When I was a young person, I began my career as an actress.
我在年轻的时候,就开始了自己的演艺生涯。
Whenever my mother wasn't free to drive me into Manhattan for auditions. I would take the train from suburban New Jersey and meet my father, who would have left his desk at the law office where he worked, and we would meet under the Upper Platform Arrival and Departure sign in Penn Station.
每当我母亲没时间开车送我去曼哈顿试镜的时候,我便会从新泽西的郊区,坐火车去找我的父亲,他便会从律所办公室繁忙的工作中抽身。我们约在宾州车站高台下"出发到达"的标志下见面。
We would then get on the subway together and when we surfaced. He would ask me: which way is north? I wasn't very good at finding North at the beginning but I auditioned fair amount and so my Dad kept asking me: which way is north?
之后,我俩会一起去搭地铁。当我们走出地铁站,他总是问我:哪个方向是北边?刚开始,我一点儿也不擅长寻找方位。后来,我的试镜次数越来越多,而我的父亲也一直问我:哪里才是北呢?
Over time, I got better at finding it. I was struck by that memory yesterday while boarding the plane to come here. Not just by how far my life has come since then, but by how meaningful that seemingly small lesson has been.
慢慢的,我开始有了方向感。昨天上飞机的时候,我突然想起这段回忆,感触良多。不仅是因为从那以后,我的人生开始转变,而是因为这堂看似毫不起眼的课却意义非凡。
When I was still a child, my father developed my sense of direction and now, as an adult. I trust my ability to navigate space. My father helped give me the confidence to guide myself through the world. In late March, last year, 2016, I became a parent for the first time.
那时我还是个孩子,是我父亲教导我辨别方向,而现在作为成年人,我坚信自己进行探索的能力。是父亲给了我信心,我开始引导着自己探索这个世界。2016年3月底,我第一次成为了母亲。
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Speaker: Anne Hathaway
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