听力文本

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 continental 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 prologue to dealing 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 kaleidoscopic 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。

演讲介绍

演讲者是纽约时报的专栏作者Anand Giridharadas，他在演讲中用一封信的形式讲述了这个时代人们的困惑，希望人们能够在这个瞬息万变的世界中把握好心态，不要因为先天的优势逐渐失去而产生怨恨，而应该用更加包容的，和谐的方式迎接未来。