TED演讲稿-20岁光阴不再中英互译

When I was in my 20s, I saw my very first psychotherapy client. I wasa Ph.D. student in clinical psychology at Berkeley. She was a26-year-old woman named Alex.记得见我第一位心理咨询顾客时，我才 20 多岁。当时我是 Berkeley 临床心理学在读博士生。我的第一位顾客是名叫 Alex 的女性，26 岁。Now Alex walked into her first session wearing jeans and a big slouchytop, and she dropped onto the couch in my office and kicked off herflats and told me she was there to talk about guy problems. Now whenI heard this, I was so relieved. My classmate got an arsonist for herfirst client. (Laughter) And I got a twentysomething who wanted totalk about boys. This I thought I could handle.第一次见面 Alex 穿着牛仔裤和宽松上衣走进来，她一下子栽进我办公室的沙发上，踢掉脚上的平底鞋，跟我说她想谈谈男生的问题。当时我听到这个之后松了一口气。因为我同学的第一个顾客是纵火犯，而我的顾客却是一个 20 出头想谈谈男生的女孩。我觉得我可以搞定。But I didn't handle it. With the funny stories that Alex would bring tosession, it was easy for me just to nod my head while we kicked thecan down the road.但是我没有搞定。Alex 不断地讲有趣的事情，而我只能简单地点头认同她所说的，很自然地就陷入了附和的状态。"Thirty's the new 20," Alex would say, and as far as I could tell, shewas right. Work happened later, marriage happened later, kidshappened later, even death happened later.Twentysomethings likeAlex and I had nothing but time.Alex 说：“30 岁是一个新的 20 岁”。没错，我告诉她“你是对的”。工作还早，结婚还早，生孩子还早，甚至死亡也早着呢。像 Alex 和我这样 20 多岁的人，什么都没有但时间多的是。But before long, my supervisor pushed me to push Alex about her lovelife. I pushed back. I said, "Sure, she's dating down, she's sleeping witha knucklehead, but it's not like she's going to marry the guy." Andthen my...