161: Million Bubbles - This American Life
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Prologue Ira Glass A while back, I was in a taxi.
序言 艾拉·格拉斯 不久前，我在一辆出租车里。
The driver was a man named Ali Youssef.
司机是一位名叫阿里·优素福的男子。
He has this pretty music playing on the tape deck, though the tape was a little on the warbly side.
他在录音机上播放着美妙的音乐，尽管磁带有点沙哑。
So at some point I asked him, what is the music?
所以有一次我问他，音乐是什么？
What is that?
那是什么？
And he said, well, that's the music from his country, which, if I remember right, was Somalia.
他说，好吧，那是来自他的国家的音乐，如果我没记错的话，那就是索马里。
We talked for a while.
我们聊了一会儿。
And then he says to me, that's my wife.
然后他对我说，那是我的妻子。
I say, really?
我说，真的吗？
And he says, yeah.
他说，是的。
She's still back in Africa.
她还回到非洲。
She's a singer at weddings, and like that.
她是婚礼上的歌手，诸如此类。
And he was here, and she was there.
他在这里，她在那里。
And he would drive around all day in his taxi, listening to her sing, hour after hour, on the road, thinking about her, missing her.
他会整天开着出租车到处转，在路上听她唱歌，一小时又一小时，想着她，想念她。
I picture him out there on the road right now, his tape playing, just one of the many people on the road right now.
我想象他现在在路上，播放着磁带，他只是现在路上的众多人之一。
So much of the life of this country happens in cars.
这个国家的大部分生活都是在汽车中发生的。
So much of it.
就这么多。
Imagine for a moment that you could look down on all the streets and avenues and windy country roads and highways from above somehow, highway cloverleafs in a vast meadow spread before you.
想象一下，你可以从上方俯视所有的街道和林荫道，以及多风的乡村道路和高速公路，广阔的草地上的高速公路三叶草在你面前展开。
Each little car below its own little self-contained world, each one like its own little world when you go inside.
每辆小汽车下面都有自己独立的小世界，当你走进去的时候，每一辆小汽车都喜欢它自己的小世界。
In one, a high school sophomore tries to convince her boyfriend, Tony, and his friend, Milo, to buy tickets to the prom.
其中，一名高中二年级学生试图说服她的男朋友托尼和他的朋友米洛购买舞会门票。
Tony, pay for prom.
托尼，支付舞会费用。
Tony I'll get some money.
托尼 我会得到一些钱。
Tony says he's broke, though he's about to spend over $100 on the paint job for the car.
托尼说他已经破产了，尽管他准备花 100 多美元为汽车喷漆。
I want to go to prom.
我想去参加舞会。
I got a dress, too.
我也有一件衣服。
I got three.
我得到了三个。
You do.
你做。
Ira Glass Tony turns to his friend.
艾拉·格拉斯 托尼转向他的朋友。
No!
不！
Tony, you're going to regret this for this rest of his life if he doesn't.
托尼，如果他不这么做，你会后悔一辈子的。
Trust me, because I'm regretting the date up to here.
相信我，因为我很后悔到目前为止的约会。
Meanwhile, in a four-door white 1991 Honda Accord, Lauren Burn is speeding through San Francisco.
与此同时，劳伦·伯恩 (Lauren Burn) 开着一辆 1991 年款白色四门本田雅阁疾驰穿过旧金山。
It's part of her job.
这是她工作的一部分。
Her trunk's all smashed, tied down with rope.
她的箱子全被打碎了，还被绳子绑着。
She's been rear-ended twice.
她已经被追尾两次了。
The car floor is cluttered with empty Mountain Dew bottles and discarded packs of cigarettes.
车厢地板上堆满了激浪空瓶和废弃的香烟包。
On the door of the car, a sign's attached, "Lickety-Split Messengers."
车门上贴着一个牌子：“疯狂的信使”。
Whoa, red light.
哇，红灯了。
Every car's relationship to me is definitely they don't like me.
每辆车和我的关系肯定是不喜欢我。
They hate me because I think they're really scared and paranoid about, like, driving with no hands, talking on my radio, and next, at the same time, trying to write something down, trying to look for an address.
他们恨我，因为我认为他们真的很害怕和偏执，比如，不用手开车，用收音机说话，然后，同时试图写下一些东西，试图寻找一个地址。
And I look at it as a big video game.
我将其视为一款大型视频游戏。
You have so much time to pick something up and drop something off in this time.
这段时间你有很多时间来取东西和放下东西。
And then you have all these obstacles in between, kind of like Paperboy, like the old video game.
然后你会遇到所有这些障碍，有点像送报男孩，就像旧的电子游戏。
You know what I'm saying?
你知道我在说什么吗？
Yeah, I've hit a few fire hydrants and a few people and a few different cars.
是的，我撞到了几个消防栓、几个人和几辆不同的汽车。
And you get points taken off for that, I must say.
我必须说，你会因此被扣分。
Dude, I totally am going the wrong way.
伙计，我完全走错路了。
In a year-old Chrysler 300M, Doris Kelly drives from a long day at work downtown, towards church, playing the CD that she plays every night after work on the way home, one her pastor recommended, one they play in church, called Spirit Songs .
多丽丝·凯利 (Doris Kelly) 开着一辆已有一年历史的克莱斯勒 300M，在市中心工作了一整天后，开车前往教堂，每天晚上下班回家的路上都会播放一张 CD，这是她的牧师推荐的，也是教堂里播放的，名为《灵歌》。
[WORSHIP MUSIC] Doris Kelly People don't have peace.
[崇拜音乐] 多丽丝·凯利 人们没有和平。
People don't have any joy.
人们没有任何快乐。
And they need that.
他们需要那个。
And you see that driving on the expressways and driving on the streets.
你会看到在高速公路上行驶和在街道上行驶。
And people, you know, they're cutting in and out in front of you all the time, and honking horns and yelling at you, cursing and stuff.
人们，你知道，他们总是在你面前插队插队，按喇叭，对你大喊大叫，咒骂什么的。
And if you listen to this kind of tape, you're calm, you're relaxed.
如果你听这种磁带，你就会平静、放松。
You stop.
你停下来。
You let people in.
你让人进来。
To me, it's equal to a martini that someone would go home and have a martini, relax.
对我来说，这就像一杯马提尼，有人回家喝一杯马提尼，放松一下。
You look like you need a drink, she said.
你看起来需要喝一杯，她说。
He sat with his head in his hands, in a pale bleached oak armchair beneath a pastel seascape framed in ash.
他双手抱头坐在一张浅色漂白橡木扶手椅上，椅子上是一张用白蜡木框起来的柔和海景。
In a navy blue Toyota Celica, Marlene Harris listens to one of the books on tape that she's in the middle of, a science fiction novel called Darwin's Radio.
玛琳·哈里斯 (Marlene Harris) 开着一辆海军蓝色的丰田塞利卡 (Toyota Celica) 听她正在听的一本书的磁带，一本名为《达尔文广播》(Darwin's Radio) 的科幻小说。
She loves books on tape.
她喜欢磁带书籍。
The secondary mucus plug seems to be in position.
第二个粘液塞似乎已就位。
There was no trauma, no bleeding.
没有外伤，没有流血。
The separation was textbook, if anybody has bothered to write a textbook about this sort of thing.
如果有人费心写一本关于这类事情的教科书的话，这次分离就是教科书。
The hospital did a quick biopsy.
医院做了快速活检。
It's definitely a first-stage Shiva rejection.
这绝对是第一阶段的湿婆拒绝。
I'm wonder how this is going to come out.
我想知道这会如何结果。
I'm thinking that the government's wrong and that Kaye Lang is right, and that her baby's going to be born alive.
我认为政府错了，凯·朗是对的，她的孩子会活着出生。
I do not think it's going to cause massive diseases.
我不认为它会导致大规模的疾病。
But I have a feeling they may start a colony, the mothers and fathers of these children.
但我有一种感觉，他们可能会建立一个殖民地，这些孩子的母亲和父亲。
Let's hope.
让我们希望吧。
We'll do more tests in a few months.
几个月后我们将进行更多测试。
I'm partly in another world, not the parts that need to be driving a car.
我的一部分处于另一个世界，而不是需要驾驶汽车的部分。
But I get very involved in the stories.
但我非常投入到这些故事中。
I often listen to very involved things.
我经常听一些非常复杂的事情。
I'm in the middle of a 20-book historical fiction series that takes place during the Napoleonic Wars, and takes place in the British navy.
我正在阅读一本 20 本书的历史小说系列，故事发生在拿破仑战争期间，发生在英国海军。
And I'm about to start book 14.
我即将开始第 14 本书。
And I talk about going out for a walk with Jack and Steven, who are the two main characters of this series, because by the time it's over I will have spent something like 300 hours with these guys.
我谈到和杰克和史蒂文一起出去散步，他们是这个系列的两个主角，因为到结束时我将和这些家伙一起度过大约 300 个小时。
If you're on the road right now in your car, listening to the radio, take a look inside the cars around you, each one its own little bubble, its own tiny subculture on wheels, glass and steel worlds rolling down the street alongside each other.
如果你现在开着车在路上，听着广播，看看你周围的汽车内部，每辆车都有自己的小气泡，有自己的车轮上的微小亚文化，玻璃和钢铁世界在街道上并排滚动。
Today on our radio program, we take you inside those other cars on the road.
今天，在我们的广播节目中，我们将带您走进路上的其他汽车。
From WBEZ Chicago and Public Radio International, it's This American Life .
来自芝加哥 WBEZ 和国际公共广播电台的《This American Life》。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Today on our show, we have lots of tape recorded inside moving vehicles, plus original stories by Nick Hornby and David Sedaris.
今天在我们的节目中，我们有很多在行驶的车辆内录制的磁带，以及尼克·霍恩比和大卫·塞达里斯的原创故事。
We have parents and kids.
我们有父母和孩子。
We have longtime buddies drinking beer and cruising the neighborhood on a Sunday morning.
