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Prologue: Prologue Ira Glass Brett was standing at a subway platform, afternoon rush hour.
序言： 序言 下午高峰时间，艾拉·格拉斯·布雷特站在地铁站台上。
It was crowded.
那里很拥挤。
And he noticed this guy-- didn't seem homeless, decent clothes-- stopping in front of each person, looking into his or her eyes, saying something, and moving on to the next person.
他注意到这个家伙——看起来不像无家可归的人，穿着体面的衣服——在每个人面前停下来，看着他们的眼睛，说了些什么，然后转向下一个人。
Turns out the guy was telling people--
原来那家伙是在告诉人们——
They could stay or they had to go.
他们可以留下来，也可以离开。
They were in or they were out.
他们要么进来，要么出去。
Well, literally, it would be, you, you're out.
好吧，从字面上看，那就是，你，你出局了。
You're gone.
你走了。
You're gone.
你走了。
You're OK, you can stay.
你没事，你可以留下来。
And then do people leave?
然后人们会离开吗？
Brett No, not at all.
布雷特 不，一点也不。
And no one argued with him.
而且没有人与他争论。
Brett wrote about the incident on his personal website, BRETTnews.
布雷特在他的个人网站布雷特新闻上报道了这一事件。
Let me ask you to read a little bit of your account of this from your website.
让我请您从您的网站上阅读一下您对此的描述。
You write about who he decided to keep and who he decided to go.
你写了他决定留下谁以及他决定离开谁。
Right.
正确的。
These are the last few people before he reaches me.
这是他到达我身边之前的最后几个人。
The 50-ish woman in the business suit and thick glasses is summarily dismissed.
这名身穿西装、戴着厚厚眼镜的 50 岁左右的女士被立即解雇了。
The homey in the baggy shorts and Chicago Bulls jersey makes the cut.
宽松短裤和芝加哥公牛队球衣的居家气息脱颖而出。
The young immigrant mother who seems not to grasp the import of this moment is given the OK.
这位年轻的移民母亲似乎没有领会这一刻的重要性，但得到了许可。
Oh, versus you who's grasping just how important this is.
哦，与你相比，你明白这有多重要。
Right.
正确的。
The bookish man in the maroon cardigan sweater with balding head and red face is cut loose with particular relish.
栗色开衫毛衣的书呆子男人，光头红脸，宽松的剪裁特别有味道。
There is something about the judgment of strangers.
陌生人的判断是有一定道理的。
When the clerk in the record store seems unimpressed by your choice of CDs.
当唱片店的店员似乎对你选择的 CD 不感兴趣时。
When the one cute person on the bus gives you a look like, out of my way.
当公交车上那个可爱的人给你一个眼神，让开。
It's as if, by their status as strangers, they have some special instantaneous insight into who we are.
就好像，通过他们作为陌生人的身份，他们对我们是谁有一些特殊的即时洞察力。
Their vision isn't clouded by our feeble attempts to charm our friends and the people we work with.
他们的愿景不会因为我们试图吸引我们的朋友和同事的软弱努力而蒙上阴影。
The guy got closer to Brett.
那家伙离布雷特更近了。
And I'm starting to feel a little nervous and aware of the fact--
我开始感到有点紧张并意识到这个事实——
Will I make the cut?
我会晋级吗？
Brett It sounds so silly.
布雷特 这听起来很傻。
We all like to think that we're evolved enough or mature enough.
我们都喜欢认为自己已经足够进化或足够成熟。
But when push comes to shove and a guy's going down the line rating, I found that you can't help but kind of hope that he gives you the thumbs up when your turn comes.
但当事情到了紧要关头，一个人的评分下降时，我发现你会情不自禁地希望他在轮到你的时候给你竖起大拇指。
But Brett, he's not choosing you for anything.
但是布雷特，他选择你并不是因为什么。
No, he's not.
不，他不是。
And he didn't even look like anyone I particularly wanted to hang with, as much as one can tell from someone's appearance.
而且他看起来根本不像我特别想与之相处的人，这一点从某人的外表就可以看出。
You didn't really feel any need to impress this guy.
你真的觉得没有必要给这个人留下深刻的印象。
No, no. Ira Glass To me, I think you're right, because this is the purest case I've ever heard of.
不，不。 Ira Glass：对我来说，我认为你是对的，因为这是我听过的最纯粹的案例。
Literally, he's picking you for nothing.
从字面上看，他无缘无故地选择了你。
Right, right.
对，对。
Ira Glass And yet you want to be chosen.
艾拉·格拉斯（Ira Glass）：然而你却想被选中。
Exactly.
确切地。
Ira Glass So the guy walks up to Brett, stands actually a little too close to him, looks in his eyes and says, you can stay.
Ira Glass 于是，那家伙走到 Brett 面前，实际上站得离他太近了，看着他的眼睛说，你可以留下来。
And Brett felt euphoria, a small euphoria sure.
布雷特感到欣快感，确实是一种小小的欣快感。
In his mind, he knew there's no reason to feel so good about this, but in his heart, it made him feel really, really happy.
在他的心里，他知道自己没有理由为此感到高兴，但在他的心里，却让他感到非常非常的高兴。
It was like, all right.
就像，好吧。
Ira Glass You wrote in your account of this, I find myself against my own better judgment, now looking with some disdain and perhaps a tinge of pity upon those who didn't make the cut.
艾拉·格拉斯（Ira Glass）：您在对此的描述中写道，我发现自己违背了自己更好的判断，现在对那些没有晋级的人感到有些蔑视，也许还有一丝怜悯。
Sure, If you can't make this guy's cut, come on.
当然，如果你不能胜过这个人，那就来吧。
How terrible, you write, to be excluded, to be found unworthy.
你写道，被排除在外、被发现毫无价值是多么可怕。
But no one has ever claimed life to be fair.
但没有人声称生活是公平的。
No, they haven't.
不，他们没有。
Ira Glass In a sense, this guy on the subway was committing a perfect act of kindness.
艾拉·格拉斯（Ira Glass） 从某种意义上说，这个地铁里的家伙正在做出完美的善举。
The people who he gave the thumbs up to felt good.
他竖起大拇指的人感觉很好。
People who he told to get lost simply ignored him.
被他叫走的人根本不理睬他。
No one was hurt.
没有人受伤。
It was a simple act of kindness from a stranger.
这是一个陌生人的一个简单的善举。
Which brings us to today's radio program.
这就引出了今天的广播节目。
From WBEZ Chicago and Public Radio International, it is This American Life .
来自芝加哥 WBEZ 和国际公共广播电台的节目是《This American Life》。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Today on our show, stories of the kindness of strangers and what it leads to.
今天我们的节目讲述了陌生人的善意及其带来的后果的故事。
And for the best perspective on the subject, all of our stories today take place in the city that has the reputation for being the unkindest city in America, New York City.
为了更好地阐述这个主题，我们今天所有的故事都发生在这座被誉为美国最不友善的城市的城市——纽约市。
Act One of our show, Tarzan Finds a Mate, in which a good deed is done with the hope of a small reward.
我们的节目第一幕《人猿泰山寻找伴侣》中，人们做了一件好事，希望得到一点小小的回报。
Act Two, Runaway, in which a small good deed leads to much bigger things.
第二幕，逃跑，一件小好事会带来更大的事情。
Act Three, the Unkindness of Strangers, a story about a neighbor who tries to make life hell for the person next door.
第三幕《陌生人的不友善》讲述了一个邻居试图让隔壁的人生活在地狱的故事。
Act Four, Chairman of the Block, a story of 150 people who don't know each other, a tap dancer, New York cops, and Frank Sinatra.
第四幕，《街区主席》，讲述了 150 个互不相识的人、踢踏舞者、纽约警察和弗兰克·辛纳屈 (Frank Sinatra) 的故事。
Stay with us.
留在我们身边。
Act One, Tarzan Finds a Mate.
第一幕，泰山找到伴侣。
This true story of a good deed someone tries to do for a stranger comes from Joel Kostman who is a locksmith in New York.
这个真实的故事讲述了一个人试图为陌生人做一件好事，来自纽约的锁匠乔尔·科斯特曼 (Joel Kostman)。
It's a little past midnight and I'd just returned home from dropping my girlfriend Deborah off at the airport.
午夜刚过，我刚刚从机场送女友黛博拉回家。
Late at night is the only time of day I like the way my block looks.
深夜是一天中我唯一喜欢我的街区的样子的时间。
There are no panhandlers.
没有乞讨者。
The parking lots are all empty.
停车场都空了。
And the constant noise you hear in the daytime from the exiting Lincoln Tunnel traffic is minimized.
白天您在林肯隧道出口处听到的持续噪音也被最小化。
It almost looks like a real street, a place where people live.
它看起来几乎就像一条真正的街道，一个人们居住的地方。
Remarkably, I find a parking space right in front of my building.
值得注意的是，我在我的大楼前面找到了一个停车位。
I sit in the car with the motor running listening to the radio and thinking about Deborah.
我坐在汽车里，发动机运转着，一边听着收音机，一边想着黛博拉。
We live together.
我们住在一起。
This morning, I thought we were in love.
今天早上，我以为我们相爱了。
Tonight, I'm not sure if I'm ever going to see her again.
今晚，我不确定是否还能再见到她。
The DJ plays a Freddie and the Dreamers tune, "I'm Telling You Now."
DJ 播放 Freddie 和 Dreamers 的歌曲“I'm Telling You Now”。
Suddenly I hear someone across the street yell something.
突然我听到街对面有人喊着什么。
I look up and a young woman is standing next to a red sports car, her head resting on the roof.
我抬头一看，一位年轻女子站在一辆红色跑车旁边，头靠在车顶上。
"Damn, damn, damn," she moans, pounding an alternate fist down with each word.
“该死，该死，该死，”她呻吟着，每说一个字就用一只拳头捶打下去。
She steps back, her hands on her hips, and looks around as if for a lost child.
她向后退了一步，双手放在臀部，环顾四周，仿佛在寻找一个迷路的孩子。
She has straight blond hair which hangs down to her shoulders.
她有一头直垂至肩的金发。
She's wearing tight blue jeans, a yellow shirt unbuttoned down to her cleavage, and black spike heels.
她穿着紧身蓝色牛仔裤、黄色衬衫，纽扣解开至乳沟，脚踩黑色尖头高跟鞋。
She's got on bright red lipstick and gold interlocking circles for earrings.
她涂着鲜红色的口红，戴着金色的环环耳环。
They jangle when she turns her head.
当她转过头时，它们发出刺耳的声音。
"Oh damn," she says again, and throws her bag at the car.
“哦该死，”她又说了一遍，然后把包扔到了车上。
It's a Porsche.
这是一辆保时捷。
I shut off my engine and get out.
