TED演讲:性格的迷思--你究竟是谁(1)

 What an intriguing¹ group of individuals you are ... to a psychologist. 你们是多么有趣的一群人啊……当然，是对心理学家而言。

I've had the opportunity over the last couple of days  在过去几天里，我有机会

of listening in on some of your conversations and watching you interact with each other. 倾听你们的交谈，观察你们的互动。

And I think it's fair to say, already, that there are 47 people in this audience, at this moment, 我想我已经可以大胆地说，此时此刻，在你们中间，有47个人，

displaying psychological symptoms I would like to discuss today.  已经表现出了精神病症状，我今天就想聊聊这个。

And I thought you might like to know who you are.  我想你们都很想知道，到底是谁有精神病。

But instead of pointing at you, which would be gratuitous² and intrusive³, 我不会直接指出来，因为那样很没必要，也不礼貌，

I thought I would tell you a few facts and stories, in which you may catch a glimpse of yourself. 我会列举一些事实和情况，你们可以跟自己对照一下。

I'm in the field of research known as personality psychology,  我从事的是人格心理学研究，

which is part of a larger personality science which spans the full spectrum⁴, from neurons to narratives⁵. 它属于人格科学的范畴，人格科学的研究领域跨度很大，从神经元到叙述学。

And what we try to do, in our own way, is to make sense of how each of us - each of you 而我们的研究方向是用我们的方式来弄清楚，为什么我们每一个人——在座的每一位

is in certain respects, like all other people, like some other people and like no other person. 在某些方面跟其他所有人都一样，或者只跟部分人一样，或者跟谁都不一样。

1 intriguing   

adj.有趣的；迷人的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的现在分词)；激起…的好奇心

参考例句：

• These discoveries raise intriguing questions. 这些发现带来了非常有趣的问题。
• It all sounds very intriguing. 这些听起来都很有趣。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 gratuitous   

adj.无偿的，免费的；无缘无故的，不必要的

参考例句：

• His criticism is quite gratuitous.他的批评完全没有根据。
• There's too much crime and gratuitous violence on TV.电视里充斥着犯罪和无端的暴力。

3 intrusive   

adj.打搅的；侵扰的

参考例句：

• The cameras were not an intrusive presence.那些摄像机的存在并不令人反感。
• Staffs are courteous but never intrusive.员工谦恭有礼却从不让人感到唐突。

4 spectrum   

n.谱，光谱，频谱；范围，幅度，系列

参考例句：

• This is a kind of atomic spectrum.这是一种原子光谱。
• We have known much of the constitution of the solar spectrum.关于太阳光谱的构成，我们已了解不少。

5 narratives   

记叙文( narrative的名词复数 )； 故事； 叙述； 叙述部分

参考例句：

• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning. 结婚一向是许多小说的终点，然而也是一个伟大的开始。
• This is one of the narratives that children are fond of. 这是孩子们喜欢的故事之一。