248: Like It or Not - This American Life
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00:00 00:00 文字记录 分享此 美国生活 生活伙伴 如何收听 剧集 推荐 关于 概述 员工公告 奖学金 工作 音乐 在路上制作电台 常见问题解答 提交 商品 联系我们 我们的其他节目 商品 关注我们 生活伙伴 订阅我们的时事通讯 整集 切换音频和文字记录同步 文字记录 | 内容第 248 集 | 2005 年 8 月 12 日 248：无论喜欢与否 注：《This American Life》是为耳朵而制作的，旨在让人们听到。
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Prologue David Rakoff From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life , distributed by Public Radio International.
序言 David Rakoff 来自 WBEZ 芝加哥，这就是《美国生活》，由国际公共广播电台发行。
I'm David Rakoff, sitting in for Ira Glass.
我是大卫·拉科夫 (David Rakoff)，代理艾拉·格拉斯 (Ira Glass)。
There was an old cartoon, it was either in the New Yorker or National Lampoon , I can't remember, where a man is sitting on the bus.
有一部老漫画，要么是在《纽约客》上，要么是在《国家讽刺报》上，我记不清了，公共汽车上坐着一个男人。
It's pretty empty.
这是相当空的。
An odd stranger boards, and the man in the seat thinks to himself, "Oh, God.
一个奇怪的陌生人登机了，坐在座位上的那个人心里想：“哦，上帝。
Please don't let him sit beside me.
请不要让他坐在我旁边。
Oh God.
天啊。
Please don't let him sit beside me." The guy approaches and says, "God told me to sit beside you."
请不要让他坐在我旁边。”那家伙走过来说：“上帝让我坐在你旁边。”
In the spring of 1978, I was 13 years old.
1978年春天，我13岁。
The local public high school that I would be attending in a year's time was having an evening screening of Casablanca.
一年后我将就读的当地公立高中正在晚间放映《卡萨布兰卡》。
So I took my friend Jeff and we went off to the high school.
于是我带着我的朋友杰夫一起去了高中。
In addition to my love of old movies and my general cluelessness about popular music and youth culture, I was also a really tiny child.
除了我对老电影的热爱以及对流行音乐和青年文化的普遍无知之外，我还是一个非常小的孩子。
Maybe five feet at time.
也许一次五英尺。
Probably closer to for four foot eight.
可能更接近四英尺八英寸。
So I looked markedly different from other kids my age.
所以我看起来与同龄的其他孩子明显不同。
I was also a little neurotic.
我也有点神经质。
I was riddled with phobias.
我充满了恐惧症。
It all served to make me seem a little odd, I'm sure.
我确信这一切都让我看起来有点奇怪。
I didn't lack friends, but I was a strange, round-limbed, feminine little kid.
我并不缺乏朋友，但我是一个奇怪的、圆圆的、女性化的小孩子。
A strange, round-limbed, feminine little kid for whom a screening of Casablanca at the high school, no less, was a fairly important event.
一个奇怪的、四肢圆润、女性化的小孩子，对他来说，在高中放映《卡萨布兰卡》同样是一件相当重要的事情。
If I think about it, I guess the fantasy going through my head was that I would meet other old movie buffs who would see past my juvenile exterior and into my very poet's soul.
如果我仔细想想，我想我脑子里的幻想是我会遇到其他老电影迷，他们会看穿我少年的外表，进入我诗人的灵魂。
And then I would have, you know, a community of people who didn't care that I was dwarfish or 13.
然后我就会有一群人，他们不在乎我是侏儒还是 13 岁。
Maybe we would smoke and talk about films.
也许我们会一边抽烟一边谈论电影。
Jeff and I were the only ones who showed up.
杰夫和我是唯一出现的人。
The only two people in the auditorium, aside from two older boys at the back on a ladder who were taping up some banner of some sort or another.
礼堂里只有两个人，除了后面梯子上两个大男孩，他们正在贴某种横幅。
So the lights are still on and we're waiting for the movie to start.
所以灯还亮着，我们在等待电影开始。
And I hear one of the boys on the ladder call my name.
我听到梯子上的一个男孩叫我的名字。
"David!
“大卫！
David!"
大卫！”
If you're a gay kid, or even just a gay-ish kid, you basically spend your life anticipating having the crap beaten out of you, or at the very least, being given what used to be known on Leave It to Beaver as "The Business." I didn't know this guy calling my name.
如果你是一个同性恋孩子，或者只是一个同性恋孩子，你基本上一生都在期待着被打败，或者至少，被给予过去被称为“把事情交给海狸”的“生意”。我不认识这个叫我名字的人。
I knew that much.
我就知道这么多了。
He wasn't a friend of my brother's or my sister's.
他不是我兄弟或姐妹的朋友。
I knew, actually, two things with complete certainty-- one, that I wasn't the David that he was calling for, and two, that if I did turn around, he would give me "The Business." So I didn't turn around.
事实上，我完全确定两件事——第一，我不是他所呼唤的大卫；第二，如果我真的回头，他会给我“生意”。所以我没有回头。
But it just went on and on.
但事情一直持续着。
Him was calling my name and nobody else being in the auditorium.
他在喊我的名字，礼堂里没有其他人。
After about a quarter of an hour, against my better judgment, thinking, perhaps, that there had been some wrinkle in the space-time continuum, and maybe this older guy did somehow know me after all-- there was no one else in the auditorium and he kept on calling "David!
大约一刻钟后，与我更好的判断相反，我想，也许时空连续体中出现了一些皱纹，也许这个年长的家伙毕竟以某种方式认识我——礼堂里没有其他人，他一直在喊“大卫！
David!" So eventually I turned around and I said, "Yes?"
大卫！”所以最终我转过身来，说道：“是吗？”
It was as if I could see the words coming out of his mouth, printed like a speech bubble in a comic, moving through the air towards me as if the entire atmosphere was viscous.
我仿佛能看到他嘴里说出的话，就像漫画里的对话泡泡一样，在空气中向我移动，仿佛整个气氛都粘稠了。
Moving as slowly towards me as a bubble traveling through liquid Prell.
像气泡穿过普雷尔液体一样缓慢地向我移动。
And I knew, I knew what the words would be before they even reached my ears!
我知道，在这些话传到我耳朵之前我就知道它们会是什么！
"David!
“大卫！
David!" "Yes?" "Not you, you fag!" Of course, that was what he said.
大卫！” “是的？” “不是你，你这个基佬！”当然，他就是这么说的。
I had thought that the unforeseen bonanza of the evening was that I was going to be somehow enfolded, all four feet eight inches of me, into some Bohemian clique, when in fact, what I should have seen was this.
我原以为当晚不可预见的财富是我将以某种方式被包裹起来，四英尺八英寸的我，进入一些波西米亚小集团，而事实上，我应该看到的是这个。
If I hadn't turned around, he probably would have just gotten down from the ladder anyway, and walked over to me, tapped me on the shoulder, and called me a fag.
如果我没有转身，他可能早就从梯子上下来，走到我身边，拍拍我的肩膀，骂我是基佬。
"God told me to sit beside you."
“上帝让我坐在你旁边。”
Hope might spring eternal, dread might loom like a dark cloud on the horizon.
希望可能永远涌现，恐惧可能像地平线上的乌云一样笼罩。
Sometimes, regardless of your action or inaction, half-empty, half-full, some things in this life are just bound to happen.
有时候，不管你有为或无为，半空半满，这辈子有些事就注定会发生。
Today on our show-- stories of inevitability.
今天我们的节目是关于必然性的故事。
Those things that will happen, like it or not.
那些即将发生的事情，不管你喜欢与否。
Our show today in four acts.
我们今天的演出分四幕。
Act One, If It Drives, Go Live.
第一幕，如果可行，就上线。
A true crime story about the world's most law-abiding perp ever to receive four hours of continuous live news coverage.
这是一个真实的犯罪故事，讲述了世界上最守法的罪犯接受四个小时连续直播新闻报道的故事。
Act Two, Don't Just Stand There.
第二幕，不要只是站在那里。
You can't change the people you love even when your life might depend on it.
你无法改变你所爱的人，即使你的生活可能取决于他们。
Act Three, Hello, Baby.
第三幕，你好，宝贝。
How to prepare yourself for one of life's greatest inevitabilities, like it and not, with little more than a wobbly movie projector and a breathing chart.
如何用一台摇摇晃晃的电影放映机和一张呼吸图来为生活中最不可避免的事情之一做好准备，不管你喜欢与否。
Act Four, On the Eighth Day, God Created Tartar Sauce.
第四幕，第八天，上帝创造了鞑靼酱。
How mother nature, in an act of pure generosity, annually lays out the world's greatest all-you-can-eat raw bar on a small beach in Alabama.
大自然母亲如何以纯粹的慷慨之举，每年在阿拉巴马州的一个小海滩上布置世界上最棒的自助生食吧。
Stay with us, won't you?
留在我们身边，好吗？
If you get into a car chase with the police, you pretty much know how it's going to end.
如果你与警察进行一场汽车追逐，你几乎知道事情会如何结束。
90% to 95% of the time, you will be caught.
90% 到 95% 的情况下，你都会被抓住。
Despite, or perhaps because of this, car chases have become an increasingly popular staple of TV news programming.
尽管如此，或者也许正因为如此，汽车追逐已成为电视新闻节目中越来越受欢迎的主要内容。
Viewers have watched people try to elude the cops in various ways, like plowing through a crowded pedestrian malls.
观众看到人们试图以各种方式躲避警察，比如穿过拥挤的步行街。
They've even seen a fleeing suspect attempt a carjacking.
他们甚至看到一名逃跑的嫌疑人试图劫车。
Starlee Kine has the story of the latest incarnation of the continuously televised car chase that answers the question, why did they run if they know they're going to get caught?
斯塔莉·凯恩（Starlee Kine）讲述了连续电视直播的汽车追逐的最新版本，回答了这样一个问题：如果他们知道自己会被抓住，为什么还要逃跑？
And why do we watch?
我们为什么要看？
In Los Angeles, on August 31, 2001, all other news and KCAL 9 was interrupted in order to bring you this car chase.
2001年8月31日，在洛杉矶，所有其他新闻和KCAL 9都被中断，以便为您带来这场汽车追逐。
And the pursuit continues.
并且追求仍在继续。
And I believe we're north of the airport now.
我相信我们现在已经在机场以北了。
Larry Welk?
拉里·韦尔克？
Yeah.
是的。
Back with you here.
和你一起回到这里。
This suspect has been going on now for over three hours now, well over three hours.
这个嫌疑人已经持续了三个多小时了，远远超过三个小时。
Almost four now.
现在快四了。
With showing no signs of giving up, no signs of stopping.
没有放弃的迹象，没有停止的迹象。
This, of course, would have been no big deal, since in LA, there's car chases on TV all the time.
当然，这没什么大不了的，因为在洛杉矶，电视上一直都有汽车追逐的场面。
And really, this one is no different than your basic high-speed police pursuit-- except for that speed part.