我关掉引擎，下了车。
I don't want to scare her so I call from across the street.
我不想吓到她，所以我从街对面打电话。
"Excuse me, you need some help?" She's bending down on the sidewalk, picking up some things that fell out of her bag.
“请问，您需要帮助吗？”她在人行道上弯下腰，捡起从包里掉下来的一些东西。
She looks up and for a second I think she's going to scream.
她抬起头来，有一瞬间我觉得她要尖叫了。
Then she smiles.
然后她笑了。
"I locked my [BLEEP] keys in the car," she says as she stands up.
“我把我的 [BLEEP] 钥匙锁在车里了，”她站起来说道。
"I can't believe I did this." Her hands do a kind of Betty Boop thing.
“我不敢相信我竟然这么做了。”她的手就像贝蒂娃娃一样。
I decide that she's Jersey, here for a concert at the Garden.
我确定她是泽西，来这里参加花园的音乐会。
She just has that Jersey feel.
她就是有泽西岛的感觉。
"You're in luck," I say, still from across the street.
“你很幸运，”我仍然在街对面说道。
She purses her lips and nods.
她抿起嘴唇点点头。
"Why, you going to take me out for a drink until the tow truck gets here?" She laughs but starts coughing in the middle.
“怎么，拖车来之前你要带我出去喝一杯吗？”她笑了，但中间开始咳嗽。
I go to my trunk and remove my car lockout stuff.
我走到后备箱，取出汽车锁具。
A pretty, stranded Jersey girl with a sense of humor no less, I say to myself.
我对自己说，这是一个美丽的、陷入困境的泽西女孩，她的幽默感丝毫不逊色。
There's something in her face that reminds me of a young Jessica Lange.
她脸上的表情让我想起年轻时的杰西卡·兰格。
I cross the street with my slim jim in one hand.
我一只手拎着苗条的吉姆过马路。
It's a thin, silvery piece of metal about two feet long with some notches cut out at the bottom used to open car doors.
它是一块薄薄的银色金属，长约两英尺，底部切有一些凹口，用于打开车门。
I carry it at my side like a sword, like a knight would.
我像骑士一样将它像剑一样随身携带。
In my other hand I grasp my tool kit.
我的另一只手握住我的工具箱。
In my shirt pocket is the little leather case that contains my picks, which I bring just in case I run into any trouble.
我的衬衫口袋里有一个小皮箱，里面装着我的镐，我带着它以防万一遇到麻烦。
I step up on the sidewalk next to her.
我走到她旁边的人行道上。
"I'm a locksmith," I announce.
“我是一名锁匠，”我宣布。
I love these moments when I get to play the hero.
我喜欢扮演英雄的这些时刻。
She has a loopy smile on her face which stays there even as her expression slowly changes.
她脸上挂着疯狂的微笑，尽管她的表情慢慢发生了变化，但笑容仍然存在。
I can smell the alcohol on her breath.
我能闻到她呼吸中的酒精味。
She looks at the slim jim and then back at my face.
她看看苗条的吉姆，然后又看看我的脸。
"No [BLEEP]," she says.
“不[哔]，”她说。
"Well, I guess it's my lucky day." She lays a hand on my shoulder like we're old pals.
“嗯，我想今天是我的幸运日。”她把手放在我的肩膀上，就像我们是老朋友一样。
She squeezes and then leans on me a little.
她挤压我，然后稍微靠在我身上。
Her head floats around in front of my face.
她的头在我面前飘来飘去。
"You open it up and the drinks are on me," she says in a kind of half growl.
“你打开它，饮料就在我身上，”她半咆哮地说。
I peer into the car window and see the keys dangling from the ignition.
我向车窗望去，看到钥匙悬挂在点火开关上。
There are a couple of empty beer bottles on the floor on the passenger side.
乘客一侧的地板上有几个空啤酒瓶。
I look back at the woman.
我回头看着那个女人。
She's got a cigarette going now.
她现在正在抽烟。
At that moment, from behind us, we hear a long, clear Tarzan call.
就在那时，我们身后传来泰山悠长而清晰的叫声。
It's a perfect imitation, lasting about 10 seconds, complete with the jungle yodels in the middle.
这是一个完美的模仿，持续约 10 秒，中间有丛林约德尔歌。
"What the hell was that," the woman asks.
“那到底是什么？”女人问道。
She steps out toward the street and leans her head way back.
她朝街道走去，头向后仰。
She looks up at the parking structure that's a block north on 31st Street.
她抬头看着第 31 街以北一个街区的停车场。
I get a real good look at her then.
那时我才真正仔细地观察她。
"That's Tarzan," I say.
“那是泰山，”我说。
She tilts her head to the side, half closes her right eye, and raises her left eyebrow.
她把头偏向一边，半闭右眼，扬起左眉毛。
"Friend of yours?" she asks.
“你的朋友？”她问。
"I think he works in the parking structure," I say.
“我认为他在停车场工作，”我说。
"Oh," she says, with a look on her face that says that explains everything.
“哦，”她说道，脸上的表情似乎说明了一切。
She puts her hands behind her and leans back.
她把手放在身后，向后靠去。
I momentarily think about Deborah.
我突然想起黛博拉。
The woman in front of me couldn't be more different in appearance.
眼前这个女人的外貌与我截然不同。
She's as tall as I am with an accent out of a Stallone movie.
她和我一样高，带着史泰龙电影里的口音。
She looks like a wild, fun-loving gal, good working-class stock.
她看起来像个狂野、爱玩的女孩，是工薪阶层的好人。
I wonder what she's like when she's sober.
我想知道她清醒的时候是什么样子。
"So you going to do your thing, or what?" the woman asks.
“所以你要做你的事，还是怎么？”女人问道。
I hold up my slim jim.
我举起我苗条的吉姆。
"Action," she says.
“行动，”她说。
I dip my slim jim into the car door, feeling around.
我把纤细的吉姆伸进车门，摸索着周围。
I try different angles, different depths.
我尝试不同的角度、不同的深度。
Nothing happens.
什么也没发生。
she hops off the hood of the car and stands next to me.
她从汽车引擎盖上跳下来，站在我旁边。
"No luck?" she asks.
“运气不好？”她问。
"Not yet." It's a hot night.
“还没有。”这是一个炎热的夜晚。
She takes a tissue from her bag and says, "here, you're sweating buckets." I wipe my forehead.
她从包里拿出一张纸巾说：“在这里，你已经大汗淋漓了。”我擦擦额头。
The tissue smells like perfume.
纸巾闻起来像香水。
She removes another one and dabs at her neck and chest.
她取下另一颗，轻拍脖子和胸部。
She flaps her hand in front of her face like a fan.
她把手像扇子一样在脸前扇动。
"I've got air conditioning in there once you get it open," she says.
“一旦你打开空调，我就会发现它，”她说。
"I'll have it open in a minute," I say.
“我一会儿就把它打开，”我说。
I start thinking about her behind the wheel of the car and where we'll go.
我开始思考驾驶汽车的她以及我们要去哪里。
She rummages around in the bag again and produces a pack of cigarettes.
她又在袋子里翻找，拿出一包香烟。
She lights one up, takes a drag, and blows the smoke up toward the sky.
她点燃一支烟，吸一口，然后将烟雾吹向天空。
I haven't smoked in 10 years, but it still resonates for me, how it feels, how sexy it looks, which is why I think people do it.
我已经十年没有抽烟了，但它仍然让我产生共鸣，它的感觉如何，它看起来多么性感，这就是我认为人们吸烟的原因。
She offers me one.
她给了我一份。
"No thanks," I say.
“不用了，谢谢，”我说。
"Sorry I don't have anything stronger." She smiles.
“抱歉，我没有更强的东西。”她微笑着。
I smile back.
我回以微笑。
She strikes a pose that smokers do, right arm bent at the elbow, forearm across the body.
她摆出吸烟者常做的姿势，右臂在肘部弯曲，前臂放在身体上。
The left elbow rests on the right wrist and the forearm goes straight up, the fingers at the lips.
左肘放在右手腕上，前臂笔直向上，手指放在嘴唇上。
I pull the slim jim out.
我把细长的吉姆拉出来。
"Harder than you thought, huh?" She says.
“比你想象的还要难，嗯？”她说。
"Some foreign cars are tough," I say.
“有些外国车很难，”我说。
"Can I try?" "You want to try?"
“我可以试试吗？” “你想试试吗？”
"Yeah.
“是的。
Who knows?
谁知道？
Maybe it'll be like beginners luck.
也许这会像初学者的运气一样。
It looks like fun."
看起来很有趣。”
I don't know why, but I say, "sure." I slide the slim jim through the space between the window and the rubber stripping.
我不知道为什么，但我说：“当然。”我将细长的吉姆滑过窗户和橡胶条之间的空间。
She takes the end of it.
她结束了这一切。
"Like this?" she asks, moving it back and forth like a slot machine handle.
“像这样？”她问道，一边像老虎机手柄一样来回移动它。
"No," I say.
“不，”我说。
"Actually, you kind of go like this." I take her hand, move it up and down slowly, bobbing the end of the tool slightly from side to side.
“其实，你就这样走吧。”我握住她的手，慢慢地上下移动，工具的末端轻轻地左右摆动。
We're doing a kind of slim jim tango, dipping in and out and up and down.
我们正在跳一种苗条的吉姆探戈，前后探戈，上下探戈。
The car door won't open, but she doesn't even seem perturbed.
车门打不开，但她看上去一点儿也不慌张。
It's like we're playing a game.
就像我们在玩游戏一样。
"I'm going to try to pick it," I say.
“我会尝试挑选它，”我说。
"Can I still do this?" she asks.
“我还能这样做吗？”她问。
"Sure.
“当然。
I'll work on the other door." As I step away, we suddenly hear Tarzan again.
我会在另一扇门上工作。”当我走开时，我们突然又听到了泰山的声音。
It's louder this time.
这次声音更大了。
He must be on a lower floor.
他一定在较低的楼层。
It's a particularly beautiful call, and he really trails out the last note.
这是一个特别美妙的决定，他真的拖出了最后一个音符。
The woman bends over double and slaps her thighs in rapid fashion.
女人弯下腰，快速拍打大腿。
"I love that," she cries.
“我喜欢这个，”她哭道。
"That is just fabulous."
“这真是太棒了。”
"Local color," I say.
“当地的色彩，”我说。
I take my can of WD-40 and lubricate the cylinder.
我拿起一罐 WD-40 并润滑气缸。
"That guy should be on TV, or something." I squat by the other side of the car.
“那个家伙应该上电视，或者什么的。”我蹲在车的另一边。
I insert the tension bar in the cylinder and hold it down with my thumb.
我将拉杆插入气缸并用拇指按住。
And then I work the rake through several times.
