名校勵(lì)志英語(yǔ)演講 第63期:拯救世界 拯救兒童

[00:00.03]I have started reflecting on the fact that my father grew up in the South, in a very poor family. 我回想我的父親是在南方一個(gè)非常貧窮的家庭長(zhǎng)大的。 [00:09.15]He came of age during the Depression and his own father, who struggled to feed his children, 他來(lái)自大蕭條時(shí)期，而他自己的父親艱難地養(yǎng)育著孩子， [00:14.49]showed little affection towards his family and raised my father and his siblings with an iron fist. 也沒(méi)有對(duì)家人表現(xiàn)出多少慈愛(ài)，我父親和他的兄弟姐妹是在我爺爺?shù)蔫F拳下長(zhǎng)大的。 [00:24.18]Who could have imagined what it was like to grow up a poor black man in the South, robbed of dignity, 誰(shuí)能想到一個(gè)在南方長(zhǎng)大的貧窮的黑人的處境是怎么樣的？ [00:30.54]bereft of hope, struggling to become a man in a world that saw my father as subordinate. 被剝奪了尊嚴(yán)，失去希望，想拼力在這個(gè)視我父親為下等人的世界里爭(zhēng)得立足之地。 [00:37.34]I was the first black artist to be played on MTV and I remember how big a deal it was even then. And that was in the 80s! 我是第一個(gè)登上音樂(lè)電視臺(tái)的黑人藝人。我還記得那有多么艱難，那還是在20世紀(jì)80年代！ [00:51.19]My father moved to Indiana and had a large family of his own, working long hours in the steel mills, 后來(lái)我父親搬到印第安納州并且有了自己的大家庭。 [00:57.49]work that kills the lungs and humbles the spirit, all to support his family. 他在煉鋼廠長(zhǎng)時(shí)間工作，那種工作很低下，而且對(duì)肺有害，這一切都是為了養(yǎng)家。 [01:04.08]Is it any wonder that he found it difficult to expose his feelings? 難怪，他很難表露自己的感情。 [01:08.16]Is it any mystery that he hardened his heart, that he raised the emotional ramparts? 于是，他心腸變硬了，他樹起了感情壁壘，這一切都不足為怪，不是嗎？ [01:14.30]And most of all, is it any wonder why he pushed his sons so hard to succeed as performers, 于是，他逼他的兒子們成為成功的演員， [01:21.26]so that they could be saved from what he knew to be a life of indignity and poverty? 就是為了讓他們不再過(guò)他所知道的那種沒(méi)有尊嚴(yán)只有貧困的生活，這一切還奇怪嗎？ [01:28.11]I have begun to see that even my father's harshness was a kind of love, an imperfect love, to be sure, but love nonetheless. 我開始明白，就連父親的咆哮也是一種愛(ài)，盡管肯定是一種不完美的愛(ài)。 [01:36.57]He pushed me because he loved me. Because he wanted no man ever to look down at his offspring. 他逼我是因?yàn)樗麗?ài)我，他不希望有人會(huì)鄙視他的后代。

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