169: Pursuit of Happiness - This American Life
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Prologue Ira Glass Hello.
序言 艾拉·格拉斯 你好。
It's This American Life .
这就是美国生活。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Each week on our program, of course, we choose a theme, bring you a bunch of different stories on that theme.
当然，在我们的节目中，我们每周都会选择一个主题，为您带来一系列关于该主题的不同故事。
And the best way to describe the theme of today's show is to kind of sidestep it for a minute and to begin with this story.
描述今天节目主题的最佳方式就是暂时回避它并从这个故事开始。
One of our producers here at the radio show, Blue Chevigny, was living in New York a few years ago with a woman that describes as a kind of random roommate, an aspiring actress.
我们广播节目的一位制作人 Blue Chevigny 几年前和一位女士住在纽约，她被描述为一位随意的室友，一位有抱负的女演员。
In the middle of the night one night, the phone rang.
一天深夜，电话响了。
And it was some crank caller, stalker-y kind of person.
这是一个古怪的打电话者，跟踪狂之类的人。
He'd start saying these creepy things to her.
他会开始对她说这些令人毛骨悚然的事情。
And it wasn't just a crank call, because they knew her name.
这不仅仅是一个骚扰电话，因为他们知道她的名字。
Her roommate hangs up on him, and he calls back.
她的室友挂断了他的电话，他又回了过来。
And then she tells him off, then he calls back again.
然后她斥责了他，然后他又回电话了。
And then she stops picking up the phone.
然后她就不再接电话了。
But it keeps ringing.
但它一直在响。
And it's not exactly clear what to do.
目前还不清楚该怎么做。
Middle of the night.
半夜。
So they call the police.
于是他们报了警。
Blue tells the rest of the story.
蓝色讲述了剩下的故事。
So the police come.
于是警察就来了。
They come up to our apartment.
他们来到我们的公寓。
We're on the sixth floor of a walk-up.
我们在无电梯电梯的六楼。
They come up, huffing and puffing up the stairs.
他们气喘吁吁地走上楼梯。
It's in the middle of the night.
现在是半夜。
Our apartment's a mess.
我们的公寓一团糟。
It's just strange having these strangers come into your house.
It's just strange having these strangers come into your house.
It's just cinematic and disorienting.
这只是电影和迷失方向。
I mean, they're in their cop uniforms with these guns.
我的意思是，他们穿着警察制服，拿着这些枪。
And one of them is this 40-something, heavy, balding, Italian-y looking, Sipowicz kind of guy.
And one of them is this 40-something, heavy, balding, Italian-y looking, Sipowicz kind of guy.
He looks like Detective Sipowicz from NYPD Blue, Pretty much exactly.
He looks like Detective Sipowicz from NYPD Blue, Pretty much exactly.
And then the other guy is this younger, really good-looking black guy.
And then the other guy is this younger, really good-looking black guy.
And they both just looks like they're off a TV show about the cops.
And they both just looks like they're off a TV show about the cops.
They start asking us about what's happening.
他们开始询问我们发生了什么事。
And we're explaining.
我们正在解释。
And my roommate just goes into this whole-- launches into this whole thing about how she's an actress, and people are calling her, and people get her phone number off her headshot.
我的室友就开始谈论这一切——开始谈论她如何成为一名演员，人们打电话给她，人们从她的头像中得到她的电话号码。
It's got her picture and her name and her phone number all in one place.
It's got her picture and her name and her phone number all in one place.
It's really scary.
真的很可怕。
And the young black cop says to her, "Oh, you know, I've had that experience, because I'm an actor, too." He says, "Oh, I don't do it much anymore, but, you know, I was really pretty serious about it before I became a cop."
And the young black cop says to her, "Oh, you know, I've had that experience, because I'm an actor, too." He says, "Oh, I don't do it much anymore, but, you know, I was really pretty serious about it before I became a cop."
They start talking about what it's like-- because they're both black, and young-- playing parts in plays and auditioning for things where there aren't that many parts that are interesting for black people.
他们开始谈论在戏剧中扮演角色并试镜的感觉——因为他们都是黑人，而且没有那么多黑人感兴趣的部分。
And it turns out that my roommate has played the part of Juliet in a production of Romeo and Juliet , in which she was the only black person in the play.
事实证明，我的室友在一部《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中扮演了朱丽叶，她是剧中唯一的黑人。
And that he's played the part of Romeo in a production of Romeo and Juliet where he was the only black person in the play.
And that he's played the part of Romeo in a production of Romeo and Juliet where he was the only black person in the play.
So they have this in common.
所以他们有这个共同点。
They're talking about playing Shakespeare.
他们正在谈论扮演莎士比亚。
They're having this whole kind of very insider, actor-y conversation about this.
They're having this whole kind of very insider, actor-y conversation about this.
Just out of nowhere.
就凭空出现了。
When really, looking at him, you would have just thought, cop.
When really, looking at him, you would have just thought, cop.
Meanwhile, the phone rings at some point in this conversation.
Meanwhile, the phone rings at some point in this conversation.
And so they say, pick it up.
所以他们说，拿起它。
And so my roommate picks up the phone and it's the same guy.
And so my roommate picks up the phone and it's the same guy.
And the cop that looks like Detective Sipowicz is gesturing for her to give him the phone.
And the cop that looks like Detective Sipowicz is gesturing for her to give him the phone.
So she hands him the phone.
于是她把电话递给了他。
And he gets on the phone and he says, "This is the NYPD.
And he gets on the phone and he says, "This is the NYPD.
Don't call here anymore.
不要再打电话到这里了。
If you keep calling here, we're going to trace the call and get you." He somehow indicates that they can catch him.
If you keep calling here, we're going to trace the call and get you."他以某种方式表明他们可以抓住他。
And the guy hangs up the phone.
然后那家伙就挂断了电话。
And there's no more phone calls.
而且再也没有电话了。
The guy doesn't call again.
那家伙没有再打来电话。
Ever.
曾经。
After that, basically their job is done.
之后，他们的工作基本上就完成了。
But they still-- they're just kind of hanging around, talking for a few more minutes about this acting thing.
但他们仍然——他们只是闲逛，再谈论几分钟关于表演的事情。
And then the Sipowicz cop guy says to my roommate, he says, "If you're an actress, you should send your headshot to my sister, because she's a filmmaker.
然后西波维奇警察对我的室友说，“如果你是一名演员，你应该把你的头像发给我妹妹，因为她是一名电影制片人。
She's a small independent filmmaker." And we're like, "Oh, who is she?
她是一位小型独立电影制片人。”我们就像，“哦，她是谁？
Who is she?" He's like, "Oh, well, I don't know if you would have heard of her.
她是谁？”他说，“哦，好吧，我不知道你是否听说过她。
She just makes independent films." And we're like, "Well, we like independent films.
她只是拍独立电影。”我们就像，“好吧，我们喜欢独立电影。
Who is she?" And He says, "Nancy Savoca."
她是谁？”他说：“南希·萨沃卡。”
Who's this, you know, pretty famous little independent filmmaker lady.
你知道，这位相当著名的独立电影制片人小女士是谁。
She made these movies that I had seen and that my roommate had seen-- this movie True Love that's great, and this movie Household Saints with Lili Taylor.
她拍的这些电影我和我的室友都看过——这部电影很棒，还有莉莉·泰勒主演的《家庭圣徒》。
And she's just a really cool woman filmmaker.
她是一位非常酷的女电影制片人。
And I look over at his badge and it says Detective Savoca on it.
我看了看他的徽章，上面写着萨沃卡警探。
It was just bizarre.
这太奇怪了。
It was his sister was this indie scene woman.
这个独立场景的女人就是他的妹妹。
And he's Sipowicz, you know?
他是西波维奇，你知道吗？
So it's just funny, and we're talking about that.
所以这很有趣，我们正在谈论这个。
And then the younger cop chimes in and says, "Well, your sister's not the only one who is creative in the family." And the Sipowicz guy gets all kind of sheepish and shy and is like, "Oh, no no no." And we're like, "What?" And the young cop says, "Well, you know, Detective Savoca over here-- Officer Savoca-- he just sent in his demo tape to Carole King." And we're like, "Carole King?" And I'm like as in, "I feel the earth move under my feet?" And he's like, "Yeah, yeah.
然后年轻的警察插话道：“嗯，你姐姐并不是家里唯一有创造力的人。”西波维奇那个家伙变得有点羞怯和害羞，就像，“哦，不不不。”我们就像，“什么？”年轻的警察说：“嗯，你知道，这里的萨沃卡警探——萨沃卡警官——他刚刚把他的演示磁带寄给了卡罗尔·金。”我们就像，“卡罗尔·金？”我就像在说，“我感觉到地球在我脚下移动？”他说：“是啊，是啊。
Carole King." And we're all like, "What?"
卡罗尔·金。”我们都会说，“什么？”
And I was like, "Your demo tape?
我当时想，“你的演示磁带？
Demo of what?" And he's like, "Well, I'm a singer/songwriter." And I said, "And why did you send it to Carole King?" And he says, "Well, because I really like her songs and our styles are somewhat similar." And it was just one of those things where here you are, it's 1997.
演示什么？”他说，“好吧，我是一名歌手/词曲作者。”我说：“那你为什么把它寄给卡罗尔·金？”他说：“嗯，因为我真的很喜欢她的歌，而且我们的风格有些相似。”这只是你现在所经历的事情之一，那是 1997 年。
Somebody's style, anybody's style, is still like Carole King?
某人的风格，任何人的风格，仍然像卡罗尔·金吗？
Plus it's this guy-- the most Sipowicz-looking guy you ever saw in your life?
而且这个人是你一生中见过的最像西波维奇的人？
And it was just-- it was of those things, it was totally inspiring to me.
正是这些事情，对我来说完全是鼓舞人心的。
Because it made me feel like just, as I suspected, as I hoped, it seemed that everybody was up to something extra on the side, had a secret talent or passion or interest, the secret thing that they love to do.
因为这让我觉得，正如我怀疑的那样，正如我希望的那样，似乎每个人都在做一些额外的事情，都有秘密的才能、热情或兴趣，他们喜欢做的秘密事情。
One of the odd things about the founding of the United States of America is a phrase found in the Declaration of Independence, the phrase about life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
美利坚合众国建国过程中的一件奇怪的事情是《独立宣言》中的一个短语，即关于生命、自由和追求幸福的短语。
The pursuit of happiness.
对幸福的追求。
What exactly does it mean to grow up in a country where you have an inalienable right to pursue your own happiness?
在一个你拥有追求自己幸福的不可剥夺权利的国家长大到底意味着什么？
Did Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers really mean it's OK to fill our hours making demos, sending them out to Carole King?
托马斯·杰斐逊和其他开国元勋真的意味着可以用我们的时间制作演示并将其发送给卡罗尔·金吗？
If you ask a historian who studies this sort of thing-- if you ask the historian who I asked, anyway-- it becomes clear very quickly that this is not their favorite question.