然后我用耙子清理了几次。
After a couple of minutes, I'm starting to get frustrated.
几分钟后，我开始感到沮丧。
I say, "I'll be right back.
我说：“我马上就回来。
I'm going to get something else." I run to my car and remove the metal doweling I bought on Canal Street for this very situation.
我去拿点别的东西。”我跑向我的车，拆下我在运河街上为这种情况购买的金属销钉。
It's long and sturdy but pliable.
它又长又坚固，但又柔韧。
I bring it back across the street.
我把它带回街对面。
"Here," I say, "you hold this." She lays the slim jim down on the sidewalk.
“这里，”我说，“你拿着这个。”她把细长的吉姆放在人行道上。
I insert a large screwdriver between the door and the body of the car.
我在车门和车身之间插入一把大螺丝刀。
"Just put a little pressure on it.
“只要给它一点压力就可以了。
Like this," I say as I push back.
像这样，”我边说边反击。
"That'll give me room to maneuver."
“这会给我回旋的余地。”
She stands behind me and pushes back on the screwdriver.
她站在我身后，推开螺丝刀。
I bend the end of the dowel into an L and slide it in.
我将销钉的末端弯曲成 L 形并将其滑入。
I push it toward the button which is in an impossible spot on the door panel, just behind the handle.
我将它推向按钮，该按钮位于门板上一个不可能的位置，就在把手后面。
I'm thinking, this car really is a pain in the ass.
我想，这车真是让人头疼啊。
I wiggle my end of the dowel and poke at the area of the button, but I keep missing.
我扭动销钉的一端，戳了一下按钮的区域，但我还是没找到。
"How does that button work?" I ask.
“那个按钮怎么用？”我问。
"Do you push it forward, or in, or what?"
“你把它往前推，还是往里推，还是什么？”
"Gee," she says.
“哎呀，”她说。
"I don't know.
“我不知道。
Let me think." She bobs her head slowly side to side and finally says, "in, I think.
让我想想。”她慢慢地左右摇头，最后说道：“我想，是的。
I think." I keep poking at the button.
我想。”我一直在戳按钮。
Once I hit it square on and let out a whoop.
有一次我击中它并发出一声欢呼。
But when I try the door it doesn't open.
但当我尝试开门时，门打不开。
"Damn," I yell and slam my fist down on top of the Porsche.
“该死，”我喊道，然后用拳头猛击保时捷车顶。
"Hey," she says, "come on.
“嘿，”她说，“来吧。
We'll get it." She puts her hand on my arm.
我们会得到它的。”她把手放在我的手臂上。
"You know, you're really a sweet guy for helping me out." She leans forward and kisses me on the cheek.
“你知道吗，你真的是一个很贴心的人，竟然帮了我的忙。”她倾身向前，亲吻我的脸颊。
When Deborah said goodbye to me at the airport, she said, "maybe you and I should take the next few days to reevaluate." Then she put her hand on my upper arm and kissed me on the cheek.
当黛博拉在机场向我告别时，她说：“也许你和我应该在接下来的几天里重新评估一下。”然后她把手放在我的上臂上，亲吻我的脸颊。
"Let's try it again," the woman says.
“我们再试一次，”女人说。
"Listen," I say, "I'm sorry.
“听着，”我说，“对不起。
I'm just frustrated.
我只是很沮丧。
I usually don't have this much trouble."
我通常不会遇到这么大的麻烦。”
"It's OK," she says.
“没关系，”她说。
"I know we're going to get it this time." She punches the air like a cheerleader.
“我知道这次我们一定能成功。”她像啦啦队长一样向空中挥拳。
We try again.
我们再试一次。
I twist the dowel around to get it in just the right position and then push it forward with my hand so it will come smashing into the button.
我扭转销钉，使其处于正确的位置，然后用手将其向前推，这样它就会撞到按钮上。
The door doesn't open.
门打不开。
I do it again and again.
我一次又一次地这样做。
As my body bumps into the woman's and rubs up against her, I get more and more crazy.
当我的身体撞上女人的身体并摩擦着她时，我变得越来越疯狂。
I can feel my hero status evaporating.
我能感觉到我的英雄地位正在消失。
Finally, after about 15 minutes, she says, "you know, I think if I push this way with the screwdriver, it'll make more room.
最后，大约 15 分钟后，她说：“你知道，我想如果我用螺丝刀往这边推，就会腾出更多空间。
I think it'll be a lot easier for you."
我想这对你来说会容易很多。”
Before I can stop her, she leans against the car and pushes.
在我阻止她之前，她靠在车上并用力推。
There's a loud crack.
一声巨响。
The window shatters into pieces which fall on the sidewalk at our feet.
窗户碎成了碎片，落在我们脚下的人行道上。
I look at her face.
我看着她的脸。
Her mouth is wide open, her shoulders raised in embarrassment.
她张大了嘴，尴尬地耸起肩膀。
Then, suddenly, she opens the door, brushes the glass off the seat with her bag and gets in.
然后，她突然打开车门，用包擦掉座位上的玻璃，然后坐了进去。
"Well, I got to go," she says.
“好吧，我得走了，”她说。
She starts the car.
她启动了汽车。
"I don't know how to thank you." She speeds off toward Eighth Avenue.
“我不知道该怎么感谢你。”她加速驶向第八大道。
"Goodbye," she calls out.
“再见，”她喊道。
I am stunned by the swiftness of her departure.
我对她离开的速度感到震惊。
As I watch her drive off, her hand waving out the window, Tarzan gives his grand finale.
当我看着她开车离开，她的手向窗外挥舞时，泰山给出了他的盛大结局。
His voice is so strong that it sounds like he's right behind me.
他的声音如此之大，听起来就像他就在我身后。
His call begins with one beautiful, long, sustained note.
他的呼叫以优美、悠长、持续的音符开始。
He holds it longer than I have ever heard before.
他握着它的时间比我以前听过的还要长。
Then he leaps into a spectacular trill which ends with another gorgeous full note and follows this with a second trill, which trails off into a final, eerie, haunting tone.
然后他跳入一段壮观的颤音，以另一个华丽的完整音符结束，接着是第二个颤音，最后变成最后的、怪异的、令人难以忘怀的音调。
I turn to face the parking structure.
我转身面向停车场。
I'm standing in the middle of a pile of my discarded tools and broken glass.
我站在一堆废弃的工具和碎玻璃中间。
I lean my head way back, looking up at the sky.
我把头向后仰，仰望天空。
I cup my hands around my mouth, take the deepest possible breath, and yell at the top of my lungs, "shut the hell up!"
我双手捂住嘴，尽可能深吸一口气，大声喊道：“你他妈的闭嘴！”
Joel Kostman's stories of his life as a locksmith are in his book Keys to the City.
乔尔·科斯特曼 (Joel Kostman) 在他的《城市钥匙》一书中讲述了他作为锁匠的生活故事。
Act Two, Runaway.
第二幕，逃跑。
When you commit an act of kindness for a stranger, where can it lead?
当你为陌生人做出善举时，它会带来什么结果？
In 1940, Jack Geiger was 14 years old, not getting along with his parents.
1940年，杰克·盖格14岁，与父母相处不融洽。
Because of the odd rules of the New York City schools at that time, he had actually finished high school, but no college would let him in so young.
由于当时纽约市学校的奇怪规定，他实际上已经完成了高中学业，但没有一所大学愿意让他这么年轻入学。
He wasn't getting along with his parents, fought with them all the time, and then he went to see a play.
他和父母合不来，一直跟父母吵架，然后就去看戏了。
Native Son, Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre Production of the Richard Wright novel which starred a black actor named Canada Lee.
Native Son，奥森·威尔斯的水星剧院制作的理查德·赖特小说，由黑人演员加拿大·李主演。
And I was very moved by that.
我对此非常感动。
And with the brashness of a 14-year-old, I went backstage afterwards and found Canada Lee and hung around and talked with him a while.
带着14岁孩子的鲁莽，我后来到后台找到了加拿大·李，并和他闲逛了一会儿。
And I liked that so much that I did that three or four more times.
我非常喜欢这个，所以我又做了三四次。
Do you recall what it is that you were talking to him about, what you wanted to him about?
你还记得你在和他谈论什么吗？你想对他说什么？
Well, we started out talking about the play and Richard Wright and the main character, Bigger Thomas, and race relations in the United States.
好吧，我们首先谈论这部剧、理查德·赖特和主角比格·托马斯，以及美国的种族关系。
And pretty soon we got around to-- by the second or third conversation at least-- what was going on in my life and what I wanted to do and my conflicts and so on.
很快我们就开始讨论——至少在第二次或第三次谈话中——我的生活中发生了什么、我想做的事情以及我的冲突等等。
He learned a lot more about me than I did about him, I think, at that point in those conversations.
我认为，在那些谈话中，他对我的了解比我对他的了解要多。
And then one day when the conflict at home just a lot tougher, I waited until a Sunday when I knew there was no performance of Native Son .
然后有一天，家里的矛盾变得更加激烈，我等到了周日，我才知道《土生子》没有演出了。
And my folks were out, and I packed a bag, and I took a subway up to the top of Sugar Hill in Harlem, 555 Edgecombe Avenue, where I knew that Canada had a penthouse.
我的家人出去了，我收拾了行李，然后乘地铁去了哈莱姆区的糖山山顶，埃奇科姆大道 555 号，我知道加拿大在那里有一套顶层公寓。
And I went up and rang the doorbell.
我走上去按响了门铃。
And he was home and opened the door.
他到家了，打开了门。
And I said, Lee, the stuff at home is just getting too much and I thought maybe I could stay here for a while.
我说，李，家里的东西太多了，我想也许我可以在这里呆一段时间。
Cold, just like that.
冷，就这样。
And he kind of looked around and pointed to a couch in the living room and said, well, I guess you could sleep over there.
他环顾四周，指着客厅的一张沙发说，好吧，我想你可以睡在那里。
After I had gone to sleep that evening, I later learned, he called my folks and said, look, I'll send him back in the morning.
后来我得知，那天晚上我入睡后，他打电话给我的家人说，看，我早上会送他回来。
But why don't you let him stay here, because I'm not sure where he's going to land the next time.
但你为什么不让他留在这里，因为我不知道他下次会降落在哪里。
And my parents must have been so exhausted by all of this that they agreed, at least tentatively.
我的父母肯定对这一切感到精疲力尽，所以他们同意了，至少暂时同意了。
And that was the beginning of a whole year that I really lived there and had one of the great educational experiences of my life.
那是我真正在那里生活的一整年的开始，并获得了我一生中最伟大的教育经历之一。
Through that apartment, over that year that I remember, came the kind of the cream of the Harlem theatrical, sporting, civil rights, political, and intellectual world.
