TED演讲:大爱无疆 爱本无条件(12)

 So the shorthand is five parents of four children in three states. 五位父母，生了四个孩子，生活在三个不同的州。

And there are people who think that the existence of my family somehow undermines or weakens or damages their family. 当然有些人会认为，这样的家庭的存在，在某种程度上破坏或削弱，甚至损害了他们的家庭。

And there are people who think that families like mine shouldn't be allowed to exist. 也有些人认为像我们这样的家庭不应该被允许存在。

And I don't accept subtractive¹ models of love, only additive² ones. 我不接受消减中的爱，只求递增的爱。

And I believe that in the same way that we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, 同时我也相信，我们需要物种的多样性来确保地球可以延续下去，

so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness. 因此，我们需要这种多样化的感情和家庭来强化仁慈的生物圈。

The day after our son was born, 在我们儿子出生后的第二天，

the pediatrician came into the hospital room and said she was concerned. 儿科医生走进病房说，她很担心。

He wasn't extending his legs appropriately. 他没有适当地伸展他的双腿。

She said that might mean that he had brain damage. 她说这可能意味着他有脑损伤。

In so far as he was extending them, he was doing so asymmetrically³, 当他伸腿时，又很不对称，

which she thought could mean that there was a tumor⁴ of some kind in action. 她以为这可能意味着有某种类型的肿瘤。

And he had a very large head, which she thought might indicate hydrocephalus. 他的头非常大，她认为这可能意味着他有脑积水。

And as she told me all of these things, 当她告诉我这些事情的时候，

I felt the very center of my being pouring out onto the floor. 我觉得我的身体要倒下去似的。

And I thought, here I had been working for years on a book about how much meaning people had found in the experience of parenting children who are disabled, 我想，我花很多年写的书，关于人们养育残疾子女的经验给他们带来了怎样的意义，

and I didn't want to join their number. 但我还是不想加入他们，

Because what I was encountering was an idea of illness. 我想到的是疾病。

And like all parents since the dawn of time, 就像所有的父母那样，从孩子出生那刻起，

I wanted to protect my child from illness. 我想要我的孩子健康。

And I wanted also to protect myself from illness. 同时我也想自己远离疾病。

1 subtractive   

adj.负的；减法的

参考例句：

• The result is a subtractive number.结果是负数。
• Complementary to the three additive light primaries,there are three subtractive primaries.与加色法三原色互为补色的颜色为减色法三原色。

2 additive   

adj.附加的；n.添加剂

参考例句：

• Colour is often an additive in foods.颜料经常是各种食物中的添加物。
• Strict safety tests are carried out on food additives.对食品添加剂进行了严格的安全检测。

3 asymmetrically   

参考例句：

• They were asymmetrically arranged. 他们不对称地排列在一起。 来自互联网
• A continent lying chiefly within the Antarctic Circle and asymmetrically centered on the South Pole. 主要位于南极圈内，以南极为不对称中心的大陆。 来自互联网

4 tumor   

n.（肿）瘤，肿块(英)tumour

参考例句：

• He was died of a malignant tumor.他死于恶性肿瘤。
• The surgeons irradiated the tumor.外科医生用X射线照射那个肿瘤。