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You might ask, well, here in America, who has time for this?
你也許會問，但這是美國，誰有時間折騰這些啊？
And I would tell you that the average American watches five hours of television a day.
我要告訴你，美國人平均每天看5小時的電視。
You might ask, who has the motivation?
你會問，誰有那個勁頭啊？
And I'll tell you, any citizen who wants to be seen and heard not as a prop, not as a talking point, but as a participant, as a creator.
讓我告訴你，那些希望被注意和被聆聽的公民，不想當(dāng)龍?zhí)祝粸椴┭矍颍蔀閰⑴c者，創(chuàng)造者。
Well, how do we make this happen? Simply by making it happen.
好了，那到底要怎么做呢？很簡單，付諸行動。
That's why a group of colleagues and I launched a new project called "The Joy of Voting."
這就是我和一群同事發(fā)起了一個新運動：“選舉的快樂”的原因。
In four cities across the United States -- Philadelphia, Miami, Akron, Ohio, and Wichita, Kansas
在美國四個城市--費城，邁阿密，俄亥俄的阿克倫和堪薩斯的威奇托，
we've gathered together artists and activists, educators, political folks, neighbors,
我們召集了藝術(shù)家，活動家，教育家，政治人物，鄰居
everyday citizens to come together and create projects that can foster this culture of voting in a local way.
普通市民每天相聚一起，創(chuàng)造了一個項目，來培育地域選舉文化。
In Miami, that means all-night parties with hot DJs where the only way to get in is to show that you're registered to vote.
在邁阿密，有整夜的聚會，火辣的DJ，只要注冊為選民就可以入內(nèi)。
In Akron, it means political plays being performed in the bed of a flatbed truck that moves from neighborhood to neighborhood.
在阿克倫則是政治戲劇，演出在移動的平板拖車上進行，從一個小區(qū)到另一個小區(qū)。
In Philadelphia, it's a voting-themed scavenger hunt all throughout colonial old town.
在費城，是選舉主題的尋寶游戲，遍布所有殖民古鎮(zhèn)。
And in Wichita, it's making mixtapes and live graffiti art in the North End to get out the vote.
威奇托則是在城區(qū)北部創(chuàng)作混音帶和現(xiàn)場涂鴉，那里是選舉開始的地方。
There are 20 of these projects, and they are remarkable in their beauty and their diversity, and they are changing people.
這樣的項目有20個，每一個都美輪美奐，豐富多彩。這些項目改變了人們的態(tài)度。
Let me tell you about a couple of them.
讓我來給你們講幾個故事。
