TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文（精選16篇）

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇1

　　I encourage you to look up the scene on YouTube – but not right now – because it’s still a very funny piece. And it’s funny because it’s ridiculous, but also because it contains a kernel of truth. And the truth applies not only to college presidents, but to all of us. How many times have we decided we’re against an idea before we’ve even heard it? How guilty are we of deciding “I’m against it” without even knowing what “it” is?

　　Many times, we know what we’re against based on who is saying it. If an idea comes from a certain public figure, politician, or media outlet, we already know how we feel. Partly this is because our public discourse has become so predictable. We’ve lost the capacity for surprise, for revelation. Speaking of predictable, here is the moment where an ambassador of an older generation – that would be me – tells millennials – most of you – about the evils of social media! But hear me out…

　　Obviously, social media has transformed our lives and our relationships. It obviously has many advantages, allowing us to share news and information quickly with people around the world. But it also heightens our sense of outrage and speeds up arguments, depriving us of the time and space for careful reflection. Bombarded with notifications, pressured to respond before the media cycle turns over, we tap out our position – our opposition – in seconds. It’s easy to be against something in fewer than 280 characters. It’s far more difficult to articulate what you are for – and to do it at warp speed.

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇2

　　Every kid needs a champion

　　每個(gè)孩子都需要一個(gè)冠軍演講稿中英對(duì)照：

　　I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse. Both my parents were educators, my maternal grandparents were educators, and for the past 40 years I've done the same thing. And so, needless to say, over those years I've had a chance to look at education reform from a lot of

　　perspectives. Some of those reforms have been good. Some of them have been not so good. And we know why kids drop out. We know why kids don't learn. It's either poverty, low attendance, negative peer influences. We know why. But one of the things that we never discuss or we rarely discuss is the value and importance of human connection, relationships.

　　我這輩子，要么是在學(xué)校，要么在去學(xué)校的路上，要么是在討論學(xué)校里發(fā)生了什么事。我的父母都是教育家，我的外祖父母也都是搞教育的，過(guò)去40年我也在從事同樣的事業(yè)。所以，很顯然，過(guò)去的這些年里，我有機(jī)會(huì)從各個(gè)角度審視教育改革。一些改革是有成效的。而另一些卻收效甚微。我們知道孩子們?yōu)槭裁吹絷?duì)輟學(xué)。我們知道孩子們?yōu)槭裁磳W(xué)不下去。原因無(wú)非是貧窮，低出席率，同齡人的壞影響。我們知道為什么。但是我們從未討論或者極少討論的是人和人之間的那種聯(lián)系的價(jià)值和重要性，這就是“關(guān)系”。

　　James Comer says that no significant learning can occur without a significant relationship. George Washington Carver says all learning is understanding relationships. Everyone in this room has been affected by a teacher or an adult.

　　For years, I have watched people teach. I have looked at the best and I've look at some of the worst.

　　James Comer (美國(guó)著名兒童精神科醫(yī)師）說(shuō)過(guò)，沒(méi)有強(qiáng)有力的聯(lián)系，學(xué)習(xí)就不會(huì)有顯著的進(jìn)步。 George Washington Carver（美國(guó)著名教育學(xué)家）說(shuō)過(guò)，學(xué)習(xí)就是理解各種關(guān)系。在座的各位都曾經(jīng)被一位老師或者一個(gè)成年人影響過(guò)。這么多年，我都在看人們?cè)趺唇虒W(xué)。我看過(guò)最好的也看過(guò)最差的。

　　A colleague said to me one time, "They don't pay me to like the kids. They pay me to teach a lesson. The kids should learn it. I should teach it. They should learn it. Case closed."

　　一次有個(gè)同事跟我說(shuō)， “我的職責(zé)不是喜歡那些孩子們。我的職責(zé)是教書(shū)。孩子們就該去學(xué)。我管教課，他們管學(xué)習(xí)。就是這么個(gè)理兒�！�

　　Well, I said to her, "You know, kids don't learn from people they don't like." 然后，我就跟她說(shuō)， “你知道，孩子們可不跟他們討厭的人學(xué)習(xí)�！�

　　(Laughter) (Applause)

　�。ㄐβ暎�（掌聲）

　　She said, "That's just a bunch of hooey."

　　她接著說(shuō)，“一派胡言�！�

　　And I said to her, "Well, your year is going to be long and arduous, dear." 然后我對(duì)她說(shuō)，“那么，親愛(ài)的，你這一年會(huì)變得十分漫長(zhǎng)和痛苦�！�

　　Needless to say it was. Some people think that you can either have it in you to build a relationship or you don't. I think Stephen Covey had the right idea. He

　　said you ought to just throw in a few simple things, like seeking first to

　　understand as opposed to being understood, simple things like apologizing. You ever thought about thatTell a kid you're sorry, they're in shock.

　　事實(shí)也果真如此。有些人認(rèn)為一個(gè)人或者天生可以建立一種關(guān)系或者不具有這種能力。我認(rèn)為Stephen Covey（美國(guó)教育家）是對(duì)的。他說(shuō)你只需要做一些簡(jiǎn)單的事情，比如試著首先理解他人，而不是想要被理解，比如道歉。你想過(guò)嗎？跟一個(gè)孩子說(shuō)你很對(duì)不起，他們都驚呆了。

　　I taught a lesson once on ratios. I'm not real good with math, but I was working on it. And I got back and looked at that teacher edition. I'd taught the whole lesson wrong. (Laughter)

　　我有一次講比例。我數(shù)學(xué)不是很好，但是我當(dāng)時(shí)在教數(shù)學(xué)。然后我下了課，翻看了教師用書(shū)。我完全教錯(cuò)了。（笑聲）

　　So I came back to class the next day, and I said, "Look, guys, I need to apologize. I taught the whole lesson wrong. I'm so sorry."