如果你问一位研究这类事情的历史学家——无论如何，如果你问我问过的历史学家——很快就会清楚这不是他们最喜欢的问题。
That seems to be the big question.
这似乎是个大问题。
Everyone asks that.
每个人都这么问。
And there is no simple answer.
没有简单的答案。
Pauline Maier is an expert on the Declaration of Independence.
波琳·迈尔是《独立宣言》的专家。
She's written a book on the Declaration of Independence.
她写了一本关于《独立宣言》的书。
And she says all anyone ever remembers or wants to talk to her about, when it comes to the Declaration of Independence, is this one phrase, the pursuit of happiness.
她说，当谈到《独立宣言》时，任何人都记得或想与她谈论的就是这句话：追求幸福。
As a people, we Americans tend to ignore everything else about this document.
作为一个民族，我们美国人往往忽视这份文件的其他一切。
Instead--
相反——
They puzzle over what does this right mean.
他们对这个权利意味着什么感到困惑。
If you have a right to trial by jury, that's pretty easy to define.
如果你有权接受陪审团审判，那就很容易定义。
But the pursuit of happiness seems somehow much more ambiguous.
但对幸福的追求似乎更加模糊。
And I suppose it is.
我想是的。
Because it is less concrete.
因为它不太具体。
It contains a promise.
它包含着一个承诺。
And almost like the kind of promise that you'd hear contained in a rock and roll song.
几乎就像你在摇滚歌曲中听到的那种承诺。
Here's one of the founding documents of the country, which includes the phrase--
这是这个国家的建国文件之一，其中包括这样一句话——
Which cares about how we feel about things in some way.
它在某种程度上关心我们对事物的感受。
The best scholarly comment on this that I've come across is by an intellectual historian named Ronald Hamowy who says, basically Jefferson left it to people to decide what gave them happiness.
我遇到过的对此问题最好的学术评论来自一位名叫罗纳德·哈莫威（Ronald Hamowy）的思想史学家，他说，基本上，杰斐逊让人们来决定什么给他们带来幸福。
Happiness is, if you think about it, an extraordinarily private thing.
如果你仔细想想，幸福是一件非常私人的事情。
What gives one person happiness is another person's discontent.
给一个人带来快乐的是另一个人的不满。
Some people love to play golf.
有些人喜欢打高尔夫球。
To me, it would be misery incarnate chasing a little white ball over all those green hills, under beating sun.
对我来说，在烈日下追逐一个小白球越过那些绿色的山丘将是痛苦的化身。
You know, it's a very private-- it's extremely private.
你知道，这是非常私密的——非常私密。
It's extremely personal.
这是非常个人化的。
And there's a kind of an assurance that you can do what gives you the kind of contentment, that it was left to individuals to decide.
而且有一种保证，你可以做让你感到满足的事情，这由个人决定。
Still, we have a puritanical streak that is also part of our heritage.
尽管如此，我们仍具有清教徒的特质，这也是我们传统的一部分。
And for a lot of us, the notion that we're going to just pursue happiness-- it seems frivolous.
对于我们很多人来说，我们只是追求幸福的想法似乎很无聊。
It lacks dignity.
它缺乏尊严。
It lacks moral seriousness.
它缺乏道德严肃性。
Today on our radio program, a defense of the American notion that there is a decency to doing something just because it makes us happy.
今天，在我们的广播节目中，我们捍卫了美国人的观念，即做某事只是因为它让我们快乐，这是一种体面的行为。
Our show, as always, from WBEZ Chicago and Public Radio International.
我们的节目一如既往地由 WBEZ 芝加哥和国际公共广播电台提供。
Today's program, The Pursuit of Happiness, in four acts.
今天的节目是《追求幸福》，共四幕。
Act One, One Man's Treasure Is Another Man's Trash.
第一幕，一个人的宝藏是另一个人的垃圾。
David Rakoff heads out with 40 strangers in the middle of the night to tour the city in a completely pointless activity.
大卫·拉科夫 (David Rakoff) 半夜与 40 个陌生人一起出发，进行毫无意义的城市游览。
Act Two, When Happiness Hurtles Downward Like Rain, in which we examine one small case in which the pursuit of happiness goes too far.
第二幕《当幸福如雨般倾泻而下》中，我们考察了一个小案例，在这个案例中，对幸福的追求太过分了。
Act Three, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.
第三幕，当爱尔兰人的眼睛在微笑时。
We ask why one certain group of New Yorkers is far more beloved-- far happier, probably-- in Chicago than they ever are back home in New York.
我们问为什么某一群纽约人在芝加哥比他们在纽约的家乡更受爱戴，或许也更幸福。
Act Four, How to Be Happy, One Man's Guide.
第四幕，如何快乐，一个人的指南。
Stay with us.
留在我们身边。
Act One, One Man's Treasure is Another Man's Trash.
第一幕，一个人的宝藏是另一个人的垃圾。
We begin this show about the pursuit of happiness with a story about an actual pursuit-- a scavenger hunt, that takes hundreds of hours to create, done for the sheer pleasure of it.
我们以一个关于实际追求的故事开始这个关于追求幸福的节目——一场寻宝游戏，花了数百个小时来创作，纯粹是为了获得乐趣。
David Rakoff left the sober peace and relative quiet of his apartment this summer for a night out with over three dozen happiness-seeking strangers.
今年夏天，大卫·拉考夫 (David Rakoff) 离开了他那安静平和、相对安静的公寓，与三打寻求幸福的陌生人一起度过了一个夜晚。
Jamie, captain of the white team, is reading the instructions to us, his five team members.
白队队长杰米正在向我们（他的五名队员）宣读指示。
Apparently, when we solve our first clue, we are to call into HQ, the nerve center, where, it seems, our progress will be plotted on a wall-sized map with push pins.
显然，当我们解决第一条线索时，我们将呼叫总部，即神经中枢，在那里，我们的进度似乎将被绘制在带有图钉的墙壁大小的地图上。
This updates your location on the master map and starts a one-hour timer.
这会更新您在主地图上的位置并启动一小时计时器。
One hour after this call, if you haven't found the next clue, you can call again for a hint.
此次通话一小时后，如果您还没有找到下一条线索，您可以再次致电寻求提示。
One hour?
一小时？
Oh my god.
我的天啊。
Half an hour after we give you the first hint you are entitled to a second hint.
在我们给您第一次提示半小时后，您有权获得第二次提示。
15 minutes after that, if you still haven't found the next clue, we tell you where it is.
15 分钟后，如果您仍然没有找到下一条线索，我们会告诉您它在哪里。
Although this scavenger hunt is called Midnight Madness, and is modeled after a 1980 movie by the same name-- a movie that Mat Laibowitz, the organizer of this event, has seen dozens, if not hundreds, of times-- it is happily only after 8:00 in the evening when all seven teams-- some 40 of us in all-- convene on the plaza in front of the World Trade Center.
尽管这场寻宝游戏被称为《午夜疯狂》，并且是根据 1980 年的同名电影改编的（本次活动的组织者马特·莱博维茨 (Mat Labowitz) 看过这部电影数十次甚至数百次），但令人高兴的是，只有晚上 8:00 后，所有七个团队（我们总共大约 40 个人）才会在世贸中心前的广场上集合。
Believe me, it will be midnight soon enough.
相信我，很快就到午夜了。
Our playing field for the evening is Manhattan, anywhere south of Houston and east of Broadway, an area which includes Wall Street, Chinatown, Little Italy and all of the Lower East Side.
我们晚上的比赛场地是曼哈顿，休斯顿以南和百老汇以东的任何地方，该地区包括华尔街、唐人街、小意大利和整个下东区。
We will move from location to location, following a series of stealthily hidden clues.
我们将沿着一系列秘密隐藏的线索从一个地点移动到另一个地点。
I joined Jamie's team because, like most people, I'd like to think of myself as being spontaneous, ready for anything, fun.
我加入杰米的团队是因为，像大多数人一样，我认为自己是自发的、准备好应对任何事情、有趣的。
It will prove to be an evening of hard-won insights.
这将是一个充满来之不易的见解的夜晚。
The first is, I am lousy at puzzles, riddles, and games, with a negative capacity to solve clues.
首先，我不擅长解谜、谜语和游戏，解决线索的能力较差。
The clue is "Three Eyebrows." You know, we're standing in a bank lobby.
线索就是《三眉》。你知道，我们正站在银行大厅。
"Three Eyebrows" turns out to be an anagram for Bowery and Hester, not some downtown picture of Frida Kahlo, as I actually suggested.
“三眉毛”原来是鲍厄里和海丝特的字谜，而不是我实际上建议的弗里达·卡罗的一些市中心照片。
It's a clue that says, "The shortest distance to this subway station is four from Union Square, five from Union Street, and five from Wall Street."
有一条线索说：“到这个地铁站的最短距离是距离联合广场四站，距离联合街五站，距离华尔街五站。”
This is actually the Delancey Street subway, not the Brooklyn Bridge stop as I posited, which is a good $6.00 cab ride out of the way.
这实际上是德兰西街地铁站，而不是我所假设的布鲁克林大桥站，乘坐出租车要花 6 美元。
Ah, there you go.
啊，就这样吧。
There you go.
就这样吧。
Very clever.
非常聪明。
Very clever.
非常聪明。
It's a picture of the Artist Formerly Known as Prince.
这是一张前称为 Prince 的艺术家的照片。
And [?
和 [？
the sighting is ?] Queen Elizabeth.
目击者是？]伊丽莎白女王。
This is a clue directing us to go to the corner of Prince and Elizabeth streets.
这是一条线索，引导我们前往王子街和伊丽莎白街的拐角处。
Even I got that.
连我都明白了。
I'm not a complete idiot.
我不是一个十足的白痴。
All told, it will be an evening of over seven hours' duration before I finally give up.
总而言之，在我最终放弃之前，这将是一个持续了七个多小时的夜晚。
My team's peregrinations will take us, both in taxis and on foot, from the World Trade Center to Bowery and Bayard, to Bowery and Hester, to the McDonald's on Canal Street, to the Brooklyn Bridge, to the Delancey Street subway, to-- you get the picture.
我的团队的旅行将带我们乘坐出租车和步行，从世界贸易中心到鲍厄里和贝亚德，到鲍厄里和赫斯特，到运河街的麦当劳，到布鲁克林大桥，到德兰西街地铁，到——你明白了。
There is anger.
有愤怒。
There is treachery.
有背叛。
And there is a fair amount of boredom.
并且有相当多的无聊。
Case in point, one particularly long stretch when all 40 of us stand around on the corner of Prince and Elizabeth for the better part of an hour, watching happy diners come and go from restaurants, gingerly nudging trash aside with our feet, unable to find the clues.
