Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Dear Loris, Ladies and Gentlemen, I remember the day when I was eight years old.
陛下、殿下，亲爱的洛里斯，女士们、先生们，我记得我八岁那年的一天。
As I was leaving my afternoon abacus lesson, the skies opened in a sudden downpour倾盆大雨.
当我结束下午的珠算课时，天空突然下起了倾盆大雨。
This rain was so fierce that two dozen children wound up huddled蜷缩 under the eaves屋檐 of the building.
雨势如此猛烈，二十多个孩子不得不挤在屋檐下避雨。
Across the street was a similar building, and under those eaves I could see another small crowd, almost like looking into a mirror.
街对面有一座相似的建筑，在那屋檐下，我看到另一小群人，简直就像照镜子一样。
Watching that streaming rain, the damp soaking my arms and cuffs, I suddenly understood.
看着这连绵的雨，雨水浸湿了我的手臂和袖口，我突然明白了。
All these people standing with me, shoulder to shoulder,
所有这些与我肩并肩站着的人，
and all those people across the way were living as an I in their own right.
以及对面那些人都作为独立的个体在生活着。
Each one was seeing this rain just as I was.
每个人都像我一样感受着这场雨。
This damp on my face they felt it as well.
我脸上的潮湿感，他们也同样感受到了。
It was a moment of wonder, this experience of so many first-person perspectives视角.
这是一个充满奇迹的时刻，一种体验众多第一人称视角的经历。
Looking back over the time I have spent reading and writing,
回顾我阅读和写作所花费的时光，
I have relived this moment of wonder again and again, following the thread线索 of language into the depth of
我一次次重温这个奇迹时刻，沿着语言的线索深入
another heart, an encounter with another interior内心, taking my most vital and most urgent questions,
进入另一个心灵，与另一个内心世界相遇，带着我最重要、最紧迫的问题，
trusting them to that thread and sending them out to other selves.
将这些疑问托付给这条线索，并将它们传递给其他的自我。
Ever since I was a child, I have wanted to know the reason we are born, the reason suffering and love exist.
自童年起，我就想知道我们为何出生，痛苦与爱为何存在。
These questions have been asked by literature for thousands of years and continue to be asked today.
这些问题已被文学探讨数千年，并延续至今。
What is the meaning of our brief stay in this world?
我们在世间短暂停留的意义是什么？
We stay in this world.
我们在这个世界中生存。
How difficult is it for us to remain human come what may?
无论发生什么，我们要保持人性是多么困难啊？
In the darkest night there is language that asks what we are made of that
在最黑暗的夜晚，语言会追问我们是由什么构成的，
insists坚持 on imagining into the first-person perspectives of the people and living beings that inhabit us, one another.
坚持去想象居住在我们体内、彼此之间的那些人和生灵的第一人称视角。
Literature that deals in this language inevitably不可避免地 holds a kind of body heat.
以这种语言创作的文学作品，不可避免地带有某种体温。
Just as inevitably, the work of reading and writing literature stands in opposition对立 to all acts that destroy life.
同样不可避免的是，阅读和创作文学的工作，站在了所有毁灭生命行为的对立面。
I would like to share the meaning of this award,
我想分享这个奖项的含义，
which is for literature, with you standing here in opposition反对 to violence together.
这是关于文学的，而你此刻正站在这里，与我们共同反对暴力。
Thank you.
谢谢。
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