TED中英官方演讲稿-KitraCahana_2014P我的父亲，身受禁锢却自由翱翔.docxVIP

1.I know a man who soars above the city every night. 我认识一个人，2.In his dreams, he twirls and swirls with his toes kissing the Earth. 在他的梦里，翩翩起舞， 脚趾亲吻着大地。3.Everything has motion, he claims, even a body as paralyzed as his own. 万物皆动，他如此宣告， 纵使全身麻痹如他。4.This man is my father. 他，就是我的父亲。5.Three years ago, when I found out that my father had suffered a severe stroke in his brain stem, I walked into his room in the ICU at the Montreal Neurological Institute 三年前，当我发现 父亲发生严重的脑干中风， 我走进他的加护病房， 在蒙特娄神经学研究中心，6.and found him lying deathly still, tethered to a breathing machine. 我发现他瘫痪在病床上， 戴着呼吸器，7.Paralysis had closed over his body slowly, beginning in his toes, then legs, torso, fingers and arms. 麻痹缓慢地封闭他的身体， 从脚趾开始，接着是腿， 躯干、手指和手臂，8.It made its way up his neck, cutting off his ability to breathe, and stopped just beneath the eyes. 一路麻痹到脖子， 阻断了他的呼吸能力， 继续上行到眼睛下方才停止。9.He never lost consciousness. 他从没有失去意识，10.Rather, he watched from within as his body shut down, limb by limb, muscle by muscle. 而是从内在观看这一切， 看着自己的身体停机， 四肢从脚到手， 肌肉一条接着一条。11.In that ICU room, I walked up to my fathers body, and with a quivering voice and through tears, I began reciting the alphabet. 在加护病房里，我走向父亲的身体， 我的声音颤抖，眼泪奔流， 开始逐一念出英文字母：12.At K, he blinked his eyes. 念到 K，他眨了一下眼睛。13.I began again. 然后我再从头开始，14.He blinked again at the letter I, then at T, then at R, and A: Kitra. 念到 I，他又眨了一下眼睛。 接着是 T， Kitra，我的名字。15.He said Kitra, my beauty, dont cry. 他说：「Kitra，我美丽的孩子，别哭，16.This is a blessing. 这...是个祝福。」17.There was no audible voice, but my father called out my name powerfully. 父亲并没有发出声音， 18.Just 72 hours after his stroke, he had already embraced the totality of his condition. 中风后才短短 72 个小时， 他已经欣然接受了整件事实。19.Despite his extreme physical state, he was completely present with me, guiding, nurturing, and being my father as much if not more than ever before. 尽管身体极度受挫， 他却完全与我同在， 引导我， 做我的父亲，丝毫不减， 甚至更甚以往。20.Locked-in syndrome is many peoples worst nightmare.