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场景 06 · 20 分钟码头风云 · On the Waterfront
The safe witness plan 场景学习单
本场重点:披露不当行为前同时设计事实核验、有限知情范围、安全联络、反报复响应和证人可随时暂停的授权边界
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理解
先读场景与人物目标,不逐词翻译。
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遮挡复述
遮住中文,用英文复述关键意思。
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迁移表达
把高价值表达改写到自己的情境。
语言观察
“Telling the truth responsibly includes planning what happens to the teller.” 用 includes 把证人安全纳入真实披露质量,而不是附带考虑。
Read and notice
原创双语场景
INT. UNION SUPPORT OFFICE — EARLY MORNING
内景 · 工会支持办公室 · 清晨
A dockworker places three dated notes on the table but keeps one hand over a page containing names and shift patterns.
一名码头工人把三份注明日期的笔记放在桌上,却仍用手盖住写有姓名和班次规律的一页。
INVESTIGATOR
If the account is true, we should record every name now before anyone can change the story.
如果陈述属实,我们现在就应记录所有姓名,以免有人改变说法。
ADVOCATE
Telling the truth responsibly includes planning what happens to the teller.
负责任地说出真相,也包括规划说出真相的人之后会经历什么。
WORKER
Today I authorize the three incidents and my own observations, but not the names of coworkers who have not agreed to speak.
今天我授权记录三起事件和我亲眼所见,但不授权披露尚未同意发声的同事姓名。
INVESTIGATOR
We can verify dates against public logs and ask each coworker separately without revealing who first raised the concern.
我们可以用公开日志核对日期,并分别询问每位同事,而不透露最先提出担忧的人。
ADVOCATE
One secure number handles updates; no visit to the workplace and no message through a supervisor.
所有更新只通过一个安全号码;不前往工作场所,也不通过主管传话。
WORKER
A changed shift, lost hours, or a threat triggers the retaliation plan and pauses any new interview.
班次变更、工时减少或威胁都会触发反报复方案,并暂停任何新访谈。
ADVOCATE
After each use of the statement, you receive a record of who saw it and may narrow the next disclosure.
陈述每次被使用后,你都会收到查看者记录,并可以缩小下一次披露范围。
The group returns to the opening concern—“If the account is true, we should record every name now before anyone can change the story.”—and compares it with the later response before closing the scene.
众人重新审视开场问题——“如果陈述属实,我们现在就应记录所有姓名,以免有人改变说法。”——并在结束场景前把它与后续回应进行比较。
INVESTIGATOR
Which part is a request, which part is permission, and what may be refused or withdrawn without losing an existing right?
哪一部分是请求,哪一部分是许可,又有哪些内容可以拒绝或撤回而不失去现有权利?
ADVOCATE
Permission will name its scope, audience, duration, storage, withdrawal route, and the consequence of saying no.
许可会写明范围、受众、期限、保存方式、撤回渠道,以及拒绝会产生什么后果。
Two phrases remain visible on the shared note: “what happens to the teller” and “my own observations,” each linked to the exact line that gives it force in the discussion.
共用记录上保留两个表达:“what happens to the teller”(说出真相的人之后会经历什么)与“my own observations”(我亲眼所见),并分别连接到赋予其讨论力量的原句。
WORKER
An independent person will check that silence was not treated as agreement and that no benefit depends on continued permission.
由独立人员检查沉默是否被误当成同意,以及任何福利是否以持续许可为条件。
The longer passage separates relationship, request, permission, refusal, and repair instead of compressing them into one yes.
加长段落把关系、请求、许可、拒绝和补救分别展开,不再压缩成一个笼统的“同意”。
A second pass through “The safe witness plan” slows the exchange where “If the account is true, we should record every name now before anyone can change the story.” still leaves motive, consequence, or responsibility unstated.
第二轮细读“The safe witness plan”时,交流在“如果陈述属实,我们现在就应记录所有姓名,以免有人改变说法。”仍未说明动机、后果或责任的位置慢下来。
ADVOCATE
What information would change the decision, who benefits from agreement, and can refusal remain safe, private, and free of retaliation?
什么信息会改变决定,谁会从同意中受益,而拒绝是否仍能保持安全、私密且不受报复?
INVESTIGATOR
The explanation will cover purpose, alternatives, foreseeable effects, data use, expiration, withdrawal, and the contact responsible for correction.