　　所以我第二天回到班上說(shuō)， “同學(xué)們，我要道歉。我昨天的課都教錯(cuò)了。我非常抱歉�！�

　　They said, "That's okay, Ms. Pierson. You were so excited, we just let you go." (Laughter) (Applause)

　　他們說(shuō)，“沒(méi)關(guān)系，Pierson老師。你當(dāng)時(shí)教得非常投入，我們就讓你繼續(xù)了。” （笑聲）（掌聲）

　　I have had classes that were so low, so academically deficient that I cried. I wondered, how am I going to take this group in nine months from where they

　　are to where they need to beAnd it was difficult. It was awfully hard. How do I raise the self-esteem of a child and his academic achievement at the same time

　　我曾經(jīng)教過(guò)程度非常低的班級(jí)，學(xué)術(shù)素養(yǎng)差到我都哭了。我當(dāng)時(shí)就想，我怎么能在9個(gè)月之內(nèi)把這些孩子提升到他們必須具備的水平？這真的很難，太艱難了。我怎么能讓一個(gè)孩子重拾自信的同時(shí)他在學(xué)術(shù)上也有進(jìn)步？

　　One year I came up with a bright idea. I told all my students, "You were chosen to be in my class because I am the best teacher and you are the best students, they put us all together so we could show everybody else how to do it."

　　有一年我有了一個(gè)非常好的主意。我告訴我的學(xué)生們， “你們進(jìn)了我的班級(jí)，因?yàn)槲沂亲詈玫睦蠋�，而你們是最好的學(xué)生，他們把我們放在一起來(lái)給其他人做個(gè)好榜樣�！�

　　One of the students said, "Really" (Laughter)

　　一個(gè)學(xué)生說(shuō)，“真的嗎？” （笑聲）

　　I said, "Really. We have to show the other classes how to do it, so when we walk down the hall, people will notice us, so you can't make noise. You just have to strut." And I gave them a saying to say: "I am somebody. I was

　　somebody when I came. I'll be a better somebody when I leave. I am powerful, and I am strong. I deserve the education that I get here. I have things to do, people to impress, and places to go."

　　我說(shuō)，“當(dāng)然是真的。我們要給其他班級(jí)做個(gè)榜樣，當(dāng)我們走在樓道里，因?yàn)榇蠹叶紩?huì)注意到我們，我們不能吵鬧。大家要昂首闊步。” 我還給了他們一個(gè)口號(hào)：“我是個(gè)人物。我來(lái)的時(shí)候是個(gè)人物。我畢業(yè)的時(shí)候會(huì)變成一個(gè)更好的人物。我

　　很有力，很強(qiáng)大。我值得在這里受教育。我有很多事情要做，我要讓人們記住我，我要去很多地方�！�

　　And they said, "Yeah!"

　　然后他們說(shuō)：“是��！”

　　You say it long enough, it starts to be a part of you.

　　如果你長(zhǎng)時(shí)間的這么說(shuō)，它就會(huì)開(kāi)始變成事實(shí)。

　　And so — (Applause) I gave a quiz, 20 questions. A student missed 18. I put a "+2" on his paper and a big smiley face.

　　所以－（掌聲）我做了一個(gè)小測(cè)驗(yàn)，20道題。一個(gè)孩子錯(cuò)了18道。我在他了卷子上寫(xiě)了個(gè)“＋2”和一個(gè)大的笑臉。

　　He said, "Ms. Pierson, is this an F"

　　他說(shuō)，“Pierson老師，這是不及格嗎？”

　　I said, "Yes."

　　我說(shuō)，“是的�！�

　　He said, "Then why'd you put a smiley face"

　　他接著說(shuō)，“那你為什么給我一個(gè)笑臉？”

　　I said, "Because you're on a roll. You got two right. You didn't miss them all." I said, "And when we review this, won't you do better"

　　我說(shuō)，“因?yàn)槟阏凉u入佳境。你沒(méi)有全錯(cuò)，還對(duì)了兩個(gè)�！� 我說(shuō)，“我們復(fù)習(xí)這些題的時(shí)候，難道你不會(huì)做得更好嗎？”

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇3

　　People returning to work after a career break: I call them relaunchers. These are people who have taken career breaks for elder care, for childcare reasons, pursuing a personal interest or a personal health issue. Closely related are career transitioners of all kinds: veterans, military spouses, retirees coming out of retirement or repatriating expats. Returning to work after a career break is hard because of a disconnect between the employers and the relaunchers. Employers can view hiring people with a gap on their resume as a high-risk proposition, and individuals on career break can have doubts about their abilities to relaunch their careers, especially if they've been out for a long time. This disconnect is a problem that I'm trying to help solve.

　　有些人經(jīng)過(guò)離職長(zhǎng)假之后 重新投入到工作中來(lái)， 我稱他們?yōu)椤霸購(gòu)臉I(yè)者”。 這些人選擇休離職長(zhǎng)假， 有些是要照顧老人， 有些是要照顧孩子， 也有些是追求個(gè)人愛(ài)好， 或是健康因素。 各行各業(yè)轉(zhuǎn)業(yè)的人 都與之緊密相關(guān)： 退伍軍人、軍嫂， 退休返聘的人， 或遣返回國(guó)者。 離職長(zhǎng)假后重返工作 是非常困難的， 因?yàn)楣椭骱驮購(gòu)臉I(yè)者之間 有了隔閡。 雇主們認(rèn)為，雇傭這些 簡(jiǎn)歷上工作時(shí)間不連貫的人 是風(fēng)險(xiǎn)極高的決策， 而正在離職長(zhǎng)假中的人 可能對(duì)自己再?gòu)臉I(yè)的能力產(chǎn)生疑慮， 特別是那些離職時(shí)間較長(zhǎng)者。 兩者間的缺乏聯(lián)系 是我在嘗試解決的問(wèn)題。

　　Now, successful relaunchers are everywhere and in every field. This is Sami Kafala. He's a nuclear physicist in the UK who took a five-year career break to be home with his five children. The Singapore press recently wrote about nurses returning to work after long career breaks. And speaking of long career breaks, this is Mimi Kahn. She's a social worker in Orange County, California, who returned to work in a social services organization after a 25-year career break. That's the longest career break that I'm aware of. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor took a five-year career break early in her career.