在我记忆中的那一年里，哈莱姆区戏剧、体育、民权、政治和知识界的精英都是通过那间公寓来的。
And I had the chance to sit around evening after evening, many weekends, listening to Langston Hughes, William Saroyan, Adam Clayton Powell, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington's arranger, Richard Wright, who came back once from exile and stopped in.
我有机会一个又一个晚上、许多个周末坐下来，听兰斯顿·休斯、威廉·萨罗扬、亚当·克莱顿·鲍威尔、比利·斯特雷霍恩、艾灵顿公爵的编曲家理查德·赖特（Richard Wright）的演奏，他从流亡回来一次并停下来。
And what I remember most is listening to people, listening to the conversations about World War II and race and democracy, segregation in the armed forces, what was happening in the South, what was happening in New York City.
我记得最深刻的是倾听人们的声音，倾听有关第二次世界大战、种族和民主、武装部队中的种族隔离、南方发生的事情、纽约市发生的事情的对话。
Let me ask you to assess what you think your parents' reaction was when they got this first call from Canada Lee, to have their white, Jewish, middle-class son suddenly up living with a black man in Harlem in the early '40s.
让我请你评估一下，当你的父母接到加拿大·李打来的第一个电话时，他们的反应是什么，他们的白人、犹太、中产阶级儿子突然在 40 年代初在哈林区与一名黑人住在一起。
Well, I think they were exhausted.
好吧，我想他们已经筋疲力尽了。
We had had so much struggle.
我们经历了太多的挣扎。
A little later, I remember, further on, when we were talking to each other again, Lee was giving a party and invited my parents, who, with great trepidation, came up to Harlem at night-- I don't think they had ever done that before-- and came to this party.
过了一会儿，我记得，更进一步，当我们再次交谈时，李正在举办一个聚会，并邀请了我的父母，他们带着极大的恐惧，晚上来到哈林区——我认为他们以前从未这样做过——并来到了这个聚会。
And Canada, I remember, turned to my mother and said, hey, I'm a bachelor.
我记得，加拿大转向我母亲说，嘿，我是单身汉。
Do you think you could help us out in the kitchen?
你觉得你可以在厨房里帮我们一下吗？
It was a big party.
这是一个盛大的聚会。
And my mother said, sure.
我妈妈说，当然。
The next day, I talked to my mother on the phone and she said she had had the most wonderful time, had spent a couple of hours in the kitchen with this wonderful man, and they'd had all this conversation.
第二天，我和妈妈通了电话，她说她度过了最美好的时光，和这个出色的男人在厨房里呆了几个小时，他们进行了所有这些谈话。
And I said, who was it?
我说，那是谁？
She said, well, she didn't know.
她说，好吧，她不知道。
She'd never gotten the name.
她从来不知道这个名字。
And I said, well, describe him.
我说，好吧，描述一下他。
And she discovered that she had spent two hours chatting with Langston Hughes and was mortified that she had never realized it.
她发现自己花了两个小时与兰斯顿·休斯聊天，并为自己从未意识到这一点而感到羞愧。
What did they talk about?
他们聊了什么？
Jack Geiger You had to have met Langston Hughes to know.
杰克·盖革（Jack Geiger） 你必须见过兰斯顿·休斯（Langston Hughes）才能知道。
He was as comfortable as an old shoe.
他就像一双旧鞋一样舒服。
And I'm sure they talked about cooking.
我确信他们谈论了烹饪。
And I'm sure they talked about whatever else my mother wanted to talk about.
我确信他们谈论了我母亲想谈论的任何其他事情。
And she never quite got over it and still recalled it.
她一直没有完全忘记这件事，仍然记得它。
During that year, he was kind of an informal, surrogate father.
那一年，他有点像一个非正式的代理父亲。
And I was in that stage where I wasn't going to take anything from the parents I was fighting with.
我正处于那个阶段，我不会从与我争吵的父母那里得到任何东西。
So he staked me to a good bit of my first year at college when I found a place that would finally let me in.
因此，当我找到一个最终能让我入学的地方时，他就押注了我大学第一年的大部分时间。
And--
还有——
So he paid for your school?
所以他付了你的学费？
Jack Geiger Well, he loaned me the money.
杰克·盖革 嗯，他借给我钱了。
Instead of your parents?
代替你的父母？
Jack Geiger Yeah.
杰克·盖革 是的。
It wasn't until a little later that I figured out why, unconsciously maybe, I had made the choice that I did.
直到过了一会儿，我才明白为什么，也许是无意识地，我做出了这样的选择。
It turned out, although I didn't know it at the time, that Canada Lee himself had grown up in a pretty strict, middle-class West Indian family.
事实证明，尽管我当时并不知道，加拿大·李本人是在一个相当严格的西印度群岛中产阶级家庭中长大的。
And he had, he told me, the same kind of dissatisfactions and mixed-up feelings that I'd had about his relationship with his family, what he wanted to do.
他告诉我，他对他与家人的关系以及他想做的事情有着同样的不满和复杂的感觉。
And he ran away.
然后他就逃跑了。
And I think that experience may have had something to do with his kindness in taking this strange kid in and making a sort of second home for him.
我认为这段经历可能与他的善意有关，他收留了这个奇怪的孩子，并为他建立了第二个家。
The thing I've thought about-- a lot, without ever really finding an answer-- is what kind of clues did I have that said hey, this is a guy that I can approach in this way, a scrawny kid with a suitcase on a Sunday night, and have some kind of shot at getting taken in?
我想过很多次，但从未真正找到答案，就是我有什么样的线索说，嘿，这是一个我可以通过这种方式接近的人，一个周日晚上提着手提箱的骨瘦如柴的孩子，并且有某种机会被抓住？
I was either very insightful or very lucky.
我要么非常有洞察力，要么非常幸运。
And I think it was mostly luck.
我认为这主要是运气。
Do you think there were clues that you were given though?
你认为有人给了你一些线索吗？
I think there must've clues, just in the fact that here was a Broadway star who was hanging around backstage talking with a kid about life and about his troubles.
我认为一定有线索，事实是，一位百老汇明星在后台闲逛，与一个孩子谈论生活和他的烦恼。
That's a signal that I don't think anybody could have missed.
我认为任何人都不会错过这个信号。
Jack lived with Canada Lee for a year.
杰克和加拿大李一起住了一年。
Sometimes Lee's teenage son would be there too.
有时李十几岁的儿子也会在那里。
Jack went to college, enlisted in the Merchant Marines during World War II, serving on the only ship with a black captain and integrated crew of officers, the SS Booker T.
杰克读了大学，在第二次世界大战期间加入了商船队，在唯一一艘拥有黑人船长和全体船员的舰艇——SS Booker T. 号上服役。
Washington.
华盛顿。
When Jack would could come to New York, on school break or from the Merchant Marines, he would stay with Canada Lee.
当杰克可以在学校放假或从商船队退役时来到纽约时，他会和加拿大·李住在一起。
Then, on one of Jack's trips home, Canada Lee told Jack that he was pressed for cash, asked if he could borrow $1,000.
然后，在杰克的一次回家途中，卡纳达·李告诉杰克，他缺钱，并询问他是否可以借 1,000 美元。
And I said, sure.
我说，当然。
And I loaned it to him, and I came back from the next trip, and he paid me back.
我就借给他了，下次出差回来，他就还给我了。
And it took me a while, in retrospect, to figure out that he didn't need the $1,000.
回想起来，我花了一段时间才发现他并不需要那 1,000 美元。
He was just changing the nature of the relationship between us and saying, hey, now you're grown up.
他只是改变了我们之间关系的性质，并说，嘿，现在你长大了。
Now you're an adult.
现在你已经是成年人了。
And I'm not your dad anymore.
而且我不再是你的爸爸了。
We're partners.
我们是合作伙伴。
I can borrow money from you just the way you borrowed money from me.
我可以向你借钱，就像你向我借钱一样。
Yeah.
是的。
Ira Glass As he got older, Jack became a journalist, then a doctor, active in the Civil Rights Movement, went to Mississippi with the civil rights workers in the early '60s.
随着年龄的增长，杰克成为一名记者，然后成为一名医生，积极参与民权运动，并在 60 年代初与民权工作者一起前往密西西比州。
Was a founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility and later Physicians for Human Rights, started community health centers in Mississippi and in South Africa.
是医生社会责任组织和后来的人权医生组织的创始人，在密西西比州和南非创办了社区卫生中心。
In this country, those health centers eventually led to 900 community health centers.
在这个国家，这些卫生中心最终发展成为 900 个社区卫生中心。
They now provide primary care for more than 14 million low-income people across the country.
他们现在为全国超过 1400 万低收入人群提供初级保健。
Jack Geiger says he'd never had moved so deeply into these worlds so quickly if not for his experience with Canada Lee.
杰克·盖格 (Jack Geiger) 表示，如果没有与卡纳达·李 (Canada Lee) 的交往，他从来不会这么快地深入这些世界。
It's a relationship, very obviously, that has stayed with me ever since.
很明显，这种关系从那时起就一直伴随着我。
Most of my life and work has, in one way or another, involved civil rights and human rights.
我的大部分生活和工作都以某种方式涉及公民权利和人权。
It must be one of the reasons why I became a physician, of wanting to look out for people who were in trouble.
这一定是我成为一名医生的原因之一，想要照顾那些陷入困境的人。
Was it your impression that other people had extended this kind of act of kindness to him that he then extended to you?
你是否认为其他人向他表达了这种善意，然后他也向你表达了这种善意？
Or that he had yearned that someone would have taken him in the way that he took you in?
或者他渴望有人能像他对待你一样对待他？
You know, what occurs to me now is something I learned in the Harlem community and in a lot of other work.
你知道，我现在想到的是我在哈莱姆社区和许多其他工作中学到的东西。
There was a lot more experience in the black community of extended families.
在黑人大家庭社区里有更多的经验。
And I don't think, in that context, from that side of the divide, it felt like such a big deal.
我认为，在这种情况下，从分歧的那一边来看，这感觉并不是什么大事。
Well, you're saying, in a way, that black culture at that time was more conducive to extending a kindness to strangers than white culture.
嗯，你是说，在某种程度上，当时的黑人文化比白人文化更有利于向陌生人表达善意。
I think so.
我想是的。
And maybe still.
也许仍然如此。
Ira Glass Dr. Jack Geiger in New York.
艾拉·格拉斯 (Ira Glass) 杰克·盖革 (Jack Geiger) 博士在纽约。
An interesting footnote to this story-- in 1949, just a few years after he befriended Jack Geiger, Canada Lee was in a movie where he did more or less the same thing.
这个故事有一个有趣的脚注——1949 年，就在他与杰克·盖格成为朋友几年后，卡纳达·李在一部电影中做了或多或少相同的事情。
The film was Lost Boundaries .
