为什么童年敢说真话，成年却沉默了
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | It's well known that between the ages of approximately 1 and 5, the offspring of homo-sapiens | 众所周知,在大约1到5岁之间, 同性恋的后代 |
| 0:06 | slowly and at times lopsidedly do something called learn to speak. | 慢慢地,有时会一边做一些叫学说话的事情. |
| 0:11 | They acquire some key | 他们得到一些钥匙 |
| 0:13 | words – lunch, cat, mummy, fart – assemble some basic grammar and are, by the time they're | 语句 - 午餐,猫,妈妈,放屁 - 集合一些基本的语法 并且,在他们开始的时候 |
| 0:18 | the size of a chair, well on the way to one of the key markers of human competence. | 一张椅子的大小, 在通往人的能力的关键标志之一的路上。 |
| 0:24 | Except for one thing. | 除了一件事。 。 。 |
| 0:25 | Shortly after they learn to speak, children also learn, as it were, | 在他们学会说话后不久, 孩子们也学会了,就像现在一样, |
| 0:30 | not to speak. | 别说话 |
| 0:31 | At first, they aren't very good at not speaking, which is why, for a precious time, | 起初,他们不太擅长不说话, 这就是为什么,在一个宝贵的时间, |
| 0:36 | they're very funny indeed, as well as occasionally rather excruciating. | 它们确实很有趣, 偶尔也相当令人沮丧。 |
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| 1 | It's well known that between the ages of approximately 1 and 5, the offspring of homo-sapiens | 众所周知,在大约1到5岁之间, 同性恋的后代 |
| 2 | slowly and at times lopsidedly do something called learn to speak. | 慢慢地,有时会一边做一些叫学说话的事情. |
| 3 | They acquire some key | 他们得到一些钥匙 |
| 4 | words – lunch, cat, mummy, fart – assemble some basic grammar and are, by the time they're | 语句 - 午餐,猫,妈妈,放屁 - 集合一些基本的语法 并且,在他们开始的时候 |
| 5 | the size of a chair, well on the way to one of the key markers of human competence. | 一张椅子的大小, 在通往人的能力的关键标志之一的路上。 |
| 6 | Except for one thing. | 除了一件事。 。 。 |
| 7 | Shortly after they learn to speak, children also learn, as it were, | 在他们学会说话后不久, 孩子们也学会了,就像现在一样, |
| 8 | not to speak. | 别说话 |
| 9 | At first, they aren't very good at not speaking, which is why, for a precious time, | 起初,他们不太擅长不说话, 这就是为什么,在一个宝贵的时间, |
| 10 | they're very funny indeed, as well as occasionally rather excruciating. | 它们确实很有趣, 偶尔也相当令人沮丧。 |
| 11 | They use their newfound linguistic skill to come out with utterances like | 他们用他们新发现的语言技能 发表一些言论 |
| 12 | Grammy smells under her legs, Jane looks a bit like a giraffe and | 格莱美的腿下有气味 Jane看起来有点像长颈鹿 |
| 13 | can you put a poo back in your bottom once it's come out? | 出来后你能不能放回你的底部? |
| 14 | Then, sure enough, to the mixed relief of the adults around, children learn not to speak. | 当然,对于周围的成年人来说,儿童学会不说话。 |
| 15 | They | 他们 |
| 16 | become careful custodians of their more charged insights. | 成为他们更富有洞察力的守护者 |
| 17 | Out go the large questions, rude | 出去问个大问题,没礼貌 |
| 18 | observations and naked confessions. | 观察与裸体忏悔. |
| 19 | By eight, they know how to say, I'm very well, thank you, | 到了8点,他们知道怎么说,我很好,谢谢 |
| 20 | how are you? | 你好吗? |
| 21 | By eleven, they might tell you, I don't mind that my parents are getting divorced, | 11点 他们可能会告诉你 我不介意我父母离婚 |
| 22 | I get to go to Disneyland. | 我要去迪士尼乐园 |
