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You married the first girl that you dated, and you were a techie if you could fix the carburetor in your car.
我還相信你們都會和自己第一個約會的女孩結(jié)婚；相信會修汽車化油器，就算是個汽車專家了。
I really thought that gay was a sophisticated English word for happy.
天真地以為英文單詞"gay"就只是開心的意思。
And Lesbian, of course, was the capital of Portugal, as you all know.
理所當(dāng)然地以為"Lesbian"就是葡萄牙首都里斯本。
Where was I? We relied on systems created through the toil and sacrifice of generations before to protect us,
好吧，我扯遠了。我們依賴著的體制生活，是祖祖輩輩們用血汗創(chuàng)造出來的成果，為了來庇護我們的，
and we felt that governments actually worked for our betterment.
我們相信政府一定在為人民的美好未來而努力。
Science was simple and logical, Apple was still then just a fruit owned by Eve first and then Newton, not by Steve Jobs, until then.
科學(xué)是簡單而富有邏輯，蘋果也還只是一種水果，先被夏娃咬了一口，之后又砸到了牛頓，還不是現(xiàn)在史蒂夫·喬布斯的品牌。
And "Eureka!" was what you screamed when you wanted to run naked on the streets.
而阿基米德大喊著：“我知道了！”，其實只是想在街上裸奔的借口。
You went wherever life took you for work, and people were mostly welcoming of you.
你為了工作隨遇而安，大家大多都對你很友善。
Migration was a term then still reserved for Siberian cranes, not human beings.
遷徙也只是一個詞語，用來形容西伯利亞白鶴飛越國界，而非難民。
Most importantly, you were who you were and you said what you thought.
更重要的是，你可以做你自己，你可以說你想要說的。
Then in my late 20s, I shifted to the sprawling metropolis of Mumbai,
然后在我將近30歲時，我搬到了熱鬧而繁華的孟買都市區(qū)，
and my framework, like the newly industrialized aspirational humanity, began to alter.
我的人生，就像人性進入了工業(yè)革命，發(fā)生了翻天覆地的變化。
In the urban rush for a new, more embellished survival, things started to look a little different.
要在千變?nèi)f化的城市中尋求生存，一切都變得不一樣了。
I met people who had descended from all over the world, faces, races, genders, money-lenders.
我遇見了來自世界各地的人，來自不同的種族，擁有不同的面孔，性別，財富。
Definitions became more and more fluid. Work began to define you at that time in an overwhelmingly equalizing manner,
我的價值觀開始改變。你的職業(yè)成了定義你的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，這一切變得無比客觀，
and all the systems started to feel less reliable to me,
所有的體制對于我來說都變得不再可靠，
almost too thick to hold on to the diversity of mankind and the human need to progress and grow.
變得很難去去解釋人的多樣性，而且人類也是需要不斷進步、成長的。
Ideas were flowing with more freedom and speed.
許多想法變得更加自由，傳播速度也越來越快。
And I experienced the miracle of human innovation and cooperation, and my own creativity,
我經(jīng)歷了人類創(chuàng)新與合作的奇跡，還有我自己創(chuàng)造的奇跡，
when supported by the resourcefulness of this collective endeavor, catapulted me into superstardom.
當(dāng)我得到所有的支持和資源，是它們把我推上了巨星的位置。