我们有很多老朋友在周日早上喝啤酒并在附近闲逛。
We have drivers who save people, and drivers who do not want to be saved.
我们有救人的司机，也有不想被救的司机。
The entire American road system is laid out before us, and let's start right in Chicago, on Chicago Avenue, where the Number 66 bus runs.
整个美国的道路系统都展现在我们面前，让我们从芝加哥开始，在芝加哥大道上，66路公交车就在那里运行。
Come on, boo, come on.
来吧，嘘，来吧。
How you doing?
你好吗？
Come along, now.
现在就来吧。
Hello.
你好。
Linnel Peterson See, you made me miss my light.
林内尔·彼得森 瞧，你让我错过了我的光芒。
I'm sorry.
对不起。
Linnel Peterson But that's OK.
林内尔·彼得森：不过没关系。
[UNINTELLIGIBLE PHRASE].
[难以理解的短语]。
Linnel Peterson We want to make sure we OK, though.
Linnel Peterson 不过，我们想确保一切顺利。
Let's stay here for a while.
我们在这里呆一会儿吧。
Linnel Peterson is 40, outgoing.
林内尔·彼得森 (Linnel Peterson) 40 岁，性格外向。
The route she drives, Chicago Avenue, heads from the point where the City of Chicago touches Lake Michigan on the eastern edge of the city out to the western-most edge of the city, a route that is six miles in each direction, so long and slow to drive that in an eight-hour shift she only drives it back and forth four times.
她驾驶的路线是芝加哥大道，从芝加哥市东部边缘密歇根湖的交汇处一直延伸到城市最西端，这条路线双向六英里，行驶时间长且缓慢，在八小时的轮班中她只来回行驶四次。
She's been a bus driver for six years.
她当公交车司机已经六年了。
When I was little, I didn't think you could back a bus up.
当我小的时候，我不认为你可以倒车。
There was a lot of things.
有很多事情。
I didn't really think about a bus.
我真的没有考虑过公交车。
OK.
好的。
What's weird is when you're in your car, and you pull up to a bus stop, and you're getting ready to open the door, and you realize you're in your car.
奇怪的是，当你在车里，把车停到公交车站，准备开门时，你意识到自己在车里。
I'm serious.
我是认真的。
Or like, you know, somebody's running across the street, and you're starting to slow down because, mentally, you've got to pick 'em-- and I was like, OK.
或者就像，你知道，有人跑过马路，你开始放慢速度，因为从心理上来说，你必须选择他们——我当时想，好吧。
Ooh, big truck.
哦，大卡车。
He has flammables.
他有易燃物。
I mean, he was flying, right behind us.
我的意思是，他在飞，就在我们后面。
Good.
好的。
That's my mommy.
那是我的妈妈。
That's my mother, right there.
那是我的母亲，就在那里。
What's happening?
发生什么事了？
Linnel Peterson Nothing.
林内尔·彼得森 什么也没有。
[INAUDIBLE]?
[听不清]？
Linnel Peterson Yes, ma'am.
林内尔·彼得森 是的，女士。
[INAUDIBLE].
[听不清]。
Linnel Peterson OK.
林内尔·彼得森 好的。
Bye, Mommy.
再见，妈妈。
There are times that I've picked her up, and people get on the bus, and I'm like, that's my mommy, everybody.
有时我去接她，人们上车，我想，大家都是我的妈妈。
And they're laughing at me, because I still call her Mommy and I'm 40.
他们在嘲笑我，因为我已经 40 岁了，仍然叫她妈妈。
Central Park, this is where I grew up at.
中央公园，这是我长大的地方。
Two blocks from here.
距这里两个街区。
My mom still lives down there.
我妈妈还住在那儿。
Watch your step.
注意你的脚步。
Have a good one.
祝你过得愉快。
Two, exactly two blocks from here.
两个，距这里正好两个街区。
And this is why I say, this is our bus route, going to school and-- because I went to Orr.
这就是为什么我说，这是我们去学校的巴士路线，而且——因为我去了奥尔。
And anything that we did, right here in this vicinity.
以及我们所做的一切，就在这附近。
Lydell.
莱德尔.
The grammar school I went to is a block down there.
我上的文法学校就在那里一个街区。
That's one of the neatest about being in a neighborhood.
这是住在附近最整洁的事情之一。
There are times when I see people who went to school with me, and they'll get on the bus.
有时我看到和我一起上学的人，他们会上公共汽车。
And I was like, I know you.
我当时想，我认识你。
Didn't you graduate from Orr?
你不是奥尔毕业的吗？
Or something like that.
或者类似的东西。
Like I'm saying, that's like a 23-year-ago thing.
就像我说的，那是 23 年前的事了。
Central is next.
接下来是中央。
Have a good one, baby.
祝你玩得开心，宝贝。
You, too.
你也是。
You too, darling.
你也是，亲爱的。
Linnel Peterson Thank you, baby.
林内尔·彼得森 谢谢你，宝贝。
Watch your step.
注意你的脚步。
It used to be real nice where we grew up at.
我们长大的地方曾经非常好。
And it's like really drug-infested now.
现在就像真的毒品泛滥一样。
When we first moved over there, it was like a lot of Polish people that lived in the area.
当我们第一次搬到那里时，就像很多波兰人住在该地区一样。
And that was about 30 years ago, when we first moved there, because I was about 10.
那是大约 30 年前，当我们第一次搬到那里时，因为我大约 10 岁。
Now it's only blacks.
现在只剩下黑人了。
You might find a few.
你可能会找到一些。
OK, when we was in high school-- Hey, babe, step on out.
好吧，当我们上高中的时候——嘿，宝贝，出去吧。
Every so often, like when I pass Kostner, we used to stand outside and wait for the bus.
每隔一段时间，就像当我经过科斯特纳时，我们常常站在外面等公共汽车。
And it would be so many of us, and we were kind of rowdy.
我们有很多人，而且我们有点吵闹。
The bus driver would kind of pass us up.
巴士司机可能会忽略我们。
It would be so funny.
那会很有趣。
Not all the time, but-- Thank you, baby.
并非总是如此，但是——谢谢你，宝贝。
So what happens is, when I get in that area, I kind of just start laughing.
所以发生的事情是，当我到达那个区域时，我就开始笑了。
People are looking at me, like what's wrong with her?
人们都看着我，好像她怎么了？
But people will usually ask me, you must be a nut to drive Chicago every day, because it's like a high-traffic area.
但人们通常会问我，你每天开车去芝加哥一定是疯了，因为那里就像一个交通繁忙的地区。
But then, I think it's the fact that this is where I grew up at and I feel comfortable in it.
但后来，我认为这是我长大的地方，我在这里感到很舒服。
Linnel Peterson.
林内尔·彼得森.
She says on her days off, she tries to keep away from her route, Chicago Avenue, even though she lives right nearby.
她说，在休息日，她会尽量远离她的路线芝加哥大道，尽管她就住在附近。
I even avoid coming on the street, just the whole street.
我什至避免上街，只是整条街。
Because when I used to, I used to come on Chicago and I would be like, oh, there's a bus.
因为当我过去的时候，我经常来芝加哥，我会想，哦，有一辆公共汽车。
Oh, he's out of place.
哦，他不合适。
So you just remember so much from the stuff that happens when you drive out here.
所以你只记得开车来这里时发生的事情。
Four lanes.
四车道。
[MUSIC - "BABY ARE YENG" BY NANCY JACOBS & HER SISTER]
[音乐 - NANCY JACOBS 和她姐姐的“BABY ARE YENG”]
Across the ocean in England, cars are driving along the wrong side of the road, one of them an emerald green four-door car that we would call a Peugeot, but that they would call a Puh-joh.
在大洋彼岸的英国，汽车逆行行驶，其中一辆是翠绿色的四门汽车，我们称之为标致，但他们称之为 Puh-joh。
It's driven by Nick Hornby.
它由尼克·霍恩比驾驶。
So it's a lovely, sunny, crisp London Sunday morning, and I'm in the car with my son, Danny.
这是伦敦一个可爱、阳光明媚、清爽的周日早晨，我和儿子丹尼坐在车里。
Danny's six and autistic.
丹尼六岁，患有自闭症。
And he loves the car.
他喜欢这辆车。
It really is a bubble to him, and nobody can burst it.
这对他来说确实是一个泡沫，没有人能够戳破它。
When he's strapped into the backseat, he's safe.
当他被绑在后座上时，他就安全了。
No other kids can get in his face, like they do out in the world where people fly at him like asteroids towards a spacecraft.
没有其他孩子可以挡住他的脸，就像他们在世界上所做的那样，人们像小行星飞向宇宙飞船一样向他飞来。
And nobody will make him eat food he doesn't want to eat, and the side window is a videotape that never needs changing.
没有人会让他吃他不想吃的食物，侧窗是一盘永远不需要更换的录像带。
He like to know where he's going, though, so he's memorized all the significant routes.
不过，他想知道自己要去哪里，所以他记住了所有重要的路线。
This is a kid who only occasionally remembers that the sequence beginning ready and steady is completed by the word "go," but somehow-- and these somehows constitute the enduring mystery of autism-- he's managed to construct a mental street map of the entire London metropolitan area.
这个孩子只是偶尔记得从“准备好”和“稳定”开始的顺序是由“走”这个词完成的，但不知何故——这些不知何故构成了自闭症的持久谜团——他成功地在脑海中构建了整个伦敦大都市区的街道地图。
The route to school is OK, because he likes school.
上学的路还好，因为他喜欢上学。
The route to grandma's house is OK, too, not only because he likes grandma, but because she lives 50-odd miles from London, so he gets to stay in the car longer.
去奶奶家的路线也还可以，不仅因为他喜欢奶奶，还因为她住的地方距离伦敦有50多英里，所以他可以在车里待得更久。
The route that's not OK is the route to the park.
不顺利的路线是去公园的路线。
The park's too close to home, which means that the journey's over before it's properly begun.
