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SharonBrous_2016W-_是时候让宗教重生了！_
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| I was a new mother and a young rabbi in the spring of 2004 and the world was in shambles . |
我曾经是一个新生儿的母亲 也是一位年轻的拉比（犹太人的学者） 在2004年春天的时候 也是世界一片混乱的时候 |
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rabbi:n.拉比(犹太人的学者);法师;犹太教律法专家;先生; shambles:v.蹒跚;拖着脚走;(shamble的第三人称单数)
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| Maybe you remember. |
我们都不会加以关注 |
| Every day, we heard devastating reports from the war in Iraq. |
每天我们都会收到关于战争在伊拉克带来毁灭性创伤的报道 |
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devastating:adj.毁灭性的; v.毁灭; (devastate的现在分词)
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| There were waves of terror rolling across the globe. |
曾经恐怖主义的浪潮也席卷了全世界 |
| It seemed like humanity was spinning out of control. |
这一切都让人觉得人类正处于失去控制的边缘 |
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humanity:n.人类;人道;仁慈;人文学科; spinning:n.纺纱(手艺):纺线v.(使)旋转:纺线:纺纱;(spin的现在分词)
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| I remember the night that I read about the series of coordinated bombings in the subway system in Madrid , and I got up and I walked over to the crib where my six-month-old baby girl lay sleeping sweetly , and I heard the rhythm of her breath, and I felt this sense of urgency coursing through my body. |
我还记得那天晚上 我读到发生在马德里地铁里的 连环式爆炸 然后我起身,走到婴儿床旁边 那里正沉睡着我六个月大的女儿 她睡的如此香甜 我听到了她呼吸的节奏 一种紧迫感包围了我 |
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series:n.系列,连续;[电]串联;级数;丛书; coordinated:v.使协调;使相配合;搭配,协调;(coordinate的过去分词和过去式) bombings:n.[军]轰炸,[军]投弹;v.轰击;引爆炸弹(bomb的ing形式); Madrid:n.马德里(西班牙首都); crib:n.饲料槽;圣诞马槽;夹带;住所;v.抄袭,剽窃 sweetly:adv.甜美地;温柔地;惬意地;讨人喜欢地; rhythm:n.节奏;韵律; urgency:n.紧急;催促;紧急的事;
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| We were living through a time of tectonic shifts in ideologies , in politics , in religion, in populations. |
我们正处于一个现实构造转换为思想意识的时代 无论是在政治方面,宗教方面,还是人口数量方面 |
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tectonic:adj.[地质]构造的;建筑的;地壳构造上的; shifts:n.转移; v.转移; (shift的第三人称单数) ideologies:意识形态; politics:n.政治;钩心斗角;政治观点;v.(贬)从事政治活动;(politic的第三人称单数)
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| Everything felt so precarious . |
所有事情都充满了未知的不确定性和危险性 |
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precarious:adj.危险的;不确定的;
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| And I remember thinking, "My God, what kind of world did we bring this child into? |
我从未忘记过思考 “上帝,我们到底把我们的孩子带到了怎样一个世界啊？” |
| And what was I as a mother and a religious leader willing to do about it? |
“我, 作为一个母亲和一个宗教领袖, 该为这种现况做些什么？“ |
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religious:adj.宗教的;虔诚的;严谨的;修道的;n.修道士;尼姑;
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| Of course, I knew it was clear that religion would be a principle battlefield in this rapidly changing landscape , and it was already clear that religion was a significant part of the problem. |
当然, 我很清楚 在这个快速发展变化的国际局势中 宗教问题就像是一个原则性的战场 同样已然明了的是 宗教已经成为一个非常敏感而重要的问题 |
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principle:n.原理,原则;主义,道义;本质,本义;根源,源泉; battlefield:n.战场;沙场;斗争的领域;容易引发冲突的情况 landscape:n.景观;乡村风景画;(文件的)横向打印格式;v.对…做景观美化;美化…的环境; significant:adj.重大的;有效的;有意义的;值得注意的;意味深长的;n.象征;有意义的事物;
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| The question for me was, could religion also be part of the solution ? |
然而我的问题是, 宗教能否同时成为解决方案的一部分呢？ |
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solution:n.解决方案;溶液;溶解;解答;
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| Now, throughout history, people have committed horrible crimes and atrocities in the name of religion. |
纵观历史上下 人们已经遭受了可怕的犯罪和暴行 以宗教为名义 |
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throughout:adv.自始至终,到处;全部;prep.贯穿,遍及; committed:adj.坚信的; v.做出错事; (commit的过去分词和过去式) horrible:可怕的,极讨厌的, atrocities:n.暴行(atrocity的复数);残忍; in the name of:以…的名义;
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| And as we entered the 21st century, it was very clear that religious extremism was once again on the rise. |
当我们步入21世纪的时候 宗教极端主义又开始盛行 |
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extremism:n.极端主义(尤指政治上的极右或极左);极端性;过激主义;
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| Our studies now show that over the course of the past 15, 20 years, hostilities and religion-related violence have been on the increase all over the world. |
