The price of shame
主讲人：莫妮卡莱温斯基主题：耻辱的代价
You're looking at a woman who was publicly silent for a de cade. Obviously, that's changed, but only recently.
站在你们面前的是一个在大众面前沉默了十年之久的女人。当然，现在情况不一样了，不过这只是最近发生的事。
It was several months ago that I gave my very first major public talk at the Forbes 30 Under 30 summit:1,500 brillian t people, all under the age of 30. That meant that in 1998, the oldest among the group were only 14, and the youngest, just four. I joked with them that some might only have heard of me from rap songs. Yes, I'm in rap songs. Almost 40 rap songs.
几个月前，我在《福布斯》杂志举办的“30岁以下”峰会（Under 30 Summit）上发表了首次公开演讲。现场1500位才华横溢的与会者都不到30岁。这意味着1998年，他们中最年长的是14岁，而最年轻的只有4岁。我跟他们开玩笑道，他们中有些人可能只在说唱歌曲里听到过我的名字。是的，大约有40首说唱歌曲唱过我。
But the night of my speech, a surprising thing happened. At the age of 41, I was hit on by a 27-year-old guy. I kno
w, right? He was charming and I was flattered, and I declin ed. You know what his unsuccessful pickup line was? He c ould make me feel 22 again. I realized later that night, I'm probably the only person over 40 who does not want to be 22 again. 但是，在我演讲当晚，发生了一件令人吃惊的事——我作为一个41岁的女人，被一个27岁的男孩示爱。我知道，这听上去不太可能对吧？他很迷人，说了很多恭维我的话，然后我拒绝了他。你知道他为何搭讪失败吗？他说，他可以让我感到又回到了22岁。后来，那晚我意识到，也许我是年过40岁的女人中唯一一个不想重返22岁的人。
At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss, and at the age of 24, I learned the devastating consequences. Can I s ee a show of hands of anyone here who didn't make a mis take or do something they regretted at 22? Yep.That's what I thought.So like me, at 22, a few of you may have also t aken wrong turns and fallen in love with the wrong person, maybe even your boss. Unlike me, though, your boss proba bly wasn't the president of the United States of America. Of course, life is full of surprises.Not a day goes by that I'm not reminded of my mistake, and I regret that mistake deep ly. 22岁时，我爱上了我的老板；24岁的时，我饱受了这场恋爱
带来的灾难性的后果。现场的观众们，如果你们在22岁的时候没有犯过错，或者没有做过让自己后悔的事，请举起手好吗？是的，和我想的一样。与我一样，22岁时，你们中有一些人也曾走过弯路，爱上了不该爱的人，也许是你们的老板。但与我不同的是，你们的老板可能不会是美国总统。当然，人生充满惊奇。之后的每一天，我都会想起自己所犯的错误，并为之深深感到后悔。
In 1998, after having been swept up into an improbable r omance, I was then swept up into the eye of a political, le gal and media maelstrom like we had never seen before. R emember, just a few years earlier,news was consumed from just three places: reading a newspaper or magazine, listeni ng to the radio, or watching television. That was it. But that wasn't my fate. Instead, this scandal was brought to you b y the digital revolution. That meant we could access all the information we wanted, when we wanted it, anytime, anywh ere, and when the story broke in January 1998, it broke onli ne. It was the first time the traditional news was usurped by the Internet for a major news story, a click that reverberate d around the world. 饱受网络欺凌之苦1998年，在卷入一场不可思议的恋情后，我又被卷入了一场前所未有的政治、法律和舆论漩涡的中心。记得吗？几年前，新闻一般通过三个途径传播：读报纸杂志、听广播、和看电视，仅此而已。但我的命运并不是仅此而已。
