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当我的第一本儿童书
When my first children's book was published

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在2001年出版时
in 2001,

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我回到了过去读小学的学校
I returned to my old elementary school

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与那里的学生们交流成为一名作家
to talk to the students about being an author

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与插画家的经历
and an illustrator,

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当我在食堂里
and when I was setting up my slide projector

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布置幻灯片投影仪时
in the cafetorium,

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在房间的另一头
I looked across the room,

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我看到了她
and there she was:

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那位熟悉的食堂大妈
my old lunch lady.

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她还在学校
She was still there at the school

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她当时正在忙碌的准备着当天的午餐
and she was busily preparing lunches for the day.

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于是我靠近她并与她打招呼
So I approached her to say hello,

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我说：“珍妮你好！最近怎么样？”
and I said, "Hi, Jeannie! How are you?"

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她看到了我，我看以感觉到
And she looked at me, and I could tell

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她认出了我
that she recognized me,

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但又不确定我到底是谁，然后她对我说
but she couldn't quite place me,
and she looked at me and she said,

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“你是史蒂芬·克洛萨卡？”
"Stephen Krosoczka?"

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我非常惊讶，她还记得我姓克洛萨卡
And I was amazed that she knew I was a Krosoczka,

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但史蒂芬是我舅舅的名字，他比我大20岁
but Stephen is my uncle who
is 20 years older than I am,

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从我舅舅那个年代开始她就在食堂工作了
and she had been his lunch lady when he was a kid.

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然后她就开始跟我说她的孙子辈的事
And she started telling me about her grandkids,

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这让我有些惊讶
and that blew my mind.

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她已经有孙子孙女了
My lunch lady had grandkids,

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那么她也就有孩子了
and therefore kids,

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于是她就会在每天结束时离开学校？
and therefore left school at the end of the day?

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我以为她住在食堂里
I thought she lived in the cafeteria

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与勺子为伴
with the serving spoons.

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我以前从未想过这些
I had never thought about any of that before.

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于是乎，这次经历激发了我的想象
Well, that chance encounter inspired my imagination,

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我便创作了关于食堂大妈的系列漫画小说
and I created the Lunch Lady graphic novel series,

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漫画讲的是一位食堂大妈
a series of comics about a lunch lady

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挥舞着鱼叉双节棍
who uses her fish stick nunchucks

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打跑邪恶的机械人
to fight off evil cyborg substitutes,

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校车怪兽和变异的数学参赛选手
a school bus monster, and mutant mathletes,

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在每本书的结尾
and the end of every book,

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她们都会用发网罩住坏蛋
they get the bad guy with their hairnet,

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然后大声说道：“正义得到了伸张！”
and they proclaim, "Justice is served!"

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（笑声）（掌声）
(Laughter) (Applause)

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这很神奇，因为这个系列
And it's been amazing, because the series

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在孩子们的阅读生活中十分受欢迎
was so welcomed into the reading lives of children,

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并且他们给我寄了许多有意思的信件
and they sent me the most amazing letters

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卡片以及画作
and cards and artwork.

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我注意到当我出访学校时
And I would notice as I would visit schools,

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食堂的员工们会以一种十分有意义的方式
the lunch staff would be involved in the programming

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参与到项目中
in a very meaningful way.

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从东海岸到西海岸
And coast to coast,

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所有的食堂大妈都对我说着同样的话：
all of the lunch ladies told me the same thing:

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“感谢你把像我们这样的人塑造成了英雄”
"Thank you for making a superhero in our likeness."

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因为食堂大妈在很长一段时间里
Because the lunch lady has not been treated

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在主流文化中并未得到友善的对待
very kindly in popular culture over time.

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但它对珍妮意义重大
But it meant the most to Jeannie.

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当书第一次出版时
When the books were first published,

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我邀请她参加新书发布的午餐派对
I invited her to the book launch party,

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当着在场的所有人面前
and in front of everyone there,

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这么多年来她服务了的这些人
everyone she had fed over the years,

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我给她了一件艺术作品和一些书籍
I gave her a piece of artwork and some books.

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在这张照片之后的两年
And two years after this photo was taken,

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她去世了
she passed away,

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我参加了她的葬礼
and I attended her wake,

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我完全没有为我会看到的东西做好准备
and nothing could have prepared
me for what I saw there,

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因为紧靠着她的骨灰盒的就是那幅画
because next to her casket was this painting,

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她丈夫告诉我这幅画对她意义重大
and her husband told me it meant so much to her

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因为我见证了她的努力工作
that I had acknowledged her hard work,

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我见证了她的所作所为
I had validated what she did.