如今我们的调查显示 在过去的15到20年中 不同宗教间的敌意和宗教导致的暴力事件的次数 在全世界范围内快速增长 |
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hostilities:n.战争;[心理]敌意(hostility的复数); violence:n.暴力;侵犯;激烈;歪曲; on the increase:正在增加,正在增长;
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| But we don't even need the studies to prove it, because I ask you, how many of us are surprised today when we hear the stories of a bombing or a shooting, |
但是我们甚至不需要用研究去证明 有多少人会感到惊讶当我问你 我们听到的爆炸或枪击事件 |
| when we later find out that the last word that was uttered before the trigger is pulled or the bomb is detonated is the name of God? |
我们听到的人们在扳机叩响或炸弹引爆前 留下的最后一句话 这一切的事情却都是以上帝的名义 |
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uttered:v.出声;说;讲(utter的过去分词和过去式) trigger:n.触发器; v.触发; detonated:vt.使爆炸;vi.引爆,爆炸;
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| It barely raises an eyebrow today when we learn that yet another person has decided to show his love of God by taking the lives of God's children. |
如今,当我们知晓有些人 通过夺取上帝的子孙的生命 来表明对上帝的崇敬与爱意 我们都不会加以关注 |
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barely:adv.仅仅,勉强;几乎不;公开地;贫乏地; eyebrow:n.眉;眉毛;
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| In America, religious extremism looks like a white, antiabortion Christian extremist walking into Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs and murdering three people. |
在美国,宗教极端主义 就像是一个反对堕胎的白种极端基督教徒 走进科泉市的计划生育处 谋杀了三个人 |
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antiabortion:adj.反对堕胎的;n.反对堕胎; extremist:n.极端主义者,过激分子; Parenthood:n.亲子关系;父母身份; Colorado:n.科罗拉多;[城]科罗拉多州;科罗拉多河;
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| It also looks like a couple inspired by the Islamic State walking into an office party in San Bernardino and killing 14. |
也像 一对受伊斯兰教鼓舞的夫妇 走进圣贝纳迪诺的党政办公室并且杀掉了14个人 |
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inspired:adj.受到启发的; v.鼓舞; (inspire的过去分词和过去式) Islamic:adj.穆斯林的;
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| And even when religion-related extremism does not lead to violence, it is still used as a political wedge issue , cynically leading people to justify the subordination of women, the stigmatization of LGBT people, racism , Islamophobia and anti-Semitism . |
甚至即使与宗教有关的极端主义没有导致暴力事件 也会导致政治上的分裂 比如人们对女性的从属地位的确定 对同性恋者的歧视 性别歧视,伊斯兰恐惧症和反犹太主义。 |
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wedge:vt.楔入;挤进;楔住;vi.楔入;挤进;n.楔子;楔形物;导致分裂的东西; issue:n.重要议题;争论的问题;v.宣布;公布;发出;发行; cynically:adv.爱嘲笑地;冷笑地; justify:v.证明合法;整理版面;替…辩护; subordination:n.从属;附属;主从关系; stigmatization:n.stigmatize的变形侮辱,谴责; racism:n.种族主义,种族歧视;人种偏见; anti-Semitism:n.反犹太主义;
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| This ought to concern deeply those of us who care about the future of religion and the future of faith . |
这些都值得引起 在乎宗教未来发展的人 和在乎未来信念寄托的人的深深的思考 |
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concern:v.涉及,关系到;使担心;n.关系;关心;关心的事; faith:n.信心;信任;宗教信仰;
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| We need to call this what it is: a great failure of religion. |
我们可以将现况称为 宗教史上最大的失败 |
| But the thing is, this isn't even the only challenge that religion faces today. |
但是重要的是,这并不是宗教所面临的唯一的问题 |
| At the very same time that we need religion to be a strong force against extremism, it is suffering from a second pernicious trend , what I call religious routine-ism. |
在我们需要宗教作为 抵抗极端主义的一股强大力量的同时 它正遭受着第二个致命的趋势 即被我称做宗教惯例化的趋势 |
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strong force:n.强力(宇宙四种基本力之一,将原子核各部分结合在一起); pernicious:adj.有害的;恶性的;致命的;险恶的; trend:n.趋势;动向;趋向;动态;v.走向;趋向;
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| This is when our institutions and our leaders are stuck in a paradigm that is rote and perfunctory , devoid of life, devoid of vision and devoid of soul. |
这种趋势就是我们的社会机构和领导者们 深陷于墨守成规 从而缺乏生命力,缺乏独特的视角 也缺乏基本的灵魂 |
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institutions:n.机构;慈善机构;风俗习惯,制度;(institution的复数) paradigm:n.范例;词形变化表; rote:n.死记硬背;生搬硬套; perfunctory:adj.敷衍的;马虎的;得过且过的; devoid:adj.缺乏的;全无的; vision:n.视力;美景;幻象;想象力;v.想象;显现;梦见;
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| Let me explain what I mean like this. |
接下来让我来解释我为什么这样说 |
| One of the great blessings of being a rabbi is standing under the chuppah , under the wedding canopy , with a couple, and helping them proclaim publicly and make holy the love that they found for one another. |
