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As I looked round Oxford today, I couldn’t help but be aware of the majesty and grandeur of this great institution, not to mention the brilliance of the great and gifted minds that have roamed these streets for centuries. The walls of Oxford have not only housed the greatest philosophical and scientific geniuses—they have also ushered forth some of the most cherished creators of children’s literature, from Tolkien to Lewis. Today I was allowed to hobble into the dining hall in Christ Church to see Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland immortalized in the stained glass windows. And even one of my own fellow Americans, the beloved Dr Seuss graced these halls and then went on to leave his mark on the imaginations of millions of children throughout the world.

今天我參觀牛津大學(xué)，不禁被這座偉大建筑的宏偉壯觀吸引，更不用說(shuō)這里云集了幾個(gè)世紀(jì)以來(lái)的精英才俊們了，他們的睿智綻放著炫耀光芒。牛津不僅匯聚了最出色的哲學(xué)和科學(xué)英才，還培養(yǎng)出了從托爾金到劉易斯等眾多極富愛(ài)心的兒童文學(xué)家。今天，我有幸參觀了路易斯卡羅爾創(chuàng)作的《愛(ài)麗絲漫游仙境》，它被雕刻 在基督堂餐廳已經(jīng)褪了色的彩色玻璃窗上。我甚至還發(fā)現(xiàn)我的一位美國(guó)同胞——受人敬愛(ài)的蘇斯博士——也為此增色，啟發(fā)著全世界千萬(wàn)兒童的想象力。

I suppose I should start by listing my qualifications to speak before you this evening.

今晚，我想先從我有幸能在這里講話的原因開(kāi)始。

Friends, I do not claim to have the academic expertise of other speakers who have addressed this hall, just as they could lay little claim at being adept at the moonwalk~and you know, Einstein in particular was really terrible at that. But I do have a claim to having experienced more places and cultures than most people will ever see. Human knowledge consists not only of libraries ofparchment and ink~it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiseled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche. And friends, I have encountered so much in this relatively short life of mine that I still cannot believe I am only 42. I often tell Shmuley that in soul years I，m sure that I，m at least 80-and tonight I even walk like I，m 80.

朋友們，正如其他一些來(lái)牛津演講的演講者不擅長(zhǎng)月球漫步一樣，我也并不具 備他們所擁有的學(xué)術(shù)專業(yè)知識(shí)，而且你們都知道愛(ài)因斯坦是學(xué)識(shí)方面的權(quán)威。但我 可以說(shuō)，比起大多數(shù)人，我游歷了更多的地方，也經(jīng)歷了更多不同的文化。人類文 明不僅僅包括圖書(shū)館中紙墨記載的那一部分，還包括記錄在人們內(nèi)心的，鐫刻進(jìn)人 們靈魂的，銘記在人類精神中的那一部分。而且，朋友們，在我相對(duì)短暫的生命里 我經(jīng)歷了這么多之后，我真的難以相信自己只有42歲。我經(jīng)常對(duì)施慕禮說(shuō)，我的心 理年齡肯定至少有80了，今晚我甚至像個(gè)80歲老人一樣走路。

So please harken to my message, because what I have to tell you tonight can bring healing to humanity and healing to our planet.

那么就請(qǐng)大家仔細(xì)聽(tīng)我的演講，因?yàn)榻裉煳乙獙?duì)大家講的或許會(huì)讓大家共同來(lái) 拯救人類，拯救地球!

Through the grace of God, I have been fortunate to have achieved many of my artistic and professional aspirations realized early in my lifetime. But these, friends are accomplishments, and accomplishments alone are not synonymous with who I am. Indeed，the cheery five-year-old who belted out Rockin3 Robin and Ben to adoring crowds was not indicative of the boy behind the smile.

多虧上帝的恩典，我很幸運(yùn)地提前實(shí)現(xiàn)了許多自己一生的藝術(shù)和職業(yè)抱負(fù)。雖 然我為這些成績(jī)感到高興，但這些成績(jī)和我是誰(shuí)完全沒(méi)有關(guān)系。事實(shí)上，在崇拜者面前活潑快樂(lè)地表演《搖滾知更鳥(niǎo)》和《本》的5歲小男孩并不意味著笑容背后的他 也同樣快樂(lè)。

Tonight，I come before you less as an icon of pop (whatever that means anyway), and more as an icon of a generation, a generation that no longer knows what it means to be children. All of us are products of our childhood. But I am the product of a lack of a childhood, an absence of that precious and wondrous age when we frolic playfully without a care in the world, basking in the adoration of parents and relatives, where our biggest concern is studying for that big spelling test come Monday morning. Those of you who are familiar with the Jackson Five know that I began performing at the tender age of five and that ever since then, I haven’t stopped dancing or singing.

