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TED
英语演讲：故事的真相是什么



好的故事往往容 易麻痹人们的思想，
给人制造一种幻象，
好像这
个世界因为它们变得更好了，
但真实的情况却不是我们想象中那样的。
那么真相是什么呢
?
什么才能真正帮助我们让 世界变得更好呢
?
让我
们从她诙谐又深刻的演讲中找寻答案吧。
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TED
英语演讲：故事的真相是什么，欢迎借鉴参考。



故事的真相是什么
?


演讲者：
Sisonke Msimang


So earlier this year, I was informed that Iwould be doing
a
TED
Talk.
So
I
was
excited,
then
I
panicked,
then
I
wasexcited,
then
I
panicked,
and
in
between
the
excitement
and
the
panicking,
Istarted
to
do
my
research,
and
my
research
primarily
consisted
of Googling howto give a great TED Talk.


今年年初，

我被告知要发表一场
TED
的演说。
一开始我很兴奋，
然后变成紧张，然后又很兴奋，然后又很紧张，

就在兴奋与紧张之
间，

我开始进行一些研究，

我的研究主要是用
Google
搜寻：如何
发表一场完美的
TED
演说。



And
interspersed
with
that,
I
was
GooglingChimamanda
Ngozi
Adichie. How many of you know who that is?


在这个过程中 ，
我也查询了奇玛曼达
.
恩格兹
.
阿迪契。
有多少人
知道她是谁吗
?

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So I was Googling her because I alwaysGoogle her because
I'm just a fan, but also because she always has importantand
interesting things to say. And the combination of those
searches
keptleading me
to
her
talk on
the dangers
of a
single
story,
on
what
happens
whenwe
have
a
solitary
lens
through
which
to understand certain groups of people,and it is the perfect
talk.
It's
the
talk
that
I
would
have
given
if
I
had
beenfamous
first.


我
Google
了她因为我经常
Google
她，因为我是她的粉丝，而
且因为她总是讲了

重要又有趣的事情。所有搜寻 到的结果，总是把
我引导到她的演讲，
关于只听单一故事的危险性，
关于当我们只用一
种视角去观察某些特定群体的后果。
这是一场完美的演讲。
如果当初
是我先成 名的话，这就是我想进行的演讲。



You
know,
and
you
know,
like,
she's
Africanand
I'm
African,
and
she's
a
feminist
and
I'm
a
feminist,
and
she's
astoryteller
and I'm a storyteller, so I really felt like it's my talk.


你知道，
就像，
她是非洲人，< br>而我也是非洲人
;
她是女权主义者，
而我也是女权主义者
;
她讲故事，而我也讲故事
;
所以我真的认为那
是我的演讲。



So
I
decided
that
I
was
going
to
learn
howto
code,
and
then
I was going to hack the internet and I would take down allthe
copies
of
that
talk
that
existed,
and
then
I
would
memorize
it,

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and then Iwould come here and deliver it as if it was my own
speech. So that plan wasgoing really well, except the coding
part, and then one morning a few monthsago, I woke up to the
news
that
the
wife
of
a
certain
presidential
candidatehad
given
a speech that --that sounded eerily like a speech given byone
of my other faves, Michelle Obama.


所以我决定学习写程序，
然后去入侵因特网，
把所有这场演讲的
影片全部删除，
然后我会把演讲内容背熟，
然后就把它当成自己的演
讲说出来 。整个计划进行得非常成功，除了写程序的部分之外
;
直到
在几个月前的一个早上，当 我醒来时，看到一则新闻当中，某位总统
候选人的太太发表了一场演说──感觉很诡异，
听起来 像是另一个我
喜欢的人在演讲，米歇尔
.
欧巴马。



And
so
I
decided
that
I
should
probablywrite
my
own
TED
Talk,
and so that is what I am here to do. I'm here to talkabout my
own
observations
about
storytelling.
I
want
to
talk
to
you
about
thepower of stories, of course, but I also want to talk about
their limitations,particularly for those of us who are
interested in social justice.


于是我决定应该写一篇自己的
TED
演讲稿，这就是我现在要做
的。我要 说的是自己对于「说故事」的观察。当然，我会告诉你故事
的力量，但是我也想谈它的局限性，

特别是对于我们之中，某些关
注社会正义的人。


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So since Adichie gave that talk seven yearsago, there has
been a boom in storytelling. Stories are everywhere, and
ifthere
was
a
danger
in
the
telling
of
one
tired
old
tale,
then
I think there hasgot to be lots to celebrate about the
flourishing of so many stories and somany voices. Stories are
the antidote to bias. In fact, today, if you aremiddle class
and connected via the internet, you can download stories at
thetouch of a button or the swipe of a screen.