作为一位拉比,最大的幸福就是 与一对夫妇站在结婚的彩棚下 帮助他们把这喜讯公之于众 让他们对彼此的爱神圣化 |
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blessings:n.祝福(blessing复数); chuppah:(犹太教举行婚礼上用的)彩棚; canopy:n.天篷;华盖;遮篷;苍穹;vt.用天蓬遮盖;遮盖; proclaim:vt.宣告,公布;声明;表明;赞扬;
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| I want to ask you now, though, to think maybe from your own experience or maybe just imagine it about the difference between the intensity of the experience under the wedding canopy, and maybe the experience of the sixth or seventh anniversary. |
现在我请你们 想想你们自己的经历 或者只是想象 新婚站在彩棚下 和结婚16或17周年纪念日 发生概率的差别 |
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intensity:n.强度;强烈;[电子]亮度;紧张;
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| And if you're lucky enough to make it 16 or 17 years, if you're like most people, you probably wake up in the morning realizing that you forgot to make a reservation at your favorite restaurant and you forgot so much as a card, and then you just hope and pray that your partner also forgot. |
如果你十分有幸迎来了十六或十七周年纪念日 你却像大部分人一样,早晨醒来的时候意识到 你忘了预定你最喜欢的餐厅 你也忘记了卡片 于是你就希望伴侣也同样忘掉了这个事情 |
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reservation:n.预约,预订;保留; so much as:甚至于;连…都不;
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| Well, religious ritual and rites were essentially designed to serve the function of the anniversary, to be a container in which we would hold on to the remnants of that sacred, revelatory encounter that birthed the religion in the first place . |
宗教的惯例与习俗 都是特别为迎合周年纪念日的意义而设计的 它是一个容器,承载了那些 创造了宗教的 神圣的,启示性的邂逅 |
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ritual:n.仪式;惯例;礼制;adj.仪式的;例行的;礼节性的; rites:n.仪式(rite的复数); essentially:adv.本质上;本来; hold on to:坚持;紧握;克制; remnants:n.残余;残留物(remnant的复数);adj.残存的; revelatory:adj.泄露的,启示的; encounter:v.遭遇,邂逅;遇到;n.遭遇,偶然碰见; in the first place:首先;起初;
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| The problem is that after a few centuries, the date remains on the calendar , but the love affair is long dead. |
而问题就在于,几个世纪过去后 周年纪念日的日期仍然在日历上 但是这段爱恋却已然消逝 |
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calendar:n.日历;挂历;v.把…记入日程表中; love affair:n.风流韵事;(非夫妻间的)性关系;强烈的兴趣;
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| That's when we find ourselves in endless , mindless repetitions of words that don't mean anything to us, rising and being seated because someone has asked us to, holding onto jealously guarded doctrine |
这个时候我们才发现 起床,坐下等琐事都是因为有人要我们这样做 固守着被妒忌看护的信条 |
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endless:adj.无止境的;连续的;环状的;漫无目的的; mindless:adj.愚蠢的;不小心的;不需要动脑筋的;不顾虑的; repetitions:n.重复;重做;重说;重做的事;重说的话(repetition的复数) jealously:adv.妒忌地;猜疑地; doctrine:n.主义;学说;教义;信条;
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| that's completely and wildly out of step with our contemporary reality, engaging in perfunctory practice simply because that's the way things have always been done. |
这是完全彻底的背离我们如今的现实的 我们参与到马马虎虎,得过且过的日常中 只是因为这是我们平常做事的方式 |
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wildly:adv.野生地;野蛮地;狂暴地;鲁莽地; out of step:不合拍;步调不一致; contemporary:n.同时代的人;同时期的东西;adj.当代的;同时代的;属于同一时期的; engaging:adj.有趣的; v.吸引住(注意力、兴趣); (engage的现在分词)
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| Religion is waning in the United States. |
宗教的影响力在美国正在衰退 |
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waning:n.减弱;月亏;adj.渐亏的;逐渐减弱或变小的; United:adj.联合的; v.联合,团结; (unite的过去分词和过去式)
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| Across the board , churches and synagogues and mosques are all complaining about how hard it is to maintain relevance for a generation of young people who seem completely uninterested , |
从甲板上,教堂里,到犹太教会,清真寺 所有的宗教都在抱怨着 让这些宗教保证看起来对宗教毫无兴趣的新一代年轻人 仍然与他们有关联,是多么的不容易 |
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Across the board:全面地,整体地; synagogues:n.犹太教会堂;犹太人集会; mosques:n.清真寺(mosque的复数形式); complaining:adj.抱怨的;v.抱怨;控诉;(complain的现在分词) maintain:v.维持;保持;维修;保养;坚持(意见); relevance:n.关联;适当;中肯; uninterested:adj.不感兴趣的;无利害关系的;
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| not only in the institutions that stand at the heart of our traditions but even in religion itself. |
因为这些年轻人不仅对宗教的核心机构不感兴趣 也对宗教本身不感兴趣 |
| And what they need to understand is that there is today a generation of people who are as disgusted by the violence of religious extremism as they are turned off by the lifelessness of religious routine-ism. |