公园离家太近了，这意味着旅程还没开始就已经结束了。
And someone, a bad person, his dad, will make him get out of the car.
有人，一个坏人，他的爸爸，会让他下车。
But it's a lovely, sunny, crisp Sunday morning.
但这是一个可爱、阳光明媚、清爽的周日早晨。
We're going to the park.
我们要去公园。
He starts to yell at the top of Delancey street in Camden when we don't turn left into Albany Street.
当我们不左转进入奥尔巴尼街时，他开始在卡姆登德兰西街的尽头大喊大叫。
That left turn he sees as his last chance.
他认为那个左转是他最后的机会。
School was ruled out 10 minutes ago when we didn't turn into Liverpool Road after crossing Holloway Road at Drayton Park.
10 分钟前，我们在德雷顿公园穿过霍洛威路后没有转入利物浦路，因此学校被禁止。
See, Albany Street takes you onto Houston Road, and Houston Road leads eventually to the motorway and grandma's house.
看，奥尔巴尼街带您进入休斯顿路，休斯顿路最终通向高速公路和奶奶家。
But from Delancey Street, we go straight across into Regent's Park Road on our way to Primrose Hill.
但从Delancey Street 出发，我们直接穿过摄政公园路前往Primrose Hill。
Doesn't that sound nice, Primrose Hill?
听起来不错吧，Primrose Hill？
Not to Danny it doesn't.
对丹尼来说则不然。
The yells get louder when we stop, and reach a sweat-inducing pitch when I open his door.
当我们停下来时，喊叫声变得更大，当我打开他的门时，喊叫声达到了令人汗流浃背的程度。
Come on, Dan, I say, in my best fun voice.
来吧，丹，我用我最有趣的声音说。
We're going to the park, the swings, the seesaw.
我们要去公园，荡秋千，玩跷跷板。
He just turns the yellometer up to 11.
他只是将音量计调到 11。
I try to lead him out by the hand, but he snatches it away and grabs hold of something, the seat belt, anything that will anchor him inside.
我试图拉着他的手把他带出去，但他一把抓住了手，抓住了某个东西，安全带，任何能把他固定在里面的东西。
So we're fighting, the car and I, for custody of this small boy.
所以我和汽车正在为这个小男孩的监护权而战。
The car has one end of Danny, and I have the other.
汽车的一端是丹尼，而我则有另一端。
The three of us are like a warring family in a TV soap.
我们三个人就像肥皂剧里的交战家庭。
I end up dragging my son out by his ankles.
我最终抓住儿子的脚踝将他拖了出去。
A couple look at us as they walk past.
一对夫妇走过时看着我们。
They don't say anything, but one day I'm sure someone's going to report me and I'll be arrested.
他们什么也没说，但我确信有一天有人会举报我，我就会被捕。
There's a certain irony to this.
这有一定的讽刺意味。
I learned to drive at the age of 41, entirely because of Danny.
我41岁学会开车，完全是因为丹尼。
I didn't really want to learn, and I have a mild phobia about driving.
我并不是真的想学，而且我对驾驶有轻微的恐惧症。
But public transport, which had served me well all my adult London life, was becoming less and less fun.
但在我成年后的伦敦生活中，一直为我提供良好服务的公共交通却变得越来越没有乐趣。
Danny loves going on trains and buses, of course, but sometimes he didn't want to get off when I wanted to get off, and sometimes he wanted to get off before our stop, and sometimes he decided that he didn't want to wear any trousers on the top deck of the number 19.
丹尼当然喜欢坐火车和公共汽车，但有时我想下车时他却不想下车，有时他想在我们站前下车，有时他决定在 19 号顶层甲板上不想穿任何裤子。
And though I won all these battles of will, because I'm bigger than him, I wasn't always in the mood to fight them in public.
虽然我赢得了所有这些意志力的战斗，但因为我比他大，我并不总是有心情在公共场合与他们战斗。
They can be Pyrrhic victories anyway, these fights with autistic kids.
无论如何，这些与自闭症儿童的斗争可能是代价高昂的胜利。
Danny's best friend and classmate, Toby, once kicked up such a fuss about having his haircut at the hairdresser's that he had to be held down by his mom and his nanny, at which point a woman ran over and started pummeling them both with her fists.
丹尼最好的朋友兼同学托比有一次因为在理发店理发而大吵大闹，以至于他不得不被他的妈妈和保姆按住，这时一个女人跑过来，开始用拳头殴打他们。
Sometimes I silently dare someone to say or do something, just so I can tell them why I'm having to be so cruel, and hopefully make them feel terrible in the process.
有时我会默默地鼓励别人说或做某事，这样我就可以告诉他们为什么我必须如此残忍，并希望让他们在这个过程中感到可怕。
So anyway, I took driving lessons for 18 months, and slowly, slowly overcame my fear.
所以无论如何，我上了18个月的驾驶课，慢慢地、慢慢地克服了我的恐惧。
And nothing, I felt, after every awful, jabbering, fear-filled 60-minute lesson, could've demonstrated more dramatically how much I love my son.
我觉得，在每堂可怕的、喋喋不休的、充满恐惧的 60 分钟课程之后，没有什么比这更能戏剧性地展示我对儿子的爱了。
I passed my test first time, and I bought a little four-door Peugeot that I thought he'd love, so I could drive him places like the park.
我第一次通过了测试，我买了一辆小四门标致，我认为他会喜欢，这样我就可以开车带他去公园等地方。
And is he grateful?
他感恩吗？
Is he?
他是吗？
Hell.
地狱。
He's holding onto his seat belt for dear life and screaming while I try to pull him backwards onto the pavement.
当我试图将他向后拉到人行道上时，他紧紧抓住安全带并尖叫着。
Eventually, he can hold on no longer, and I lift him out and put him down.
最后，他再也坚持不住了，我把他抱起来又放下了。
And after a brief pause during which he recovers his composure and stops yelling, he roars off towards the park gates, because another thing Danny's forgotten until this very second is that he loves the park.
短暂的停顿后，他恢复了镇静，停止了叫喊，他向公园大门咆哮而去，因为丹尼直到此刻才忘记的另一件事是，他喜欢这个公园。
He loves the swings and the seesaw, and spinning round and round on the grass until he's dizzy.
他喜欢秋千和跷跷板，喜欢在草地上转来转去，直到头晕。
And it's a lovely, sunny, crisp Sunday morning.
这是一个可爱、阳光明媚、清爽的周日早晨。
And hey, there's an empty swing.
嘿，有一个空秋千。
And literally within 10 seconds, he's full of smiles and happy anticipation.
不到 10 秒，他就满脸笑容和幸福的期待。
And there's no trace whatsoever in his face of the ankle-pulling trauma to which he was so recently and cruelly subjected.
他的脸上看不到任何痕迹，因为他最近才遭受了残酷的脚踝拉伤。
And I want to find the couple who may or may not have had a disapproving look on their faces when they saw me committee awful acts of violence, and show them just how joyful he is now.
我想找到那对夫妇，当他们看到我实施可怕的暴力行为时，他们的脸上可能有或可能没有反对的表情，并向他们展示他现在是多么快乐。
But of course they're not around, which is maybe just as well, because in a while I'm going to have to find a way to get him out of this swing.
但当然他们不在身边，这或许也没什么不好，因为过一会儿我就得想办法让他摆脱这种困境。
Nick Hornby is the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy .
尼克·霍恩比是《高保真》和《关于一个男孩》的作者。
Back on this side of the Atlantic again, though not very far inland, on Cape Cod.
再次回到大西洋的这一边，虽然距离内陆不远，但还是在科德角。
In a green Volvo sedan, Jay Allison drives his daughter, Lily, to ice skating lessons.
杰·艾利森 (Jay Allison) 开着一辆绿色沃尔沃轿车载着他的女儿莉莉 (Lily) 去上滑冰课。
She's 12, which means-- surprise!-- in the car they do not agree about what radio station to play.
她 12 岁，这意味着——令人惊讶！——在车里他们对于播放哪个广播电台意见不一。
Are we going to be late?
我们会迟到吗？
Jay Allison Uh, probably.
杰伊·艾利森 呃，可能吧。
Leigh's going to kill me.
利会杀了我。
She hates me already.
她已经恨我了。
Why does she hate you?
她为什么恨你？
Lily I don't know.
莉莉我不知道。
Because we're always late.
因为我们总是迟到。
We're not always late.
我们并不总是迟到。
Lily We usually are.
莉莉 我们通常都是这样。
Oh, man.
哦，伙计。
Lily Well, you never let me listen.
莉莉 好吧，你从来不让我听。
It's not fair.
这不公平。
Oh my god, are you serious?
天哪，你是认真的吗？
Jay Allison No, seriously.
杰·艾利森 不，说真的。
I've lost so many brain cells in this car thanks to you.
多亏了你，我在这辆车上失去了很多脑细胞。
Oh, really?
哦真的吗？
Jay Allison See, there go a few.
杰·艾利森 看，有几个。
There go a couple more.
还有几个。
Jay Allison Really.
杰·艾利森 真的。
Really?
真的吗？
Jay Allison It's hurting me.
杰·艾利森 这让我很受伤。
It's going into my brain and--
它进入我的大脑然后——
It's going into your brain and hurting you?
它会进入你的大脑并伤害你吗？
Yes.
是的。
Ow.
噢。
Lily This is Santana.
莉莉 这是桑塔纳。
Shouldn't you be gaining?
难道不应该有所收获吗？
All right, I feel-- Gaining strength from Carlos?
好吧，我觉得——从卡洛斯那里获得力量？
Yep.
是的。
I love [UNINTELLIGIBLE].
我喜欢[无法理解]。
Jay Allison OK, make it stop.
杰伊·艾利森 好吧，让它停止。
Make it go away.
让它消失。
No, no, no.
不，不，不。
I've always felt so bad with the Rose, like all those other stations, the good stations.
我一直对玫瑰站感觉很糟糕，就像所有其他好的电台一样。
What about them?
他们呢？
Lily What's so bad about them?