这部电影是《失落的边界》。
He played an African American police officer who befriends a confused, white teenager, takes him under his wing, shows him the kindness of strangers.
他扮演一名非裔美国警察，与一名困惑的白人少年成为朋友，将他置于自己的保护之下，向他展示陌生人的善意。
Coming up, good neighbors and bad neighbors in the same neighborhood, a street mob, a tap dancer, a PA system, and the Chairman of the Board.
接下来，是同一个街区的好邻居和坏邻居、街头暴民、踢踏舞者、公共广播系统和董事会主席。
That's in a minute from Public Radio International when our program continues.
一分钟后，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 a theme, bring you a variety of different kinds of stories on that theme.
当然，每周我们的节目都会选择一个主题，为您带来有关该主题的各种不同类型的故事。
Today's program, the kindness of strangers and where the kindness might lead.
今天的节目是关于陌生人的善意以及善意可能带来的结果。
All of our stories in today's show are from the supposedly least kind city in America, New York City.
我们今天节目中的所有故事都来自被认为是美国最不友善的城市——纽约市。
And we have arrived at Act Three of our program.
我们已经到了我们计划的第三幕了。
And for this act, we figured-- nice, nice, nice, nice, nice.
对于这个行为，我们认为——很好，很好，很好，很好，很好。
We figured we would need a change of pace after all this kindness and attempted kindness.
我们认为，在所有这些善意和尝试的善意之后，我们需要改变节奏。
And this is a story about the flat-out unkindness of strangers and how it could take two people who do not know each other and make them completely obsessed with each other.
这是一个关于陌生人的彻头彻尾的不友善的故事，以及如何让两个互不相识的人如何让他们完全沉迷于对方。
Paul Tough reports.
保罗·托夫报道。
Some names in this story have been changed.
这个故事中的一些名字已被更改。
Helga's neighborhood used to be entirely Ukrainian, respectable with an Orthodox Church and a community center.
赫尔加的社区过去完全是乌克兰人，有一座东正教教堂和一个社区中心，颇受尊敬。
And then things changed.
然后事情发生了变化。
Then people started arriving.
然后人们开始到达。
And now the place is full of record stores and cafes and body piercing parlors.
现在这个地方到处都是唱片店、咖啡馆和身体穿孔店。
Starlee is one of the newcomers.
斯塔莉是新来者之一。
She moved in two years ago, right next door to Helga.
她两年前搬进来，就在赫尔加的隔壁。
And the trouble between them started right away.
他们之间的麻烦立刻就开始了。
Starlee says that at first it was just regular New York apartment stuff.
斯塔利说，起初这只是纽约公寓的普通物品。
She would come and tell me not to make noise in the apartment.
她会过来告诉我不要在公寓里大声喧哗。
And she was like, I wear slippers at night, so you should be wearing slippers too.
她说，我晚上穿拖鞋，所以你也应该穿拖鞋。
And she'd come and just knock on your door and tell you that?
她会来敲你的门并告诉你这些吗？
No, she would tell me downstairs in the hall.
不，她会在楼下大厅告诉我。
I'd see her in passing.
我路过的时候会看到她。
And she was actually really calm about it.
事实上，她对此非常平静。
And she looked like a helpless old woman back then.
而那时的她，就像一个无助的老太婆。
And I'd try to be quieter because of it.
因此我会尽量保持安静。
And I think I even helped her carry her groceries up the stairs once.
我想我什至曾经帮她把杂货搬上楼梯。
I think I actually did do that.
我想我确实这么做了。
From Starlee's point of view, she tried to be quiet.
从斯塔莉的角度来看，她试图保持安静。
She tried to be nice.
她试图表现得友善。
But she was a college student at the time, and she had a lot of friends.
但当时她是一名大学生，有很多朋友。
And people would drop by late at night.
人们会在深夜过来。
So it was hard to be quiet all the time.
所以一直很难保持安静。
From Helga's point of view, Starlee was a terrible neighbor, the worst.
从赫尔加的角度来看，斯塔莉是一个糟糕的邻居，是最糟糕的。
And Helga made sure that Starlee knew exactly how she felt.
赫尔加确保斯塔莉确切地知道她的感受。
She would occasionally sit in the hallway and talk to people about us.
她偶尔会坐在走廊上和人们谈论我们。
But there would not be anyone out there to talk to.
但那里不会有人可以交谈。
She would just make up conversation and gossip about us.
她只会编造关于我们的谈话和八卦。
But we'd open the door and she'd be like, they all ran upstairs really quick.
但当我们打开门时，她会说，他们都很快就跑上楼了。
And she wasn't talking to anyone about us.
她没有和任何人谈论我们。
Just so we'd know that she didn't like us.
这样我们就知道她不喜欢我们。
And so what sorts of things was she saying at that point?
那么她当时说了些什么呢？
Just that we were loud, bad kids.
只是我们都是吵闹的坏孩子。
Just that we were loud and unresponsible.
只是我们声音很大而且不负责任。
And she didn't believe any of us ever went to school.
她不相信我们有人上过学。
She refused to believe that.
她拒绝相信这一点。
I think she didn't like that we were young.
我想她不喜欢我们还年轻。
Helga wanted everyone else in the building to see the Starlee that she saw.
赫尔加希望大楼里的其他人都能看到她所看到的斯塔莉。
So she started throwing garbage out into the little landing that they shared, apparently to try to make everyone think that it was people in Starlee's apartment, number three, who were responsible.
于是她开始把垃圾扔到他们共用的小楼梯平台上，显然是为了让每个人都认为是斯塔莉三号公寓里的人负责。
Cigarette butts and crumpled pieces of paper and orange juice cartons.
烟头、皱巴巴的纸片和橙汁盒。
Stuff like that.
诸如此类的事情。
And it started off really small and it just got huge.
一开始它很小，后来就变得很大。
And it just became so much trash in the hallway.
走廊里变成了很多垃圾。
And people smoke here, so it looked like we were doing it.
人们在这里抽烟，所以看起来我们也在抽烟。
And also, the type of trash she picked-- she would try to go out of her way to find kid trash, like Hostess Donut wrappers and candy bar things, and just the most creative garbage you've ever seen.
还有，她挑选的垃圾类型——她会不遗余力地寻找儿童垃圾，比如 Hostess 甜甜圈包装纸和糖果棒之类的东西，以及你见过的最具创意的垃圾。
And so people at first thought we were doing it.
所以人们一开始以为我们在这么做。
And they would come and talk to us and be like, don't put the trash.
他们会过来和我们说话，说不要乱扔垃圾。
I'm like, I'm not putting the trash.
我想，我不会乱扔垃圾。
Jake Bronstein, Starlee's roommate at the time-- she's had nine roommates, I should say, nine, in the two years she's lived there-- Jake decided to do something.
杰克·布朗斯坦，斯塔莉当时的室友——在她住在那里的两年里，她有九个室友，我应该说，九个——杰克决定做点什么。
Jake wrote a note saying, please don't put trash in the hallway and put it outside in our hallway.
杰克写了一张纸条，上面写着：请不要把垃圾放在走廊里，而是放在我们外面的走廊里。
We have a little square hallway.
我们有一个方形的小走廊。
And he just taped it on the wall.
他只是把它贴在墙上。
And so then we hear her come out and we look through the key hole.
然后我们听到她出来了，我们就从钥匙孔往里看。
And we see that she's put a sign up.
我们看到她已经签了名。
And we come out there and it says, well then please don't sell drugs.
我们出来说，那么请不要出售毒品。
And that's the first time we'd ever heard of it.
这是我们第一次听说它。
We were just like, whoa.
我们就像，哇。
It was so out of the blue.
真是太出乎意料了。
We couldn't believe it.
我们简直不敢相信。
Ever since that day more than six months ago, Helga's put up at least one note about Starlee every single day, sometimes as many as seven or eight.
从六个多月前的那天起，赫尔加每天至少贴出一张关于斯塔莉的纸条，有时多达七八张。
They're mostly pretty small, maybe two inches by three inches.
它们大多很小，大约两英寸乘三英寸。
The notes are written in marker in block letters.
注释是用记号笔用大写字母写的。
Helga puts notes on the front door, over the mailboxes inside, on the window, on her own door, on Starlee's door.
赫尔加在前门、里面的邮箱、窗户上、她自己的门上、斯塔莉的门上都贴了字条。
The wording varies but the message is always the same.
措辞有所不同，但信息始终相同。
Starlee is a big-time drug dealer, she's selling drugs out of apartment number three, and she should stop or move out.
斯塔莉是一个大毒贩，她在三号公寓外面贩卖毒品，她应该停止或搬走。
Starlee actually collects the notes that Helga puts up.
斯塔莉实际上收集了赫尔加留下的笔记。
One whole wall of her apartment is covered with them.
她公寓的一整面墙都贴满了它们。
Starlee shows me a few choice ones.
斯塔莉给我看了一些精选的。
See, she puts number three, selling drugs, business as usual.
看，她把第三个放在第一位，卖毒品，一切如常。
On Passover, she put, shame selling drugs on Passover.
她说，在逾越节，在逾越节贩卖毒品是可耻的。
Let's see, Kine and Bronstein, drug dealers selling your way to the jailhouse.
让我们看看，凯恩和布朗斯坦，毒贩将你卖到监狱。
Kine and Bronstein, drug dealers selling illegal drugs here, like parasites.
凯恩和布朗斯坦是毒贩，在这里贩卖非法毒品，就像寄生虫一样。
Starlee says that, in fact, she's not selling drugs.
斯塔莉说，事实上，她并不是在卖毒品。
She's never sold drugs.
她从来没有卖过毒品。
No one in her apartment has ever sold drugs.
她的公寓里没有人贩卖过毒品。
It's all a big lie.
这都是一个弥天大谎。
I asked her to come into the apartment.
我请她进公寓。
I'm like, come in the apartment, look anywhere you want.
我说，进公寓，想看什么就看什么。
Honestly, we'll go to the cops together.
老实说，我们会一起去报警。
I don't mind that at all.
我一点也不介意。
Helga doesn't just put up signs.
Helga 不只是张贴标志。
She appears at her door whenever anyone comes to visit Starlee.
每当有人来看望斯塔莉时，她都会出现在她家门口。
She harasses Starlee's friends, accosts Starlee in the hallway, calls her a liar.
她骚扰斯塔莉的朋友，在走廊上与斯塔莉搭讪，称她是骗子。
And then there's this.
然后就是这个。
[TAPPING] Starlee Kine Now it's over there, though.
[敲击]Starlee Kine 不过现在它就在那里了。
See?
看？
It moves.
它移动了。
We're inside Starlee's apartment, about 1:00 in the morning.
