My name is Jane Goodall and my age is 80, my job is giving people hope. I learned from my mother, so much the importance I think of support. Because when I was a child, my mother supported all my crazy love of animals.
我叫珍妮·古道尔,我今年80岁了,我的工作是给人们带去希望。我觉得我在我母亲那里学到了鼓励的重要性。当我还是个孩子的时候,我母亲就鼓励我疯狂热爱动物的行为。
When I wanted to go off to Africa at the age of 10, and everybody laughed at me. She supported me and she simply said, which I took to heart and repeated again and again, that “if you really want something, you have to be prepared to work very hard, take advantage of opportunity and above all, never give up.”
10岁那年,我想去非洲,大家都在嘲笑我。但我母亲很支持我,她简短的话我一直记在心里并反复默念:如果你想要某样东西,你必须准备努力工作,利用机会,但最重要的是永不言弃!
In my life right now… I’m 80. There’s so much left to do, so I would like to, I would like to go back and give myself a bit longer. But as it is, I don’t know how long I have to live, but but certainly it is that every year takes me closer to the end whenever that end is.
在我的生命中......我现在已经80岁了,我还有很多事情没做,所以我想回到过去,这样就能给自己更多时间。但事实是,我不知道自己的生命还有多久,不过有一点可以肯定,不论生命什么时候结束,每一年我都离这个终点近一点。
So there’s this feeling of desperation, so many places I want to go, so many people I want to talk to, so many hearts I want to reach… And I’m just me and I try to use this electronic stuff and it does work to a certain extent. But it’s not the same as being there, and sensing a person, and trying to get in here where it seems impossible to do.
所以我有一种绝望感,我还有很多想去的地方,还有很多想见的人,还有很多想触摸的心灵......而我就是我,我试着使用一些电子产品,它们也在一定程度上也帮了我。但这与身临其地,面对面感受一个人的存在,并试图到达似乎不可能到达的地方并不相同。
Education is not the sort of education that we think about when children go to school. I think education is learning from experience. I think we continue to be educated throughout life, and I think every day brings its own kind of education and we can learn from it. If we keep our eyes open, our ears open and think of everyday as an adventure, then each day will give us a lesson.
教育,并非时我们认为的孩子上学那种教育。我认为教育是从经验中学习。我觉得我们一生都在接受教育,每一天都会带给我们不同的教育方式让我们从中学习。如果细心观察,仔细倾听,把每一天都当做一次冒险,那我们每天都可以学到一些东西。
I have many kinds of happiness. I’m completely happy when I’m alone in nature. I love to be alone in nature, it makes me very happy. I’m really happy when I’m sitting around with friends in the evening, particularly around a campfire, we can tell stories and drink a bit of red wine.
我的幸福很多样,我当我一个人身处大自然的时候我完全沉浸在幸福当中。我喜欢在大自然中独处,那让我很开心。当晚上我和朋友围坐在一起,尤其是围坐在篝火旁,我真的很开心,我们可以讲讲故事,还可以喝点红酒。
I’m totally happy when I’m walking with the dog. Because dogs make me really, really happy. Because you can just be yourself with the dog. A dog is always him- or her-self with me. And when I was a child, my great teacher was a dog. A dog who taught me that we’re just part of the animal kingdom.
当我带狗狗出去一起散步时,我也非常开心。因为狗狗真的让我感到快乐。和狗狗在一起的时候你可以做你自己,不管是雄性狗狗还是雌性狗狗。当我还是个孩子的时候,我的好老师就是一只小狗。一条狗让我明白我们只是动物王国的一部分。
And that we are not the only beings with personalities, and minds capable of reasoning, and certainly not the only beings with emotions, like happiness, sadness, fear, despair… Nor are we the only beings capable of giving and receiving love.
我们并不是唯一有个性、有思考能力的物种,当然也并非唯一有情感的物种,比如快乐、悲伤、恐惧、绝望……我们也不是唯一能够给予和接受爱的物种。
The biggest problem that we have as environmental activists is to fight the power of money. Because there’s absolutely no question there are people in government who truly agree when I talked with them. They agreed that this mind shouldn’t go ahead, or that dam shouldn’t be built…
作为环保主义者,我们面临的最大问题是与金钱的力量作斗争,这是毫无疑问的。当我与政府部门的人交谈时,他们也完全同意。他们一致认为,不能一直有这种思想,或者那里不应该修建大坝……
And Monsanto shouldn’t be allowed to test its seeds here. But when this, it’s corruption, really. But the might of money, the corporations that hold governments in their hands, because of lobbying power and so enforce…It’s really frightening.
......还不允许孟山都公司在这里实验种子。当这一切发生的时候,真的就是腐败。但是金钱的力量,让那些公司把政府捏在手里,因为游说的力量和强制执行(法律/法规)……这真的很可怕。
If I’m allowed to change a few things, if I just had this magic power, I would like to, without causing any pain or suffering, reduce the number of people on the planet. Because there’s too many of us. It’s a planet finance resolving and we are using them up. And that’s going to mean so much suffering in the future.
如果我可以改变一些事情,如果我有魔法,我希望在不造成任何痛苦与创伤的情况下,减少地球上的人数,因为人类太多了。这是解决地球金融问题的方法,我们正在透支它们,这意味着在未来我们将遭受巨大的痛苦。
I would like to alleviate poverty. Because when you’re poor, never mind the individual suffering. You’ re destroy the environment because you have to. You have to cut down the last trees to try to grow a bit of food to feed yourself or your family, or to make some charcoal.
我想减轻贫困。因为当你很贫困的时候,不会在乎个体的痛苦。你就不得不破坏环境,必须砍倒最后一棵树来做木炭,或尝试种植一些食物来养活自己和家人。
Or you have to buy the cheapest food, even if that did cause horrendous suffering to animals, or child salve labor somewhere else. So, alleviate poverty.
否则你就得买最便宜的食物,即使那确实给动物带来了可怕的痛苦,或者很多地方出现童工。所以,要减轻贫困。
And maybe the hardest of all, but what I really, really really would love to change is the unsustainable lifestyle of everybody else. We’re just greedy! And I always think of Mahatma Gandhi’s saying: “This planet can provide for human need, but not for human greed.” And that is so right.
也许是最艰难的......但是我真的,真的真的很想改变的是人类不可持续的生活方式。我们只是贪婪!我总是想起圣雄甘地的一句话:“这个星球可以满足人类的需求,却不能满足人类的贪婪。”说的真的是一点没错。
She is a real heroine.
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