　　如今，我們?cè)诟餍懈鳂I(yè) 都能見(jiàn)到成功的再?gòu)臉I(yè)者。 這位是薩米·科法拉， 他是英國(guó)的一位核物理學(xué)家， 因?yàn)橐�在家照顧五個(gè)孩子 而度過(guò)了五年的離職長(zhǎng)假。 新加坡的媒體最近發(fā)表了文章， 內(nèi)容是有關(guān)離職長(zhǎng)假后再?gòu)臉I(yè)的護(hù)士。 提到長(zhǎng)時(shí)間的離職假期， 這位是米米·卡恩, 她是加州奧蘭治縣的一位社工， 她在度過(guò)20xx年的離職長(zhǎng)假后 回到了一個(gè)社會(huì)服務(wù)組織工作。 這是據(jù)我所知最長(zhǎng)的離職假期。 最高法院法官桑德拉·戴·奧康納， 在其職業(yè)生涯早期 度過(guò)了五年離職長(zhǎng)假。

　　And this is Tracy Shapiro, who took a 13-year career break. Tracy answered a call for essays by the Today Show from people who were trying to return to work but having a difficult time of it. Tracy wrote in that she was a mom of five who loved her time at home, but she had gone through a divorce and needed to return to work, plus she really wanted to bring work back into her life because she loved working. Tracy was doing what so many of us do when we feel like we've put in a good day in the job search. She was looking for a finance or accounting role, and she had just spent the last nine months very diligently researching companies online and applying for jobs with no results.

　　這位是特蕾西·莎碧羅， 她度過(guò)了20xx年的離職長(zhǎng)假。 特蕾西答復(fù)了從“今日秀”節(jié)目觀眾中 征集到的問(wèn)題， 他們想要重返工作， 卻發(fā)現(xiàn)很難做到。 特蕾西寫(xiě)道：自己是五個(gè)孩子的母親， 也很享受居家的時(shí)間， 但是她歷經(jīng)了一次離婚， 并且急需回到工作狀態(tài)， 另外，她很想把工作 帶回她的生活中， 因?yàn)樗�也很享受工作�?特蕾西也曾做過(guò) 我們很多人所做的事， 每天不停的搜尋合適的工作。 她找過(guò)財(cái)經(jīng)、會(huì)計(jì)領(lǐng)域的職位， 她在那之前花掉了九個(gè)月時(shí)間， 很努力地調(diào)查網(wǎng)上的公司， 然后投放簡(jiǎn)歷，卻一無(wú)所獲。

　　I met Tracy in June of 20xx, when the Today Show asked me if I could work with her to see if I could help her turn things around. The first thing I told Tracy was she had to get out of the house. I told her she had to go public with her job search and tell everyone she knew about her interest in returning to work. I also told her, "You are going to have a lot of conversations that don't go anywhere. Expect that, and don't be discouraged by it. There will be a handful that ultimately lead to a job opportunity."

　　我在20xx年六月見(jiàn)到了特蕾西， 那時(shí)“今日秀”節(jié)目 問(wèn)我可否與她合作， 看我能不能幫她走出困境。 我告訴特蕾西的第一件事， 就是她必須走出家門。 我告訴她，她必須 公開(kāi)自己求職的想法， 然后告訴她認(rèn)識(shí)的所有人， 自己再?gòu)臉I(yè)的強(qiáng)烈意愿。 我還告訴她， “有很多你參與的對(duì)話 是對(duì)你完全沒(méi)有幫助的。 你要做好心理準(zhǔn)備， 別因?yàn)槟切┒�灰心喪氣�?找到工作機(jī)會(huì)之前， 確實(shí)要經(jīng)歷很多瑣事�！�

　　I'll tell you what happened with Tracy in a little bit, but I want to share with you a discovery that I made when I was returning to work after my own career break of 11 years out of the full-time workforce. And that is, that people's view of you is frozen in time. What I mean by this is, when you start to get in touch with people and you get back in touch with those people from the past, the people with whom you worked or went to school, they are going to remember you as you were before your career break. And that's even if your sense of self has diminished over time, as happens with so many of us the farther removed we are from our professional identities. So for example, you might think of yourself as someone who looks like this. This is me, crazy after a day of driving around in my minivan. Or here I am in the kitchen. But those people from the past, they don't know about any of this. They only remember you as you were, and it's a great confidence boost to be back in touch with these people and hear their enthusiasm about your interest in returning to work.

　　我稍后再告訴你們 特蕾西是如何處理的， 我想先跟大家分享 我的一個(gè)發(fā)現(xiàn)， 那時(shí)我剛剛回到工作中， 結(jié)束了自己離開(kāi)全職工作大軍 20xx年的長(zhǎng)假。 這個(gè)發(fā)現(xiàn)就是， 人們對(duì)你的印象凝固在過(guò)去。 我的意思是， 當(dāng)你再次開(kāi)始與人打交道， 與曾經(jīng)合作過(guò)的人重新接觸， 例如跟你一起上學(xué)、工作過(guò)的人， 他們對(duì)你的印象是 離職長(zhǎng)假之前的你。 我們的自我意識(shí) 隨著時(shí)間推移逐漸淡化， 我們很多人都會(huì)這樣， 我們距離我們的職業(yè)身份 也就越來(lái)越遠(yuǎn)。 舉個(gè)例子， 你可能把你自己看成這樣。 這就是我，開(kāi)了一天小面包車， 整個(gè)人感覺(jué)很瘋狂。 這是我在廚房里的樣子。 但是從前的那些人， 他們對(duì)這些一無(wú)所知。 他們只記得你曾經(jīng)的樣子， 當(dāng)你重新與這些人溝通時(shí)， 真是大大的增強(qiáng)了自信心， 而且他們對(duì)你有再?gòu)臉I(yè)的興趣 感到非常的開(kāi)心。

　　There's one more thing I remember vividly from my own career break. And that was that I hardly kept up with the business news. My background is in finance, and I hardly kept up with any news when I was home caring for my four young children. So I was afraid I'd go into an interview and start talking about a company that didn't exist anymore. So I had to resubscribe to the Wall Street Journal and read it for a good six months cover to cover before I felt like I had a handle on what was going on in the business world again.