事实上，这与警察的基本高速追捕没有什么不同——除了速度部分。
The suspect still driving well within the speed limit.
嫌疑人仍然在限速范围内行驶。
In fact, lower than the speed limit.
事实上，低于速度限制。
Driving very reasonably right now through the streets of southern California.
现在开车穿过南加州的街道非常合理。
And the police part.
还有警察部分。
Larry Welk There's nobody else behind him right now.
Larry Welk 现在他身后没有其他人了。
Everybody has pulled off, including the LAPD, Hawthorne, Inglewood.
每个人都成功了，包括洛杉矶警察局、霍桑、英格尔伍德。
They are not there.
他们不在那儿。
Nowhere to be seen.
无处可见。
Oh.
哦。
And the pursuit part.
还有追求部分。
Larry Welk You know, at this point, the officers are saying that they have a really good idea of who he is.
拉里·韦尔克（Larry Welk） 你知道，此时，警官们说他们非常清楚他是谁。
They have a pretty good idea of where he lives, even.
他们甚至很清楚他住在哪里。
And so at this point, they're going to go ahead and let him drive home, if that's what he wants to do.
因此，在这一点上，如果他愿意的话，他们将继续让他开车回家。
On Thursday, August 31, 2001, viewers of KCAL were told they were watching a car chase.
2001 年 8 月 31 日星期四，KCAL 的观众被告知他们正在观看一场汽车追逐赛。
But what they were actually watching was a white Geo Prizm driving slowly up and down residential streets, stopping at every stop sign, and signalling every time he wanted to turn, with no police behind him.
但他们实际上看到的是一辆白色的 Geo Prizm 在住宅区街道上缓慢行驶，在每个停车标志处停下来，每次想转弯时都会发出信号，后面没有警察。
If you tuned in the day with the sound off, you'd be wondering why it was on TV at all.
如果你在关掉声音的情况下收看节目，你会想知道为什么它会出现在电视上。
Of course, if you had the sound on, you were probably even more confused, because the image on the screen had very little to do with what was coming out of the news announcer's mouth.
当然，如果你打开声音，你可能会更加困惑，因为屏幕上的图像与新闻播音员嘴里说出的内容几乎没有关系。
It was as though they weren't looking at the screen at all, but were instead reciting their lines for memory, drawing from all the past car chases they covered.
就好像他们根本没有看屏幕，而是在背诵台词以供记忆，借鉴他们所报道的所有过去的汽车追逐戏。
The car chase began normally enough.
追车活动开始得很正常。
At around six o'clock, the car's driver pulled a hit and run.
六点左右，汽车司机肇事逃逸。
It was a minor fender bender and no one got hurt, but he took off anyway.
这是一次轻微的挡泥板弯曲，没有人受伤，但他还是起飞了。
The LAPD tried to pull him over, but he refused.
洛杉矶警察局试图让他靠边停车，但他拒绝了。
They chased him for a few hours before finally deciding to stop.
他们追了他几个小时，最后决定停下来。
In the past couple of years, many police departments have begun to rethink their strategies when it comes to chasing.
在过去的几年里，许多警察部门开始重新考虑他们的追捕策略。
If a suspect doesn't seem like an immediate threat, the police will often pull out, or try to get his license plate number so they can arrest him later, reasoning that the risk of hurting innocent bystanders in a car chase is greater than the risk of letting a guy who ran a red light get away.
如果嫌疑人看起来并不构成直接威胁，警察通常会撤退，或者试图获取他的车牌号码，以便稍后逮捕他，理由是在汽车追逐中伤害无辜旁观者的风险比让闯红灯的人逃跑的风险更大。
At the time of this chase though, this was still a relatively new procedure that most people had never seen before.
然而，在这次追逐时，这仍然是一个相对较新的程序，大多数人以前从未见过。
We were in shock.
我们很震惊。
We were saying, wait a minute?
我们说，等一下？
What's going on here?
这是怎么回事？
They're letting this guy go.
他们要放这个人了
This is Larry Welk, the KCAL helicopter pilot whose voice you've been hearing.
我是拉里·韦尔克 (Larry Welk)，KCAL 直升机飞行员，您已经听到过他的声音。
And it was tough to be on TV and explain to people what was happening.
在电视上向人们解释正在发生的事情是很困难的。
Because we had this pursuit going on, then the police pulled up, and it's almost like the news story just went away.
因为我们正在进行追捕，然后警察停下来，新闻报道就好像消失了一样。
Well, what are we doing here now?
好吧，我们现在在这里做什么？
That was indeed the question.
这确实是个问题。
With their top story called off right under their very noses, the KCAL news team suddenly found themselves in the unique position of being the only one following this guy around.
随着他们的头条新闻就在他们眼皮子底下被取消，KCAL 新闻团队突然发现自己处于独特的地位，是唯一跟踪这个家伙的人。
But rather than turn to another story, the station decides to stick with this one.
但电视台没有转向另一个故事，而是决定坚持这个故事。
And it's around this point that the situation goes from being merely baffling to truly absurd, when the newscasters begin floundering for things to say.
正是在这一点上，当新闻播音员开始苦苦寻找要说的话时，情况从仅仅令人困惑变成了真正荒谬。
In fact, right about here.
事实上，就在这里。
I guess one thing we've certainly learned-- this is a fuel-efficient car.
我想我们确实学到了一件事——这是一辆节能汽车。
I guess just the kind you want to have in a pursuit.
我想这正是你想要追求的那种。
And forgive me if I'm making light of the situation.
如果我轻视了情况，请原谅我。
I'm not trying to do that and you guys know that.
我并不想这么做，你们都知道。
But for goodness sakes, this has gone on, as you say, for four hours now, and he has not run out of gas yet.
但天哪，正如你所说，这已经持续了四个小时，而且他还没有耗尽汽油。
So that says a lot about the vehicle he's driving.
所以这充分说明了他所驾驶的车辆。
We are going to stay with this case, so stay with us.
我们将继续处理这个案子，所以请继续关注我们。
There is another hour of news ahead.
还有一个小时的新闻。
[UNINTELLIGIBLE] and Gary standing by.
[无法理解] 和加里站在旁边。
KCAL 9 news at 10 starts right now.
KCAL 9 新闻现在 10 点开始。
And thank you, Dave [?
谢谢你，戴夫[？
Cillia.
西莉亚.
?] A pursuit that continues right now only by air.
？]目前仅通过空中进行追击。
Ground units have completely pulled out.
地面部队已完全撤出。
KCAL is a local independent station.
KCAL是本地独立电台。
In addition to news, it also airs shows like People's Court and Family Feud .
除新闻外，还播出《人民法院》、《家仇》等节目。
They usually show one car chase about every two weeks, and the effects on the ratings are dramatic.
他们通常每两周展示一场汽车追逐戏，这对收视率的影响是巨大的。
On a typical day, about 400,000 people tune in to KCAL's nightly news programming.
通常一天约有 400,000 人收看 KCAL 的夜间新闻节目。
The numbers quadruple once a car chase comes on.
一旦汽车追逐开始，这个数字就会翻两番。
And when the chases are over, the numbers drop back down again.
当追逐结束后，数字再次下降。
Here's the helicopter pilot, Larry Welk.
这是直升机飞行员拉里·韦尔克。
Are there other car chases that don't make the cut?
还有其他不符合标准的汽车追逐吗？
Not really.
并不真地。
If we [UNINTELLIGIBLE] had a car chase, for the most part, it'll make it on TV.
如果我们[无法理解]有一场汽车追逐，大多数情况下，它都会出现在电视上。
Do you watch car chases?
你看追车戏吗？
Larry Welk I'm embarrassed to say that I do.
拉里·韦尔克（Larry Welk）：我很不好意思地说我愿意。
I not only watch the car chases, but I yell at the television screen while it's going on, as though I'm covering it.
我不仅看汽车追逐赛，而且在比赛进行时我对着电视屏幕大喊大叫，就好像我在报道它一样。
When the guy blows a red light, "Oh no, look out!" You know?
当那个人闯红灯时，“哦，不，小心！”你知道？
And my wife comes in.
我的妻子进来了。
She'll be doing the laundry, and she'll walk in and watch me watching a chase, and she'll shake your head and say, "What in the world are you doing?
她会洗衣服，然后走进来，看着我观看一场追逐，然后她会摇摇头说：“你到底在做什么？
Go take out the garbage." I mean, there could be a pursuit that runs through our backyard and she wouldn't care.
快去倒垃圾吧。”我的意思是，我们后院可能有一场追求，而她不会在意。
But I'm one of those guys that watches pursuits.
但我是那些关注追求的人之一。
It's cops and robbers.
这是警察和强盗。
You watch these guys getting chased, and you don't know what's happening next.
你看着这些家伙被追赶，你不知道接下来会发生什么。
And that's what keeps you glued.
这就是让你粘着的原因。
And you're afraid-- I'm afraid to go to the bathroom.
你害怕——我害怕去洗手间。
I'm afraid to go get a glass of water.
我害怕去喝杯水。
Because I'm afraid that when I walk out of the room, the guy's going to pull a Dukes of Hazzard and jump over a bridge or something.
因为我担心当我走出房间时，那家伙会拉着哈扎德公爵然后跳过桥什么的。
Well, you know, he's picked up speed here.
嗯，你知道，他在这里加快了速度。
Look at this.
看看这个。
That is a good observation on your part.
这对你来说是一个很好的观察。
He has picked up some speed.
他已经加快了一些速度。
He got up to about 45 to 50 miles an hour, the suspect, right now.
嫌疑人现在的车速达到了每小时 45 到 50 英里。
He makes his turn.
轮到他了。
He is.
他是。
He's slowing down.
他正在放慢速度。
Begs the question, how much gas--
引出了一个问题，多少汽油——
It wasn't, however, just the news team that was at a loss about how exactly to proceed.
然而，不知道如何继续下去的不仅仅是新闻团队。
The cops who weren't chasing him were confused as well.
没有追捕他的警察也感到困惑。
Detective Brian Spencer of the Inglewood Police Department was on duty that night and remembers getting a strange call on his radio.
英格尔伍德警察局的侦探布赖恩·斯宾塞那天晚上正在值班，他记得他的无线电接到了一个奇怪的电话。
Well, when I first heard about it, we were out on patrol in our marked police car.
嗯，当我第一次听说这件事时，我们正开着有标记的警车出去巡逻。
And California Highway Patrol or Los Angeles Police Department got on our radio frequency and said that they didn't want to follow a car anymore.
加州公路巡逻队或洛杉矶警察局通过我们的无线电频率表示他们不想再跟踪汽车了。
And basically, they told all the police units to back out of it completely.
基本上，他们告诉所有警察单位完全退出。
And you know, we were a little frustrated.
你知道，我们有点沮丧。
Be like anything.
像任何事一样。
Pick any profession, you know?
