（一）与世隔绝的快乐 《Lao Zhang Jacks Cabin 》中英

这些天我感悟到：快乐的其中一条路就是：隔绝外界的影响。

Today I’m feeling amazing.

今天我感觉非常爽，

I’m feeling free and spirited and with all of this renewed energy. 

这种新感觉给我带来了精神上的轻松和自由

And I’ll tell you why it happened. It happened because I finally disconnected from everything.

发生什么了呢？因为我终于能够让自己完全和外界隔离开来

 I disconnected from Facebook. I disconnected from all the news…I haven’t watched anything. 

我注销了脸书，完全不去看新闻和任何网上的东西了

I haven’t read any article about anything that’s going on right now, here in the United States and I feel so free.

不去看什么最新的报道，现在在美国的我已经无感和释怀了

This is Lao Zhang. I’m so happy you’re here with me…and this is my story.

这里是老张频道，我很高兴你们在听着，这就是我的故事

For the past four year I have gotten so involved in reading the news and talking to people about what’s going on here in the country that it’s driven me absolutely crazy.

过去的四年里我很投入地看着各种新闻和加入关于我的国家发生了什么的讨论，这让我很负面。

 I got down…deep into the rabbit hole, we say.

我沉进去了，美国俗语说：掉入兔子窝了

  And I just couldn’t stop. As soon as I woke up, 

但是我无法停止啊，只要一醒来

I opened my computer and went right to the news. 

就会奔向电脑打开新闻

And when I went to bed, no matter what time it was, I was reading the news. 

入睡前哪怕再晚也要看点新闻，总是在盯着新闻

And throughout the day I would look at the news again and again and again. 

然后一整天我就会盯着新闻不停地翻查翻查

And everything that was happening is so opposite of who I am and so it was just driving me absolutely insane. 

然而新闻上发生的一切一切完全是与我三观背道而驰的事，这让我很崩溃

Now there are a couple of reasons for this. 

这里有几点造成我这个结果

First of all, in all my years traveling around the world,

在我旅行世界的这些年中

 I always talked about how incredible the United States was…

我总是自豪地告诉别人我的国家是不可思议的

we’re so open minded, we’re so forward thinking, 

思维开阔，先进进取

we’re so innovative…we just…we…we’re Lao Da. 

创新思维，我们就是 老大

We’re number one…we’re so good. 

我们是第一，我们非常牛

And now I see the reality of what’s going on and that was incredibly distressing for me. 

但是现在发生的一切事实，让我非常郁闷

So I have to say it, it really feels like…uh…I lost an old, lifelong friend. If that makes any sense. 

我必须得表达一下，这么说也许OK：这感觉就像失去了一个自己喜欢的发小

So that was the first thing that really disappointed me. 

这是让我沮丧的第一点

The second thing is more personal because my whole life affected by what’s going on here in the United States. 

第二点比较私人的原因就是：我的生活因为现在美国发生的一切被影响

I can’t travel any more. I’m stuck here. No countries will take us because we haven’t solved COVID 19, 

我不能外出旅行了，困在这儿，就我们现在处理的疫情情况，现在哪个国家有胆接受美国旅客？

and we’re still here arguing about masks. 

现在口罩还是争论不休的话题

Meanwhile, over two-hundred thousand people have died and we can’t solve the problem. 

而且21万人已经逝去，我们还不能解决问题

So no other countries want to take Americans right now, so I’m trapped here.

谁会让美国旅客入境呢？我困在这儿了

 My wife Helen is in China and we haven’t seen each other in, I don’t know,

我的妻子在中国，我们两已经差不多

 eight months now and it still looks like it’s gonna take another long time before we can be together again. 

8个月没有见面了，事情仍然没有好转的方向，感觉我们相聚还会要等很久。

So with all of this frustration, last week I had an absolute emotional breakdown. 

种种一切导致了我上个星期一次情绪非常坏的爆发

I have to tell you. You know I’m living in this bus here in the United States in Wyoming and I’m here alone on a ranch with only a couple of other people and I just had an absolute emotional breakdown.

我必须聊这个，我住在美国怀俄明州的牧场一个巴士改装房里，方圆十里只有几个人，我就毫无准备地情绪崩溃了

 I cried and I whaled and I was so angry and I had all this rage inside me because I can’t change my situation right now and I can’t make it feel better. 

我又哭又丧，愤怒和暴怒，因为这一切我无力改变的事情

So I finally made the choice to disconnect. 

最终经过思考，我决定我要断离这些东西

It was so freeing to delete Facebook. And it’s been so powerful for me to wake up and not look at the news. 

删除脸shu 后的我感觉很轻松，早上不用起来看糟心的新闻让我找回了能量

Instead, I do some exercise. I go out for a walk. I make a delicious breakfast. 

替代的是我会做运动，去散步，做美味早餐

Maybe I watch some cooking shows on YouTube. 

也许看点油管的烹饪视频

And I have to say, it’s been two weeks now and I don’t even think…well, I think about it, 

真的不赖，两个星期的时间内我都没有怎么想过，当然我会想/关心

of course I think about it, everybody does, 

每个人都会关心这个

but I don’t do it. And I just feel so free. I feel like I felt four or five years ago.

但是我没有去做（打开新闻去看），所以我感到轻松，就像回到了4/5年前

 I feel that happiness inside me and I’m not focussed on all of this negativity that’s happening here in the United States right now. 

我内心涌出不断的快乐，因为我不在专注于美国现在负面的消息

So I just wanted to share that with you and tell you how good it feels to maybe get rid of some social media and spending so much time just looking at what’s happening with OTHER people, 

我这里想分享的就是，隔离开社交媒体和不花无谓的时间跟其他人一起去看新闻，这会让你感觉非常好

and instead, just living your own life. 

你要过的是你自己的生活

And that’s what I’m doing here now on the ranch.

我现在在牧场过的就是这种节奏的生活

 And I’m really happy to have you along here with me. 

我非常高兴你们能跟我一起

And I’m excited to tell you some more stories in the coming days. Thanks for listening and I’ll talk to you soon. 

我非常高兴未来能和你们分享更多发生在这里的故事，后会有期，感谢收听