TED演讲:为什么我们需要与陌生人交流(8)

 So, here it is. 所以总的来说，

When you talk to strangers, you're making beautiful interruptions 当你在与陌生人聊天的时候，你通过介绍自己的经历，

into the expected narrative¹ of your daily life and theirs. 对自己和别人的生活进行了非常美妙的打扰。

You're making unexpected connections. 你们建立起了未曾预料过的联系。

If you don't talk to strangers, you're missing out on all of that. 如果你不与陌生人交谈，你就错过了所有那些美好的经历。

We spend a lot of time teaching our children about strangers. 我们花费了很长时间教导我们的孩子如何对待陌生人。

What would happen if we spent more time teaching ourselves? 如果我们能花更多时间教教自己呢？

We could reject all the ideas that make us so suspicious of each other. 我们能够终止无数的猜忌。

We could make a space for change. Thank you. 我们能够创造一个改变的空间。谢谢。

1 narrative   

n.叙述，故事；adj.叙事的，故事体的

参考例句：

• He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
• Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。