All right, so I want you to take a moment, and I want you to think of three things that you know to be true.
好吧,我想讓大家花點時間,想出三件你們認為是真的事情。
They can be about whatever you want-- technology, entertainment, design, your family, what you had for breakfast.
它們會是你想到的任何事--科技,娛樂,設計,你的家庭,你早餐吃了什么等等。
The only rule is don't think too hard. Okay, ready? Go. Okay.
這僅有的規則就是不要想得特復雜。準備好了嗎?開始。好吧。
So here are three things I know to be true.
這是我認為的3件真事。
I know that Jean-Luc Godard was right when he said that, "A good story has a beginning, a middle and an end, although not necessarily in that order."
我知道讓·盧克·戈達爾是對的,他說過,“一個好故事 有開頭,發展和結尾,但不需要都是這順序。”
I know that I'm incredibly nervous and excited to be up here, which is greatly inhibiting my ability to keep it cool.
我知道我站在著兒異常緊張和興奮,我努力控制好我自己保持冷靜。
And I know that I have been waiting all week to tell this joke.
我知道我已經等了整整一周才來講這笑話。
Why was the scarecrow invited to TED? Because he was outstanding in his field.
稻草人為什么會被邀請到TED大會?因為他站在那舞臺上特顯眼。
I'm sorry. Okay, so these are three things I know to be true. But there are plenty of things I have trouble understanding.
抱歉。好的,這3件事對我而說是真的。但有很多事是我不理解的。
So I write poems to figure things out. Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem.
所以我用寫詩來搞明白。有時唯一讓我搞明白事情的方式就是通過寫詩。
Sometimes I get to the end of the poem, look back and go, "Oh, that's what this is all about,"
有時我寫完詩,回過頭看看,“哦,這是怎么一回事。”
and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.
有時我完成詩,卻沒有解決任何事,但至少我有一首新詩。
Spoken-word poetry is the art of performance poetry.
口語詩是詩歌的藝術表現。
I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.
我告訴人們口語詩創新了詩歌,使它不是只出現在書本上,它使詩歌被大聲朗讀傳詠或讓人們親身體驗口語詩。