同时,这些教会里的人需要明白的是 如今的这一代人 已经厌倦了暴力和宗教极端主义 因为宗教枯燥乏味的一成不变 他们已经放弃了相信它 |
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disgusted:adj.厌恶的;反感的;v.使作呕;使厌恶;使反感;(disgust的过去式和过去分词) lifelessness:n.枯燥无味);无生命(死;
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| Of course there is a bright spot to this story. |
当然这些事也有积极的一面 |
| Given the crisis of these two concurrent trends in religious life, about 12 or 13 years ago, I set out to try to determine if there was any way that I could reclaim the heart of my own Jewish tradition, to help make it meaningful and purposeful again in a world on fire. |
谈到这两个在宗教世界里同时发生的趋势的危机 在12或13年前,我开始寻找 其他的方法 去重新定义我所属于的犹太教传统的核心 以此来重新使犹太教在这个动荡的世界上 重新具有它存在的意义 |
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crisis:n.危机;危险期;决定性时刻;adj.危机的;用于处理危机的; concurrent:adj.并发的;一致的;同时发生的;n.[数]共点;同时发生的事件; trends:n.趋势;倾向;动态;动向;(trend的第三人称单数和复数) determine:v.决定;确定;测定;查明;形成;影响;裁决;安排; reclaim:v.开拓;回收再利用;改造某人,使某人悔改;n.改造,感化;再生胶; Jewish:adj.犹太人的;犹太族的; meaningful:adj.严肃的;重要的;重大的;意味深长的; purposeful:adj.有目的的;有决心的;
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| I started to wonder, what if we could harness some of the great minds of our generation and think in a bold and robust and imaginative way again about what the next iteration of religious life would look like? |
我想 如果我们可以驾驭我们这一代伟大的思想 再重新从一个大胆的,有创新的角度 去思考下一个重复的宗教生活会是什么样 |
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what if:如果…怎么办? harness:vt.治理; n.马具; bold:adj.大胆的,英勇的;黑体的;厚颜无耻的;险峻的; robust:adj.强健的;健康的;粗野的;粗鲁的; imaginative:adj.虚构的;富于想象的;有创造力的; iteration:n.[数]迭代;反复;重复;
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| Now, we had no money, no space, no game plan, but we did have email. |
我们没有钱,没有空间,没有计划 但是我们的确有电子邮件 |
| So my friend Melissa and I sat down and we wrote an email which we sent out to a few friends and colleagues . |
于是我的朋友Melissa和我 开始给我们的朋友和同事写邮件 |
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colleagues:n.同事;同行(colleague的复数);
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| It basically said this: "Before you bail on religion, why don't we come together this Friday night and see what we might make of our own Jewish inheritance ?" |
基本内容就是 “在你放弃你的宗教信仰前 让我们这周五晚上小聚一下吧 看看我们还能为犹太的文化遗产做些什么” |
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basically:adv.主要地,基本上; bail:n.保释金;保释;v.允许保释(某人);离开;与…搭讪; inheritance:n.继承;遗传;遗产;
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| We hoped maybe 20 people would show up. |
我们的期待值只有二十个人 |
| It turned out 135 people came. |
但是却来了一百三十五个人 |
| They were cynics and seekers , atheists and rabbis . |
有犬儒主义者,有探求者 有无神论者,也有拉比 |
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cynics:n.愤世嫉俗者;玩世不恭者;犬儒主义者(cynic的复数形式); seekers:n.探求者;搜查人; atheists:n.无神论者; rabbis:n.(犹太)拉比(对有学识的人的尊称);法学博士(rabbi的复数形式);
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| Many people said that night that it was the first time that they had a meaningful religious experience in their entire lives. |
很多人都说,那晚是他们有史以来 第一次拥有了如此有意义的宗教经历 |
| And so I set out to do the only rational thing that someone would do in such a circumstance : |
从此我开始只做一些普通人只会在特定情况下做的 正确的,理性的事情 |
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rational:n.理性;人类;合理的事物;[数]有理数;adj.合理的;理性的;明智的;理智的; circumstance:n.环境,情况;事件;境遇;
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| I quit my job and tried to build this audacious dream, a reinvented , rethought religious life which we called "IKAR," |
我放弃了我的工作 真正实现为经过彻底改造的,重新思考的宗教生活 我们把这个梦想称作“IKAR” |
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quit:v.离开;放弃;停止;使…解除;n.离开;[计]退出;adj.摆脱了…的;已经了结的; audacious:adj.无畏的;鲁莽的; reinvented:v.以新形象示人;以新形式出现;(reinvent的过去分词和过去式) rethought:重新考虑;再想(rethink的过去式和过去分词);
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| which means "the essence " or "the heart of the matter." |
是“本质,精华”,“问题的核心”的意思 |
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essence:n.本质;实质;精髓;香精;
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| Now, IKAR is not alone out there in the religious landscape today. |
如今,IKAR 并不孤单, 在我们的梦想在当今宗教局势中 |
| There are Jewish and Christian and Muslim and Catholic religious leaders, many of them women, by the way , who have set out to reclaim the heart of our traditions, who firmly believe that now is the time for religion to be part of the solution. |
