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Conversation two.
長對話二
Do you think dreams have special meanings?
你認為夢有特殊含義嗎?
No, I don't think they do.
不，我覺得沒有。
Don't either. But some people do.
我也覺得沒有。但有些人認為夢有特殊含義。
I would say people who believe that dreams have meanings are superstitious, especially nowadays.
相信夢有含義的人是迷信的，尤其在現代。
In the past, during the times of ancient Egypt, Greece or China, people used to believe that dreams could foresee the future.
過去，在古埃及、希臘或中國，人們曾經相信夢可以預見未來。
But today, with all the scientific knowledge that we have, I think it's much harder to believe in these sorts of things.
但是現在，我們掌握了那么多科學知識，再相信這種觀點還是很困難的。
My grandmother is superstitious, and she thinks dreams can predict the future.
我祖母很迷信，她認為夢可以預測未來。
Once she dreamed that the flight she was due to take the following day crashed, can you guess what she did?
有一次她夢見第二天她要乘坐的飛機墜毀了，你猜她做了什么?
She didn't take that flight. She didn't even bother to go to the airport the following day.
她沒有坐那班飛機。第二天她甚至連機場都沒去。
Instead she took the same flight but a week later. And everything was fine of course. No plane ever crashed.
但她乘坐了同一班飛機，不過是在一周后。當然了，一切都很好。沒有飛機墜毀。
How funny! Did you know that flying is actually safer than any other mode of transport?
太有意思了！你知道飛機其實比任何其他交通工具都要安全嗎？
It's been statistically proven. People can be so irrational sometimes.
這是有數據證明的。人們有時候挺不理智的。
Yes, absolutely. But even if we think they are ridiculous, emotions can be just as powerful as rational thinking.
確實是這樣。但即便我們覺得很荒謬，情感也會和理性思維一樣強大。
Exactly. People do all sorts of crazy things because of their irrational feelings.
完全正確。人們會因為不理智的感覺做出各種瘋狂的事情。
But in fact, some psychologists believe that our dreams are the result of our emotions and memories from that day.
但事實上，一些心理學家認為，我們的夢是我們的情緒和當天記憶的結果。
I think it was Sigmund Freud who said that children's dreams were usually simple representations of their wishes, things they wished would happen.
應該是西格蒙德·弗洛伊德說過，兒童的夢通常是他們愿望的簡單體現，是他們希望會發生的事情。
But in adults, dreams are much more complicated reflections of their more sophisticated sentiments.
但對于成年人來說，夢更復雜地反映了他們更復雜的情感。
Isn't it interesting how psychologists try to understand using the scientific method something as bizarre as dreams?
心理學家試圖用科學的方法來理解像夢一樣奇怪的事情，是不是很有趣?
Psychology is like the rational study of irrational feelings.
心理學就像對非理性情感的理性研究。
5. What do both speakers think of dreams?
5.兩位說話者對夢的看法是什么？
6. Why didn't the woman's grandmother take her scheduled flight?
6.女士的祖母為什么沒有乘坐她原定的班機？
7. What does the woman say about people's emotions?
7.關于人們的情感，女士說了些什么？
8. What did psychologist Sigmund Freud say about adults dreams?
8.關于成年人的夢境，心理學家西格蒙德·弗洛伊德說了些什么？
