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I remember the very first time I went to a nice restaurant, a really nice restaurant.
我還記得第一次走進(jìn)一家很棒的餐廳，非常高檔。
It was for a law firm recruitment dinner, and I remember beforehand the waitress walked around and asked whether we wanted some wine,
那是一家律師事務(wù)所的招新晚宴，正式開始前，服務(wù)生四處游走，詢問客人是否需要來點(diǎn)葡萄酒，
so I said, "Sure, I'll take some white wine."
我說，“好吧，給我來點(diǎn)白葡萄酒。”
And she immediately said, "Would you like sauvignon blanc or chardonnay?"
她馬上問我，“您是想要白蘇維翁還是霞多麗？”
And I remember thinking, "Come on, lady, stop with the fancy French words and just give me some white wine."
我當(dāng)時(shí)想，“天哪，姐們兒，別整這些高大上的法語詞了行嗎，給我一杯白葡萄酒就好了。”
But I used my powers of deduction and recognized that chardonnay and sauvignon blanc were two separate types of white wine,
但我發(fā)揮了自己杰出的推理能力，猜測霞多麗和白蘇維翁應(yīng)該是兩種不同的白葡萄酒，
and so I told her that I would take the chardonnay, because frankly that was the easiest one to pronounce for me.
于是我要了霞多麗，因?yàn)檫@個(gè)詞更好發(fā)音。
So I had a lot of experiences like that during my first couple of years as a law student at Yale,
這樣的經(jīng)歷還有很多，尤其是在我在耶魯大學(xué)念法律的頭幾年，
because, despite all outward appearances, I'm a cultural outsider.
因?yàn)槲也皇撬麄內(nèi)ψ永锏娜耍M管看起來挺像。
I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco.
但我出身平凡。不是東北那一帶的人，也不是舊金山人。
I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways,
我的老家是俄亥俄州南部一個(gè)鋼鐵小鎮(zhèn)，它一直在掙扎求生，
ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
那種掙扎彷徨，就像美國工人階級(jí)如今的處境一般。
Heroin has moved in, killing a lot of people, people I know.
海洛因泛濫，很多人因此喪生，其中有我的熟人。
Family violence, domestic violence, and divorce have torn apart families.
家庭暴力和離婚導(dǎo)致許多家庭支離破碎。
And there's a very unique sense of pessimism that's moved in.
有一種特別悲觀的情緒蔓延開來。
Think about rising mortality rates in these communities and recognize that for a lot of these folks,
死亡率不斷升高，很多人都意識(shí)到這一點(diǎn)，
the problems that they're seeing are actually causing rising death rates in their own communities, so there's a very real sense of struggle.
而他們親眼見到的問題，正是導(dǎo)致社區(qū)死亡率升高的原因，這種掙扎彷徨的感受是如此真切。