因为有很多的犹太教,基督教,穆斯林教和天主教领袖 （顺便说一下,他们之中有很多都是女性） 都开始重新定义他们宗教的核心 开始坚定的相信是时候让宗教成为解决方案的一部分了 |
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Catholic:adj.天主教的;宽宏大量的;n.天主教徒;罗马天主教; by the way:顺便说一下;
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| We are going back into our sacred traditions and recognizing that all of our traditions contain the raw material to justify violence and extremism, and also contain the raw material to justify compassion , coexistence and kindness — |
我们回想我们神圣的传统 却猛然醒悟,我们所有的传统 都包含着用不成熟的因素来对待暴力和极端主义 包括对待同情和怜悯 和平共处和仁慈好意 |
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recognizing:v.认识;认出;承认;接受,赞成(recognize的现在分词) raw material:n.原料; compassion:n.同情;怜悯; coexistence:n.共存;和平共处;并立;
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| that when others choose to read our texts as directives for hate and vengeance , we can choose to read those same texts as directives for love and for forgiveness . |
所以当他人从我们的文章中读出憎恨与复仇时 我们可以从同样的文章中读出 爱和宽容 |
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directives:n.指令(directive的复数形式);指示; vengeance:n.复仇;报复;报仇; forgiveness:n.宽恕;原谅;宽宏大量
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| I have found now in communities as varied as Jewish indie start-ups on the coasts to a woman's mosque, to black churches in New York and in North Carolina , to a holy bus loaded with nuns |
我发现 与犹太教发源在海岸边一样与众不同的教会 比如属于女人的清真寺 比如纽约和北卡罗来纳城内的黑人教会 比如满载着修女的神圣巴士 |
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communities:n.社区;社会;团体;共有(community的复数) varied:adj.多变的;各式各样的;杂色的;v.改变;使多样化;(vary的过去式和过去分词) indie:n.独立经营的电影院等;独立制片人;adj.独立的; start-ups:起动;新兴公司(start-up的名词复数); Carolina:n.卡罗莱纳州(在美国东南部); nuns:n.修女;尼姑;(nun的复数)
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| that traverses this country with a message of justice and peace, that there is a shared religious ethos that is now emerging in the form of revitalized religion in this country. |
他们向国家传递着公正与和平的气息 以及共同的宗教精神 他们现在以在国度内复兴宗教的形式而浮现 |
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traverses:v.横贯; n.横木; justice:n.公平;公正;司法制度;审判; ethos:n.民族精神;气质;社会思潮; emerging:adj.新兴的;v.出现,浮现,露出;暴露;(emerge的现在分词) revitalized:v.复兴,复活;恢复(revitalize的过去分词形式);
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| And while the theologies and the practices vary very much between these independent communities, what we can see are some common, consistent threads between them. |
而当在这些独立的教会间 出现宗教体系和日常传统非常不同的情况时 我们却可以看到隐没在这些情况中的共同点 |
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theologies:n.神学;宗教体系; vary:vi.变化;变异;违反;vt.改变;使多样化;变奏; independent:adj.独立的; n.无党派议员(或候选人等); consistent:adj.始终如一的,一致的;坚持的; threads:n.线; v.穿(针); (thread的第三人称单数和复数)
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| I'm going to share with you four of those commitments now. |
下面我就来与大家分享这四个相同点 |
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commitments:n.承诺,保证;委托;承担义务;献身;(commitment的复数)
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| The first is wakefulness . |
第一个便是思想觉悟 |
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wakefulness:n.[生理]觉醒;不眠;
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| We live in a time today in which we have unprecedented access to information about every global tragedy that happens on every corner of this Earth. |
我们生活在一个这样的时代 可以通过各种各样出人意料的途径 得知每一个 发生在世界各个角落的悲剧 |
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unprecedented:adj.空前的;无前例的; global:adj.全球的;总体的;球形的; tragedy:n.悲惨的事;不幸;灾难;悲剧作品;
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| Within 12 hours, 20 million people saw that image of Aylan Kurdi's little body washed up on the Turkish shore. |
有两千多万人,在十二个小时内 就看到了阿兰科迪的小小身躯 在土耳其的海岸边被海浪无情的冲刷 |
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Turkish:adj.土耳其的;土耳其人的,土耳其语的;突厥诸语言的;n.土耳其语;
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| We all saw this picture. |
我们都看见了 |
| We saw this picture of a five-year-old child pulled out of the rubble of his building in Aleppo. |
看见这个图片里的五岁男童 企图从已成废墟的阿勒波的家里逃出 |
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rubble:n.碎石,碎砖;粗石堆;
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| And once we see these images , we are called to a certain kind of action. |
每次当我们见到类似的图像 我们都会不约而同地开始行动 |
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images:n.印象;声誉;形象;画像;雕像;(image的第三人称单数和复数)
