實(shí)戰(zhàn)口語(yǔ)情景對(duì)話：Touchy Topics 敏感話題

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格雷格：你好，托德。

Todd: Hey, Greg.

托德：嗨，格雷格。

Greg: Hey, thanks a lot for interviewing me and letting, I don't know, the world know about my book.

格雷格：嘿，非常謝謝你采訪我，讓世界了解我的書(shū)。

Todd: No, problem. It's a good book.

托德：不客氣。這是本好書(shū)。

Greg: Yeah, I've noticed you don't have any topics like these on your web site. Why not?

格雷格：嗯，我注意到，你的網(wǎng)站上沒(méi)有這種話題。這是為什么?

Todd: Right. I don't have too many controversial topics. There's actually technical reasons. One is it just takes too long for people to talk about a controversial topic, so for example if you really want to get into controversy, you know, it leads to long conversation and people expressing their view and arguing and the way that the audio is set up on elllo, it's kind of short. I try to keep it under three minutes, so that's one reason. But actually the main reason is because, you know, when people come in, I don't know them a lot of the times I don't know the speakers very well and so they're not really comfortable arguing with me or arguing with somebody else they don't know about something that's controversial, so we tend to not do that.

托德：對(duì)。我們網(wǎng)站上沒(méi)有太多爭(zhēng)議話題。這其實(shí)是技術(shù)原因。其中一個(gè)原因是，討論爭(zhēng)議話題需要很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間，如果要討論爭(zhēng)議問(wèn)題，那就會(huì)進(jìn)行很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間的對(duì)話，人們要表達(dá)他們的觀點(diǎn)和主張，可是ello網(wǎng)站上的音頻都很短。我盡量將每期節(jié)目的時(shí)長(zhǎng)控制在3分鐘以內(nèi)，這是其中一個(gè)原因。不過(guò)主要原因是，大多數(shù)時(shí)候我不認(rèn)識(shí)錄制節(jié)目的嘉賓，我不太了解他們，所以如果他們和我或是其他他們不認(rèn)識(shí)的嘉賓就爭(zhēng)議話題進(jìn)行辯論的話，他們可能會(huì)感覺(jué)不舒服，所以我們盡量不這么做。

Greg: OK, alright, it's something you might want to think about. I mean, I think there are lot of people in the world who are really interested in controversial topics.

格雷格：好，這可能是你要思考的事情。我的意思是，世界上有很多人對(duì)爭(zhēng)議話題感興趣。

Todd: Well, I think there are some, like with you we talked about some like income disparity and medical issues, and I'm comfortable talking about that but I am not comfortable talking about let's say homosexuality, religious beliefs, abortion, politics. Things like that I just don't feel comfortable doing.

托德：我和你談?wù)摿耸杖氩罹嗪歪t(yī)療問(wèn)題，我覺(jué)得談?wù)撨@種話題還是很自在的，可是我不想談?wù)撏詰賳?wèn)題、宗教信仰、墮胎、政治問(wèn)題。談話這些話題我會(huì)感覺(jué)不自在。

Greg: OK, it's your site: your right to do whatever you want, but I just think maybe ... maybe some of your listeners would appreciate that and maybe you could have ... my suggestion is that you have a little one page, controversial page, or something. Just, you know, try it out, and if you get a lot of good reaction, you might want to continue and if it doesn't work out stop it.

格雷格：好，這是你的網(wǎng)站，你有權(quán)利做你想做的事，不過(guò)我認(rèn)為也許……也許一些聽(tīng)眾會(huì)希望你……我的建議是，增設(shè)一個(gè)爭(zhēng)議問(wèn)題網(wǎng)頁(yè)。你可以試試，如果良好的反應(yīng)很多的話，你可以繼續(xù)做下去，如果反應(yīng)不好，那就可以關(guān)掉這個(gè)網(wǎng)頁(yè)。

Todd: Well, actually, I'll give you an example of one I did recently. I had a woman come in, Stella, she did a great job on the videos, and one of her videos was about an usual sport in your country and hers was on cock fighting, and she explained cock fighting, or hen fighting, in Kenya, and right off the bat I knew that was going to be a problem because that's illegal in some countries and some people — animal activists — would be offended, but on the other hand, it's her culture and I don't feel comfortable saying — you know — what's right or what's wrong about someone else's culture so I just ended up not putting it on just because I didn't want to have to take a side. You know, I think you can kind of see the problem, that sometimes you can put stuff up and it's so easy to alienate maybe a small portion of your audience and I just don't want to do that. You know, I don't have a side about the issue but I just don't want to alienate people. I don't want people on one side of an issue to feel upset so I just play it safe, and I don't talk about it.

托德：我給你講一個(gè)例子吧，是我最近錄的一期節(jié)目。那期節(jié)目請(qǐng)的是一個(gè)女嘉賓史黛拉，她做了很多很棒的視頻，其中一個(gè)視頻是她們國(guó)家的常見(jiàn)運(yùn)動(dòng)，她講的是斗雞，她在視頻里解釋了肯尼亞的斗雞運(yùn)動(dòng)，我馬上就意識(shí)到這個(gè)話題可能有問(wèn)題，因?yàn)檫@項(xiàng)運(yùn)動(dòng)在一些國(guó)家是非法的，動(dòng)物保護(hù)者可能會(huì)感到很生氣，不過(guò)另一方面，這是她的文化，我不太好去評(píng)價(jià)其他人的文化是對(duì)還是錯(cuò)，所以最后我沒(méi)有把這期節(jié)目放在網(wǎng)站上，因?yàn)槲也幌肫荒囊环?。你看，像這樣的問(wèn)題很容易會(huì)使一小部分聽(tīng)眾疏遠(yuǎn)網(wǎng)站，我不想這樣。我在這個(gè)問(wèn)題上不支持任何一個(gè)觀點(diǎn)，我只是不想讓聽(tīng)眾疏遠(yuǎn)我的網(wǎng)站。我不想讓在這個(gè)問(wèn)題上持某個(gè)觀點(diǎn)的聽(tīng)眾感覺(jué)苦惱，所以我要謹(jǐn)慎行事，不去討論這個(gè)問(wèn)題。

Greg: OK, well, you seem to have a lot of listeners who are very happy so don't worry about changing it.

格雷格：好，看起來(lái)你的很多聽(tīng)眾都很開(kāi)心，不要擔(dān)心改變。

Todd: I hope so. I hope so.

托德：希望如此，希望如此。