(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
JUDY WOODRUFF: Next, we turn to another installment of our weekly Brief But Spectacular series, where we ask people about their passions. Jonny Sun is an author who amassed a loyal Twitter following through his honesty, humor and candor. His latest book is Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too.
JONNY SUN, Author, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: Look, life is bad. Everyone's sad. We're all gonna die. But I already bought this inflatable bouncy castle. So, are you going to take your shoes off, or what? I think I have always grown up as like a shy, introverted, socially anxious person. I have always seen my Twitter account as like a personal account. And I have always been drawn to it as a writer for the fact that I'm able to be honest and open and vulnerable, I guess, in a way that I can't be in person. I have always seen Twitter as kind of this writer's sketchbook. I have approached it as a writer this whole time. And it's always been this place where I can, like, take ideas and test them out. Anonymity online has gotten this kind of bad rap because of a lot of the harassment and abuse, which, of course, is such a serious issue. The flip side of that is that being anonymous online allows certain people to have a voice and have a presence, especially when their real-life identities can't be compromised. I wrote a book. It's called Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too. It's an illustrated story of an alien who comes to Earth and meets a bunch of different characters and kind of gets to learn about their lives. Another, I think, characteristic of the voice that I have worked on and developed through Twitter and in the book is this idea of kind of messing with syntax and grammar and kind of doing intentional mistakes and doing typos and stuff. And I think that relates a lot to kind of the postmodern movements of poetry and the Fluxus movement in the '60s and how these artists were taking the look of type on a page and using that to influence voice and to change the ways we read ideas. Hopefully, that intentional clumsiness creates pure, honest, genuine voice for readers and for people to pick up on. I think about, like, death all the time. I think a lot of writers think about death all the time. I'm always thinking about how much I can do and how much time I have left. I have so many things I want to do. Accepting that one day in the future I won't be here anymore makes me really think really hard about how much time I have on this Earth and what I'm going to do with it. My name is Jonny Sun, and this is my Brief But Spectacular take on connecting with others.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And you can find additional Brief But Spectacular episodes on our Web site. That's PBS.org/NewsHour/Brief.
重点解析
1.take off 起飞
We eventually took off at 11 o'clock and arrived in Venice at 1.30.
我们终于在11点起飞,1:30 到达威尼斯 。
2.flip side 负面
The trade deficit is the flip side of a rapidly expanding economy.
贸易赤字是经济快速发展带来的负面产物 。
3.characteristic of 独特的
Hostility towards outsiders is characteristic of both human and non-human animals.
对外来者怀有敌意是人类和其他动物共有的特征 。
4.mess with 干涉
Do you know who you're messing with, do you know who I am?
知道你在跟谁打交道吗——知道我是谁吗?
5.in person 本人
It was the first time she had seen him in person.
这是她第一次见到他本人 。
参考译文
朱蒂·伍德拉夫:接下来,请看我们的每周系列节目《简短而壮观》,在那里我们探寻人们的激情
。乔尼·孙是一位作家,他诚实,幽默而又坦率,是一位忠实的推特写手 。他的最新著作名为《如果你也是外星人那所有人都是》 。乔尼·孙,作者,《如果你也是外星人那所有人都是》:看,生活很糟糕
另一个,我认为,我通过推特和书中所研究和发展的声音特点是,这种想法有点语法混乱,有点故意犯错,写错别字或写错的东西 。而且我认为这与60年代的后现代诗歌运动和激浪派运动有很大关系,这些艺术家如何采用页面类型外观,并利用它来影响声音并改变我们阅读思想的方式 。希望这种故意的笨拙可以为读者和人们提供纯粹,诚实,真实的声音 。我一直想着,比如死亡 。我想很多作家一直都在思考死亡 。我一直在想我能做多少以及剩下多少时间 。我有很多事情要做 。接受将来的某一天我将不再在这里,我在这个地球上有多少时间以及我将要用它做什么,真的很难 。我的名字叫乔尼·孙,这是我的《简短而壮观》,关于与他人联系的看法 。
朱蒂·伍德拉夫:你可以在我们的网站上找到更多《简短而壮观》的剧集
。这是PBS.org/NewsHour/Brief 。译文为可可英语翻译,未经授权请勿转载!