　　我還清晰地記得發(fā)生在 我離職長(zhǎng)假中的一件事。 那時(shí)我?guī)缀跬耆�不關(guān)注經(jīng)濟(jì)新聞。 我曾是財(cái)經(jīng)行業(yè)出身， 然而我在家照顧四個(gè)孩子時(shí)， 我?guī)缀醪魂P(guān)注任何的新聞。 所以我很害怕， 自己去參加面試的時(shí)候， 會(huì)講到一個(gè)不復(fù)存在的公司。 所以我重新訂閱了華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)， 然后連續(xù)看了六個(gè)月， 之后我才覺(jué)得自己對(duì)經(jīng)濟(jì) 又有了點(diǎn)解了。

　　I believe relaunchers are a gem of the workforce, and here's why. Think about our life stage: for those of us who took career breaks for childcare reasons, we have fewer or no maternity leaves. We did that already. We have fewer spousal or partner job relocations. We're in a more settled time of life. We have great work experience. We have a more mature perspective. We're not trying to find ourselves at an employer's expense. Plus we have an energy, an enthusiasm about returning to work precisely because we've been away from it for a while.

　　我相信再?gòu)臉I(yè)者是 勞動(dòng)大軍中的精英， 原因如下。 想想我們?nèi)松�的階段： 對(duì)于那些因?yàn)橐�照顧孩�?而休離職假期的人， 大都沒(méi)有產(chǎn)假，或是產(chǎn)假很短。 我們?cè)缇妥鲞^(guò)這些了。 我們離婚率較低， 也很少因伴侶而調(diào)整工作。 我們的生活更穩(wěn)定。 我們有很棒的工作經(jīng)歷， 更成熟的眼光， 我們不會(huì)成為雇主的犧牲品。 此外，我們有一種能量 - 重返崗位的熱情， 正是因?yàn)槲覀冸x職一段時(shí)間了。 另外，我也跟雇主討論，

　　On the flip side, I speak with employers, and here are two concerns that employers have about hiring relaunchers.

　　以下是雇主們 關(guān)于雇傭再?gòu)臉I(yè)者的兩個(gè)擔(dān)憂。

　　The first one is, employers are worried that relaunchers are technologically obsolete. Now, I can tell you, having been technologically obsolete myself at one point, that it's a temporary condition. I had done my financial analysis so long ago that I used Lotus 1-2-3. I don't know if anyone can even remember back that far, but I had to relearn it on Excel. It actually wasn't that hard. A lot of the commands are the same. I found PowerPoint much more challenging, but now I use PowerPoint all the time. I tell relaunchers that employers expect them to come to the table with a working knowledge of basic office management software. And if they're not up to speed, then it's their responsibility to get there. And they do.

　　其一，雇主擔(dān)心這些再?gòu)臉I(yè)者 技術(shù)方面比較落后。 我可以告訴各位， 雖然有段時(shí)間我自己技術(shù)確實(shí)落后， 但那只是暫時(shí)的。 很早以前我用“蓮花123”軟件 來(lái)做財(cái)經(jīng)分析， 我不知道有沒(méi)有人還記得 那么早以前的事了， 這些技能我得在 Excel上重新拾起。 其實(shí)這并并非難事， 很多的操作指令是一樣的。 我發(fā)現(xiàn)PowerPoint更具挑戰(zhàn)性， 但現(xiàn)在我對(duì)PowerPoint駕輕就熟。 我告訴再?gòu)臉I(yè)者們， 雇主希望找工作的人 對(duì)基本的辦公管理軟件 有實(shí)踐經(jīng)驗(yàn)。 如果他們操作速度不夠快， 那他們就必須變得更高效。 而他們確實(shí)做得到。

　　The second area of concern that employers have about relaunchers is they're worried that relaunchers don't know what they want to do. I tell relaunchers that they need to do the hard work to figure out whether their interests and skills have changed or have not changed while they have been on career break. That's not the employer's job. It's the relauncher's responsibility to demonstrate to the employer where they can add the most value.

　　雇主對(duì)再?gòu)臉I(yè)者的第二種憂慮， 就是他們擔(dān)心再?gòu)臉I(yè)者 不清楚他們想要做什么。 我告訴再?gòu)臉I(yè)者， 他們必須仔細(xì)研究， 了解自己的愛(ài)好或者技能 在離職長(zhǎng)假的過(guò)程中 是否發(fā)生了變化。 這不是雇主的職責(zé)。 這個(gè)是再?gòu)臉I(yè)者的責(zé)任， 把自己展現(xiàn)給雇主， 來(lái)充分展示自己可創(chuàng)造的價(jià)值。

　　Back in 20xx I started noticing something. I had been tracking return to work programs since 20xx, and in 20xx, I started noticing the use of a short-term paid work opportunity, whether it was called an internship or not, but an internship-like experience, as a way for professionals to return to work. I saw Goldman Sachs and Sara Lee start corporate reentry internship programs. I saw a returning engineer, a nontraditional reentry candidate, apply for an entry-level internship program in the military, and then get a permanent job afterward. I saw two universities integrate internships into mid-career executive education programs.

　　20xx年，我開(kāi)始注意到一件事。 我從20xx年開(kāi)始追蹤 人們重返崗位的情況， 然而在20xx年，我開(kāi)始注意到， 一種短期、帶薪的工作機(jī)會(huì)開(kāi)始出現(xiàn)， 不論它是不是名叫“實(shí)習(xí)”， 但總之是一個(gè)很像實(shí)習(xí)的經(jīng)歷， 這為重回崗位的專業(yè)人士 開(kāi)辟了一條道路。 我看到高盛和莎莉集團(tuán) 都開(kāi)始了此類 二次從業(yè)的實(shí)習(xí)項(xiàng)目。 我看到一個(gè)再?gòu)臉I(yè)的工程師， 算是不太傳統(tǒng)的再?gòu)臉I(yè)人士， 申請(qǐng)了一個(gè) 軍方的初級(jí)實(shí)習(xí)項(xiàng)目， 后來(lái)他獲得了一個(gè)永久的工作。 我看到兩所大學(xué) 將實(shí)習(xí)項(xiàng)目整合到 職業(yè)中期管理學(xué)教育項(xiàng)目中。

　　So I wrote a report about what I was seeing, and it became this article for Harvard Business Review called "The 40-Year-Old Intern." I have to thank the editors there for that title, and also for this artwork where you can see the 40-year-old intern in the midst of all the college interns. And then, courtesy of Fox Business News, they called the concept "The 50-Year-Old Intern."