选择任何职业，你知道吗？
You're supposed to do this, but then you don't do it.
你应该这样做，但你却没有这样做。
It doesn't feel like you fulfilled your job.
感觉你没有完成你的工作。
For me, it's pretty simple.
对我来说，这非常简单。
They run, we chase.
他们跑，我们追。
So, like legions of cinematic counterparts before him, Detective Spencer decided to go with his gut and take the law into his own hands, even if it meant disobeying his superiors.
因此，就像他之前的众多电影同行一样，斯宾塞侦探决定凭自己的直觉，将法律掌握在自己手中，即使这意味着不服从上级。
Oh really?
哦真的吗？
On your own?
靠你自己吗？
Brian Spencer Yeah.
布莱恩·斯宾塞 是的。
Just the two of us.
只有我们两个人。
We found the car on Century Boulevard.
我们在世纪大道找到了这辆车。
That's a street in our city.
那是我们城市的一条街道。
And we happened to be down in that area, because we heard the pursuit was coming in our city.
我们碰巧就在那个地区，因为我们听说有人追击我们的城市。
So we went down there snooping, and lo and behold, there it was.
于是我们就去那里窥探，结果你瞧，它就在那里。
Of course, now that they'd found the car, there was still the question of what to do next.
当然，现在他们已经找到了车，接下来要做什么的问题仍然存在。
I mean, how hard really could it be to catch this guy?
我的意思是，抓住这个家伙到底有多难？
He had stopped initially right-- there was a traffic light there, and he was stopped right there.
他一开始就停在了那里——那里有一个红绿灯，他就停在那里。
And we wanted to just, you know, get out of car, and like open the door, and get him out of the car, but we knew we'd get in trouble if we did that.
我们只想，你知道，下车，打开车门，让他下车，但我们知道如果这样做就会遇到麻烦。
How many feet behind him were you when you were following him?
当你跟随他时，你在他身后多少英尺？
Oh, I mean, we were right behind him.
哦，我是说，我们就在他身后。
We were the car right behind him.
我们就在他后面的车上。
Yeah.
是的。
It was just like regular driving.
就像正常驾驶一样。
He was doing like 35 on Century.
他在《世纪》中的表现就像35岁一样。
He would stop at all the red lights.
他会在所有红灯处停下来。
Just like we were on patrol, just driving around.
就像我们在巡逻一样，只是开车四处走动。
Detective Spencer and his partner continued tailing the fugitive on their own for another quarter of an hour before they were called off for good by their boss, who, it turns out, was watching KCAL'S coverage of the chase back at the station.
斯宾塞警探和他的搭档继续独自追踪逃犯一刻钟，然后被老板永久叫停，原来老板正在车站观看 KCAL 的追捕报道。
What happened was, when the car was on Century Boulevard, I had stuck my head out the window to yell at the guy to pull over.
事情是这样的，当车停在世纪大道上时，我把头伸出窗外，对那家伙大喊，让他靠边停车。
But it wasn't working.
但它不起作用。
And the watch commander saw the car on the news, and that's when he told us to leave.
值班指挥官在新闻中看到了这辆车，就在那时他让我们离开。
So we did.
所以我们做到了。
We do know that he has stayed in the relatively general area around the airport, and--
我们确实知道他住在机场周边相对一般的区域，而且——
That's at KCAL.
那是在KCAL。
The chase is still on, and the news team is no closer to answering the story's main questions.
追逐仍在继续，新闻团队还没有更接近回答故事的主要问题。
Who is this guy and why is he running?
这个人是谁？他为什么要跑步？
Ordinarily when you watch a chase on TV, the very least that you, the viewer can expect is that the people actually on the TV know slightly more than you do about the situation.
通常，当您在电视上观看追逐时，您（观众）至少可以期望电视上的人比您对情况的了解略多。
It's usually a given.
这通常是给定的。
But in this case, the announcer didn't know the answers any more than anyone else did.
但在这种情况下，播音员和其他人一样不知道答案。
So they just speculated like crazy.
所以他们只是疯狂地猜测。
You just have to wonder, Patty, if the guy has to be aware of the fact that police have unmarked vehicles.
你只是想知道，帕蒂，这家伙是否必须意识到警察有没有标记的车辆这一事实。
And you have to be wondering if he's wondering if he's being pursued now by an unmarked police vehicle, being that SUV.
你一定想知道他是否想知道他现在是否被一辆没有标记的警车追赶，就是那辆SUV。
And while police may know who this individual is, the question still remains.
尽管警方可能知道这个人是谁，但问题仍然存在。
Why did this person flee the scene of a relatively minor traffic accident, and then lead police on a chase that's now gone on for more than three hours?
为什么这个人在一场相对较小的交通事故中逃离现场，然后带领警方进行了长达三个多小时的追捕？
Do we have any idea if there are outstanding warrants, if this individual may be wanted for something else.
我们是否知道是否有未执行的搜查令，以及此人是否因其他原因被通缉。
No. There was no warrants.
不，没有搜查令。
Not a one.
不是一个。
No. I hate to disappoint them, as a precedent-setting individual.
不，作为一个开创先例的人，我不想让他们失望。
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the fugitive.
女士们先生们，我向你们介绍逃犯。
He turned out to be a very affable and helpful guy, and he agreed to talk to me on the condition that I didn't use his name.
事实证明，他是一个非常和蔼可亲、乐于助人的人，他同意与我交谈，但条件是我不使用他的名字。
So I'll just call him Dr. Richard Kimball.
所以我就叫他理查德·金博尔博士。
Dr. Kimball for short.
简称金博尔博士。
On the night this all happened, Dr. Kimball had just finished up a big project for his consulting firm.
这一切发生的那天晚上，金博尔博士刚刚为他的咨询公司完成了一个大项目。
He decided to celebrate by getting high.
他决定通过狂欢来庆祝。
Because you see, aside from being a workaholic and Georgetown graduate, Dr. Kimball was also a crack addict.
因为你看，金博尔博士除了是一名工作狂和乔治敦大学毕业生之外，还是一名瘾君子。
He'd gone to a hotel to smoke up that night so his family wouldn't see, and he was just leaving when he got into the fender bender.
那天晚上，他去一家酒店抽烟，以免家人看到，而他正要离开时，却发生了车祸。
When he saw the flashing lights behind him, he ran.
当他看到身后闪烁的灯光时，他就跑了。
By no means was there ever any delusion of thinking I was going to get away.
我从来没有幻想过自己会逃跑。
No. That's the farthest thing from my mind.
不，那是我最不可能想到的事情。
I knew that what I had done was wrong.
我知道我所做的是错误的。
They're on your tail right now.
他们现在就在你的尾巴上。
So I told myself, well, just drive a little bit more.
所以我告诉自己，好吧，多开一点。
Try to get your resolve together.
努力下定决心。
Calm down.
冷静下来。
So the plan you had was to gain composure.
所以你的计划是保持冷静。
Would you call it a plan?
你能称之为计划吗？
A plan!
一个计划！
But you know.
但你知道。
It's unfortunate that-- and I can say this, because certainly, I'm black.
不幸的是——我可以这么说，因为当然，我是黑人。
Being stereotyped as a black man and having to step out of a vehicle looking all shoddy and sweaty, and hair all awry, and with that obvious-- man, the guy's on drugs-- it was like, wow.
被刻板印象为黑人，不得不从车里走出来，看上去衣衫褴褛，满头大汗，头发乱糟糟的，而且很明显——天哪，这家伙吸毒了——就像，哇。
At least try to clean up your act a little bit.
至少试着改正一下自己的行为。
Talking to Dr. Kimball, he defies everyone's theory about why people run.
在与金博尔博士交谈时，他驳斥了每个人关于人们为何跑步的理论。
He hadn't hurt anybody or stolen anything.
他没有伤害任何人，也没有偷过任何东西。
He didn't think he could get away.
他不认为自己能够逃脱。
And he definitely didn't want to be on TV.
他绝对不想上电视。
There are people who study pursuits.
有人研究追求。
Yes, there are actual people who do this.
是的，确实有人这样做。
And they say that trying to figure out the reasons behind why people run, the cause behind the effect, is the wrong approach.
他们说，试图找出人们跑步背后的原因、效果背后的原因，是错误的方法。
What these experts have discovered is that there aren't any reasons behind why people run.
这些专家发现，人们跑步的背后没有任何原因。
There's just a type of person runs.
只有一种人在跑步。
They don't stop to weigh the consequences or to factor in all variables.
他们不会停下来权衡后果或考虑所有变量。
They just run.
他们只是跑。
They run because it doesn't occur to them not to.
他们逃跑是因为他们没有想到不这么做。
Which is to say, Dr. Richard Kimball ran because he was born to run.
也就是说，理查德·金博尔博士之所以跑步，是因为他生来就是为了跑步。
Oh, yeah, well, something you may not know, I've done this once before.
哦，是的，好吧，你可能不知道，我以前做过一次。
This happened had happened three years before.
这件事发生在三年前。
Really?
真的吗？
Dr. Kimball Yeah, yeah.
金博尔博士 是的，是的。
Oh, yeah, really.
哦，是的，真的。
The first time, I don't remember too many details about it.
第一次，我不记得太多细节了。
There was no hit and run.
没有发生肇事逃逸事件。
There was no accident or anything.
没有发生任何意外或任何事情。
I think it was a traffic infraction that just turned out to be a couple hour slow speed chase again.
我认为这是一次交通违规，结果又变成了几个小时的慢速追逐。
You know, I take great pride to think that I am a relatively decent, law-abiding citizen, OK?
你知道，我非常自豪地认为自己是一个相对正派、守法的公民，好吗？
So even while under the influence, I'm very cognizant of stop signs, turn signals.
因此，即使在酒后，我也非常清楚停车标志和转向灯。
Dr. Richard Kimball tells me that driving around, he had no idea he was on the news.
理查德·金博尔博士告诉我，他开车四处走动时，并不知道自己上了新闻。
He also tells me that he didn't know the cops had pulled out.
他还告诉我，他不知道警察已经撤离。
So I run by him some of the questions that the newscasters had.
所以我向他询问了新闻播音员提出的一些问题。
I asked him if the cops were in contact with his family.
我问他警察是否与他的家人保持联系。
He tells me no. I asked him if he thought that SUV driving behind him was an undercover policeman.
他告诉我不。我问他是否认为他后面开的SUV是卧底警察。
He tells me no. I asked him if he planned on driving home.
他告诉我不。我问他是否打算开车回家。
He tells me he wasn't thinking about it that clearly.
他告诉我他并没有考虑得那么清楚。
Did you have any particular pattern of where you were driving or a particular area that you were circling?
您对行驶的地点或盘旋的特定区域有任何特定的模式吗？
Oh, no. Strictly random.
哦，不。严格随机。
Like a leaf in a windstorm.
就像暴风雨中的一片叶子。
I think it's probably like 24, 25 miles to a gallon.
