布什与乌克兰总统尤先科会谈(2008-04-01)

President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine  PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO: (As translated.) Dear Mr. President, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, this is a great honor for Ukraine and Ukrainian government to welcome the delegation chaired by the U.S. President. We just had one-on-one negotiations and expanded negotiations, a...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(1)

The Value of Nothing: Out of Nothing Comes Something. 无的价值:无中生有的可能。 That was an essay I wrote when I was 11 years old and I got a B+. 这是一篇我在十一岁时写的作文,当时我拿了个乙等。 What I’m going to talk about: nothing out of something, and how we create. 今天我要谈的是创作和无中生有的艺术。 And I’m gonna try and do that within t...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(8)

We are all concerned with things that we see in the world that we are aware of. 我们总是在意这世界上我们所感知的事物。 We come to this point and say, what do I as an individual do? 我们对自己说:我能做什么? Not all of us can go to Africa, or work at hospitals, so what do we do, if we have this moral response, this feeling? 不是每个人都可以去非洲或是在医院工...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(7)

Once I identified this question, it was all over the place. 一旦你意识到这个问题,就发现它无所不在。 I got these hints everywhere. And then, in a way, I knew that they had always been there. 在哪里都能看到它的痕迹。同时我也知道,它们一直都在那里。 And then writing, that’s what happens. 在写作上就会有这些问题。 I get these hints, these clues, and I re...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(11)

So I remained with them, and the more I wrote that story, the more I got into those beliefs, 所以我决定留下来和他们一起,我写的越多,我便越相信这些信仰, and I think that’s important for me — to take on the beliefs, because that is where the story is real, 这对我来说是重要的–去真正接受这些信仰,因为这样,故事才能真实, and that is where I’m gonna find...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(4)

And this, then, led to my big questions. And they’re the same ones that I have today. 这让我想到一个大问题。一些我今日仍然在想的问题。 And they are: why do things happen, and how do things happen? 为什么事情会发生,它们是怎么发生的? And the one my mother asked: how do I make things happen? 和我母亲问的那句:我怎么让这些事情发生的? It’s a wond...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(10)

A big thing that I also think about is accidents. 我也时常想到意外。 And as I said, my mother did not believe in randomness. What is the nature of accidents? 如我所说,我母亲从不相信偶然。那意外又是什么? And how are we going to assign what the responsibility and the causes are, outside of a court of law? 对于那些法律以外的事件,我们又该如何处理面对它们的责任...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(6)

Now, what’s encapsulated in both these drowning metaphors — actually, one of them is my mother’s interpretation, 暗藏在这两个溺水故事中的比喻是其中一个说法来自我母亲, and it is a famous Chinese saying, because she said it to me: “save a man from drowning, you are responsible to him for life.” 中国人常说的“救一个溺水者,你便得为他的一...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(9)

There are also things, quite uncanny, which bring me information that will help me in the writing of the book. 除此以外,还有一些离奇的事件在写作时为我带来了不同的写作资料。 In this case, I was writing a story that included some kind of detail, period of history, a certain location. 当时我正在写一个古代的故事,需要那个年代的历史和地理资料来补足故事中的细节。 And...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(2)

Now in the nature area, we look at whether or not we are innately equipped with something, 在天份的方面,我们必须要检视我们是否生来就有这天赋, perhaps in our brains, some abnormal chromosome that causes this muse-like effect. 或者在我们的大脑里,是否有些一些不正常的染色体带来了这些像是灵感的效应。 And some people would say that we’re born with it in some ...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(5)

There is also the uncertainty principle, which is part of quantum mechanics, as I understand it. 在量子力学中还有测不准原理,至少我想有。 And this happens constantly in the writing. 同样的事也时常发生在写作中。 And there’s the terrible and dreaded observer effect, in which you’re looking for something, 还有一种可怕的观者效应,当你在找寻一些事情的时候, and you kn...

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TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(3)

Also, one of the principles of creativity is to have a little childhood trauma. 创意的其中一项原则是拥有童年的心理创伤。 And I had the usual kind that I think a lot of people had, and that is that, you know, I had expectations placed on me. 我想我有的创伤和一般人一样,来自父母对子女过分热切的期望。 That figure right there, by the way, figure right there was a to...

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