Comedian Margaret Cho meets the person she used to be · Big Think
Margaret Cho通过回顾自己年轻时的录像片段，探讨了成长过程中形成的自我认知与世界观。适合练习英语口语和听力，了解个人成长与社会背景的关系。
Do you want to call it?
你想现在就把它叫做“……”吗？
Interview A .B.
采访 A.B.
Mark.
马克。
So, Margaret, this show is called The Me I Used to Be.
那么，玛格丽特，这个节目的名字叫做《曾经的自己》（The Me I Used to Be）。
Our second guest tonight is a very, very talented woman.
今晚我们的第二位嘉宾是一位才华横溢的女性。
Say hello, please.
请打个招呼吧。
Demogritte, show.
德莫格里特，开始表演吧。
It's about looking back at your life.
这其实是在回顾你的人生。
Oh, my God.
哦，我的天啊。
Not just what happened, but how those moments shaped what you believed about the world, about people,
不仅仅是发生了什么，更重要的是那些时刻是如何塑造你对世界、对人类的看法的。
and about yourself.
以及关于你自己的情况。
We call this your perception box, and as you look at these images and clips, all we want is your real,
我们将其称为“您的感知框架”（即您用来理解和解读信息的工具）。当您观看这些图片和视频片段时，我们真正希望了解的是您的真实感受和想法。
honest take on what you thought back then.
对你当时所想的那些事情，做一个坦诚的、真实的评价。
You gotta get set.
你得做好准备才行。
Oh, of course I do, Big Bird.
哦，当然了，大鸟。
What it meant to you, how you see it now, and why.
这对你来说意味着什么，你现在是如何看待这件事的，以及原因是什么。
Thank you very much.
非常感谢您。
Are you ready to start?
你准备好开始了吗？
Yes.
是的。
Let's
我们开始吧！
bring up the lights, please.
请把灯打开。
How did it feel to see clips of your life played back to you?
当看到自己生活中的片段被重新播放出来时，你有什么感受？
Well, like a lot of the younger clips of me as a stand -up comedian,
嗯，就像我作为单口喜剧演员的许多早期视频片段一样……
you hear, my voice is like so high.
你听，我的声音非常高亢（或者说音调很高）。
Maybe someday, I
也许有一天，我……
could be an extra on mash.
可以作为一个额外的角色出现在《Mash》这部作品中。
Everything kind of was lifted at the end like it was a question.
最后，所有的事情似乎都被“提了起来”（或者说被重新审视了），就像是在回答某个问题一样。
Like, I think I used to say, do you know what I mean?
我想我以前经常这么说：“你明白我的意思吗？
Like, after every juncture.
也就是说，在每一个重要的转折点之后。
You know what I mean?
你知道我的意思吧？
Because I couldn't sit there in the statement of what I was saying alone, without agreement or without assurance.
因为如果我只是独自面对那些需要表达的观点，却没有任何人的认同或支持，我实在无法安心地坐下来继续说下去。
And a lot of the younger me was very concerned with the feeling of being out of place,
年轻时的我常常非常在意那种“格格不入”的感觉。
out of time, being unlovable, being unwanted, being not needed.
不合时宜；不被爱；无人需要；毫无价值。
You know, maybe my father getting deported and us having to leave this country,
你知道吗，也许是因为我父亲被驱逐出境，我们才不得不离开这个国家……
that sort of the original wound,
那种最初的伤口……
one of the first photographs of me and my father, that was right when he got deported.
这是我与父亲最早的一张合影，拍摄于他刚被驱逐出境的那一刻。
My father was deported when I was born.
我出生时，我的父亲就被驱逐出境了。
And he actually took me back to Korea with him.
他真的带着我回到了韩国。
My mother stayed behind and she was in America, so we had been separated.
我的母亲留在了美国，因此我们被迫分离了。
And then I think that was a very tragic.
然后我认为那是一件非常悲惨的事情。