今晚，我不想以一個(gè)流行偶像的身份——不管這個(gè)身份意味著什么——出現(xiàn)在 大家面前，我更愿意作一代人的見(jiàn)證，一代不再了解作為孩子有什么意義的人們的 見(jiàn)證。大家都有過(guò)童年，而我卻缺少童年，缺少那些寶貴的、美妙的、無(wú)優(yōu)無(wú)慮嬉 戲玩耍的時(shí)光，而那些日子我們本該愜意地沉浸在父母親人的疼愛(ài)中，最擔(dān)心的也 不過(guò)是星期一重要的拼寫(xiě)考試。熟悉杰克遜五人樂(lè)隊(duì)的朋友都知道我5歲時(shí)就開(kāi)始表 演，從那以后，就再也沒(méi)有停止過(guò)跳舞唱歌。雖然音樂(lè)表演的確是我最大的樂(lè)趣， 可是小時(shí)候我更想和其他的男孩子一樣，搭樹(shù)巢，打水仗，捉迷藏。

But while performing and making music undoubtedly remain as some of my greatest joys, when I was young I wanted more than anything else to be a typical little boy. I wanted to build tree houses, have water balloon fights, and play hide and seek with my friends. But fate had it otherwise and all I could do was envy the laughter and playtime that seemed to be going on all around me. There was no respite from my professional life. But on Sundays I would go Pioneering, the term used for the missionary work that Jehovah’s Wtnesses do. And it was then that I was able to see the magic of other people’s childhood. Since I was already a celebrity, I would have to don a disguise of fat suit, wig, beard and glasses and we would spend the day in the suburbs of Southern California, going door-to-door or making the rounds of shopping mails，distributing our Watchtower magazine. I loved to set foot in all those regular suburban houses and catch sight of the shag rugs and La-Z-Boy armchairs with kids playing Monopoly and grandmas baby-sitting and all those wonderful, ordinary and starry scenes of everyday life. Many, I know, would argue that these things seem like no big deal. But to me they were mesmerizing. I used to think that I was unique in feeling that I was without a childhood. I believed that indeed there were only a handful with whom I could share those feelings.

但是命中注定我只能羨慕那些笑聲，那些從我身邊溜走的歡樂(lè)時(shí)光，因?yàn)槲?的職業(yè)生活不容停歇。不過(guò)，作為耶和華見(jiàn)證人，每個(gè)禮拜天我都要去參加教會(huì)工 作，那時(shí)我就能看到別人的童年是怎樣的充滿魔力。而自從我成名以后，我就不得 不用肥大的衣服、假發(fā)、胡須和眼鏡把自己偽裝起來(lái)。我們?cè)诩又菽喜康慕紖^(qū)度過(guò)一整天，挨家挨戶串門(mén)，或者在購(gòu)物中心閑逛，發(fā)放我們的《守望臺(tái)》雜志。我也 喜歡在普通人家前駐足，看那些粗毛地毯，看那些小家伙們過(guò)家家，看所有的精彩 的、普通的、閃亮的日常生活情景。我知道很多人會(huì)認(rèn)為這沒(méi)什么大不了，可對(duì)我 卻充滿了誘惑。我常常想，自己應(yīng)該是唯一沒(méi)有體驗(yàn)過(guò)童年的人，我想能和我分享 這種感覺(jué)的人更是少之又少。

When I recently met with Shirley Temple Black, the great child star of the 1930s and 40s，we said nothing to each other at first. We simply cried together, for she could share a pain with me that only others like my close friends Elizabeth Taylor and McCauley Culkin knew. I do not tell you this to gain your sympathy but to impress upon you my first important point—it is not just Hollywood child stars that have suffered from a nonexistent childhood.

前些時(shí)候，我有幸遇到了三四十年代的一位童星秀蘭鄧波兒，一見(jiàn)面我們什 么都不說(shuō)，只是一起哭，因?yàn)樗�能分�?dān)我的痛苦，這種痛苦只有我的一些密友,伊 麗莎白泰勒和麥考利庫(kù)爾金他們才知道。我說(shuō)這些并不是要博得大家的同情， 只是想讓大家牢記一點(diǎn)這種失去童年的痛苦不僅僅屬于好萊塢的童星。現(xiàn)在，這已經(jīng)成為全世界的災(zāi)難。童年成了當(dāng)代生活的犧牲品。我們使很多 孩子失去歡樂(lè)，失去自由，失去相應(yīng)的權(quán)利，而且還認(rèn)為一個(gè)孩子就該是這樣的。

Today, it’s a universal calamity, a global catastrophe. Childhood has become the great casualty of modern-day living. All around us we are producing scores of kids who have not had the joy, who have not been accorded the right, who have not been allowed the freedom, or knowing what it’s like to be a kid. Today children are constantly encouraged to grow up faster, as if this period known as childhood is a burdensome stage, to be endured and ushered through, as swiftly as possible. And on that subject, I am certainly one of the world’s greatest experts. Ours is a generation that has witnessed the abrogation of the parent-child covenant.