我认为一加仑大概可以行驶 24、25 英里。
I would, I would.
我愿意，我愿意。
Starlee Kine Did you have a cell phone in the car with you?
Starlee Kine 你车里有手机吗？
I did.
我做到了。
Starlee Kine Did you use it to call anyone?
Starlee Kine 你用它给任何人打电话吗？
Nope.
没有。
Nor did I keep the radio turned on, either.
我也没有打开收音机。
Just had a CD playing, if I recall correctly.
如果我没记错的话，刚刚播放了一张 CD。
What was it?
那是什么？
Dr. Kimball Boston.
金博尔·波士顿博士。
Yeah.
是的。
Their first album, More Than A Feeling .
他们的第一张专辑《More Than A Feeling》。
You laugh, but I mean, that's my favorite group.
你笑了，但我的意思是，那是我最喜欢的乐队。
Can I just tell you that learning these answers was ridiculously satisfying?
我可以告诉你，知道这些答案是非常令人满意的吗？
It's hard to put into words exactly, but it felt sort of like scratching an itch, while simultaneously solving a crossword puzzle, at the precise instant that, after racking your brains for it for two solid years, the name of your best friend from kindergarten suddenly pops into your head.
很难用语言准确地表达，但感觉有点像挠痒痒，同时解决填字游戏，就在你绞尽脑汁两年之后，你的幼儿园最好朋友的名字突然出现在你的脑海里。
It felt like that, only better.
感觉就是这样，而且更好。
Incredibly, there was one piece of KCAL speculation that came true.
令人难以置信的是，大华的一项猜测竟然成真了。
It was something they latched onto early on and that they kept coming back to over and over again, throughout the four hours, debating about when it would happen.
这是他们很早就抓住的东西，并且在整个四个小时内不断地回想起它，争论什么时候会发生。
Somehow they knew that this chase wasn't over, would never be over, until the fugitive ran out of gas.
不知何故，他们知道这场追逐还没有结束，永远不会结束，直到逃亡者耗尽汽油。
I think the low fuel indicator light came on.
我认为低燃油指示灯亮了。
If I recall correctly, the red light came on, and I'm sitting there going, well, maybe two gallons, three gallons at the most.
如果我没记错的话，红灯亮了，我坐在那里，嗯，也许是两加仑，最多三加仑。
What are you going to do?
你会怎样做？
Are you going to run out on the freeway, or are you going to pull over and give up?
你会在高速公路上跑出去，还是会停下来放弃？
So right now, the suspect is pulling over now, here in Inglewood.
所以现在，嫌疑人正在英格尔伍德这里靠边停车。
We don't know if he's out of gas, but he has completely pulled over and blacked out.
我们不知道他是否没油了，但他已经完全把车停在路边，然后就昏了过去。
And stand by one second.
并等待一秒钟。
We'll see what's going to happen here.
我们会看看这里会发生什么。
We'd driven away, and went somewhere and parked, and we're talking about it, a partner and I.
我们开车离开，去了某个地方并把车停了下来，我们正在谈论这件事，我和一个合伙人。
Again, Detective Spencer.
又是斯宾塞侦探。
After getting called off the chase, he and his partner pulled over and parked in a nearby area.
在被叫停后，他和他的搭档把车停在附近的区域。
They kept listening for any word of what was going on, but the radio was silent.
他们一直在听着正在发生的任何消息，但收音机却一片寂静。
They had no idea that the fugitive had pulled over, and were in fact still feeling frustrated that they'd been called off.
他们不知道逃犯已经把车停在路边，事实上他们仍然因为被叫停而感到沮丧。
Venting.
通风。
Brian Spencer Yeah, exactly.
布莱恩·斯宾塞 是的，确实如此。
We're just like, we couldn't believe that after four hours, he was just going to get away.
我们简直不敢相信，四个小时后，他竟然就这么离开了。
No ground units yet, as far as we can see.
据我们所知，还没有地面单位。
Don't see any movement of any doors at this particular point, and we do know that law enforcement agencies did back off, and they will probably be sending in ground units momentarily.
在这个特定时刻没有看到任何门有任何移动，我们确实知道执法机构确实后退了，他们可能会立即派遣地面部队。
No helicopter lights on the suspect.
嫌疑人身上没有直升机灯光。
We can see a vehicle approaching-- I guess, no, he's just making a turn.
我们可以看到一辆车正在靠近——我猜，不，他只是在转弯。
But--
但是——
I distinctly remember sitting there in the car.
我清楚地记得坐在车里。
Certainly there was no sirens, no lights.
当然，没有警报器，没有灯光。
And then, I'll never forget.
然后，我永远不会忘记。
There was a couple of young black women were coming from a gas station on the corner.
有几个年轻的黑人妇女从街角的加油站过来。
They were walking across the street.
他们正在过马路。
And one of them yelled out, "There the fool is!"
其中一人大声喊道：“傻瓜来了！”
And was that when it really registered that this might be on TV?
就在那时，它才真正意识到这可能会出现在电视上吗？
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
是的，是的，当然。
Starlee Kine Meanwhile, while sitting in his parked squad car, Detective Spencer received a phone call.
与此同时，斯宾塞侦探坐在停着的警车里，接到了一个电话。
My wife called me on my cell phone and said, "You know this car that everyone was chasing is in your city?
我妻子用手机给我打电话说：“你知道这辆大家都在追的车就在你所在的城市吗？
It stopped at like Ash and Manchester.
它停在阿什和曼彻斯特。
And he's just sitting there." And I said, "Really?
而他只是坐在那里。”我说：“真的吗？
The car's where?"
车在哪儿？”
Yeah.
是的。
She was flipping back and forth between that and a Dave Matthews interview.
她在采访和戴夫·马修斯的采访之间来回切换。
And then she said, "You know, you guys look really dumb right now.
然后她说：“你知道，你们现在看起来真的很蠢。
There's a guy sitting in your city, and the helicopters are up, and it's all over the news, and they're saying that Inglewood police isn't doing anything.
有一个人坐在你的城市，直升机已经升起，新闻里到处都是这样的事情，他们说英格尔伍德警察没有采取任何行动。
And the guy in a helicopter's saying that normally I tell them not to run from the police, because you'll never get away, but this guy seems like he's going to." And she said, "You know, you might want to go over there." And you can see our car just come down the street.
直升机上的那个人说，通常我会告诉他们不要逃离警察，因为你永远不会逃脱，但这个人似乎会这么做。”她说：“你知道，你可能想去那里。”你可以看到我们的车刚刚驶过街道。
--this driver presents any kind of an immediate threat--
——该司机构成了任何形式的直接威胁——
I see an LAPD officer right there.
我看到一名洛杉矶警察局官员就在那里。
Through that intersection there.
穿过那个路口那里。
OK.
好的。
There they are, right behind him now.
他们就在那里，就在他身后。
So officers just pulled in right now.
所以警察现在就介入了。
They have their guns drawn.
他们拔出了枪。
The suspect is now getting out.
目前嫌疑人已出狱。
The suspect appears to be an older man, heavy-set, and he's making his way back.
嫌疑人看起来是一位年纪较大、体格魁梧的男子，他正在往回走的路上。
No resistance whatsoever.
没有任何抵抗力。
Those are Inglewood PD officers.
这些是英格尔伍德警察局的警官。
And now the suspect is in custody.
现在嫌疑人已被拘留。
He's in the custody of the Inglewood PD.
他被英格尔伍德警察局拘留。
Throughout all of this, the only person who didn't doubt that he the fugitive would get caught was the fugitive.
在这整个过程中，唯一不怀疑自己这个逃犯会被抓的人就是逃犯。
And in the end, perhaps that's why he got caught.
最后，也许这就是他被抓的原因。
His faith in his inevitable capture turned out to be self-fulfilling.
他对自己不可避免的被捕的信念被证明是自我实现的。
Here's Detective Spencer.
这是斯宾塞侦探。
I mean, if he would have ran or did something, you know, I believe that news helicopters up there, and they don't have like to the infrareds and the spotlights and all that thing.
我的意思是，如果他会跑或做某事，你知道，我相信那里有新闻直升机，他们不喜欢红外线和聚光灯之类的东西。
And so I mean, technically, he probably could have got away if he would have ran, but he didn't.
所以我的意思是，从技术上讲，如果他逃跑的话他可能会逃脱，但他没有。
He just sat there.
他只是坐在那里。
I don't think I ever thought that.
我想我从来没有这么想过。
And it certainly isn't, it is not my MO to have gotten out of the car and added yet another segment to the chase by me running over fences and through backyards.
当然不是，我下车后又跑过栅栏、穿过后院，为追逐增添了另一个片段，这不是我的行为方式。
So you weren't surprised when the cops showed up.
所以当警察出现时你并不感到惊讶。
Well, no, no. Because that's what happens in those sorts of situations.
嗯，不，不。因为在那种情况下就会发生这种情况。
No, I wasn't surprised.
不，我并不感到惊讶。
Of course not.
当然不是。
[INAUDIBLE] pursuit that we've never really seen anybody get away here, and this would have been the first one.
[听不清]我们从未真正见过有人逃离这里，而这将是第一个。
The news team gives its closing comments.
新闻团队给出了结束语。
And consistent with the rest of the evening, they seem to apply to a whole different case altogether.
与当晚剩下的时间一致，它们似乎适用于完全不同的情况。
And I have to point out that out after this entire pursuit here, four hours long, nobody got hurt during this pursuit, and that is the best news, Bob.
我必须指出，在长达四个小时的整个追捕过程中，没有人在追捕过程中受伤，这是最好的消息，鲍勃。
OK.
好的。
The executive producer says we have to take a break, Larry.
执行制片人说我们必须休息一下，拉里。
OK?
好的？
Sounds good to me.
对我来说听起来不错。
Reporter 2 All right.
记者2 好吧。
We'll be right back.
我们马上回来。
Here's what happened next.
接下来发生了什么事。
Dr. Richard Kimball was arrested and taken to trial.
理查德·金博尔博士被捕并受审。
He was given two years for felony evasion and possession of cocaine, although he only had to serve a year.
他因逃税和持有可卡因重罪被判处两年徒刑，但他只需要服刑一年。
Ironically, the initial hit and run charge that started it all was dropped completely due to a lack of evidence.
具有讽刺意味的是，由于缺乏证据，最初引发这一切的肇事逃逸指控被完全撤销。
If he hadn't run in the first place, he probably wouldn't have gone to jail.
如果他一开始没有竞选，他可能就不会进监狱。
For a short while, on the night of August 31, 2001, this chase was KCAL's biggest story.
2001年8月31日晚，有一段时间，这场追逐是华兴最大的新闻。
A possibly dangerous fugitive who obeyed all traffic lives had managed to elude LA's police force for four hours for reasons nobody could fathom.
一名可能危险的逃犯遵守所有交通规则，成功躲避洛杉矶警察部队四个小时，其原因无人能理解。
And now that he'd been apprehended, we would finally learn the story behind it all.