莉莉 他们有什么不好的吗？
Oh, geez.
哦，天啊。
Jay Allison I'm going to short-circuit your radio so it will only play public radio.
杰·艾利森 我要把你的收音机短路，让它只播放公共广播。
That's sad.
太悲伤了。
I don't know what I'd do.
我不知道我会做什么。
I'd buy a new radio.
我会买一台新收音机。
There are lots of good shows on public radio.
公共广播电台有很多精彩的节目。
What, do we get to talk for a few minutes, and then we have to-- It's like you're going to the surface for oxygen?
什么，我们要谈几分钟，然后我们必须——就像你要去地表获取氧气一样？
"Say My Name." [MUSIC - "SAY MY NAME" BY DESTINY'S CHILD]
“说出我的名字。” [音乐 - 命运之子的《说出我的名字》]
I'll find a good one.
我会找到一个好的。
[MUSIC - "MARIA, MARIA" BY CARLOS SANTANA]
[音乐 - 卡洛斯·桑塔纳的《玛丽亚，玛丽亚》]
Here, more Santana.
在这里，更多桑塔纳。
Are you gaining cells?
你正在获得细胞吗？
Santana, Santana's gone over to the dark side a little bit.
桑塔纳，桑塔纳有点走向黑暗面了。
[MUSIC - "SHOW ME THE MEANING OF BEING LONELY" BY THE BACKSTREET BOYS]
[音乐 - 后街男孩的“告诉我孤独的意义”]
They did a remix.
他们做了混音。
Jay Allison A remix?
杰·艾利森 混音版？
They didn't like the first one?
他们不喜欢第一个？
It wasn't popular enough.
那时还不够流行。
It was number one for, like, two days.
它连续两天排名第一。
What was?
什么是？
Lily This song.
莉莉这首歌。
It's like another Backstreet Boys song.
这就像后街男孩的另一首歌。
And did you know that Kevin Richardson of the Backstreet Boys is engaged?
您知道后街男孩的凯文·理查森已经订婚了吗？
Really?
真的吗？
Jay Allison Oh, sure.
杰·艾利森 哦，当然。
His birthday's coming up, isn't it?
他的生日快到了，不是吗？
Kevin's?
凯文的？
Oh my god.
我的天啊。
You're so weird.
你真奇怪。
Jay Allison [SINGING] I want to love you, baby.
杰·艾利森 [唱歌] 我想爱你，宝贝。
Oh, god.
哦，上帝。
Please stop, please.
请停下来，拜托。
Just let me hear this once song, and then you can--
只要让我听一下这首歌，然后你就可以——
Yeah, no, I love this song.
是的，不，我喜欢这首歌。
Lily Aren't you embarrassed?
莉莉，你不害羞吗？
Dad, stop.
爸爸，停下来。
Stop it, Dad.
别说了，爸爸。
Jay Allison What?
杰·艾利森 什么？
So maybe the secret is I should start liking your music.
所以也许秘密是我应该开始喜欢你的音乐。
No, that would be really bad.
不，那会非常糟糕。
Jay Allison Yes.
杰·艾利森 是的。
Seriously, we're going to listen to public radio in a minute.
说真的，我们一会儿就要听公共广播。
Are you ready?
你准备好了吗？
Here we go.
开始了。
Dad.
爸爸。
Jay Allison Here we go, listen.
杰·艾利森 我们走吧，听着。
Listen and learn, sweetheart.
倾听并学习，亲爱的。
You're listening to NPR's Weekend Edition.
您正在收听 NPR 的周末版。
I know.
我知道。
Jay Allison Now, don't you feel better?
杰·艾利森 现在，你感觉好点了吗？
And if the conventional wisdom is correct, it will be a big night for the oldest and youngest in rock.
如果传统观点是正确的，那么对于摇滚界最年长和最年轻的人来说，这将是一个重要的夜晚。
Weekend Edition Popular Culture commentator, Steven Stark.
周末版流行文化评论员史蒂文·斯塔克。
For you all, the night will feature 52-year-old Carlos Santana, who could walk away with--
对于你们所有人来说，当晚的主角是 52 岁的卡洛斯·桑塔纳 (Carlos Santana)，他可能会带着——
Hey, there he is again.
嘿，他又来了。
Lily He's nominated for, like, so many.
莉莉 他获得了很多提名。
And Album of the Year for Supernatural.
以及《Supernatural》年度专辑。
Equally symbolic will be the New Artist award, where insiders expect Christina Aguilera and, yes, Britney Spears to fight it out for top honors.
同样具有象征意义的是新艺术家奖，业内人士预计克里斯蒂娜·阿奎莱拉和布兰妮·斯皮尔斯将争夺最高荣誉。
One shouldn't be too hard on the current teen pop idol.
人们不应该对当前的青少年流行偶像太严厉。
Yeah, Dad.
是的，爸爸。
Npr Correspondent At least she didn't have to make talk on Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?
NPR 记者 至少她不必在《谁想嫁给百万富翁》节目中发表讲话。
No, here it is.
不，就在这里。
Lily Oh.
莉莉哦。
Almost there.
快到了。
Come on.
快点。
All right, here we are.
好吧，我们到了。
Lily There's Pam.
莉莉 那是帕姆。
So are you going to put your skates on in there?
那么你要穿上溜冰鞋吗？
Yep.
是的。
Jay Allison I guess I'll just come in with you, because of the parent meeting.
杰·艾利森 我想我会和你一起去，因为要开家长会。
I'm going to bring the tape recorder, and I'm going to dance and sing.
我要带录音机来，我要跳舞唱歌。
No, leave it here.
不，把它留在这里。
Jay Allison For the team?
杰·艾利森 对于球队？
I just want to do a little number for them tonight.
今晚我只想为他们做一些事情。
I have a Christina Aguilera impression I want to do.
我有一个克里斯蒂娜·阿奎莱拉的印象，我想做。
No, no. [MUSIC - "SATISFACTION" BY CAT POWER]
不，不。 [音乐 - CAT POWER 的“满足”]
Coming up, David Sedaris with a special message for young people about what happens when you get high and get into a car with your own mother.
接下来，大卫·塞达里斯（David Sedaris）向年轻人传达了一条特别的信息：当你吸毒并与自己的母亲一起进入汽车时会发生什么。
And adventures on the way to Hubcap City.
以及前往 Hubcap 城途中的冒险。
That's in a minute, from Public Radio International, when our program continues.
稍后，国际公共广播电台将继续我们的节目。
Act Four: Three More Bubbles Ira Glass It's This American Life .
第四幕：另外三个泡沫 艾拉·格拉斯 这就是美国生活。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
It's often said that this country was rebuilt in the 20th century to accommodate automobiles.
人们常说，这个国家是在 20 世纪重建的，以容纳汽车。
Because of cars, we have the suburbs, the malls, the highway system, much of the physical and commercial structure of this country.
因为有了汽车，我们才有了郊区、购物中心、高速公路系统以及这个国家的大部分物质和商业结构。
And so, if cars are so important, today's program is made up entirely of stories that happen in cars.
因此，如果汽车如此重要，那么今天的节目完全由发生在汽车中的故事组成。
Outside Washington, DC, a couple times a week, in an '88 Mercury Grand Marquis that he inherited from his mother, Senator Conrad Burns of Montana picks up random passengers from Virginia, drives them into the city during his rush hour commute.
蒙大拿州参议员康拉德·伯恩斯 (Conrad Burns) 每周都会开着从母亲那里继承的 88 年款水星大侯爵 (Mercury Grand Marquis) 出华盛顿特区几次，从弗吉尼亚州随机接载乘客，并在高峰时段将他们送入城市。
Having people in the car means that he can drive in the fast lanes that are set aside for cars that are full.
车里有人意味着他可以在为满载车辆预留的快车道上行驶。
He told me that the conversations also let him know what issues are on people's minds.
他告诉我，这些谈话也让他知道人们的想法是什么。
Politicians, I think, have a big problem.
我认为政客们有一个大问题。
They've never learned the lesson that you can't hear with your mouth open.
他们从来没有吸取过你张着嘴听不到的教训。
You know, it's interesting what people talk about, especially-- But they'll always notice, sometimes they notice the Montana plates and they'll say, well, you're from Montana?
你知道，人们谈论的事情很有趣，特别是——但他们总是会注意到，有时他们会注意到蒙大拿州的车牌，他们会说，好吧，你来自蒙大拿州？
And I said, yeah, I'm native.
我说，是的，我是本地人。
They ask what I do.
他们问我做什么。
And sometimes I sort of just don't answer or I give them some sort of a nondescript answer.
有时我只是不回答，或者给他们一些不伦不类的答案。
Wait, wait.
等等，等等。
Is the nondescript answer-- Do you just say, I work in the government, something like that?
是不是一个不伦不类的答案——你只是说，我在政府工作，之类的吗？
I work on the Hill.
我在山上工作。
I tell them I'm one of the ants on the Hill.
我告诉他们我是山上的蚂蚁之一。
More or less accurate.
或多或少准确。
Conrad Burns I would say.
我想说的是康拉德·伯恩斯。
In a taxicab in New york City, Jeff Perkins tape-records his passengers on a little cassette machine, just to pass the time.
在纽约市的一辆出租车上，杰夫·珀金斯用一台小录音机给乘客录音，只是为了打发时间。
He's collected hundreds of hours of tape.
他收集了数百小时的磁带。
Well, I'm trying to kind of focus on a particular subject which I'd like to ask you about.
嗯，我想把注意力集中在一个我想问你的特定主题上。
OK.
好的。
Jeff Perkins And the subject is the subject of dreaming.
杰夫·帕金斯 这个主题是梦的主题。
And I'd like to know if you dream vividly, or do you remember your dreams?
我想知道你的梦是否生动，或者你记得你的梦吗？
Sometimes I do remember them.
有时我确实记得他们。
Actually, when I was in my early 20s, I was having a recurrent dream of my family being edible.
