TED演讲:网络暴力的失控(11)

So the other night -- yesterday -- we were at dinner, and there were two discussions going on.

昨晚我们一起吃饭时，有两个讨论在同时进行。

On one side you were talking with people around the table -- and that was a nice, constructive¹ discussion.

一个发生在你和同桌其他人之间--这个讨论气氛良好、很有建设性。

On the other, every time you turned to your phone, there is this deluge² of insults. Yeah.

另一个讨论发生在你的手机里，满眼污言秽语。没错。

This happened last night. We had like a TED³ dinner last night.

这事儿发生在昨晚的TED晚宴上。

We were chatting and it was lovely and nice, and I decided⁴ to check Twitter.

我们在聊天，气氛融洽，然后我就去查看推特。

Somebody said, "You are a white supremacist."

有人说：“你是个白人至上者。”

And then I went back and had a nice conversation with somebody,

然后我回到餐桌，和某人愉快地交谈了一会儿，

and then I went back to Twitter, somebody said my very existence made the world a worse place.

再次打开推特，又有人说我的存在让这个世界变得更糟糕了。

My friend Adam Curtis says that maybe the Internet is like a John Carpenter movie from the 1980s,

我朋友亚当·柯蒂斯说也许网络就像80年代约翰·卡彭特的电影，

when eventually everyone will start screaming at each other and shooting each other,

最终人人都声嘶力竭地开始对骂，掏出枪来开始对射，

and then eventually everybody would flee to somewhere safer,

直到最后人人都逃去一个更安全的地方，

and I'm starting to think of that as a really nice option. Jon, thank you. Thank you, Bruno.

我在想那的确是一个不错的选择。乔恩，谢谢你。谢谢你，布鲁诺。

1 constructive   

adj.建设的，建设性的

参考例句：

• We welcome constructive criticism.我们乐意接受有建设性的批评。
• He is beginning to deal with his anger in a constructive way.他开始用建设性的方法处理自己的怒气。

2 deluge   

n./vt.洪水，暴雨，使泛滥

参考例句：

• This little stream can become a deluge when it rains heavily.雨大的时候，这条小溪能变作洪流。
• I got caught in the deluge on the way home.我在回家的路上遇到倾盆大雨。

3 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

4 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。