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Despite limping for days and crying for weeks, this incident didn't fit my ideas about rape like I'd seen on TV.
盡管接下來的很多天中，我都感到渾身無力，也連續哭了好幾周，這件事，并不符合我對電視報道中強奸的理解。
Tom wasn't an armed lunatic; he was my boyfriend.
Tom并不是一個有武器的精神錯亂的人；他是我的男朋友。
And it didn't happen in a seedy alleyway, it happened in my own bed.
這件事也并非發生在一條破舊的小巷中，它發生在我自己的床上。
By the time I could identify what had happened to me as rape,
直到我能夠意識到，發生在我身上的是強奸時，
he had completed his exchange program and left for Australia.
他已經完成了交換項目，回到了澳大利亞。
So I told myself it was pointless to address what had happened.
所以，我告訴自己，再去強調已經發生的事沒有意義。
And besides, it had to have been my fault, somehow.
此外，某種程度上來說，我一定也有錯。
I was raised in a world where girls are taught that they get raped for a reason.
我從小接受的教育認為，女孩被強奸一定有其原因。
Their skirt was too short, their smile was too wide, their breath smelled of alcohol.
她們的裙子太短，她們的笑得過于開心，她們散發著酒氣。
And I was guilty of all of those things, so the shame had to be mine.
我對所有這些都感到內疚，所以，我應當感到羞愧。
It took me years to realize that only one thing could have stopped me from being raped that night,
我花了很多年的時間，才意識到那天晚上，唯一能阻止我被侵犯的，
and it wasn't my skirt, it wasn't my smile, it wasn't my childish trust.
不是我的裙子，不是我的笑容，更不是我幼稚的信任。
The only thing that could've stopped me from being raped that night is the man who raped me -- had he stopped himself.
唯一能夠阻止我在那天晚上被侵犯的，是強奸我的那個男人--能夠阻止他自己。