举个例子，有一段特别长的时间，我们40个人都站在Prince和Elizabeth的拐角处，足足有一个小时，看着快乐的食客从餐馆进进出出，小心翼翼地用脚把垃圾推到一边，却找不到线索。
I can just feel the puns raining from my body.
我能感觉到双关语从我的身体里倾泻而下。
As abject as this extended loitering sounds, it's not.
尽管这种长时间的徘徊听起来很卑鄙，但事实并非如此。
Some of the clues are downright beautiful.
有些线索非常漂亮。
In the Delancey Street subway, the clue was a perfect mock-up of a Transit Authority notice taped to the white wall-- the font, the paper stock, right down to the two Ms for Midnight Madness, printed in that bold white uppercase letter in a black circle that indicates a subway line.
在德兰西街地铁里，线索是贴在白墙上的交通管理局通知的完美模型——字体、纸材，甚至还有两个“Ms for Midnight Madness”，用黑色圆圈中的粗体白色大写字母打印，表示地铁线路。
Everything about it is such a flawless imitation that we walked by it three times before realizing.
它的一切都是如此完美的模仿，我们走过它三遍才意识到。
One year the game masters printed the clue in fake Chinese takeout menus and threw them around a building lobby.
有一年，游戏大师将线索印在假的中式外卖菜单上，并将其扔到大楼大厅周围。
I asked Dan Michaelson, Mat's co-game master, about his favorite moment of the night.
我向 Mat 的联合游戏大师 Dan Michaelson 询问了他当晚最喜欢的时刻。
There was a moment during the damage control when everybody was in Battery Park.
在损害控制期间，有一个时刻，每个人都在炮台公园。
So we got to see everyone at that time and walk around.
所以我们当时就见到了每个人并四处走走。
That, to me, was a really nice moment.
对我来说，那真是一个美好的时刻。
It's no great revelation that he and I might have different ideas of what constitutes a good time.
他和我对于什么是美好时光可能有不同的看法，这并不是什么伟大的启示。
People are rarely in sync.
人们很少能同步。
One person's gun safety lock is another person's abridgement of their most sacred right.
一个人的枪支安全锁是另一个人对其最神圣权利的剥夺。
One person's Barbra Streisand concert is another person's, well, Barbra Streisand concert.
一个人的芭芭拉·史翠珊演唱会就是另一个人的芭芭拉·史翠珊演唱会。
I know the moment Dan is talking about.
我知道丹所说的那一刻。
It was when we were all at the War Memorial, a starkly beautiful plaza right by the water with about a dozen huge concrete slabs, 20 feet high by 18 feet wide, engraved with the names of the young men who gave their lives for their country.
当时我们都在战争纪念馆，那是一个非常美丽的广场，就在水边，有大约十二块巨大的混凝土板，高 20 英尺，宽 18 英尺，上面刻着那些为国家献出生命的年轻人的名字。
The players walk around shining their flashlights over the tablets, looking for the names of soldiers that correspond to the clue that has been dredged up from the depths of the Hudson River.
玩家们用手电筒在平板上走来走去，寻找与从哈德逊河深处挖出的线索相对应的士兵名字。
I might agree with Dan about how nice this moment was if it was during the day.
我可能会同意丹的观点，如果是在白天，这一刻是多么美好。
But it is close to 4:00 in the morning.
但已经接近凌晨4:00了。
My brain has long since stopped functioning.
我的大脑早已停止运转。
My feet hurt.
我的脚受伤了。
I am tired.
我累了。
And I am very, very cranky.
我非常非常暴躁。
Rats scurry through the bushes nearby.
老鼠在附近的灌木丛中乱窜。
Mosquitoes buzz about our ears, their thoraxes no doubt full of West Nile virus.
蚊子在我们耳边嗡嗡作响，它们的胸部无疑充满了西尼罗河病毒。
Just then, Jamie runs into a friend of his.
就在这时，杰米遇到了他的一个朋友。
This friend is not part of our game.
这位朋友不属于我们的游戏。
I'll let you in on something.
我会让你知道一件事。
If you are a gay man walking through a dark New York City park at 3:30 in the morning, there is a reason for it.
如果你是一名同性恋者，凌晨 3:30 穿过黑暗的纽约市公园，那么这是有原因的。
And that reason is not so you will run into someone you know.
而这个原因并不是让你会遇到你认识的人。
In fact, the last person you want to run into is someone you know.
事实上，你最不想遇到的人就是你认识的人。
Actually, the second last person you want to run into is someone you know.
事实上，你倒数第二个想遇到的人是你认识的人。
The very last person you want to run into is someone you know accompanied by dozens of jolly amateur sleuths.
你最不想遇到的人是你认识的人，身边还有几十个快乐的业余侦探。
With flashlights.
带手电筒。
Jamie's friend beats a hasty retreat.
杰米的朋友仓促撤退。
My co-Encyclopedia Browns go back to parsing the tombstones while I, in turn, come upon my second insight of the evening.
我的百科全书布朗夫妇回去解析墓碑，而我则得到了当晚的第二个见解。
I am no fun, no fun at all.
我不好玩，一点乐趣都没有。
Or perhaps I'm just a different kind of fun.
或者也许我只是一种不同的乐趣。
I decide to follow my own bliss-- the bliss of the quitter, the killjoy, the pill.
我决定追随自己的幸福——戒烟者的幸福、扫兴的幸福、服药的幸福。
Emerging from the park, I hail a cab.
从公园出来，我叫了一辆出租车。
Hurtling through the deserted canyons of the Wall Street area, I settle back into the seat of the taxi.
穿过华尔街地区荒凉的峡谷，我坐回出租车的座位上。
I'm on my way home to bed.
我正在回家睡觉的路上。
And for almost the first time that evening, I feel happy.
那天晚上我几乎第一次感到高兴。
David Rakoff.
大卫·拉考夫.
[MUSIC - "EVERYBODY'S GONNA BE HAPPY" BY THE KINKS]
[音乐 - THE KINKS 的《每个人都会幸福》]
Act Two, When Happiness Hurtles Down Like Rain from Heaven.
第二幕，当幸福像雨一样从天而降。
Back when Thomas Jefferson wrote the phrase "pursuit of happiness" into the Declaration of Independence, the phrase was kind of knocking around.
当托马斯·杰斐逊（Thomas Jefferson）将“追求幸福”写入《独立宣言》时，这句话颇为流行。
People used it.
人们使用了它。
And one of the ideas that it referred to was the notion that people would find happiness when they did things for the common good, teamed together for everybody's well being.
它所提到的想法之一是，当人们为了共同利益而做事，为了每个人的福祉而团结在一起时，他们就会找到幸福。
A very democratic idea.
一个非常民主的想法。
In modern times we rarely hear the word used this way, the phrase used this way.
现代我们很少听到这样使用的词、这样使用的短语。
If anything, when we talk about people pursuing happiness, they're pursuing their own happiness, sometimes at the expense of others.
如果有的话，当我们谈论人们追求幸福时，他们是在追求自己的幸福，有时是以牺牲他人为代价的。
We have this short story from Thomas Beller about one of the smallest possible examples of this more selfish kind of pursuit, of how we go from the innocently amusing of ourselves to less innocent activities.
托马斯·贝勒（Thomas Beller）写的这个短篇故事讲述了这种更自私的追求的最小可能例子之一，讲述了我们如何从天真的自娱自乐转向不那么天真的活动。
Alex Fader grew up in an apartment on the 14th floor of a large, prewar building that took up an entire block of Riverside Drive.
亚历克斯·法德 (Alex Fader) 在一栋战前大型建筑 14 楼的一套公寓里长大，该建筑占据了河滨大道 (Riverside Drive) 的整个街区。
From his bedroom window, which looked north, he could see a broad patch of sky, the tops of buildings, a multitude of wooden water towers.
透过卧室朝北的窗户，他可以看到广阔的天空、高楼大厦的顶部和众多的木制水塔。
And off to the left, visible only if he pressed his cheek to the window pane, the Hudson River.
左边是哈德逊河，只有当他把脸贴在窗玻璃上时才能看到。
The view that most fascinated him, however, was the one to be had by looking directly down.
然而，最让他着迷的景色是直接向下看时看到的景色。
Once when he was six, he suddenly rose from his bath, opened the narrow bathroom window above it, and leaned out.
有一次，六岁的时候，他突然从浴缸里站起来，打开上面狭窄的浴室窗户，探身出去。
He balanced on his wet stomach, arms and legs outstretched like Superman, contemplating what it would be like to take the plunge, and if his life so far had contained enough satisfaction so that it could now reasonably come to a close.
他在湿漉漉的肚子上保持平衡，像超人一样伸展双臂和双腿，思考着冒险尝试会是什么样子，以及如果他的生活到目前为止已经包含了足够的满足感，那么现在就可以合理地结束了。
He stayed teetering on the window sill, looking at the distant pavement below, trying to imagine what it would feel like to land there and what he would be thinking during those thrilling seconds of flight.
他在窗台上摇摇欲坠，看着下面远处的人行道，试图想象降落在那里的感觉，以及在飞行的那几秒钟的惊心动魄的时刻他会想什么。
Half his body felt the moist familiarity of the bathroom.
他的半个身子都感受到了浴室湿润的熟悉感。
And the other half, wet and gleaming like a dolphin, hung in the cold air of the unknown.
而另一半，湿漉漉的，像海豚一样闪闪发光，悬挂在未知的寒冷空气中。
Then a faint curiosity as to what would happen after his fall-- the ensuing hours and days, the circuit itself.
然后，我对他摔倒后会发生什么产生了一丝好奇——接下来的几个小时和几天，以及赛道本身。
He pictured himself in a steaming heap on the concrete below, and a few minutes later, his parents would be staring confusedly at the bathtub, full of murky water but empty of him.
他想象自己在下面的混凝土上冒着热气，几分钟后，他的父母会困惑地盯着浴缸，浴缸里充满了浑浊的水，但空无他。
The image of his parents trying to make sense of the empty bath was amusing at first but then became unpleasant.
他的父母试图理解空浴室的形象一开始很有趣，但后来变得不愉快。
With the same entranced conviction with which he had got up on the ledge, he got down, closed the window, and resumed his bath.
他怀着与站在窗台上时一样的出神入迷的信念，下了楼，关上窗户，继续洗澡。
Having decided he would not throw his body out the window, he began throwing smaller, less valuable objects.
在决定不再将自己的身体扔出窗外后，他开始扔较小、较不值钱的物体。
First, a cracker.
首先，一块饼干。
It went spinning out the window and out of sight and its absence seemed profound.
它旋转着出了窗外，消失在视线之外，它的消失似乎是深远的。
Next were water balloons, whose wobbly downward trajectory he always monitored until they hit the ground, after which the small figure of the doorman would appear hustling out onto the wet pavement, looking up.
接下来是水气球，他总是监视着它们摇摇晃晃的向下轨迹，直到它们落地，之后门卫的小身影就会出现在潮湿的人行道上，抬起头来。
Alex loved the sight of this tiny figure, so formidable in real life, appearing on the sidewalk.