现在他被捕了，我们终于可以了解这一切背后的故事了。
But immediately after the capture of Dr. Richard Kimball, KCAL returned to its regular programming.
但在理查德·金博尔博士被捕后，KCAL 立即恢复了正常编程。
There was no follow up the next day or the next week.
第二天或下周没有跟进。
In fact, there was never any.
事实上，从来没有。
My conversation with Dr. Richard Kimball turned out to be an exclusive.
我与理查德·金博尔博士的谈话结果是独家的。
In the two years since the case, no one has ever contacted him from the press.
案件发生后的两年里，没有人通过媒体联系过他。
When I called him, it was the first time he'd learned that he'd been the star of that night's news.
当我打电话给他时，他第一次得知自己成为了当晚新闻的明星。
Most everyone remembers where they were during the OJ chase, because it was one of those times when you could tell beyond the shadow of a doubt that you were expecting history in the making.
大多数人都记得他们在 OJ 追逐中所处的位置，因为那是你可以毫无疑问地知道你正在期待历史的时刻之一。
But if all history starts off as news, not all news becomes history.
但如果所有历史都以新闻开始，那么并非所有新闻都成为历史。
No one remembers where they were for this case.
没有人记得他们在处理此案时在哪里。
Except, of course, the man wasn't being chased, the man he wasn't chasing, and the diehard fan hovering in the air above.
当然，除了那个人没有被追赶，他没有追赶的那个人，还有那个顽固的粉丝在上空盘旋。
Starlee Kine.
斯塔莉·凯恩.
Coming up-- a film that makes you cry every four minutes, or me cry every four minutes, and a seafood buffet on the shores of Alabama.
即将上映——一部让你每四分钟哭一次，或者我每四分钟哭一次的电影，以及阿拉巴马州海岸的海鲜自助餐。
That's all in a minute from Chicago Public Radio and Public Radio International when our program continues.
当我们的节目继续进行时，芝加哥公共广播电台和国际公共广播电台将在一分钟内将这些内容全部播完。
It's This American Life.
这就是美国生活。
I'm David Rakoff, sitting in for Ira Glass.
我是大卫·拉科夫 (David Rakoff)，代理艾拉·格拉斯 (Ira Glass)。
Each week we choose a theme, a subject, a question, and invite a variety of writers, reporters, and performers to take a whack at it.
每周我们都会选择一个主题、一个主题、一个问题，并邀请各种作家、记者和表演者来尝试。
Today's program-- Like It Or Not.
今天的节目——喜欢与否。
Stories about inevitability and the actions we take or don't.
关于不可避免性以及我们采取或不采取的行动的故事。
We've arrived at act two of our program.
我们已经进入了计划的第二幕。
Don't Just Stand There.
不要只是站在那里。
When you get to know someone-- really know them-- you can almost predict their behavior.
当你了解某人——真正了解他们——你几乎可以预测他们的行为。
What they might say or do in a given situation, how they'll react to a movie or a book.
他们在特定情况下可能会说什么或做什么，他们会对电影或书籍有何反应。
It's comforting, this intimacy.
这种亲密感，让人很安心。
It reduces the chance for unpleasant surprises.
它减少了发生不愉快的意外的机会。
But what about when something comes up that requires someone to transcend his character?
但是，当出现需要某人超越其性格的事情时怎么办？
When what is most needed is for those around you to behave in no way like themselves?
什么时候最需要的是你周围的人表现得不像他们自己？
Sheila Peabody has this story about just such a moment.
希拉·皮博迪讲述了这样一个时刻的故事。
My father has always been a mild man, and all my friends whose fathers were mean or domineering always told me how lucky I was to have him.
我的父亲一直是个温和的人，所有父亲刻薄或专横的朋友总是告诉我有他是多么幸运。
He's gentle, kind, and introverted.
他温柔、善良、内向。
His great loves have always been the once-removed kind-- architecture, opera, multivolume Jefferson biographies.
他的最爱一直是那些曾经被移除的类型——建筑、歌剧、多卷杰斐逊传记。
But he's what psychologists would call, well, passive.
但他就是心理学家所说的被动型。
When he helps you carry the groceries into the house, he'll stand next to an empty kitchen counter and wait for you to tell him to put them down.
当他帮助你把杂货搬进屋时，他会站在一个空的厨房柜台旁边，等你叫他把它们放下。
Most of the time, this is not a big deal.
大多数时候，这没什么大不了的。
You say, "Right there, on the counter," and he puts them down.
你说，“就在那里，在柜台上”，他就把它们放下。
He was the kind of dad who could read a newspaper completely unflustered as you had a temper tantrum.
他是那种能像发脾气一样平静地看报纸的父亲。
The detachment wasn't a parenting strategy.
脱离并不是一种养育策略。
He just wasn't so keen on being an authority figure.
他只是不太热衷于成为权威人物。
Faced with my dad's passivity, my mother used to say to me, "When I get old, I'd rather be in a state nursing home than have your father take care of me." That was her worst fear, I think.
面对父亲的被动，母亲常常对我说：“等我老了，我宁愿去州立疗养院，也不愿让你父亲照顾我。”我想这是她最害怕的事情。
What he'd do, or more to the point, what he wouldn't do if she was totally helpless and needed him.
如果她完全无助并且需要他，他会做什么，或者更确切地说，他不会做什么。
Then last year it happened.
然后去年就发生了。
My mom was at home alone with my dad and she started feeling breathless, and he waited to call 911.
我妈妈和我爸爸单独在家，她开始感到喘不过气来，而他则等着拨打 911。
He waited for her to ask him to do it.
他等着她要求他这么做。
It was nine in the morning on a sunny July day.
那是七月的一个阳光明媚的早晨九点。
They'd been setting up in armchairs at the kitchen table, dozing on and off since 3 AM.
他们从凌晨 3 点起就坐在餐桌旁的扶手椅上断断续续地打瞌睡。
She was afraid of lying down, afraid of really falling asleep, because of what had happened a couple of days before.
她害怕躺下，害怕真正睡着，因为前几天发生的事情。
She had woken up feeling breathless and said, "Honey, call 911.
她醒来时感到气喘吁吁，说道：“亲爱的，拨打 911。
I can't breathe."
我无法呼吸。”
He did, and the ambulance rushed her to the hospital.
他照做了，救护车把她送往医院。
They put her on medication, and kept her for 24 hours for tests, and then sent her home, telling her it wasn't a heart attack, just an episode, because she'd skipped her medication for three days for a heart arrhythmia she'd managed for decades without a hitch.
他们让她接受药物治疗，并留她24小时进行检查，然后送她回家，告诉她这不是心脏病发作，只是一次发作，因为她已经三天没有服药，因为她已经治疗了几十年的心律失常。
I think she left the hospital feeling she might have overreacted.
我认为她离开医院时感觉自己可能反应过度了。
They certainly didn't tell her, "If it happens again, call 911 immediately." They didn't say, "If you don't feel better, come right in."
他们当然没有告诉她，“如果再发生这种情况，请立即拨打911。”他们没有说：“如果你感觉不舒服，就进来吧。”
So there they were, sitting in the kitchen armchairs, and the phone rang.
他们就在那里，坐在厨房的扶手椅上，电话响了。
We don't know who called.
我们不知道是谁打来的。
My dad assumes it was a telemarketer.
我爸爸认为那是一个电话推销员。
Later when he told me he would shake his head bitterly, as if the telemarketer really should have known better.
后来，当他告诉我时，他痛苦地摇摇头，好像电话推销员真的应该更了解似的。
My mother jumped up to answer it.
我妈妈跳起来回答。
It didn't take much to trigger her heart racing.
没过多久，她的心跳就开始加速。
She said hello, and then put the phone down.
她打了个招呼，然后就放下了电话。
"I wish I hadn't done that," she said.
“我希望我没有这么做，”她说。
suddenly breathless.
突然喘不过气来。
"Should I call 911?" my father asked.
“我应该拨打911吗？”我父亲问道。
"Oh, not that again," my mother said.
“哦，别再这样了，”我妈妈说。
So my father waited.
于是我父亲就等着。
My mother hated doctors, and the last thing he wanted was to incur her wrath by inviting those arrogant young men to manhandle and advise her all over again.
我母亲讨厌医生，他最不想做的就是邀请那些傲慢的年轻人再次对她进行粗暴对待和劝告，从而激怒她。
She took an aspirin.
她服用了一片阿司匹林。
My father helped her take her shirt off, because she said she was hot.
我父亲帮她脱掉衬衫，因为她说她很热。
Gradually the attack escalated.
攻击逐渐升级。
She panted, squealed, yelped.
她喘息着，尖叫着，尖叫着。
She held her arms out in a stiff imitation of a Frankenstein shudder.
她伸出双臂，僵硬地模仿弗兰肯斯坦的颤抖。
I know these things because my father offered muted renditions of them the first few days after she died for whoever would watch.
我知道这些事情是因为我父亲在她死后的头几天为愿意观看的人提供了这些事情的静音表演。
Then she passed out.
然后她就昏倒了。
My father would act this out as well, dropping his head back in the chair where she died, his mouth open, arms slack.
我父亲也会这么做，他把头靠在她去世的椅子上，张着嘴，双臂松弛。
"She was just gone," he'd say, shaking his head.
“她刚刚走了，”他摇着头说道。
It was then, he said, after she passed out, that he called 911.
他说，就在她昏倒后，他拨打了 911。
"How long did this take?" I always ask, wanting to hear something different.
“这花了多长时间？”我总是问，想听到不同的东西。
"10, 15 minutes.
“十、十五分钟。
I don't know." "That's an eternity," I say.
我不知道。” “那是永恒，”我说。
My dad nods, agreeable.
我爸点点头，表示同意。
"So you waited until she passed out to call 911?" I really want to say "died," but don't have the heart.
“所以你是等到她昏过去才拨打911？”我很想说“死了”，但又不忍心。
"I think so.
“我想是的。
I don't remember," my dad answers.
我不记得了，”我爸爸回答道。
The paramedics finally arrived.
救护人员终于赶到了。
They put a tube down her throat, did CPR, but she didn't come back.
他们将一根管子插入她的喉咙，进行心肺复苏，但她没有回来。
In his own car, my dad had to follow my mom's ambulance to the hospital for the disposition of her body.
我爸爸开着自己的车，跟着我妈妈的救护车去医院处理她的尸体。
When it had sunk in that they weren't reviving her, he called the family from hospital.
当他意识到他们无法抢救她时，他从医院给家人打电话。
He left a message at work on my voicemail.
他在工作时通过我的语音信箱留言。
He said, "I have some very sad news.
他说：“我有一些非常悲伤的消息。
Your mother passed away this morning.
你母亲今天早上去世了。
I'm here at the hospital and I'm all alone, and it's just awful, awful." He hung up.