事实上，当我20岁出头的时候，我经常梦见我的家人可以吃。
I had dreamt once that my mother was a Fig Newton and that I was dating Mr. Nabisco.
我曾经梦见我的母亲是无花果牛顿，而我正在和纳贝斯克先生约会。
And I also recall dreaming that my father's feet were made of roast beef, and that he would sit in his usual chair and slice off pieces of his roast beef feet to feed us with.
我还记得梦见我父亲的脚是用烤牛肉做的，他会坐在他常用的椅子上，把他的烤牛脚切成片给我们吃。
On the other side of the country, where dreams come true, Los Angeles.
在这个国家的另一边，梦想成真的地方，洛杉矶。
Cars scoot along the 405 and the 10.
汽车沿着 405 号公路和 10 号公路行驶。
When Rob Levine first came out west, he got his first Hollywood job in one of those cars, a mid-1980s BMW 5 series, big heavy car.
当罗布·莱文 (Rob Levine) 第一次来到西部时，他在其中一辆汽车中获得了第一份好莱坞工作，这是一辆 20 世纪 80 年代中期的 BMW 5 系列大型重型汽车。
He as the driver for a movie producer named Edgar Sherick, who was the head of ABC back in the '60s, went on to produce lots of films.
他是电影制片人埃德加·谢里克 (Edgar Sherick) 的司机，埃德加·谢里克是 60 年代美国广播公司 (ABC) 的负责人，后来制作了许多电影。
Heartbreak Kid , The Stepford Wives, Mrs. Soffel , Woody Allen's first movie, Take the Money and Run.
《心碎小子》、《史蒂福妻子》、《索菲尔夫人》、伍迪·艾伦的第一部电影《拿了钱就跑》。
Driver, in this world, can be a job where you train to be a movie producer yourself, which Rob Levine wanted.
在这个世界上，《Driver》可以是一份让你自己受训成为电影制片人的工作，这正是罗布·莱文 (Rob Levine) 想要的。
So he not only took care of the car, he read every script, sat in on meetings, learned everything.
所以他不仅照顾汽车，还阅读每一个剧本，参加会议，学习一切。
Part of the idea was that I would shadow him.
我的部分想法是我会跟踪他。
I was expected to know everything he was reading.
我应该知道他正在阅读的所有内容。
I was expected to know who he was calling and why.
我应该知道他给谁打电话以及为什么。
And he would ask me routinely, why am I calling this person?
他经常问我，为什么我给这个人打电话？
And not just to test me, because he honestly would slip his mind, and I would have to know.
不仅仅是为了考验我，因为他真的会忘记，而我必须知道。
Wait.
等待。
He would say, dial the phone for me, why am I calling?
他会说，你给我打电话，我为什么打电话？
Yeah, why am I calling this person?
是啊，我为什么要给这个人打电话呢？
And I would have to sort of, because you want to ask him about this project or that project.
我必须这样做，因为你想向他询问这个项目或那个项目。
So if you didn't know, it was, you're in big trouble.
所以，如果你不知道，那你就有大麻烦了。
Oh yeah.
哦，是的。
Oh yeah, completely.
哦，是的，完全如此。
I mean, he was a sort of larger-than-life figure.
我的意思是，他是一位具有传奇色彩的人物。
At that point, he smoked big Cuban cigars, which we'd have to get for him.
那时，他抽的是大古巴雪茄，我们得帮他买。
It was sort of contraband, and we had to get them from Cuba.
这是一种违禁品，我们必须从古巴获取它们。
That was part of your job?
那是你工作的一部分吗？
Rob Levine Oh yeah.
罗布·莱文 哦，是的。
Yeah, we had to get them from South Africa, which is like a double no-no.
是的，我们必须从南非获取它们，这就像双重禁忌。
Wait.
等待。
So because this is during the embargo?
那么因为这是在禁运期间？
It's during Apartheid, yeah.
这是在种族隔离期间，是的。
So not only are you getting contraband cigars, you're getting them through a country that you didn't want to be doing business with.
因此，您不仅获得了走私雪茄，而且还通过了一个您不想与之做生意的国家。
Sometimes we would get them through Canada, too.
有时我们也会通过加拿大运送它们。
Which brings us to this story.
这给我们带来了这个故事。
Some people do their socializing in the car, just cruising around, running errands with friends, seeing who's out.
有些人在车里进行社交活动，只是到处闲逛，和朋友一起办事，看看谁出去了。
In a 1991 Toyota Camry, Ernest Castle, a college student, tools around with his friend, Clarence, in the south Chicago suburb where they both grew up, where they both still live with their parents, Hazel Crest.
大学生欧内斯特·卡斯尔 (Ernest Castle) 开着一辆 1991 款丰田凯美瑞 (Toyota Camry)，与他的朋友克拉伦斯 (Clarence) 一起在芝加哥南部郊区闲逛，他们都是在那里长大的，现在仍与父母哈泽尔·克雷斯特 (Hazel Crest) 住在一起。
Sittin' up in here, early Sunday morning.
周日清晨，坐在这里。
Damn, it must be about 8 o'clock in the morning.
该死的，现在肯定是早上八点左右了。
Yeah, it's something like that.
是的，就是这样的。
[INAUDIBLE] 3:30, he's done, mostly.
[听不清] 3:30，他基本上完成了。
This is about as close as it gets on a Sunday.
这大约是周日最接近的情况了。
Kind of one of them slow Sundays, on the way to ABC--
其中一个是缓慢的周日，在去 ABC 的路上——
Auto Parts.
汽车零部件。
Ernest Castle Yeah, Auto Parts.
欧内斯特·卡斯尔 是的，汽车零部件。
You know what I'm saying?
你知道我在说什么吗？
To go get a hubcap.
去买一个轮毂盖。
Oh, now you're going to Hubcap City.
哦，现在你要去 Hubcap 城。
That's right across the street--
就在街对面——
My friend, Clarence, OK, my boy.
我的朋友克拉伦斯，好吧，我的孩子。
What clicks between me and Clarence is we're from the same exact place.
我和克拉伦斯之间的共识是我们来自同一个地方。
We're from the same block.
我们来自同一个街区。
We grew up about 600 steps away from each other.
我们长大的地方相距大约600步。
We're brothers.
我们是兄弟。
Damn, look at this cat.
该死的，看看这只猫。
They gotta be some Mexicans, man.
他们一定是一些墨西哥人，伙计。
It was.
是的。
It was.
是的。
Some kings or something, just with the low-profile tires.
有些国王什么的，只是用低断面轮胎。
Them's about 13s or 12s, so you know he's riding low.
他们大约有 13 或 12 秒，所以你知道他的位置很低。
The car was, like, about two inches off the ground.
汽车离地大约两英寸。
And it was just flicking away, painted rims.
它只是轻轻一弹，涂漆的边缘。
it was a Neon, but he did the Neon justice, though.
虽然是霓虹灯，但他还是公正地对待了霓虹灯。
He did it justice.
他做得很公正。
I'm going to give him the credit on that one.
我会把这件事归功于他。
Clarence and I, we're definitely trying to do two different things.
克拉伦斯和我，我们肯定在尝试做两件不同的事情。
He's definitely the street-savvy, basically hustler.
他绝对是街头达人，基本上就是骗子。
And me?
而我呢？
I'm trying to do my thing in other ways.
我正在尝试以其他方式做我的事情。
You know what I'm saying?
你知道我在说什么吗？
I'm going to school, right?
我要去上学，对吗？
So that basically keeps us apart for most of the week.
所以这周的大部分时间我们基本上都是分开的。
But when we come together on the weekend, it all comes together basically in the car.
但当我们周末聚在一起时，一切基本上都在车里进行。
We got the radio.
我们拿到了收音机。
We got the tapes.
我们拿到了磁带。
A couple of beers, a couple of drinks.
几杯啤酒，几杯饮料。
That's basically the quality of life for us, man.
这基本上就是我们的生活质量，伙计。
Ooh, that's a nice-ass Chevy.
哦，那是一辆漂亮的雪佛兰。
You see that Chevy with the gold rims over there?
你看到那边那辆有金边的雪佛兰了吗？
Damn.
该死。
Clarence Now, that's a black man driving that probably.
克拉伦斯：现在，开车的可能是个黑人。
You know what I'm saying?
你知道我在说什么吗？
Everybody representing in their own way.
每个人都以自己的方式代表。
Without a doubt.
无疑。
That's how different this [BLEEP] is.
这就是这个 [BLEEP] 的不同之处。
You see what I'm saying?
你明白我在说什么吗？
Our Mexican people like they're [BLEEP] low.
我们的墨西哥人喜欢他们[BLEEP]低落。
You know what I'm saying?
你知道我在说什么吗？
Brothers like their [BLEEP] high.
兄弟们喜欢他们的[BLEEP]高音。
Mexicans get, like, smaller rims.
墨西哥人的轮圈较小。
Brothers get rims that are too damn big for their car.
兄弟们的轮圈对于他们的车来说太大了。
You know what I'm saying?
你知道我在说什么吗？
For real.
真正的。
You know what I'm saying?
你知道我在说什么吗？
OK, we're rolling along and run into some childhood buddies here.
好吧，我们一路前行，在这里遇到了一些儿时的伙伴。
Now, these guys, they're known in the neighborhood.
现在，这些家伙在附近很出名。
They're known in the neighborhood.
他们在附近很有名。
You mostly see them all in a group, at least I do.
你通常会看到他们都成群结队，至少我是这样。
And we roll up on them, and thery see the microphone, and basically everything comes out.
我们把它们卷起来，他们看到麦克风，基本上所有的东西都出来了。
[BLEEP] the police.
[哔]警察。
[BLEEP] the DEA.
[哔]DEA。
You know, they [BLEEP] with me for no rhyme or reason, you know?
你知道，他们无缘无故地[哔哔]和我在一起，你知道吗？
I'm tired of this bull [BLEEP].
我厌倦了这头公牛[BLEEP]。
Now, these guys, they've had their run-ins with the law.
