TED演讲:足球能教会我们什么是自由(3)

Imagine that you are a 15-year-old kid from Honduras now living in Harlem,

想象一下你是一个15岁的孩子，来自洪都拉斯，现在生活在纽约哈莱姆区，

or you're a 13-year-old girl born in DC to two Nigerian immigrants.

或者你是一个13岁的小女孩，生于华盛顿特区，父母是尼日利亚移民。

You love the game. You're on the field with your folks.

你喜欢这个足球比赛。你和你的伙伴们在场上。

You've just been practicing dribbling¹ through cones² for, like, 15 minutes,

你已经练习了带球过路障，练了15分钟了，

and then, all of a sudden, a marching band comes down the field.

然后突然间，一个行进乐队走向了球场。

I want to associate the joy of the game with the exuberance³ of culture,

我想把比赛的乐趣与文化的丰富性相结合，

to locate the site of joy in the game at the same physical coordinate⁴ as being politically informed by art,

把比赛的乐趣放置在和通过艺术来介绍政治知识同样的坐标位置上，

a grass-laden theater for liberation.

一个绿草如茵、解放自由的剧院。

We spend a week looking at how the midfielder would explain Black Lives Matter,

我们用了一周来看中场球员如何解释了Black Lives Matter（黑人抗议歧视的活动），

or how the goalkeeper would explain gun control,

或者守门员的位置可以怎么解释枪支管制，

or how a defender's style is the perfect metaphor⁵ for the limits of American exceptionalism.

或者一个防守球员的风格怎么完美的比喻了美国排外主义的局限。

As we study positions on the field, we also name and imagine our own freedoms.

当我们研究球场上的位置，我们也会命名和想象我们自己的自由。

I don't know, man, soccer is, like, the only thing on this planet that we can all agree to do together.

怎么说呢，足球大概是这个星球上唯一一个我们都愿意一起做的事。

You know? It's like the official sport of this spinning ball.

是吧？它像是一个关于这旋转的球的官方体育活动。

I want to be able to connect the joy of the game to the ever-moving footballer,

我希望可以把球赛的喜悦联系到永远在移动的球员，

to connect that moving footballer to immigrants who also moved in sight of a better position.

把那在移动的球员联系到同样在向更美好的方向移动的移民群体。

Among these kids, I want to connect their families' histories to the bliss⁶ of a goal-scorer's run,

对这些孩子，我想把他们的家庭历史联系到得分球员跑动时的幸福，

family like that feeling after the ball beats the goalie, the closest thing going to freedom. Thank you.

那看到足球冲向守门员的感觉是最接近自由的时刻。谢谢。

1 dribbling   

n.（燃料或油从系统内）漏泄v.流口水( dribble的现在分词 )；（使液体）滴下或作细流；运球，带球

参考例句：

• Basic skills include swimming, dribbling, passing, marking, tackling, throwing, catching and shooting. 个人基本技术包括游泳、带球、传球、盯人、抢截、抛球、接球和射门。 来自互联网
• Carol: [Laurie starts dribbling again] Now do that for ten minutes. 卡罗：（萝莉开始再度运球）现在那样做十分钟。 来自互联网

2 cones   

n.（人眼）圆锥细胞；圆锥体( cone的名词复数 )；球果；圆锥形东西；（盛冰淇淋的）锥形蛋卷筒

参考例句：

• In the pines squirrels commonly chew off and drop entire cones. 松树上的松鼠通常咬掉和弄落整个球果。 来自辞典例句
• Many children would rather eat ice cream from cones than from dishes. 许多小孩喜欢吃蛋卷冰淇淋胜过盘装冰淇淋。 来自辞典例句

3 exuberance   

n.丰富；繁荣

参考例句：

• Her burst of exuberance and her brightness overwhelmed me.她勃发的热情和阳光的性格征服了我。
• The sheer exuberance of the sculpture was exhilarating.那尊雕塑表现出的勃勃生机让人振奋。

4 coordinate   

adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调

参考例句：

• You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
• Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。

5 metaphor   

n.隐喻，暗喻

参考例句：

• Using metaphor,we say that computers have senses and a memory.打个比方，我们可以说计算机有感觉和记忆力。
• In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征。

6 bliss   

n.狂喜，福佑，天赐的福

参考例句：

• It's sheer bliss to be able to spend the day in bed.整天都可以躺在床上真是幸福。
• He's in bliss that he's won the Nobel Prize.他非常高兴，因为获得了诺贝尔奖金。