凌晨 1:00 左右，我们来到了 Starlee 的公寓。
Helga is sitting in her apartment, right next to the thin wall that separates the two of them.
赫尔加坐在她的公寓里，紧挨着分隔两人的薄墙。
And she's tapping on the floor, just to let Starlee know she's there.
她敲着地板，只是为了让斯塔莉知道她在那里。
She's always watching.
她一直在看着。
I look up at the wall.
我抬头看着墙壁。
For me, it's a very creepy moment.
对我来说，这是一个非常令人毛骨悚然的时刻。
Starlee's used to it.
斯塔莉已经习惯了。
I got to say, it's the-- Starlee Kine It's just to get our attention, just to remind us that even when she's not putting the signs up that the she's aware of our illegal activities.
我必须说，这是——Starlee Kine，这只是为了引起我们的注意，只是为了提醒我们，即使她没有张贴标志，她也知道我们的非法活动。
[TAPPING] Starlee Kine We watched I, Claudius on PBS and it was three hours.
[TAPPING] Starlee Kine 我们在 PBS 上观看了《我，克劳迪斯》，时长三个小时。
From the first credit to the last credit, it was continuous tapping the entire time.
从第一个学分到最后一个学分，一直在连续敲击。
She just sat in her door and banged her cane for the entire time.
她只是坐在门口，一直敲着拐杖。
And she'll do it.
她会做到的。
She does not get tired.
她不累。
And that's what she does with her day.
这就是她每天所做的事情。
Instead of eating, she just bangs her cane.
她不吃东西，只是敲打拐杖。
That's kind of sad.
这有点悲伤。
Starlee Kine It is sad.
斯塔莉·凯恩 很伤心。
I know it's sad.
我知道这很伤心。
It's hard, though.
但这很难。
Because it's hard to know what the right thing to do is and to be confronted by such meanness.
因为很难知道什么是正确的事情，也很难面对如此卑鄙的行为。
Sometimes you'll just be coming home, and you'll be like, god, this woman is the saddest woman in the world.
有时你刚回到家，你就会想，天哪，这个女人是世界上最悲伤的女人。
You'll pass by her door and get feelings of pity and affection.
当你经过她的门时，你会感受到怜悯和爱意。
And then she'll open it and she'll yell at you.
然后她会打开它并对你大喊大叫。
And you're just like, man.
而你就像，伙计。
She makes it so hard to do the right-- to just be a good person about it.
她让做正确的事——做一个好人——变得如此困难。
A couple of years ago, there actually was a drug dealer in the building up on the top floor.
几年前，这栋大楼的顶层确实有一个毒贩。
It was a bad scene.
这是一个糟糕的场景。
Junkies being dragged downstairs and out to the front stoop, people sleeping on the roof.
吸毒者被拖下楼，拖到前门廊，人们睡在屋顶上。
And everyone else in the building banded together and went to court and actually got the drug dealers kicked out.
大楼里的其他人联合起来，上法庭，实际上把毒贩赶了出去。
Helga was one of people who testified.
赫尔加是出庭作证的人之一。
And Starlee thinks that that might be connected to what's happening now.
斯塔利认为这可能与现在发生的事情有关。
Helga got a lot of attention and support from that campaign.
赫尔加在那次活动中得到了很多关注和支持。
And so now she's trying to do it again with Starlee.
所以现在她正试图和斯塔莉一起再做一次。
I tried to speak to Helga about all of this, to get her side of the story, but it wasn't easy.
我试图与赫尔加谈论这一切，以了解她的观点，但这并不容易。
The way Starlee described her, she's suspicious of strangers.
正如斯塔莉描述的那样，她对陌生人持怀疑态度。
She never lets anyone into her apartment.
她从不让任何人进入她的公寓。
She doesn't answer her buzzer.
她没有接听门铃。
So I decided that I'd try to speak to her out on the street.
所以我决定尝试在街上和她说话。
One night I waited outside the building for about an hour.
一天晚上，我在大楼外面等了大约一个小时。
And finally, she came out.
最后，她出来了。
Excuse me.
打扰一下。
Do you live in this building here?
你住在这栋楼里吗？
I'm trying to find out--
我正试图找出——
It was a very strange interview.
这是一次非常奇怪的采访。
She wasn't what I expected.
她并不是我所期待的那样。
She seemed completely normal.
她看起来完全正常。
I told her that I had heard something was going on with apartment number three, and I asked her if she knew it was.
我告诉她我听说三号公寓出事了，我问她是否知道。
Yes, she told me, they're selling drugs.
是的，她告诉我，他们在卖毒品。
I asked her if she'd talk to me about, and she said that she would, but she didn't want me to use her voice on the radio.
我问她是否愿意跟我谈谈，她说她愿意，但她不想让我在广播中使用她的声音。
Too dangerous, she said.
太危险了，她说。
She led me across the street, behind a van, where she said it would be safer to talk.
她领着我穿过街道，在一辆货车后面，她说在那里说话会更安全。
She was deadly serious, very intense.
她非常严肃，非常激烈。
She clearly felt that she was in a dangerous situation.
她清楚地感觉到，自己的处境很危险。
She was willing to give me a few details, but the rest, she told me, I'd have to dig out myself.
她愿意向我提供一些细节，但其余的，她告诉我，我必须自己挖掘。
Here's what she said.
这是她说的。
The building is full of students.
大楼里挤满了学生。
The people in apartment three sell to the students in the building.
三号公寓的人把衣服卖给大楼里的学生。
They also use the students as couriers to sell drugs in the bars all around the neighborhood.
他们还利用学生作为快递员，在附近的酒吧里出售毒品。
It's a big operation, and it's all being run by that short girl, she said, meaning Starlee.
这是一个很大的行动，而且都是由那个矮个子女孩经营的，她说，指的是斯塔莉。
If Helga were to hear this story on the radio, she would tell you that I've got it all wrong, that I've been duped, that everything Starlee told me is a lie.
如果赫尔加在广播中听到这个故事，她会告诉你我完全错了，我被骗了，斯塔莉告诉我的一切都是谎言。
And some of what Helga says makes perfect sense.
赫尔加说的有些话很有道理。
She says that people are coming and going all the time from Starlee's apartment, which is, in fact, true.
她说斯塔莉的公寓里一直有人进进出出，事实确实如此。
She says the phone rings at all hours of the night, and it does.
她说电话整夜都会响，确实如此。
For Helga, that points to one thing, drugs.
对于赫尔加来说，这指向一件事，那就是毒品。
For Starlee, it's just that she's a student.
对于斯塔莉来说，她只是一个学生。
She stays up late.
她熬夜。
She's got a lot of friends.
她有很多朋友。
There's no middle ground for Starlee and Helga.
斯塔莉和赫尔加没有中间立场。
They see absolutely everything differently.
他们对一切事物的看法完全不同。
From Starlee's point of view, there was a period at the beginning where this whole thing was sort of funny, where it was just a good story.
从斯塔莉的角度来看，一开始有一段时期，整个事情有点有趣，只是一个好故事。
But as time went on, things changed.
但随着时间的推移，情况发生了变化。
And Starlee became as serious as Helga.
斯塔莉变得和赫尔加一样严肃。
There would be times when I wanted to catch her in the act so badly, because I never caught-- she's so quick.
有时我非常想抓住她的表演，因为我从来没有抓住过——她太快了。
And you could never catch her putting the signs up.
而且你永远看不到她张贴标语。
I wanted to just open it so badly that I just wouldn't leave for an hour.
我非常想打开它，以至于我一个小时都不会离开。
I'd be like, no, you guys go ahead to the movie.
我会说，不，你们去看电影吧。
I'm just going to stay here and just wait by the door for a little longer.
我就留在这里，在门口等一会儿。
And it was hard.
这很难。
There's a way, especially at that period, where the two of you were sort of inextricably linked.
有一种方式，尤其是在那个时期，你们两个有着千丝万缕的联系。
That she's sitting there waiting in her apartment for you, and you're sitting here--
她坐在她的公寓里等你，而你坐在这里——
Right.
对。
Well, that's what it was.
嗯，就是这样。
It was me lying in wait of her lying in wait for me.
是我在等着她，她也在等着我。
Absolutely.
绝对地。
Yeah, the bond was strong.
是的，联系很牢固。
Most of the time, the unkindness of strangers is a barely conscious thing.
大多数时候，陌生人的不友善是我们几乎没有意识到的事情。
You cut someone off in traffic.
你在交通中挡住了某人。
You take the last doughnut.
你拿走最后一个甜甜圈。
You bump into someone running for a train.
你撞见一个正在赶火车的人。
You don't even think about it.
你甚至想都不用想。
With Helga and Starlee, things are different.
对于赫尔加和斯塔莉来说，情况有所不同。
They're unkind to each other, they spy on each other, they bicker, they yell at each other in the hallway.
他们彼此不友善，他们互相监视，他们争吵，他们在走廊里互相大喊大叫。
But for each of them, those unkindnesses are part of a bigger picture.
但对他们每个人来说，这些不友善都是更大的图景的一部分。
They're mean because they have to be.
他们很卑鄙，因为他们必须如此。
Starlee's trying to clear her name.
斯塔莉正试图洗清自己的罪名。
Helga's trying to clean up the neighborhood.
赫尔加正在努力清理附近地区。
If someone had gotten to her first-- if you were writing a history of the East Village or writing the history of this building, and then someone just interviewed her, it would go down that this heroic old lady tried to get these drug dealers out.
如果有人先找到她——如果你正在写东村的历史，或者写这座大楼的历史，然后有人采访她，那么这位英雄的老太太就会试图把这些毒贩赶出去。
She'd be the martyr, or whatever.
她会成为烈士，或者其他什么。
And I guess that could become fact then.
我想这可能会成为事实。
I told you, it almost is fact sometimes.
我告诉过你，有时这几乎就是事实。
I'm questioning myself sometimes about it.
我有时会问自己这个问题。
I used to.
我以前也是这样
You used to question whether or not you were a drug dealer?
你曾经怀疑自己是不是毒贩？
No, but just am I right?
不，但我说得对吗？
Am I doing something wrong?
我做错了什么吗？
Is there something wrong I'm doing like that?
我这样做有什么问题吗？
Is she a little bit right?
她是不是有点对了？
Not that I'm a drug dealer, but am I--
并不是说我是毒贩，而是我是——
Yeah, bad neighbor, bad person.
是的，坏邻居，坏人。
Am I abusing her?
我这是在虐待她吗？
Starlee always thought of herself as a basically good and neighborly person.
斯塔莉一直认为自己是一个善良、友善的人。
She never thought she was the kind of person who would do something like yell at an old woman in the hall.