　　于是，就我所觀察到的現(xiàn)象， 我寫(xiě)了一篇報(bào)告， 后來(lái)它發(fā)表在了 《哈佛商業(yè)評(píng)論》中， 名字叫《40歲的實(shí)習(xí)生》。 我必須得感謝編者擬的標(biāo)題， 還有這個(gè)很棒的配圖， 你們可以看到那個(gè)40歲的實(shí)習(xí)生 出現(xiàn)在一群大學(xué)實(shí)習(xí)生中。 后來(lái)，還得感謝�？怂股虡I(yè)新聞， 他們把這個(gè)概念稱為 “50歲的實(shí)習(xí)生”。

　　So five of the biggest financial services companies have reentry internship programs for returning finance professionals. And at this point, hundreds of people have participated. These internships are paid, and the people who move on to permanent roles are commanding competitive salaries. And now, seven of the biggest engineering companies are piloting reentry internship programs for returning engineers as part of an initiative with the Society of Women Engineers. Now, why are companies embracing the reentry internship? Because the internship allows the employer to base their hiring decision on an actual work sample instead of a series of interviews, and the employer does not have to make that permanent hiring decision until the internship period is over. This testing out period removes the perceived risk that some managers attach to hiring relaunchers, and they are attracting excellent candidates who are turning into great hires.

　　五家最大的金融服務(wù)公司 都設(shè)立了再?gòu)臉I(yè)實(shí)習(xí)項(xiàng)目， 專為重回崗位的金融精英。 截至目前，數(shù)百人參與了這些項(xiàng)目。 這些實(shí)習(xí)項(xiàng)目是帶薪的， 而且那些晉升到永久崗位的人， 都有極具競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力的薪資。 現(xiàn)在，七家最大的工程公司， 也在推行再?gòu)臉I(yè)實(shí)習(xí)項(xiàng)目， 來(lái)幫助重返崗位的工程師， 這也是女性工程師協(xié)會(huì) 新方案的一部分。 那么，為什么這些企業(yè) 大力支持再?gòu)臉I(yè)實(shí)習(xí)呢? 因?yàn)檫@種實(shí)習(xí)可以讓雇主 基于參與者實(shí)際工作成效 來(lái)做出雇傭決策， 而非一系列的面試， 而且雇主不必在實(shí)習(xí)結(jié)束之前 就做出永久雇傭的決定。 這段試驗(yàn)期消除了一定的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)， 這關(guān)乎某些經(jīng)理人 對(duì)雇傭再?gòu)臉I(yè)者的擔(dān)憂， 同時(shí)，這也吸引了大量再?gòu)臉I(yè)人士， 他們成為了出色的雇傭?qū)ο蟆?/p>

　　Think about how far we have come. Before this, most employers were not interested in engaging with relaunchers at all. But now, not only are programs being developed specifically with relaunchers in mind, but you can't even apply for these programs unless you have a gap on your résumé.

　　各位,想一想我們?nèi)〉玫倪M(jìn)步， 在此之前，大多數(shù)雇主 根本沒(méi)興趣與再?gòu)臉I(yè)者打交道。 然而現(xiàn)在，有許多項(xiàng)目在開(kāi)展實(shí)施， 特別是針對(duì)再?gòu)臉I(yè)者的項(xiàng)目， 如果簡(jiǎn)歷上沒(méi)有一段空檔期， 你根本不能申請(qǐng)這些項(xiàng)目。

　　This is the mark of real change, of true institutional shift, because if we can solve this problem for relaunchers, we can solve it for other career transitioners too. In fact, an employer just told me that their veterans return to work program is based on their reentry internship program. And there's no reason why there can't be a retiree internship program. Different pool, same concept.

　　這標(biāo)志著一種實(shí)質(zhì)變化， 一種真正的制度變革， 因?yàn)槿绻�我們可�?為再?gòu)臉I(yè)者解決這個(gè)問(wèn)題， 我們亦可為其他的職業(yè)轉(zhuǎn)型者 解決同樣的問(wèn)題。 事實(shí)上，一位雇主剛剛告訴我， 他們的“退伍軍人再?gòu)臉I(yè)項(xiàng)目”， 就是基于他們的再?gòu)臉I(yè)實(shí)習(xí)項(xiàng)目。 我們也沒(méi)有理由不去設(shè)立 一個(gè)“退休人士實(shí)習(xí)項(xiàng)目”。 不同的對(duì)象，相同的概念。

　　So let me tell you what happened with Tracy Shapiro. Remember that she had to tell everyone she knew about her interest in returning to work. Well, one critical conversation with another parent in her community led to a job offer for Tracy, and it was an accounting job in a finance department. But it was a temp job. The company told her there was a possibility it could turn into something more, but no guarantees. This was in the fall of 20xx. Tracy loved this company, and she loved the people and the office was less than 10 minutes from her house. So even though she had a second job offer at another company for a permanent full-time role, she decided to take her chances with this internship and hope for the best. Well, she ended up blowing away all of their expectations, and the company not only made her a permanent offer at the beginning of 20xx, but they made it even more interesting and challenging, because they knew what Tracy could handle.

　　讓我告訴你們特蕾西·莎碧羅 最后發(fā)生了什么。 各位回想一下， 她必須告訴她認(rèn)識(shí)的每一個(gè)人， 自己對(duì)重返工作崗位很有興趣。 結(jié)果，她與自己社區(qū)里的長(zhǎng)輩 進(jìn)行了一次關(guān)鍵的談話， 這讓她找到了一份工作邀請(qǐng)。 那是一個(gè)金融部門的會(huì)計(jì)工作。 但那是臨時(shí)的。 公司告訴她， 有可能有崗位晉升的機(jī)會(huì)， 但是不能保證。 那是20xx年的秋天。 特蕾西很愛(ài)那個(gè)公司， 而且她喜歡那里的員工， 從辦公室去她家只需10分鐘。 所以即使她后來(lái)得到了 第二份工作邀請(qǐng)， 來(lái)自另一家公司， 而且有永久、全職的保證， 她決定在這份實(shí)習(xí)項(xiàng)目中冒冒險(xiǎn)， 盡人事，聽(tīng)天命。 最后，她的業(yè)績(jī) 遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超出了所有人的期望值， 公司不但提供了她永久崗位， 那是在20xx年初， 而且他們還讓她的工作 更加有趣、有挑戰(zhàn)性， 因?yàn)樗麄冎�道特蕾西可以辦得到。

　　Fast forward to 20xx, Tracy's been promoted. They've paid for her to get her MBA at night. She's even hired another relauncher to work for her. Tracy's temp job was a tryout, just like an internship, and it ended up being a win for both Tracy and her employer.

