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What I was thinking was that you are able to hear the languages that are here and its just amazing in World and Town,
我所思考的是你能聽懂這里的語言，就如在《世界和城鎮》中的驚人之處，
where you have people speaking Vietnamese and you have them speaking Spanish,
在書中，你讓人們講越南話，講西班牙語，
and you have them speaking American and the conversation dialogues are so wonderful
并且你讓他們講英語，而且對白非常的精彩。
and I was wondering whether you could read one of your dialogue passages?
我想知道是否你讀懂你的對話文章?
Maybe that was something you wanted to do anyway.
或許那時你想做的事。
Well, I can read. No, no, I can definitely read whatever, but I do think that one of the gifts is that you hear a lot more.
我能讀懂 不不不，我可以肯定地讀懂，不過上天給我們的一個禮物
You know? Because you've grown up, I mean, normally, I mean we all listen to our parents.
就是你可以聽到更多 你知道嗎?因為當你長大了，我的意思是，一般我們都聽自己父母的。
I hope my children listen to their parents.
我希望我的孩子們能聽他們父母的。
But there is a way in which because you are in a family where you are aware that they don't know a lot.
但問題是因為你處于家庭中，你會發現他們不是懂太多。
You know what I mean? That they're not very oriented in the society.
你懂我的意思嗎?他們就不面向社會。
It's a way that you grow up kind of hyper tuned and you can hear everything. You know?
這就會影響你去聆聽一切事物，你知道嗎?
And I'm sort of, I myself I think there's a way in which you're not even aware until you start to write of how much you learned.
而且我會，我也想直至你開始寫作才發現你肚子有多少墨水。
But there's no question that you didn't have the luxury or whatever of just sort of sitting there and thinking,
但這也不是問題，大不了用不上，那些漂亮的語句或只是坐在那兒苦思冥想，
well what do I want to eat, what do I want to do? There's a way in which you're posed a little bit.
我想做什么?在這種方式中你提出了一點。
And like I say, I think that we take in many, many things that we don't know we know.
并且我喜歡說，我認為吸收了很多很多我們不知道的東西。
But then when you start to write, then you suddenly realize, oh my goodness, look at that.
但當你開始提筆時，你會突然意識到我的天吶，看看那。
Jim Carroll: So bring us a little bit wherever you choose into the world of the World and Town.
吉姆:那么給我講點你在《城市和鄉鎮》中的啟示吧。
Gish Jen: I can see I'm not going to be able to get away without reading.
任碧蓮:不讀書的話，我可能一事無成。
Jim Carroll: Well, you don't have to read. I'm just very struck by the fact that in this novel we have a Chinese-American woman
吉姆:你不用讀懂。我只是很震驚，在這本小說里一個美裔華人婦女，
whose sight is both of an establishment Anglo-American male and newly arrived Cambodian immigrants,
有著和英美男性和新到的柬埔寨移民兩種人的觀點，
who are on either side of this woman's world. And that's one of the things that's kind of striking about your book.
他們誰在這個女人的世界里，那就是我我對于你這本書中所震驚的事。
