Thoughts on humanity, fame and love | Shah Rukh Khan | TED · TED
宝莱坞巨星沙鲁克·汗分享他的人生经历与感悟，探讨名利与爱的主题。适合练习口语表达与情感理解。
Namaskar.
Namaskar（印度传统问候语，意为“致敬”或“问候”）。
I'm a movie star, I'm 51 years of age,
我是一名电影明星，今年51岁。
and I don't use Botox as yet.
而且我目前还没有使用过肉毒杆菌注射（Botox）。
So I'm clean, but I do behave like you saw like a 21-year-old in my movies.
我确实是个“干净”的人（指没有不良行为或丑闻），但在我的电影里，我的表现确实像一个21岁的年轻人。
Yeah, I do that.
是的，我确实会那么做。
I sell dreams, and I peddle love to millions of people back home in India who assume that I'm the best lover in the world.
我出售“梦想”，同时也向印度国内的数百万人“兜售”爱情；那些人认为我是世界上最会爱的男人。
If you don't tell anyone, I'm going to tell you I'm not, but I never let that assumption go away.
如果你不告诉任何人，我就承认自己不是（那个人）；不过，那种猜测始终没有从我的脑海中消失过。
I've also been made to understand there are lots of you here who haven't seen my work, and I feel really sad for you.
我也了解到，在这里的很多人还没有看过我的作品，为此我感到非常难过。
That doesn't take away from the fact that I'm completely self-obsessed, as a movie star should be.
不过这并不能改变一个事实：我确实非常自我中心——毕竟作为一名电影明星，做到这一点也是理所当然的。
That's when my friends, Chris and Juliet called me here to speak about the future "you."
就在那时，我的朋友们克里斯和朱丽叶打电话让我来这里，谈论你们这些“未来的年轻人”的未来。
Naturally, it follows I'm going to speak about the present me.
当然，接下来我就会谈谈现在的自己。
Because I truly believe that humanity is a lot like me.
因为我真心相信，人类在很多方面都和我很相似。
It is.
确实如此。
It is.
确实如此。
It's an aging movie star,
这是一位年事已高的电影明星。
grappling with all the newness around itself,
努力应对周围的一切新变化。
wondering whether it got it right in the first place, and still trying to find a way to keep on shining regardless.
一直在怀疑自己当初是否做对了；即便如此，仍在努力寻找继续发光（或继续前进）的方法。
I was born in a refugee colony in the capital city of India, New Delhi.
我出生在印度首都新德里的一个难民营中。
And my father was a freedom fighter.
我的父亲是一位为自由而战的斗士。
My mother was, well, just a fighter like mothers are.
我的母亲，嗯，就是那种典型的“斗士型母亲”——总是充满斗志、勇于面对一切挑战的母亲。
And much like the original homo sapiens, we struggled to survive.
与最初的智人一样，我们也曾为生存而挣扎。
When I was in my early 20s, I lost both my parents, which I must admit seems a bit careless of me now,
在我二十出头的时候，我失去了双亲。现在回想起来，我觉得自己当时似乎有些太疏忽大意了。
but --
但是——
I do remember the night my father died, and I remember the driver of a neighbor who was driving us to the hospital.
我确实记得父亲去世的那个夜晚，也记得那位开车送我们去医院的邻居。
He mumbled something about "dead people don't tip so well" and walked away into the dark.
他嘟囔了些什么，大意是“死人可不会给小费”，然后走进了黑暗中。
And I was only 14 then, and I put my father's dead body in the back seat of the car,
那时我只有14岁，我把父亲的尸体放进了汽车的后座上。
and my mother besides me, I started driving back from the hospital to the house.
除了我的母亲，我独自一人开始开车从医院返回家中。
And in the middle of her quiet crying, my mother looked at me and she said, "Son, when did you learn to drive?"
在她静静地哭泣的过程中，我的母亲看着我说：“儿子，你是什么时候学会开车的？
And I thought about it and realized, and I said to my mom, "Just now, Mom."
我想了想，然后意识到这一点，于是对妈妈说：“妈妈，就在刚才。
So from that night onwards, much akin to humanity in its adolescence, I learned the crude tools of survival.
从那个夜晚开始，就像处于青春期的青少年一样，我学会了生存所需的一些基本技能。
And the framework of life was very, very simple then, to be honest.
说实话，当时的生活框架非常简单。
You know, you just ate what you got and did whatever you were told to do.
你知道的，你只是做了别人交给你的事情，按照指示去做了而已。
I thought celiac was a vegetable, and vegan, of course, was Mr. Spock's lost comrade in "Star Trek."
我之前以为“乳糜泻”是一种蔬菜；当然了，我还以为“纯素食者”就是《星际迷航》里斯波克先生失散的战友呢。
You married the first girl that you dated, and you were a techie if you could fix the carburetor in your car.
你娶了和你第一次约会的女孩；如果你能修好自己汽车的化油器，那你就可以算是个“技术高手”了。
I really thought that gay was a sophisticated English word for happy.
我真的以为“gay”是一个高雅的英语词汇，用来表示“快乐”的意思。
And Lesbian, of course, was the capital of Portugal, as you all know.
当然，莱什蒂尼亚（Lisbon）也是葡萄牙的首都——这一点大家都很清楚。
Where was I?
我刚才说到哪里了？
We relied on systems created through the toil and sacrifice of generations before to protect us, and we felt that governments actually worked for our betterment.
我们依靠那些由前几代人通过辛勤劳动和牺牲建立起来的系统来保护自己，并且相信政府确实是在为我们的福祉而努力工作。
Science was simple and logical, Apple was still then just a fruit
科学是简单且符合逻辑的；而苹果在当时还只是一种水果罢了。
owned by Eve first and then Newton, not by Steve Jobs, until then.
该公司最初由伊芙（Eve）所有，后来转归牛顿（Newton）所有；在此之前，它并不属于史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs）。