How I evolved out of ‘survival mode’ | Ice-T · Big Think
Ice-T分享他如何从失去双亲的困境中走出，通过反思和成长找到人生方向。适合练习情感表达和人生经历描述。
- It's gonna be an interesting experience.
这将是一次有趣的经历。
- Okay.
- 好的。
- So yeah, just have a seat there.
- 好吧，你就坐在那里吧。
This is for you.
这是给你的。
Okay, what we're gonna do is play clips that we've prepared of your life.
好的，我们要做的就是播放我们事先准备好的、关于你生活的视频片段。
We'll invite you to reflect on the way that you saw yourself in the world back then.
我们会邀请你反思一下，当时你是如何看待自己在这个世界中的位置的。
We call this your Perception Box.
我们将其称为“您的感知盒子”（Perception Box）。
We'll then have you examine the ways that that way of perceiving has changed or not.
之后，我们会让你观察这种认知方式是否发生了变化。
- Got it.
- 明白了。
- Do I have your permission to get personal?
我需要您的允许，才能聊一些私人话题吗？
- Yes.
- 是的。
- Cue reel for act one.
– 第一幕的过场动画片段（即用于衔接不同场景的动画片段）。
- My next guest is a former gang member who some people say invented gangsta rap.
我的下一位嘉宾曾是一名黑帮成员，有些人认为他就是“gangsta rap”（街头说唱音乐）的创始人。
Please welcome Ice-T.
请大家欢迎 Ice-T。
- Sitting here with Ice-T.
- 正坐在这里和 Ice-T 一起。
Thanks for being here.
感谢你们能来到这里。
Thanks for helping us out.
感谢你们的帮助！
- I was born in 1958, and I was raised in Summit, New Jersey, which is a predominantly upscale,
我出生于1958年，在新泽西州的萨米特市长大。那里主要居住着富裕的人群。
nice area in New Jersey.
新泽西州的一个很不错的好地方。
I was a good kid at school.
我在学校时是个乖孩子。
- And you had a rough early life.
你的早年生活很艰难。
You lost your mother.
你失去了你的母亲。
How old were you?
你当时多大年纪？
- I lost my mother when I was in the third grade, and my father when I was in the seventh grade, so.
我三年级时失去了母亲，七年级时又失去了父亲。
I don't have a real reference point to my mother.
我其实没有一个可以用来参照、用来了解我母亲的真实依据或标准。
Now I remember her holding me and loving me, but I don't remember anything personality-wise.
现在我记得她曾经抱着我、爱护我，但在性格方面，我什么都不记得了。
You know, I was too young by the time she passed.
你知道吗，她去世的时候我年纪还太小了。
I remember I was sitting with her on the couch, and we were watching "Batman" the TV show,
我记得当时我和她一起坐在沙发上，正在看电视节目《蝙蝠侠》。
and she just leaned her head back.
然后她只是把头向后仰了一下。
She was having a heart attack.
她当时正在心脏病发作。
And we lived in a duplex house, and they moved me over to the neighbor and that was the last I saw her.
我们当时住在一栋复式住宅里，后来他们把我搬到了隔壁邻居家，从那以后我就再也没见过她了。
I just felt strange.
我只是觉得有些奇怪而已。
It's a strange feeling, but like I said, I wasn't even crying.
这种感觉很奇怪……不过就像我说的，我甚至都没有哭。
I was like, I was just confused.
我只是感到很困惑而已。
Like, what does that mean?
这到底是什么意思呢？
After my mother passed, I was with my father.
母亲去世后，我一直和父亲在一起。
And I was in seventh grade, and they just called me into the principal's office
当时我上七年级，他们直接把我叫到了校长办公室。
and everybody had those faces and, you know, they say, "Your father's passed away."
每个人的脸上都带着同样的表情，然后他们就说：“你的父亲去世了。
And once again, I was like in shock.
再一次，我感到震惊不已。
You go into like a zone.
你会进入一种专注的状态（或者说“进入某种特定的心理模式”）。