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Day 8 听力材料 TED演讲之同性恋和异性恋(2)

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I was shielded from the pains of bigotryand the social restrictions of a religiously-based upbringing.Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinkeror a performance artist of some kind,you were the weirdo.It was an unorthodox upbringing,but as a kid on the streets of New York,you learn how to trust your own instincts,you learn how to go with your own ideas.

So when I was six, I decided that I wanted to be a boy.I went to school one day and the kids wouldn't let me play basketball with them.They said they wouldn't let girls play.So I went home, and I shaved my head,and I came back the next day and I said, "I'm a boy."I mean, who knows, right?When you're six, maybe you can do that.I didn't want anyone to know that I was a girl, and they didn't.
I kept up the charade for eight years.

So this is me when I was 11.I was playing a kid named Walterin a movie called "Julian Po."I was a little street tough that followed Christian Slater around and badgered him.See, I was also a child actor,which doubled up the layers of the performance of my identity,because no one knew that I was actually a girl really playing a boy.
In fact, no one in my life knew that I was a girl --not my teachers at school, not my friends,not the directors that I worked with.Kids would often come up to me in classand grab me by the throat to check for an Adam's appleor grab my crotch to check what I was working with.When I would go to the bathroom, I would turn my shoes around in the stallsso that it looked like I was peeing standing up.At sleepovers I would have panic attackstrying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss mewithout outing myself.
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social ['səuʃəl]

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adj. 社会的,社交的
n. 社交聚会

 
outing ['autiŋ]

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n. 郊游,远足,外出

 
radical ['rædikəl]

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adj. 激进的,基本的,彻底的
n. 激进分

 
check [tʃek]

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n. 检查,支票,账单,制止,阻止物,检验标准,方格图案

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identity [ai'dentiti]

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n. 身份,一致,特征

 
charade [ʃə'rɑ:d]

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n. 看手势猜字谜游戏,易识破的伪装

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performance [pə'fɔ:məns]

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n. 表演,表现; 履行,实行
n. 性能,本

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unorthodox ['ʌn'ɔ:θədɔks]

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adj. 非正统的,异端的

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panic ['pænik]

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n. 恐慌
adj. 惊慌的
vt.

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