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And apparently, anyway, according to her studies, our attitudes can be changed this way.
并且明顯的按照她的研究，我們的態度就這樣的改變，
I'll also say, vis-à-vis, the role of art, which sad to say, I do vis-à-vis think is limited.
我也說藝術的作用，難過的說，我想這是有限的，
We would like to think that we're changing the world, but I think we're changing in a very subtle way.
我們總是會想我們要改變世界，但是我想我們在以一種非常微妙的方式改變世界，
Seamus Heaney said that poetry is steadying, that art is steadying.
謝默斯·希尼說過詩歌是穩定的，藝術是穩定的，
And I think that maybe it's not a very big contribution, but I think many of us have a small voice in us that says
我想或許這不是一個很大的貢獻，但我想我們中的許多人有同樣的聲音說
"I don't know, was that right, maybe that wasn't, right?"
我不知道，那對嗎，那不對嗎？
There's something in us, I think we do have our voices which are so frequently drowned out by all the crap.
我們深有體會，我想我們的聲音時常被所有的胡言亂語所淹沒，
And I like to think that in our writings that we just steady that voice.
我喜歡思考到在我們的作品中我們只是有自己穩定的聲音，
We don't give it to them, but we steady it and allow people to hear themselves and that that will be some kind of contribution, we hope.
我們不會強加給他們，但我們穩定它，并允許人們傾聽自己而且那也會有點貢獻，我們是這樣希望的。
Let me offer a summary, a closing remark;
吉姆:讓我給個總結，結束性話語;
tribute to Paula Mathews and her colleagues at the Athenaeum and Ken Greenberg, colleagues here at the Suffolk for this civic discourse series
向保拉馬修斯致敬和他的圖書館全體同仁還有肯格林伯格和他關于此次民間會話而準備的薩?？送?，
and for ending it with this particular conversation.
用例行的會談結束。
It was the work of genius to invite Maxine and Gish to be here; Chinese American women artists.
邀請瑪克辛女士和任碧蓮女士來這兒，這是天才的想法；美籍華裔女藝術家。