现在，这些人触犯了法律。
They've got their little histories, juvenile cases, whatever, what have you.
他们有他们的小历史，青少年案件，无论如何，你有什么。
But these guys, let's just say they tend to exaggerate a little bit.
但这些人，我们只能说他们有点夸张了。
What Marshall was talking about, he was talking about how they was-- Man, he went on into a tangent about getting beat down by the police.
马歇尔所说的，他是在谈论他们的情况——伙计，他接着谈到了被警察殴打的事。
But he made it sound like every time he stepped outside the house--
但每次他走出房子时，他都会说——
Exactly.
正是如此。
I think people that got too wrapped up into the movies, into the tapes they play, and they feel, because of the people on the tapes and in the movies get harassed by the police, that they are really getting harassed.
我认为那些太沉迷于电影、沉迷于他们播放的录音带的人，他们觉得，因为录音带和电影中的人受到了警察的骚扰，他们真的受到了骚扰。
They're not getting harassed, man.
他们没有受到骚扰，伙计。
Police just came around the corner.
警察刚刚来到拐角处。
Man, we should go around there and see what their business is, yo.
伙计，我们应该去那里看看他们是做什么的，哟。
Hey, whatever.
嘿，无论如何。
Man 2 Oh, they're real.
男人 2 哦，他们是真的。
Let's be on some investigative reporter type [BLEEP].
让我们来谈谈调查记者类型[BLEEP]。
And so me and Clarence, we decide to conduct our own little case study here.
因此，我和克拉伦斯决定在这里进行我们自己的小案例研究。
Right now we are busting the U-turn, trying to see if the police is really gonna go and hassle them like they said they was.
现在我们正在掉头，想看看警察是否真的会像他们所说的那样去骚扰他们。
This whole conversation was about police harassment, profiling, this and that, which is definitely, definitely, definitely real.
整个谈话都是关于警察的骚扰、侧写，这和那，这绝对、绝对、绝对真实。
But we about to see.
但我们即将看到。
The police roll right by 'em.
警察就在他们身边。
Ernest Castle Zoom.
欧内斯特城堡变焦。
Zoom.
飞涨。
And this car parked on the wrong side of the street at that, to draw attention.
这辆车当时停在街的另一边，以引起注意。
I don't know how to call it, man.
我不知道该怎么称呼它，伙计。
You know what I'm saying?
你知道我在说什么吗？
When the microphone turn on, people got a lot of stuff to say, and a lot to talk about.
当麦克风打开时，人们有很多话要说，有很多话要说。
But once it turn off, the mother [BLEEP] go back to their everyday, dull-ass life.
但一旦它关闭，母亲[哔]又回到了他们平淡无奇的日常生活。
He want to portray some sort of lifestyle, like he's being, I don't know, railroaded into the life that he's living.
他想描绘某种生活方式，就像他正在，我不知道，被铁路带入他所过的生活一样。
I just feel that he's not doing what he feels he's capable of doing.
我只是觉得他没有做他认为自己有能力做的事情。
And that's all of us out here.
这就是我们所有人。
I'll be damned, we livin' in the suburbs.
我该死，我们住在郊区。
You know what I'm saying?
你知道我在说什么吗？
I mean, me, myself, and the situation I'm in, is because of the life I have lived since I was a kid, coming up.
我的意思是，我，我自己，以及我现在的处境，都是因为我从小就过着的生活。
I really wasn't on my P's and Q's.
我真的没有在我的P和Q上。
You know what I'm saying?
你知道我在说什么吗？
I've been messing up for a nice long amount of time now, to keep it real.
为了保持真实，我已经搞砸了很长一段时间了。
That's just how it is.
就是这样。
You know what I'm saying?
你知道我在说什么吗？
For the average mainstream person, middle class and up, they're looking at Clarence, and they're like, oh lord, here comes another wild off-the-hook street thug, ready to do whatever he has to do, wreak havoc, kill, shoot, whatever.
对于普通主流人士、中产阶级及以上阶层来说，他们看着克拉伦斯，就会想，天哪，又来了一个疯狂的街头暴徒，准备做任何他必须做的事，造成严重破坏，杀人，射击，等等。
But that's not the case at all.
但事实并非如此。
The way I see it, it's just like the movie, Slackers.
在我看来，这就像电影《懒汉》一样。
Here's the guy who, he has goals, but he's a procrastinator.
这个人有目标，但他是个拖延者。
He'll sit on his butt until the last minute, and try to do something.
他会一直坚持到最后一刻，尝试做点什么。
He's a slacker.
他是个懒鬼。
Everybody knows what a slacker is.
每个人都知道什么是偷懒者。
He just does the little things that he has to to keep a little bit of money in his pocket.
他只是做一些他必须做的小事，以便在口袋里保留一点钱。
And we're all slackers.
而我们都是懒鬼。
I mean, I can't even say anything because I'm a slacker myself.
我的意思是，我什至不能说什么，因为我自己就是个懒鬼。
But from his perspective, where he's coming from, to be a slacker, you're a hustler in the same breath.
但从他的角度来看，他来自哪里，作为一个懒鬼，你同样是一个骗子。
It's a ditch, man.
这是一条沟渠，伙计。
Oh, shit.
妈的。
See, that's professional driving right there.
看，这就是专业驾驶。
You've got to know the limitations and the proper mechanical, um-- Ah, the hell with it.
你必须了解局限性和适当的机械原理，嗯——啊，见鬼去吧。
It was a nice turn.
这是一个很好的转变。
It was a very nice turn, on my part.
对我来说，这是一个非常好的转变。
I pat myself on the back.
我拍拍自己的背。
We're passing by this junkyard, right?
我们正路过这个垃圾场，对吗？
And I see this "Now Hiring" sign posted up on this 13-foot iron gate.
我看到这个 13 英尺高的铁门上贴着“现在招聘”的牌子。
Huge sign, with crimson-embroidered letters, "Now Hiring." I look up at Clarence.
巨大的牌子，上面绣着深红色的字母，“现在招聘”。我抬头看着克拉伦斯。
And I know he's not going to go for this, but I gotta mention it 'cause that's me.
我知道他不会这么做，但我必须提到这一点，因为那就是我。
And I'm like, you know, how about the "Now Hiring" sign, figuring this is his opportunity to finally get a job with a tax return that'll keep him from a fair amount of trouble, let's just say.
我想，你知道，“现在招聘”标志怎么样，我认为这是他最终找到一份工作的机会，并且可以提供纳税申报表，这将使他免受相当多的麻烦，这么说吧。
You're going to try to call it out for me.
你要试着为我喊出来。
Get a job.
找份工作。
Now, see, I ain't say nothin' about you.
现在，看，我不会说任何关于你的事。
See, that's you.
看吧，那就是你。
That's you over there.
那就是你。
That's all I'm saying.
我就是这么说的。
Ernest Castle Look at that big man across the fence, man.
欧内斯特·卡斯尔 看看栅栏对面那个大个子，伙计。
I see it, though.
不过我看到了。
Ernest Castle Now hiring.
欧内斯特城堡现在正在招聘。
I understand that.
我明白这一点。
I understand that, you know what I'm saying?
我明白了，你知道我在说什么吗？
Basically, I think where the fork in the road took place between my life and Clarence's life, it's as simple as he went to public school and I went to a Catholic school outside of my city.
基本上，我认为我的生活和克拉伦斯的生活之间发生了岔路口，就像他去了公立学校而我去了我所在城市之外的一所天主教学校一样简单。
Sealed me away up in there, got me in all of these activities.
把我关在那里，让我参与所有这些活动。
I had no time, basically, in my schedule to get in the streets until the weekend.
基本上，在周末之前，我的日程安排中没有时间上街。
By the weekend, everybody did their dirt in the week already.
到了周末，每个人都已经完成了一周的工作。
Meanwhile, with Clarence, when we were in high school, basically everything opened up.
与此同时，当我们上高中时，对于克拉伦斯来说，基本上一切都开放了。
You got your gangs, your different street factions, and it was shiny, like a brand-new golden apple.
你有你的帮派，你不同的街头派系，它闪闪发光，就像一个全新的金苹果。
It was just the street ambrosia.
这只是街头美食。
You live forever.
你永远活着。
I mean, who wouldn't have wanted to be a part of it?
我的意思是，谁不想成为其中的一部分呢？
I wanted to be a part of it.
我想成为其中的一部分。
Neither of us were brains, so I guess he chose an easier route, an easier road.
我们俩都没有脑子，所以我猜他选择了一条更容易的路，一条更容易的路。
And in the same predicament, to walk a mile in Clarence's shoes, I'd have took it, without a doubt, without a doubt, without a doubt.
在同样的困境中，如果我站在克拉伦斯的立场上走一英里，我会毫无疑问、毫无疑问、毫无疑问地接受它。
All right, we here at Hubcap City.
好吧，我们在 Hubcap City。
This is a big junkyard, basically.
基本上，这是一个大垃圾场。
Is that a Buick or some [BLEEP].
那是一辆别克还是一些[BLEEP]。
It's got new tires on it so it must run.
它装有新轮胎，所以它必须运行。
Probably so.
大概是这样。
Probably so.
大概是这样。
Ernest Castle At any go it is, let's see if I can't get a damn hubcap.
欧内斯特·卡斯尔 无论如何，让我们看看我是否能得到一个该死的轮毂盖。
[MUSIC - "PASSENGER SIDE" BY WILCO]
[音乐 - WILCO 的“乘客侧”]
Some of the most important moments of people's lives happen in cars, though sometimes we are not aware that these are the most important moments in our lives as they're happening.
人们生命中一些最重要的时刻发生在汽车中，尽管有时我们并没有意识到这些是我们生命中最重要的时刻正在发生。
David Sedaris tells this story.
大卫·塞达里斯讲述了这个故事。
It wasn't anything I'd planned on, but at the age of 22, after dropping out of my second college and traveling back and forth across the country a few times, I found myself back in Raleigh, North Carolina, living in my parents' basement.