現(xiàn)在，孩子們經(jīng)常被鼓勵(lì)長(zhǎng)大得快一些，好像這個(gè)叫做童年的時(shí)期是一個(gè)累贅的階 段，大人們很不耐煩地想著法兒讓它盡可能地快些結(jié)束。在這個(gè)問(wèn)題上，我無(wú)疑是 世界上最專業(yè)的人士之一了。我正是見(jiàn)證親子盟約廢除的一代人。

Psychologists are publishing libraries of books detailing the destructive effects of denying one’s children the unconditional love that is so necessary to the healthy development of their minds and character. And because of all the neglect， too many of our kids have, essentially, to raise themselves. They are growing more distant from their parents, grandparents and other family members, as all around us the indestructible bond that once glued together the generations, unravels. This violation has bred a new generation, Generation O let us call it, that has now picked up the torch from Generation X. The O stands for a generation that has everything on the outside-wealth, success, fancy clothing and fancy cars, but an aching emptiness on the inside. That cavity in our chests, that barrenness at our core, that void in our center is the place where the heart once beat and which love once occupied. And it，s not just the kids who are suffering. It，s the parents as well. For the more we cultivate little adults in kids，bodies, the more removed we ourselves become from our own childlike qualities，and there is so much about being a child that is worth retaining in adult life.

心理學(xué)家在書(shū)中詳述了因?yàn)椴唤o予孩子絕對(duì)的愛(ài)而導(dǎo)致毀滅性的影響，由此說(shuō) 明這種無(wú)條件的愛(ài)對(duì)他們精神和人格的健康發(fā)展是極其必要的。很多孩子因?yàn)楸缓?視就自己照顧自己。他們漸漸疏遠(yuǎn)自己的父母親、祖父母以及其他的家庭成員，我 們身邊那種曾經(jīng)團(tuán)結(jié)過(guò)一代人的不滅的凝集力就這樣散開(kāi)了。這種違背常理的行為 造就了一代新人一~我們稱之為“0時(shí)代”，他們繼承著“X時(shí)代”人的使命——擁 有所有外在的東西，例如財(cái)富、成功、時(shí)裝和跑車，但他們的內(nèi)心卻是痛苦和空虛 的。心胸空洞，靈魂荒蕪，而那些空白的地方曾經(jīng)搏動(dòng)著我們的心臟，曾經(jīng)被愛(ài)占 據(jù)。其實(shí)，這不僅是孩子的痛苦，也是父母的煎熬。我們?cè)绞亲尯⒆觽冊(cè)缡欤�我�?就越來(lái)越遠(yuǎn)離了天真，而這種天真就算孩子成為成年人后也值得擁有。

Love, ladies and gentlemen, is the human family’s most precious legacy, its richest bequest, its golden inheritance. And it is a treasure that is handed down from one generation to another. Previous ages may not have had the wealth we enjoy. Their houses may have lacked electricity, and they squeezed their many kids into small homes without central heating. But those homes had no darkness, nor were they cold. They were lit bright with the glow of love and they were warmed snugly by the very heat of the human heart. Parents, undistracted by the lust for luxury and status, accorded their children primacy in their lives.

女士們先生們，愛(ài)是人類家庭最珍貴的遺產(chǎn)，是最貴重的饋贈(zèng)，是最無(wú)價(jià)的傳 統(tǒng)，是我們應(yīng)該代代相傳的財(cái)富。以前，我們或許沒(méi)有現(xiàn)在這樣富有，屋里可能沒(méi) 有電，很多孩子可能擠在沒(méi)有取暖設(shè)施的狹小房間里。但這些家庭里沒(méi)有黑暗，也 沒(méi)有寒冷。他們點(diǎn)燃愛(ài)的光芒，溫暖著彼此緊貼的心靈。父母不為各種享受和權(quán)利 的欲望分心，孩子才是他們的生活中最重要的。

As you all know，our two countries broke from each other over what Thomas Jefferson referred to as “certain inalienable rights.” And while we Americans and British might dispute the justice of his claims, what has never been in dispute is that children have certain inalienable rights, and the gradual erosion of those rights has led to scores of children worldwide being denied the joys and security of childhood.

我們都知道，我們兩國(guó)在托馬斯杰弗遜提出的所謂“一些不可剝奪的權(quán)利” 上因意見(jiàn)不合而決裂。盡管美國(guó)人和英國(guó)人在各自要求的公平上有分歧，但在關(guān)于 孩子享有不可剝奪的權(quán)利這一點(diǎn)上卻是一致的。但是對(duì)這些權(quán)利的逐步剝奪已經(jīng)導(dǎo) 致了世界上的很多孩子失去歡快樂(lè)趣和童年的安全感。

Friends, the foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an object of love. Before you know if you have red hair or brown, before you know if you are black or white, before you know of what religion you are a part, you have to know that you are loved.

朋友們，人類所有知識(shí)的基礎(chǔ)和人類意識(shí)的萌芽必然需要我們每一個(gè)人都成為 被愛(ài)的對(duì)象。哪怕你不知道自己的頭發(fā)是紅色還是棕色，不知道自己是白人還是黑 人，不知道自己信仰哪個(gè)宗教，你也應(yīng)該知道自己是被愛(ài)著的。