亚历克斯喜欢看到这个在现实生活中如此强大的小人物出现在人行道上。
But in watching from above, he was usually spotted from below.
但从上方观看时，他通常是从下方被发现的。
Things were different at his friend Walker's apartment.
他朋友沃克的公寓里的情况有所不同。
Walker lived a few blocks south of Alex on Riverside Drive, also on the 14th floor.
沃克住在亚历克斯以南几个街区的河滨大道上，也在 14 楼。
They were 10, and new best friends.
他们当时10岁，是新的最好的朋友。
And Walker was constantly surprising him with new and interesting ways to express malice.
沃克不断地用新的、有趣的方式来表达恶意，让他感到惊讶。
With regard to throwing things out the window, it was Walker who introduced the idea of a human target.
关于将东西扔出窗外，沃克提出了人类目标的想法。
The windows of Walker's apartment all looked out over the Hudson River, and directly below was a broad, lonely patch of sidewalk onto which people arrived like actors walking onto a stage.
沃克公寓的窗户都可以看到哈德逊河，正下方是一条宽阔而孤独的人行道，人们像演员走上舞台一样来到这里。
They would stand perched at Walker's kitchen window, both holding onto a pot full of water balanced on the ledge, waiting for a suitable victim.
他们会站在沃克厨房的窗户旁，手里拿着一盆装满水的锅，平衡地放在窗台上，等待合适的受害者。
They once observed an attractive young woman walking briskly, with a bouquet of flowers in her hands, towards a man who was standing with several suitcases around him, as though waiting for a taxi, right beneath their window.
有一次，他们看到一位漂亮的年轻女子手里拿着一束鲜花，轻快地走向一名男子，这名男子身边提着几个手提箱，就站在他们的窗下，好像在等出租车。
He was a perfect victim.
他是一个完美的受害者。
They were about to douse the man with water, but it looked like something incredibly romantic was about to occur, some long awaited reunion.
他们正要把水浇在这个男人身上，但看起来有些难以置信的浪漫即将发生，一场期待已久的重聚。
And Alex and Walker instinctively held back and watched.
亚历克斯和沃克本能地退缩并观看。
The woman had a strapless top on.
那个女人穿着一件无肩带上衣。
And even from the distance of 14 floors, Alex could make out the subtle jump of her shoulder muscles and the tremulous softness of her breasts as they bounced up and down with each step.
即使隔着 14 层楼的距离，亚历克斯也能分辨出她肩部肌肉的微妙跳跃，以及每一步上下跳动的乳房颤抖的柔软度。
The flowers had delicate pink petals.
花朵有精致的粉红色花瓣。
The man with the suitcases stared at her as she approached with bold strides.
当她大步走近时，提着行李箱的男人盯着她。
His body was still and unmoving, his gaze fixed.
他的身子一动不动，目光一动不动。
He was oblivious to everything else in the world but her.
除了她，他已经忘记了世界上的一切。
She walked right up to him and bashed him in the face with the bouquet, a violent forehand smash.
她径直走到他面前，用花束猛烈地正手击打他的脸。
The petals scattered like confetti.
花瓣像五彩纸屑一样散落开来。
Then, without missing a beat, she turned on her heel and stomped back in the direction she had come, still clutching the considerably less flowery bouquet.
然后，她一刻不停地转身，朝来时的方向跺着脚走回去，手里还抓着那束花色少得多的花束。
The man just stood there.
男人只是站在那里。
Alex and Walker were so transfixed by this scene they forgot to pour water on him.
亚历克斯和沃克被这一幕惊呆了，他们忘了给他倒水。
Other people were less fortunate.
其他人就没那么幸运了。
Alex and Walker would stand guard at the kitchen window until someone appeared on Riverside Drive.
亚历克斯和沃克会在厨房的窗户处站岗，直到有人出现在河滨大道上。
There would be time to size up the target-- gait, posture, clothes.
会有时间来确定目标——步态、姿势、衣服。
At a certain ideal moment, the water would fall forward from their pot in one solid translucent mass and then split in half, and then in half again, and again, so that what started as a single glob on the 14th floor ended as a thousand pellets of water on the ground.
在某个理想的时刻，水会从罐子里向前落下，形成一个固体半透明的团块，然后分成两半，然后再分成两半，然后再分成两半，这样，14 楼上开始的一团水最终变成了地面上的一千颗水粒。
The pale pavement darkened, and the victim became completely still.
苍白的路面变暗了，受害者变得一动不动。
This momentary freeze was, for some reason, the most delicious part.
出于某种原因，这种短暂的冻结是最美味的部分。
There was one set of victims who stayed in Alex's mind for a long time afterwards.
事后，有一组受害者在亚历克斯的脑海中留下了很长一段时间。
A little girl wearing a pink coat, white stockings, and shiny black shoes ambled down the sunny street a half step behind her mother.
一个小女孩穿着粉红色的外套、白色的丝袜和闪亮的黑色鞋子，在阳光明媚的街道上慢步走在母亲身后半步。
She looked as if she were on her way either to or from a party.
她看上去就像是在去参加聚会或从聚会结束的路上。
She walked with unsteady steps and her mother walked beside her, looking down and talking, but also giving the girl her independence.
她步履蹒跚，母亲走在她身边，低头说话，同时也给了女孩独立的空间。
They were two small objects alone on the sidewalk.
它们只是人行道上的两个小物体。
The water hit the ground in a great hissing mass and they froze like everyone else.
水流落在地面上，发出巨大的嘶嘶声，他们像其他人一样被冻住了。
But in the several seconds between the pour and the splatter, as Alex watched the water fragment and descend, a tremendous pang of regret leapt up in his stomach instead of the more familiar thrill.
但在倾倒和溅出之间的几秒钟内，当亚历克斯看着水碎裂并落下时，他的胃里升起一阵巨大的悔恨，而不是更熟悉的兴奋。
As he watched the jerky, awkward expressiveness of the little girl walking beneath the water's widening net, he understood that there was a small corrupting moment about to take place.
当他看到小女孩在水网不断扩大的情况下行走时，表情生涩、尴尬，他明白，一个小小的腐化时刻即将发生。
One kid introducing another to the random world of fate and bad luck.
一个孩子向另一个孩子介绍了命运和厄运的随机世界。
[MUSIC - "RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD" BY BJ THOMAS]
[音乐 - BJ THOMAS 的“雨滴不断落在我的头上”]
Thomas Beller reading from his novel The Sleep-Over Artist .
托马斯·贝勒正在朗读他的小说《过夜艺术家》。
Coming up, a second story about New York cops, which'll show you another side of them that you have also never imagined.
接下来是关于纽约警察的第二个故事，它将向您展示他们从未想象过的另一面。
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。
It's This American Life.
这就是美国生活。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Each week on our program, of course, we choose some theme.
当然，每周我们的节目都会选择一些主题。
Today's program, The Pursuit of Happiness.
今天的节目是《追求幸福》。
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but in the years since Thomas Jefferson declared that it was our inalienable right to pursue happiness, we have pursued it about as aggressively as any group of people could.
也许这只是一个巧合，但自从托马斯·杰斐逊宣布追求幸福是我们不可剥夺的权利以来，这些年来，我们一直在尽可能积极地追求幸福。
We invent pointless, time-wasting activities like no place else does-- the television industry, all manner of extreme sports, Nerf equipment.
我们发明了其他地方没有的毫无意义、浪费时间的活动——电视行业、各种极限运动、Nerf 设备。
We are the world's biggest proponents of the idea of just hitting the road and starting a new life if the old one does not suit you.
我们是世界上最大的拥护者，主张如果旧的生活不适合您，就上路并开始新的生活。
We perpetually create new ways to have fun.
我们不断创造新的娱乐方式。
Which is sort of the subject of the next act of today's show.
这就是今天节目下一幕的主题。
Act Three, When Irish Eyes are Smiling.
第三幕，当爱尔兰人的眼睛在微笑时。
Every year the Emerald Society, an association of Irish Chicago police officers, flies in policemen from New York City for Chicago's two big Saint Patrick's Day parades.
每年，爱尔兰芝加哥警察协会翡翠协会都会从纽约市派出警察参加芝加哥的两次大型圣帕特里克节游行。
Every year they are met by a group of South Side women.
每年他们都会遇到一群南区的妇女。
This American Life producer Julie Snyder tells the story.
《美国生活》制片人朱莉·斯奈德讲述了这个故事。
There are two main Irish cop bars in Chicago.
芝加哥有两家主要的爱尔兰警察酒吧。
One is called Dugan's in the not-so-Irish neighborhood of Greektown.
其中一家名叫杜根店（Dugan’s），位于希腊城（Greektown）这个不太爱尔兰化的社区。
The other is the not-so-Irish-named Ira's, located in Chicago's 12th police district.
另一个是爱尔兰式的 Ira’s，位于芝加哥第 12 警区。
And normally these bars are pretty tame, filled mainly with men watching sports on the overhead TVs.
通常情况下，这些酒吧都相当简陋，里面主要坐着在头顶电视上观看体育比赛的男人。
But on the Saturday of Saint Patrick's Day weekend, everything changes.
但在圣帕特里克节周末的星期六，一切都发生了变化。
The bars are filled with women, who are there for the New York City police officers, who are there for the women, who are there because they get to act in a way they never normally act.
酒吧里挤满了女人，她们是为了纽约市警察而存在的，她们是为了女性而存在的，她们之所以存在，是因为她们可以以一种平时从未有过的方式行事。
Normally, you wouldn't make out in a bar.
通常情况下，你们不会在酒吧里亲热。
Especially at our age, we're too old for that.
尤其是在我们这个年纪，我们已经太老了。
But by 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 in the afternoon, sure.
但是下午 4:00、5:00、6:00 之前，当然可以。
You can give somebody a big smooch at the bar.
你可以在酒吧给某人一个大大的吻。
That's totally acceptable that weekend.
那个周末这是完全可以接受的。
Kelly [?
凯莉[?
Farider ?] is a waitress at Dugan's, and she's the person who originally told me about the New York City cops coming to Chicago.
法里德？]是杜根餐厅的一名女服务员，她是最初告诉我纽约市警察来到芝加哥的人。
But when I called her recently to find out more, she said she'd really have to take me to the source.
但当我最近打电话给她了解更多信息时，她说她真的必须带我去找源头。
So we got together one night in Tammy [?
所以我们在塔米聚在一起的一个晚上[？
Tanzillo's ?] living room, surrounded by police paraphernalia-- policeman's hats, shirts, photographs.
坦齐洛的？]客厅，周围都是警察用具——警察的帽子、衬衫、照片。
Tammy is 40-ish, completely beautiful, and is an attorney for the state of Illinois.
塔米 40 岁左右，非常漂亮，是伊利诺伊州的一名律师。
She is also the original New York police groupie.
