it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me.
- 坦率地说吧，看在我们都聊了这么久，我就说句朋友间的掏心话吧，极有可能的是，我这辈子最大成功已经过去了。
- So Jesus, what a thought! That's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.
- 天啊，这是何种的想法！就是这种想法，让人踏上了一大清早就喝琴酒的不归路啊，我可不想变成那样。
- I would prefer to keep doing this work that I love.
- 我希望继续从事我所热爱的写作事业。
- And so, the question becomes, how? And so, it seems to me, upon a lot of reflection,
- 所以问题就变成：我应该怎么办呢？经过一番深入思考，
- that the way that I have to work now, in order to continue writing, is that I have to create some sort of protective psychological construct, right?
- 在我看来，要想继续写作，我必须要创造出某种心理保护机制。
- I have to sort of find some way to have a safe distance between me, as I am writing,
- 我必须以某种方式，建立起一个安全距离，区别开写作本身，
- and my very natural anxiety about what the reaction to that writing is going to be, from now on.
- 以及我对于作品反响的极度焦虑。
- And, as I've been looking, over the last year, for models for how to do that, I've been sort of looking across time,
- 前一年，我到处找寻可以参考的模式，在历史中找，也在不同文化中找
- and I've been trying to find other societies to see if they might have had better
- 看他们是否有比我们更好、更理智的观点。
- and saner ideas than we have about how to help creative people sort of manage the inherent emotional risks of creativity.
- 来帮助艺术工作者处理艺术创作所固有的内在情感风险。
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