TED演讲:解读羞耻(2)
时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:TED演讲教育篇
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And she goes, "Uh... no." 然后她说:“呃,不记得。”
Of course, the only thing I could say at that point was, "Yeah, me neither. Yeah -- me neither." 所以当然了,我也只能说:“哦,我也是...我也是。”
And I'm thinking to myself, "Brené, what are you doing? Why did you bring this up? 然后我对自己说:“布琳,你在干什么?你在干吗呢?你怎么会提这个?
Have you lost your mind? Your sisters would be perfect for this." 你昏了头了吗? 你的姐妹这方面是很完美的。”
So I looked back up and she said, "Are you really going to try to break in and steal the video before they put it on YouTube?" 我回过神来,于是她说: “你不会是真的想撬门进去,在他们上传到YouTube之前,把视频偷出来吧?”
And I said, "I'm just thinking about it a little bit." 我说:“我就是想了一小下。”
She said, "You're like the worst vulnerability 1 role model ever." 她说:“你就是史上最糟糕的脆弱者榜样。”
Then I looked at her and I said something that at the time felt a little dramatic 2, but ended up being more prophetic than dramatic. 然后我看着她说了一些,当时看有点戏剧性,现在看更像是预言的话。
I said, "If 500 turns into 1,000 or 2,000, my life is over." 我说:“如果500变成1000或者2000,我就死定了。”
I had no contingency 3 plan for four million. 我压根就没想过四百万点击率是什么情况。
And my life did end when that happened. 于是我的生活真的完了。
And maybe the hardest part about my life ending is that I learned 4 something hard about myself, 而或许其中最困难的,就是我发现了自身纠结的那一部分,
and that was that, as much as I would be frustrated 5 about not being able to get my work out to the world, 那就是:一方面我会因为无法把我的工作成果展现给公众而失落,
there was a part of me that was working very hard to engineer staying small, staying right under the radar 6. 而另一方面我又非常努力想做到不引人注目,隐藏在公众的视线之下。
But I want to talk about what I've learned. There's two things that I've learned in the last year. 但是我想讲一下我所学到的。在过去的一年我学到两件事。
1 vulnerability
n.脆弱(性)
- A baby is the embodiment of vulnerability. 婴儿极为脆弱。
- Saudi Arabia obscures its vulnerability by opaqueness. 沙特阿拉伯人以其神秘莫测来掩饰其脆弱。
2 dramatic
adj.引人注目的;戏剧的;演戏的
- She plays a very dramatic woman with flashing eyes.她饰演一位双眼闪光的引人注目的妇人。
- His speech was dramatic.他的演说激动人心。
3 contingency
n.意外事件,可能性
- We should be prepared for any contingency.我们应该对任何应急情况有所准备。
- A fire in our warehouse was a contingency that we had not expected.库房的一场大火是我们始料未及的。
4 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
- He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
- In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
5 frustrated
adj.挫败的,失意的,泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 );挫败;使受挫折;令人沮丧
- It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
- The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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