她也是最初的纽约警察追星族。
It all started about 13 or 14 years ago.
这一切都始于大约13或14年前。
At the time, Tammy knew a lot of Chicago cops because she trained supervisors in the police department.
当时，塔米认识很多芝加哥警察，因为她在警察局培训过主管。
And one Friday night, like most Friday nights, she went to Dugan's after she got off work.
一个周五晚上，就像大多数周五晚上一样，她下班后去了杜根家。
And one of the cops that I knew was there, and he had a bunch of guys with him.
我认识的一位警察也在场，他身边还有一群人。
No one was in uniform or anything.
没有人穿着制服或任何东西。
And he said, "I have a favor to ask you." And I said, "What?" I just got done with work, I had-- this was at least 12 years ago, I had on those big beetle glasses and a stupid plaid skirt.
他说：“我有件事想拜托你。”我说：“什么？”我刚刚完成工作，我——这至少是 12 年前的事了，我戴着那些大甲虫眼镜和一条愚蠢的格子裙。
I looked more like a school teacher than anything else.
我看起来更像是一名学校老师。
Which isn't a bad thing but not in that circumstance.
这并不是一件坏事，但不是在那种情况下。
Anyway.
反正。
So he said, "I need you to help me out." I said, "What do you need?" He said, "Well, I've got this group of 12 New York policemen here, that are here for the weekend for the parades, and I was hoping you could help me to entertain them." And I said, "Whoa.
于是他说：“我需要你帮我。”我说：“你需要什么？”他说：“嗯，我这里有 12 名纽约警察，他们周末来这里参加游行，我希望你能帮我招待他们。”我说：“哇。
Hold on a minute here.
请稍等一下。
What do you mean by entertain?"
你说的娱乐是什么意思？”
And he said, "Seriously, you're a lot of fun to hang out with.
他说：“说真的，和你在一起很有趣。
Just have a few beers and keep them company and talk to them.
只需喝几杯啤酒，陪伴他们并与他们交谈即可。
I can't talk to them all myself." So I begrudgingly said yes.
我自己无法与他们所有人交谈。”于是我勉强答应了。
Well, we had so much fun that from that day on, I was glued to them.
嗯，我们玩得很开心，从那天起，我就粘在他们身上了。
The first year, there were 12 guys brought by the Emerald Society into Chicago.
第一年，翡翠协会将 12 个人带到了芝加哥。
By this past year, it had grown to 160 men and women from the New York City police department to march in the Saint Patrick's Day parades.
截至去年，纽约市警察局参加圣帕特里克节游行的男女人数已增至 160 人。
And it's no wonder they come.
他们来也就不足为奇了。
They're feted at the parades, at parties thrown in their honor, and at the local bars.
他们在游行、为纪念他们而举办的派对上以及当地的酒吧里受到款待。
They're kept on an itinerary that seems completely geared toward making the police officers feel like kings and queens.
他们的行程似乎完全是为了让警察们感觉自己像国王和王后。
They are ready to go from the minute that they are feted at Chicago.
从在芝加哥受到招待的那一刻起，他们就做好了出发的准备。
And that's why a little bit they are followed around.
这就是为什么他们会受到一些人的关注。
And there are young ladies that-- I think the word is on the street that they're coming to town.
还有一些年轻女士——我想街上有消息说她们要进城了。
I've gotten to be more of a mother figure to some of these guys.
对于其中一些人来说，我更像是一个母亲的形象。
I mean, there's a drill.
我的意思是，有一个演习。
When I show up at the parade, I see them, and I say, make sure that you take your shields off.
当我出现在游行中时，我看到他们，我说，确保摘下盾牌。
Make sure that you keep your uniform.
确保保留制服。
Make sure that you stay with the group.
确保您留在团队中。
Make sure that you don't give away your collar brass too early, because it's going to go up in stock as the weekend goes by.
确保你不要太早送出你的项圈黄铜，因为随着周末的过去，它的库存会增加。
OK.
好的。
A quick explanation.
快速解释一下。
The officers have to take off their shields, or their badges, because the New York Police Department doesn't officially sanction their trip to Chicago.
警察必须摘下盾牌或徽章，因为纽约警察局没有正式批准他们前往芝加哥。
They have to watch their clothes-- their hats, their jackets, their shirts-- because as the drinking continues, and as the flirting continues, women are constantly taking their things and trying them on.
她们必须注意自己的衣服——帽子、夹克、衬衫——因为随着饮酒的继续，随着调情的继续，女人会不断地拿走自己的东西并试穿。
One year, when the weekend was over, Tammy had to FedEx one of the $300 uniform jackets back to a New York precinct.
有一年，周末结束后，塔米不得不通过联邦快递将其中一件价值 300 美元的制服夹克寄回纽约的一个辖区。
Everybody, all the women especially, are vying for the collar brass.
每个人，尤其是所有女性，都在争夺领子黄铜。
And I'll show you what that is.
我会告诉你那是什么。
Now I have a box about the size of a shoe box full of little numbers.
现在我有一个鞋盒大小的盒子，里面装满了小数字。
And I couldn't find it, but I did find this little one.
我找不到它，但我确实找到了这个小东西。
And this is what they are.
这就是他们的本质。
As you can see, they're just about short of an inch high and, depending upon the letter, about an inch long.
正如您所看到的，它们的高度约为一英寸，长度约为一英寸，具体取决于字母。
But that says two four, that'd be the two four.
但那说的是二四，那就是二四。
That'd be the 24th precinct in New York.
那是纽约的第 24 个分局。
I mean, it becomes a real clothes fest.
我的意思是，这变成了一场真正的服装盛宴。
Well, I'm showing you some of the pictures of what I look like by the end of the night.
好吧，我给你看一些我当晚结束时的照片。
You know, I mean, that guy's getting a little frisky there.
你知道，我的意思是，那家伙有点活跃。
And there was one in here where I was looking really like I was having a good time for a long time.
这里有一个地方，我看起来真的很开心很长一段时间。
There we go.
我们开始吧。
You're in a police officer's shirt and hat--
你穿着警察的衬衫，戴着警察的帽子——
That's just not a shirt, that would be a sergeant's shirt.
那不是衬衫，那是中士的衬衫。
Sorry.
对不起。
The sergeant's shirt.
中士的衬衫。
Now are these all the pictures you have, or do you have more than this?
这些是您拥有的所有照片，还是您还有更多照片？
Oh, no, I have tons and tons of pictures.
哦，不，我有很多很多的照片。
In fact, they'll send pictures.
事实上，他们会发送照片。
This is a picture of Mike, who is the person that now is still coordinating the trip.
这是迈克的照片，他现在仍在协调这次旅行。
And you can tell he's having a good time-- big smile on his face, cute young lady sitting on his lap.
你可以看出他玩得很开心——他脸上挂着灿烂的笑容，可爱的年轻女士坐在他的腿上。
And Brian.
还有布莱恩。
Who's Brian?
布莱恩是谁？
Tammy Brian is the police officer that I met the first year that they had the group here, that I probably will always have a little bit of a crush on.
塔米·布莱恩 (Tammy Brian) 是我在他们在这里成立第一年遇到的警官，我可能永远都会有点迷恋她。
But then there's Joey.
但还有乔伊。
This weekend, Saint Patrick's Day weekend, is not really Tammy's actual life.
这个周末，即圣帕特里克节周末，并不是塔米真正的生活。
She's a grown up, an attorney who's now in a long-term relationship.
她已经长大了，是一名律师，现在已经建立了长期的合作关系。
But that's the beauty of it all with the New York cops, because none of it is real.
但这就是纽约警察的美妙之处，因为这一切都不是真实的。
Tammy says that all normal, real-life ways of dating don't apply that weekend.
塔米说所有正常的、现实生活中的约会方式都不适用于那个周末。
How many romances do you think that you've had through the Saint Patrick's Day weekends?
您认为您在圣帕特里克节周末经历了多少次浪漫？
During this pause, I can't tell if Tammy's deciding whether to answer the question or counting.
在这段停顿期间，我不知道塔米是在决定是回答问题还是数数。
I think I have to protect the innocent here.
我想我必须保护这里的无辜者。
I have taken a shine to a few gentlemen over the years, but always realizing that-- I've had a guy come back over the past couple of years that I've enjoyed some time with.
这些年来，我对一些绅士很感兴趣，但总是意识到——在过去的几年里，我有一个人回来了，我和他一起度过了一段愉快的时光。
But I'm seeing someone now, so-- you know, your life doesn't stop.
但我现在正在和某人约会，所以——你知道，你的生活不会停止。
Once, when Tammy was dating someone and Saint Patrick's Day was coming up, she told her boyfriend that he may not be seeing much of her that weekend, that maybe it was a good time for him to go on a short, three-day vacation to Wisconsin.
有一次，当塔米和某人约会时，圣帕特里克节即将到来，她告诉男友，那个周末他可能不会经常见到她，也许这是他去威斯康星州度三天短暂假期的好时机。
She says the following year she didn't even have to ask him to leave.
她说第二年她甚至不需要要求他离开。
He just knew.
他刚刚知道。
All of this might come as a surprise to the citizens of New York City where, to put it mildly, these same New York cops don't get this kind of adulation.
所有这一切可能会让纽约市的市民感到惊讶，温和地说，这些纽约警察并没有得到这种奉承。
Like they say, nobody's a prophet in his own land.
正如他们所说，在自己的土地上没有人是先知。
Even Tammy, who started a website called NYPD Love, can't explain what makes them seem so larger than life.
即使塔米（Tammy）创建了一个名为“NYPD Love”的网站，也无法解释是什么让它们看起来如此伟大。
Tammy comes from a whole Chicago law enforcement family.
塔米来自整个芝加哥执法家庭。
She says she loves Chicago cops, but the New York police feel different and special.
她说她喜欢芝加哥警察，但纽约警察感觉与众不同且特别。
Maybe out here in the Second City, the NYPD gets respect because they seem like the real police, the police we see on TV, the police who just sound like police.
也许在第二城，纽约警察局受到尊重，因为他们看起来像真正的警察，我们在电视上看到的警察，只是听起来像警察的警察。
I think it's something about those accents.
我认为这与那些口音有关。
Oh, their New York accents?
哦，他们的纽约口音？
Tammy Yeah.
塔米 是的。
It's so real.
太真实了。
It's so real.
太真实了。
I mean, they sound so genuine.
我的意思是，他们听起来很真诚。
And most of them really are.
他们中的大多数确实是。
To put all this in context, this happens in the Irish part of Chicago's South Side, where lots of people have cops as family and friends.
结合上下文来看，这种情况发生在芝加哥南区的爱尔兰地区，那里很多人都有警察作为家人和朋友。
During a weekend when the whole neighborhood turns itself over to one big party, the main event is the South Side Saint Paddy's Parade on Sunday.
