TED演讲:足球能教会我们什么是自由(3)

（单词翻译）

Imagine that you are a 15-year-old kid from Honduras now living in Harlem,

想象一下你是一个15岁的孩子，来自洪都拉斯，现在生活在纽约哈莱姆区，

or you're a 13-year-old girl born in DC to two Nigerian immigrants.

或者你是一个13岁的小女孩，生于华盛顿特区，父母是尼日利亚移民。

You love the game. You're on the field with your folks.

你喜欢这个足球比赛。你和你的伙伴们在场上。

You've just been practicing dribbling¹ through cones² for, like, 15 minutes,

你已经练习了带球过路障，练了15分钟了，

and then, all of a sudden, a marching band comes down the field.

然后突然间，一个行进乐队走向了球场。

I want to associate the joy of the game with the exuberance³ of culture,

我想把比赛的乐趣与文化的丰富性相结合，

to locate the site of joy in the game at the same physical coordinate⁴ as being politically informed by art,

把比赛的乐趣放置在和通过艺术来介绍政治知识同样的坐标位置上，

a grass-laden theater for liberation.

一个绿草如茵、解放自由的剧院。

We spend a week looking at how the midfielder would explain Black Lives Matter,

我们用了一周来看中场球员如何解释了Black Lives Matter（黑人抗议歧视的活动），

or how the goalkeeper would explain gun control,

或者守门员的位置可以怎么解释枪支管制，

or how a defender's style is the perfect metaphor⁵ for the limits of American exceptionalism.

或者一个防守球员的风格怎么完美的比喻了美国排外主义的局限。

As we study positions on the field, we also name and imagine our own freedoms.

当我们研究球场上的位置，我们也会命名和想象我们自己的自由。

I don't know, man, soccer is, like, the only thing on this planet that we can all agree to do together.

怎么说呢，足球大概是这个星球上唯一一个我们都愿意一起做的事。

You know? It's like the official sport of this spinning ball.

是吧？它像是一个关于这旋转的球的官方体育活动。

I want to be able to connect the joy of the game to the ever-moving footballer,

我希望可以把球赛的喜悦联系到永远在移动的球员，

to connect that moving footballer to immigrants who also moved in sight of a better position.

把那在移动的球员联系到同样在向更美好的方向移动的移民群体。

Among these kids, I want to connect their families' histories to the bliss⁶ of a goal-scorer's run,

对这些孩子，我想把他们的家庭历史联系到得分球员跑动时的幸福，

family like that feeling after the ball beats the goalie, the closest thing going to freedom. Thank you.

那看到足球冲向守门员的感觉是最接近自由的时刻。谢谢。