TED中英双语演讲稿Dreams from endangered cultures.pdfVIP

Dreams from endangered cultures Wade Davis 2007-01-09 /talks/wade_davis_dreams_from_endangered_cultures Pollykann - A powerful video player (App) for learning languages provided technical support for the subtitles. 本字幕由【小鹦看看】- 用了会后悔，不用更后悔的外语学习App，提供技术支持。 You know, one of the intense pleasures of travel 对我来说 在世界各地旅行 and one of the delights of ethnographic research 和从事人类学研究的生涯中 is the opportunity to live amongst those 最大的乐趣之一莫过于 who have not forgotten the old ways, 体验那些没有忘记传统的族群的生活 who still feel their past in the wind, 沐浴在微风中 touch it in stones polished by rain, 触摸被雨水冲洗得晶莹光亮的石头 taste it in the bitter leaves of plants. 尝着苦叶的味道 你能感受到他们的历史 Just to know that Jaguar shamans still journey beyond the Milky Way, 在萨满教的传说中 老虎要跨越银河 or the myths of the Inuit elders still resonate with meaning, 因纽特老人的神话仍然引起后人的共鸣 or that in the Himalaya, 或者在喜马拉雅山 the Buddhists still pursue the breath of the Dharma, 佛教徒还在追随法门 is to really remember the central revelation of anthropology, 这让我们想起人类学的核心揭示 and that is the idea that the world in which we live 它的思想要义是 我们生活的世界 does not exist in some absolute sense, 不是存在于一个绝对的意识之中 but is just one model of reality, 而只是一个现实模型 the consequence of one particular set of adaptive choices 只是一种适应性选择的结果 that our lineage made, albeit successfully, many generations ago. 我们的祖先在很多世代以前就成功地做出了这种选择 And of course, we all share the same adaptive imperatives. 当然 我们所有都遵守同一种适应性规则 Were all born. We all bring our children into the world. 我们都出生于母腹 并且在这个世上生儿育女 We go through initiation rites. 我们要经历成年礼的洗礼 We have to deal with the inexorable separation of death, 必须面对残酷的生离死别 so it shouldnt surprise us that we all sing, we all dance, 因此 我们要歌唱和舞蹈 以排遣生活中的苦楚 we all have art. 我们创造了艺术 But whats interesting is the unique cadence of the song, 但是 你会发现 每种文化的歌曲韵律 the rhythm of the dance in every culture. 和舞蹈节奏有着独一无二的特色 And whether it is the Penan in the forests of Borneo, 无论是生活在婆罗(Borneo) 丛林的伯南(Penan)人 or the Voodoo acolytes in Haiti, 还是