TED演讲：内向性格的力量(1)

 　　When I was nine years old, I went off to summer camp for the first time. 当我九岁的时候，我第一次去参加夏令营。

　　And my mother packed me a suitcase full of books, which to me seemed like a perfectly¹ natural thing to do. 我妈妈帮我整理好了我的行李箱，里面塞满了书，这对于我来说是一件极为自然的事情。

　　Because in my family, reading was the primary group activity. 因为在我的家庭里，阅读是主要的家庭活动。

　　And this might sound antisocial to you, but for us it was really just a different way of being social. 听上去你们可能觉得我们是不爱交际的，但是对于我的家庭来说这真的只是接触社会的另一种途径。

　　You have the animal warmth of your family sitting right next to you, 你们有自己家庭接触时的温暖亲情，家人静坐在你身边，

　　but you are also free to go roaming² around the adventureland inside your own mind. 但是你也可以自由地漫游在你思维深处的冒险乐园里。

　　And I had this idea that camp was going to be just like this, but better. 我有一个想法，野营会变得像这样子，当然要更好些。

　　I had a vision of 10 girls sitting in a cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns. 我想象到十个女孩坐在一个小屋里，都穿着合身的女式睡衣，惬意地享受着读书的过程。

　　Camp was more like a keg party without any alcohol.  野营这时更像是一个不提供酒水的派对聚会。

　　And on the very first day, our counselor³ gathered us all together 在第一天的时候呢，我们的顾问把我们都集合在一起，

　　and she taught us a cheer that she said we would be doing every day for the rest of the summer to instill camp spirit. 并且她教会了我们一种今后要用到的庆祝方式，在余下夏令营的每一天中，让“露营精神”浸润我们。

　　And it went like this: "R-O-W-D-I-E, that's the way we spell rowdie. Rowdie, rowdie, let's get rowdie." 之后它就像这样继续着：R-O-W-D-I-E，这是我们拼写“吵闹"的口号。我们唱着“噪音，喧闹，我们要变得吵一点”。

　　Yeah. So I couldn't figure out for the life of me why we were supposed to be so rowdy, or why we had to spell this word incorrectly. 对，就是这样。可我就是弄不明白我的生活会是什么样的，为什么我们变得这么吵闹粗暴，或者为什么我们非要把这个单词错误地拼写。

　　But I recited a cheer. I recited a cheer along with everybody else. I did my best.  但是我可没有忘记庆祝。我与每个人都互相欢呼庆祝了。我尽了我最大的努力。

　　And I just waited for the time that I could go off and read my books. 我只是想等待那一刻，我可以离开吵闹的聚会去捧起我挚爱的书。

1 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

2 roaming   

随便走( roam的现在分词 )； 漫步； 眼睛或手 （缓慢地）扫遍； 摸遍

参考例句：

• After roaming around nearly half his life,he finally settled down in Canada. 他过了半辈子的流浪生活，最后在加拿大定居了下来。
• After roaming around nearly half his life,he finally settled down in Quebec. 他过了半辈子的流浪生活，最后在魁北克定居了下来。

3 counselor   

n.顾问，法律顾问

参考例句：

• The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
• Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。