在周末，整个社区都会举办一场大型派对，其中最主要的活动是周日的南区圣帕迪游行。
The parade route on Western Avenue is lined with dingy little Irish bars, the sidewalks are clogged, backyard parties are thrown-- even some with those big white tents-- and you'll hear this song sung over and over and over.
西大街的游行路线两旁都是肮脏的爱尔兰小酒吧，人行道被堵塞，后院举办派对——甚至有些还带着白色的大帐篷——你会听到这首歌一遍又一遍地唱。
[SINGING] "Oh we're the South Side Irish like our fathers were before.
[唱歌]“哦，我们是南边爱尔兰人，就像我们的父辈以前一样。
We come from the Windy City and we're Irish to the core.
我们来自风城，我们是彻头彻尾的爱尔兰人。
From Bridgeport to Beverly, from Midway to South Shore, oh, we're the South Side Irish," and then it goes on and on and on.
从布里奇波特到贝弗利，从中途岛到南岸，哦，我们是南边爱尔兰人，”然后它一直持续下去。
You know that song.
你知道那首歌。
I couldn't even have sung it.
我什至都无法唱出来。
And I've heard that about 10,000 times.
我已经听过大约一万次了。
It's even on the jukebox, actually, in a lot of neighborhood pubs.
实际上，在很多附近的酒吧里，它甚至在自动点唱机上也有。
And most people, in fact, growing up on the South Side with everybody going to the parade, a lot of people know that they're not going to work Monday.
事实上，大多数人在南区长大，每个人都去参加游行，很多人都知道他们周一不会工作。
They're not kidding themselves, so they take the day off.
他们不是在开玩笑，所以他们请了一天假。
And growing up out there, it can sort of be a family event too.
在外面长大，这也可以是一个家庭活动。
Because people's parents, they know you go to the parade, but they're going to have dinner waiting back at the house.
因为人们的父母，他们知道你去参加游行，但他们会在家里等你吃晚饭。
So you come back, eat dinner.
所以你回来了，吃晚饭吧。
You go to so-and-so's aunt's.
你去某某的姨妈家。
I mean, there's a lot of-- I guess it's kind of like Christmas without the presents, but then a lot more beer.
我的意思是，有很多——我想这有点像没有礼物的圣诞节，但还有更多的啤酒。
Or maybe like New Year's Eve, I suggest.
或者也许像除夕夜，我建议。
Tammy and Kelly both say, no, it's way better.
塔米和凯利都说，不，这样好多了。
There's no pressure to look your best, or have the right date or do something significant to mark another year.
没有压力去展现自己最好的一面，或者有合适的约会对象，或者做一些有意义的事情来纪念新的一年。
The great thing about Saint Patrick's Day, they tell me, is that it's not really about anything.
他们告诉我，圣帕特里克节的伟大之处在于，它实际上与任何事情无关。
So you can make it into whatever you want.
所以你可以把它变成你想要的任何东西。
This American Life senior producer Julie Snyder.
这位《美国生活》资深制片人朱莉·斯奈德。
[MUSIC - "SOUTH SIDE IRISH" BY THE IRISH CHOIR]
[音乐 - 爱尔兰合唱团的《南边爱尔兰》]
Act Four, How to be Happy, One Man's Guide.
第四幕，如何快乐，一个人的指南。
Finding happiness is serious business.
寻找幸福是一件严肃的事情。
Or it can be.
或者也可以。
I think for many of us, it requires an act of will.
我认为对于我们许多人来说，这需要意志的行动。
Nancy Updike tells this story of somebody who decided to turn something that made him unhappy into the opposite.
南希·厄普代克讲述了一个故事，讲述了一个人决定将让他不开心的事情变成相反的事情。
Marcus Johnson runs a boxing gym on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles and he's a great teacher.
马库斯·约翰逊在洛杉矶圣莫尼卡大道经营一家拳击馆，他是一位出色的老师。
To explain what makes him so good, let me ask you a question.
为了解释他为何如此优秀，让我问你一个问题。
Have you ever had a parent try to teach you a sport?
你曾经有过父母试图教你一项运动吗？
Where they push you way too hard and you can see them getting more and more frustrated and disappointed.
当他们把你逼得太紧时，你会发现他们变得越来越沮丧和失望。
And on the inside you give up, but on the outside you keep going.
内心深处你会放弃，但外表上你会继续前进。
And they keep going too.
他们也继续前进。
And both of you just end up miserable.
你们俩最终都会很痛苦。
Marcus is the opposite of that.
马库斯则恰恰相反。
He's like a good date, where everything feels both easy and serious at the same time.
他就像一个很好的约会对象，一切都感觉既轻松又严肃。
He's always paying attention, always murmuring directions and encouragement.
他总是在关注，总是低声指导和鼓励。
Don't raise up, squat down.
不要站起来，蹲下来。
Step.
步。
Step.
步。
There you go.
就这样吧。
Step.
步。
There you go.
就这样吧。
All of Marcus's clients are adults, except this one, who's the son of a friend.
马库斯的所有客户都是成年人，除了这位朋友的儿子。
Josh is 11 and this is his first lesson.
乔什 11 岁，这是他的第一堂课。
Josh is, frankly, adorable.
坦率地说，乔希很可爱。
He has big brown eyes, dark curly hair, and dimples when he smiles.
他有一双棕色的大眼睛，深色卷发，微笑时有酒窝。
And he's making a very common beginner's mistake, which is starting his punches from way too far back, telegraphing his every move.
他犯了一个非常常见的初学者错误，即从太远的位置开始出拳，从而显示出他的每一个动作。
Marcus keeps telling Josh he has to be quicker and throw shorter punches.
马库斯不断告诉乔什，他必须更快，出拳更短。
Finally Marcus just starts moving the pads away before Josh can hit them, to show him what can happen with too big a wind-up.
最后，马库斯开始在乔什击打垫子之前将垫子移开，向他展示如果发条太大会发生什么。
It's not fair.
这不公平。
Marcus Johnson Come on, you keep putting your hands back, you're letting me know.
马库斯·约翰逊：得了吧，你一直把手放回去，你让我知道了。
You've got to be quick.
你必须快点。
From right there.
从那里开始。
Come on.
快点。
That's how it's got to be.
事情就是这样的。
This tastes like I just had a Fruit Roll-up.
这尝起来就像我刚刚吃了一个水果卷。
Did you catch that?
你明白了吗？
Josh made a face and said, "It tastes like I just had a Fruit Roll-up."
乔什做了个鬼脸，说道：“尝起来就像我刚刚吃了一个水果卷。”
What did that come from?
那是从何而来？
A Fruit Roll-up?
水果卷？
I don't know.
我不知道。
Marcus Johnson Boxers are supposed to-- Boxers are not supposed to be--
马库斯·约翰逊拳击手应该——拳击手不应该——
[LAUGHTER] Nancy Updike The two of them had a ball and Josh visibly improved over the course of just an hour.
[笑声] 南希·厄普代克 他们两个玩得很开心，乔希在短短一个小时的时间里有了明显的进步。
He relaxed, which is the hardest part of boxing.
他放松了，这是拳击中最难的部分。
And then something really sad happened.
然后发生了一件非常悲伤的事情。
After Josh was finished, his father walked over.
乔希说完后，他的父亲走了过来。
He'd been on his cell phone in the back of the gym the whole time.
他一直在健身房后面玩手机。
And he started making Josh do these special tough-guy push-ups, something about keeping your butt in the air and only lowering your chest to the floor.
他开始让乔什做这些特殊的硬汉俯卧撑，将你的屁股保持在空中，只将你的胸部降低到地板上。
And then push yourself up from there.
然后从那里推动自己。
One more time.
再一次。
One more time.
再一次。
One more time.
再一次。
That's it.
就是这样。
You see?
你看？
Your butt hit the floor before your chest did.
你的屁股先于胸部落地。
You done?
你做完了吗？
Or you dead?
还是你死了？
You could just see Josh withdraw and get sullen over the course of these exercises.
在这些练习过程中，你可能会看到乔什退缩并变得闷闷不乐。
But then even after that-- and I swear I am not making this up-- Josh's father made him read a paragraph about responsibility from some pamphlet out loud, twice, because Josh stumbled the first time.
但即使在那之后——我发誓这不是我编造的——乔什的父亲让他大声朗读一些小册子中关于责任的段落，两次，因为乔什第一次绊倒了。
No stuttering.
没有口吃。
Come on.
快点。
Josh I have to memorize this?
乔希，我必须记住这个吗？
You will.
你会。
But right now you have to read it clearly.
但现在你必须读清楚。
And loud.
而且声音很大。
Um.
嗯。
"Responsibility.
“责任。
Responsibility starts with saying you were cause in the matter."
责任始于承认你是这件事的原因。”
What makes Marcus such a good teacher is that he's not an over-eager parent.
马库斯之所以成为一名好老师，是因为他不是一个过于热心的家长。
And maybe it helps that as a kid, Marcus never even liked boxing.
也许这有帮助，因为马库斯小时候从来不喜欢拳击。
He did it to please his dad, a college track star who almost went to the Olympics and dreamed of turning Marcus into the heavyweight champion of the world.
他这样做是为了取悦他的父亲，他的父亲是一位大学田径明星，差点就参加了奥运会，并梦想着将马库斯变成世界重量级冠军。
"You're going to be my ticket out of the ghetto," he'd tell Marcus at 13.
“你将成为我离开贫民窟的门票，”13 岁时他告诉马库斯。
Then after Marcus's mother died and his father got caught up in the wave of crack that hit the neighborhood in the mid-'80s.
后来，马库斯的母亲去世，他的父亲也卷入了八十年代中期袭击该社区的裂缝浪潮。
his father lost his job, the power got cut off, and Marcus still kept boxing, because the guys at the gym were the only ones who looked after him.
他的父亲失业了，停电了，马库斯仍然继续拳击，因为健身房里的人是唯一照顾他的人。
They fed him, drove him to school, let him stay with them sometimes.
他们喂他，开车送他去学校，有时让他和他们呆在一起。
As he told me in the car one day, it was the only part of his life with any promise.
正如有一天他在车上告诉我的那样，这是他生命中唯一有希望的部分。
I was boxing and I never liked it.
我当时正在打拳击，但我从来不喜欢它。
But I started making myself like it because I wanted some nice things.
但我开始让自己喜欢它，因为我想要一些美好的东西。
I wanted the nice life.
我想要美好的生活。
I used to tell the guys at the car lot-- I was, like, ninth grade, 10th grade-- you know, what?
我曾经告诉停车场的人——我当时是九年级、十年级——你知道吗？
When I win a gold medal, I'll make the Olympic team or turn pro, I'll be the champion of the world, I'm going to come and buy a car from you.
当我赢得金牌时，我会加入奥运队或成为职业选手，我会成为世界冠军，我会来从你那里买一辆车。
And it was like, OK, all right young man, keep on, hang in there.
就好像，好吧，年轻人，坚持下去，坚持下去。
You know, all right.
