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What I saw

我所看到的

LIKE MOST PEOPLE, I'D HEARD ABOUT THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC.

和大多數(shù)人一樣,，我也聽說過阿片類藥物濫用的事,。

IT WAS ESPECIALLY hard to get my mind around a statistic from 2016: almost as many deaths from drug overdoses as in all of America's recent wars combined.

但我真的很難理解2016年的一個統(tǒng)計數(shù)據(jù)：因藥物過量死亡的人數(shù)幾乎和美國近年來在戰(zhàn)爭中死亡的人數(shù)加起來一樣多。

But numbers are an abstraction.

畢竟,，數(shù)字只是一個抽象的概念,。

I had no idea what it looked like on the ground.

我還是不知道真實情況是什么樣。

The only way to make real sense of it, I told my editors, was to see what happens to individual human beings, one by one.

我對我的編輯們說,，要理解事情的真相,，唯一的辦法就是逐一考察那些個體受到的影響。

Photography can cut through abstractions and rhetoric to help us understand complex issues on a human level.

照片可以打破抽象和修飾,，幫助我們從人的層面理解復雜的問題,。

Never is photography more essential than in moments of crisis.

攝影，唯有在危難關頭,，才顯得愈發(fā)重要,。

To witness people suffering is difficult.

目睹他人被痛苦折磨是種煎熬。

To make a photograph of that suffering is even harder.

把他人被痛苦折磨的樣子拍下來更煎熬,。

The challenge is to remain open to very powerful emotions and, rather than shutting down, channel them into the images.

因為你要對非常強烈的情緒保持開放的心態(tài),，將這些情緒呈現(xiàn)到照片里而不是屏蔽在照片之外。

It is crucial to see with a sense of compassion and to comprehend that just because people are suffering does not mean they lack dignity.

做這份工作,，至關重要的一點是要帶著慈悲的心腸去看待,，去理解他們遭受痛苦并不代表他們就沒了尊嚴。

Over the past 35 years, my work as a photojournalist has taken me to other countries to document wars, uprisings, natural disasters and global health crises.

在過去的35年里,，攝影記者的職責促使我去了很多國家,，拍攝那里的戰(zhàn)爭、暴動,、自然災害和全球健康危機等問題,。

In revisiting my own country, I discovered a national nightmare.

而重新回到我自己的祖國后，我發(fā)現(xiàn)了一場全國性的噩夢,。

But the people living through it aren't deviants.

問題是,，承受這一噩夢的并不是什么奇人怪人。

They are ordinary citizens, our neighbors, our family members.

而是普通公民,，是我們的鄰居,，我們的家人。

I don't think I met one user whom I would consider to be a bad person.

我沒有碰到過一個我覺得人品不好的吸毒者,。

No one wants to be an addict.

沒有誰想成為癮君子,。

I also saw signs of hope, particularly from the people who are dealing with the crisis at the street level.

但我也看到了希望的曙光，特別是那些已經(jīng)在周邊社區(qū)積極行動的人,。

Some of them are former users who have lifted themselves up and are using their experience to help others.

他們中的一些人自己也有吸毒史,，但他們已經(jīng)擺脫了那種生活，現(xiàn)在正在用自己的親身經(jīng)驗來幫助他人。

They are refusing to allow our country to be defined by this problem.

他們拒絕接受毒品問題成為我們國家的標簽,。

Instead, they are helping us define ourselves by finding solutions.

相反,，他們正設法幫助我們自己來定義這個國家。

We must join them.

所以,，我們必須加入他們的行列,。