2021年TED英语演讲：这才是爱情应有的样子.pdfVIP

2021年TED英语演讲：这才是爱情应有的样子--第1页 今天为大家收集整理了关于TED 英语演讲这才是爱情应有的样子,希望大 家会喜欢,同时也希望给你们带来一些参考的作用! A better way to talk about love OK, so today I want to talk about how wetalk about love. And specifically, I want to talk about whats wrong with howwe talk about love. 今天我想谈谈我们是如何谈论爱情的。我尤其想和你们聊的是，我们谈论 爱情时到底哪里出错了。 Most of us will probably fall in love a fewtimes over the course of our lives, and in the English language, this metaphor,falling, is really the main way that we talk about that experience. I dontknow about you, but when I conceptualize this metaphor, what I picture isstraight out of a cartoon like theres a man, hes walking down the sidewalk, withoutrealizing it, he crosses over an open manhole, and he just plu ets into thesewer below. And I picture it this way because falling is not jumping. Fallingis accidental, its uncontrollable. Its something that happens to us withoutour consent. And this this is the main way we talk about starting a new relationship. 我们大多数人在一生中可能深爱过几次，在英语中，坠入爱河这个比喻， 是我们谈论这段经历的主要方式。我不知道你是怎么想的，但是当我把这个比 喻概念化的时候，我脑海里浮现的是一幅漫画就像有一个人，他走在人行道 上，没有意识到自己走过一个打开的井盖，然后他就一头栽进下面的下水道 里。我会这么想是因为，坠落不是跳跃。坠落是偶然的，是无法控制的。是没 经过我们的同意就发生了，而这我们说到开始一段新的感情，主要就用的这种 方式去表达的。 I am a writer and Im also an Englishteacher, which means I think about words for a living. You could say that I getpaid to argue that the language we use matters, and I would like to argue thatmany of the metaphors we use to talk about love maybe even most ofthem are a problem. 我是一名作家，同时也是一位英语老师，这就意味着我以思考语言为生。 你可能会说，我们使用的语言很重要，我认为我们用来谈论爱情的许多隐喻甚 至可能是其中的大多数都是有问题的。 So, in love, we fall. Were struck. We arecrushed. We swoon. We burn with passion. Love makes us crazy, and it makes uss