TED地道用语学习 - ＜脆弱的力量＞ - 1
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《脆弱的力量》是我最早看的TED演讲之一，也是我最喜欢的TED演讲之一，这里传递了一个很重要重要的生活理念：人人都有脆弱，我们只有坦诚地面对脆弱并接受脆弱，才能真正善待自己，善待爱我们的人，才能换来真正的自我。
当然演讲者布琳布朗也是一位非常优雅美丽知性的阿姨，听她演讲，略带磁性的声音会把你带进节奏里：
a couple years ago, an event planner called me because I was going to do a speaking event
---- event planner 活动策划者
---- speaking event 演讲
I’m really struggling with how to write about you on the little flier.
--- struggling with + how to
--- little flier 宣传单
What’s the struggle?
And I was like, “Okay.”
--- was like 我想
But the thing I liked about your talk
---- like + about…
And of course, the academic, insecure part of me, was like “…”
---- the academic, insecure part of me 那个做学术的、感到不安的我
You’re going to call me a what?
--- a what(回应对方说的：call you a storyteller)
Why not magic pixie?
----magic pixie(小精灵，仙子) 魔法小精灵
I tried to call deep on my courage.
--- call deep on my courage 鼓起勇气
I’m a qualitative researcher.
----从事定性研究的研究员
---- qualitative([ˈkwɒlɪtətɪv]) 质量的，定性的，性质上的
And maybe stories are just data with a soul.
---- data with a soul 有灵魂的数据
Why don’t just say I’m a researcher-storyteller.
---- researcher-storyteller. 讲故事的人兼研究员
We’re talking about expanding perception –
--- expanding perception 拓展认知
About a piece of my research
---- 我的一份研究
When I was a young researcher, doctoral student.
---- doctoral([ˈdɒktərəl]) student 博士生
And I thought he was just sweet-talking me.
---- 我想他只是在哄我们这些小孩吧
I have a bachelor’s in social work, …
---- bachelor’s = bachelor’s degree
---- have bachelor’s in
who kind of believed in the “ Life’s messy, love it.”
----他们大抵相信，生活是一团麻，接收它
And I more of the “Life is messy, clean it up, organize it and put it into a bento box.”
---- bento box 便当盒
And so to think that I had found my way.
---- 我觉得我领悟到了关键
One of the big saying in social work is “Lean into the discomfort of the work.”
---- big saying in 关于…的重要理念
---- lean into 置身于
And I’m like, you know, knock discomfort upside the head and move it over, and get all A‘s.
---把这个不适弄个底朝天
That was my mantra.
---- mantra [ˈmæntrə] 咒语，准则
And so I thought, you know what, this is the career for me.
---- 我想这就是我要的职业生涯.
I want to hack into these things.
----hack into 侵入
And lay the code out for everyone to see.
----用浅显易懂的方式呈现给每一个人
It’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.
---- 它赋予了我们生命的目的和意义.
Who work in social justice and mental health and abuse and neglect,
---- social justice 社会公义
---- abuse 滥用，虐待
---- neglect(to fail to take of sb/sth) 疏于看管
Neurobiologically, that’s how we’re wired.
---- 生物神经上，我们是这么被设定的
Where you get an evaluation from your boss
And one thing – “an opportunity for growth.”
---- 一个成长的机会
Well, apparently this the way my work went as well.
---- 显然，这也是我研究的一个方面
When you ask people about belongings, they’ll tell you their most excruciating experiences of being excluded.
---- 当你跟他们谈论归属感，他们告诉你的时最让他们痛心的被排斥的经历。
So very quickly – really about six weeks into this research –
---- 所以很快的 -- 在研究这个问题大约六周后 –
I ran into this unnamed thing that absolutely unraveled connection in a way that I didn’t understand or had never seen.
---- 我遇到了这个前所未闻的东西, 它用一种我无法理解或从来没见过的方式揭示了人与人之间的联系。
And so I pulled back out of the research.
---- pull back
---- 所以我暂停了原先的研究计划
I need to figure out what this is, and it turned out to be shame.
---- 我得弄清这是什么，然后它最终被鉴定为耻辱。
As the fear of disconnection.
---- 即害怕被断绝关系。
that I won’t be worthy of connection
----会认为我不值得交往
It’s universal, we all have it.
---这种现象很普遍…
The only people who don’t experience shame have no capacity for human empathy or connection.
----没有体验过耻辱的人，不具有人类的同情或关系。
and the less you talk about it the more you have it
----你谈论的越少，就越感到可耻
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