TED演讲：母亲们是如何影响世界的
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| 0:04 | Every year around January 15th, | 每年1月15日左右 |
| 0:06 | the world rightfully celebrates the birth of the great Martin Luther King, Jr. | 世界正确地庆祝伟大的马丁·路德·金的诞生, |
| 0:12 | Yet virtually no one has stopped to consider | 但几乎没有人停下来考虑 |
| 0:15 | who else was in that room that day in 1929. | 1929年那天还有谁在那个房间 |
| 0:19 | As if somehow MLK, Jr. birthed himself. | 仿佛MLK小生了自己 |
| 0:26 | I toured the location where he was born, | 我去过他出生的地点 |
| 0:29 | a charming, quaint, two-story home in Atwood. | 在阿特伍德的两层楼的家 |
| 0:31 | I traveled to Atlanta, | 我去过亚特兰大 |
| 0:33 | and while it was an honor to even be there, | 虽然很荣幸能到场 |
| 0:36 | I left feeling frustrated by the tour guide's script. | 我对导游的剧本感到沮丧 |
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| 1 | Every year around January 15th, | 每年1月15日左右 |
| 2 | the world rightfully celebrates the birth of the great Martin Luther King, Jr. | 世界正确地庆祝伟大的马丁·路德·金的诞生, |
| 3 | Yet virtually no one has stopped to consider | 但几乎没有人停下来考虑 |
| 4 | who else was in that room that day in 1929. | 1929年那天还有谁在那个房间 |
| 5 | As if somehow MLK, Jr. birthed himself. | 仿佛MLK小生了自己 |
| 6 | I toured the location where he was born, | 我去过他出生的地点 |
| 7 | a charming, quaint, two-story home in Atwood. | 在阿特伍德的两层楼的家 |
| 8 | I traveled to Atlanta, | 我去过亚特兰大 |
| 9 | and while it was an honor to even be there, | 虽然很荣幸能到场 |
| 10 | I left feeling frustrated by the tour guide's script. | 我对导游的剧本感到沮丧 |
| 11 | Of course, MLK, Jr. was the center of most of the tales, | 当然 小MLK是大部分故事的中心 |
| 12 | and then came stories about his father, | 然后,关于他父亲的故事, |
| 13 | the inspiring Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. | 马丁·路德·金牧师 |
| 14 | But what frustrated me | 但让我沮丧的 |
| 15 | was the lack of attention being paid to his mother, | 是因为对他的母亲缺乏关注, |
| 16 | Alberta Christine Williams King. | 艾伯塔・克里斯蒂娜・威廉斯・金 |
| 17 | Even though this was actually her childhood home first | 虽然这里其实是她小时候的家 |
| 18 | and the home where she later birthed her children | 以及她后来出生的家庭 |
| 19 | in a room on the second floor, | 在二楼的一间房间里 |
| 20 | this erasure doesn't only concern Alberta. | 这个消除不仅仅与艾伯塔有关 |
| 21 | Mothers in the US are often misrepresented | 美国的母亲经常被歪曲 |
| 22 | or completely left out in the stories we tell. | 或完全忽略在我们的故事。 |
| 23 | Mothers are used to being seen as selfless beings | 母亲习惯被看成无私的生物 |
| 24 | without needs for others to consider. | 不需要别人考虑。 |
| 25 | They're used to feeling belittled if they stay at home with their children | 和孩子待在家里,他们就会觉得被贬低 |
| 26 | because the narrative says it's unproductive. | 因为叙述中说,这是没有结果的。 |
| 27 | Or they might even hide the fact that they have children at work | 或者他们甚至会隐瞒自己有孩子在工作的事实 |
| 28 | so that they're still taken seriously rather than seen as distracted. | 所以他们仍然被认真对待 而不是被看成分心。 |
| 29 | And they will not receive credit | 他们不会获得任何报酬, |
| 30 | for the accomplishments of the loved ones they have supported day in and day out, | 因为他们日以继日地供养的至爱者的功绩, |
| 31 | because our retelling of events | 因为我们对事件的回顾 |
| 32 | doesn't feature the many acts of mothering. | 母亲行为并不多见 |
| 33 | Beyond such instances being frustrating, | 除了这种令人沮丧的情况之外, |
| 34 | I believe they lead to a lack of understanding | 我相信它们会导致缺乏理解 |
| 35 | surrounding the critical roles mothers play in our society. | 围绕母亲在我们社会中的关键作用。 |
| 36 | And they contribute to a lack of support for mothers. | 它们导致缺乏对母亲的支持。 |
| 37 | If the stories we tell, both on an interpersonal level | 如果我们讲的故事, 在人际层面 |
| 38 | as well as in literature and in media, | 以及文学和媒体, |
| 39 | deem mothers as unimportant, | 认为母亲不重要 |
