精美英文欣赏:Trust 信任

Trust

信任

Are you quick to trust others?

你很快就会相信别人吗?

If you are, chances are you haven't been burned.

如果你是这样，那是你还没有被引火烧身的机会。

By “burned”, I'm talking about having a bad experience with trusting others.

借用“引火烧身”这个词,我正在谈论的是一个信任他人不好的经历。

If you take someone into your confidence¹ and you trust him with a secret, and he tells someone else that secret, and you find out.

如果你信任某人,你用一个秘密信任他,而他把秘密告诉别人,你会发现。

Well, you've been burned.

你已经被引火烧身了。

Say you have a kind of emotional² scar³.

这说明你的情感上出现了疤痕。

Since the relationship has been hurt, in extreme⁴ cases you might even say the bridge has been burned between you and your friend.

因为这种关系已经被伤害,在极端的情况下你可能甚至会说你和你的朋友之间的友谊之桥已经轰然倒塌。

This happens to people lots of times.

人们身上经常发生这种事情。

It even happened to me before.

它甚至以前也发生在我身上。

I trusted a close friend with a secret, but he violated⁵ my trust and told someone else.

我有一个亲密的朋友保守着我的秘密,但他侵犯了我的信任,并告诉别人。

After I found out about what he did, our friendship was never the same again.

在我发现他做了什么后,我们的友谊就永远不会一样了。

Well, I hope you haven't had a lot of bad experiences when it comes to trusting others.

嗯, 当谈到相信别人的时候，我希望你没有很多不好的经历。

I also hope you have a lot of friends you can trust, and a lot of friends that trust you.

我也希望你有很多可以信赖的朋友,也有很多相信你的朋友。

But I was thinking about gaining someone's trust, it's not that easy like building a bridge or relationship.

但我在想获得别人的信任,这并不是像建造一座桥或是关系那么容易。

You make small promises and keep them, and the trust grows.

你做一些小的承诺并去恪守,而后信任就会生长。

As the trust grows, you can make bigger and bigger promises.

随着信任不断成长,你可以做出越来越大的承诺。

And if you keep on keeping your word, well, the trust keeps on growing.

如果你继续恪守你的诺言,好吧,那信任会不断增长。

Talk about it:

谈论下面的话题:

Have you ever been burned?

你曾经有过引火上身的经历吗?

Are you the type of person who rushes into a trusting relationship?

你是那种很快信任别人的类型吗?

What kind of things do you do to show you are trust worthy⁶?

你会做什么事情表示你值得信任?

Have you ever burned a bridge unintentionally, and found that it takes a long, long time to repair the relationship?

你有没有无意中让友谊之桥轰然倒塌,并发现需要一段很长的时间来重修旧好?

Are you good at keeping secrets?

你善于守护秘密吗?

Do people know that they can trust you?

人们知道他们可以信任你吗?

Do you believe that a man is as good as his word?

你是否相信一个人说话算话吗?

What can you do to earn a person's trust?

你会做什么来获得一个人的信任?

1 confidence   

n.信任，信托，自信，信心，把握，大胆，厚颜，过于自信，狂妄

参考例句：

• We have full confidence in our victory.我们有必胜的把握。
• I should like to exchange a few words with you in confidence.我想私下和你交换点意见。

2 emotional   

adj.令人动情的；易动感情的；感情(上)的

参考例句：

• Emotional people don't stop to calculate.感情容易冲动的人做事往往不加考虑。
• This is an emotional scene in the play.这是剧中动人的一幕。

3 scar   

n.伤疤，伤痕，创伤

参考例句：

• This scar is from the bite of a dog.这是狗咬后留下的伤疤。
• The tragedy left a scar on her mind.这个悲剧给她造成精神上的创伤。

4 extreme   

adj.末端的，尽头的；极度的，极端的；n.极度，最大程度

参考例句：

• She lived on the extreme edge of the forest.她住在森林的最边缘。
• His views are rather extreme.他的见解相当偏激。

5 violated   

亵渎( violate的过去式和过去分词 )； 违反； 侵犯； 强奸

参考例句：

• Note that thick, strong angles of tibia are not violated. 注意肥厚、结实的胫骨成角部分未受损坏。
• The soldiers violated the church by using it as a stable. 士兵们把教堂当马厩，亵渎了教堂。

6 worthy   

adj.(of)值得的，配得上的；有价值的

参考例句：

• I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
• There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。