TED英文演说-10种更好交谈的方法中英文演讲稿.pdfVIP

10 ways to have a better conversation Celeste Headlee All right, I want to see a show of hands: how many of you have unfriended someone on Facebook because they said something offensive about politics or religion, childcare, food? 好的，我想让大家举手示意一下，有多少人曾经在Facebook 上拉黑过好友，因 为他们发表过关于政治、宗教、儿童权益，或者食物等不恰当的言论？ And how many of you know at least one person that you avoid because you just dont want to talk to them? 有多少人至少有一个不想见的人，因为你就是不想和对方说话？ You know, it used to be that in order to have a polite conversation, we just had to follow the advice of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady: Stick to the weather and your health. But these days, with climate change and anti-vaxxing, those subjects —are not safe either. 要知道，在过去想要一段礼貌的交谈，我们只要遵循亨利·希金斯在《窈窕淑女》 中的忠告：只谈论天气和你的健康状况就行了。但这些年随着气候变化以及反对 疫苗运动的开展 ——这招也不怎么管用了。 So this world that we live in, this world in which every conversation has the potential to devolve into an argument, where our politicians cant speak to one another and where even the most trivial of issues have someone fighting both passionately for it and against it, its not normal. 因此，在我们生活的这个世界，这个每一次交谈都有可能发展为争论的世界，政 客无法彼此交谈，甚至为那些鸡毛蒜皮的事情都有人群情激昂地赞成或反对，这 太不正常了。 Pew Research did a study of 10,000 American adults, and they found that at this moment, we are more polarized, we are more divided, than we ever have 第 1 页 been in history. Were less likely to compromise,which means were not listening to each other. And we make decisions about where to live, who to marry and even who our friends are going to be, based on what we already believe. 皮尤研究中心对一万名美国成年人做了一次调查，发现此刻我们的偏激程度，我 们立场鲜明的程度，比历史上任何时期都要高。我们更不倾向于妥协，这意味着 我们没有倾听彼此。我们做的各种决定、选择生活在何处、与谁结婚甚至和谁交 朋友，都只基于我们已有的信念。 Again, that means were not listening to each other. A conversation req