Being a Global Citizen 2--"4:15"

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Now some people's immediate reactions to this idea is that either it's a bit utopian(乌托邦) or even threatening.

现在一些人对这个想法的及时反应是，它要么有点乌托邦，要么甚至有些威胁的意味。

So, I'd like to share with you a little of my story today, how I ended up here, how it connects with Davinia, and hopefully, with you.

所以，今天想跟你们分享一个我的小故事，我如何最终站在这儿，它如何与Davinia关联，希望也可以与你们，关联。

Growing up in Melbourne, Australia, I was one of those seriously irritating little kids that never ever stopped asking "Why".

我在澳大利亚墨尔本长大，我就是那种会永不停止的提问“为什么”的那些非常闹人的小孩之一。

irritating（恼人的 使人生气的）

You might have been one yourself. I used to ask my mum the most annoying questions.

你可能曾是其中之一。我经常问我妈妈的那些最恼人的问题。

I'd ask her questions like," Mum, why can't I dress up and play with puppets（木偶 傀儡） all day?"

我愿意问她类似的问题，“妈，为什么我不能打扮一番，和木偶玩一整天呢？”

Why do you want fries with that?

为什么你要搭配薯条那个呢？

What is a shrimp, and why do we have to keep throwing them on the barbie?

虾是什么？为什么我们要一直将它们扔在芭比头上？

And Mum,  this haircut, why?

还有妈妈，这个发型，是为什么呢？

The worst haircut, I think, Still terrible.

最糟糕的发型，我认为，现在看来依旧很糟糕。

As a Why Kid, I thought I could change the world, and it was impossible to convince me otherwise.

作为一名“为什么小孩”，我认为我将会改变世界，它不可能令我信服除此以外的任何。

And when I was 12 and in my first year of high school, I started raising money for communities in the developing world.

当我12岁刚就读高中那年，我开始为发展中国家的社区筹钱。

raising money（筹钱 募集资金） 

We were a really enthusiastic group of kids, and we raised more money than any other school in Australia.

我们是一群真正富有激情的孩子，我们募集到比澳洲其他学校更多的资金

And so I was awarded the chance to go to the Philippines to learn more.

然后，因此我得到一个机去菲律宾学习的机会作为奖励。

It was 1998. We were taken into a slum in the outskirt of Manila.

那是在1998年，我们被逮到了马尼拉郊外的一个贫民窟。

slum（贫民窟 窝棚区）

It was there I became friends with Sonny Boy, who lived on what was literally a pile of steaming garbage.

在那我和桑尼男孩成为了好朋友，他简直是住在一堆冒着热气的垃圾堆上。

Smoky Mountain was what they called it.

他们称它未“烟雾山”。

iterally（（强调事实可能令人惊讶）真正的，确实的，简直） 

But don't let the romance of that name fool you.

但是不要被这个浪漫的名字愚弄了你。

because it was nothing more than a rancid landfill that kids like Sonny Boy spent hours rummaging through every single day to find something , anything of value.

因为这里除了垃圾填埋场什么都没有，像桑尼男孩的孩子们每天花费数小时去翻找东西，任何有价值的东西。

rancid（变质的 变味的）

 landfill（废物填埋池）

rummaging(乱翻 翻寻) 

That night with Sonny Boy and his family changed my life forever.

和桑尼男孩及其家人一起的那一晚改变了我的一生。

because when it came time to go to sleep, we simply laid down on this concrete slab， the size of half my bedroom with myself, Sonny Boy, and the rest of his family.

因为当睡觉的时间到了，我、桑尼男孩还有他余下的家人，我们只是简单的躺在一块水泥地板上，只有我自己卧室的一半大，

slab （厚板 厚片 厚块）

7 of us in this long line, with the smell of rubbish all around us and cockroaches crawling all around.

我们7个人躺成一条长线，周围充满了垃圾的味道和到处爬的蟑螂。

cockroaches（蟑螂）

And I didn't sleep a wink, but I lay awake thinking to myself, why should anyone have to live like this when I have so much?

而我一夜未合眼，我躺在那暗自思量，当我拥有这么多时，为什么有人不得不如此生活？

Why should Sonny Boy's ability to live out his dreams to be determined by where he's born, or what Warren Buffett called " the ovarian lottery?"

为什么桑尼男孩的实现梦想的能力要被他的出身地所决定，或者这就是巴菲特所说的“卵巢彩票”。

live out （践行 身体力行）

live out his dreams 实现梦想

ovarian （卵巢）

I just didn't get it, and I needed to understand why.

我只是没明白，我需要弄明白为什么。

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1. How did Sonny Boy make a living?

...Searching for valuable items in the garbage.

2. How did Evans take experience with Sonny boy change his life?

...It made him question why there was inequality in the world.

3. A slum is....an overcrowded, poor area of a city.

4. 排序

1）And when I was 12 and in my first year of high school, I started raising money for communities in the developing world.

2)  We were a really enthusiastic group of kids, and we raised more money than any other school in Australia.

3)  So I was awarded the chance to go to the Philippines to learn more.

4)  It was there I became friends with Sonny Boy, who lived on what was literally a pile of steaming garbage.

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Now, I only later came to understand that the poverty I'd seen in the Philippines was the result of decisions made or not made, man made.

现在，

By a succession of colonial power and corrupt government who had anything but the interests of Sonny Boy at heart.

Sure, they didn't create Smoky Mountain, but they may as well have.

And if we're to try to help kids like Sonny Boy,

It wouldn't work just to try to send him a few dollars or try to clean up the garbage dump which he lived.

Because the core of the problem lay elsewhere.

and as I worked on community development projects over the coming years trying to build schools, train teachers, and tackle HIV and AIDS.

I came to see the community development should be driven by community themselves.

And although charity is necessary, it's not sufficient.

We need to confront these challenges on the global scale and in a systemic way.

And the best thing I could do is try to mobilize a large group of citizens back home to insist that our leaders engage in that systemic change.

That's why a few years later, I joined with a group of college friends in bringing the Make Poverty History campaign to Australia.

We had this dream of staging this small concert around the time of the G20 with local Aussie artists.

and it suddenly exploded one day when we got a phone call from Bono, the Edge and Pearl Jam, who agreed to headline our concert.

I got a little bit excited that day, as you can see.

But to our amazement, the Australian government heard our collective voices.

And they agreed to double investment into global health development.

an additional 6.2 billion dollars. It felt like,

It felt like this incredible validation.

By rallying citizens together, we helped persuade our government to do the unthinkable, and act to fix a problem miles outside of our borders.

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1. How did Evans attempt to improve Global health undevelopment（不发达 欠发达) ?

...By holding a concert to influence world leader.

2. When Evans says their concert suddenly "exploded", he means...

...their concert became much more influential.

3. How did Evans try to help people like Sonny Boy?

....by mobilizing citizens to demand systematic changes.

4. 听 复述

We need to confront these challenges on a global scale and in a systemic way.