　　時(shí)間快進(jìn)到20xx年， 特蕾西獲得了晉升。 公司為她的夜校工商管理課程買單。 她甚至雇傭了 另一位再?gòu)臉I(yè)者為她工作。 特蕾西的臨時(shí)工作像是一個(gè)試驗(yàn)， 就像實(shí)習(xí)項(xiàng)目， 而最終，特蕾西和她的雇主 達(dá)到了雙贏局面。

　　Now, my goal is to bring the reentry internship concept to more and more employers. But in the meantime, if you are returning to work after a career break, don't hesitate to suggest an internship or an internship-like arrangement to an employer that does not have a formal reentry internship program. Be their first success story, and you can be the example for more relaunchers to come.

　　我的目標(biāo)是將這種 再?gòu)臉I(yè)實(shí)習(xí)的概念 推薦給越來(lái)越多的雇主。 但是與此同時(shí)， 如果你在離職長(zhǎng)假后重返崗位， 別猶豫向雇主提議設(shè)立實(shí)習(xí)項(xiàng)目， 或者類似實(shí)習(xí)項(xiàng)目的想法， 特別是那些沒(méi)有 正式的再?gòu)臉I(yè)實(shí)習(xí)項(xiàng)目的公司。 爭(zhēng)當(dāng)他們的第一個(gè)成功故事， 而你們都可以成為 未來(lái)更多再?gòu)臉I(yè)者的楷模。

　　Thank you.

　　謝謝大家。

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇4

　　When I was nine years old I went off to summer camp for the first time。 And my mother packed me a suitcase full of books， which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do。 Because in my family， reading was the primary group activity。 And this might sound antisocial to you， but for us it was really just a different way of being social。 You have the animal warmth of your family sitting right next to you， but you are also free to go roaming around the adventureland inside your own mind。 And I had this idea that camp was going to be just like this， but better。 （Laughter） I had a vision of 10 girls sitting in a cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns。

　　當(dāng)我九歲的時(shí)候 我第一次去參加夏令營(yíng) 我媽媽幫我整理好了我的行李箱 里面塞滿了書(shū) 這對(duì)于我來(lái)說(shuō)是一件極為自然的事情 因?yàn)樵谖业募彝ダ?閱讀是主要的家庭活動(dòng) 聽(tīng)上去你們可能覺(jué)得我們是不愛(ài)交際的 但是對(duì)于我的家庭來(lái)說(shuō)這真的只是接觸社會(huì)的另一種途徑 你們有自己家庭接觸時(shí)的溫暖親情 家人靜坐在你身邊 但是你也可以自由地漫游 在你思維深處的冒險(xiǎn)樂(lè)園里我有一個(gè)想法 野營(yíng)會(huì)變得像這樣子，當(dāng)然要更好些 （笑聲） 我想象到十個(gè)女孩坐在一個(gè)小屋里 都穿著合身的女式睡衣愜意地享受著讀書(shū)的過(guò)程

　　（Laughter）

　�。ㄐβ暎�

　　Camp was more like a keg party without any alcohol。 And on the very first day our counselor gathered us all together and she taught us a cheer that she said we would be doing every day for the rest of the summer to instill camp spirit。 And it went like this： "R—O—W—D—I—E， that's the way we spell rowdie。 Rowdie， rowdie， let's get rowdie。" Yeah。 So I couldn't figure out for the life of me why we were supposed to be so rowdy， or why we had to spell this word incorrectly。 （Laughter） But I recited a cheer。 I recited a cheer along with everybody else。 I did my best。 And I just waited for the time that I could go off and read my books。

　　野營(yíng)這時(shí)更像是一個(gè)不提供酒水的派對(duì)聚會(huì) 在第一天的時(shí)候呢 我們的顧問(wèn)把我們都集合在一起 并且她教會(huì)了我們一種今后要用到的慶祝方式 在余下夏令營(yíng)的每一天中 讓“露營(yíng)精神”浸潤(rùn)我們 之后它就像這樣繼續(xù)著 R—O—W—D—I—E 這是我們拼寫(xiě)“吵鬧"的口號(hào) 我們唱著“噪音，喧鬧，我們要變得吵一點(diǎn)” 對(duì)，就是這樣 可我就是弄不明白我的生活會(huì)是什么樣的 為什么我們變得這么吵鬧粗暴 或者為什么我們非要把這個(gè)單詞錯(cuò)誤地拼寫(xiě) （笑聲） 但是我可沒(méi)有忘記慶祝。我與每個(gè)人都互相歡呼慶祝了 我盡了我最大的努力 我只是想等待那一刻 我可以離開(kāi)吵鬧的聚會(huì)去捧起我摯愛(ài)的書(shū)

　　But the first time that I took my book out of my suitcase， the coolest girl in the bunk came up to me and she asked me， "Why are you being so mellow？" —— mellow， of course， being the exact opposite of R—O—W—D—I—E。 And then the second time I tried it， the counselor came up to me with a concerned expression on her face and she repeated the point about camp spirit and said we should all work very hard to be outgoing。

　　但是當(dāng)我第一次把書(shū)從行李箱中拿出來(lái)的時(shí)候 床鋪中最酷的那個(gè)女孩向我走了過(guò)來(lái) 并且她問(wèn)我：“為什么你要這么安靜？” 安靜，當(dāng)然，是R—O—W—D—I—E的反義詞 “喧鬧”的反義詞 而當(dāng)我第二次拿書(shū)的時(shí)候 我們的顧問(wèn)滿臉憂慮的向我走了過(guò)來(lái) 接著她重復(fù)了關(guān)于“露營(yíng)精神”的要點(diǎn)并且說(shuō)我們都應(yīng)當(dāng)努力 去變得外向些

　　And so I put my books away， back in their suitcase， and I put them under my bed， and there they stayed for the rest of the summer。 And I felt kind of guilty about this。 I felt as if the books needed me somehow， and they were calling out to me and I was forsaking them。But I did forsake them and I didn't open that suitcase again until I was back home with my family at the end of the summer。