| 23 | And by seventeen, pretty much all of the wonder and pain of being | 17岁时,所有奇迹和痛苦 |
| 24 | alive has ceased to make it out of their lips. | 活的已经不再靠嘴了 |
| 25 | Something evidently goes astray, so much so | 很明显,有些事情是错的,所以... |
| 26 | we might posit that becoming a true adult might rely on going in the opposite direction, | 我们可能假设,成为真正的成年人 可能依赖于走向相反的方向, |
| 27 | on a process of remembering how to speak once again, in emotional rather than grammatical terms. | 以情感而不是语法来回忆如何再次说话的过程。 |
| 28 | We accede to genuine maturity when we can dare to once again take people into the phenomenal | 当我们可以再次把人们带到这个奇迹中时,我们才真正成熟 |
| 29 | mystery and agony of being ourselves, with all the fear, joy, questions and doubts implied. | 充满恐惧、喜悦、疑问和怀疑, |
| 30 | It can take a while to realise just how much we've grown used to not saying. | 需要一段时间才能意识到 我们习惯于不说这些话 |
| 31 | Silence on | 安静 |
| 32 | the key areas tends to become our second nature. | 关键领域往往成为我们的第二个性质。 |
| 33 | It isn't just that we're deceiving others, | 不仅仅是我们欺骗别人 |
| 34 | we've lost the thread even within ourselves, omitting so much as to notice all the anger, | 我们失去了线 甚至我们自己, 省略了这么多 以至于注意到所有的愤怒, |
| 35 | terror or joy coursing through us at subterranean levels. | 恐怖或欢乐在地底下横行 |
| 36 | Imagine, therefore, | 想象一下,因此, |
| 37 | a somewhat bold experiment, in its way as challenging and rewarding as taking up a | 一个有点大胆的实验, 以它的方式, 具有挑战性 和有回报的, |
| 38 | or mastering a new recipe. | 或者掌握新的食谱 |
| 39 | Imagine if we attempted to undo three or five decades of experience, | 想象一下如果我们试图 取消三五十年的经验, |
| 40 | to travel back to the raw state we knew in our original home. | 回到我们原来家的原始状态 |
| 41 | We would, of course, | 我们当然会 |
| 42 | have to take some precautions, but it's part of the incoherence of adult social life | 但这是成人社会生活不协调的一部分 |
| 43 | to picture ourselves unable to do so. | 想象自己无法做到 |
| 44 | We don't in reality face such a stark choice between honesty | 在现实中,我们面对的不是诚实之间的一个严峻选择 |
| 45 | and ostracism. | 与排斥。 |
| 46 | There are well-worn ways of being at once true and kind, honest and unfrightening. | 既得一心真实慈悲,诚实无畏,是诸有为法. |
| 47 | We can wrap our moments of candour in levity and good sense. | 我们可以用谦虚和理智来包扎我们的坦率时刻。 |
| 48 | Imagine if we said, for example, | 想象一下,如果我们说,例如, |
| 49 | forgive me, but as much as I want to be kind here, there's something I might be a bit | 原谅我,但尽管我想在这里友善, 有一些事情我可能会有点 |
| 50 | furious about, which is obviously crazy, but bear with me. | 愤怒,这显然是疯狂的, 但忍受我。 |
| 51 | Or it's not that I don't like you, | 或者不是我不喜欢你 |
| 52 | I'm scared that you're going to reject me, which probably explains why I've been behaving | 我怕你会拒绝我 这也许解释了为什么我一直这样 |
| 53 | like a bit of a weirdo these past days. | 这几天有点怪 |
| 54 | Or I'm not just gazing out of the window, I'm actually | 或者我不只是在窗外看,其实我 |
| 55 | worrying that you're going to find me bad in bed later. | 担心你晚点在床上会发现我不好 |
| 56 | Or I'm not really grumpy, I'm actually | 或者我不生气,其实我 |
| 57 | going out of my mind with anxiety. | 以焦虑的心情离开我的脑海 |