你知道，好吧。
[PHONE RINGS] Speak to me.
[电话铃声]跟我说话。
I would like to have at least two big screens.
我希望至少有两个大屏幕。
Marcus is driving around doing errands for a party he's planning at the gym.
马库斯正开车四处奔走，为他计划在健身房举行的聚会办事。
He's invited around 70 people, friends and clients, to come watch the Oscar De La Hoya-Sugar Shane Mosley fight.
他邀请了大约 70 个人、朋友和客户来观看奥斯卡·德拉·霍亚 (Oscar De La Hoya) 与舒格·谢恩·莫斯利 (Sugar Shane Mosley) 的比赛。
The party's in a few days and Marcus is bringing in two huge televisions, catered soul food, and security to watch the door.
几天后聚会就要开始了，马库斯带来了两台大电视、提供的灵魂食物和看守门口的保安。
Most of his clients are agents, producers, and writers for TV shows-- bigwigs, but behind- the-scenes bigwigs, no one whose name you'd know.
他的大多数客户都是电视节目的经纪人、制片人和编剧——他们是大人物，但都是幕后大人物，你可能不知道他们的名字。
Marcus needs more clients.
马库斯需要更多客户。
He's had the gym for less than a year and the rent is high.
他的健身房开业还不到一年，租金却很高。
The party is wiping him out, but he doesn't want to talk about that.
党正在消灭他，但他不想谈论这个。
He gets back into the car after a quick stop at the bank.
在银行短暂停留后，他回到车里。
I ain't happy.
我不高兴。
Well, I am happy, but I ain't.
嗯，我很高兴，但我不高兴。
I ain't got no money.
我没钱啊
I'm broke.
我破产了。
No, no. I got money, but--
不，不。我有钱，但是——
I hate that.
我讨厌那样。
Is the party tapping you out?
党在挖你吗？
No. I mean, I know I got money.
不，我的意思是，我知道我有钱。
I mean, I'm cool.
我的意思是，我很酷。
What?
什么？
I got money.
我有钱了。
I got an abundant amount of money.
我得到了一大笔钱。
Oh, I got money flowing.
哦，我有钱流了。
Woo-hoo, boy.
呜呼，男孩。
I got loot.
我得到了战利品。
I got millions, baby.
我有数百万，宝贝。
For real.
真正的。
Marcus's single-minded goal since he was little has been to be happy.
马库斯从小就一心一意的目标就是快乐。
A lot of people find happiness too abstract, or maybe too ambitious a goal to aim for.
很多人觉得幸福太抽象，或者目标过于雄心勃勃而难以实现。
But to Marcus, it's very real.
但对马库斯来说，这是非常真实的。
It's something he trains for, and plans for, and believes in.
这是他训练、计划和信仰的目标。
He has a commitment to being happy.
他承诺要幸福。
When he's not enjoying something anymore, he just stops it-- stops doing it, stops thinking it, stops talking about it.
当他不再享受某件事时，他就会停止它——停止做它，停止思考它，停止谈论它。
It's hard work.
这很辛苦。
It's daily work.
这是日常工作。
Like in the car at the bank.
就像在银行的车里一样。
He won't talk about not having money.
他不会谈论没有钱。
He'll pretend he does have money.
他会假装自己有钱。
Like when I watch him get some bad news from a credit card company in the mail.
就像我看到他从一家信用卡公司通过邮件收到一些坏消息一样。
He just stops himself in the middle of getting mad about it and says, "I'm hungry." Like when he started teaching boxing, he made a rule.
他只是在生气的时候停下来说：“我饿了。”就像他开始教拳击时一样，他制定了一条规则。
No hitting in the face.
没有打到脸上。
Just because he always hated it.
只是因为他一直讨厌它。
It hurt.
很痛。
So at his gym, you learn to punch hard, move your feet, and keep your stamina up.
所以在他的健身房里，你学会用力出拳、移动双脚并保持耐力。
But no hitting in the face.
但没有打到脸上。
He still doesn't like boxing.
他还是不喜欢拳击。
But boxing is what he knows.
但拳击是他所知道的。
He wants to use it to get to the point where he can stop boxing.
他想用它来达到停止拳击的目的。
What he really wants is to be an actor, a model, both of which he's done a little bit of.
他真正想要的是成为一名演员、一名模特，这两件事他都做了一点。
Whenever one of his clients brings a celebrity by the gym-- Puff Daddy, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube-- he can just feel it.
每当他的一位客户带着一位名人来到健身房——吹牛老爹、马克·沃尔伯格、艾斯·库伯——他都能感觉到。
He's getting closer.
他越来越近了。
Can you believe somebody hitting this hard, he wrote Harriet the Spy .
你能相信有人打得这么重吗？他在《间谍哈里特》中写道。
For children.
对于孩子们来说。
And look at him.
看着他。
Rrrrr.
呃呃。
Rrrrr.
呃呃。
Harriet the Spy.
间谍哈丽特。
Marcus is in the ring with Doug Petrie, a television and screenplay writer.
马库斯与电视和剧本作家道格·皮特里一起参加拳击比赛。
They're practicing a rapid-fire jab-hook-jab combination.
他们正在练习快速刺拳-勾拳-刺拳的组合。
When Marcus first started getting more and more Hollywood people, like Doug, as clients, he found he was afraid to speak a lot of the time.
当马库斯第一次开始吸引越来越多的好莱坞人士（例如道格）作为客户时，他发现自己很多时候都不敢说话。
He'd hear a voice in his head telling him--
他会听到脑海里有一个声音告诉他——
Man, just be quiet.
伙计，安静点。
Just shut up, don't say nothing.
闭嘴吧，什么也别说。
Just don't ask no questions.
只是不要问任何问题。
Or you are going to make yourself look bad, don't look like no fool.
否则你会让自己看起来很糟糕，别看起来像个傻瓜。
So he made a decision that he was just going to stop worrying all the time about looking bad in front of these rich, college-educated white people.
所以他做出了一个决定，他不再总是担心在这些富有的、受过大学教育的白人面前看起来很糟糕。
It was miserable.
真是惨不忍睹。
He made a change.
他做出了改变。
I used to listen to people all the time and say the words that they said.
我过去常常听别人说话，说出他们说的话。
And use the words like they use them.
并像他们使用这些词一样使用这些词。
And he really does this.
而他也确实这么做了。
I heard him do it with me.
我听到他和我一起做。
We were in the middle of a long talk about the fears that learning to box can help overcome, and somehow the word conjuring came up.
我们正在长时间谈论学习拳击可以帮助克服的恐惧，不知何故出现了“魔术”这个词。
We fear the unknown.
我们害怕未知。
And it's things that come to us, like in our mind, what we-- what word am I looking for?
这是来到我们身边的事情，就像在我们的脑海里一样，我们——我在寻找什么词？
Not dream, but conjugate up, condur--
不是梦，而是共轭，condur——
Conjuring up.
召唤。
Marcus Johnson Conjuring up.
马库斯·约翰逊正在施展魔法。
He went back to the word four minutes later, making sure he'd got it.
四分钟后他又回顾了这个词，确保他明白了。
Because he's going to conju-- con-- say that word again.
因为他会再次说出那个词。
Conjure.
变戏法。
Marcus Johnson Conjure.
马库斯·约翰逊召唤。
He's going to conjure up just different-- what if somebody jumped from out behind the alley and want to take my purse.
他会想出不同的方案——如果有人从巷子后面跳出来想要拿走我的钱包怎么办？
All those things are conjured up in your mind.
所有这些事情都在你的脑海中浮现出来。
15 minutes later, he used it again, when he was talking about his own fear, his fear of speaking.
15分钟后，当他谈论自己的恐惧、对说话的恐惧时，他再次使用了这个词。
And this time when he said it, he looked at me and laughed, because he knew he was doing it.
这次当他说这句话的时候，他看着我笑了，因为他知道他正在这么做。
I'm listening to people talk all the time.
我一直在听人们说话。
They're doing deals on the phone and these business people.
他们通过电话和这些商人做交易。
And I'm going, I want to be able to, you know, conjure up words and sound smart.
我要去，我希望能够，你知道，想出单词并且听起来很聪明。
Los Angeles, like every other big city in America, is segregated between black and white.
洛杉矶和美国其他大城市一样，黑人和白人之间被隔离。
But it's more complete here.
但这里更完整。
The dividing line is the 10 freeway.
分界线是10号高速公路。
North of it is West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Hollywood.
其北边是西好莱坞、比佛利山庄、好莱坞。
South of it, where Marcus grew up, is Inglewood, South Central, Watts.
马库斯长大的地方以南是英格尔伍德 (Inglewood)、中南部 (South Central) 和瓦茨 (Watts)。
The separation is so complete that if you live north of the 10 it's possible to go for a week without laying eyes on a single black person.
隔离是如此彻底，如果你住在 10 号公路以北，有可能一周都看不到一个黑人。
Only a certain kind of person ever makes the jump from one side of the 10 to the other.
只有特定类型的人才能从 10 的一侧跳到另一侧。
And one of the things that makes Marcus capable of it is that it's not a chore for him to find out about new things.
马库斯有能力做到这一点的原因之一是，了解新事物对他来说并不是一件苦差事。
He's curious about them.
他对他们很好奇。
He enjoys it.
他很享受。
In high school, when he spent a year at a mostly white school, he started getting into heavy metal, Quiet Riot.
高中时，当他在一所以白人为主的学校度过了一年后，他开始接触重金属乐队《Quiet Riot》。
Now he eats an organic salad for lunch every day, the kind of food he'd never even heard of growing up.
现在他每天午餐都吃有机沙拉，这是他从小到大从未听说过的食物。
The party is in two days.
聚会还有两天。
Marcus is sprucing up.
马库斯正在打扮。
He's already had a manicure and now he's at his sister Michelle's cosmetology class to get his hair rebraided.
他已经做了美甲，现在他正在姐姐米歇尔的美容课上重新编辫子。
Michelle is going to show the class how to braid by doing Marcus's hair.
米歇尔将通过给马库斯做头发来向全班展示如何编辫子。
He walks through the room introducing himself to everyone, a process that involves a blend of charm, attentiveness and self-effacement so potent that the room feels giddy by the end of it.
他走过房间，向每个人介绍自己，这个过程融合了魅力、专注和谦逊，其力量如此之大，以至于整个房间在结束时都感到头晕目眩。
It's not just because he's 6'1", high cheekbones, model good looks, huge smile.
这不仅仅是因为他身高 6 英尺 1 英寸、高颧骨、模特般的帅气外表、灿烂的笑容。
His charm doesn't only work with women.
他的魅力不仅仅适用于女性。
I've seen him work it over the phone with strangers, with someone he cut off in his car.
我见过他通过电话与陌生人、与他在车里与某人断绝关系的人进行交流。
He's interested in people.
他对人很感兴趣。
He asks where they're from, where they live.
