And the question that I want to ask everybody here today is are you guys all cool with that idea?我今天想问在座各位的是：你们大家都对此毫无异议吗？Are you comfortable with that? Because you look at it even from an inch away and, you know -- I&#39m not at all comfortable with that assumption.你们都觉得这一观点毫无问题吗? 哪怕稍稍离远点看这个观点，我也不能

I want to start today…… here&#39s my thing. Hold on. There I go. Hey. I want to start today -- talk about the structure of a polypeptide.我今天要说的，就是……稍等。行了。嘿，我今天要说的，是关于多肽化合物的组织结构。I get a lot of people asking me, in terms of &quotLost,&quot you know, &quotWhat the hell&#39s that island?&quot有很多人问我，关于电视

Come on. &quotWhy? &#39Cause I need it&quot? Best scene ever, right? Come on!拜托，“为什么？因为我想亲你？”最妙的场景，对吗？ 拜托！So you think of &quotJaws&quot -- so that&#39s the kind of stuff that, like, you know -- the investment of character, which is the stuff that really is inside the box, you know?你觉得《大白鲨》－－就是这一类的东

Have you guys not seen that? It&#39s huge! Anyway -- So there&#39s this thing with mystery boxes that I started feeling compelled.你们就没有发现吗？它太明显了！不管怎么说－－因此我的神秘盒子让我开始感觉，像是被迫的感觉。Then there&#39s the thing of mystery in terms of imagination -- the withholding of information.然后这样的事就像是，想像力的神秘－－拒绝把信息给你。You

And when this happened, back then, people knew it for what it was, you know, they called it by its name.当时的人们，清楚地知道这是什么，他们能叫出它的名字。They would put their hands together and they would start to chant, &quotAllah, Allah, Allah, God, God, God.&quot That&#39s God, you know.他们会拍起手来，开始吟唱：阿拉，阿拉，阿拉，神啊，神啊，神啊。人人

I am a writer. Writing books is my profession but it&#39s more than that, of course.我是个作家，写作不仅仅是我的职业，It is also my great lifelong love and fascination. And I don&#39t expect that that&#39s ever going to change.更是我一辈子的挚爱与迷恋，我认为这是永远不会改变的事情。But, that said, something kind of peculiar has happened recent

And I got to tell you, I think that was a huge error.而我要说的是，我认为那是一个巨大的错误。You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel, you know,让一个人，区区一个个体，去相信他(她)是承载着神圣、创造、未知like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable,和

When I did &quotMission: Impossible III,&quot we had amazing visual effects. ILM did the effects it was incredible.当我完成《碟中谍3》的时候，我们有很令人吃惊的视觉特效。ILM做的特效；那效果真难以置信！And sort of my dream to be involved. And there are a couple of sequences in the movie, like these couple of moments I&#39ll show you. There&

And that search has led me to ancient Greece and ancient Rome.这一寻找最后把我带到了古希腊和古罗马。So stay with me, because it does circle around and back.所以请耐心听我讲，因为最后会绕回到我们的问题。But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome -- people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK?在古希腊和古罗马，人们并不认

Now, 10 years ago, if we wanted to do that, we&#39d have to kill a stuntman.好，10年前我们如果要拍这个，估计得弄死这哥们。It would be harder. Take two would be a bitch.那肯定很难拍，如果我喊重拍一次那简直是人渣。So the amazing thing was, we were able to do this thing. And part of that was the amazing availability of technology, knowing we cou

Embracing otherness. When I first heard this theme, I thought, well, embracing otherness is embracing myself.拥抱他人。当我第一次听到这个主题时，我觉得拥抱他人就是拥抱我自己。And the journey to that place of understanding and acceptance has been an interesting one for me,对于我来说，通往理解和接纳的路是十分有意思的。and it&#39s given me an insight into t

And at 16, I stumbled across another opportunity, and I earned my first acting role in a film.当我16岁时，我无意中遇到另一个机遇，得到了我的第一个电影角色。I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting.我难以找到言语来形容在表演中我感受到的平静。My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and

And for me, the best contemporary example that I have of how to do that is the musician Tom Waits,就我所知的当代艺术家中，将这一问题处理得最好的是音乐家汤姆·威兹。who I got to interview several years ago on a magazine assignment.几年前，我就一个杂志工作采访过他，And we were talking about this, and you know, Tom, for most of his life,当时我们谈及了这一问题，he

