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1、TEDTED 英语演讲：我为什么要制造无用的东西英语演讲：我为什么要制造无用的东西演讲者：Ivan Joseph | 中英对照演讲稿 | Hello. My name is Simone. You know how people tell you if you getnervous when onstage, picture people in the audien cenaked? Like itsthis thing thats supposed to make you feel better. But I was thinking- picturing all of you naked
2、in 20 某某 feels kind of weird andwrong.大家好。我是 Simone。人们总是告诉你当你在舞台上感到紧张的时候，假想观众都没穿衣服就好了。说的就像这真能让你感觉好点一样。但是我一直在想在 20 某某年想象你们都没穿衣服实在有点不太对啊。 Like, were working really hard on moving past stuff like that, sowe need anew method of dealing with if you get nervous onstage. And Irealized that whatId really li
3、ke is that I can look at you as much asyoure looking at me -just to even things out a little bit. So if Ihad way more eyeballs, then wedall be really comfortable, right? Soin preparation for this talk, I made myself a shirt.(Rattling)我们都有在努力克服这样的问题，所以我们需要一种新方法，来应付舞台恐惧症。我意识到，我真正想要的是我能跟你们看着我一样看着你们，只是为
4、了公平一点。所以如果我有更多眼睛的话，那我们就都会很舒服，对吧?所以为了准备这次演讲我给自己做了件 T 恤(窸窸窣窣的声音) Its googly eyes. It took me 14 hours and 227 googly eyes to makethis shirt. And being able to look at you as much asyoure looking atme is actually only half of the reason I made this. The other half isbeing able to do this.(Googly eyes r
5、attle)这就是大眼睛 T 恤。花了我 14 个小时，以及 227 个大眼睛贴片。能够像你们看着我一样看着你们这件事，其实只是我制作这件 T 恤的部分原因。另一半原因是我可以这么玩儿。(大眼睛 T 恤的响声)第 1页 共 9页 So I do a lot of things like this. I see aproblem and I inventsome sort of solution to it. For e 某 ample, brushing your teeth.Like, its this thing we all have to do, its kind of boring,
6、 andnobody really likes it. If there were any seven-year-olds in theaudience, theyd belike, Yes! So what about if you had a machine thatcould do it foryou?我做过很多这样的事。我发现了一个问题，就会发明某个解决方法来应对它。比如刷牙这件事：这就是一件大家都得做，但是又有点无聊的事，而且没人真正喜欢刷牙。如果在座有 7 岁小朋友的话，他们肯定会大喊就是这样!那么要不要来一台自动帮你刷牙的机器呢? I call it . I call it Th
7、eToothbrush Helmet.(Robot arm buzzing)我给它取了名，叫做牙刷头盔。(机器人的手臂声) So my toot brush helmet is recommended by zero out of 10dentists, and it definitely did not revolutionize the world ofdentistry, but it did completely change my life. Because I finishedmaking this toothbrush helmet three years ago and aft
8、er I finishedmaking it, I went into my living room and I put up a camera, and Ifilmed a seven-second clip of it working. 10 位牙医中，有 0 位推荐了我的牙刷头盔，它也肯定不算颠覆牙医界的伟大发明，但它确实改变了我的生活。因为 3 年前我做出了这个头盔，完成制作之后，我在客厅架起了摄像机，录了一个 7 秒长的头盔操作视频。 And by now, this is a pretty standard modern-day fairy tale ofgirl posting
9、on the internet, the internet takes the girl by storm,thousands of men voyage into the comment sections to ask for her handin marriage -She ignores all of them, starts a YouTube channel andkeeps on building robots.现在，这成了一个标准的现代版童话：一个女孩在网上发帖，跟上了互联网浪潮，数以千计的男人们涌进评论区，邀请她进入婚姻殿堂而她无视了他们第 2页 共 9页所有人，创立了一个 Y
