A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
喜剧演员
Comedian
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
我们生活在机器时代。历史上，喜剧演员第一次被迫为自己提供笑话和喜剧素材来与机器竞争。不管他知不知道，这位喜剧演员都在跑步机上逐渐被人遗忘。
Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
是啊，我们一出校门就搬起石头砸了自己的脚。一开始经营这家公司的人在我们有多少资本的问题上误导了几乎所有人。他说我们有足够的钱过三年不赚钱的日子，也有足够的钱过三个星期。
Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
是的，但是你需要一个经验丰富的电台老手，一个自由主义的拥护者。当时没有任何一台收音机能做到这一点。所以他们没有受过训练——他们养成了所有这些客观、平衡的坏习惯，诸如此类。
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
通过回顾我的过去，我发现，我从一个孩子开始。巧合的是，我弟弟也是。可以说，我母亲并没有把所有的鸡蛋放在一个篮子里:她给了我一个名叫拉塞尔的弟弟，他教会了我什么是“适者生存”。
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And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.
如果我能通过改变自己的意识来参与其中，那么其他人的意识，我很乐意去做。
I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
我经常从做一个局外人中得到乐趣。它让我变得有创造力。
The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.
成为喜剧演员的压力就是要搞笑，但我已经放弃了，所以没有任何压力。
I don't think I was a good comedian.
我不认为我是个好喜剧演员。
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
父母对正义不感兴趣，他们对和平与安宁感兴趣。
I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.
我一直在做喜剧，但我不是喜剧演员。