I was going to show you a couple of other things I&#39m going to skip.我要给你看一些其它的东西，把这段略去。I&#39ll show you one other thing that has nothing to do with anything.我只是想让你看另一个东西，和任何事都没啥关联。This is something online six years ago, they did this. This is an online thing done by guys who had some visual effect

Now, I bought this decades ago and I&#39m not kidding. If you look at this, you&#39ll see it&#39s never been opened.我几十年前买的这个，我不是开玩笑的。但我从来没有打开过它。But I&#39ve had this forever. Now, I was looking at this, it was in my office, as it always is, on the shelf, and I was thinking, why have I not opened thi

There are three things you don&#39t want to do. Number two is: Don&#39t hurt Tom&#39s nose.有三件事情绝对不能干。第二条就是：别弄伤汤姆克鲁斯的鼻子。So Eddie has this gun -- and he&#39s this sweet English guy. He&#39s like, &quotSorry, I don&#39t want to hurt you.&quot所以Eddie拿着这把枪－他也是个好人－他就像非常贴心的英国男人。他说：“抱歉，我不想伤害你。”I&#39m like,

When I heard that story, it started to shift a little bit the way that I worked too, and this idea already saved me once.这个故事潜移默化地改变了我的工作方式，这一转变已经拯救了我一次，这个故事潜移默化地改变了我的工作方式，这一转变已经拯救了我一次。It saved me when I was in the middle of writing &quotEat, Pray, Love,&quot那是在写《美食、祈祷、爱》的时候，and I fell into one of t

And when I&#39m acting a role, I inhabit another self, and I give it life for awhile, because when the self is suspended so is divisiveness and judgment.当我表演一个角色时，我进入了另一个自我，我在一段时间内赋予其生命，当自我被抑制时，它的多样性和判断也会一同被抑制。And I&#39ve played everything from a vengeful ghost in the time of slavery to Secretary of

I was in Congo in February, dancing and celebrating with women who&#39ve survived the destruction of their selves in literally unthinkable ways --二月份的时候我在刚果，与那些自我曾遭受难以想象的毁灭的女人们一起跳舞庆祝。destroyed because other brutalized, psychopathic selves all over that beautiful land are fueling our selves&#39 addic

I had this encounter recently where I met the extraordinary American poet Ruth Stone,比方说，我最近见到杰出的美国诗人露丝.斯通，who&#39s now in her 90s, but she&#39s been a poet her entire life and she told me that when she was growing up in rural Virginia,露丝已经九十多岁，她一直是一位诗人，她对我说她少年时生活在弗吉尼亚乡间的事情。she would be out working

Like that, you know. The answer -- the short answer to all those questions is, &quotYes.&quot Yes, I&#39m afraid of all those things.我当时一直得到诸如此类的质疑。对于这些质疑，最简单的回答是：“怕” 是的，这种种一切都让人害怕。And I always have been. And I&#39m afraid of many, many more things besides that people can&#39t even guess at, like se

I grew up on the coast of England in the &#3970s. My dad is white from Cornwall, and my mom is black from Zimbabwe.我于上世纪七十年代，生长在英格兰的海岸边，我父亲是来自康沃尔的白人，我母亲是来自津巴布韦的黑人。Even the idea of us as a family was challenging to most people. But nature had its wicked way, and brown babies were born.对于许多人来说，是无论如何也想

Strangely, these revelations didn&#39t cure my low self-esteem, that feeling of otherness.奇怪的是，这些启示，并没有治愈我那缺少的自尊，那种被划为另类的感觉。My desire to disappear was still very powerful. I had a degree from Cambridge I had a thriving career,我渴望消失的想法依旧十分强烈，我有一个剑桥的学位，我的事业蒸蒸日上。but my self was a car crash, and I wound

It&#39s a beautiful thing. I swear to God. I mean, when you look at the box and you sort of see how it works.它真美。我发誓，当你看着盒子的时候，你就好像知道它如何运作的。Rives is here, and I met him years ago at a book fair he does pop-up books. And I&#39m obsessed with engineering of paper.里夫斯在这，我几年前在一个书展上认识他，他是做立体书的。我痴迷于纸张工程。B

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