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And she explains this by the fact that we all have cultural maps.
并且，他用我們都有文化地圖的事實闡述這個觀點。
And there's a way in which when you're in the old world you have one cultural map and you come here,
而且當你處于舊時代，你就有一張文化地圖，
but between the moment when you, when you're giving up this old map and there's a time when you're taking,
當你來到這兒，但當你放棄這張老地圖的時候，
redrawing a new map, there's a time in which you are very, very, very familiar and comfortable with the society
就有一個讓你重新畫一幅新地圖的機會，由此，你可以非常非常非常親近和對這個社會很滿意，
but you are not quite you know what I mean, you still have a little bit of a distance.
你知道我的意思，你還是有一點點距離。
You can still see what it is. And in that window, there's tremendous creativity.
你可以明白這是什么，在那扇窗戶里，有巨大的創作力。
And I think actually you can see that very much in your book Maxine.
并且我認為瑪克辛你可以在自己的書中看的更多。
Maxine, you know, a million, trillion people have written memoirs and only Maxine Hong Kingston writes it in verse.
瑪克辛，你知道的，一百萬一兆人寫回憶錄可只有你用詩歌的方式來寫。
And as I was reading I just, it's really true,
當我拜讀的時候，非常的真實
it's just that sift. That we were talking before this panel of how often, I know Maxine has this feeling,
在這個小組成立之前，我們談了不少，我了解瑪克辛也有這樣的想法，
and I have it too sometimes, of being able to see something that other people don't see.
并且有時候我也有相同的想法，能看到別人看不見的東西。
And in this case, I can see that Maxine, she remade it.
在這種情況下，我能明白瑪克辛她改造了它。
She could see that you could write this memoir in verse and that it will allow you a kind of freedom
她能明白你可以用詩歌來寫回憶錄，
that you don't see in other memoirs. Her book is very associative.
這是一種別的回憶錄中看不到的。她的書非常令人產生聯想的，
She can go here, in literary terms, you probably, those of you I don't know how many English majors are out there,
她能領悟，在文學方面，或許我不知道你們中有多少英語專業生要出去，
but we talk in poetry, they talk about parataxis,
但我們談論文學，他們談論名詞，
that's when you put two things together with no apparent connection you just use juxtaposition.
這是你將兩樣毫無聯系的東西放在一起，你只能使用并列。
And the number of times that Maxine just goes from here to here;
瑪克辛也是時時刻刻地從此吸收靈感;
just like that, she just effortlessly kind of leaps in a way you could never do in prose.
就像這樣，她毫不費力的跳躍方式你可能從未在散文中運用過。
You know? In prose you would need the connective sentences, in poetry you don't.
你知道嗎?在散文中，你需要運用關聯性的句子，在詩歌中，你不需要。
And leave it to Maxine, of course, to see that.
但對于瑪克辛來說，
And I think its just really great testimony to what happens when you have people in between cultures.
當然我認為它只是會表明當你處于文化之間時會發生什么。
And so I just wish, if nothing else that people leaving this room tonight would remember that its not just that we're so idealistic
因此我只希望，如果今夜這里的人們可以記得它只是我們太理想化了。
and we're going to get eaten alive for our idealism but actually it really is true that a lot of the creativity,
并且，我們將吃掉我們的理想主義，但實際上這是真的會有大量創造力，
a lot of the innovation comes from people who have moved from one culture to another.
大量創新意識會發生在一個從一個文化遷移到另一個文化人的身上。
And so it is a real gift that we get and we also get to feel good about ourselves at the same time.
這是我們得到的禮物，我們同時也會對我們感到滿意。
