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JUDY WOODRUFF: Each week on Brief But Spectacular, we invite you to walk in the shoes of someone new. Tonight's episode features author Malcolm Gladwell, who tells us what to look for when meeting someone for the first time. His latest book is called Talking to Strangers. Gladwell also hosts the podcast Revisionist History.
MALCOLM GLADWELL, Author: What I learned about our encounters with strangers is that we're in too much of a hurry, that we seize on what available evidence is out there and jump to conclusions, and we are probably not as aware as we should be about how many mistakes we make in that process. Every time you meet someone new, there is a thrill of anticipation. You're presented with a puzzle, which is, who is this person, what do they want, what are they like, what motivates them? It's easy to create the illusion of intimacy and create the illusion that you understand the person that you're talking to. But you should be careful, because you probably don't. When a judge confronts a defendant in an attempt to decide whether they should be given bail or not, how good are they at making that judgment? They're trying to predict, is the person so dangerous that they shouldn't be released, or so not dangerous that they should? And what you discover in that moment is that judges do a very bad job of that. And that's because they're human beings, and human beings doing a bad job of summing up in a one-minute confrontation with a, between a defendant and a judge. The judge doesn't nearly have enough material to make a reasonable and accurate assessment. I think we should be aware that an awful lot of what we consider to be conflict in the world is not conflict. It's misunderstanding. The story of Sandra Bland may be the most heartbreaking of that series of high-profile encounters between African-Americans and law enforcement. She's the young woman from Chicago who is in a small town in Texas and pulled over by a police officer. She was distressed, and he thought she was dangerous. Those are two extremely different emotions with very, very different consequences.
SANDRA BLAND, Chicago Resident: Why am I being apprehended? You just opened my car door. You just opened my car door. So, you're going to, you're threatening to drag me out of my own car?
MAN: Get out of the car!
MALCOLM GLADWELL: She was the furthest thing from a threat to him. But he perceived her that way. It ended in tragedy. We have an enormous amount of curiosity about the people we're meeting. That's what drives us to try and reach conclusions about them. And I don't mean to temper that curiosity. I mean to extend it. We have to find ways, not to replace the human judgment, but to assist it. And we're starting to do that with things like artificial intelligence, which are just ways of helping human beings correct for some of their biases. We are trusting engines. And that's a good thing. And that's an easy thing for me to accept, because I grew up in Southern Ontario in the '70s. Very easy if you grew up in Southern Ontario to accept the fundamental notion that we're better off trusting strangers. We have to slow down and take our time and be willing to consider the possibility that people are more complicated than we assume. My name is Malcolm Gladwell. This is my Brief But Spectacular take on talking to strangers.
JUDY WOODRUFF: You can find more Brief But Spectacular essays on our Web site. That's PBS.org/NewsHour/Brief.
重点解析
1.too much of 太过
She realizes now she expected too much of Helen.
现在她意识到自己对海伦的期望太高了 。
2.jump to conclusions 妄下结论
I didn't want her to jump to the conclusion that the divorce was in any way her fault
我不想让她草率地断定离婚完全是她的错 。
3.in an attempt to 企图
I poured my thoughts out on paper in an attempt to rationalize my feelings.
为了对自己的感情作出合理的解释,我把想法全都写在纸上 。
4.pull over 停靠路边
Police pulled over his Mercedes near Dieppe.
警察在迪耶普附近让他将自己的梅赛德斯车停靠路边 。
5.a thrill of 喜悦
The news sent a thrill of joy to my heart.
这消息使我感到一阵喜悦 。
参考译文
朱迪·伍德拉夫:每一期《简单而精彩》,我们都会带领大家去体会他人的别样人生
。今晚的主人公是马尔科姆·格拉德威尔 。他将讲述在第一次遇到某个人的时候看些什么 。马尔科姆·格拉德威尔最近的一本书叫《与陌生人交谈》 。格拉德威尔也是《修正主义历史》博客的主持人 。马尔科姆·格拉德威尔,作家:我从与陌生人邂逅中学到的是——我们太匆忙了,以至于我们根据随手看到听到的证据就妄下结论
桑德拉·布兰德,芝加哥居民:为什么要逮捕我?你刚才打开了我的车门 。你打开了我的车门 。所以,你是要——你是要威胁着把我拖出我的车?
男:下车!
马尔科姆·格拉德威尔:桑德拉对这名警官来说根本不是一种威胁
。但这名警官将桑德拉视为一种威胁 。这个故事以悲剧结束 。我们对于陌生人有着很大的好奇心 。因此,我们试着对陌生人下结论 。我不是说这种好奇心有什么不好,我只是想扩大这种好奇心的范畴 。我们必须要寻找一些方法来帮助我们做判断,而不是要做出“人类惯有的草率判断” 。我们开始用人工智能等工具来做这样的判断,这些都是帮助人类纠正偏见的工具 。我们相信引擎,这是好事 。我也很容易接受这种现象,因为我是70年代在安大略南部长大的 。如果你在这里长大,你也很容易就能接受一种基本的理念——我们更容易相信陌生人 。我们必须要放下脚步,慢慢来,我们要接受一种可能性——人是复杂的,比我们想的要复杂 。我是马尔科姆·格拉德威尔,这是我本期分享的与陌生人交谈有关的《简短而精彩》 。朱迪·伍德拉夫:更多节目,可戳官网PBS.org/NewsHour/Brief
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