Ted演讲：少一点东西，多一点快乐

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[00:00.16]Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness	少点东西，多点快乐
[00:15.88]What's in the box? Whatever it is must be pretty important, because I've traveled with it, moved it, from apartment to apartment to apartment. 猜猜看这个箱子里有什么？至少是些要紧的东西吧毕竟不管我去哪儿，搬到哪儿都带着这个箱子呢
[00:30.58](Laughter) 	（笑声)
[00:32.70](Applause) 	（掌声)
[00:34.70]Sound familiar? Did you know that we Americans have about three times the amount of space we did 50 years ago? Three times. 你们也干过差不多的事儿吧？说起来你们知不知道跟50年前的美国人相比，我们有了3倍多的空间？整整三倍啊。
[00:46.30]So you'd think, with all this extra space, we'd have plenty of room for all our stuff. 那你可能会说，既然空间更多了，那肯定够我们放各种东西了。
[00:53.40]Nope. There's a new industry in town, a 22 billion-dollar, 2.2 billion sq. ft. industry: that of personal storage. 非也非也。要知道现在有个新兴产业价值220亿美元、累计占地22亿平方英尺，而作用就是为客户提供存储空间。
[01:02.47]So we've got triple the space, but we've become such good shoppers that we need even more space. 虽然我们有了三倍多的空间，但我们的消费能力增长得更快，因此我们实际上需要更多的空间。
[01:09.61]So where does this lead?那这一切的后果有哪些呢？
[01:11.97]Lots of credit card debt, huge environmental footprints, and perhaps not coincidentally, our happiness levels flat-lined over the same 50 years. 比如大量的信用卡贷款对环境的巨大影响，还有这50年里停滞不前的幸福水平，而这最后一点，恐怕并非无巧不成书。
[01:22.61]Well I'm here to suggest there's a better way, that less might actually equal more. 所以我想说，其实有一种更好的生活方式：在这里少一些，在别处就多一些。
[01:27.78]I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: 我相信我们大部分人都或多或少地体验过“少”的乐趣。
[01:32.40]college -- in your dorm, traveling -- in a hotel room, camping -- rig up basically nothing, maybe a boat. 校园里――我们只需要一间宿舍；旅途中――我们只需要一间客房；野营时――基本用不着什么东西可能要一条船。
[01:42.71]Whatever it was for you, I bet that, among other things, this gave you a little more freedom, a little more time. 我相信，和其它事物相比，这些会给你带来多一点点自由和多一点点时间，
[01:50.16]So I'm going to suggest that less stuff and less space are going to equal a smaller footprint. 所以我想说少用点东西、少占点空间就意味着对环境少些影响，
[01:57.84]It's actually a great way to save you some money. 也能为你节省一些花销，
[02:00.10]And it's going to give you a little more ease in your life. 而且，你的生活也会变得更加轻松。
[02:02.23]So I started a project called Life Edited at lifeedited.org to further this conversation and to find some great solutions in this area. 因此，我开始做这个名为LifeEdited（精简生活）的项目。在网站lifeedited.org上，一方面推广我的理念，另一方面寻找一些解决方案。
[02:09.67]First up: crowd-sourcing my 420 sq. ft. apartment in Manhattan with partners Mutopo and Jovoto.com. 首先，我和Mutopo及Jovoto.com合作众包我在曼哈顿的420平方英尺(39平米)的公寓，
[02:18.38]I wanted it all -- home office, sit down dinner for 10, room for guests, and all my kite surfing gear. 我希望它能拥有以下所有的功能：家庭办公室、10人餐桌留宿客人的空间，还有我全套的风筝冲浪设备。
[02:26.33]With over 300 entries from around the world, I got it, my own little jewel box. 从世界各地发来的300条建议中，我找到了这个最优方案。
[02:32.00]By buying a space that was 420 sq. ft. instead of 600, immediately I'm saving 200 grand. 我买了420平方英尺（约39平米）而不是600平方英尺（55平米）的房子，仅此一项我就省了二十万美元。
[02:39.82]Smaller space is going to make for smaller utilities -- save some more money there, but also a smaller footprint. 更小的空间意味着更小的用具。在这方面，我们不光能够省点钱，也能给环境少带来些影响。
[02:47.85]And because it's really designed around an edited set of possessions -- my favorite stuff -- and really designed for me, I'm really excited to be there. 正因为这些用具都是围绕着我最想要的功能专门为我设计的，我自然很向往能够住到那里。
[02:56.26]So how can you live little? Three main approaches. 那我们怎样才能活得精简呢？有三条大道。
