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Now, the thing about this charming piece by Kurt Vonnegut is that it wasn't written by Kurt Vonnegut.
現(xiàn)在，再說(shuō)回關(guān)于這篇庫(kù)爾特·馮內(nèi)古特精彩演說(shuō)詞的事情，它并不是庫(kù)爾特·馮內(nèi)古特寫的。
It was written by a newspaper columnist in Chicago, called Mary Schmich.
而是芝加哥一位名叫瑪麗·施米奇的報(bào)紙專欄作家寫的。
Some unknown person had posted it on the Internet saying it was written by Kurt Vonnegut
不知道是誰(shuí)把它放在網(wǎng)上，說(shuō)是庫(kù)爾特·馮內(nèi)古特寫的，
and it spread all around the world in hours with his name attached to it.
于是這篇署了馮內(nèi)古特名字的文章在幾小時(shí)內(nèi)傳播至整個(gè)世界。
Schmich said, "It went to Italy and France, to Israel and Brazil, to places I didn't know had electricity."
施米奇說(shuō)：“文章傳播到意大利、法國(guó)、以色列和巴西，傳播到那些我都不知道有電的地方。”
And she said, "Even Mr. Vonnegut's wife, the photographer Jill Krementz, received it,
她還說(shuō)：“甚至連攝影師吉爾·克里門茲，馮內(nèi)古特先生的妻子，也收到了這篇文章，
emailed it to several friends and then asked her husband, 'Why didn't you tell me you spoke at MIT?'
她把它發(fā)給幾個(gè)朋友，然后問(wèn)丈夫，‘你為什么不跟我說(shuō)你在麻省理工學(xué)院演講了？’
And he said, 'Because I didn't.'"
馮內(nèi)古特說(shuō)，‘因?yàn)槲覜](méi)去那里演講。’”
Somebody said it was the most widely distributed piece of email in the history of the Internet.
有人說(shuō)，這是互聯(lián)網(wǎng)歷史上傳播最廣的郵件。
But after only a few hours of bouncing around the world, it was identified as a hoax,
但僅在世界上傳播幾個(gè)小時(shí)之后，人們就發(fā)現(xiàn)它是一個(gè)惡作劇，
and in a flash, the Internet was flooded with retractions.
于是在一瞬間，網(wǎng)上開(kāi)始鋪天蓋地地撤回這篇文章。
By the end of one extraordinary day, vast numbers of people had accepted and then rejected a worldwide hoax,
這特殊的一天結(jié)束時(shí)，很多人一開(kāi)始接受后來(lái)又拒絕了這場(chǎng)全球性的惡作劇，
and that's what makes this Internet event a great image for the age we live in now.
這也使得這個(gè)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)事件成為我們這個(gè)時(shí)代的一個(gè)偉大形象。