她没想到自己是那种会在大厅里对老太婆大喊大叫的人。
And yet she does.
但她确实做到了。
Unkindness breeds unkindness.
不仁慈会滋生不仁慈。
Still, Starlee can't help wishing that things could somehow be different.
尽管如此，斯塔莉还是忍不住希望事情能有所不同。
I've been having these dreams-- very, very clear dreams, like long, epic dreams-- where she'd come over, and we've chatted on the bed, and we've been giggling in the dreams.
我一直在做这些梦——非常非常清晰的梦，就像漫长而史诗般的梦——她过来，我们在床上聊天，我们在梦中咯咯地笑。
And I've had dreams where we've come to terms with a lot of things.
我曾经梦想过我们能够接受很多事情。
I've explained it.
我已经解释过了。
Like, this summer.
比如，今年夏天。
Before, they used to be-- they were only violent.
以前，他们曾经是——他们只是暴力。
I was at her funeral.
我参加了她的葬礼。
I was a little sad at that point.
我当时有点难过。
I was visiting her in jail.
我去监狱探望她。
But this time, I've had these friendship dreams all summer long.
但这一次，我整个夏天都在做着这些友谊的梦想。
And they're really realistic.
而且它们真的很现实。
She acts like herself and I say the thing I'm supposed to.
她表现得像她自己，我说了我应该说的话。
I can't figure out what I'm supposed to say when I'm awake.
我不知道我醒着的时候该说什么。
And I say it.
我这么说。
And then all of a sudden, really, logic comes into her eyes.
然后突然间，逻辑真的进入了她的眼帘。
And she has sat down on my bed, and we've started to giggle and just talk about things and make jokes to each other.
她坐在我的床上，我们开始咯咯地笑，谈论事情，互相开玩笑。
What do you mean, the thing that you're supposed to say that you can't figure out?
你说的那些你无法弄清楚的事情是什么意思？
Whatever I'm supposed to be saying, whatever I could possibly say to her in real life to make her see the light, you know.
无论我应该说什么，无论我在现实生活中可以对她说什么，让她看到光明，你知道。
Well, how do you think you'd feel if the notes just suddenly stopped one day?
好吧，如果有一天这些音符突然停止，你觉得你会有什么感觉？
I don't know.
我不知道。
I'd probably wait a couple days and I'd see-- I don't know.
我可能会等几天，然后我会看到——我不知道。
I can't imagine they would stop, though.
但我无法想象他们会停下来。
So when was the last time you talked to her?
那么你最后一次和她说话是什么时候？
I talked to her yesterday.
我昨天和她谈过。
She called me a pathological liar.
她称我为病态的骗子。
[MUSIC - "LOVE TO ANNOY" BY JULIE DOIRON]
[音乐 - 朱莉·多伊龙的《爱惹恼》]
Act Four, Chairman of the Block.
第四幕，区块主席。
This story takes place almost around the corner from Starlee's apartment building, just a few blocks away.
这个故事发生在斯塔莉公寓楼的拐角处，距离酒店只有几个街区。
It's about one small act of kindness leading somewhere completely unexpected.
这是关于一个小小的善举导致完全意想不到的事情。
A resident of the neighborhood, Blake Eskin, tells the story.
附近居民布莱克·埃斯金 (Blake Eskin) 讲述了这个故事。
About a month ago, I went out one Friday evening with a friend in the East Village, where we both live.
大约一个月前，一个星期五晚上，我和一位朋友一起去东村（我们都住在那里）出去。
On the street, we heard Frank Sinatra music blasting loud enough to wake the neighbors.
在街上，我们听到弗兰克·辛纳屈（Frank Sinatra）的音乐震耳欲聋，足以吵醒邻居。
As we reached Fourth Street, I saw 100 people huddled around the stoop of a sixth floor tenement.
当我们到达第四街时，我看到 100 个人挤在六楼公寓的门廊周围。
Most of them were post-college, pre-childbearing types.
他们中的大多数是大学毕业后、尚未生育的类型。
Plus there were some older people who probably lived on the block.
另外，这个街区可能还住着一些老年人。
Everyone seemed to have forgotten where they were headed, whether to a party or to another bar or back to bed.
每个人似乎都忘记了自己要去哪里，是去参加聚会，还是去另一家酒吧，还是回到床上。
A short, dark-haired guy in a suit stood at the top of the stoop holding a microphone.
一个身穿西装的黑发矮个子站在门廊顶端，手里拿着麦克风。
At first, I thought maybe the guy was lip syncing because he sounded exactly like Sinatra.
起初，我以为这家伙可能是在假唱，因为他听起来和西纳特拉一模一样。
But after a few seconds, I realized he was doing the crooning himself.
但几秒钟后，我意识到他正在自己低声吟唱。
The guy looked a little like Sinatra, and he moved like him too.
这家伙看起来有点像西纳特拉，他的动作也像他。
But this was no run-of-the-mill Sinatra impersonator.
但这并不是普通的西纳特拉模仿者。
It was as if he was possessed by the spirit of Sinatra, channeling the Chairman of the Board, that Frank himself had emerged from retirement, dyed his hair black again, and was with us on Fourth Street.
弗兰克本人仿佛被西纳特拉的精神所附身，通过董事会主席的引导，从退休状态中走出来，再次将头发染成了黑色，和我们一起来到了第四街。
[SINGING "THE LADY IS A TRAMP"] Come over here, Susan!
[唱“这位女士是流浪汉”]过来，苏珊！
At the bottom of the stoop was someone you would not ordinarily see with Frank Sinatra.
在门廊的底部是一个你通常不会和弗兰克·辛纳屈一起看到的人。
An older woman with spiky salt-and-pepper hair and a leopard print vest was doing a spirited if slightly awkward tap dance on a piece of wood she had dragged out onto the sidewalk.
一位年长的女士，头发花白，穿着豹纹背心，在她拖到人行道上的一块木头上跳着活泼但略显尴尬的踢踏舞。
After my initial confusion, and my subsequent bliss, my next reaction was to wonder how this was possible.
在我最初的困惑和随后的幸福之后，我的下一个反应是想知道这怎么可能。
Where were the cops?
警察在哪里？
The 9th Precinct is a block away, and New Yorkers are quick to complain about noise.
第九分局距离酒店只有一个街区，纽约人很快就会抱怨噪音。
And Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has made it a priority for the police to crack down on what he calls "quality of life violations" like these, noise, crowds, blocking traffic, drinking in the street.
市长鲁道夫·朱利安尼 (Rudolph Giuliani) 已将警方的首要任务放在打击他所谓的“侵犯生活质量”的行为上，例如噪音、人群、阻塞交通、在街上喝酒。
But on Fourth Street, everything was copasetic.
但在第四街上，一切都很平静。
And it still is.
现在仍然如此。
Somehow, by some quirk of fate, the show outside 124 East Fourth Street has happened five Fridays in a row.
不知何故，由于命运的巧合，东四街 124 号外的演出已经连续五个星期五举行。
The singer, Nick Drakides, lives on the first floor of the building.
歌手尼克·德拉基德斯 (Nick Drakides) 住在大楼的一楼。
And the tap dancer, Laraine Goodman, lives on four.
踢踏舞演员拉雷恩·古德曼 (Laraine Goodman) 靠四口生活。
Gary and Wanda, who run the garden-level thrift shop, put their merchandise, the chairs and overstuffed couches, on the sidewalk for the audience's comfort.
经营花园层旧货店的加里和旺达将他们的商品、椅子和软垫沙发放在人行道上，以让观众感到舒适。
Nick Drakides and Laraine Goodman are neighbors.
尼克·德拉基德斯和拉瑞恩·古德曼是邻居。
And like most people who live in the same building, they didn't know much about each other.
和大多数住在同一栋楼里的人一样，他们对彼此了解不多。
Laraine did know, however, that Nick had a big jazz record collection.
然而，拉雷恩确实知道尼克收藏了大量爵士唱片。
Five weeks ago, Laraine decided she wanted to tap dance in front of the building, as a sort of therapy, she says.
五周前，拉雷恩决定在大楼前跳踢踏舞，作为一种治疗，她说。
And she reached out to Nick, asking him to play some tunes while she tap danced that weekend.
她联系了尼克，请他在那个周末她跳踢踏舞时演奏一些曲子。
What happened was, I was coming home-- I'll tell you exactly what happened.
发生的事情是，我正要回家——我会告诉你到底发生了什么。
I was coming home that Friday evening around 9:00 and I forgot her name.
那个星期五晚上 9:00 左右我回家，但我忘记了她的名字。
And I'm walking down Fourth Street from Second Avenue.
我正从第二大道沿着第四街行走。
And I'm like, oh, there she is tapping, and I don't want to do this.
我就想，哦，她在敲击，我不想这样做。
I'm tired.
我累了。
I'm like [SIGH].
我就像[叹气]。
And then I had to reach for her name in my little-- what's this thing-- pocket day timer.
然后我不得不在我的小——这是什么东西——袖珍计时器中找到她的名字。
And I'm like, OK, it's Laraine.
我想，好吧，这是拉雷恩。
Then I walk down the street, and I say, hi, Laraine, how are you?
然后我走在街上，我说，嗨，拉雷恩，你好吗？
And she goes, oh come on out Nick and join me, blah, blah, blah.
她说，哦，尼克出来吧，和我一起，等等，等等。
And I think she assumed I'll bring out some music.
我想她以为我会带来一些音乐。
That was it.
就是这样。
I don't think she was expecting a suit and microphone stand and the PA, the CDs, the cassettes, the whole number.
我认为她没想到会有一套西装、麦克风架、扩音器、CD、录音带，所有的东西。
Thanks to Laraine Goodman.
感谢拉瑞恩·古德曼。
This is the brains behind this wonderful event here.
这是这个精彩活动背后的大脑。
Say good evening, Laraine.
说晚安，拉瑞恩。
Good evening, Laraine.
晚上好，拉瑞恩。
Blake Eskin Nick's initial gesture of kindness to Laraine, a near stranger, made her into a local celebrity and made himself into an even bigger one.
布莱克·埃斯金·尼克最初对几乎陌生人的拉雷恩表示善意，使她成为当地的名人，也使他自己成为了更大的名人。
There were only a handful of people watching Laraine tap dance when Nick went outside with his instant Sinatra kit, which includes a few CDs from a series called Pocket Songs.
当尼克拿着他的 Sinatra 套件出去时，只有少数人在观看 Laraine 的踢踏舞，其中包括一些名为“袖珍歌曲”的系列的 CD。
The discs have the full Sinatra arrangements without a vocalist.
这些唱片有完整的西纳特拉改编，没有歌手。
The slogan is "You Sing the Hits."
口号是“你唱热门歌曲”。
Nick began with "I've Got the World on a String." The crowd built steadily.
