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Delighted to be here and to talk to you about a subject dear to my heart, which is beauty.
很高興來到這里與大家探討我至為關心的一個主題，那就是“美”。
I do the philosophy of art, aesthetics, actually, for a living.
我研究藝術與審美哲學，事實上，這是我的工作。
I try to figure out intellectually, philosophically, psychologically, what the experience of beauty is,
我想在理性，哲學以及心理學的層面上理解，“美”的體驗究竟是什么，
what sensibly can be said about it and how people go off the rails in trying to understand it.
哪些感知是能被描述出來的以及人們在嘗試理解它的過程中犯了什么錯誤。
Now this is an extremely complicated subject, in part because the things that we call beautiful are so different.
這是個很復雜的問題，部分原因是因為我們認為“美”的事物是如此的不同。
I mean just think of the sheer variety -- a baby's face, Berlioz's "Harold in Italy,"
想象下這高度的多元性嬰兒的臉蛋，柏遼茲所作的“哈羅德在意大利”，
movies like "The Wizard of Oz" or the plays of Chekhov, a central California landscape,
像“綠野仙蹤”這樣的影片，或是契訶夫的戲劇，加利福尼亞中部的風景，
a Hokusai view of Mt. Fuji, "Der Rosenkavalier,"
北齋眼中的富士山，“玫瑰騎士”，
a stunning match-winning goal in a World Cup soccer match, Van Gogh's "Starry Night,"
世界杯足球賽中的一場漂亮的決勝賽，梵高的“星空”，
a Jane Austen novel, Fred Astaire dancing across the screen.
一部簡·奧斯丁的小說，弗雷德·阿斯泰爾在舞臺上起舞。
This brief list includes human beings, natural landforms, works of art and skilled human actions.
這一簡單的列表中包含了人類自身，自然景觀，藝術作品和專業(yè)活動。
An account that explains the presence of beauty in everything on this list is not going to be easy.
很難用一個解釋就說清楚所有這些事物中所存在的“美”。