| 58 | We've picked up the message that such truths are extremely | 我们收到消息 这样的真理是极端的 |
| 59 | dangerous to share. | 很难分享 |
| 60 | No one could get a view of our actual levels of pain, worry, desire, | 没有人能看到我们的痛苦 焦虑 渴望 |
| 61 | and still be on our side. | 并且仍然站在我们这边。 |
| 62 | But that's to forget a bedrock fact that we're all beneath a layer of | 但是,那就是忘记一个基本的事实, 即我们都在一层 |
| 63 | social subterfuge, longing for reassurance that there are echoes of our intimate, bewildering | 社会诡计,渴望保证 我们的亲密,困惑 |
| 64 | experiences in the minds of others. | 体验别人的心灵 |
| 65 | We're all mad, sick with worry, entirely lost and desperately | 我们都很生气,很烦恼, 完全迷失和绝望 |
| 66 | anxious about our appearance, achievements and likeability. | 担心我们的外表、成就和可喜性。 |
| 67 | We become more charming when we speak | 我们说话时就更迷人了 |
| 68 | up because so much of what makes us unpleasant is related in the end to our unwitting deceitfulness. | 因为很多让我们不愉快的事 都和我们的欺骗有关 |
| 69 | Not only don't we want to have lunch, we see no option but to pretend that we would like to. | 我们不仅不想吃午饭,我们别无选择,而且假装我们愿意。 |
| 70 | Not only do we leave relationships, we can't bear to own up to our wish to do so, | 不仅我们离开关系,我们不能忍受 拥有我们的愿望这样做, |
| 71 | and therefore come across as sentimental and confusing. | 并因此变得多愁善感和困惑 |
| 72 | How much better if we have the | 如果我们有更好的 |
| 73 | confidence that we, like small children, except more so because we have greater self-control | 相信我们和小孩子一样 更有信心是因为我们有更大的自我控制 |
| 74 | intact, are at our most beguiling when we can stick as close as possible to how things actually are. | 当我们能尽可能接近实际状况时,我们最会骗人。 |
| 75 | When we can say, this is lovely but I don't want to take it any further, I'm so sorry. | 当我们可以说,这是可爱的 但我不想再继续了,我很抱歉。 |
| 76 | Or | 或者说 |
| 77 | I'm really furious there's a part of me that wants to scream and sob on the floor. | 我真的很生气 我身上有一部分人想在地板上尖叫和哭泣 |
| 78 | Or I make | 否则我做 |
| 79 | no assumptions at all but I really do find you attractive, I hope it's okay to tell you. | 完全没有假设 但我确实觉得你很有吸引力 我希望可以告诉你 |
| 80 | Or | 或者说 |
| 81 | I'm so worried that I failed in your eyes, I do apologise. | 我很担心我在你眼里失败了 我真的很抱歉 |
| 82 | We'll learn to properly live when we | 我们学着过正常的生活 |
| 83 | stop being so morbidly embarrassed of our reality. | 别再对我们的现实 感到非常尴尬了 |
| 84 | No one asked us to be alive, no one asked us to | 没有人要求我们活着 没有人要求我们活着 |
| 85 | suffer as we do, we're not responsible for how peculiar it is to be ourselves. | 受苦受难,我们不负责 多么奇特的是,我们自己。 |
| 86 | What is in our | 我们里面有什么 |
| 87 | minds and to use our artfulness and intelligence to share as much of it as possible with those we | 利用我们的艺术和智慧 尽可能多地与我们分享 |
| 88 | come across. | 筁ㄓ |
| 89 | We will in the process reassure them of their normality, deepen our friendships | 我们将在此过程中向他们保证他们的正常性,加深我们的友谊。 |
| 90 | and feel less peculiar about our natures. | 并且对我们的本性不那么奇怪 |
| 91 | We'll get a little closer to experiencing life as it | 我们会更接近体验生活 |
| 92 | actually is. | 其实是的 |
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