　　于是我放好我的書(shū) 放回了屬于它們的行李箱中 并且我把它們放到了床底下 在那里它們度過(guò)了暑假余下的每一天 我對(duì)這樣做感到很愧疚 不知為什么我感覺(jué)這些書(shū)是需要我的 它們?cè)诤魡疚�，但是我卻放棄了它們 我確實(shí)放下了它們，并且我再也沒(méi)有打開(kāi)那個(gè)箱子 直到我和我的家人一起回到家中 在夏末的時(shí)候

　　Now， I tell you this story about summer camp。 I could have told you 50 others just like it ——all the times that I got the message that somehow my quiet and introverted style of beingwas not necessarily the right way to go， that I should be trying to pass as more of an extrovert。 And I always sensed deep down that this was wrong and that introverts were pretty excellent just as they were。 But for years I denied this intuition， and so I became a Wall Street lawyer， of all things， instead of the writer that I had always longed to be —— partly because I needed to prove to myself that I could be bold and assertive too。 And I was always going off to crowded bars when I really would have preferred to just have a nice dinner with friends。 And I made these self—negating choices so reflexively， that I wasn't even aware that I was making them。

　　現(xiàn)在，我向你們講述這個(gè)夏令營(yíng)的故事 我完全可以給你們講出其他50種版本就像這個(gè)一樣的故事—— 每當(dāng)我感覺(jué)到這樣的時(shí)候 它告訴我出于某種原因，我的寧?kù)o和內(nèi)向的風(fēng)格 并不是正確道路上的必需品 我應(yīng)該更多地嘗試一個(gè)外向者的角色 而在我內(nèi)心深處感覺(jué)得到，這是錯(cuò)誤的內(nèi)向的人們都是非常優(yōu)秀的，確實(shí)是這樣 但是許多年來(lái)我都否認(rèn)了這種直覺(jué) 于是我首先成為了華爾街的一名律師 而不是我長(zhǎng)久以來(lái)想要成為的一名作家 一部分原因是因?yàn)槲蚁胍�證明自己 也可以變得勇敢而堅(jiān)定 并且我總是去那些擁擠的酒吧 當(dāng)我只是想要和朋友們吃一頓愉快的晚餐時(shí) 我做出了這些自我否認(rèn)的抉擇 如條件反射一般 甚至我都不清楚我做出了這些決定

　　Now this is what many introverts do， and it's our loss for sure， but it is also our colleagues' loss and our communities' loss。 And at the risk of sounding grandiose， it is the world's loss。 Because when it comes to creativity and to leadership， we need introverts doing what they do best。 A third to a half of the population are introverts —— a third to a half。 So that's one out of every two or three people you know。 So even if you're an extrovert yourself， I'm talking about your coworkers and your spouses and your childrenand the person sitting next to you right now —— all of them subject to this bias that is pretty deep and real in our society。 We all internalize it from a very early age without even having a language for what we're doing。

　　這就是很多內(nèi)向的人正在做的事情 這當(dāng)然是我們的損失 但這同樣也是同事們的損失 我們所在團(tuán)隊(duì)集體的損失 當(dāng)然，冒著被指為夸大其詞的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)我想說(shuō)，更是世界的損失 因?yàn)楫?dāng)涉及創(chuàng)造和領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的時(shí)候 我們需要內(nèi)向的人做到最好 三分之一到二分之一的人都是內(nèi)向的—— 三分之一到二分之一 你要知道這可意味著每?jī)傻饺齻�(gè)人中就有一個(gè)內(nèi)向的 所以即使你自己是一個(gè)外向的人 我正在說(shuō)你的同事 和你的配偶和你的孩子 還有現(xiàn)在正坐在你旁邊的那個(gè)家伙—— 他們都要屈從于這樣的偏見(jiàn) 一種在我們的社會(huì)中已經(jīng)扎根的現(xiàn)實(shí)偏見(jiàn) 我們從很小的時(shí)候就把它藏在內(nèi)心最深處 甚至都不說(shuō)幾句話，關(guān)于我們正在做的事情。

　　Now to see the bias clearly you need to understand what introversion is。 It's different from being shy。 Shyness is about fear of social judgment。 Introversion is more about， how do you respond to stimulation， including social stimulation。 So extroverts really crave large amounts of stimulation， whereas introverts feel at their most alive and their most switched—on and their most capable when they're in quieter， more low—key environments。Not all the time —— these things aren't absolute —— but a lot of the time。 So the key then to maximizing our talents is for us all to put ourselves in the zone of stimulation that is right for us。

　　現(xiàn)在讓我們來(lái)清楚地看待這種偏見(jiàn) 我們需要真正了解“內(nèi)向”到底指什么 它和害羞是不同的 害羞是對(duì)于社會(huì)評(píng)論的恐懼 內(nèi)向更多的是 你怎樣對(duì)于刺激作出回應(yīng) 包括來(lái)自社會(huì)的刺激 其實(shí)內(nèi)向的人是很渴求大量的鼓舞和激勵(lì)的 反之內(nèi)向者最感覺(jué)到他們的存在 這是他們精力最充足的時(shí)候，最具有能力的時(shí)候 當(dāng)他們存在于更安靜的，更低調(diào)的環(huán)境中 并不是所有時(shí)候——這些事情都不是絕對(duì)的—— 但是存在于很多時(shí)候 所以說(shuō)，關(guān)鍵在于 把我們的天賦發(fā)揮到最大化 這對(duì)于我們來(lái)說(shuō)就足夠把我們自己 放到對(duì)于我們正確又合適的激勵(lì)的區(qū)域中去

　　But now here's where the bias comes in。 Our most important institutions， our schools and our workplaces， they are designed mostly for extroverts and for extroverts' need for lots of stimulation。 And also we have this belief system right now that I call the new groupthink，which holds that all creativity and all productivity comes from a very oddly gregarious place。

