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And sprezzatura is the art that conceals art. sprezzatura.
是那種渾然天成的藝術。
It makes things look effortless.
它使得事物簡約易懂。
You don't think about how Nicole Kidman is maneuvering that dress she just looks completely natural.
你不用去向妮可·基德曼是如何穿著那件裙子的，這種著裝在她身上就是如此的自然。
And I remember reading, after the Lara Croft movies, how Angelina Jolie would go home completely black and blue.
而且我還記得在看完Lara Croft電影之后，我閱讀著Angelina Jolie如何偏題鱗傷的回到家中。。
Of course, they covered that with make-up,because Lara Croft did all those same stunts but she doesn't get black and blue, because she has sprezzatura.
不過當然，傷的痕跡都用彩妝遮蓋住了，但是Lara Croft也上演了同樣的特技，但是因為sprezzatura，她安然無恙。
"To conceal all art and make whatever is done or said appear to be without effort":
隱藏任何事前的痕跡，或者說，使之顯得自然:
And this is one of the critical aspects of glamour.
這是魅力的一個核心方面。
Glamour is about editing.
魅力意味著雕琢。
How do you create the sense of transcendence,the sense of evoking a perfect world?
你是如何創造卓越的感覺，喚起一個完美世界的感覺？
The sense of, you know, life could be better, I could join this I could be a perfect person, I could join this perfect world.
那種，你知道，生活可以更美好的感覺，我可以成為其中的一份子，我可以成為一個完美的人，我可以成為這個完美世界的一部分。
We don't tell you all the grubby details.
我們并不必讓你知道所有亂糟糟的細節。
Now, this was kindly lent to me by Jeff Bezos, from last year.
這個，這是去年好心的Jeff Bezos借給我的。
This is underneath Jeff's desk.
在Jeff的桌子下面是這個樣子。
This is what the real world of computers, lamps, electrical appliances of all kinds, looks like.
這是電腦的真實呈現，看上去，各種各樣的燈具，電子元件。
But if you look in a catalog particularly a catalog of modern, beautiful objects for your home it looks like this.
但是如果你在一個產品目錄中查看尤其是為你現代，美麗的家添置物件的商品目錄中它是這個樣子的。
There are no cords.
沒有任何線路。
Look next time you get these catalogs in your mail you can usually figure out where they hid the cord.
但你下次查看郵箱中這些目錄的時候你可以經常地弄明白他們把雜亂無章的線路藏在哪了。
But there's always this illusion that if you buy this lamp,you will live in a world without cords.
但是如果你買下這個燈具的話，總是會有這種幻覺，那就是你生活在一個簡潔整齊的世界中。。
And the same thing is true of, if you buy this laptop or you buy this computer and even in these wireless eras, you don't get to live in the world without cords.
下一個事實就是，如果你買下這個掌上電腦或者臺式機--那么甚至在目前的無線世界中，你也不可能生活在沒有線路的世界中。
You have to have mystery and you have to have grace.
你必須擁有神秘感和優雅感。
And there she is Grace.
這就是格蕾絲。
This is the most glamorous picture, I think, Part of the thing is that, in Rear Window,the question is, is she too glamorous to live in his world?
我認為，這是有史以來最優雅的一張圖片，部分是因為電影Rear Window的緣故。問題是，她的優雅是否已經超出了當時的世界？
And the answer is no, but of course it's really just a movie.
答案是否定的，理所當然的，這只是一部電影。
Here's Hedy Lamarr again.
這還是Hedy Lamarr。
And, you know, this kind of head covering is extremely glamorous because, like sunglasses, it conceals and reveals at the same time.
而且，你知道，這種風格的頂蓋是非常迷人的。因為，就像太陽鏡一樣，它在遮掩的同時也欲蓋彌彰。
Translucence is glamorous that's why all these people wear pearls.
半透明是富有魅力的，這就是為什么人們穿戴珍珠的原因。
It's why barware is glamorous. Glamour is translucent not transparent, not opaque.
就是為什么酒吧酒具富有魅力--半透明才吸引人而不是透明，或者不透明。
It invites us into the world but it doesn't give us a completely clear picture.
它使得我們進入了一個世界卻不將其完整的呈現出來。
And I think if Grace Kelly is the most glamorous person,maybe a spiral staircase with glass block may be the most glamorous interior shot,because a spiral staircase is incredibly glamorous.
而且我認為如果Grace Kelly是最富有魅力的人，也許玻璃鑲嵌的旋轉樓梯是是最富有魅力的室內快照，因為旋轉樓梯擁有如此不可思議的吸引力。
It has that sense of going up and away, and yet you never think about how you would really trip if you were particularly going down.
那種懸上即離的感覺，然后你永遠不知道整個過程是怎樣的。如果你知道，大概就是下來的時候吧。
And of course glass block has that sense of translucence.
而且毋庸置疑的，玻璃磚具有那種半透明的感覺。
So, this session's supposed to be about pure pleasure but glamour's really partly about meaning.
因此，這部分講到的是純粹的愉悅。不過魅力確實是一定程度上和涵義相關的。
All individuals and all cultures have ideals that cannot possibly be realized in reality.
所有的個人所有的文化都在現實世界中幾乎無法實現的理想。
They have contradictions, they uphold principles that are incommensurable with each other whatever it is and yet these ideals give meaning and purpose to our lives as cultures and as individuals.
矛盾是存在的，它支持著互相之前不具有可比性的原則，不管它是什么，這些理想在我們的生活里表達出了我們身為個人和文化的涵義和目的。