这本来不是我的计划，但在 22 岁时，从我的第二所大学退学并在全国各地来回旅行了几次后，我发现自己回到了北卡罗来纳州的罗利，住在父母的地下室里。
After I'd spent six months waking at noon, getting high, and listening to the same Joni Mitchell record over and over again, my father called me into his den and told me to get out.
在我花了六个月的时间中午醒来、嗑药并一遍又一遍地听同一张乔尼·米切尔的唱片后，我父亲把我叫进他的小房间，叫我出去。
He was sitting very formally in a big comfortable chair behind his desk.
他非常正式地坐在办公桌后面一张舒适的大椅子上。
And I felt as though he was firing me from the job of being his son.
我感觉他似乎正在解雇我作为他儿子的工作。
I'd seen this coming, and it honestly didn't bother me all that much.
我预见到了这一点，老实说，它并没有让我感到那么困扰。
The way I saw it, being kicked out of the house was just what I needed if I was ever going to get back on my feet.
在我看来，如果我想重新站起来，被赶出家门正是我所需要的。
Fine, I said.
好吧，我说。
I'll go, but one day you'll be sorry.
我会走，但有一天你会后悔的。
I had no idea what I meant by that.
我不知道我这是什么意思。
It just seemed like the sort of thing a person should say when they were told to leave.
这似乎就是一个人被告知离开时应该说的话。
My sister, Lisa, had an apartment over by the university, and said I could come stay with her as long as I didn't bring my Joni Mitchell record.
我姐姐丽莎在大学附近有一套公寓，她说只要我不带乔尼·米切尔的唱片就可以去和她住。
My mother offered to drive me over.
我妈妈主动提出开车送我过去。
And after a few bong hits, I took her up on it.
打了几下烟枪后，我就接受了她。
It was a 15-minute ride across town, and on the way my mother and I listened to the rebroadcast of a radio call-in show, in which people phoned the host to describe the various birds gathered around their backyard feeders.
乘车 15 分钟穿过城镇，在路上，我和妈妈听了广播电台来电节目的重播，节目中人们打电话给主持人，描述聚集在后院喂食器周围的各种鸟类。
Normally, the show came on in the morning, and it seemed strange to listen to it at night.
正常来说，这个节目是早上播的，晚上听就显得有些奇怪了。
The birds in question had gone to bed hours ago, and probably had no idea they were still being talked about.
这些鸟儿几个小时前就已经上床睡觉了，可能不知道人们还在谈论它们。
I thought about this and wondered if anyone back at the house was talking about me.
我想了想，想知道家里是否有人在谈论我。
To the best of my knowledge, no one had ever tried to describe my voice or the shape of my head.
据我所知，没有人试图描述我的声音或我的头的形状。
And it depressed me that I went unnoticed while people were willing to drop everything for a cardinal.
让我沮丧的是，当人们愿意为红衣主教放弃一切时，我却被忽视了。
My mother pulled up in front of my sister's apartment.
我母亲把车停在我姐姐的公寓前。
And when I opened the car door, she started to cry, which worried me because she normally didn't do things like that.
当我打开车门时，她开始哭泣，这让我很担心，因为她通常不会做这样的事情。
It wasn't one of those, I'm going to miss you things, but something deeper and sadder than that.
这不是我会想念你的事情之一，而是比这更深刻、更悲伤的事情。
I wouldn't know it until months later, but my father had kicked me out of the house not because I was a bum, but because I was gay.
直到几个月后我才知道，我父亲把我赶出了家门，不是因为我是流浪汉，而是因为我是同性恋。
Our little talk was supposed to be one of those defining moments that shape a person's adult life, but he'd been so uncomfortable with the most important word that he'd left it out completely, saying only, I think we both know why I'm doing this.
我们的闲聊本来应该是塑造一个人成年生活的决定性时刻之一，但他对最重要的词感到非常不舒服，所以他完全忽略了它，只说，我想我们都知道我为什么要这样做。
I'd assumed it was because of the drugs, and had left it at that.
我以为是因为药物的原因，所以就这样了。
I guess I could've nailed him down.
我想我本可以把他钉牢的。
I just hadn't seen the point.
我只是没看出重点。
My mother assumed that I knew the truth, and it tore her up.
我母亲以为我知道真相，这让她很伤心。
Here was another defining moment, and again I missed it completely.
这是另一个决定性的时刻，我再次完全错过了它。
She cried until it sounded as if she were choking.
她哭得快要窒息了。
I'm sorry, she said.
对不起，她说。
I'm sorry.
对不起。
I'm sorry.
对不起。
I'm sorry.
对不起。
I figured that within a few weeks, I'd have a job and some crummy little apartment.
我想几周之内我就会找到一份工作和一套破烂的小公寓。
It didn't seem insurmountable, but my mother's tears made me worry that finding these things might be a little harder than I thought.
这似乎并不是不可克服的，但母亲的眼泪让我担心找到这些东西可能比我想象的要困难一些。
Did she honestly think I was that much of a loser?
她真的认为我是个失败者吗？
Really, I said.
真的，我说。
I'll be fine.
我会没事的。
The car light was on, and I wondered what the passing drivers thought as they watched my mother sob.
车灯亮了，我不知道路过的司机看到我母亲哭泣时会作何感想。
What kind of people did they think we were?
他们认为我们是什么样的人？
Did they think she was one of those crybaby moms who fell apart every time someone chipped a coffee cup?
他们是否认为她是那些每次有人打碎咖啡杯就崩溃的爱哭妈妈之一？
Did they assume I'd said something to hurt her?
他们是否认为我说了伤害她的话？
Did they see us as just another crying mother and her stoned gay son, sitting in a station wagon and listening to a call-in show about birds?
他们是否认为我们只是另一个哭泣的母亲和她醉酒的同性恋儿子，坐在旅行车里听有关鸟类的来电节目？
Or did they imagine, for just one moment, that we might be special?
或者他们有那么一瞬间认为我们可能很特别吗？
Dave Sedaris' latest book is called Me Talk Pretty One Day.
戴夫·塞达里斯 (Dave Sedaris) 的最新著作《有一天我会说漂亮的话》(Me Talk Pretty One Day)。
[MUSIC - "I WANT A LAVENDAR CADILLAC" BY MAURICE KING AND HIS WOLVERINES]
[音乐 - 莫里斯·金和他的狼獾的“我想要一辆薰衣草凯迪拉克”]
There are people out on the road with no other purpose but to help others, as if the streets and highways are like the open sea, dangerous and unpredictable, thousands of motorists stranded at any given moment, needing saviors.
有些人在路上除了帮助别人没有其他目的，就好像街道和高速公路就像大海一样，危险且不可预测，成千上万的驾车者随时陷入困境，需要救星。
And there's a little yellow pickup truck, AAA insignia on the door, tool cases in the back.
还有一辆黄色小皮卡车，车门上有 AAA 标志，后面有工具箱。
Good morning.
早上好。
Did you say you had a service call holding?
你是说你有一个服务电话吗？
Yeah, we have a T3 on Prospect.
是的，我们在 Prospect 上有一辆 T3。
Do you want me to send that over?
你要我把它寄过去吗？
Yeah, 10-4.
是的，10-4。
Prospect, where the [BLEEP] is that?
展望一下，[BLEEP] 是哪里？
Kelly Keggers wears dark blue pants and a button-down AAA service shirt.
凯莉·凯格斯 (Kelly Keggers) 身穿深蓝色裤子和 AAA 系扣衬衫。
The dispatch computer on her dashboard lists AAA members in trouble.
她仪表板上的调度计算机列出了遇到麻烦的 AAA 成员。
Well, all I do all day is go out and help people.
好吧，我整天所做的就是出去帮助别人。
It's like community service.
这就像社区服务。
People call when they're in need, if their car doesn't start, or if they've got a flat tire, or they run out of gas or something.
人们在有需要时、汽车无法启动、轮胎漏气、汽油用完了等等时都会打电话。
If their car's not working, they call.
如果他们的车坏了，他们就会打电话。
It's all day.
已经是一整天了。
And everytime I show up, people are like all, oh my god, you're here.
每次我出现时，人们都像所有人一样，天哪，你在这里。
It's like I'm all doing them a favor or something.
就好像我在帮他们一个忙什么的。
It's a good deed job.
这是一件好事。
Early in the morning, though, it's, like, jump-starts, but pretty much people lock their keys in their car.
不过，一大早，就像是启动一样，但几乎人们都把钥匙锁在车里。
They're getting ready for work, and they're freaking out and-- Oh, here comes my member.
他们正准备工作，他们吓坏了——哦，我的成员来了。
What's happening with your car?
你的车出了什么事？
It won't start?
不会开始吗？
Battery's dead.
电池没电了。
I keep switching the lights on because it--
我一直开着灯，因为它——
Her horn did-- like, you know, lights are on the blinker of your car, like if you put the blinker up or down?
她按了喇叭——就像，你知道，你汽车的方向灯上有灯，就像你把方向灯打开或放下一样？
A lot of people complain about the new Hondas.
很多人抱怨新本田汽车。
They turn the blinker on during the day, they're coming home from, blah, blah, blah, whatever, and they leave their lights on all night long.
他们白天打开闪光灯，从诸如此类的事情回家，然后整晚都开着灯。
And there's no buzzer or anything to tell them that their frickin' lights are on.
而且没有蜂鸣器或任何东西告诉他们他们该死的灯亮了。
So she's all pissed off about that.
所以她对这件事很生气。
And she was worried about her battery, but it's a brand-new car.
她还担心电池的问题，但这是一辆全新的汽车。
It's a 1999.
这是1999年的事了。
Oh, wait.
哦，等等。
Let me get these calls.
让我接听这些电话。
I have three more service calls.
我还接到了三个服务电话。
Two of them are kind of a ways away, I think.
我认为其中两个距离有点远。
We have this 6 at Third and Cargo.
我们在 Third 和 Cargo 有这 6 个。
Three at Gillman, and Raymond and Redland.
