TED演讲:多元化的自己究竟有多大力量(3)

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　　even allow myself to reinvent myself at times. 甚至允许自己以全新的面貌出现。

　　So for example, in high school, I have to confess I was a mega-nerd. 比如，在高中的时候，我不得不承认我是个书呆子。

　　I had no sense of fashion -- thick glasses, simple hairstyle -- you can get the idea. 对于时尚一窍不通--戴着厚眼镜，留着简单的发型，相信你们能想象出来。

　　I think, actually, I only had friends because I shared my homework. That's the truth. 我觉得，那时候我之所以有朋友，是因为我借作业给他们抄。是真的。

　　But once at university, I was able to find a new identity for myself, and the nerd became a popular girl. 但在大学的时候，我找到了自己新的身份，从书呆子变成了受欢迎的女孩。

　　But it was MIT, so I don't know if I can take too much credit for that. 但因为我在麻省理工，所以我也不知道这种改变到底有多大用处。

　　As they say over there, "The odds³ are good, but the goods are odd." 他们那儿有句话，“数量挺多的，质量却不好。”

　　I switched majors so many times that my advisors⁴ joked that I should get a degree in "random⁵ studies." 我换了很多次专业，最后我的顾问开玩笑说，我应该去修一个“随机专业”学位。

　　I told this to my kids. 我把这件事告诉了我的孩子们。

　　And then over the years, I have gained a lot of different identities. 这些年我有了许多不同的身份。

　　I started as an inventor, entrepreneur, social innovator⁶. 最开始我是作为一名发明者，企业家，社会革新者。

　　Then I became an investor⁷, a woman in tech, a teacher. 之后我成为了投资人，技术女性，老师。

　　And most recently, I became a mom, or as my toddler says repeatedly, "Mom!" day and night. 最近我成为了一名母亲，或者像我的小家伙不停叫着的，“妈～妈～”，从早到晚。

　　Even my accent was so confused -- its origin was so obscure, that my friends called it, "Rebecanese." 就连我的口音也很奇怪--它是如此复杂，以至于我的朋友管它叫“瑞贝卡语”。

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