16-9-2 仇恨将我摧毁，爱让我重生—恐怖袭击幸存者劫后余生感悟人性

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今日主题：【TED精选】仇恨将我摧毁，爱让我重生——2005年伦敦7/7恐怖袭击爆炸案幸存者Gill Hicks劫后余生领悟人性（双语对照精讲学习版)

了解今日课堂：

I survived a terroristattack. Here's what I learned

Speaker’s biography:

Gill Hicks hasdedicated her life to being an advocate for peace. Dr. Gill Hicks is consideredto be one of the most thought provoking, powerful and life affirming speakersin Australia and the UK. She is globally known as a survivor of the Londonterrorist bombings on July 7, 2005. She survived, but suffered severe andpermanent injuries, losing both legs from just below the knee. In 2007 Hicksfounded the not for profit organization M.A.D. for Peace, a platform thatconnects people globally and encourages us to think of "Peace as aVerb," something that we have an individual responsibility to do everyday.

Section 1:

I could neverhave imagined that a 19-year-old suicide bomber would actually teach me avaluable lesson. But he did. Hetaught me to never presume anything about anyone you don't know.

On a Thursdaymorning in July 2005, the bomber and I, unknowingly, boarded the same traincarriage at the same time, standing, apparently, just feet apart. I didn't seehim. I know it wasn't personal. Instead, he gave me an unwarranted andan unwanted label. I had become the enemy. The label "enemy" allowedhim to dehumanize us. It allowed him to push that button. And he wasn'tselective.

Vocabulary：

Presume,unwarranted, dehumanize

Section 2:

I was sodetermined to survive that I used my scarf to tie tourniquets around the topsof my legs, and I just shut everything and everyone out, to focus, to listen tomyself, to be guided by instinct alone. I lowered my breathing rate. I elevatedmy thighs. I held myself upright and I fought the urge to close my eyes.

I held on foralmost an hour, an hour to contemplate the whole of my life up untilthis point. Perhaps I should have done more. Perhaps I could have lived more,seen more. Maybe I should have gone running, dancing, taken up yoga. But mypriority and my focus was always my work. I lived to work. Who I was on mybusiness card mattered to me. But it didn't matter down in that tunnel.

Vocabulary：

contemplate

Section 3：

I understoodjust who and what humanity really is, when I first saw the ID tag that wasgiven to me when I was admitted to hospital. And it read: "One unknown estimated female."Those four words were my gift. What they told me very clearly was that my lifewas saved, purely because I was a human being. Nothing mattered other than I was a precious human life.

I believe thepotential for widespread positive change is absolutely enormous because I knowwhat we're capable of. I know the brilliance of humanity. Is what unites us not far greater than what can ever divide? Does ithave to take a tragedy or a disaster for us to feel deeply connected as onespecies, as human beings? And when will we embrace the wisdom of ourera to rise above mere tolerance and move to an acceptance for all who are onlya label until we know them? Thank you.

Vocabulary：

Admit, estimate,

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