TED中英官方演讲稿-JamesHowardKunstler_2004解析市郊.docxVIP

1.The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible. 我们每日的生活环境 正因为僵硬的标准 而日益沦为丑陋的世界2.We cant overestimate the amount of despair that we are generating with places like this. 我们不能低估这样的地方 给我们带来的绝望3.And mostly, I want to persuade you that we have to do better if were going to continue the project of civilization in America. 我在这儿最想传达的是：如果我们还想继续在美国这片土地上 延续文明，我们必须做得更好4.By the way, this doesnt help. 顺便说一句，这个不管用5.Nobodys having a better day down here because of that. 它可不会让下面经过的人更愉快6.There are a lot of ways you can describe this, you know, I like to call it the national automobile slum. 有很多定义这个现状的方法， 我喜欢把它叫做“国家机动车陋街”7.You can call it suburban sprawl. 还可以管它叫“蔓延的市郊”8.I think its appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. 我觉得它还可以被确切的称作 世界史上最烂的资源分配效果9.You can call it a technosis externality clusterfuck. 也可以把它叫做露馅的垃圾技术聚会10.And its a tremendous problem for us. 它是我们面临一大难题11.The outstanding -- the salient problem about this for us is that these are places that are not worth caring about. 最明显的——这带来的最突出的问题在于 这些地方已经沦为了不值得关注的地方12.Were gonna talk about that some more. 就这点我们可以再多说几句13.A sense of place. “感知空间”14.Your ability to create places that are meaningful and places of quality and character depends entirely on your ability to define space with buildings, 创造有意义、高质量的个性空间的能力 完全取决于你心中建筑物之于空间的定义15.and to employ the vocabularies, grammars, syntaxes, rhythms, and patterns of architecture in order to inform us who we are. 并选择建筑领域中合适的词汇、语法、 语序、韵律以及建筑模式 以此向我们传达“我们是谁”16.The public realm in America has two roles: It is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. 美国的公共空间有两个用途： 社会文明在那儿继续，市民生活在那里进行， 那儿同样也是大众利益的集中体现17.And when you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life, and the character of all the enactments of your public life and co