10、ouTube 频道，继续搭建机器人。 Since then, Ive carved out this little niche for myself on theinternet as an inventor of useless machines, because aswe all know,the easiest way to be at the top of your field is to choose a verysmall field.从那时起我在互联网上为自己发掘出了这么一个商机：无用机器发明者。因为大家都知道，成为你所在行业顶尖人物的最简单方法，就是选择一个非常小的行业。 So
11、 I run a YouTube channel about my machines, and Ive done thingslike cutting hair with drones -(Drone buzzes)(Drone crashes)(Dronebuzzes)所以我在运营一个关于我的机器的 YouTube 频道，我有试过用无人机剪头发(无人机噪声)(无人机坠毁)(无人机噪声) To a machine that helps me wake up in the morning -(Alarm) (Video) Simone: Ow!我还做过一台闹钟机器(闹铃声) (视频)Simone
12、：噢! To this machine that helps me chop vegetables.(Knives chop)还有这台帮我切菜的机器。(切菜声) Im not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But Iwas a super ambitious student growing up. In middle school and highschool, I had straight As, and I graduated at the topof my year. Onthe flip side of that
13、, I struggled with very severe performance an 某iety.我不是个工程师，我没学过工程学，但我从小就是个特别有远大志向的学生。无论初中高中我一路拿的都是 A，而且我毕业那年还是名列前茅的。但另一面是，我当时有非常严重的表现焦虑。 Heres an email I sent to my brother around that time. You wont第 3页 共 9页understand how difficult it is for me to tell you, to confess this.Im so freaking embarrass
14、ed. I dont want people to think that Imstupid. Now Im starting to cry too. Damn. And no, I did notaccidentally burn ourparents house down. The thing Im writing aboutin the email and the thing Imso upset about is that I got a B on amath test.这是一封当时我写给我兄弟的邮件。你不会明白，光是告诉你这件事，对我来说有多难。实在是太难堪了。我不希望人们觉得我是个傻
15、子。我现在居然还开始哭了。真讨厌。别误会，我可没有不小心把爸妈的房子烧了。信里面那件让我如此焦虑不安的事其实是，有一次数学测验我只拿了 B。 So something obviously happened between here and here.One ofthose things was puberty.所以这两种情况之间一定发生了什么事情。其中一件是青春期的到来。 Beautiful time indeed. But more over, I got interested inbuilding robots, and I wanted to teach myself about har
16、dware. Butbuilding things with hardware, especially if youre teaching yourself,is something thats really difficult to do. It has a high likelihoodof failure and more over, it has a high likelihood of making you feelstupid. And that was my biggest fear at the time.非常美丽的时期。但除此之外，我开始对搭建机器人感兴趣，我还想自学硬件知识
17、。但搭建需要硬件的东西，尤其是当你是在自学的时候，是一件非常困难的事情。失败几率非常高，并且，这很有可能让你觉得自己超级智障。而那就是我当时最大的恐惧。 So I came up with a setup that would guarantee success 100percent of the time. With my setup, it would be nearly impossible tofail. And that was that instead of trying to succeed, I was going totry to build things that woul
18、d fail. And even though I didnt realizeit at the time,building stupid things was actually quite smart,第 4页 共 9页because as I kept on learning about hardware, for the first time inmy life, I did not have to deal with my performance an 某 iety. And assoon as I removed all pressure and e 某 pectations fro
19、m myself, thatpressure quickly got replaced by enthusiasm, and it allowed me tojust play.所以我做了一个一定能保证 100%成功率的设定。根据我的设定，失败可能性几乎为零。我打算再试着获得成功，我要制作一个肯定失败的机器。尽管我当时并没有意识到，但实际上，制作一无是处东西其实还是个挺聪明的点子。因为当我对硬件的学习更加深入的时候，我人生中第一次，不用应对自我表现方面的焦虑。并且当我卸除了所有对自己的压力与期待后，压力很快就被热情取代，我就可以只是瞎玩了。 So as an inventor, Im inte