说明会覆盖目的、替代方案、可预见影响、数据用途、到期时间、撤回方式和负责纠正的联系人。
The speakers test how “what happens to the teller” changes the force of “without revealing who first raised the concern,” then restate the distinction without relying on either phrase.
说话者检验“what happens to the teller”(说出真相的人之后会经历什么)如何改变“without revealing who first raised the concern”(不透露谁最先提出担忧)的语气力度,然后不依赖这两个短语重新说明区别。
WORKER
A signature can document a decision, but it cannot repair missing information, hidden pressure, or an unusable withdrawal route.
签名可以记录决定,却无法弥补信息缺失、隐性压力或无法使用的撤回渠道。
ADVOCATE
We will pause the request, provide the missing details in plain language, and ask again only after independent questions are possible.
我们会暂停请求,用清楚的语言补齐细节,并只在对方能够独立提问后再次询问。
They rehearse one careful version, one direct version, and one version for a listener who enters late, checking that “my own observations” still leads to the same next step.
他们分别排练谨慎版、直接版和面向迟到听众的版本,检查“my own observations”(我亲眼所见)是否仍然导向同一个下一步。
Before the scene closes, “what happens to the teller” and “without revealing who first raised the concern” are placed beside the unresolved pressure in “The safe witness plan,” giving the speakers one more round to challenge, concede, reframe, and hand off the decision.
场景结束前,“what happens to the teller”(说出真相的人之后会经历什么)与“without revealing who first raised the concern”(不透露谁最先提出担忧)被放回“The safe witness plan”尚未解决的压力旁,让说话者再完成一轮质疑、让步、重述与交接。
INVESTIGATOR
If saying no changes access, status, safety, or the relationship, how can we claim the answer is voluntary, and what must change before asking again?
如果拒绝会改变机会、身份、安全或关系,我们凭什么说回答是自愿的,又必须先改变什么才能再次询问?
ADVOCATE
I accept that an earlier yes may document one moment, but it does not cover a new audience, a longer duration, hidden pressure, or a changed purpose.
我承认先前的同意只能记录一个时刻,不能覆盖新的受众、更长期限、隐性压力或已经改变的目的。
WORKER
Then permission will be specific, informed, reversible, and separate from unrelated benefits, with silence treated as a reason to pause rather than agreement.
那么许可必须具体、知情、可撤回,并与无关利益分开;沉默应被视为暂停理由,而不是同意。
INVESTIGATOR
I will pass on the approved scope, excluded uses, expiration, withdrawal route, and correction contact so no later participant has to guess what was allowed.
我会交接获准范围、排除用途、到期时间、撤回渠道和纠正联系人,让后来的参与者无需猜测哪些内容曾被允许。
The longer dialogue now leaves “The safe witness plan” with an acknowledged objection, a revised frame, a named owner, and a handoff that can be checked after the conversation ends.
更长的对话让“The safe witness plan”在结束时留下已被承认的异议、经过修订的框架、具名负责人,以及能在谈话结束后继续核验的交接。
The fuller scene treats consent as an informed, reversible process rather than a single line of approval.
更完整的场景把同意视为知情且可撤回的过程,而不是一句单独的批准。
The notes enter a sealed evidence folder while the covered names remain outside the worker’s current authorization.
笔记进入密封证据袋,被盖住的姓名则继续留在工人本次授权范围之外。
Useful language
高价值表达
what happens to the teller
/wʌt ˈhæpənz tə ðə ˈtelər/
说出真相的人之后会经历什么
把披露后的现实风险纳入行动计划。
我的例句
my own observations
/maɪ oʊn ˌɑːbzərˈveɪʃənz/
我亲眼所见
区分直接观察、他人转述和待核实信息。
我的例句
without revealing who first raised the concern
/wɪˈðaʊt rɪˈviːlɪŋ huː fɜːrst reɪzd ðə kənˈsɜːrn/
不透露谁最先提出担忧
核实时使用独立询问,降低来源暴露。
我的例句
triggers the retaliation plan
/ˈtrɪɡərz ðə rɪˌtæliˈeɪʃən plæn/
触发反报复方案
预先定义哪些变化会启动保护与暂停。
我的例句
输出练习
1. 用 2 句英文概括场景中的沟通问题。
2. 选一个高价值表达,改写成你本周可能真正使用的句子。
3. 如果你是场景中的另一方,你会怎样回应?
我能说清场景目标
我能复述关键台词
我写了自己的例句