凯特王妃 | 戒瘾在行动演讲

I'm so pleased to be joining you to launch the Taking Action on Addiction Campaign. And I'm grateful to those of you who have shared your experiences of addiction with me here today.

我非常高兴能和你们一起发起“戒瘾在行动”运动。我很感谢今天在这里与我分享你的成瘾经历的人。

Addiction is not a choice, no one chooses to become an addict. But it can happen to any one of us, none of us are immune.

上瘾不是一个选择，没有人选择成为一个瘾君子，但这可能发生在我们任何人身上，没人能幸免。

Yet it's all too rarely discussed as a serious mental health condition, and seldom do we take the time to uncover and fully understand its fundamental root causes.

然而很少有人把它作为一种严重的心理健康问题来讨论，我们很少花时间去发现和充分理解其根本原因。

The journey towards addiction is often multi-layered and complex, but by recognizing what lies beneath addiction, we can help remove the taboo and shame that sadly surrounds it.

上瘾的过程往往是多层次和复杂的，但是通过认识到成瘾的背后隐藏着什么，我们可以帮助消除围绕它的禁忌和耻辱。

As a society, we need to start from a position of compassion and empathy, where we nurture those around us, understand their journey and what has come before them.

就社会而言，我们需要从同情心和同理心立场出发，帮助周围的人，了解他们的历程和他们以往的经历。

We need to value and prioritize care and support, helping to restore and connect individuals who are clearly suffering to the people around them.

我们需要重视，优先考虑，支持他们，帮助那些明显遭受痛苦的人与周围的人重新建立联系。

That is why I'm so passionate about the work of the forward trust, an organization I'm so proud to be a patron of. This is the work that you and many other charities provide day in day out and it's needed now more than ever.

这就是我为什么对前进信托基金工作充满热情的原因，作为这个组织的赞助人我感到非常自豪。这也是诸位和其他慈善机构每天要做的工作，这些工作比以往任何时候都重要。

Note:

Be immune to

protected against a particular disease by particular substances in the blood 免疫的

Most people who've had chickenpox once are immune to it for the rest of theirlives.

大多数出过水痘的人终生都对此病具有免疫力。

Be passionate about

having very strong feelings or emotions in doing something 情绪激昂的，热情的

Joe is passionate about baseball (= he likes it very much).

乔非常喜欢打棒球。