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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. 不快乐的，不高兴的
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- When I learned, some years ago, that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful,
- 当我多年前听说作家们必须有极其不幸的童年才能取得成功的时候，
- I began to think about how I could invent horrible things my parents had done to me.
- 我开始思考如何捏造一些我父母对我做过的恶行。
- But the truth is that I had a very happy childhood, full of laughter and love, in a very close-knit family.
- 但是事实上，我的童年非常愉快，充满了欢笑和关爱，也有着一个非常亲密的家庭。
- But I also had grandfathers who died in refugee camps.
- 但我也有在难民营中死去的祖父。
- My cousin Polle died because he could not get adequate healthcare.
- 我的表兄Polle因为无法得到充足的医疗而去世。
- One of my closest friends, Okoloma, died in a plane crash because our fire trucks did not have water.
- 我最亲近的朋友之一Okoloma，死于一场飞机失事，因为我们的消防车中没有水。
- I grew up under repressive military governments that devalued education,
- 我在不重视教育、充满压迫性的军权政府下长大，
- so that sometimes, my parents were not paid their salaries.
- 以致于我的父母有时根本拿不到他们的工资。
- And so, as a child, I saw jam disappear from the breakfast table,
- 因此，年少的我目睹果酱从早餐桌上消失，
- then margarine disappeared, then bread became too expensive, then milk became rationed.
- 随后黄油也消失了，面包变得无比昂贵，牛奶需要限量供应。
- And most of all, a kind of normalized political fear invaded our lives.
- 最重要的是，政治恐惧成了我们生活中习以为常的一部分。
- All of these stories make me who I am.
- 所有这些故事都塑造了我。
- But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me.
- 但如果我仅仅关注这些悲观的故事，那么我就简化了我的生命历程，并且忽视了许多其他同样塑造了我的故事。
- The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.
- 单一的故事衍生单一的传统典型。而这些以偏概全的想法所存在的问题，并不是在于它们不真实，而是在于它们不完整。
- They make one story become the only story.
- 它们将一个故事转变成了唯一的故事。
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