自从七年前阿迪契的演讲之后，
说故事形成 一股风潮。
到处都是
故事，虽然这可能是老生常谈，但我还是认为能有这么多的故事，能
有这么多的声音出现，是很值得庆祝的事。故事是偏见的解药。实际
上，如今，如果你属于中产阶级， 而且能连上因特网，你可以下载很
多故事，只需要按下鼠标按钮，或是滑动触控屏幕。



You
can
listen to
a
podcast
aboutwhat
it's like
to grow
up
Dalit in Kolkata. You can hear an indigenous man inAustralia
talk about the trials and triumphs of raising his children in
dignityand in pride. Stories make us fall in love. They heal
rifts and they bridgedivides. Stories can even make it easier
for us to talk about the deaths ofpeople in our societies who
don't matter, because they make us care. Right?


你可以藉由收听
Podcast
，

了解加尔各答地区的

贱民阶层如何
生活。

你可以听到澳洲的原住民谈论关于教育出端庄、

具有自尊的

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孩子，

所需要进行的尝试与成功经验。

故事让我们相爱。

故事能
治愈裂痕，
弭平分歧。

故事甚至能让我们更容易

谈论社会上某些市
井小民的死亡，因为故事让我们关注这些事。

对吗
?


I'm
not
so
sure,
and
I
actually
work
for
aplace
called
the
Centre for Stories. And my job is to help to tell stories
thatchallenge mainstream narratives about what it means to be
black
or
a Muslim
ora refugee
or
any of
those
other
categories
that we talk about all the time.


我不是很确定，

事实上我在一个叫「故事中心」的地方工作。
我的工作是帮助人们

说出一些挑战主流论述的故事，例如我们经常
讨论的议题：身为黑人，穆斯林，难民

以及其他族群，背后所代表
的含意。



But I come to this work after a long history as a s


ocial
justice
activist,
and
soI'm
really
interested
in
the
ways that people talk about nonfictionstorytelling as though
it's about more than entertainment, as though it's aboutbeing
a
catalyst
for
social
action.
It's
not
uncommon
to
hear
people
say thatstories make the world a better place. Increasingly,
though, I worry that eventhe most poignant stories,
particularly the stories about people who no oneseems to care
about, can often get in the way of action towards social
, this is not because storytellers mean any harm.

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但是我接手这份工作，
是在我长期从事社会正义行动之后，
而且
让我非常感兴趣的，
是人们在谈论
「纪实故事」
时所持的态度和方式，
认为它不只是娱乐，

认为它是社会行动的催化剂。

我们常听到人们
说：故事能让世界更美好。不过我开始担心：

即使是最让人感动的
故事，

特别是那些市井小民的故事，也经常会妨碍到社会正义的进
行。

这不是因为说故事的人故意要造成伤害。



Quite
the
contrary.
Storytellersare
often
do-gooders
like
me
and,
I
suspect,
yourselves.
And
the
audiences
ofstorytellers
are often deeply compassionate and empathetic people. Still,
goodintentions
can
have
unintended
consequences,
and
so
I
want
to
propose
thatstories
are
not
as
magical
as
they
seem.
So
three
-- because it's always got tobe three -- three reasons why I
think that stories don't necessarily make theworld a better
place.


恰恰相反，

说故事的人通常是想要做好事的人，

例如我，以及
在座的你们。

而听故事的人

通常也是充满热情和同情心的人。
但是，
好的动机也会导致

意想不到的后果，

所以我想强调的是，

说故事
并不像看起来那么神奇。

有三个原因，
总是要有三个──

我认为有
三个原因，故事不一定会让世界变得更好。



Firstly, stories can create an illusion ofsolidarity.
There is nothing like that feel- good factor you get from
listeningto a fantastic story where you feel like you climbed

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that mountain, right, orthat you befriended that death row
inmate.
But
you
didn't.
You
haven't
doneanything.
Listening
is
an important but insufficient step towards socialaction.


首先，故事能产生一种

「共同一致」的幻觉。

没有其他东西能
够像

听了奇幻故事一样，

能带给你更好的感觉了
;
就彷佛是你自己
征服了那座山，是的。或者是你和一位死刑犯成为朋友。

但是你并
没有真的去做。

你没有完成任何事。

倾听故事是很重要的一步，

但
对于社会行动来说，仍然不足够。



Secondly,
I
think
often
we
are
drawntowards
characters
and
protagonists who are likable and human. And this makessense,
of course, right? Because if you like someone, then you care
about the inverse is also true. If you don't like
someone, then you don't careabout them. And if you don't care
about them, you don't have to see yourself ashaving a moral
obligation to think about the circumstances that shaped
theirlives.


第二，
我认为人们经常会被

那些令人喜爱、
具有人性化的

角色
和主人公所吸引。

而且这也符合常理，是不是
?
因 为如果你喜欢他
们，你自然就会关心他们。但反之亦然。如果你不喜欢他们，你自然
也不会关心 他们。如果你不关心他们，你自然也不会认为

自己负有
道义责任，去思考那些人周遭的生活环境。



I
learned
this
lesson
when
I
was
14
yearsold.
I
learned
that

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