TED英语演讲：这才是爱情应有的样子

TED 英语演讲：这才是爱情应有的样子 今日我为大家收集整理了关于 TED 英语演讲：这才是爱情应有的样子,希望大家会喜爱,同时也希望给你们带来一些参考的作用! A better way to talk about love OK, so today I want to talk about how wetalk about love. And specifically, I want to talk about whats wrong with howwe talk about love. 今日我想谈谈我们是如何谈论爱情的。我尤其想和你们聊的是，我们谈论爱情时到底哪里出错了。 Most of us will probably fall in love a fewtimes over the course of our lives, and in the English language, this metaphor,falling, is really the main way that we talk about that experience. I dontknow about you, but when I conceptualize this metaphor, what I picture isstraight out of a cartoon like theres a man, hes walking down the sidewalk, withoutrealizing it, he crosses over an open manhole, and he just plummets into thesewer below. And I picture it this way because falling is not jumping. Fallingis accidental, its uncontrollable. Its something that happens to us withoutour consent. And this this is the main way we talk about starting a new relationship. 我们大多数人在一生中可能深爱过几次，在英语中，坠入爱河这个比方，是我们谈论这段经历的主要方式。我不知道你是怎么想的，但是当我把这个比方概念化的时候我脑海里出现的是一幅漫画就像有一个人，他走在人行道上，没有意识到自己走过一个打开的井盖，然后他就一头栽进下面的下水道里。我会这么想是因为，坠落不是跳跃坠落是偶然的，是无法控制的。是没经过我们的同意就发生了，而这我们说到开始一段新的感情，主要就用的这种方式去表达的。 I am a writer and Im also an Englishteacher, which means I think about words for a living. You could say that I getpaid to argue that the language we use matters, and I would like to argue thatmany of the metaphors we use to talk about love maybe even most ofthem are a problem. 我是一名作家，同时也是一位英...