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| My tradition tells a story of a traveler who is walking down a road when he sees a beautiful house on fire, and he says, "How can it be that something so beautiful would burn, and nobody seems to even care?" |
在我的宗教里流传着这样一个故事 一个旅人在路途中看到一栋漂亮房子着火了 他说: 这么漂亮的一座房子着火了 为什么人们都坐视不见呢？“ |
| So too we learn that our world is on fire, and it is our job to keep our hearts and our eyes open, and to recognize that it's our responsibility to help put out the flames. |
同样的,现在我们的房子—这个世界也正在经历十万火急地事情 我们应当敞开心扉,擦亮眼睛 发现这其实是我们的责任 去把火焰熄灭 |
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recognize:v.认识;认出;辨别出;承认;意识到;
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| This is extremely difficult to do. |
这件事的确很困难 |
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extremely:adv.非常,极其;极端地;
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| Psychologists tell us that the more we learn about what's broken in our world, the less likely we are to do anything. |
心理学家告诉过我们,人们越是见到这个世界支离破碎的一面 就越是会放任不管 |
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Psychologists:n.[心理]心理学家(psychologist的复数形式);
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| It's called psychic numbing. |
这便是心理麻醉 |
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psychic:adj.精神的;心灵的;灵魂的;超自然的;n.灵媒;巫师;
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| We just shut down at a certain point. |
即我们选择性的忽略了一些重要的问题 |
| Well, somewhere along the way, our religious leaders forgot that it's our job to make people uncomfortable. |
然而,在时代发展的道路上,各宗教的领袖似乎忘记了 我们的责任即是使人民面对残酷的现实 |
| It's our job to wake people up, to pull them out of their apathy and into the anguish , and to insist that we do what we don't want to do and see what we do not want to see. |
让他们有所觉悟 以此来迫使他们远离漠不关心的态度 然后迎来改变的痛苦 做我们本不想做的事情 看到我们本无视的实况 |
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apathy:n.冷漠,无兴趣,漠不关心;无感情; anguish:n.痛苦;苦恼;v.使极度痛苦;感到极度的痛苦;
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| Because we know that social change only happens — |
因为我们知道社会的改变永远只发生在 |
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| when we are awake enough to see that the house is on fire. |
我们清醒的意识到它急需改变的时候 |
| The second principle is hope, and I want to say this about hope. |
第二个便是希望 关于希望我必须说 |
| Hope is not naive , and hope is not an opiate . |
它并不是那样天真 也不是什么麻醉剂 |
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naive:adj.天真的,幼稚的; opiate:n.鸦片制剂;麻醉剂;镇静剂;adj.含鸦片的;安眠的;vt.用鸦片麻醉;使缓和;
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| Hope may be the single greatest act of defiance against a politics of pessimism and against a culture of despair . |
希望可能是对悲观主义的政治 和对已经绝望的文化 最大的蔑视 |
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defiance:n.蔑视;挑战;反抗; pessimism:n.悲观,悲观情绪;厌世主义; despair:v.绝望;失去希望;丧失信心;n.绝望;
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| Because what hope does for us is it lifts us out of the container that holds us and constrains us from the outside, and says, "You can dream and think expansively again. |
因为希望所能带给我们的 是让我们挣脱那个 阻挠我们前进的牢笼 |
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constrains:约束; expansively:adv.辽阔地;可扩张地;
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| That they cannot control in you." |
这是一切其他事物所不能控制的” |
| I saw hope made manifest in an African-American church in the South Side of Chicago this summer, where I brought my little girl, who is now 13 and a few inches taller than me, to hear my friend Rev. Otis Moss preach . |
今年夏天,在芝加哥南部 我看到希望已在美国非裔的教堂里得以显现 那是我带女儿 她现在已经十三岁了 比我还要再高一点点 去听我朋友Rev.Otis Moss讲道的地方 |
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manifest:v.表明;显现;使人注意到;adj.明显的;显而易见的;n.旅客名单; African-American:非洲裔美国人(指美国黑人); Moss:n.苔藓;泥沼;vt.使长满苔藓; preach:v.宣扬;说教;布道;n.说教;训诫;
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| That summer, there had already been 3,000 people shot between January and July in Chicago. |
这个夏天,在芝加哥大约有3000人被枪杀 从一月到七月 |
| We went into that church and heard Rev. Moss preach, and after he did, this choir of gorgeous women, 100 women strong, stood up and began to sing. |
我们去教堂听他讲道 结束后 是优雅的女声合唱 100个合唱成员站起身展开歌喉 |
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choir:n.唱诗班;合唱团,歌唱队; gorgeous:adj.华丽的,灿烂的;极好的;
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| '"I need you. You need me. |
“我需要你,你亦如此 |
| I love you. I need you to survive." |
