Walk a mile in my shoes
换位思考
Have you ever heard the saying “walk a mile in my shoes?”
你听过“换位思考”吗？
I think it is a very good saying.
我认为这是一句很好的谚语。
Do you know what it means?
你知道这意味着什么吗？
It means, that before you judge someone, you should put yourself in his or her position.
这意味着，在你评判一个人之前，你应该把自己放在他或她的位置上。
For example, if someone was running in a race, and they did very poorly and came in last it wouldn’t be fair to say, “oh, he’s just a terrible runner.”
例如，如果有人在比较中跑步，但他们表现很差并且排在最后，那么说“哦，他只是一个糟糕的跑步者”是不公平的。
You would have to look at all the circumstances that made the person lose the race.
你必须考虑所有导致该人输掉比赛的情况。
Maybe they pulled a muscle in their leg the day before; maybe this is their very first race; maybe they are not in good form because something isn’t right in their lives.
也许前一天他们腿部肌肉拉伤了；也许这是他们的第一场比赛；也许他们状态不佳，因为他们的生活中有些不对劲的地方。
There can be so many things that affect a person’s life, performance and moods.
影响一个人的生活、表现和情绪的因素很多。
If someone was very quiet at a party, you couldn’t just assume that they weren’t friendly.
如果有人在聚会上很安静，你不能仅仅认为他们不友好。
You don’t know what is happening in their lives.
你不知道他们生活中发生了什么。
They could be feeling ill, or they might have just had a bad experience.
他们可能感觉不舒服，或者只是经历了一次不愉快的经历。
Nobody can know exactly how another person feels.
没有人能确切地知道另一个人的感受。
Even if someone tells you what he or she is experiencing, you still won’t fully understand what is going on inside the other person.
即使有人告诉你他或她正在经历什么，你仍然无法完全理解对方的内心世界。
Everyone perceives and feels things differently.
每个人对事物的感知和感受都不同。
To walk a mile in someone else’s shoes is to try and understand things from that person’s perspective.
站在别人的立场上就是试着从别人的角度去理解事情。
We are all shaped by the events that have taken place in our lives.
我们都受到生活中发生的事件的影响。
No two people have gone through the exact same things.
没有两个人经历过完全相同的事情。
So, before you are quick to judge someone, stop and think about what it is that they might have gone through.
所以，在你快速判断一个人之前，停下来想想他们可能经历了什么。
You won’t always understand why people do what they do, but you can try to understand and put yourself in their position.
你不会总是理解人们为什么要做他们所做的事，但你可以试着理解并设身处地为他们着想。