Ms. Cuddy knew much about body language as a social scientist. Body language is what the look of our physical self communicates to others. But Professor Cuddy started to wonder what our individual body language says to our individual selves.

作为一名社会科学家，卡迪女士非常了解肢体语言。肢体语言是我们身体自我的表情与他人交流的方式。但 Cuddy 教授开始思考我们个人的肢体语言对我们个人的意义。

I'm curious — so in graduate school when I was studying relationships and communication within relationships, there was this notion that you and the person you're in a relationship with are your individual selves, but together you create a collective self.

我很好奇——所以在研究生院，当我研究人际关系和人际关系中的沟通时，有这样一种观念，即你和与你有关系的人是你个人的自我，但你们在一起创造了一个集体自我。