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Life in a day

一日人生。

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What do you love ?

你热爱什么？

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What do you fear ?

你恐惧什么？

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What's in your pocket ?

你的口袋里有什么？

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These are the questions from the film Life in a Day

这些都是来自电影《一日人生》的问题。

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Director Kevin Macdonald asked people around the world to answer the questions and send in a video clip from a typical day

导演凯文·麦克唐纳邀请世界各地的人们回答这些问题，并提交一段记录自己平凡一天的视频片段。

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He was interested in creating a picture of the world , a digital time capsule for the future

他想要描绘出一幅世界的图景，为未来留下一个数字时代的时间胶囊。

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On 24 July 2010 , people from Africa , Europe , America , Antarctica and Asia recorded events on their mobile phones and digital cameras and uploaded them onto the Internet

2010年7月24日，来自非洲、欧洲、美洲、南极洲和亚洲的人们用手机和数码相机记录下身边发生的事，并将视频上传到了互联网上。

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In all there were 81,000 video clips

总共有81000个视频片段。

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It took Macdonald and a team of researchers seven weeks to make them into a film

麦克唐纳和他的研究团队花了七周时间才把这些素材剪辑成一部电影。

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The film starts at midnight

电影从午夜时分开始。

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The moon is high in the sky , elephants are washing themselves in a river in Africa and a baby is sleeping

月亮高挂在天空，非洲的大象正在河里洗澡，一个婴儿正熟睡着。

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At the same time , in other parts of the world , people are getting up , brushing their teeth and making breakfast

与此同时，在世界的其他地方，人们正起床、刷牙、做早餐。

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In the next minutes of the one-and-a-half-hour-long film , we watch everyday routines from more than 140 different countries and see the connections between them

在这部时长一个半小时的电影接下来的内容里，我们看到了来自140多个不同国家的日常生活片段，也看到了彼此之间的联结。

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In one short scene an American girl is playing with her hula hoop

在一个短镜头里，一个美国女孩正在玩呼啦圈。

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In another , a child is working at a shoeshine stand in Peru

在另一个镜头里，一个秘鲁的孩子正在擦鞋摊干活。

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One looks well off , the other is poor , but then the shoeshine boy shows us his favorite thing — his notebook computer

一个看起来家境优渥，另一个却家境贫寒，但随后这个擦鞋的男孩向我们展示了他最心爱的东西——他的笔记本电脑。

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He's very proud of it because he earned the money to pay for it

他为此十分自豪，因为买电脑的钱是他自己挣来的。

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We all care about the same things

我们都关心着同样的事物。

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Says the director and in some ways he's right

导演这么说道，在某些方面他是对的。

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Family and friends are the things most people love and many of them are keen on sports , like football

家人和朋友是大多数人珍视的存在，很多人还热爱运动，比如足球。

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But then one man says he loves his cat and another loves his fridge because it doesn't talk back

但有个男人说他爱自己的猫，还有人爱自己的冰箱，因为冰箱不会顶嘴。

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Monsters , dogs and death are the things most people fear

怪物、狗和死亡是大多数人恐惧的事物。

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One young girl is worried about growing up and a man in Antarctica says ," I'm afraid of losing this place ."

一个年轻女孩担心长大，而身处南极洲的一名男子说：“我害怕失去这个地方。”

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But when asked ," What's in your pocket ?", the answers are surprising

但当被问到“你的口袋里有什么？”时，得到的答案出人意料。

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We don't see an ID card , a shopping list , or a bus ticket

我们看不到身份证、购物清单或者公交车票。

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Instead , one person has a paper towel , and another shows us a button

相反，有个人的口袋里装着一张纸巾，还有人向我们展示了一枚纽扣。

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A poor man says he has nothing

一个穷人说他口袋里什么都没有。

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He's not ashamed of his poverty — he's simply happy to be alive

他并不为自己的贫穷感到羞愧——他只是为自己活着而感到开心。

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The film ends just before midnight , with a young woman in her car

电影在临近午夜时结束，镜头对准了坐在车里的一名年轻女子。

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It's raining outside and she's recording a short clip on her phone

外面正下着雨，她正用手机录制一段短视频。

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" I just want people to know that I'm here ," she says

“我只是想让大家知道我存在于此。”她说道。

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In other words , she wants to show that her life matters

换句话说，她想要证明自己的人生有其意义。

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Even though their lives are very different , the people in Life in a Day have one thing in common : each of them is able to find meaning and happiness , no matter what his or her life is like

尽管《一日人生》里的人们生活截然不同，但他们有一个共同点：无论过着怎样的生活，每个人都能从中找到意义与幸福。