尼克以“我把世界拴在一根弦上”开始。人群逐渐聚集。
And right away, Nick had the crowd on a string, standing on the stoop, had the string around his finger.
尼克立刻把人群拴在了绳子上，他站在门廊上，手指上缠着绳子。
What a world.
真是一个世界啊。
[SINGING "I'VE GOT THE WORLD ON A STRING"]
[唱“我把世界放在弦上”]
Nick showed me a picture taken when he was 15.
尼克给我看了一张他 15 岁时拍的照片。
He's wearing a tuxedo, his hair parted to the side, standing at a microphone and pointing back at the camera.
他穿着燕尾服，头发分到一边，站在麦克风前，指着镜头。
It is a picture of a 15-year-old boy from Poughkeepsie, New York in Frank Sinatra drag.
这是一张来自纽约波基普西市的 15 岁男孩穿着弗兰克·辛纳屈 (Frank Sinatra) 变装的照片。
Basically, what I'm doing right now, I have been into since I was a kid, since I was 10 years old.
基本上，我现在所做的事情，是我从孩提时代起，从 10 岁起就开始做的。
Nick trained as a jazz vocalist at Boston's Berklee College of Music, moved to New York, and after a while he found a job with the Starlight Orchestra, a 16-piece band that performs at high society weddings and corporate events.
尼克在波士顿伯克利音乐学院接受爵士乐歌手培训，后来搬到了纽约，不久后他在星光乐团找到了工作，这是一支 16 人组成的乐队，在上流社会的婚礼和公司活动中表演。
The Starlight Orchestra has five vocalists, and Nick is their Sinatra specialist.
星光乐团有五位主唱，尼克是他们的辛纳特拉专家。
Each of us in the audience had been lured by the improbability of the situation, but Nick's stage presence kept us there.
我们每个观众都被这种不可能发生的情况所吸引，但尼克的舞台表现让我们留在那里。
Most street performers in New York go where the tourists go, since most of us natives are too busy to stop and listen.
纽约的大多数街头表演者都去游客去的地方，因为我们大多数当地人都太忙而没有时间停下来听。
Nick singing from his stoop, however, was a gift to his own neighborhood.
然而，尼克在他的门前唱歌是给他自己的邻居的一份礼物。
Nick really knows how to work a room, even when it's not a room.
尼克真的知道如何在一个房间里工作，即使它不是一个房间。
He weaves his neighbor's names into the lyrics.
他将邻居的名字写入歌词中。
--anytime he moves his-- that's Brendan, our lovely neighbor here.
——每当他移动他的——那就是布伦丹，我们可爱的邻居。
Lucky me-- how ya doin' Richie-- can't you see I'm in love?
我很幸运——里奇你怎么样——你没看到我恋爱了吗？
He plugs Gary and Wanda's thrift shop and thanks them for their help.
他接通了加里和万达的旧货店，并感谢他们的帮助。
He salutes a couple watching from a nearby fire escape.
他向一对在附近防火梯上观看的夫妇致意。
He dedicates "Witchcraft" to a pretty blonde standing in the back row and flirts with her at the end of the song.
他将《巫术》献给一位站在后排的漂亮金发女郎，并在歌曲结束时与她调情。
[SINGING "WITCHCRAFT"] Ooh!
[唱“巫术”]哦！
I got a crush on you too, baby.
我也迷恋你，宝贝。
Ooh, you're a fine witch!
哦，你真是个好女巫！
Just like Frank would have done.
就像弗兰克会做的那样。
Now, it's a safe bet that if Nick and Laraine had been break dancing or playing conga drums, the police would have shut them down in 20 minutes, tops.
现在，可以肯定的是，如果尼克和拉雷恩跳霹雳舞或打康加鼓，警察最多会在 20 分钟内将他们关闭。
But the officers of the 9th Precinct fell under the same spell as the rest of us.
但第九分局的警官们和我们其他人一样也受到了同样的困扰。
And they couldn't bring themselves to get out of the patrol car to enforce the mayor's quality of life rules.
他们无法让自己下巡逻车来执行市长的生活质量规则。
The first week they would circle around the block, speak through their megaphone.
第一周，他们会绕着街区转一圈，通过扩音器讲话。
They would say, people, please don't block the streets.
他们会说，人们，请不要封锁街道。
Please keep the streets clear.
请保持街道畅通。
And that was it.
就是这样。
That was the first week.
那是第一周。
The second week they requested "Summer Wind."
第二周他们要求播放《夏日的风》。
They requested "Summer Wind" through the megaphone?
他们通过扩音器点播《夏日的风》？
Yes, through the megaphone as they were passing.
是的，他们经过时通过扩音器。
The third week, the police came and they stopped their car, held up traffic, and they said, OK, "Summer Wind." They wanted to hear "Summer Wind." So I finished "Night and Day." I put "Summer Wind" on.
第三周，警察来了，他们拦住了车，阻碍了交通，然后他们说，好吧，“夏天的风”。他们想听《夏日的风》。于是我完成了《日日夜夜》。我放了《夏日的风》。
And I went up on the steps.
我走上台阶。
They manipulated their lights on the top and threw a white spotlight on me.
他们操纵顶部的灯光，将白色的聚光灯投向我。
And I started singing "Summer Wind." The crowd went crazy.
我开始唱《夏天的风》。人群疯狂了。
They went nuts.
他们疯了。
And they were really into it.
他们真的很喜欢它。
it's that whole New York, macho Italian, police, Irish, street-- it is, man.
这就是整个纽约，充满男子气概的意大利人、警察、爱尔兰人、街道——就是这样，伙计。
And evidently, what I'm doing, they connect with that.
显然，我正在做的事情与此相关。
Of course they do.
当然有。
So do the black men with dreadlocks, the young white guys in Wu-Tang Clan t-shirts, the teenagers immersed in the swing lounge scene, the pot-bellied Italian men of a certain age smoking cigars.
留着辫子的黑人、穿着武当派 T 恤的年轻白人、沉浸在秋千休息室场景中的青少年、抽着雪茄的大腹便便的意大利男人也是如此。
And sitting front row center, wearing a party colored muu-muu, Nick's next door neighbor Jean, who has lived at 124 East Fourth Street for the last 48 years.
坐在前排中间、身穿派对色 muu-muu 服装的是 Nick 的隔壁邻居 Jean，他在东四街 124 号已经住了 48 年了。
For all of them and for me, there is something about Frank Sinatra and something about how Nick Drakides interprets Frank Sinatra that bewitches us, that touches us.
对于他们所有人和我来说，弗兰克·辛纳屈（Frank Sinatra）以及尼克·德拉基德斯（Nick Drakides）如何诠释弗兰克·辛纳屈（Frank Sinatra）的一些东西让我们着迷，让我们感动。
There's a guy who lives next door.
有一个人住在隔壁。
And he embraced me.
他拥抱了我。
He hugged me, this old Chinese guy, man, with a hearing aid.
他拥抱了我，这个戴着助听器的中国老家伙。
I'm like, I touched this guy.
我想，我触碰了这个家伙。
And I don't how I did it, but I did it.
我不知道我是怎么做到的，但我做到了。
For any New Yorker to do something as big as this for his neighbors again and again is more than an anomaly.
对于任何一个纽约人来说，一次又一次地为他的邻居做这样的大事不仅仅是一种反常现象。
It is as rare and unstable as the elements at the bottom of the periodic table.
它与元素周期表底部的元素一样稀有且不稳定。
The key ingredients of this event, neighborliness, generosity, free time, good weather, cooperative police officers, are hard to come by in this city.
这次活动的关键要素是邻里、慷慨、自由时间、好天气、合作的警察，这些在这个城市是很难见到的。
And they are nearly impossible to find together in the same place week after week.
而且几乎不可能一周又一周地在同一个地方找到他们。
The Nick and Laraine show has had a longer run than anyone could expect.
《尼克和拉瑞恩》的演出时间比任何人预期的都要长。
And something-- rain or the first frost or the 9th precinct or a Friday night gig with the Starlight Orchestra-- will soon bring it to a halt.
而某些事情——下雨、初霜、第九分局或周五晚上星光管弦乐团的演出——很快就会让一切停止。
There's a gossip columnist in the New York Post named Cindy Adams.
《纽约邮报》有一位八卦专栏作家，名叫辛迪·亚当斯。
And it is tempting to resort to her mantra "only in New York folks, only in New York" to explain this phenomenon.
人们很容易用她的口号“只有纽约人，只有纽约”来解释这一现象。
But in Nick's case, the wisdom of Cindy Adams does not suffice.
但就尼克而言，仅靠辛迪·亚当斯的智慧是不够的。
This is not the stuff of New York, not of the real New York or even of the New York of a bygone era, but of a mythical movie New York, a lower east side block built on a studio back lot.
这不是纽约的东西，不是真正的纽约，甚至不是过去时代的纽约，而是神话电影中的纽约，一个建在工作室后面的下东区街区。
It is the first reel of an unknown MGM musical from just after the war, and it stars Nick Drakides.
这是战后一部不知名的米高梅音乐剧的第一卷，由尼克·德拉基德斯主演。
What happens in the rest of the film is anyone's guess.
电影的其余部分会发生什么，大家都在猜测。
[MUSIC - "STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT" BY FRANK SINATRA]
[音乐 - 弗兰克·辛纳屈的《夜里的陌生人》]
Blake Eskin in New York.
布莱克·埃斯金在纽约。
Credits Ira Glass Well, our program was produced today by Nancy Updike and myself, with Alix Spiegel and Julie Snyder.
图片来源：Ira Glass 嗯，我们今天的节目是由南希·厄普代克和我本人以及阿利克斯·斯皮格尔和朱莉·斯奈德制作的。
Senior editor for this episode of our show is Paul Tough.
本期节目的高级编辑是保罗·托夫 (Paul Tough)。
Seth Lind is our production manager.
塞思·林德 (Seth Lind) 是我们的生产经理。
Production help from Rachel Day, Aaron Scott, and WHYY in Philadelphia.
费城的 Rachel Day、Aaron Scott 和 WHYY 为制作提供帮助。
[ACKNOWLEDGMENTS] This American Life is distributed by Public Radio International.
[致谢]《美国生活》由国际公共广播电台发行。
[FUNDING CREDITS] WBEZ management oversight for our program by our boss, Mr. Torey Malatia, who says, no, no, no, no. Do it like this.
[资金来源] 我们的老板 Torey Malatia 先生对我们的项目进行了 WBEZ 管理监督，他说，不，不，不，不。像这样做。
Move it up and down slowly, bobbing the end of the tool slightly from side to side.
缓慢地上下移动它，使工具的末端稍微左右摆动。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Back next week with more stories of This American Life.
下周我们将带来更多《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。