TED中英官方演讲稿-iOTillettWright_2012X“对半开”的同性恋.docxVIP

1.Human beings start putting each other into boxes the second that they see each other -- Is that person dangerous? Are they attractive? 人们在看到别人的那一刻起 就把对方装进了不同的盒子—— 他（她）危险么？有吸引力么？2.Are they a potential mate? Are they a potential networking opportunity? 有可能交往么？有扩充人脉的可能么？3.We do this little interrogation when we meet people to make a mental resume for them. 我们在遇见他人的时候都会这样 在脑海中为他（她）建立一个档案。4.Whats your name? Where are you from? 你叫什么名字？来自哪里？5.How old are you? What do you do? 多大了？做什么的？6.Then we get more personal with it. 然后是更私人的问题。7.Have you ever had any diseases? 得过什么病么？8.Have you ever been divorced? 离过婚么？9.Does your breath smell bad while youre answering my interrogation right now? 跟我说话的时候有口臭么？10.What are you into? Who are you into? 你喜欢什么？你喜欢什么人？11.What gender do you like to sleep with? 你喜欢同性还是异性？12.I get it. 我明白了。13.We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. 我们的神经系统就已经决定了 我们会寻找跟我们自身相似的人。14.We start forming cliques as soon as were old enough to know what acceptance feels like. 从我们刚知道被人认可的感觉时 就开始建立自己的小团体。15.We bond together based on anything that we can -- music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on. 任何可能的特征都可以把我们联系起来—— 音乐喜好、种族、性别、成长的地方。16.We seek out environments that reinforce our personal choices. 我们在寻找那种强化我们个人选择的环境。17.Sometimes, though, just the question what do you do? 虽然，仅仅是“你是做什么的”这个问题18.can feel like somebodys opening a tiny little box and asking you to squeeze yourself inside of it. 就让你觉得别人打开了一个小盒子 要求你把自己塞进去。19.Because the categories, Ive found, are too limiting. 因为这种放进盒子中的分类，太局限了，20.The boxes are too narrow. 盒子太狭隘了，21.And this can get really dangerous. 因此这真的很危险。22.So heres a disclaimer about me, though, before we get too deep into this. 所以现在在我们更深入的讨论之前， 我要说说我自己。23.I grew up in a very sheltered environment. 我在一个受庇护的环境中长大。24.I was raised in downtown Manhattan in the early 1980s, two blocks from the epicenter of punk music. 我一九八零年