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翻译：柚子木字幕组

如果你暂时不方便看视频，没关系，英大用图文给你讲一遍。（已经观看视频的小伙伴就直接下滑看后面的东西吧~）

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其实，从某些方面讲，色觉健全的人可能比色盲患者更容易理解什么是色盲。毕竟，如果你从未见过色彩，也就不知道它还能被缺失。

但慢慢地，色盲患者通过各种痛苦的经历明白了自己的不同。

之后，他们就一直生活在这样一个与自己格格不入的世界中。

他们或是无法和亲朋好友正常交流。

或是因为自己的不同而受到欺凌。

然而，现在他们终于有了福音。科学家告诉我们，引起色盲的原因已经被确定了，而且，已经有了应对方案。

应对方案就是这么一副眼镜。

于是，被嘲笑的女孩终于知道了什么是粉红色。

父亲终于能看懂孩子的画了。

垂暮之年的老人这一生第一次看到了这么多色彩。

这种震撼一定要亲眼看见才能明白，因为，色彩这种感受态主观了，你能用色彩去形容东西和情绪，却没有办法用他们去确切地形容色彩。

而现在，他们终于也能明白这种美好了。

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作为一个在某方面健全的人，会觉得一切都理所当然，你很难体会那些不具备这种能力的人会有何感受。

因此，当我们在谈论这些人的时候也常常表现得有欠考虑。

当你说He is blind. She is a mute.的时候，你可能认为自己只是在陈述一个中性的事实，但当事人却可能受到很大的伤害。

英大今天想给大家讲讲：

当你用英语形容一个出残障人士的时候，如何能说得更委婉。

失明 Blind

Blind、deaf、mute本身是中性的词汇，不过直接对盲人说blind是不礼貌的。一般用来形容不在场的第三人，或是在对话中由盲人用来形容自己。

委婉的说法：

She was born without the ability to see. （天生的）

He has lost the ability to see due to some tragedy in the past. （事故性失明）

She is unfortunately suffering from blindness.

视障 Visually Impaired

He is unfortunately visually impaired.

It's very difficult for her to see things clearly.

He is living with visual impairment.

失聪 Deaf

She can't hear things like we do.

He does not have the ability to hear.

Her ears cannot sense any sound.

听障 Hearing Impaired

It's very challenging for him to hear things clearly.

She is physically challenged in hearing.

He is troubled with hearing impairment.

失语 Mute

Unfortunately, speaking is not what she can take for granted as we do.

For him, mutism is not something to talk about but something to overcome everyday.

语言障碍 Language Handicaped

She is suffering from language disorders.

Forming words is an activity which he has to put in effort to do.

She faces serious trouble in accessing her linguistic ablility.

色盲 Colorblind

His eyes don't have the ability to distinguish all colors.

She cannot tell the difference between red and green. （红绿色盲 daltonism）

Yellow and blue look identical to him. （黄蓝色盲 axanthoeyanopsia）

Her life is constantly being challenged by colorblindness.

肢体残疾 Handicaped

He has lost his left arm in an accident./She has lost her legs due to some tragedy.

He is a wheelchair user.

She is suffering from mobility disability.

智障 Mentally Disable

He is troubled with mental handicap.

Her brain has not developed like ours have.

学习障碍 Learning Disable

He faces more cognitive challenges than many people do.

Learning requires more effort from her.

He has to deal with some cognitive disorder.

矮小 Short

She is of short stature.

He is a person of relatively short stature.

另外，其实很多残疾人是不喜欢听到poor、unfortunately这一类带怜悯色彩的词的，这会让他们觉得被人看低。

所以最万用的委婉方式就是尽量使句子保持中性，不要带太多感情色彩。

英大头一次觉得，能看见窗外街上这些红红绿绿的灯光真是件幸运的事。

编辑：梅园西墙的王半仙