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We think we know someone, but the truth is that we only know the version of them they have chosen to show us. 

我们以为自己了解某人，但事实是，我们只了解对方选择性展现给我们的某一面。

We know our friend in a certain light, but we don't know them the way their lover does. Just the way their lover will never know them the same way that you do as their friend. 

我们了解朋友的某一面，但是不了解他们的爱人能看到的另一面，正如他们的爱人永远无法从朋友的角度去了解他们一样。

Their mother knows them differently than their roommate, who knows them differently than their colleague. Their secret admirer looks at them and sees an elaborate sunset of brilliant color and dimension and spirit and pricelessness.

他们的母亲对他们的了解和室友对他们的了解不同，而室友对他们的了解也和同事的了解不同。他们的暗恋者仰望着他们，看到的是光彩万丈的可贵之人。

And yet, a stranger will pass that same person and see a faceless member of the crowd, nothing more. 

然而，一个陌生人经过同样一个人，看到的只是人群中又一张记不住的脸，仅此而已。

We may hear rumors about a person and believe those things to be true. We may one day meet that person and feel foolish for believing baseless gossip. 

我们也许会听到关于某人的流言，并信以为真。但有一天我们可能会遇到这个人，并为误信了毫无根据的小道传闻而感觉很蠢。

This is the first generation that will be able to look back on their entire life story documented in pictures on the internet, and together we will all discover the after-effects of that.

我们是第一代能够通过网络上的图片记录来回顾自己一生的人，而我们也会共同目睹它所带来的后果。

Ultimately, we post photos online to curate what strangers think of us. But then we wake up, look in the mirror at our faces and see the cracks and scars and blemishes, and cringe. 

最终，我们上传照片到网络就是为了维护自己在陌生人心目中的形象。然后我们醒了，照了照镜子，看见脸上的皱纹、疤痕和斑点，不由得蜷缩成一团。

We hope someday we'll meet someone who will see that same morning face and instead see their future, their partner, their forever. 

我们希望有一天，我们能遇到一个人，他/她看见你这张素面朝天的脸，看到的是自己的未来，自己的伴侣，自己的一生。

Someone who will still choose us even when they see all the sides of the story, all the angles of the kaleidoscope that is you.

即使在看过了你这个故事的所有版本，从各个角度看过了你万花筒般的人生，他/她依然会选择你这个人。

The point being, despite our need to simplify and generalize absolutely everyone and everything in this life, humans are intrinsically impossible to simplify. 

我要说的是，尽管我们想把所有人和生活中的每件事都简单化地概括起来，但是人类的本质根本就没那么简单。

We are never just good or bad. We are mosaics of our worst selves and our best selves, our deepest secrets and our favorite stories to tell at a dinner party, existing somewhere between our well-lit profile photo and our drivers license shot. 

我们从来也不只是简单的好人或坏人。我们是最坏的自己和最好的自己组成的马赛克，我们心底最深的秘密和我们宴会上最爱讲的故事，都可以从我们的头像和驾驶证照片中找到蛛丝马迹。

We are all a mixture of selfishness and generosity, loyalty and self-preservation, pragmatism and impulsiveness. I've been in the public eye since I was 15 years old.

我们都是自私和慷慨、忠诚和自保、实用主义和冲动的混合体。我从15岁起就成了公众人物。

On the beautiful, lovely side of I've been so lucky to make music for a living and look out into crowds of loving, vibrant people. On the other side of the coin, my mistakes have been used against me, my heartbreaks have been used as entertainment, and my songwriting has been trivialized as oversharing.

美好的一面是，我很幸运能以音乐为生并拥有这些充满朝气和爱心听众。不好的一面是，我犯下的错误成了别人用来对付我的利剑，我心碎的往事成了别人消遣的谈资，我的歌曲创作被贬低成‘过度分享’。

When this album comes out, gossip blogs will scour the lyrics for the men they can attribute to each song, as if the inspiration for music is as simple and basic as a paternity test. There will be slideshows of photos backing up each incorrect theory because it's 2017 and if you didn't see a picture of it, it couldn't have happened right?

这张专辑发布后，八卦博客会咬文嚼字，找出每首歌所“致敬”的男人，似乎音乐的灵感就和亲子鉴定一样简单和低级。还会有各种图片轮播来佐证每个错误的理论，因为这是2017年，没看到图片就等于没有发生，对吗？

Let me say it again, louder for those in the back…

让我再大声地说一遍，这次是给坐在后座的人听的……

We think we know someone, but the truth is that we only know the version of them they have chosen to show us.

我们以为自己了解某人，但真相是我们只了解对方选择性展现给我们的一面。

There will be no further explanation.

不会再解释了。

There will just be reputation.

留下的只有名声。