他问他们来自哪里，住在哪里。
He notices things about them.
他注意到他们的一些事情。
While his head is under a faucet a friend of Michelle's is standing next to him, holding the shampoo.
当他的头在水龙头下时，米歇尔的一位朋友站在他旁边，手里拿着洗发水。
How old is your child?
您的孩子多大了？
Woman Two.
女人二.
You said, how old is my child?
你说，我孩子多大了？
Two.
二。
Girl.
女孩。
Woman He said, how old is your child?
女人他说，你孩子多大了？
I was trying to figure out how he knew I had a child too.
我试图弄清楚他怎么知道我也有一个孩子。
Maybe it was just a lucky guess.
也许这只是一个幸运的猜测。
I ask Marcus about it later, how he'd known she had a child.
后来我问马库斯，他怎么知道她有一个孩子。
And he couldn't tell me.
而他却不能告诉我。
He didn't know how he knew.
他不知道自己是怎么知道的。
He just had a feeling.
他只是有一种感觉。
I'm going to have the VIP seat.
我要坐 VIP 座位。
A VIP going to be able to sit in the ring and watch the fight.
VIP将能够坐在擂台上观看比赛。
Nice.
不错。
It's the afternoon of the party and Marcus is all energy.
这是聚会的下午，马库斯精力充沛。
He's arranging chairs, checking the angle of the two big TVs, one of which is blaring the movie About Last Night.
他正在摆椅子，检查两台大电视的角度，其中一台正在播放电影《昨晚》。
The pre-fights don't start for another two hours.
预战还有两个小时才开始。
The main event is in five hours.
主要活动还有五个小时。
The caterers are setting up tables for the food.
餐饮服务商正在布置餐桌。
They can adjust them.
他们可以调整它们。
They can move them closer if they want to.
如果他们愿意，可以将它们移近一些。
You know, this ain't no [UNINTELLIGIBLE], they better fix them chairs where they can see.
你知道，这不是[难以理解]，他们最好把椅子固定在他们能看到的地方。
It's like a backyard barbecue.
这就像后院烧烤。
I know we here in Hollywood, and Hollywood is going to be in here, but we doing it the old-fashioned way.
我知道我们在好莱坞，好莱坞也将在这里，但我们以老式的方式做事。
You better get your plate on, your paper plate, and get your plastic fork and spoon and your water.
你最好准备好盘子、纸盘、塑料叉子、勺子和水。
It's all good.
一切都很好。
In 45 minutes the food is set up.
45 分钟后，食物就准备好了。
It smells great, and there's a ton of it, enough for 100 people-- cornbread, macaroni and cheese, fried chicken.
味道好极了，而且分量足，够 100 人吃——玉米面包、通心粉和奶酪、炸鸡。
Everything's all set.
一切都准备好了。
The TVs are on the right channel.
电视频道正确。
The doors are open.
门是开着的。
Over the next several hours, people trickle in.
接下来的几个小时里，人们陆续涌入。
Some family, some friends from Inglewood and South Central, Marcus's pastor, people he knew from boxing.
一些家人，一些来自英格尔伍德和中南部的朋友，马库斯的牧师，还有他从拳击界认识的人。
But Hollywood never shows up.
但好莱坞从未出现过。
Clients he's had for three years, people whose Passover Seders he's attended.
他已经拥有了三年的客户，他参加过逾越节家宴的人。
Only two of Marcus's clients come by, and one of them is the kid, Josh.
马库斯的只有两个客户过来，其中之一就是那个孩子乔什。
I'm one of about half a dozen white people.
我是大约六名白人之一。
Marcus's frenzied party energy dissipates slowly over the hours.
马库斯疯狂的派对热情在几个小时内慢慢消散。
But he stays charming with everyone he talks to, seems genuinely happy to see the people who do come.
但他对与他交谈的每个人都保持着魅力，似乎很高兴看到来的人。
His poise is painful to watch.
他的泰然自若让人看着很痛苦。
During the five hours of the party, and in the days afterward, I never hear him suggest that anything that night is a disappointment.
在聚会的五个小时以及之后的几天里，我从未听到他说那天晚上有什么令人失望的事情。
If he ever thinks such a thought, I'm sure he stops himself.
如果他曾经有过这样的想法，我相信他会阻止自己。
There's something I haven't told you about Marcus.
关于马库斯，有些事我还没告诉你。
Two weeks before I started interviewing him for this story, he found God.
在我开始为这个故事采访他的两周前，他找到了上帝。
As Marcus puts it, he gave his life to Christ.
正如马库斯所说，他将自己的生命献给了基督。
The whole time I was interviewing him, all I wanted to talk about was what he did to get where he is, and all he wanted to talk about was how God was the real force behind every good thing in his life.
在我采访他的整个过程中，我只想谈论他做了什么才达到现在的成就，而他只想谈论上帝如何成为他生命中每件美好事物背后的真正力量。
It frustrated me.
这让我很沮丧。
Marcus's faith kept intruding on the story I wanted to get.
马库斯的信仰不断侵入我想要了解的故事。
I wanted to know about Marcus's life, his experiences, his choices, the hard work of creating a happy life.
我想了解马库斯的一生，他的经历，他的选择，他为创造幸福生活所付出的努力。
That was going to be my whole point in this story, that we pretend happiness is some natural state we would just fall into if we stopped running around being so ambitious and greedy and self-obsessed.
这将是我在这个故事中的全部观点，我们假装幸福是某种自然状态，如果我们不再那么雄心勃勃、贪婪和自恋，我们就会陷入这种状态。
When, in fact, it takes tremendous effort to be happy.
事实上，要获得快乐需要付出巨大的努力。
But if I'm looking at Marcus as a study in how to be happy, then there's something besides hard work that you need to be happy.
但如果我将马库斯视为关于如何快乐的研究，那么除了努力工作之外，你还需要快乐。
You need faith.
你需要信仰。
Not necessarily religious faith, although in Marcus's case it is.
不一定是宗教信仰，尽管在马库斯的例子中确实如此。
But you do need to believe that happiness is possible.
但你确实需要相信幸福是可能的。
You need to accept that.
你需要接受这一点。
That's what God gave Marcus.
这就是上帝给马库斯的。
My motto is "Feed the faith and starve the doubt." Now I just have faith.
我的座右铭是“喂养信仰，消除怀疑”。现在我只有信仰了。
I just got faith.
我刚刚有了信心。
I'm out here on faith.
我是凭着信念来到这里的。
I did everything on faith.
我所做的一切都是凭着信心。
What did you go on, how did you keep going before you started believing in God again?
在你重新信神之前，你又经历了什么，你是如何坚持下去的？
This is what I'm telling you.
这就是我要告诉你的。
I was just going without the belief of God.
我只是不相信上帝而去。
I just was going on just my strength, courage and faith.
我只是依靠我的力量、勇气和信念。
And I wasn't going to quit.
我不会放弃。
I was going to find out.
我正想知道答案。
I wanted the life that I wanted.
我想要我想要的生活。
And I wanted a life of peace and happiness.
我想要平静幸福的生活。
I wanted heaven on earth, that's what I wanted.
我想要人间天堂，这就是我想要的。
I lived on this street here.
我就住在这儿的这条街上。
When I started boxing, I started boxing on this block right here.
当我开始拳击时，我就在这个街区开始拳击。
We're driving down the street Marcus lived on when he was 13, Manhattan Place.
我们沿着马库斯 13 岁时居住的街道曼哈顿广场行驶。
His godmother still lives on the block.
他的教母仍然住在这个街区。
Fine.
很好。
Nancy Updike We only stay for a few minutes, just long enough for him to tell her the big news.
南希·厄普代克 我们只待了几分钟，刚好够他告诉她这个重大消息。
Praise the Lord.
赞美主。
Marcus Johnson He saved me.
马库斯·约翰逊 他救了我。
Mother's Day.
母亲节。
That's the greatest that you ever could have done in life.
这是你一生中能做的最伟大的事情。
He saved me Mother's Day.
他救了我母亲节。
Ms. Culvert That's the greatest thing you could have ever done in life.
卡尔弗特女士：这是你一生中做过的最伟大的事情。
I said to myself, what have I been doing this whole time?
我对自己说，我这段时间都在做什么？
OK.
好的。
Nothing like being in the hands of the Lord, is there?
没有什么比在主的手中更好的了，不是吗？
Nothing.
什么也没有。
Nothing.
什么也没有。
Ms. Culvert See why I stay with it?
卡尔弗特女士 明白我为什么坚持下去吗？
At this point, she abruptly turns to me while Marcus is still talking and asks, "Do you know God?" I shake my head, and she gives me a look so startling, a combination of bewilderment, pity and disgust.
这时，当马库斯还在说话时，她突然转向我，问道：“你认识上帝吗？”我摇摇头，她用一种令人震惊的眼神看着我，混合着困惑、怜悯和厌恶。
And then she turns away.
然后她转身走开。
We can't stay long.
我们不能久留。
I've got to get ready to go.
我得准备出发了。
I just stopped by to just say hi.
我只是顺便过来打个招呼。
And give you a hug and say, God bless you.
拥抱你并说，上帝保佑你。
We get in the car and drive back across the 10.
我们上了车，穿过 10 号公路返回。
I love you.
我爱你。
Ms. Culvert Love you too, baby.
卡尔弗特女士也爱你，宝贝。
You know we do.
你知道我们这样做。
Hurry back, now.
现在快点回来吧。
Our program was produced today by Blue Chevigny and myself with Alex Blumberg and Julie Snyder.
今天我们的节目由 Blue Chevigny 和我本人以及 Alex Blumberg 和 Julie Snyder 制作。
Contributing editors Paul Tough, Jack Hitt, Margy Rochlin, Alix Spiegel, Nancy Updike and consiglierie Sarah Vowell.
特约编辑 Paul Tough、Jack Hitt、Margy Rochlin、Alix Spiegel、Nancy Updike 和顾问 Sarah Vowell。
Elizabeth Meister runs our website.
伊丽莎白·梅斯特 (Elizabeth Meister) 负责运营我们的网站。
Production help from Todd Bachmann and Hillary Frank.
托德·巴赫曼 (Todd Bachmann) 和希拉里·弗兰克 (Hillary Frank) 为制作提供帮助。
[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] To buy a cassette of this or any of our programs, call us here at WBEZ in Chicago.
[致谢] 要购买本节目或我们任何节目的磁带，请致电我们芝加哥的 WBEZ。
312-832-3380.
312-832-3380。
Or you can listen to our programs for free on the internet at our website, www.thislife.org.
或者您也可以在我们的网站 www.thislife.org 上免费收听我们的节目。
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 staff meeting with his weird diatribes about fictional child detectives.
[资金来源] WBEZ 管理由 Torey Malatia 负责，他在每次员工会议开始时都会对虚构的儿童侦探进行奇怪的谩骂。
Harriet the Spy , indeed.
确实是间谍哈丽特。
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。