SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
Like that, you know. The answer — the short answer to all those questions is, “Yes.” Yes, I’m afraid of all those things. 我当时一直得到诸如此类的质疑。对于这些质疑，最简单的回答是：“怕” 是的，这种种一切都让人害怕。 And I always have been. And I’m afraid of many, many more things besides that people can’t even guess at, like seaweed...
I grew up on the coast of England in the ’70s. My dad is white from Cornwall, and my mom is black from Zimbabwe. 我于上世纪七十年代，生长在英格兰的海岸边，我父亲是来自康沃尔的白人，我母亲是来自津巴布韦的黑人。 Even the idea of us as a family was challenging to most people. But nature had its wicked way, and brown babies were born. 对于许多人来说，是无论如何也...
Strangely, these revelations didn’t cure my low self-esteem, that feeling of otherness. 奇怪的是，这些启示，并没有治愈我那缺少的自尊，那种被划为另类的感觉。 My desire to disappear was still very powerful. I had a degree from Cambridge; I had a thriving career, 我渴望消失的想法依旧十分强烈，我有一个剑桥的学位，我的事业蒸蒸日上。 but my self was a car crash,...
It’s a beautiful thing. I swear to God. I mean, when you look at the box and you sort of see how it works. 它真美。我发誓，当你看着盒子的时候，你就好像知道它如何运作的。 Rives is here, and I met him years ago at a book fair; he does pop-up books. And I’m obsessed with engineering of paper. 里夫斯在这，我几年前在一个书展上认识他，他是做立体书的。我痴迷于...