我在医院里，我孤身一人，这太糟糕了。”他挂断了电话。
In the days just after my mother died, my father talked guiltily about not responding quickly enough, about not feeling he had the strength to lay her on the ground as the 911 operator instructed him to do.
在我母亲去世后的几天里，我父亲内疚地谈到反应不够快，感觉自己没有力量按照 911 接线员的指示将她放在地上。
I told him, no, don't blame yourself.
我告诉他，不，不要责怪自己。
How could you have known?
你怎么会知道？
But secretly I had to wonder.
但私下里我不得不想。
Had my father done with my mother's life what he'd always done when he noticed there was no butter at the dinner table?
当我父亲发现餐桌上没有黄油时，他是否对我母亲做了同样的事情？
He'd ask, "Where's the butter?" then place his hands slowly on the table, pretending to raise himself up in a supreme effort, waiting to see if anyone else would leap into action.
他会问：“黄油在哪里？”然后他的手慢慢地放在桌子上，假装竭尽全力地站起来，等着看是否有人会采取行动。
My dad wasn't negligent, exactly.
确切地说，我父亲并没有疏忽。
All she had to do was ask, of course.
当然，她所要做的就是问。
But it's hard not to see this moment-- her dying, him waiting to be asked to call 911-- as the inevitable ending to a 50 year relationship that simply never changed.
但很难不把这一刻——她的生命垂危，他等待被要求拨打 911——视为这段长达 50 年、从未改变的关系的不可避免的结局。
She was always looking to him to provide the final word, and he was looking to her for the same.
她总是指望他做出最后的决定，而他也同样指望她。
The problem was, they wanted completely different final words.
问题是，他们想要完全不同的最终话语。
She wanted him to say, "Let's talk about the state of our marriage, let's plan a party, let's worry about one of our children and devise a way to make a million dollars.
她想让他说：“让我们谈谈我们的婚姻状况，让我们计划一场聚会，让我们担心我们的一个孩子，并想出一种赚一百万美元的方法。
How about it?" And he wanted her to say, "The spatula is in the second drawer to the left.
怎么样？”他想让她说：“抹刀在左边第二个抽屉里。
But don't bother, sweetheart.
但别打扰，亲爱的。
I've already cooked your one egg sunny-side up.
我已经给你煎了一个单面煎蛋了。
Yolks broke, whole-wheat toast buttered, coffee very hot, not too strong, with half-and-half, not milk."
蛋黄碎了，全麦吐司涂了黄油，咖啡很热，但不太浓，加了一半，而不是牛奶。”
No matter what she threw at the relationship-- philosophy, feminism, therapy, Prozac, love, and patience, and rage-- she could never get him to play her way.
无论她在这段关系中投入什么——哲学、女权主义、治疗、百忧解、爱、耐心和愤怒——她永远无法让他按照她的方式行事。
"What do you want me to do?" he'd say, after she'd been lecturing him about one thing or another, an unreadable smile just visible behind his eyes.
“你想让我做什么？”他会说，在她向他讲授了一件事或另一件事之后，他的眼底浮现出难以捉摸的微笑。
"Just tell me what to say, and I'll say it."
“你只要告诉我该说什么，我就会说。”
In the end, maybe I wasn't any better than my dad.
到最后，也许我并不比我爸爸好多少。
I acted the same way I'd always acted.
我的行为方式与我一直以来的行为方式相同。
I pretended things would be fine.
我假装一切都会好起来的。
The day before my mom died, I called her from work and asked her how she was.
我妈妈去世的前一天，我下班给她打电话，问她怎么样。
"Oh, I've been better," she said cheerfully, explaining she'd just gotten back from the hospital and was feeling breathless.
“哦，我好多了，”她高兴地说，解释说她刚刚从医院回来，感到气喘吁吁。
"The cardiologist really acted strangely," she added.
“心脏病专家的行为真的很奇怪，”她补充道。
"I'll tell you all about it when we have time."
“等我们有时间的时候，我会把一切都告诉你。”
The next morning I awoke feeling uneasy, and told my husband so.
第二天早上我醒来感到不安，并告诉了我的丈夫。
Still, our life was crazy, and I didn't have room for another crisis, so I decided it just couldn't happen.
尽管如此，我们的生活还是很疯狂，我没有空间再经历一次危机，所以我决定这不会发生。
Now looking at all or behavior, I think, how could we all have been so stupid?
现在看看所有的行为，我想，我们怎么会这么愚蠢呢？
Why weren't we all acting like life didn't sometimes require us to just act a little differently?
为什么我们不表现得像生活有时不需要我们做出一点不同的行为呢？
Why didn't I drop everything to take care of her?
我为什么不放下一切来照顾她呢？
Why didn't he notice she was dying in that moment, that she couldn't ask for help?
为什么他在那一刻没有注意到她快要死了，她不能寻求帮助？
After my mother died, a friend who had suddenly lost her father wrote me.
我母亲去世后，一位突然失去父亲的朋友写信给我。
"The only thing we can learn from her parents," she said, "is to resolve not to make the same mistakes." I keep on trying to figure out what I'm supposed to learn from this.
“我们唯一能从她父母身上学到的东西，”她说，“就是下定决心不犯同样的错误。”我一直在努力弄清楚我应该从中学到什么。
If my mother died from her worst fear, what must I do to avoid mine?
如果我母亲死于她最可怕的恐惧，我该怎么做才能避免我的恐惧？
My worst fear used to be my mother's death.
我最害怕的是我母亲的去世。
Now it's that I have a blind spot like she had about something in my life I'm not able to transform, no matter how hard I try.
现在我对生活中的某些事情有一个盲点，就像她一样，无论我多么努力，我都无法改变。
How do you begin to see your own blind spot?
你如何开始看到自己的盲点？
Weird little things help.
奇怪的小事情会有所帮助。
Like it helps to remember a conversation my brother said he had once with my father, when his world, like some mountain cracking open for the Pied Piper, became visible for the briefest moment.
就像这有助于记住我哥哥说的他曾经和我父亲的一次谈话，当时他的世界就像一座为花衣魔笛手裂开的山峰，在最短暂的瞬间变得可见。
My dad was staring into space and my brother asked him, "Dad, what are you thinking about right now?" "The hippopotamus," answered my father, apropos of nothing.
我爸爸凝视着太空，我哥哥问他：“爸爸，你现在在想什么？” “河马。”我父亲毫无根据地回答道。
"What's the hippopotamus doing?" my brother asked him.
“河马在做什么？”我哥哥问他。
"Oh," my father said, "he's going back to the forest."
“噢，”父亲说，“他要回森林去了。”
Sheila Peabody from the San Francisco Bay Area.
来自旧金山湾区的希拉·皮博迪。
Act Three.
第三幕。
Hello, Baby.
你好，宝贝。
A lot of life's inevitability is hazy.
人生的很多必然性都是朦胧的。
It will happen sometime, but you're not sure when.
它有时会发生，但你不确定什么时候。
But with pregnancy, it's on an invariable schedule-- 40 weeks.
但对于怀孕来说，它的时间表是不变的——40周。
At 36 weeks, producer Wendy Dorr was experiencing an essential contradiction in pregnancy, which is, the thing that she was most looking forward to was also the thing that scared the hell out of her.
36周时，制片人温迪·多尔（Wendy Dorr）正经历着孕期的一个本质矛盾，那就是，她最期待的事情却又是最让她害怕的事情。
She explained the basic fear to me, which, to put it bluntly, was--
她向我解释了基本的恐惧，说白了，就是——
To push this giant, you know, melon out of your vagina.
把这个巨大的瓜从你的阴道里推出来。
Well, how high is your level of fear from a one to ten?
那么，从一到十，你的恐惧程度有多高？
Probably nine.
大概是九个。
Probably a nine.
大概是九。
Part of it is this feeling of, there's nothing I can do.
部分原因是这种感觉，我无能为力。
Like, I have no choice now.
就像，我现在别无选择。
What else am I going to do?
我还要做什么？
Like, find a substitute?
比如，找一个替代品？
Or quit?
或者退出？
Or just decide I don't want to do it anymore?
或者只是决定不再这样做？
There's one way out.
有一个出路。
She's right.
她是对的。
There really is only one way out.
确实只有一条出路。
And the basic belief is that the better you prepare, the better you'll be able to deal with it.
基本信念是，你准备得越好，你就能更好地应对它。
There are books about what to expect, videos you can watch, classes you can take.
有一些关于您可以期待什么的书籍、您可以观看的视频、您可以参加的课程。
But does it actually help to prepare for something like this?
但为这样的事情做好准备真的有帮助吗？
My name is Wendy, and my due date's the 26th.
我叫温迪，预产期是 26 号。
Wendy takes me to her Lamaze class to see.
温迪带我去她的拉马泽课看看。
We're in the Elizabeth Bing Center for Parents, a ground floor apartment in a building on the Upper West Side.
我们位于伊丽莎白·宾家长中心，这是上西区一栋建筑的底层公寓。
Six women, three husbands, myself, and Fritzi, the teacher, sit on chairs in a circle in the main room.
六个女人、三个丈夫、我和弗里茨老师，坐在主房间的椅子上，围成一圈。
The highlight of today's class is going to be a film of childbirth.
今天课程的亮点是一部关于分娩的电影。
The hours that precede your baby's birth may provide physical and emotional challenges that are hard to anticipate.
宝宝出生前的几个小时可能会带来难以预料的身体和情感挑战。
But taking time to prepare will give you confidence.
但花时间准备会给你信心。
Also, it will reassure you that although bringing your child into the world takes work, it is work with a very special reward.
此外，它还会让您放心，尽管将您的孩子带到这个世界需要付出努力，但这种工作会带来非常特殊的回报。
Hello, baby.
你好，宝贝。
That's the name of the movie.
这就是电影的名字。
The title card comes up at that moment.
标题卡就在此时出现。
At 20 minutes or so, it's the highlights of childbirth.
20分钟左右，正是分娩的高潮。
It's not some 18-hour Andy Warhol verite epic.
这不是安迪·沃霍尔 18 小时的真正史诗。
It looks to be from the early '80s.
看起来是80年代初的。
It's shot on film.
它是用胶片拍摄的。
It's three couples, each going through the labor process, and ending, of course, with the vaginal birth of a healthy baby.
这是三对夫妇，每对都经历了分娩过程，当然，最终以健康婴儿的阴道分娩而告终。
The same thing happened all three times.
同样的事情发生了三遍。
Which is, you begin by focusing on how dated things look, how fried their hair seems.
也就是说，你首先关注事物看起来如何过时，他们的头发看起来如何焦躁。
But that recedes as you go along.
但随着你的前进，这种感觉就会消失。
It's incredibly intense to watch a baby being born.
看着婴儿出生的感觉非常强烈。
You get sucked into the undeniable drama of it all, even though you know how it's going to end.
你会被卷入这一切不可否认的戏剧之中，即使你知道它会如何结束。
It was so incredible looking in the mirror when his head was born.