三个在吉尔曼，还有雷蒙德和雷德兰。
OK, I can do all three of those.
好吧，这三个我都能做到。
That's cool.
这很酷。
Go ahead and send them my way.
去吧，送他们去我的路。
10-4.
10-4。
Copy that.
复制那个。
Kelly Keggers I love driving around without a boss in the car with me.
Kelly Keggers 我喜欢在没有老板在车里的情况下到处开车。
I don't like to work with-- I'm not really much of a team player, I guess.
我不喜欢与人一起工作——我想我并不是一个真正具有团队合作精神的人。
On West 7th?
西七号？
Kelly Keggers I don't like to work with people that much.
Kelly Keggers 我不太喜欢和人一起工作。
I just like to work by myself and do my own thing.
我只是喜欢自己工作，做自己的事。
I just get things done faster and better that way.
这样我就能把事情做得更快更好。
I guess I can just concentrate by myself.
我想我一个人就能集中注意力。
I mean, I like helping people, though.
我的意思是，不过我喜欢帮助别人。
I get a kick out of it.
我从中得到了乐趣。
It's kind of a good feeling.
这是一种很好的感觉。
We've got a cancel on our Hazelwood and Rosewood.
我们的榛木和红木取消了。
The member found her keys.
该成员找到了她的钥匙。
Cops wave at me when I drive by.
当我开车经过时，警察向我招手。
Buses stop and let me go by them.
公共汽车停下来让我过去。
It's weird.
很奇怪。
All city workers are always like, hey, how's it going?
所有城市工作人员总是会问，嘿，怎么样？
Oh, AAA.
哦，AAA。
Hi.
你好。
You know, waving.
你知道，挥手。
And people flag me down a lot when I'm driving.
当我开车的时候，人们经常拦我。
Or if they need a jump-start or whatever, they jump in front of your car with jumper cables.
或者，如果他们需要快速启动或其他什么，他们会用跨接电缆跳到您的汽车前面。
I'm going 40.
我快40了
They fly in front of the truck.
他们飞到卡车前面。
You're like, [BRAKING SOUNDS], oh crap.
你就像，[刹车声]，哦，糟糕。
But, no, they treat me really good.
但是，不，他们对我很好。
They're really nice.
他们真的很好。
I don't get treated like a punk kid, like I usually do.
我不像平常那样被当作朋克孩子对待。
I jump-started some guy's car on 21st, oh no, it was 22nd street, and there's a big, huge hill.
我在21号启动了某个人的车，哦不，那是22号街，还有一座很大很大的山丘。
And it was a stick shift, and I told him to keep his foot on the brake.
那是变速杆，我告诉他把脚踩在刹车上。
And he didn't, of course.
当然，他没有。
And he was an older guy.
而且他是一个年纪较大的人了。
And I mean, right as soon as his car started, he took his foot off the brake to get out of the car, and it stalled because it was a stick shift and all that.
我的意思是，他的车一启动，他就把脚从刹车上移开，准备下车，但车就停了下来，因为它是变速杆之类的。
And it went sailing down the street.
它沿着街道航行。
And it slammed into a tree and totalled his car.
结果它撞到了一棵树上，把他的车撞毁了。
It almost ran me over.
它差点把我撞倒。
I jumped out of the way.
我跳开了。
I pulled a total, like, Dukes of Hazard.
我总共获得了阿扎尔公爵之类的成绩。
And of course we had to call a tow truck for that.
当然，我们必须为此叫一辆拖车。
But it wasn't my fault.
但这不是我的错。
It was his fault.
这是他的错。
I advised him not to take his foot off the brake, and blah, blah, blah.
我建议他不要把脚从刹车上移开，等等，等等，等等。
But he was old and he was a little grumpy.
但他年纪大了，脾气也有点暴躁。
He's like, I know what to do.
他就像，我知道该怎么做。
His wife started screaming at him.
他的妻子开始对他尖叫。
It was really upsetting.
真是令人心烦意乱。
I sat with him for a while.
我和他一起坐了一会儿。
He was shaken up.
他被震撼了。
He was scared.
他很害怕。
He was still in the car.
他还在车里。
I mean, he tried to get out but he couldn't.
我的意思是，他试图出去，但他做不到。
Yeah, that was my big excitement for one day.
是的，那是我兴奋的一天。
But everything else is pretty normal.
但其他一切都很正常。
I mean, you get babies locked in cars and stuff.
我的意思是，你会把婴儿锁在汽车之类的东西里。
People are freaking out.
人们都吓坏了。
I try and get there really fast if there's a baby in the car.
如果车里有婴儿，我会尝试尽快到达那里。
So I always do that as a priority.
所以我总是把它作为优先事项。
It's cool when you pull into a shopping center, a big parking lot, because you'll always get two or three calls.
当你把车开进购物中心、一个大停车场时，这很酷，因为你总是会接到两三个电话。
People will flag you down.
人们会标记你。
And usually they have AAA.
通常他们有 AAA。
And you write them up.
然后你把它们写下来。
[UNINTELLIGIBLE] again.
再次[无法理解]。
[UNINTELLIGIBLE PHRASE].
[难以理解的短语]。
This parking lot is humongous.
这个停车场很大。
Hello.
你好。
See, you're waiting out front.
瞧，你在前面等着呢。
Well, yeah.
嗯，是的。
Got them locked them inside.
让他们把他们锁在里面。
You know, on the supervisor side.
你知道，在主管方面。
OK, the supervisor side, all right.
好的，主管这边，好吧。
I'm totally addicted to that getting paid for job performance.
我完全沉迷于根据工作表现获得报酬。
Because that way it doesn't make me resentful of the people I work with if they're not pulling their weight.
因为这样的话，如果我的同事不尽职尽责，我就不会怨恨他们。
I just figure, they did 10 calls today, and I did, like, 32 calls.
我只是算了一下，他们今天打了 10 个电话，而我打了 32 个电话。
I know that I'm getting paid for all the calls I'm doing.
我知道我所做的所有通话都会得到报酬。
I can't deal with getting pissed off at people I work with.
我无法忍受对与我一起工作的人生气。
But I like all the guys I work with.
但我喜欢所有和我一起工作的人。
They're nice guys.
他们是好人。
There's one or two other girls that work there.
还有一两个女孩在那里工作。
But those guys are cool.
但那些家伙很酷。
And plus, you talk to them.
另外，你还可以和他们交谈。
We're all talking about our jobs.
我们都在谈论我们的工作。
And it gives me ideas about-- I like to change jobs a lot.
它给了我一些想法——我非常喜欢换工作。
I like to be a total jack of all trades and bounce around.
我喜欢成为万事通，并且四处跳跃。
I can only stand a job for, like, a year or two.
我只能忍受一份工作，大概一两年。
Like, my next job, I'm going to be a truck driver.
就像，我的下一份工作，我将成为一名卡车司机。
I'm going to drive the big rigs.
我要驾驶大型钻机。
That's my dream, just drive across country completely alone, get my dog and truck, and that's it, just listen to music and just drive.
那是我的梦想，完全独自开车穿越整个国家，带着我的狗和卡车，就是这样，只是听音乐，然后开车。
This way, right?
这边走吧？
Third row?
第三排？
One, two-- he's all running.
一、二——他都在跑。
Poor guy.
可怜的家伙。
Well, our program was produced today by Blue Chevigny and myself, with Alex Blumberg, Susan Burton, and Julie Snyder.
好吧，我们今天的节目是由 Blue Chevigny 和我本人以及 Alex Blumberg、Susan Burton 和 Julie Snyder 制作的。
Contributing editors Potoff, Jack Hitt, Margy Rochlin, Alix Spiegel, Nancy Updike, and consigliere Sarah Vowell.
特约编辑 Potoff、Jack Hitt、Margy Rochlin、Alix Spiegel、Nancy Updike 和顾问 Sarah Vowell。
Production help from Todd Bachmann and Mary Wiltenburg.
托德·巴赫曼 (Todd Bachmann) 和玛丽·威尔滕伯格 (Mary Wiltenburg) 为制作提供帮助。
Music help from Mr. John Connors.
约翰·康纳斯先生的音乐帮助。
People in cars are recorded by Kerry Campbell, Bob Carlson, Elizabeth Meister, Blue Chevigny, Alex Blumberg, Kenneth Mason, and Piers Wisbey at the BBC.
BBC 的 Kerry Campbell、Bob Carlson、Elizabeth Meister、Blue Chevigny、Alex Blumberg、Kenneth Mason 和 Piers Wisbey 对车内人员进行了记录。
Jay Allison's story with his daughter, Lily, was part of his Life Stories series, which is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
杰伊·艾利森 (Jay Allison) 与女儿莉莉 (Lily) 的故事是他的生活故事系列的一部分，该系列由公共广播公司资助。
[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] To buy a cassette of this or any of our programs, call us here at WBEZ Chicago, 312-832-3380.
[致谢] 要购买本节目或我们任何节目的磁带，请致电 WBEZ 芝加哥，电话：312-832-3380。
Or you know you can listen to most of our programs for free on the internet, at our website, www.thislife.org.
或者您知道您可以在互联网上免费收听我们的大部分节目，网址为 www.thislife.org。
This American Life is distributed by Public Radio International.
《美国生活》由国际公共广播电台发行。
[FUNDING CREDITS] WBEZ management oversight by Torey Malatia, who begins every single broadcast of our program with this checklist:
[资金来源] WBEZ 管理由 Torey Malatia 负责监督，他在我们节目的每一次广播开始时都会使用以下清单：
We got the radio, we got the tapes, a couple of beers, a couple of drinks.
我们拿到了收音机、磁带、几瓶啤酒、几杯饮料。
I'm Ira Glass, back next week with more stories of This American Life .
我是艾拉·格拉斯，下周回来，带来更多《美国生活》的故事。
This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange.
《This American Life》与 WBEZ Chicago 合作制作，并由 PRX 公共广播电台传送到各电台。