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王力宏受邀于伦敦时间4月21日在牛津辩论社辩论室演讲。演讲开始前，他特别带领听众为在雅安地震和波士顿爆炸案中的遇难者默哀一分钟，并为他们祈福。他以“认识华流”为主题，分享职业生涯当中不少生活轶事，称想让更多人看到东方文化的博大精深。 王力宏牛津大学演讲稿中英对照： Thank you, Plena. Thank you, Jun. Thank you, Peishan for helping this set up. 谢谢波琳娜，谢谢君，谢谢珮姗帮我组织这一...

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And as he performed, I looked around the audience, and I saw their faces and the look in their eyes and their responsiveness to his music, and it was clear to me finally where the problem lay. 他演出的时候，我看周围的观众，我看着他们的脸，他们的眼睛，他们对音乐的反应，很明显我知道了问题出在哪儿。 It wasn't that the music that was lacking, it was my ability to appreciate ...

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My call to action is this build and protect that roommate relationship between the East and West. Value this relationship and take ownership of it. 我呼吁的行动是建立和保护东西方之间的室友关系，珍惜它，拥有它。 Don't come to Oxford as an exchange student from Taiwan. and only hang out with other Chinese students. 从台湾到牛津做交换生的学生不要只和中国学生一起玩儿。 Why w...

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And why shouldn't it be? 为什么不呢？ Look at Korean pop, look at K-pop for example. 看看韩语流行音乐的例子。 Korea is an export-based economy and they are outward looking and they must be outward looking. 韩国是一个基于出口的经济，他们向外看，而且他们必须向外看。 Chinese pop on the other hand can just kinda stay domestic tour all over China, stick in territories and com...

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Iron Man 3, Transformers…53. Resident Evil. 钢铁侠3，变形金刚……53，生化危机。 Really it's beginning to be kind of like a world pop and that's what I'm looking forward to and that's what I'm focusing on these days. 确实，这开始变成一种世界流行文化，而这就是我期待的，也是我目前关注的。 There's J-pop, there's K-pop, there's C-pop, and there...

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Then in high school, I learnt that music wasn't just about connecting with others, like Brian and I were connected through music. 然后在高中我才知道了音乐不仅是把我们联系在一起，就像布莱恩和我 通过音乐联系在一起。 It was a powerful tool of influence and inspiration. 而且它还是影响和激励他人的有力工具。 Sam Nguyen was my high school janitor. 山姆·阮是我高中里的保卫人员。 ...

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Then let's take another look at this state of union, the East-West union with this soft power bias. 现在再来看看我们的“联合情况”吧，存在软实力偏见的东西文化的联合。 How is the soft power exchange between these two roommates? 这两个室友之间的软实力交换情况怎样呢？ Are there songs in English that have become hits in China? For sure. How about movies? 有没有英语歌曲在中国很...

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There, that's a C-pop mixtape that you can check out. 你们可以看到，这是一盘华流混音录音带。 I was gonna burn you all CDs, but my publicist reminded me lovingly that that would be illegal and because I'm a professional recording artist. I shouldn't do that. 我想要给你们所有人烧盘的，但是我的宣传员很善意地提醒我那是非法的，因为我是一个职业的唱片歌手，我不可以这么...

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So it's actually extremely high amount of negativity fear and anxiety about China. 所以有大量的对中国负面的恐慌和焦虑。 Sino-phobia, that I think is not just misinformed but also misleading, and ultimately dangerous, very dangerous. 中国恐惧症，我认为这不仅是错误的消息，还造成了误导，最终是危险的，非常危险。 And what about how westerners are viewed by Chinese? 而中国人对...

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That's a big fat claim. And I'm gonna try to back it up. 这是一个很大的题目，我会试着证明。 Now the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said. there are no languages required in a musical world. 联合国秘书长潘基文说，在音乐的世界里对语言没有要求。 That is the power of music and that's the power of the heart. 这就是音乐的力量，是心灵的力量。 Through this promotion of ...

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And I was facing first but definitely not the last time, the harsh reality that I was minority. 这是我第一次但绝不是最后一次面对这个残酷的现实，我是少数群体。 In Rochester, which in those days had Asian population of 1%. 在罗彻斯特，当时亚洲人的数量只占1%。 And I was confused. I wanted to punch Brian. 我很困惑。我想要打布莱恩。 I wanted to hurt him for putting me in that sit...

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So yes, I was the kind of opposite of Bill Clinton, who tried marijuana but didn't inhale. 于是我正好是比尔·克林顿的反面，他尝试过大麻，但没有吸入。 See, I didn't try marijuana but I did inhale. 而我呢，明白吗，我没有尝试，但吸入了。 Every single day, second hand. 每天都吸二手的。 And strangely enough, every time I go into our bedroom. I mysteriously end up late for ...

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I don’t know what to say. I didn’t know that there would be a podium with a microphone. I thought I would just be singing songs. Not to downplay that, but…oh, my goodness, what an honor! I am just so humbled and excited to be here, looking out at all of you. Being back here on campus is…I feel so proud to have studied here. And…that’s 16 years ago, but…I u...

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