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I read somewhere that you should try and be the person that you needed when you were younger.
我在某處讀到，你應(yīng)當(dāng)嘗試并成為你年輕的時(shí)候需要的那個(gè)人。
And back when I was a teenager, I would have needed to know that the shame wasn't mine,
當(dāng)我年少時(shí)，我本應(yīng)需要知道我無需感到羞恥，
that there's hope after rape, that you can even find happiness, like I share with my husband today.
被強(qiáng)奸之后仍有希望，你甚至能夠找到幸福，像我同我丈夫分享的一樣。
Which is why I started writing feverishly upon my return from Cape Town, resulting in a book co-authored by Tom,
因此，從開普敦一回來，我開始興奮地寫作，最終形成一本和Tom共同完成的書，
that we hope can be of use to people from both ends of the perpetrator-survivor scale.
我們希望這本書無論對(duì)犯罪者還是幸存者都有幫助。
If nothing else, it's a story that we would've needed to hear when we were younger.
至少，這也是一個(gè)在我們年少時(shí)需要去了解的故事。
Given the nature of our story, I know the words that inevitably accompany it -- victim, rapist
考慮到這個(gè)故事的性質(zhì)，我知道有一些詞語將不可避免地伴隨它--受害人，強(qiáng)奸犯，
and labels are a way to organize concepts, but they can also be dehumanizing in their connotations.
標(biāo)簽是組織概念的一種方法，但他們也可能因其內(nèi)涵被非人性化。
Once someone's been deemed a victim, it's that much easier to file them away as someone damaged, dishonored, less than.
一旦某人被認(rèn)定為一個(gè)受害人，他們就更加容易被歸類為被傷害、遭受羞辱、低人一等的。
And likewise, once someone has been branded a rapist, it's that much easier to call him a monster -- inhuman.
同樣，一旦某人被打上強(qiáng)奸犯的烙印，就更加容易稱其為怪物--非人類。
But how will we understand what it is in human societies that produces violence if we refuse to recognize the humanity of those who commit it?
但是，如果我們拒絕去認(rèn)識(shí)犯罪一方的人性之處，我們?nèi)绾文軌蚶斫馊祟惿鐣?huì)中究竟是什么在制造暴力？
And how -- And how can we empower survivors if we're making them feel less than?
并且，如果我們總是讓幸存者覺得自己低人一等，我們又如何給予他們力量呢？
How can we discuss solutions to one of the biggest threats to the lives of women and children around the world,
我們要如何找到解決方案，面對(duì)這個(gè)全球范圍內(nèi)對(duì)婦女和兒童生命的最大威脅之一，
if the very words we use are part of the problem?
如果我們使用的詞語就是問題的一部分？