我爱你。我想要你好好的活着” |
| And I realized in that moment that this is what religion is supposed to be about. |
在那一瞬间我恍然醒悟 这就是宗教活动应有的样子 |
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supposed:adj.误信的;所谓的;v.认为;假设;设想;(suppose的过去分词和过去式)
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| It's supposed to be about giving people back a sense of purpose, a sense of hope, a sense that they and their dreams fundamentally matter in this world that tells them that they don't matter at all. |
它应当给予人们生存的目的 希望的感觉 和一种每个个体和每个梦想都至关重要的感觉 纵使这个世界总是让人们感到被忽视 |
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fundamentally:adv.从根本上;基础地;重要地
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| The third principle is the principle of mightiness. |
第三个便是强大原则 |
| There's a rabbinic tradition that we are to walk around with two slips of paper in our pockets. |
我们犹太法师有一项传统 兜里揣着两张纸片走在路上 |
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rabbinic:n.希伯莱语;后期希伯莱语;adj.犹太法师的; slips:滑倒;滑跤(slip的第三人称单数)
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| One says, "I am but dust and ashes." |
一张上面写着,“我渺小如灰烬,我什么都不是” |
| It's not all about me. |
也就是说我只是一个不起眼的存在 |
| I can't control everything, and I cannot do this on my own. |
我不能掌控任何事,我也不能凭一己之念决定什么 |
| The other slip of paper says, "For my sake the world was created." |
而另一张纸上写着,“世界因我而被创造” |
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sake:n.目的;利益;理由;日本米酒;
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| Which is to say it's true that I can't do everything, but I can surely do something. |
意思是,虽然我不能掌控任何事 但是我的确能做成一些事 |
| I can forgive. |
比如宽容 |
| I can love. |
比如爱 |
| I can show up. |
比如展示自己 |
| I can protest . |
比如抗议 |
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protest:n.抗议;抗议书(或行动);反对;v.(公开)反对;抗议;申辩;
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| I can be a part of this conversation. |
比如成为讨论的一部分 |
| We even now have a religious ritual, a posture , that holds the paradox between powerlessness and power. |
我们现在甚至有了宗教仪式 这种宗教态度 可以使无能为力与强权在握之间存在一种悖论 |
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posture:n.姿势;态度;看法;立场;处理方式;v.故作姿态;装样子 paradox:n.悖论,反论;似非而是的论点;自相矛盾的人或事; powerlessness:n.无力;无能为力;无力量;
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| In the Jewish community , the only time of year that we prostrate fully to the ground is during the high holy days. |
在犹太聚集区里 一年中唯一一次的跪拜礼 发生在非常神圣的日子里 |
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community:n.社区;[生态]群落;共同体;团体; prostrate:v.匍匐;使一筹莫展;使无能为力;adj.俯卧的;趴着的;给(悲伤等)压倒;
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| It's a sign of total submission . |
这是完全谦恭的一种表示 |
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submission:n.投降;提交(物);服从;(向法官提出的)意见;谦恭;
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| Now in our community, when we get up off the ground , we stand with our hands raised to the heavens, and we say, "I am strong, I am mighty , and I am worthy . |
如今,我们行毕跪拜礼后 我们起身,手指向天堂的方向 低语,“我很坚强,我有权利,我很有价值。 |
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off the ground:已开始的;在进行中; mighty:adj.强而有力的;巨大的;非凡的;adv.非常;很;极其; worthy:adj.值得的; n.杰出人物;
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| I can't do everything, but I can do something." |
我不能做成一切事情,但是我的确能做好我力所能及的” |
| In a world that conspires to make us believe that we are invisible and that we are impotent , religious communities and religious ritual can remind us that for whatever amount of time we have here on this Earth, whatever gifts and blessings we were given, whatever resources we have, we can and we must use them to try to make the world a little bit more just and a little bit more loving. |
在这个努力想要使我们认为自己渺小如尘 手无缚鸡之力的世界 是宗教团体和宗教习俗在提醒我们 不管我们能在这个世界上待多久 不管我们被给于了多少祝福与礼物 不管我们有各种各样的资源 我们可以,也必须用他们 去使这个世界变得更公正一点 也更具有人情味一点 |
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conspires:vi.共谋;协力;vt.[法]密谋策划; invisible:adj.看不见的;n.看不见的人或物; impotent:adj.无力的;无效的;虚弱的;阳萎的; remind:v.提醒;使想起; resources:n.[计][环境]资源; v.向…提供资金(resource的第三人称单数);
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| The fourth and final is interconnectedness . |
最后一点便是世界的互联性 |
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interconnectedness:n.互联性;
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| A few years ago, there was a man walking on the beach in Alaska, when he came across a soccer ball that had some Japanese letters written on it. |
