时间:2019-01-18 作者:英语课 分类:TED演讲科学篇


英语课

 What an intriguing 1 group of individuals you are ... to a psychologist. 你们是多么有趣的一群人啊……当然,是对心理学家而言。


I've had the opportunity over the last couple of days  在过去几天里,我有机会
of listening in on some of your conversations and watching you interact with each other. 倾听你们的交谈,观察你们的互动。
And I think it's fair to say, already, that there are 47 people in this audience, at this moment, 我想我已经可以大胆地说,此时此刻,在你们中间,有47个人,
displaying psychological symptoms I would like to discuss today.  已经表现出了精神病症状,我今天就想聊聊这个。
And I thought you might like to know who you are.  我想你们都很想知道,到底是谁有精神病。
But instead of pointing at you, which would be gratuitous 2 and intrusive 3, 我不会直接指出来,因为那样很没必要,也不礼貌,
I thought I would tell you a few facts and stories, in which you may catch a glimpse of yourself. 我会列举一些事实和情况,你们可以跟自己对照一下。
I'm in the field of research known as personality psychology,  我从事的是人格心理学研究,
which is part of a larger personality science which spans the full spectrum 4, from neurons to narratives 5. 它属于人格科学的范畴,人格科学的研究领域跨度很大,从神经元到叙述学。
And what we try to do, in our own way, is to make sense of how each of us - each of you 而我们的研究方向是用我们的方式来弄清楚,为什么我们每一个人——在座的每一位
is in certain respects, like all other people, like some other people and like no other person. 在某些方面跟其他所有人都一样,或者只跟部分人一样,或者跟谁都不一样。

adj.有趣的;迷人的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的现在分词);激起…的好奇心
  • These discoveries raise intriguing questions. 这些发现带来了非常有趣的问题。
  • It all sounds very intriguing. 这些听起来都很有趣。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.无偿的,免费的;无缘无故的,不必要的
  • His criticism is quite gratuitous.他的批评完全没有根据。
  • There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.电视里充斥着犯罪和无端的暴力。
adj.打搅的;侵扰的
  • The cameras were not an intrusive presence.那些摄像机的存在并不令人反感。
  • Staffs are courteous but never intrusive.员工谦恭有礼却从不让人感到唐突。
n.谱,光谱,频谱;范围,幅度,系列
  • This is a kind of atomic spectrum.这是一种原子光谱。
  • We have known much of the constitution of the solar spectrum.关于太阳光谱的构成,我们已了解不少。
记叙文( narrative的名词复数 ); 故事; 叙述; 叙述部分
  • Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning. 结婚一向是许多小说的终点,然而也是一个伟大的开始。
  • This is one of the narratives that children are fond of. 这是孩子们喜欢的故事之一。
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