当他的头出生时，看着镜子真是难以置信。
Then, all of a sudden, Kyle Junior was in my arms.
然后，突然间，小凯尔就在我怀里。
At this point, I'm crying.
此时此刻，我正在哭泣。
I cried three times.
我哭了三遍。
Every time a baby was born.
每次婴儿出生时。
But Wendy cried, too.
但温蒂也哭了。
Seeing it firsthand made it seem significantly less scary to me.
亲眼所见让我觉得它不再那么可怕了。
Then again, I'm not having a baby.
再说一遍，我不会生孩子。
It was-- I guess I felt the same.
我想我也有同样的感觉。
It seemed really painful and out-of-control to see it.
看到它似乎真的很痛苦并且无法控制。
She's still glad she saw the movie.
她仍然很高兴看到了这部电影。
She's glad she took the prenatal course.
她很高兴参加了产前课程。
It hasn't made the inevitability that much less scary.
但这并没有让不可避免的事情变得不那么可怕。
But as we talk, it emerges that preparation might not even be the real goal of these classes.
但正如我们所说，准备甚至可能不是这些课程的真正目标。
What the classes, is just-- it's like having something to do with your hands.
课程的内容就是——就像用你的双手做一些事情。
It's just busywork to get you through the weeks of waiting.
让你度过数周的等待只是忙碌的工作。
And it's doing that.
它正在这样做。
It's keeping me preoccupied.
这让我全神贯注。
But then why not just pick up a hobby?
但那为什么不直接培养一个爱好呢？
Why not learn lacemaking or something?
为什么不学习花边制作之类的？
What is it specifically about confronting the details?
面对细节具体是什么？
Lacemaking?
花边制作？
I would feel a little irresponsible.
我会觉得有点不负责任。
Because even though I realize that I'm going to have pretty much no control over what happens when I actually do go into labor, there's this sense that the more I learn about it, the more I can feel like I'm in control, even though I know that I won't be.
因为即使我意识到，当我真正分娩时，我几乎无法控制会发生什么，但我有一种感觉，我对它了解得越多，我就越能感觉到我在控制之中，尽管我知道我不会。
Producer Wendy Dorr.
制片人温迪·多尔。
Four weeks after that interview, she gave birth to a daughter, Lucy.
那次采访四个星期后，她生下了女儿露西。
Act Four.
第四幕。
On the Eighth Day, God Created Tartar Sauce.
第八天，上帝创造了塔塔酱。
We have to begin this story with a little bit of science.
我们必须用一点科学知识来开始这个故事。
In the deeper parts of Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, in Alabama, there is a pocket of water that's very low in oxygen.
在阿拉巴马州墨西哥湾莫比尔湾的深处，有一片水域的氧气含量非常低。
Basically, it's a dead zone.
基本上，这是一个死区。
No fish live there.
那里没有鱼住。
But under certain conditions, and usually during the middle of the night, that pocket of water can move, driving all sorts of fish-- crabs, shrimp, flounder, eels, stingrays, whatnot-- out of its way.
但在某些条件下，通常是在半夜，这片水会移动，驱赶各种鱼类——螃蟹、虾、比目鱼、鳗鱼、黄貂鱼等等——让开。
The fish are pushed all the way to the shoreline and surge up on to the beach.
鱼儿被一路推到海岸线，然后涌上海滩。
They're alive, but kind of dazed, so they're easy to collect.
它们还活着，但有点茫然，所以很容易收集。
It's a totally free, all-you-can-eat seafood buffet.
这是完全免费的无限量海鲜自助餐。
This is called a jubilee.
这称为禧年。
The jubilee has a season, just like a hurricane-- but a really nice hurricane.
禧年有一个季节，就像飓风一样——但是一场非常好的飓风。
It happens in late summer, sometimes more than once.
这种情况发生在夏末，有时不止一次。
No one seems to know exactly when or how often, but it's pretty much guaranteed as an annual event.
似乎没有人知道确切的时间和频率，但它几乎可以保证是一年一度的活动。
Curtis Sittenfeld tells more.
柯蒂斯·西滕菲尔德讲述了更多内容。
As people in Mobile Bay explain it, there's nothing quite like a jubilee.
正如莫比尔湾的人们所解释的那样，没有什么比周年庆典更好的了。
They're strange and exciting, and they're really, really fun.
它们既奇怪又令人兴奋，而且真的非常非常有趣。
Have you ever seen so many fish?
你见过这么多鱼吗？
There's a big flounder coming in.
有一条大比目鱼进来了。
See him out there?
在外面看到他吗？
Let him come in a little bit.
让他进来一点。
This is a videotape of a jubilee shot in 1991 by a man named Bird Zundel.
这是 1991 年伯德·赞德尔 (Bird Zundel) 拍摄的五十周年纪念录像带。
It's dark out, so as people walk around in a shallow water near the shore, they're shining really bright lights.
天很黑，所以当人们在海岸附近的浅水中行走时，他们会发出非常明亮的灯光。
In the water, there's basically this chaos of fish.
在水里，基本上都是鱼的混乱。
Eels slithering by, and flounder carpeting the sand, and catfish swimming in huge schools, and crabs moving sideways or climbing up on a jetty.
鳗鱼在沙滩上滑行，比目鱼在沙滩上铺满地毯，鲶鱼在大群中游动，螃蟹在旁边移动或爬上码头。
I'm not sure how else to say it except that the water is crowded, like Penn Station at rush hour.
我不知道还能怎么说，除了水里很拥挤，就像高峰时段的宾州车站一样。
That is wall-to-wall flounders right there.
那是满墙的比目鱼。
I don't know how many there are.
我不知道有多少人。
And they're just as stunned as they can be.
他们简直惊呆了。
A crab of lying on top of two flounders, right?
一只螃蟹躺在两条比目鱼上面，对吗？
Mr. Zundel is helping some friends who have never seen a jubilee before.
Zundel 先生正在帮助一些以前从未见过禧年的朋友。
He's advising them on how to use gigs, which are spears for impaling flounder, and how to gather crabs in a net.
他建议他们如何使用渔具（用于刺穿比目鱼的长矛），以及如何用网收集螃蟹。
This is jubilee at its strongest.
这是最强烈的禧年。
Here's flounders on the beach-- glitter you see on the war is fish.
这是海滩上的比目鱼——你在战争中看到的闪光是鱼。
Just thousands of fish with the sun hitting them.
成千上万的鱼在阳光的照耀下。
Come stand out here and look at this.
站出来看看这个。
Good [UNINTELLIGIBLE].
好[无法理解]。
Mobile Bay is 32 miles by 8 miles.
莫比尔湾长 32 英里 x 8 英里。
The eastern shore, where the jubilees occur, has a timeless feel to it.
东海岸是禧年举行的地方，有一种永恒的感觉。
Some of the families have lived here since the 1800s, and several generations might share a cottage or group of cottages.
有些家庭自 1800 年代起就住在这里，几代人可能共用一间小屋或一组小屋。
A lot of the houses have sleeping porches, and some have real, actual white picket fences.
许多房子都有睡觉的门廊，有些还有真正的白色栅栏。
I learned about jubilees last summer when I was a bridesmaid in a wedding with two sisters named Murray Douglas and Marion MacPherson.
去年夏天，当我在默里·道格拉斯和马里昂·麦克弗森两姐妹的婚礼上担任伴娘时，我了解了周年庆。
They grew up on the bay, and Murray told me that from the age of five to the age of 15, she spent every night of the summer sleeping in her bathing suit on top of the covers, waiting for a jubilee.
他们在海湾长大，穆雷告诉我，从 5 岁到 15 岁，她夏天的每个晚上都穿着泳衣睡在被子上，等待禧年。
Basically, for ten whole years, she existed in a state of anticipation.
整整十年，她基本上都处于一种期待的状态。
As I talked to Murray and Marion, I began to see jubilees as some sort of intersection of anticipation, inevitability, and luck.
当我与默里和马里昂交谈时，我开始将禧年视为预期、必然性和运气的某种交集。
I decided to go down to Alabama to try to catch one for myself.
我决定去阿拉巴马州亲自抓一只。
When I got there, I discovered that everyone has a jubilee story.
当我到达那里时，我发现每个人都有一个禧年的故事。
When the jubilees happen, of course, it's still early, early in the morning, and usually still very dark.
当然，当禧年发生时，时间还很早，清晨，而且通常还很黑。
So you go out in in your little shorty nightgown, and you know, your little babydoll pajamas, because it's so dark.
所以你穿着你的小短睡衣出去，你知道，你的小娃娃装睡衣，因为天太黑了。
And you're out there, and you're digging, and you're scooping, and all of a sudden, you realize it's broad daylight and you are out there in your pajamas.
你在外面，你在挖，你在舀，突然间，你意识到这是光天化日，而你却穿着睡衣在外面。
And then you kind of slink on back to the house and get your clothes on.
然后你就溜回屋子穿上衣服。
My favorite jubilee was when my husband and my son and I went down the beach just to flounder.
我最喜欢的禧年是当我和我的丈夫、儿子和我去海滩挣扎的时候。
And we come into a big jubilee then at Bailey's Creek, which is about a mile from here.
然后我们在距离这里大约一英里的贝利溪 (Bailey's Creek) 举行了一场盛大的庆典。
One of the most biggest jubilees I have ever seen in my life.
这是我一生中见过的最盛大的周年庆典之一。
They were literally five and six lying on top of one another.
他们实际上是五六个人躺在一起。
You could get one and come up with five.
你可以得到一个并想出五个。
When we got in that night, we had 720 big flounders.
那天晚上我们到达的时候，我们有 720 条大比目鱼。
It was beautiful.
很漂亮。
So I stayed and didn't go to work that day.
所以那天我留下来并没有去上班。
Cleaned all of them, fileted them, put them in a little bag.
把它们全部清洗干净，切成薄片，放在一个小袋子里。
Then three weeks later, Hurricane Frederick came, and we were 79 days without any electricity over here.
三周后，飓风弗雷德里克来了，我们这里已经有 79 天没有通电了。
So all those free flounders we got from the bay went right back to the bay.
所以我们从海湾得到的所有那些免费的比目鱼都直接回到了海湾。
That's why I call it easy come, easy go.
这就是为什么我称之为来得容易，去得容易。
It turns out there's a whole etiquette to jubilee.
事实证明，禧年有一套完整的礼仪。
Some people say that a jubilee reveals who your real friends are.
有人说，周年纪念会揭示谁是你真正的朋友。
If you call people to alert them when you find one, they'll call you the next time.
如果您在发现时打电话提醒他们，他们下次就会给您打电话。
And if you don't do your share of patrolling the beach at 3 AM, you might find that your phone's not ringing as often.
如果您不在凌晨 3 点在海滩巡逻，您可能会发现手机铃声不再那么频繁。
Also, it's totally acceptable to miss a day of work because you were up gigging flounders the night before and now you have to clean them.