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于是我想设立特别的一天
And that inspired me to create a day

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在这一天里，我们可以重新感受那种
where we could recreate that feeling

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在食堂里的那种感觉
in cafeterias across the country:

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在校园食堂英雄日里，孩子们
School Lunch Hero Day, a day where kids

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可以给他们的食堂服务人员带去惊喜
can make creative projects for their lunch staff.

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同时，我与校园营养组织合作
And I partnered with the
School Nutrition Association,

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你们也知道大约超过三千万的孩子
and did you know that a little over 30 million kids

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每天都参与了这个学校午餐计划
participate in school lunch programs every day.

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着就想当于大约学校每年
That equals up to a little over five billion lunches

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准备50亿份午餐
made every school year.

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英雄般的事迹已经远远不止
And the stories of heroism go well beyond

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一个孩子在他的餐盘中
just a kid getting a few extra chicken nuggets

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多得到一些鸡块
on their lunch tray.

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在加利福尼亚州有一位叫布兰达的女士
There is Ms. Brenda in California,

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她时刻关注排在她的队里的学生
who keeps a close eye on every
student that comes through her line

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如果有任何事不对劲
and then reports back to the guidance counselor

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她就会向指导顾问汇报
if anything is amiss.

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在肯塔基州的食堂大妈们
There are the lunch ladies in Kentucky

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她们意识到有67%的学生
who realized that 67 percent of their students

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每天靠她们提供的伙食维生
relied on those meals every day,

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而夏天放假时他们就只好饿肚子
and they were going without food over the summer,

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于是她们改装了一辆校车
so they retrofitted a school bus

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让校车变成了一个移动的食品站
to create a mobile feeding unit,

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她们在社区里穿行
and they traveled around the neighborhoods

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在那个夏天她们一共帮助了500个孩子
feedings 500 kids a day during the summer.

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孩子们完成了一个最完美的项目
And kids made the most amazing projects.

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我知道他们会的
I knew they would.

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孩子们制作了汉堡包卡片
Kids made hamburger cards

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卡片是用建筑用纸制作的
that were made out of construction paper.

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他们把食堂大妈的大头贴
They took photos of their lunch lady's head

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贴在我的那本关于食堂大妈的卡通书里
and plastered it onto my cartoon lunch lady

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并且固定到牛奶盒上
and fixed that to a milk carton

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还用鲜花装裱
and presented them with flowers.

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于是他们制作出了他们自己的漫画书
And they made their own comics,

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主演就是漫画中的食堂大妈
starring the cartoon lunch lady

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以及他们现实生活中的食堂大妈
alongside their actual lunch ladies.

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他们还作了比萨以表示感谢
And they made thank you pizzas,

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每个孩子都在用建筑用纸做成的比萨饼上
where every kid signed a different topping

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涂上了不同的配料
of a construction paper pizza.

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对我而言，我被来自食堂大妈们的反响
For me, I was so moved by the response

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所感动
that came from the lunch ladies,

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因为有一位女士曾对我说：
because one woman said to me, she said,

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“在今天以前，我感觉
"Before this day, I felt like I was

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自己在学校的一个最不起眼的小角落，
at the end of the planet at this school.

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我并不认为有谁会注意到我们”
I didn't think that anyone noticed us down here."

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另一位女士则说
Another woman said to me,

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“你知道吗，我从中认识到
"You know, what I got out of this

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我的所作所为是重要的”
is that what I do is important."

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的确，她在做着重要的工作
And of course what she does is important.

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她们都从事着有意义的工作
What they all do is important.

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她们每天为我们的孩子提供食物
They're feeding our children every single day,

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在一个孩子能学习之前
and before a child can learn,

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他的胃需要填饱
their belly needs to be full,

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而这些工作人员
and these women and men

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都奋斗在创造一个富有教育的社会
are working on the front lines to create

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的前线
an educated society.

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因此我希望
So I hope that

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大家不必等到校园食堂英雄日
you don't wait for School Lunch Hero Day

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才对食堂员工表达你的谢意
to say thank you to your lunch staff,

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并且我希望大家能记住
and I hope that you remember

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一句谢谢所具有的强大力量
how powerful a thank you can be.

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一句谢谢可以使生活发生改变
A thank you can change a life.

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它改变了接受它的人的生活
It changes the life of the person who receives it,

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也改变了
and it changes the life of the person

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表达它的人的生活
who expresses it.

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谢谢大家
Thank you.