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And I know a lot of people who'd comment,
我知道很多人会有非议
not to me directly, but would come back to me
不是针对我 但还是会回到我身上来
about how strange it was, that I just talked to my daughters
这多奇怪啊 对自己的女儿说话
as if they were people
像对待普通人一样
And I never thought about it, I think kind of the opposite is true
但我从不这样想 事实上我想的正好相反
It's kinda strange that you talk to kids as if they weren't people
对待她们不像对待人们一样 那样才奇怪呢
You know, maybe I'm screwed in the head, well that's probably true
也许我是在钻牛角尖 但这没准是真的
But you know, it seems the hurt, people supposed to learn
你们知道 人们是渴望去学习的
if you always talked down to them
如果你总是颐指气使 他们会很受伤
I have, I was gonna bring today, it's kind of interesting,
我今天想分享一件
one of the things,
很有趣的事情
there's always a tradition in my family when I was growing up
在我的成长过程中 我们家族有一个传统
You always got a book for Christmas,
每到圣诞节都会得到一本书
you always get a book for Christmas, that's part of what you got
每到圣诞节 无论你拿到了什么 总会有一本书
I don't know, it's kind of neat, and so when my daughters were growing up,
我觉得这挺好 所以我有了女儿之后
I always give them a book for Christmas
我也会给她们一本书作为圣诞礼物
Now you use the system to your advantage
那么 把惯例转化为好处
When I was about your age, my birthday is in summer,
我的生日在夏天 当我像你们这么大的时候
and I was home for vacation
有一次我在家中度假
And my mother said "what do you want for your birthday?"
我妈妈问我"你想要什么生日礼物呢"
And I've been kinda wanting, because of some stuff going on school
因为学校里的一些课程
I kinda wanted a Webster's Third World International Dictionary
我想要韦伯斯特的第三世界国际辞典
Which were fairly expensive, which I think they used to be
那时这本书相当昂贵 至少我曾经这么认为
I think books like that, got a lot cheaper, but they used to be pretty expensive
我知道现在这样的书都便宜多了 不过那时候确实很贵
And that was more, I said "well this was more than what you spend,
所以我说"这正是我想要的
this was more than you spend for birthdays, this is what I like"
这比以往任何生日得到的都好"
My parents were so impressed, that I actually wanted a book
我的父母非常惊喜 因为我真的想要一本书
That I got something, this cool,
所以我又得到了一些东西
I could get more than what I deserved by having my parents think that
我得到了比应得的更多 因为我的父母想
"Larry actually wants a book, "
Larry真的想要一本书呢
we've done something right after all these years"
这么多年我们所做的都是正确的啊"
But books are nice together
不过书确实是不错的
So he likes Merlin, Merlin treats him like an adult
他喜欢梅林 梅林对他向对待成年人一样
And it's always back to lessons
回到授课上来
Now one of the things, that's too hard to study,
有一样东西很难学 今天也无法实现
kinda inappropriate for today, and he wants to be come a fish
他希望变成一条鱼
And what's gonna happen between now
这种变形和将来拔出石中剑称王
and in pulling the sword out of the stone is,
有什么关系呢
he's gonna be repeatedly transformed into different things
他会反复变形变成不同的东西
Now we're gonna see some of these, but they're gonna tell us later
我们要先看到一些变化 之后才会明白意义
that he goes other countless transformations
他经历了无数的变形
