TED演讲: 一人饰演地球村内多个角色(2)

 　　And so I've brought a couple of them with me. And well, they're very excited. 我今天把她们几个一起带来了。她们都非常激动

　　What I should tell you -- what I should tell you is that they've each prepared their own little TED¹ talks. 我要告诉你们，她们每个人都准备了一小段TED演讲

　　So feel free to think of this as Sarah University.  所以你们尽可以把这里想成是莎拉大学

　　Okay. Okay. Oh, well. Oh, wonderful. Good evening everybody. 好了，好了。噢，太棒了。大家晚上好

　　Thank you so very much for having me here today.  非常感谢今天能让我来到这里

　　Ah, thank you very much. My name is Lorraine Levine.  啊，非常感谢你们，我的名字叫珞琳莱文

　　Oh my! There's so many of you. Hi sweetheart. Okay. 噢，我的天呀，有这么多人啊。你好，亲爱的

　　Anyway, I am here because of a young girl, Sarah Jones. She's a very nice, young black girl. 好了，我今天来到这里是因为一个年轻姑娘，她叫莎拉琼斯。她是个非常好的年轻黑人姑娘

　　Well you know, she calls herself black -- she's really more like a caramel color if you look at her. But anyway. 你们知道，她说她自己是黑人，实际上她是焦糖色，如果你仔细看的话。算了不管它了

　　She has me here because she puts me in her show, what she calls her one-woman show. 她叫我来这儿参加她的演出，参加她的“一个女人一台戏”的表演

　　And you know what that means, of course.  你们知道那是什么意思，当然了

　　That means she takes the credit and then makes us come out here and do all the work. But I don't mind. 那就是说，活儿是我们来干，但是功劳都归她。但我并不介意

　　Frankly², I'm kvelling just to be here with all the luminaries³ you have attending something like this, you know. 说实话，能来到这里我特别高兴，有这么多的专家来到这里

　　Really, it's amazing.  真是太棒了

　　Not only, of course, the scientists and all the wonderful giants of the industries but the celebrities⁴. 这里不光是有科学家们和各行各业的领袖人物，这里还有好多名人

　　There are so many celebrities running around here. I saw -- Glenn Close I saw earlier. I love her. 好多名人在这里进进出出。刚才我见到了葛伦克罗丝，我特别喜欢她

　　And she was getting a yogurt in the Google cafe. Isn't that adorable? 她那会儿刚好在谷歌咖啡厅拿酸奶。这简直是太棒了

1 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

2 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

3 luminaries   

n.杰出人物，名人（luminary的复数形式）

参考例句：

• In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle. 亚14:6那日、必没有光．三光必退缩。 来自互联网
• Includes household filament light bulbs & luminaries. 包括家用的白炙灯泡和光源。 来自互联网

4 celebrities   

n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉

参考例句：

• He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
• a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目