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同理心
Empathy
Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
积极的社会情感，如同情和同理心，通常对我们有好处，我们想鼓励它们。但我们知道如何最可靠地抚养孩子去关心他人的痛苦吗?我不确定。
As authors, most - most authors , our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
作为作家，绝大多数作家，我们的艺术是描绘人类的处境。试着向你展示成为别人是什么样子，试着让你对别人有感觉。这意味着你必须有高度的同理心。
Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.
我们所做的一切都是为了满足我们的需要。当这一概念应用于我们对他人的看法时，我们会发现我们没有真正的敌人，别人对我们做的是他们知道的最好的事情来满足他们的需求。
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
令人惊讶的是，很多人在一生中都没有意识到他们对别人的感觉很大程度上是由他们对自己的感觉决定的。
Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. ln those transparent moments we know other people's joys and sorrows, and we care about their concerns as if they were our own.
痛苦和快乐教会我们，如果我们允许它们，如何跨越同理心，让我们进入另一个人的灵魂和心灵。在那些透明的时刻，我们知道别人的喜怒哀乐，我们关心他们的关心，就像他们是我们自己的一样。
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?
这里有哪个女人如此迷恋自己所受的压迫，以至于看不到自己的脚后跟印在另一个女人的脸上?什么样的女人的压迫条件对她来说已经变得珍贵和必要，就像一张门票，进入正义的怀抱，远离自我审视的寒风?
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
同理心其实是精神吝啬的对立面。这是理解每一场战争的输赢的能力。别人的痛苦和你自己的一样有意义。
If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.
如果地球确实变得不适合人类居住，那主要是因为我们对地球和地球上的居民失去了礼貌。
One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
一个人在想要谴责别人之前，应该反省自己很长一段时间。
A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
如果不是为了你自己，如果是为了那些值得你生气的人，你的同情心，那么一点点的愤怒是一件好事。
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
难道还有比我们对视片刻更伟大的奇迹发生吗?
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
小说和散文可以为理论上的陌生人创造同理心。