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I shall now, therefore, humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.
所以，今天我謹提出我的觀點，希望不會遭到反對。
Once we eliminate public funding for the artists, let's put them back to work by using them instead of PowerPoint.
一旦我們消除對藝術家的資金支持，他們可以重返工作崗位讓他們取代幻燈片。
As a test case, I propose we start with American dancers.
作為測試，我建議先從美國的舞蹈演員開始。
After all, they are the most perishable of their kind, prone to injury and very slow to heal due to our health care system.
畢竟，他們是同行中最脆弱的，容易受傷，還好得超慢拜我們的醫療體制所賜。
Rather than dancing our Ph.Ds, we should use dance to explain all of our complex problems.
除了舞動博士，我們還應該用舞蹈解釋所有復雜問題。
Imagine our politicians using dance to explain why we must invade a foreign country or bail out an investment bank. It's sure to help.
想象一下，我們的政治家用舞蹈解釋我們為何必須入侵他國或拯救投資銀行。一定有用。
Of course someday, in the deep future, a technology of persuasion even more powerful than PowerPoint may be invented, rendering dancers unnecessary as tools of rhetoric.
當然，將來的某一天，比幻燈片更強大的勸說技術會問世流傳，舞蹈演員作為雄辯工具將不再重要。
However, I trust that by that day, we shall have passed this present financial calamity.
然而，我相信，到那天，我們已經度過了目前的財政災難。
Perhaps by then we will be able to afford the luxury of just sitting in an audience with no other purpose than to witness the human form in motion.
也許那時，我們才能有幸坐在觀眾席上心無旁騖，全心觀賞動感的人類形體。