| 40 | as unworthy of being seen and considered, | 与被人看见和考虑无关 |
| 41 | then these opinions will be reflected | 然后反映这些意见 |
| 42 | in the way that mothers are treated in our country. | 我们国家对待母亲的方式。 |
| 43 | It is not a surprise, then, | 这不是一个惊喜,那么, |
| 44 | that in the US we have yet to establish universal parental leave, | 在美国,我们还没有建立 普遍的育儿假, |
| 45 | universal quality, affordable childcare, | 普及优质、负担得起的儿童保育 |
| 46 | that we are experiencing a maternal mortality crisis | 我们正经历产妇死亡率危机 |
| 47 | and that many mothers had no other choice | 许多母亲别无选择 |
| 48 | but to leave the workforce as a result of the pandemic. | 但因这种流行病而离开劳动力队伍。 |
| 49 | Such tragedies have a ripple effect | 这样的悲剧会产生连锁反应 |
| 50 | that also hurts our children, | 这也伤害了我们的孩子, |
| 51 | our communities, | 我们的社区, |
| 52 | even our national economy. | 甚至我们的国民经济。 |
| 53 | As a writer and sociologist, | 作为一个作家和社会学家, |
| 54 | I believe that storytelling plays a necessary role | 我相信讲故事会起到必要的作用 |
| 55 | in fixing our current trajectory, | 修正我们目前的轨迹 |
| 56 | that through the intentional centering of mothers, | 通过故意以母亲为中心, |
| 57 | we can not only make life better for them, | 我们不仅能改善他们的生活, |
| 58 | we can actually make life better for everyone. | 我们能让每个人的生活变得更好 |
| 59 | The way to get organizations and our government | 组织与政府 |
| 60 | to give mothers the resources that they desperately need and deserve | * 向母亲提供她们迫切需要和应该得到的资源; |
| 61 | is to first shift our perspective of motherhood on a cultural level. | 首先是在文化层面转变我们对母性的看法。 |
| 62 | I am on a mission for that shift to happen in my lifetime, | 我在执行任务 以完成我一生的转变 |
| 63 | especially for mothers of color | 特别是有色人种的母亲 |
| 64 | who have historically received the least resources. | 他们历来获得的资源最少。 |
| 65 | I have spent the last several years studying three women in particular, | 我花了几年时间 研究三个女人, |
| 66 | whose life stories show, | 他们的生活故事显示, |
| 67 | number one, just how easily we disregard mothers, | 第一,我们很容易忽略母亲 |
| 68 | and number two, | 二号 |
| 69 | how a lack of consideration for their needs and their contributions | 如何不考虑他们的需要和贡献 |
| 70 | leads to a lack of intervention and support. | 导致缺乏干预和支持。 |
| 71 | While it may be too late to help the three of them, | 虽然帮助他们三人可能为时已晚, |
| 72 | I believe their life stories provide guidance | 我相信他们的生活故事 提供了指导 |
| 73 | on how we can make the world better for moms | 如何让世界变得更美好 |
| 74 | and everyone they impact today. | 以及他们今天影响的人 |
| 75 | So let's first go back to Alberta King. | 所以,让我们首先回到艾伯塔国王。 |
| 76 | Alberta was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1903, | 艾伯塔1903年出生于乔治亚州亚特兰大, |
| 77 | to the leaders of Ebenezer Baptist Church. | 致埃贝尼泽浸信会领袖 |
| 78 | Even as a young girl, she was an activist. | 即使在年轻的时候,她还是一个活动家. |
| 79 | She participated in marches and in boycotts, | 她参加了游行和抵制 |
| 80 | and she even joined her parents as some of the very first members | 她甚至加入了她的父母 作为第一批成员 |
| 81 | of the NAACP. | 国家农协理事会 |
| 82 | She believed that Christian faith | 她认为基督教信仰 |
| 83 | must always be intertwined with social justice, | 必须始终与社会正义联系在一起, |
| 84 | and she used her education to advance freedom causes. | 她利用自己的教育 推进自由事业 |
| 85 | Alberta grew up to be a talented organizer and a musician, | 艾伯塔长大后是个天才的组织者和音乐家 |
| 86 | as well as a mother of three. | 以及三个孩子的母亲 |
| 87 | Before meeting her husband, | 在见她丈夫之前 |
| 88 | Alberta was on her path to becoming an educator. | 艾伯塔在她成为教育家的道路上. |
| 89 | She earned a teaching certificate and a bachelor's degree. | 她获得了教学证书和学士学位. |
| 90 | But because the law stated that married women could not teach, | 但是因为法律规定 已婚妇女不能教书 |
| 91 | she was forced to walk away from a formal career. | 她被迫离开正式的职业生涯。 |
