TAYLOR SWIFT MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH(含中譯)

文章源出於Taylor Swift於2017年在自己演唱會的演出，除了展示我的翻譯能力以外，也希望和同學分享好的演說，希望能激勵同學讀書的動力。

“Speaking of great amounts of pain, from talking to you so much, I’ve never been so sure that it is treacherous and difficult to be happy in 2017. I think that navigating your life, navigating your self-esteem, your self-image, I think that’s harder than it’s ever been before.
「和你們聊了這麼久，也提及許多痛苦的部分。我十分確定，2017年會是一個充滿挑戰和難以感到快樂的一年。我認為管理你的生活、處理自尊、自我形象等，將會是前所未有的難事。
I think it’s because every day, and trust me; I love the internet, okay?
I love the good parts of the internet, but there’s also this dark side of how we are all so, it’s so available to us to see the highlight reel of someone else’s life.
我想這是因為每一天(都在使用網路)，但相信我，我愛網路，好嗎?我相當喜歡網路好的那一部分，但其實它也存在黑暗的一面，就如同人一般。它使我們很容易地看到他人生活的精采片段。
All the pictures of when they look the most awesome, and when they’re on some great trip, or they’re having the best time ever at a party, and in your own life you’re getting a behind the scenes, not just the highlight reel, you’re seeing when you get out of bed in the morning and you’re like, “Oh God, this is not a good hair day. This is not gonna be good today. How are we gonna fix this?”, or you feel like you don’t know where you’re supposed to go with your life, or you just went through the most horrible sense of rejection, because someone, you know, spread a rumor about you that wasn’t true.
這些圖片看似很棒，他們經歷了很棒的旅行，或是他們在派對上度過了美好的一天，反觀你的人生還有幕後花絮，不只有那些表面看到的精彩片段。當你早上起床，你好像在說：『喔，我的天！今天頭髮狀況不太好，所以今天一定不是什麼好日子，那我今天應該怎麼辦呢?』或是你感覺人生不知道該何去何從，又或者在你遭遇最可怕的情況——回馬槍，因為某個深知你的人，散播關於你的不實謠言。
You’re seeing all these angles of your own life, and then you compare it to other people’s lives when you don’t see what they’re going through, you just see the good parts of what they’re going through, am I right?
你從這些方面審視自己的人生，然後和他人的生活比較，但其實，你沒有看過他人曾經歷的一切，你只看見了他人最好的一面，對嗎?
And so, I say to you, when you start to compare yourselves to other people, please change the channel in your mind to something else, because I think that when it comes to how we see ourselves, other people are really mean, but we’re really mean to ourselves and so it’s easy to get confused, and when you do get confused and you start feeling like you’re not special, or you’re not different, or you have nothing important to say.
因此，我告訴你，他你開始和他人比較勝敗得失時，請切換你腦中的那個頻道，因為我認為，當我們開始檢視自己的時候，其他人是非常壞心眼的，但我們才是對自己不好的元兇，因此這十分令人困惑。而當我們困惑時，常覺得自己不是特別的，不夠出類拔萃，不夠舉足輕重。
We all feel like that sometimes, but what I want you to remember right now is, if there’s one thing you remember from tonight, remember what I’m about to say. You need to look into the mirror in the morning and not tell yourself that you’re not special, or you’re not good enough, you’re not pretty, or you’re not awesome.I’m gonna tell you right now the things you actually are not.
我們時常有這樣的想法，但我今晚想要你記得的是，如果這是你今晚唯一記得的事，記住我接下來的一字一句。你早上需要照照鏡子，卻不應該是告訴自己你不特別，你不夠好，你不漂亮或你不傑出。我現在要告訴你，你根本不是那樣的。
These are the things you really are not. You are not the opinion of somebody who doesn’t know you. You are not damaged goods just because you made mistakes in your life. You are not going nowhere just because you haven’t gotten where you want to go yet. Those are the things you actually are not.Now, I want tell you what you are. You are your own definition of beautiful and worthwhile, that’s what you are. You are someone who is wiser because you made mistakes, not damaged, wiser. You are somebody who could be at this moment, right now, sitting there, there, there, there, you are going through whatever you’re going through whatever in your life that’s stressing you out, or confusing you, or making you upset.
這些都不是真的你，你不是陌生人所認為的你，你不會因為生活上犯了些錯而成為瑕疵品，你不會因為還沒去到你想去的地方而無處可去。這些事都不是真正的你。現在，我要告訴你你是怎樣的人。你是自己定義的美麗和有價值的人，那就是你。你是聰明的那個人，因為你會犯錯，卻從不被打敗，這才是真正的智慧。你是此時此刻坐在這裡或是那裏、那裏、那裏、那裏。你正在經歷人生任何使你充滿壓力的，使你困惑的，使你沮喪的一切。
But you got out of bed and put on an awesome outfit, and you came to a concert and now we’re all having the best time ever on a Wednesday night. You know it’s not about perfection; it’s about just getting on with things sometimes. Sometimes you just get credit for getting up and going on with things, and you don’t have to do it perfectly.
但你下了床，穿上好看的服裝，你去到一場演唱會，而現在我們正在享受最好的星期三晚上。你知道這雖然不是真正的完美，卻是我們正在一起經歷的某些事。有時你只是為了得到好評才去犧牲自己做很多事，但其實你不必去要求事事完美。
I think that we mistake our mistakes for damage, and we think other people judge us for them, but I want you to know the way that I see mistakes is, they don’t make you damaged, they make you clean.”
我覺得我們常誤解自己的小錯誤是一種傷害，並且認為別人因為它們而苛責我們，但我想讓你了解我是如何看待犯錯這件事，它不會損害你的名譽，反而讓你更加清白。