各位晚上好,我是Joe Wong(黄西)。但是对很多人来说,听到我的名字,会问“谁”?Who(同音“Hu”)恰恰是我妈的娘家姓,也是我信用卡安全问题的答案。
Good evening, everyone. My name is Joe Wong. But to most people, I am known as "Who?" "Hu" is actually my mother's maiden name, and the answer to my credit card security question.

但是玩笑归玩笑,我想让大家放心我今晚的确是受到邀请来的。(这里是隐指Salah夫妇闯入白宫欢迎晚宴的新闻)
But joking aside, I just want to reassure everybody that I am invited here tonight.

我在中国长大。谁不是呢?(这是用自己的自大讽刺美国人的自大)
I grew up in China. Who wouldn't?

而我童年的所有记忆都被我的童年给毁了。读小学的时候,作为课程的一部分,我要去稻田里劳动,稻田的旁边是一个采石场,他们用炸药炸石头。也就是在那里,我知道了光的传播速度要比声音快,而声音的速度就和石头飞的速度差不多慢。
As my childhood memories are totally ruined by my childhood.When I was in elementary school, as part of the curriculum, I have to work at a rice paddy, right next to a quarry where they use explosives to break rocks. And that is where I learned that light travels faster than sound, which is almost as slow as a flying rock.

我爸爸是个脾气很怪的人,但偶尔他也想用笑话来逗我玩儿。可是他又做不好。我七岁的时候,有一天他问我,“嘿,儿子,你说为什么豆腐比社会主义计划经济要好?”(风马牛不相及)我想了五分钟,然后问他“为什么呢?”,他说“因为我说好就是好!”(笑点在于:豆腐,计划经济以及极端的父权。豆腐和经济放在一起本来就没有可比性,就好像这种“我说了算”的父权也根本不可理喻,让人又好气又好笑)
My dad was a grumpy guy, but occasionally he would tried to cheer me up with jokes. But he doesn't do it right. When I was seven, one day he said to me, "Hi, son, why is tofu better than centralized socialist economy?" So, five minutes later, I said, "Why?" He said, "Because I said so!"

我24岁的时候来到美国,在Texas的Rice University求学。这不是个笑话,不过现在是了。
I came to the United States when I was 24, to study at Rice University in Texas. That wasn't a joke, until now.

我当时开了辆二手车,保险杠上贴了好多贴纸(就类似我们的“熊出没注意”那种),贴的很牢,就根本不可能撕下来。其中一张写着“如果你不说英文,就滚回家去”。(,这句话有歧视外来移民的意味)而我两年后才看到它。
And I was driving that a used car with a lot of bumper stickers that are impossible to peel off. And one of them said, "If you don't speak English, go home!" And I didn't notice it for two years.

和很多其他的移民一样,我们都希望自己的儿子能成为这个国家的总统。于是我们努力让他们说两种语言,在家说中文,在外说英文。但操作起来其实挺困难,很多时候我不得不在公共场合对他说:“嘿,听着,如果你不说英文,就滚回家去。”(这里说明了该句子是一种教训儿子的口气)
And like many other immigrants, we wanted our son to become the president of this country. And we try to make him bilingual, you know, Chinese at home and English in the public. Which is really a tough to do, because many times I had to say to him in public, "Hi, listen, if you don't speak English, go home!"

然后他问我:“爸爸,为什么我要学两个语言呢?”我就跟他说:“儿子,一旦有一天你成了美国总统,你就必须要用英文来签署法案,还要用中文跟讨债的对话。”(中国当前是美国的最大债主。)
And he was said to me, "Hi, Dad, Why do I have to learn two languages?"I said, "Son, once you become the president of the Unite States, you will have to sign legislative bills in English, and talk to debt collectors in Chinese!"

从Rice毕业后,我决定留在美国。因为回中国的话,我有一件事情完全没有办法做的比这里更好,那就是我散发出的异域风情。
When I graduated from Rice, I decided to stay in the Unite States,Because in China I can't do the thing I do best here, being ethnic.

我为了成为一名美国公民,必须要上美国历史课,会被问到诸如“谁是本杰明富兰克林?”我就想:“呃,莫非就是我们便利店遭到抢劫的原因?”(百元美钞上印着本杰明富兰克林的头像。)
And in order for me to become a US citizen, I had to take those American history lessons,Where they ask questions like: Who's Benjamin Franklin?We were like, "Ahh.., the reason our convenient store gets robbed?"

“什么是第二修正案?”我就想:“呃,莫非就是我们便利店遭到抢劫的原因?”(第二修正案保障了人民的持枪权利)
What's the second Amendment? We were like, "Ahh.., the reason our convenient store gets robbed?"

“Roe vs. Wade是什么?”“呃!两种来美国的途径?”(Roe vs.Wade是美最高法院关于堕胎的经典案例。他在这里则是说那些偷渡到美国的人,要不就是通过row a boat(划船,和人名Roe同音),要不就是靠游到河对岸(wade是跋涉的意思))
What is Roe vs Wade? We were like, "Ahh& , two ways of coming to the Unite States?"

后来我读了很多的美国历史,以至于我都开始充满了白人罪恶感。(white guilt是指白人因为奴役黑人的历史而产生的负罪感。)
Later on, I read so much about American history that I started to harbor white guilt.

在美国,大家都说人人生而平等。但是出生后,或多或少要取决于父母收入,才能提供你的早期教育和医疗保障。
And in America, they say that all menare created equal, but after birth,it kind of depends on their parents' income for early education and healthcare.

我在男人健康杂志里看到,奥巴马总统每周有两次有氧锻炼,四次举重锻炼。你们看,我根本不需要锻炼,因为我有健康保险。(这里说医保体系给人慵懒意识)
I read in the Men's Health magazine that president Obama every week has two cardio days and 4 weight lifting days. You see, I don't have to exercise because I have health insurance.

我现在住在麻省,我们有全面的医疗保险。然后我们选了Scott Brown当州长。哦,有歧义。我想有一部电影是关于他的,那就是《杀死比尔》(Kill Bill)。(bill在英文里有议案的意思,这里讽刺这名州长极力反对Obama的医保改革方案。)
I live in Massachusetts now, where we had universal healthcare then we elected Scott Brown.Talk about mixed messages! I think there was a movie about him. It's called "Kill Bill"

我很荣幸今晚能见到副总统Joe Biden。事实上,我曾经读过你的自传。今天见到你了,我觉得书(比本人)要好的多(然后镜头就给了副总统,副总统笑的哈开心),他们应该请布拉德·皮特来演,或者是安吉丽娜·茱莉。
I'm honored to eh.. meet vice president Joe Biden here tonight. em, I actually read autobiography of you,And today I see you. I think the book is much better.They should have cast Brad Pitt, you know, or even Angelina Jolie.