TED演讲:献给所有迷失在这个时代的人(10)

 We create our "others." As parents, as neighbors, as citizens, 是我们创造了“其他人”的概念。作为家长，邻居，公民，

we witness and sometimes ignore each other into being. 我们见证，有时也忽视他人的存在。

You were not born vengeful. 我们并非生来就复仇心切。

I have some role in whatever thirst you now feel for revenge, 我也饰演一些角色，无论你现在是多么渴望复仇，

and that thirst now tempts¹ me to plot ever more elaborate escapes from our common life, 那些复仇的渴望感诱使我设计前所未有精密的路线，去逃离我们共同生活，

from the schools and neighborhoods and airports and amusement parks that we used to share. 逃离学校和邻里，逃离机场和游乐场，逃离那些我们曾经共有的地方。

We face, then, a problem not of these large, impersonal² forces. 之后，我们面对的不是那些远大的非个人的问题，

We face a problem of your and my relations. 我们面对的是你我的关系问题。

We chose ways of relating to each other that got us here. 我们选择了相互关联的方式，让我们走到了今天这地步。

We can choose ways of relating that get us out. 我们也可以选择相互关联的方式，让我们脱离这里。

But there are things we might have to let go of, fellow citizen, 但我们必须放弃一些，我亲爱的公民伙伴们，

starting with our own cherished versions of reality. 首先是我们自身珍视的现实视角。

Imagine if you let go of fantasies of a society purged³ of these or those people. 想像你们放弃那些对没有这样或那样人的社会的幻想。

1 tempts   

v.引诱或怂恿（某人）干不正当的事( tempt的第三人称单数 )；使想要

参考例句：

• It tempts the eye to dream. 这种景象会使眼睛产生幻觉。 来自辞典例句
• This is the tidbit which tempts his insectivorous fate. 就是这一点东西引诱它残杀昆虫。 来自互联网

2 impersonal   

adj.无个人感情的，与个人无关的，非人称的

参考例句：

• Even his children found him strangely distant and impersonal.他的孩子们也认为他跟其他人很疏远，没有人情味。
• His manner seemed rather stiff and impersonal.他的态度似乎很生硬冷淡。

3 purged   

清除（政敌等）( purge的过去式和过去分词 )； 涤除（罪恶等）； 净化（心灵、风气等）； 消除（错事等）的不良影响

参考例句：

• He purged his enemies from the Party. 他把他的敌人从党内清洗出去。
• The iron in the chemical compound must be purged. 化学混合物中的铁必须清除。