TED地道用语学习 - ＜脆弱的力量＞ - 5(完结篇)

Show me a generation of kids raised like that, an we’ll end the problems I think we see today.

---- end the problem

 

Doesn’t have an effect on people

----effect + on

----不会影响他人

 

Whether it’s a bailout, an oil spill, a recall  -- we pretend like what we’re doing doesn’t have a huge impact on other people

---- bailout 紧急财政救助(A bailout of an organization or individual that has financial problems is the act of helping them by giving them money)，跳伞

----oil spill（溢出，流出）

----pretend like…

 

I would say to companies, this is not our first rodeo, people.

---- rodeo 牛仔竞技表演(a rodeo is a public entertainment event in which cowboys show different skills, including riding wild horses and catching cattle(牛) with ropes)

----我想对这些公司说，这不是我们的第一次牛仔竞技。

 

We just need you be authentic and real…

----authentic 真正的，真品的，真迹的

----我们只要你坦诚的，真心的

 

To let ourselves to be seen, deeply seen, vulnerabaly seen, to love with our whole hearts, even though there is no guarantee…

----卸下我们的面具，让我们被看见，深入地被看见，即便是脆弱的面

 

And I can tell you as a parent, that’s excruciatingly difficult

---- excruciatingly 极其痛苦地，难以忍受地 (if you describe something as excruciating, you are emphasizing that it is extremely painful, either physically or emotionally.)

----我也可以告诉你，作为一名家长，这个非常难

 

To practice gratitude and joy

----带着一颗感恩的心，保持快乐

 

In those moments of terror

---- in + moments

---- moments of

---- terror 恐怖活动，使人恐惧的事物

 

Can I be this fiece about this?

---- be this + adj

---- fiece 凶猛的，狂热的；狂热地，激烈地

---- 我能否如此矢志不渝

 

Just to be able to stop and, instead of catastrophizing what might happen

• ----catastrophize [kə'tæstrəfaiz] 小题大做

---- 消极的时候能够打住，而非一味地幻想事情会如何变得更糟

 

Because to feel this vulnerable means I’m alive.

 

Is to believe that we’re enough

----相信我们已经做得足够好了

 

Because when we work from a place, I believe, that says “I’m enough”

----因为我相信当我们在一个让人觉得“我已经足够好了”的环境中打拼时

 

Then we stop screaming and start listening, we’re kinder and gentler to the people around us, and we’re kinder and gentler to ourselves.

----然后我们停止歇斯底里并开始倾听，对身边的人更友善更温和，我们对自己也会更友善更温和。