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演讲简介：
正常和发疯之间是否有明确的界限呢？在这个毛骨悚然的演讲里，Jon Ronson，《精神病测试》的作者，为我们揭开了正常和发疯之间的灰色地带。
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- I began to yawn uncontrollably around Kempton Park,
- 我开始控制不住在坎普顿公园附近打哈欠
- which apparently is what dogs also do when anxious -- they yawn uncontrollably.
- 显然，当狗在焦虑的时候，也会情不自禁地打哈欠
- And we got to Broadmoor.
- 之后就到了布罗德莫精神病院
- And I got taken through gate after gate after gate after gate into the wellness center,
- 然后我又不停地穿过一道又一道又一道的大门，这才进到健康中心那儿
- which is where you get to meet the patients.
- 在那里你才能和病人会面
- It looks like a giant Hampton Inn.
- 它看起来就像大型的汉普顿酒店
- It's all peach and pine and calming colors.
- 到处都是桃子菠萝和让人宁静的颜色
- And the only bold colors are the reds of the panic buttons.
- 唯一比较大胆的颜色则是应急按钮上的红色
- And the patients started drifting in.
- 然后病人开始挪进来
- And they were quite overweight and wearing sweatpants and quite docile looking.
- 他们看起来很笨重，穿着宽松的裤子，倒是挺温顺的样子
- And Brian the Scientologist whispered to me, "They're medicated,"
- 科学论派学者Brian低声跟我说，他们这是服药后的效果
- which to the Scientologists is like the worst evil in the world,
- 对于科学论派的人来说，这简直就是最残忍的魔鬼
- but I'm thinking it's probably a good idea.
- 我倒不觉得是件坏事
- And then Brian said, "Here's Tony."
- 然后Brian说，“Tony来了。”
- And a man was walking in.
- 然后有个男人走了进来
- And he wasn't overweight, he was in very good physical shape.
- 他看起来并不笨重，身材还挺不错
- And he wasn't wearing sweatpants, he was wearing a pinstriped suit.
- 也没有穿宽松的裤子，他穿着带有细条纹的西服
- And he had his arm outstretched like someone out of The Apprentice.
- 他张开双臂，像《飞黄腾达》里的人一样
- He looked like a man who wanted to wear an outfit that would convince me that he was very sane.
- 他看起来像是想在着装方面显得得体的人，这样似乎会让我相信他是正常人
- And he sat down.
- 然后他坐下来
- And I said, "So is it true that you faked your way in here?"
- 我说，“你是在这里装疯的对吧？”
- And he said, "Yep. Yep. Absolutely. I beat someone up when I was 17.
- 他说，“对，绝对是。我在17岁的时候把别人打伤了
- And I was in prison awaiting trial,
- 之后在监狱里等待审判
- and my cellmate said to me, 'You know what you have to do?
- 我的狱友跟我说，你知道你得做些什么吗
- Fake madness.
- 装疯
- Tell them you're mad. You'll get sent to some cushy hospital.
- 告诉他们你疯了，你就会被送到某间舒适的医院
- Nurses will bring you pizzas.
- 护士会给你带来比萨饼
- You'll have your own Playstation.'"
- 你会有自己的PS游戏机。”
- So I said, "Well how did you do it?"
- 我又说，“那你是怎么做的？”
- He said, "I asked to see the prison psychiatrist.
- 他说，“我要求去见监狱里的精神病专家
- And I'd just seen a film called 'Crash' in which people get sexual pleasure from crashing cars into walls.
- 而且我又看过《冲击效应》这部电影，电影里的人用车去撞墙以获得性快感
- So I said to the psychiatrist, 'I get sexual pleasure from crashing cars into walls.'"
- 所以我跟精神病专家说，我通过开车撞墙活得性快感。”
- And I said, "What else?"
- 我说，“还有吗？”
- He said, "Oh, yeah. I told the psychiatrist that I wanted to watch women as they died
- 他说，“哦对了，我告诉那个精神病专家，我喜欢看女人死去
- because it would make me feel more normal."
- 因为这让我觉得我比较正常。”
- And I said, "Where'd you get that from?"
- 我说，“你这是从哪学来的？”
- He said, "Oh, from a biography of Ted Bundy that they had at the prison library."
- 他说，“哦，从Ted Bundy（连环杀手）的自传，监狱图书馆里有这本书。”
- Anyway he faked madness too well, he said.
- 总之，他说他装得太像了
- And they didn't send him to some cushy hospital.
- 结果他们没把他送到某间舒适的医院
- They sent him to Broadmoor.
- 反而送到了布罗德莫精神病院
- And the minute he got there, he said he took one look at the place, asked to see the psychiatrist,
- 他到这里的那一刻，他说他看了下四周的环境，然后要求去见精神病医生
- said, "There's been a terrible misunderstanding. I'm not mentally ill."
- 说，“这当中有着难以解释的误会，我并没有任何精神疾病。”
- I said, "How long have you been here for?"
- 我问，“你在这待了多长时间了？”
- He said, "Well, if I'd just done my time in prison for the original crime, I'd have got five years.
- 他说，“唉，如果我只在狱中服刑的话，我只要待五年
- I've been in Broadmoor for 12 years."
- 但我在布罗德莫精神病院已经12年了。”
- Tony said that it's a lot harder to convince people you're sane
- Tony说，要使别人相信你是正常人是十分困难的
- than it is to convince them you're crazy.
- 而使别人相信你疯了则简单得多
- He said, "I thought the best way to seem normal
- 他说，“要显得正常，我觉得最好的方法
- would be to talk to people normally about normal things like football or what's on TV.
- 就是和他人正常地交谈，聊一聊正常的事物，像足球或电视上的事情
- I subscribe to New Scientist,
- 我有订阅《新科学家》这份杂志
- and recently it had an article about how the U.S. Army was training bumblebees to sniff out explosives.
- 最近他们发表了一篇文章，关于美国军队训练大黄蜂来侦查爆炸物的
- So I said to a nurse, 'Did you know that the U.S. army is training bumblebees to sniff out explosives?'
- 然后我跟护士说，你知道美国军队正在训练大黄蜂来侦查爆炸物吗
- When I read my medical notes, I saw they'd written:
- 当我看到我的医疗记录时，我看到他们写到
- 'Believes bees can sniff out explosives.'"
- “相信蜜蜂能侦查爆炸物”
- He said, "You know, they're always looking out for non-verbal clues to my mental state.
- 他说，“你知道，他们总是在寻找非言语的线索来判断我的心理状态
- But how do you sit in a sane way?
- 但你是如何用正常人的方式坐的？
- How do you cross your legs in a sane way?
- 你又如何用正常人的方式翘脚的？
- It's just impossible."
- 这简直就是天荒夜谈。”
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| original | [ə'ridʒənl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| impossible | [im'pɔsəbl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| apprentice | [ə'prentis] | 联想记忆 | ||
| psychiatrist | [sai'kaiətrist] | |||
| trial | ['traiəl] | |||
| bold | [bəuld] | |||
| calming | ||||
| biography | [bai'ɔgrəfi] | 联想记忆 | ||
| misunderstanding | ['misʌndə'stændiŋ] | |||
| docile | ['dəusail] | 联想记忆 |
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