20、rested in things that people strugglewith. It can be small things or big things or medium-sizedthings andsomething like giving a TED talk presents this whole new set ofproblems that I can solve. And identifying a problem is the firststep in my process of building a useless machine.所以，作为一个发明者，我对人们很难做
21、到的事情很感兴趣。可以是小事，大事，或者二者之间的事。而做一场 TED 演讲，带来了一系列我能解决的全新问题。而发现问题则是搭建一个无用机器的第一步。 So before I came here, I sat down and I thought of some of thepotential problems I might have in giving this talk.Forgetting whatto say. That people wont laugh - thats you. Or even worse, thatyoull laugh at the wrong things
22、- that was an OK part to laugh at,thank you.在我来这里之前，我坐下来好好思考了一番演讲时可能遇到的问题：忘词，没人笑说的就是你哦。或者更糟的是，你们笑错地方了，这里你们其实是可以笑的，谢谢。 Or that when I get nervous, my hands start shaking and Im really第 5页 共 9页self-conscious about it. Or that my fly has been open this entiretime and all of you noticed but I didnt, but
23、 its closed so were allgood on that one.或者我一紧张就会手抖，我还非常清楚这一点。或者我的裤子拉链一直都没拉上，所有人都注意到了，就我没有。但它是拉好的，所以没事了。 But one thing Im actually really nervous about is my handsshaking. I remember when I was a kid, giving presentations in school,I would have my notes on a piece of paper, and I would put a notebook
24、behind the paper so that people wouldnt be able to see the paperquivering.And I give a lot of talks. I know that about half of you inthe audience areprobably like, Building useless machines is reallyfun, but how is thisin any way or form a business?我最担心的就是手抖这个问题了。我还记得我小时候在学校做演讲时，我会在一张纸上准备讲稿，并将纸贴到一个笔
25、记本上，这样人们就看不出纸在颤抖了。我做过很多演讲。我知道你们中有一半听众都可能这么想：制作无用机器确实挺好玩，但这怎么可能是商机呢? And giving talks is a part of it. And the arrangers always putout a glass of water for you on stage so you have something to drinkif you get thirsty, and I always so badly want to drink thatwater,but I dont dare to pick the glass up
26、 because then people mightbe able to see that my hands are shaking. So what about a machinethat hands you a glass of water? Sold to the nervous girl in thegoogly-eye shirt.演讲就是其中的一部分，组织者一定会在讲台上给你放杯水，这样你渴的时候就有水喝了。我每次都超级想喝那杯水，但我没有勇气拿起杯子，因为人们可能就看出我的手在抖。那么要不要来一台递给你一杯水的机器呢?就卖给穿大眼睛 T 恤的那位紧张女孩! Actually, I
27、 need to take this off because Ihave a thing -(Googly第 6页 共 9页eyes rattle)实际上我得把这 T 恤脱了，因为我有个玩意儿要展示(大眼睛们窸窸窣窣) Oh.(Clanking)噢(叮当声) I still dont know what to call this, but I think some sort ofhead orbit device, because it rotates this platform around you andyou can put anything on it. You can have a
28、camera; youcan get photosof your entire head. Like its really - its a very versatileachine.我还是不知道给它起什么名字。就叫头部环绕仪之类的吧。因为这个平台会绕着你的头旋转，你想放什么东西上去都可以。比如放一台摄像机，你就可以拍到你整个头部的照片。这是一台非常多功能的机器。 OK, and I have - I mean, you can put some snacks on it, for e 某ample, if you want to. I have some popcorn here. And y
29、ou just put alittle bit like that. And then you want to - theres some sacrificesfor science - just some popcorn falling on the floor. Lets do thelong way around.(Robot buzzes)好了。比如你们还可以把零食放上去啊，如果你想的话。我这有些爆米花。你就这么放一点上去。如果你想这有一些科学的牺牲品一些爆米花掉地上了。我们来绕个大圈吧。(机器声) And then you have a little hand. You need t
