When I was a little girl growing up in middle-class New Jersey, my entire artistic life was curated by people who lived in the straight jacket of a very conformist suburban life.
当我还是个小女孩的时候,我生长在新泽西州的中产阶级家庭,我的整个艺术生活都是由那些在刻板郊区生活中的人策划的。
In the late '50s and early '60s, all the houses in my neighborhood were the same size.
在50年代末和60年代初,我家附近所有的房子都是一样大小的。
In the developments, they even were the same shape and color and style.
慢慢发展,他们甚至形状,颜色和风格也是相同的。
And in the schools, your job was to put pennies in your loafers and look the same as everybody else and act the same way as everybody else.
在学校里,你的工作就是把硬币放进你的乐福鞋里,看起来和其他人一样,举止也和其他人一样。
Standing out, being different was like drawing a target on your forehead.
脱颖而出,与众不同就像在你的额头上画了一个靶子。
And you had to have a special kind of courage to do it.
你必须有一种特殊的勇气才能做到这一点。
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Speaker: 梅丽尔·斯特里普(Meryl Streep)1949年6月22日出生于美国新泽西州萨米特,毕业于耶鲁大学(硕士),美国女演员、歌手、制片。她是好莱坞传奇人物,多次获得奥斯卡、金球奖和终身成就奖,塑造多个银幕经典形象。作为女演员,也敢公然的反对特朗普,让人佩服她的勇气的果敢。