许多年前,一个男人正在阿拉斯加的海滩上散步 一个足球出现在他眼前 上面还写着日本字 |
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on the beach:adj.在海滩上;失业的;潦倒的;退休的;
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| He took a picture of it and posted it up on social media , and a Japanese teenager contacted him. |
他拍了张足球的照片,并且把它放到了他的社交软件上 然后,一个日本的少年联系了他 |
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media:n.媒体;媒质(medium的复数);血管中层;浊塞音;中脉; contacted:v.联系,联络(如用电话或信件)(contact的过去分词和过去式)
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| He had lost everything in the tsunami that devastated his country, but he was able to retrieve that soccer ball after it had floated all the way across the Pacific. |
他说他已经在重创全国的海啸中失去了一切 但是现在他找回了他的足球 在它已经漂过整个太平洋之后 |
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tsunami:n.海啸; devastated:adj.不安的,混乱的,震惊的; v.彻底破坏; (devastate的过去分词和过去式) retrieve:v.取回;索回;检索数据;挽回;找回;n.恢复;
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| How small our world has become. |
世界已然变得如此之小 |
| It's so hard for us to remember how interconnected we all are as human beings. |
作为人类,我们很难记得我们是多么的心有灵犀 |
| And yet, we know that it is systems of oppression that benefit the most from the lie of radical individualism . |
然而,我们都知道 从激进的独立主义的谎言中 受益最大的却是政府采用的镇压手段 |
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oppression:n.压抑;镇压;压迫手段;沉闷;苦恼; radical:n.自由基;激进分子;游离基;adj.根本的;彻底的;完全的;全新的; individualism:n.个人主义;利己主义;个人特征;
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| Let me tell you how this works. |
这是为什么呢？ |
| I'm not supposed to care when black youth are harassed by police, because my white-looking Jewish kids probably won't ever get pulled over for the crime of driving while black. |
我本不应关心 黑人青年被警察一而再,再而三的骚扰 因为我有着白皮肤的犹太孩子 也许永远都不会因为同样的事（皮肤黑）而被定罪 |
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harassed:adj.疲惫焦虑的;v.侵扰;骚扰;不断攻击(敌人);(harass的过去分词和过去式)
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| Well, not so, because this is also my problem. |
但是我并没有给予漠视的态度, |
| And guess what? Transphobia and Islamophobia and racism of all forms, those are also all of our problems. |
同时,变性者恐惧症,伊斯兰恐惧症 和各种形式的种族歧视, |
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Transphobia:对变性者的恐惧;
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| And so too is anti-Semitism all of our problems. |
同样,反犹太问题也是,也是我们应当关心的问题 |
| Because Emma Lazarus was right. |
正如Emma Lazarus所说 |
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（掌声） |
| Emma Lazarus was right when she said until all of us are free,we are none of us free. |
正如Emma Lazarus所说,除非我们所有人都获得自由,否则其实我们都是囚禁的 |
| We are all in this together. |
大家都是这样的 |
| And now somewhere at the intersection of these four trends, of wakefulness and hope and mightiness and interconnectedness, there is a burgeoning , multifaith justice movement in this country that is staking a claim on a countertrend, saying that religion can and must be a force for good in the world. |
在这四个趋势的交叉口 觉悟,希望,强大,互联 诞生了一项生机勃勃的,多信仰的,公正的运动 来为趋势和逆趋势画上一条清楚的界限 因为宗教应当也必须成为世界的一股正能量 |
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intersection:n.交叉;十字路口;交集;交叉点; burgeoning:adj.迅速发展的;v.激增;迅速发展;(burgeon的现在分词) staking:v.(就某事)以…打赌,拿…冒险;用桩支撑;(stake的现在分词)
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| Our hearts hurt from the failed religion of extremism, and we deserve more than the failed religion of routine-ism. |
失败的宗教极端主义的出现伤了我们的心 我们也值得拥有推陈出新的宗教理念 |
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deserve:vi.应受,应得;
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| It is time for religious leaders and religious communities to take the lead in the spiritual and cultural shift that this country and the world so desperately needs — a shift toward love, toward justice, toward equality and toward dignity for all. |
是时候让宗教领袖和宗教团体 在精神与文化改变方面做出领头作用了 况且这种改变也是国家和世界所急需的—- 向真情改变, 向公正改变,向平等和尊严改变 |
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spiritual:n.圣歌(尤指美国南部黑人的);adj.精神的,心灵的; cultural:adj.与文化有关的;文化的;与艺术、文学、音乐等有关的; desperately:adv.拼命地;绝望地;不顾一切地;极度地; dignity:n.尊严;高贵;
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| I believe that our children deserve no less than that. |
我相信我们的下一代值得一个更好的世界 |
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no less than:不少于,多达…;正如;
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| Thank you. |
谢谢 |
| (Applause) |
（掌声） |