[03:00.34]First of all, you have to edit ruthlessly. 第一，你必须铁面无情地去开始精简工作，
[03:02.79]We've got to clear the arteries of our lives. 就像去除掉我们身上的动脉瘤一样毫不留情。
[03:06.90]And that shirt that I hadn't worn in years? It's time for me to let it go. 比如那件我好几年都没穿过的T恤嘛……是时候让它去了。
[03:11.25]We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. 我们得把生活中无关紧要的细枝末节修剪掉，并且学会逆潮流而动。
[03:17.59]We need to think before we buy. 我们应该三思而后消费，
[03:19.78]Ask ourselves, "Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?"买东西之前问问自己：“买了它我真的能更加开心吗？”
[03:23.74]By all means, we should buy and own some great stuff. 诚然我们应该购买并拥有一些很棒的东西，
[03:28.92]But we want stuff that we're going to love for years, not just stuff. 但我们更需要那些我们对其的喜爱经久不衰的东西，而不仅仅是任何物品。
[03:33.24]Secondly, our new mantra: small is sexy. 第二，也是我们的新口号：小也有魅力。
[03:37.31]We want space efficiency. 我们想要高空间利用率。
[03:39.24]We want things that are designed for how they're used the vast majority of the time, not that rare event. 我们想要的用具应该是依据多数情形下它们的使用方来设计的，而不是专为少数情形而设计的。
[03:45.30]Why have a six burner stove when you rarely use three? 就好比一般你连三个灶头都很少同时使用，为什么要去买六灶头的燃气灶？
[03:49.15]So we want things that nest, we want things that stack, and we want it digitized. 我们需要的器具应该能够大的套小的，或者能够层叠放置的。如果一样东西能数字化，那就更好了。
[03:54.60]You can take paperwork, books, movies, and you can make it disappear -- it's magic.那样你可以把所有文件书籍、电影等等都化为无形――就像变戏法一样。 
[04:00.89]Finally, we want multifunctional spaces and housewares -- a sink combined with a toilet, a dining table becomes a bed -- same space, a little side table stretches out to seat 10. 最后，我们需要多功能的空间利用与多功能家具――比如一体化的水斗和坐便器、餐桌与床的两用。同样的空间里，这个小小的桌子可以伸展为能坐10个人的大桌子。
[04:15.25]In the winning Life Edited scheme in a render here, we combine a moving wall with transformer furniture to get a lot out of the space. “精简生活”的一个优胜设计把一堵墙和“变形金刚”式的家具有机结合，从而高效地利用了有限的空间。
[04:22.89]Look at the coffee table -- it grows in height and width to seat 10. 看看这个咖啡桌：它可以拉长、抬高，使得能够容纳10个人同时就座。
[04:28.15]My office folds away, easily hidden. 我的个人工作台能够方便地折叠并隐藏，
[04:32.21]My bed just pops out of the wall with two fingers. 只用两个手指就能把床从墙壁里变出来。
[04:35.68]Guests? Move the moving wall, have some fold-down guest beds. 家里来客人了？动一下这堵墙里面有折叠式的客床。
[04:40.73]And of course, my own movie theater. 当然，它也能变成我的家庭影院。
[04:43.20]So I'm not saying that we all need to live in 420 sq. ft. 我不是说每个人都应该只住在420平方英尺(约39平方米)的空间里，
[04:47.61]But consider the benefits of an edited life. 但精简生活的确能带来诸多好处。
 [04:49.99]Go from 3,000 to 2,000, from 1,500 to 1,000. 比如从3000平方英尺到2000平方英尺，或者从1500到1000平方英尺，
[04:54.93]Most of us, maybe all of us, are here pretty happily for a bunch of days with a couple of bags, maybe a small space, a hotel room. 我们中的大多数，也可能是所有人，在这几天都过得很愉快，虽然我们只随身带了几个包，并且住在一个小小的旅店房间里。
[05:03.09]So when you go home and you walk through your front door, take a second and ask yourselves,所以你这次回家、踏入房门之后，不妨问问自己：
[05:07.95] "Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time?"  “怎么样把我的生活也精简一番呢？”“那样是不是会带来更多自由――”“更多时间呢？”	
[05:16.10]What's in the box? It doesn't really matter. 我这个箱子里装了什么？这其实并不重要。
[05:21.46]I know I don't need it. 因为我不需要它们。
[05:23.84]What's in yours? Maybe, just maybe, less might equal more. 你的包袱里装了什么？还是有那么一些可能性使得“少”也能意味着某种“多”。
[05:31.27]So let's make room for the good stuff. 所以让我们把有限的空间都留给重要的东西吧。
[05:35.10]Thank you. 谢谢
[05:37.19](Applause) 	（鼓掌)

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Ted演讲：少一点东西，多一点快乐