PBS高端访谈:如果你也是外星人那所有人都是

JUDY WOODRUFF: Next, we turn to another installment¹ of our weekly Brief But Spectacular series, where we ask people about their passions. Jonny Sun is an author who amassed² a loyal Twitter following through his honesty, humor and candor³. His latest book is Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too.

JONNY SUN, Author, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: Look, life is bad. Everyone's sad. We're all gonna die. But I already bought this inflatable bouncy castle. So, are you going to take your shoes off, or what? I think I have always grown up as like a shy, introverted, socially anxious person. I have always seen my Twitter account as like a personal account. And I have always been drawn⁴ to it as a writer for the fact that I'm able to be honest and open and vulnerable, I guess, in a way that I can't be in person. I have always seen Twitter as kind of this writer's sketchbook. I have approached it as a writer this whole time. And it's always been this place where I can, like, take ideas and test them out. Anonymity⁵ online has gotten this kind of bad rap because of a lot of the harassment⁶ and abuse, which, of course, is such a serious issue. The flip⁷ side of that is that being anonymous⁸ online allows certain people to have a voice and have a presence, especially when their real-life identities can't be compromised. I wrote a book. It's called Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too. It's an illustrated⁹ story of an alien who comes to Earth and meets a bunch of different characters and kind of gets to learn about their lives. Another, I think, characteristic of the voice that I have worked on and developed through Twitter and in the book is this idea of kind of messing with syntax and grammar and kind of doing intentional¹⁰ mistakes and doing typos and stuff. And I think that relates a lot to kind of the postmodern movements of poetry and the Fluxus movement in the '60s and how these artists were taking the look of type on a page and using that to influence voice and to change the ways we read ideas. Hopefully, that intentional clumsiness creates pure, honest, genuine voice for readers and for people to pick up on. I think about, like, death all the time. I think a lot of writers think about death all the time. I'm always thinking about how much I can do and how much time I have left. I have so many things I want to do. Accepting that one day in the future I won't be here anymore makes me really think really hard about how much time I have on this Earth and what I'm going to do with it. My name is Jonny Sun, and this is my Brief But Spectacular take on connecting with others.

JUDY WOODRUFF: And you can find additional Brief But Spectacular episodes on our Web site. That's PBS.org/NewsHour/Brief.

朱蒂·伍德拉夫：接下来，请看我们的每周系列节目《简短而壮观》，在那里我们探寻人们的激情。乔尼·孙是一位作家，他诚实，幽默而又坦率，是一位忠实的推特写手。他的最新著作名为《如果你也是外星人那所有人都是》。

乔尼·孙，作者，《如果你也是外星人那所有人都是》：看，生活很糟糕。每个人都很伤心。我们都要死了。但我已经买了这个充气城堡。所以，你要脱鞋上来，还是怎样？我想我从小到大一直都很害羞，内向，充满社交焦虑。我一直把我的推特帐户看作个人帐户。作为一名作家，我一直被它所吸引，因为我能够以一种我无法亲自面对的方式去诚实，去开放，去脆弱。我一直认为推特是这位作家的素描本。作为一个作家，我一直都这样使用它。它总是在这个地方，我可以，像，获取想法，并测试它们。由于很多骚扰和滥用，在线匿名发帖名声不好，这当然是一个严重的问题。另一方面，在线匿名让某些人拥有自己的声音并获得存在感，特别是当他们的真实身份不能受到损害时。我写了一本书。名叫《如果你也是外星人那所有人都是》。这是一个插图故事，一个外星人来到地球，遇到一群不同的角色，并开始了解他们的生活。

另一个，我认为，我通过推特和书中所研究和发展的声音特点是，这种想法有点语法混乱，有点故意犯错，写错别字或写错的东西。而且我认为这与60年代的后现代诗歌运动和激浪派运动有很大关系，这些艺术家如何采用页面类型外观，并利用它来影响声音并改变我们阅读思想的方式。希望这种故意的笨拙可以为读者和人们提供纯粹，诚实，真实的声音。我一直想着，比如死亡。我想很多作家一直都在思考死亡。我一直在想我能做多少以及剩下多少时间。我有很多事情要做。接受将来的某一天我将不再在这里，我在这个地球上有多少时间以及我将要用它做什么，真的很难。我的名字叫乔尼·孙，这是我的《简短而壮观》，关于与他人联系的看法。

朱蒂·伍德拉夫：你可以在我们的网站上找到更多《简短而壮观》的剧集。这是PBS.org/NewsHour/Brief。

1 installment   

n.(instalment)分期付款；(连载的)一期

参考例句：

• I shall soon pay the last installment of my debt.不久我将偿付我的最后一期债款。
• He likes to buy things on the installment plan.他喜欢用分期付款法购买货物。

2 amassed   

v.积累，积聚( amass的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He amassed a fortune from silver mining. 他靠开采银矿积累了一笔财富。
• They have amassed a fortune in just a few years. 他们在几年的时间里就聚集了一笔财富。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 candor   

n.坦白，率真

参考例句：

• He covered a wide range of topics with unusual candor.他极其坦率地谈了许多问题。
• He and his wife had avoided candor,and they had drained their marriage.他们夫妻间不坦率，已使婚姻奄奄一息。

4 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。

5 anonymity   

n.the condition of being anonymous

参考例句：

• Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity. 为了姓名保密，书中的人用的都是化名。
• Our company promises to preserve the anonymity of all its clients. 我们公司承诺不公开客户的姓名。

6 harassment   

n.骚扰，扰乱，烦恼，烦乱

参考例句：

• She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
• The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。

7 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

8 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

9 illustrated   

adj. 有插图的，列举的 动词illustrate的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• His lecture was illustrated with slides taken during the expedition. 他在讲演中使用了探险时拍摄到的幻灯片。
• The manufacturing Methods: Will be illustrated in the next chapter. 制作方法将在下一章说明。

10 intentional   

adj.故意的，有意（识）的

参考例句：

• Let me assure you that it was not intentional.我向你保证那不是故意的。
• His insult was intentional.他的侮辱是有意的。