| 92 | She still did everything she could to provide for, educate | 她仍然竭尽所能供养 教育 |
| 93 | and protect her family and her community members. | 并保护她的家庭和社区成员。 |
| 94 | But that same care and shielding was not afforded to her in return. | 但是,没有为她提供同样的照顾和庇护。 |
| 95 | Her life was tragically taken when she was shot in the back | 她被枪毙后 不幸地夺走了生命 |
| 96 | as she played the church organ. | 当她演奏教堂风琴时 |
| 97 | The second story begins in Ladigue Granada | 第二个故事开始于拉迪格格拉纳达 |
| 98 | at the very end of the 19th century. | 在19世纪末 |
| 99 | A little girl is influenced by her grandparents | 一个小女孩受到祖父母的影响 |
| 100 | to always stand for Black pride and Black independence | 永远支持黑人骄傲和黑人独立 |
| 101 | by any means necessary. | 以任何必要的手段。 |
| 102 | At the young age of 17, | 17岁时 |
| 103 | she travels to Montreal, Canada on her own | 她独自前往加拿大蒙特利尔 |
| 104 | to spread the message of Black liberation, | 为了传播黑人解放的信息, |
| 105 | and she joins the Marcus Garvey Pan-African movement. | 她加入了马库斯·加维泛非运动 |
| 106 | 这只是对Louise Landon Little的简短介绍 | |
| 107 | a multilingual scholar and activist | 多语言学者和活动家 |
| 108 | who also brought eight children into the world, | 他又把八个孩子带进世界, |
| 109 | one of whom was named Malcolm Little originally. | 其中一位最初的名字是马尔科姆·利特. |
| 110 | He later became known to the world as Malcolm X. | 他后来被世人称为马尔科姆十世. |
| 111 | When Louise's husband was murdered | 当路易丝的丈夫被谋杀时 |
| 112 | and she was widowed when she was only in her 30s, | 她三十多岁时就丧偶了 |
| 113 | white welfare workers started showing up and entering her home, | 白人福利工作者开始出现 并进入她的家, |
| 114 | questioning the way that she was raising her children. | 质疑她抚养孩子的方式 |
| 115 | A white male physician was sent to evaluate her, | 一名白人男性医生被派去评估她 |
| 116 | and he concluded that she was experiencing dementia, | 他断定她患有痴呆症, |
| 117 | citing that she was, quote, | 引用她的话 |
| 118 | imagining being discriminated against. | 想象自己受到歧视。 |
| 119 | As a result, she was institutionalized against her will | 结果,她被迫被送进精神病院 |
| 120 | for around 25 years. | 大约25年。 |
| 121 | Each of her children were taken from her, | 她的每个孩子都被带走了 |
| 122 | and they were placed into separate foster homes. | 他们被安置在单独的寄养家庭。 |
| 123 | The final story starts in the small town of Deal Island, Maryland, in 1902. | 最终的故事开始于1902年马里兰州迪恩岛小镇. |
| 124 | A little girl's life begins in tragedy when she loses her own mother. | 小女孩的人生从失去自己母亲的悲剧开始. |
| 125 | But through this moment of darkness, | 但在黑暗的这一刻 |
| 126 | she becomes somebody fixated on light and on love. | 她变成一个迷恋光明和爱的人 |
| 127 | A talented writer, | 一个天才作家, |
| 128 | she uses her prose to inspire those around her | 她用她的传言来激励周围的人 |
| 129 | to let go of their own pain and their hatred. | 放弃他们的痛苦和仇恨。 |
| 130 | As a teenager, she travels to New York in search of a new start, | 少年时代,她到纽约寻找新的开始 |
| 131 | and she arrives in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance. | 她来到哈莱姆文艺复兴的中间 |
| 132 | This is just a brief introduction to Burtis Jones Baldwin, | 这只是布尔蒂斯·琼斯·鲍德温的简介 |
| 133 | a mother of nine. | 一个9岁的母亲。 |
| 134 | 她的长子最初名叫詹姆斯·亚瑟·琼斯(James Arthur Jones). | |
| 135 | He later became known to the world as James Baldwin. | 他后来被世人称为詹姆斯·鲍德温. |
| 136 | At times, Burtis had no other choice | 有时布尔蒂斯别无选择 |
| 137 | but to leave her children at home to make money as a domestic worker. | 但将孩子留在家里赚钱做帮佣工人。 |
| 138 | She was also the victim of an abusive husband for years, | 她也是虐待丈夫多年的受害者 |
| 139 | without resources other than police officers, | 除了警察之外,没有其它资源, |
| 140 | who were better known for harassing her community. | 他们以骚扰她的社区而闻名 |
| 141 | She endured the pain on her own. | 她自己承受着痛苦 |
