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Four American characters Anna Deavere Smith 2007-02-09 /talks/anna_deavere_smith_four_american_characters Pollykann - A powerful video player (App) for learning languages provided technical support for the subtitles. 本字幕由【小鹦看看】- 用了会后悔，不用更后悔的外语学习App，提供技术支持。 So my grandfather told me when I was a little girl, 小时候，祖父曾经告诉我说， If you say a word often enough, it becomes you. “要是你经常说某个字，那个字就是你的写照。” And having grown up in a segregated city, Baltimore, Maryland, 我长在马里兰州的巴尔迪摩，一个偏僻的城市， I sort of use that idea to go around America with a tape recorder -- 带着祖父告诉我的这个信念和一个录音机，我周游美洲 thank God for technology -- 我要感谢科技 to interview people, thinking that if I walked in their words -- 采访各式各样的人，想象如果我能走进他们的故事中-- which is also why I dont wear shoes when I perform -- 这也是我在表演的时候不穿鞋的原因-- if I walked in their words, that I could sort of absorb America. 如果我能走进他们的故事，我多少能够领悟这个国家（美国）。 I was also inspired by Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman 也曾给我以启示， who wanted to absorb America and have it absorb him. 他也曾经想要领悟美国，并向这个国家奉献他自己的知识与智慧。 So these four characters are going to be from that work 因此，我要表演的四个角色是来源于我的工作 that Ive been doing for many years now, 是我从事多年的工作 and well over, I dont know, a couple of thousand people 并且在--我想，我采访过的数千人中 Ive interviewed. 最有代表意义的。 Anybody out here old enough to know Studs Terkel, that old radio man? 现场有谁年龄稍大些，听说过那个老无线电工，Studs Terlek？ So I thought he would be the perfect person 那好，我认为他可能是 to go to to ask about a defining moment in American history. 能回答关于美国历史上一个决定性的时刻的最佳人选。 You know, he was born in 1912, the year the Titanic sank, 要知道，Stud Terkel“生于1912，泰坦尼克号沉没的那一年， greatest ship every built. Hits the tip of an iceberg, 史上最伟大的船。却撞上了冰川一角。 and bam, it went down. It went down and I came up. Wow, some century. 紧接着，砰！它沉没海底，就这样沉没了，然后我出生了。瞧瞧，这个世纪多了不起。 ” (Laughter) （笑） So this is his answer about a defining moment in American history. 这是Stud 对于美国历史上一个决定性时刻的回答。 Defining moment in American history, I dont think theres one; 美国历史上的决定性时刻，我认