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演讲简介：
我们的生活，我们的文化，往往是不同故事的交集。小说家Chimamanda Adichie讲述了一个她寻求自己真实的文化嗓音的故事，并且告诫我们：如果我们只去聆听关于一个人、一个国家的单一故事，将会导致非常严重的误解。
adj. 复杂的，复合的，合成的
n. 复合体
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- Then one Saturday, we went to his village to visit,
- 后来的一个星期六，我们去Fide的村庄拜访，
- and his mother showed us a beautifully patterned basket made of dyed raffia that his brother had made.
- 她的母亲向我们展示了一个精美别致的草篮--是Fide的哥哥用染过色的酒椰叶编织的。
- I was startled. It had not occurred to me that anybody in his family could actually make something.
- 我当时完全被震惊了。我从来没有想过Fide的家人居然有亲手制造东西的才能。
- All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor.
- 在那之前，我对Fide家唯一的了解就是他们是何等的穷苦，正因为如此，他们在我脑中的印象只是一个字──“穷”。
- Their poverty was my single story of them.
- 他们的贫穷是我赐予他们的单一故事。
- Years later, I thought about this when I left Nigeria to go to university in the United States.
- 多年之后，在我离开尼日利亚前往美国读大学的时候，我又想到了这件事。
- I was 19. My American roommate was shocked by me.
- 我那时19岁。我的美国室友当时完全对我感到十分惊讶了。
- She asked where I had learned to speak English so well,
- 她问我是从哪里学得讲一口如此流利的英语，
- and was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its official language.
- 而当我告知她尼日利亚刚巧是以英语作为官方语言的时候，她的脸上则是写满了茫然。
- She asked if she could listen to what she called my "tribal music,"
- 她问我是否可以给她听听她所谓的“部落音乐”。
- and was consequently very disappointed when I produced my tape of Mariah Carey.
- 可想而知，当我拿出玛丽亚凯莉的磁带时，她是何等的失望。
- She assumed that I did not know how to use a stove.
- 她断定我不知道如何使用电炉。
- What struck me was this: She had felt sorry for me even before she saw me.
- 我猛然意识到：在她见到我之间，她就已经对我充满了怜悯之心。
- Her default position toward me, as an African, was a kind of patronizing, well-meaning pity.
- 她对我这个非洲人的预设心态，是一种充满施恩与好意的怜悯之情。
- My roommate had a single story of Africa: a single story of catastrophe.
- 我那位室友的脑中有一个关与非洲的单一故事：一个充满了灾难的单一故事。
- In this single story, there was no possibility of Africans being similar to her in any way,
- 在这个单一故事中，非洲人是完全没有可能在任何方面和她有所相似的；
- no possibility of feelings more complex than pity, no possibility of a connection as human equals.
- 没有可能接受到比怜悯更复杂的感情；没有可能以一个平等的人类的身份与她沟通。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| complex | ['kɔmpleks] | 联想记忆 | ||
| assumed | [ə'sju:md] | |||
| confused | [kən'fju:zd] | |||
| stove | [stəuv] | |||
| catastrophe | [kə'tæstrəfi] | 联想记忆 | ||
| pity | ['piti] | |||
| impossible | [im'pɔsəbl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| consequently | ['kɔnsikwəntli] | |||
| disappointed | [.disə'pɔintid] | |||
| default | [di'fɔ:lt] | 联想记忆 |
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