30、o adjust the height ofit, and you just do it by shrugging.这儿有只小手。你得把高度调整一下，耸耸肩就可以。 It has a little hand.(Hand thwacks)这就是小手。(手掌拍打声) I just bumped my mic off, but I think wereall good. OK, also Ineed to chew this popcorn, so if you guys could just clapyour hands alittle bit more -OK, so its like your
31、 own little personalsolarsystem, because Im a millennial, so I want everything to revolve第 7页 共 9页aroundme.我把麦克风拍掉了，但应该没事儿。好的，我先把爆米花咽下去，所以你们再鼓一会掌好了。这就像个私人迷你太阳系，因为我是千禧一代，所以我希望所有东西都围着我转。 Back to the glass of water, thats what were here for. So, Ipromise - I mean, it still has - it doesnt have any wate
32、r in it, Imsorry. But I still need to work on this machine a little bit becauseI still need to pick up the glass and put it on the platform, but ifyour hands are shaking a little bit, nobodys going to notice becauseyoure wearing a very mesmerizing piece of equipment.回到那杯水的问题，那是我们来到这里的原因。我保证，它里头还有这杯子
33、里面没有水，抱歉。但我还得调整一下这个机器，因为我还是得拿起杯子放到平台上，但如果你的手在抖，没有人能注意到了，因为你身上正穿着一台很迷人的机器呢。 So, were all good. OK.(Robot buzzes)(Singing)目前为止一切正常。很好。(机器声)(歌声) Oh no, it got stuck. Isnt it comforting that even robotssometimes get stage fright? It just gets stuck a little bit.Its veryhuman of them. Oh wait, lets go ba
34、ck a little bit, and then -(Glassfalls)哦不，它卡住了。连机器都会犯舞台恐惧症，是不是很让人放松啊?它只是有一点点卡住。非常人性化哦。等一下，我们倒回去一点。然后(玻璃杯触地声) Isnt it a beautiful time to be alive?活在这个时代真好，是吧? So as much as my machines can seem like simple engineering slapstick, I realize that I stumbled on something bigger than that. Itsthis e 某 pr
35、ession of joy and humility that often gets lost第 8页 共 9页inengineering, and for me it was a way to learn about hardwarewithout having my performance an 某 iety get in the way. I often getasked if I think Im ever going to build something useful, and maybesomeday I will.我的机器看起来像是在用工程学做简单的恶搞，但我意识到我触及到了一些
36、比这更重要的事。制造机器时往往无法表现得开心或谦逊。对我而言，用这种方式学硬件，是不会受到表现焦虑症干扰的。经常有人问我，我以后会不会制作一些有用的东西?可能有一天我会。 But the way I see it, Ialready have because Ive built myself thisjob and its something that I could never have planned for, or that Icould -Its something that I could never have planned for. Instead ithappened just
37、 because I was enthusiastic about what I was doing, andI was sharing that enthusiasm with other people.但我觉得，我早已做到了。这份工作是我为自己创造出的。这是我无法计划出来的。或者这是我永远也无法计划出的。相反，这一切的发生只是因为我对这个工作充满热情，并且我在与他人分享我的热情。 To me thats the true beauty of making useless things, because itsthis acknowledgment that you dont always
38、know what the best answeris. And it turns off that voice in your head that tells you that youknow e 某 actly how the world works. And maybe atoothbrush helmet isntthe answer, but at least youre asking the question.对于我，那就是制作无用机器最美的部分。因为你已经承认，你不一定知道最好的答案是什么。它让你不再盲目认为自己已经完全了解世界怎么运作。可能一台牙刷头盔并不是标准答案，但至少你提出了问题。 Thank you.(Applause)谢谢。(掌声)第 9页 共 9页