另外，因为前一天晚上你还在玩比目鱼，而现在你必须清理它们，所以错过一天的工作是完全可以接受的。
The only thing is, you have to bring in some flounder for your boss.
唯一的问题是，你必须给你的老板带来一些比目鱼。
Down there.
下面。
Ooh, did you see it?
哦，你看到了吗？
Yeah, it was down there.
是的，它就在那里。
I saw one!
我看到一个！
At night, around 10 o'clock, I go with Marion McPherson, whom I know from the wedding, her four year old son Skiddy, and their ten year old neighbor, Sayer Kerley to check the conditions.
晚上 10 点左右，我和在婚礼上认识的 Marion McPherson、她四岁的儿子 Skiddy 以及他们十岁的邻居 Sayer Kerley 一起去检查条件。
We've walked up the dock and now we're peering into the water with flashlights.
我们已经走到了码头，现在我们正用手电筒往水里看。
And believe it or not, there are more and more signs of an impending jubilee.
不管你信不信，越来越多的迹象表明禧年即将到来。
We see a crab near the piling of the wharf and a few catfish.
我们在码头的堆垛附近看到一只螃蟹和几条鲶鱼。
Jubilees believe can be several miles long or less than 100 feet.
Jubilees 认为长度可以是几英里，也可以是不到 100 英尺。
They can contain all sorts of fish or just one kind.
它们可以包含各种鱼或仅包含一种。
For example, you can have an all-shrimp jubilee.
例如，您可以举办全虾庆典。
I thuink there might be a jubilee.
我想可能会有一个禧年。
Do you think there might be?
你认为可能有吗？
There's at least three crabs on that [INAUDIBLE] over there.
那边[听不清]至少有三只螃蟹。
Sayer says he thinks there's a seven in ten chance of a jubilee.
塞耶说，他认为禧年的可能性十分之七。
Even though I'm really excited, I try to remember he's in fifth grade.
尽管我真的很兴奋，但我还是努力记住他才五年级。
I ask Marion to weigh in.
我请马里昂发表意见。
I would say that really there are very good signs tonight.
我想说今晚确实有非常好的迹象。
And this would be a night, if I-- well.
这将是一个美好的夜晚，如果我——好吧。
This would be a night, if I were hunting jubilees, that I would sleep on the wharf and look for one.
如果我要狩猎禧年，这将是一个夜晚，我会睡在码头上寻找一个。
So I decided to sleep on the wharf.
于是我决定睡在码头上。
And I have some company.
我有一些陪伴。
I'm Sunny Kerley and I'm 14, and I'm about to go to sleep.
我是 Sunny Kerley，今年 14 岁，我要睡觉了。
Why are you on the wharf?
你为什么在码头？
Sunny Because we're waiting for a jubilee.
阳光明媚，因为我们正在等待禧年。
Ah, somewhat.
啊，有点。
Not really.
并不真地。
Curtis Sittenfeld No comment.
柯蒂斯·西滕菲尔德 没有评论。
Sayer is also sleeping on the wharf.
塞耶也睡在码头上。
Our plan is to get up every couple hours to see what's happening.
我们的计划是每隔几个小时起床看看发生了什么。
I ask Sayer if he thinks we should set an alarm clock, but he says he'll be able to wake up without one.
我问塞耶是否认为我们应该设个闹钟，但他说不用闹钟他也能醒来。
Before crawling into his sleeping bag, he drinks a Coke.
在爬进睡袋之前，他喝了一瓶可乐。
Less than fifteen minutes after saying goodnight, we have our first jubilee casualty.
道晚安后不到十五分钟，我们迎来了第一个禧年伤亡者。
It's really buggy out, and Sunny decides to go sleep in his own bed.
外面实在是太乱了，桑尼决定睡在自己的床上。
Sayer and I settle back down.
塞耶和我重新坐下来。
But an hour later, we hear a noise.
但一个小时后，我们听到了噪音。
OK.
好的。
There's some mysterious thing that is floating with two lights in the front.
有一些神秘的东西漂浮在前面，上面有两盏灯。
Has a very loud generator engine on it.
上面有一个非常响亮的发电机。
And it looks like he's catching some flounder, and we're going to go interview him, see what he's doing.
看起来他正在抓一些比目鱼，我们要去采访他，看看他在做什么。
We've been here for like almost an hour.
我们在这里待了快一个小时了。
I did not come close to sleeping.
我差点就睡着了。
Neither did I.
我也没有。
[UNINTELLIGIBLE] didn't do anything.
[无法理解]什么也没做。
We walk to the shore to meet the boat coming in.
我们走到岸边迎接驶来的船。
Hi.
嗨。
You think there's gonna be a jubilee?
你认为会有禧年吗？
I don't know.
我不知道。
There's a lot of flounders out here, I know that.
我知道这里有很多比目鱼。
The guide tells us he's caught 50 flounder so far, which is more than twice as many as you'd get on a normal night.
导游告诉我们，他到目前为止已经钓到了 50 条比目鱼，这是平常晚上钓到的数量的两倍多。
His plan is to stay out until morning hunting the jubilee, and he seems pretty sure that it's a matter of where, not if.
他的计划是在外面待到早上，去庆祝禧年，而且他似乎很确定这只是在哪里举行的问题，而不是是否举行的问题。
After this excitement, Sayer and I go back to sleep and wake up a few hours later to check out the conditions.
兴奋过后，塞耶和我回去睡觉，几个小时后醒来检查情况。
Look where we're stepping.
看看我们正迈向何处。
Curtis Sittenfeld We've established a routine Sayer fires up a flounder light and we walk about a half a mile down the beach.
Curtis Sittenfeld 我们已经制定了惯例，塞耶点燃了比目鱼灯，然后我们沿着海滩走了大约半英里。
We're sloshing through the water and climbing underneath docks and over jetties.
我们在水中晃动，在码头下方和防波堤上攀爬。
We don't find anything.
我们什么也没找到。
Sayer and I wake up for good around seven.
塞耶和我在七点左右就醒了。
There wasn't a jubilee, which is weirdly hard to believe.
没有禧年，这令人难以置信。
In my head, I had imagined the jubilee so clearly that at some point, it began to seem inevitable.
在我的脑海里，我对禧年的想象是如此清晰，以至于在某个时刻，它开始显得不可避免。
Since I didn't get to see a real one, I decide to pay a visit to Manci's Antique Club, a nearby bar that has an entire wall covered with pictures of jubilees.
由于我没能看到真品，所以我决定去曼奇古董俱乐部 (Manci's Antique Club) 看看，这是附近的一家酒吧，整面墙都挂满了禧年的照片。
I walk in and introduced myself to Mr. Manci, who immediately tells me there was a jubilee.
我走进去，向曼奇先生做了自我介绍，他立即告诉我有一个周年庆典。
This was a big one, up in [UNINTELLIGIBLE].
这是一件大事，在[无法理解]中。
It started at like seven o'clock in the morning.
早上七点左右就开始了。
I can't-- it was at seven o'clock in the morning?
我不能——那是早上七点？
I was literally up at seven o'clock looking, but I was in the wrong place.
我确实是七点钟起床寻找的，但我来错地方了。
Well, you've go to be at the right spot at the right time.
好吧，你必须在正确的时间出现在正确的地点。
Clearly I wasn't in the right place at the right time.
显然我没有在正确的时间出现在正确的地点。
But people console me by saying I have had the most authentic jubilee experience of all, which is the sort where you stay up all night chasing the jubilee, and you come close, but you don't actually find it.
但人们安慰我说，我经历了最真实的禧年经历，就是那种你彻夜不眠地追逐禧年的经历，你很接近，但你实际上并没有找到它。
You invest all this time and excited energy, and then nothing happens.
你投入了所有的时间和兴奋的精力，然后什么也没有发生。
Of course, it's still fun to get excited.
当然，兴奋起来还是很有趣的。
To me, one of the coolest things about jubilee is that it's both unpredictable and good.
对我来说，禧年最酷的事情之一就是它既不可预测又美好。
I've been trying to think of other things that are like that, but it seems like there aren't that many.
我一直在努力思考其他类似的事情，但似乎并不多。
Usually stuff is unpredictable and bad, like a car accident, or predictable and good, like Christmas.
通常事情是不可预测的、糟糕的，比如车祸，或者是可预测的、好的，比如圣诞节。
While I'm in Alabama, I keep coming up with comparisons, but none of them are quite right.
当我在阿拉巴马州时，我不断地进行比较，但没有一个是完全正确的。
This is the one I finally hit on.
这是我最终想到的。
A jubilee is like hearing a song you love on the radio.
禧年就像在广播中听到一首你喜欢的歌曲。
Just like you can go out and buy shrimp at the grocery store, when I was 19 years old, I could have bought a Tom Petty CD and listened to "American Girl" anytime I wanted.
就像你可以去杂货店买虾一样，当我19岁的时候，我可以买一张Tom Petty CD并随时听“美国女孩”。
But somehow it always sounded better when I was driving along in the car and it just came on.
但不知何故，当我开车时，它听起来总是更好，而且它就出现了。
It sounded better when I was surprised by it.
当我感到惊讶时，听起来更好了。
And even all the times you don't hear your favorite song, you still know that it exists in the world, that it's only a matter of time.
即使每次你听不到你最喜欢的歌曲，你仍然知道它存在于世界上，这只是时间问题。
It's not that big, but it gives you something to keep hoping for.
它并不大，但它给了你一些值得继续期待的东西。
Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the novel Prep.
柯蒂斯·西滕菲尔德是小说《准备》的作者。
Our program was produced today by Diane Cook and myself with Alex Blumberg, Wendy Dorr, Starlee Kine.
今天我们的节目由黛安·库克和我本人以及亚历克斯·布隆伯格、温迪·多尔、斯塔莉·凯恩共同制作。
This American Life's senior producer is Julie Snyder.
这位《美国生活》的资深制片人是朱莉·斯奈德。
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 Stacy [?
托德·巴赫曼 (Todd Bachmann) 和史黛西 (Stacy) 提供制作帮助 [?
Titterington.
蒂特林顿。
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[ACKNOWLEDGMENTS] Our website, www.thisamericanlife.org, where you can listen to our shows for free.
[鸣谢] 我们的网站 www.thisamericanlife.org，您可以在其中免费收听我们的节目。
You can download today's show and our archives at audible.com/thisamericanlife.
您可以在 audible.com/thisamericanlife 下载今天的节目和我们的档案。
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 always says to me when he passes me in the hallway, particularly when I'm filing in the lower drawers,
[资金来源] WBEZ 管理由 Torey Malatia 负责监督，当他在走廊经过我时，特别是当我在下面的抽屉里归档文件时，他总是对我说，
Hello, baby.
你好，宝贝。
David Rakoff I'm David Rakoff.
大卫·拉考夫 我是大卫·拉考夫。
Ira Glass will be back next week with more stories of This American Life.
艾拉·格拉斯将于下周回归，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。