| 142 | When her husband passed and she, too, was only in her 30s, | 当她丈夫去世时 她也只有30多岁 |
| 143 | she proudly raised her nine children as a single mother. | 她自豪地把她的九个孩子抚养为一个单身母亲。 |
| 144 | These stories are not a part of ancient history, | 这些故事不是古代历史的一部分 |
| 145 | nor should they be seen as separate of other mothers | 也不应被视为与其他母亲分离 |
| 146 | simply because their sons became famous. | 只是因为他们的儿子成名了 |
| 147 | They are representative of mothers' experiences, | 他们代表了母亲的经历, |
| 148 | especially black mothers, | 特别是黑人母亲, |
| 149 | who to this day are disrespected, | 至于今日,谁是不义的, |
| 150 | denied paid leave, | 拒绝带薪休假, |
| 151 | pushed out of their jobs, | 他们被赶出工作, |
| 152 | facing biases in health care systems, | 面对保健系统的偏见, |
| 153 | are victims of abuse, | 成为虐待的受害者, |
| 154 | are mistreated and belittled, | 被虐待,被贬低; |
| 155 | and who are being forgotten and erased. | 他们被遗忘,被抹杀。 |
| 156 | Would the world be different today | 今天的世界会不同吗? |
| 157 | if we'd been telling their stories all along? | 如果我们一直讲他们的故事? |
| 158 | I believe so. | 我相信是这样。 |
| 159 | If the stories we told of mothers reflected their presence, | 如果我们告诉母亲的故事 反映了她们的存在, |
| 160 | their importance, | 他们的重要性, |
| 161 | their power, | 他们的力量, |
| 162 | their influence, | 他们的影响, |
| 163 | their wholeness and their humanity, | 他们的健康和人性, |
| 164 | then it would be easier for everyone to appreciate their roles | 这样大家就更容易欣赏他们的角色 |
| 165 | and back them with the support that they deserve. | 并给予他们应得的支持。 |
| 166 | So let's act now. | 所以现在就行动吧 |
| 167 | How about we stop thanking mothers for being selfless | 不如我们别再感谢母亲无私了 |
| 168 | and putting their needs behind everyone else's? | 把他们的需求放在别人的后面? |
| 169 | And instead, we thank them for being our first leaders, | 相反,我们感谢他们成为我们的第一批领导人, |
| 170 | caretakers and teachers. | 护持师子. |
| 171 | What if we asked how we could support them in return? | 如果我们问我们如何能够支持他们作为回报呢? |
| 172 | Yeah. | 对 |
| 173 | (*Applause*) | (*鼓掌*) |
| 174 | What if we celebrated stay-at-home moms | 如果我们庆祝留在家里的母亲 |
| 175 | as the essential members of our society that they are, | 作为我们社会的重要成员, |
| 176 | rather than belittling their role? | 而不是贬低他们的角色? |
| 177 | (*Applause*) | (*鼓掌*) |
| 178 | What if employers and colleagues recognized mothering | 如果雇主和同事承认母亲 |
| 179 | as the ultimate test of multitasking, | 作为多重任务的终极考验, |
| 180 | organization and empathy? | 组织和同情? |
| 181 | (*Applause*) | (*鼓掌*) |
| 182 | And highlighted the importance of keeping mothers on their teams? | 并且强调了让母亲留在自己的队伍中的重要性? |
| 183 | And what if we produced more stories, | 如果我们制作更多的故事, |
| 184 | books, | 书籍, |
| 185 | TV shows, | 电视节目 |
| 186 | movies | 电影 |
| 187 | that represented mothers accurately? | 这代表了母亲的准确性? |
| 188 | Could we convince more people of the need for parental leave, | 我们可以说服更多人 需要育儿假, |
| 189 | affordable childcare, | 负担得起的儿童保育, |
| 190 | unbiased health care systems, | 不偏不倚的保健系统, |
| 191 | maybe even a guaranteed income? | 也许甚至有保证的收入? |
| 192 | I think we can all agree. | 我想我们都同意 |
| 193 | Mothers are essential. | 母亲是不可或缺的。 |
| 194 | Mothers are powerful. | 母有威势. |
| 195 | Mothers have their own needs | 母亲有自己的需要 |
| 196 | and their own identities. | 和他们自己的身份。 |
| 197 | Mothers deserve support. | 母亲应该得到支持。 |
| 198 | It is time our stories and our policies reflect this. | 现在是我们的故事和政策反映这一点的时候了。 |
| 199 | We can change the narrative. | 我们可以改变叙述。 |
| 200 | And when we do, | 而当我们这样做, |
| 201 | the world will be a much better and equitable place for us all. | 世界对我们大家来说将是一个更美好和公平得多的地方。 |
| 202 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 203 | (*Applause*) | (*鼓掌*) |
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