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Trading personal stories
by Stephen Moss
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In 2012, the Irish author Colum McCann and a group of fellow writers hit on an idea. They were at a festival in the US, and it started with a challenge they set themselves: "What is the highest aim of storytelling, and how can we harness that energy to transform our society?"
Irish /ar/ adj. 爱尔兰的fellow /fel/ adj. 同伴的、同类的hit on 忽然想到festival /festv()l/ n. 节、节日（这里指艺术节、音乐节这样的“节”）storytelling /stritel/ n. 讲故事（由story和telling组成）
harness /hɑns/ v. 利用transform /trnsfm/ v. 改造、使改观
They believed the stories they told had power – writers are not short of confidence – but could they change the world? McCann believed they could. Art for society's sake.
be short of 缺少confidence /knfd()ns/ n. 信心、自信for one's sake 为了某人好
What emerged from that was an organisation called Narrative 4, which puts a story exchange between disparate（截然不同的）, sometimes antagonistic（敌对的） groups at its heart.★ You pair up, swap stories from one another's lives and then tell each other's story back to the group in the first person.
emerge /md/ v. 显现narrative /nrtv/ n. 故事exchange /kstend/ n. 交换★ 这句话里sometimes之前的逗号起到and的作用，使得disparate和sometimes antagonistic并列pair up 结成对子swap /swp/ v./n. 交换one another = each other 互相the first person 第一人称（也就是我/我们）
The theory is that telling someone else's story will give you what McCann calls "radical empathy". For that moment, you become the other, possibly an "other" to whom you had previously been hostile.
theory /θri/ n. 理论radical /rdk()l/ adj. 根本的
empathy /empθi/ n. 同理心（设身处地进行换位思考的能力）hostile /hstal/ adj. 有敌意的
In 2016 Narrative 4 moved into Ireland, setting up office in a disused library in Limerick. This is where, on a dry, bright weekend in the middle of November, 15 students from the Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh were introduced to 15 students from three schools in or near Birmingham.
Ireland /alnd/ n. 爱尔兰disused /dsjuzd/ adj. 不再使用的（由use的过去分词加上表示否定的前缀dis-）introduce /ntrdjus/ v. 介绍
Birmingham /bmm/ n. 伯明翰（英国城市）
The weekend is coordinated by Ruth Gilligan, a novelist who teaches creative writing at the University of Birmingham, and British author David Savill. The theme is loosely "identity", but it quickly becomes apparent that teenagers live such intense, angsty（焦虑的） lives that the tales they tell could go anywhere.
coordinate /kdnet/ v. 协调novelist /nv()lst/ n. 小说家（由novel加上表示人的后缀-ist）creative writing 创造性写作（一般指文学作品的写作）theme /θim/ n. 主题loosely /lusli/ adv. 松散地（由loose加后缀-ly变成副词；这里指主题不那么严格，可以稍稍跑题）identity /adentti/ n. 身份、特征apparent /pr()nt/ adj. 明显的live a ... life 过着…的生活intense /ntens/ adj. 强烈的、激烈的tale /tel/ n. 故事
Gilligan and Savill explain to the group how to shape a story, and give them a quick guide to Irish and English history. In the story-swap session, there are deep issues in play: loss, grief, the pressures put on teenagers, their urge to conform, the masks they have to wear to survive, their struggle to find themselves.
shape /ep/ v. 塑造
guide /ɡad/ n. 指导session /se()n/ n. 一场活动
deep /dip/ adj. 深刻的、深奥的in play 这里指“在讨论中”loss /ls/ n. 失去（也可以指去世）grief /ɡrif/ n. 悲痛pressure /pre(r)/ n. 压力urge /d/ n. 强烈的愿望
conform /knfm/ v. 顺应、遵从（这里指按照被主流社会广为接受的方式生活）mask /mɑsk/ n. 面具（这里戴上面具指隐藏自己真正的想法）survive /svav/ v. 生存struggle /strɡ()l/ n. 挣扎
They take the story exchange very seriously and respect each other completely, feeling the responsibility of telling their partner's story. They then sit in a circle and tell their tales, one after another, with no applause or discussion until the end.
seriously /srisli/ adv. 严肃认真地（由serious加后缀-ly变成副词）responsibility /rspnsblti/ n. 责任、职责applause /plz/ n. 掌声
It takes more than an hour, in which a lot of tears are shed. Gilligan had supplied a small packet of tissues for the group, but this turns into a packet-and-a-half session, surprising even her.
shed /ed/ v. 流、流出（shed tears就是流泪）supply /spla/ v. 提供、供应tissue /tu/ n. 纸巾turn into 变成a packet-and-a-half session 意思是一场用掉了一包半纸巾的活动
It turns out that teenagers, on both sides of the Irish Sea, face many problems: there are stories of bullying, self-harm, eating disorders. While the boys can lose themselves in sport, the girls experience the full force of cultural collision.
turn out 结果是
Irish Sea 爱尔兰海（位于英国和爱尔兰之间）bully /bli/ v. 欺凌、霸凌harm /hɑm/ n. 伤害disorder /dsd(r)/ n. 失调（由order加上表示否定的前缀dis-）lose oneself in something 沉迷于某事
force /fs/ n. 影响力cultural /klt()r()l/ adj. 文化的（由culture加后缀-al变成形容词）
collision /kl()n/ n. 碰撞、冲突
"It's great to find you are not alone," says one of the students, summing up the mood perfectly.
sum up 概括、总结mood /mud/ n. 心情、氛围perfectly /pfektli/ adv. 完美地（由perfect加后缀-ly变成副词）
英文原文节选自The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/dec/08/teenagers-not-alone-sharing-intimate-stories-stephen-moss
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