TED演讲:献给所有迷失在这个时代的人(5)

 I heard all of these things, but I didn't listen. 这些事都经过了我的耳朵，可惜我没有去仔细倾听。

I looked but didn't see. I read, didn't understand. 我看了，但是没看见。我读了，可是没理解。

I paid attention only when you began to vote and shout, 只有当你们去投票，去喊叫，只有当事情本身开始

and when your voting and shouting, when the substance of it, began to threaten me. 威胁到我自身的时候，我才会去注意到。

I listened only when you moved toward shattering continental¹ unions and electing vulgar demagogues. 只有当你们前往各处大陆工会，当你们成为选举煽动者的时候，我才会真正听见。

Only then did your pain become of interest to me. 只有到那时候，你们的痛苦才能被我注意。

I know that feeling hurt is often prologue² to dealing³ hurt. 我知道感到难受经常是解决问题序幕。

I wonder now if you would be less eager to deal it 我在想，若现在我和你们身处同一战线，

if I had stood with you when you merely felt it. 而你仅仅是感觉到了，你们会因此就不想去处理它吗？

I ask myself why I didn't stand with you then. 我质问自己，为什么没有和你站在一起。

One reason is that I became entranced by the gurus of change, 一个原因是我着迷于改变，

became a worshiper of the religion of the new for novelty's sake, 为了创新成为新新事物理念，

and of globalization and open borders and kaleidoscopic⁴ diversity. 成为全球化和开放性，成为多样性的拥护者。

Once change became my totalizing faith, I could be blind. 一旦“改变”成为了我的信仰，我就开始变得盲目。

1 continental   

adj.大陆的，大陆性的，欧洲大陆的

参考例句：

• A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
• The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。

2 prologue   

n.开场白，序言；开端，序幕

参考例句：

• A poor wedding is a prologue to misery.不幸的婚姻是痛苦的开始。
• The prologue to the novel is written in the form of a newspaper account.这本小说的序言是以报纸报道的形式写的。

3 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

4 kaleidoscopic   

adj.千变万化的

参考例句：

• London is a kaleidoscopic world.伦敦是个天花筒般的世界。
• The transfer of administrative personnel in that colony was so frequent as to create kaleidoscopic effect.在那个殖民地，官员调动频繁，就象走马灯似的。