　　但是現(xiàn)在偏見(jiàn)出現(xiàn)了 我們最重要的那些體系 我們的學(xué)校和工作單位 它們都是為性格外向者設(shè)計(jì)的 并且有適合他們需要的刺激和鼓勵(lì) 當(dāng)然我們現(xiàn)在也有這樣一種信用機(jī)制 我稱它為新型的“團(tuán)隊(duì)思考” 這是一種包含所有創(chuàng)造力和生產(chǎn)力的思考方式 從一個(gè)社交非常零散的地方產(chǎn)生的

　　So if you picture the typical classroom nowadays： When I was going to school， we sat in rows。 We sat in rows of desks like this， and we did most of our work pretty autonomously。But nowadays， your typical classroom has pods of desks —— four or five or six or seven kids all facing each other。 And kids are working in countless group assignments。 Even in subjects like math and creative writing， which you think would depend on solo flights of thought， kids are now expected to act as committee members。 And for the kids who preferto go off by themselves or just to work alone， those kids are seen as outliers often or， worse， as problem cases。 And the vast majority of teachers reports believing that the ideal student is an extrovert as opposed to an introvert， even though introverts actually get better grades and are more knowledgeable， according to research。 （Laughter）

　　當(dāng)你描繪今天典型教室的圖案時(shí) 當(dāng)我還上學(xué)的時(shí)候 我們一排排地坐著 我們靠著桌子一排排坐著就像這樣 并且我們大多數(shù)工作都是自覺(jué)完成的 但是在現(xiàn)代社會(huì)，所謂典型的教室 是些圈起來(lái)并排的桌子—— 四個(gè)或是五個(gè)或是六、七個(gè)孩子坐在一起，面對(duì)面 孩子們要完成無(wú)數(shù)個(gè)小組任務(wù) 甚至像數(shù)學(xué)和創(chuàng)意寫(xiě)作這些課程 這些你們認(rèn)為需要依靠個(gè)人閃光想法的課程 孩子們現(xiàn)在卻被期待成為小組會(huì)的成員 對(duì)于那些喜歡 獨(dú)處，或者自己一個(gè)人工作的孩子來(lái)說(shuō) 這些孩子常常被視為局外人 或者更糟，被視為問(wèn)題孩子 并且很大一部分老師的報(bào)告中都相信 最理想的學(xué)生應(yīng)該是外向的 相對(duì)于內(nèi)向的學(xué)生而言 甚至說(shuō)外向的學(xué)生能夠取得更好的成績(jī) 更加博學(xué)多識(shí)據(jù)研究報(bào)道 （笑聲）

　　Okay， same thing is true in our workplaces。 Now， most of us work in open plan offices，without walls， where we are subject to the constant noise and gaze of our coworkers。 And when it comes to leadership， introverts are routinely passed over for leadership positions，even though introverts tend to be very careful， much less likely to take outsize risks ——which is something we might all favor nowadays。 And interesting research by Adam Grant at the Wharton School has found that introverted leaders often deliver better outcomes than extroverts do， because when they are managing proactive employees， they're much more likely to let those employees run with their ideas， whereas an extrovert can， quite unwittingly， get so excited about things that they're putting their own stamp on things， and other people's ideas might not as easily then bubble up to the surface。

　　好了。同樣的事情也發(fā)生在我們工作的地方 現(xiàn)在呢，我們中的絕大多數(shù)都工作在寬闊沒(méi)有隔間的辦公室里 甚至沒(méi)有墻 在這里，我們暴露 在不斷的噪音和我們同事的凝視目光下工作 而當(dāng)談及領(lǐng)袖氣質(zhì)的時(shí)候 內(nèi)向的人總是按照慣例從領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的位置被忽視了 盡管內(nèi)向的人是非常小心仔細(xì)的 很少去冒特大的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)—— 這些風(fēng)險(xiǎn)是今天我們可能都喜歡的 賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)沃頓商學(xué)院的亞當(dāng)·格蘭特教授做了一項(xiàng)很有意思的研究 這項(xiàng)研究表明內(nèi)向的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)們 相對(duì)于外向領(lǐng)導(dǎo)而言總是會(huì)生產(chǎn)更大的效益 因?yàn)楫?dāng)他們管理主動(dòng)積極的雇員的時(shí)候 他們更傾向于讓有主見(jiàn)的雇員去自由發(fā)揮 反之外向的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)就可能，當(dāng)然是不經(jīng)意的 對(duì)于事情變得十分激動(dòng) 他們?cè)谑聞?wù)上有了自己想法的印跡 這使其他人的想法可能就不會(huì)很容易地 在舞臺(tái)上發(fā)光了

　　Now in fact， some of our transformative leaders in history have been introverts。 I'll give you some examples。 Eleanor Roosevelt， Rosa Parks， Gandhi —— all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft—spoken and even shy。 And they all took the spotlight， even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to。 And this turns out to have a special power all its own， because people could feel that these leaders were at the helm，not because they enjoyed directing others and not out of the pleasure of being looked at;they were there because they had no choice， because they were driven to do what they thought was right。

　　事實(shí)上，歷史上一些有改革能力的領(lǐng)袖都是內(nèi)向的人 我會(huì)舉一些例子給你們 埃莉諾·羅斯福，羅沙·帕克斯，甘地 —— 所有這些人都把自己描述成 內(nèi)向，說(shuō)話溫柔甚至是害羞的人 他們?nèi)匀徽驹诹司酃鉄粝?即使他們渾身上下 都感知他們說(shuō)不要 這證明是一種屬于它自身的特殊的力量因?yàn)槿藗兌紩?huì)感覺(jué)這些領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者同時(shí)是掌舵者 并不是因?yàn)樗麄兿矚g指揮別人 抑或是享受眾人目光的聚焦 他們處在那個(gè)位置因?yàn)樗麄儧](méi)有選擇 因?yàn)樗麄冃旭傇谒麄冋J(rèn)為正確的道路上

　　Now I think at this point it's important for me to say that I actually love extroverts。 I always like to say some of my best friends are extroverts， including my beloved husband。 And we all fall at different points， of course， along the introvert/extrovert spectrum。 Even Carl Jung， the psychologist who first popularized these terms， said that there's no such thing as a pure introvert or a pure extrovert。 He said that such a man would be in a lunatic asylum， if he existed at all。 And some people fall smack in the middle of the introvert/extrovert spectrum， and we call these people ambiverts。 And I often think that they have the best of all worlds。 But many of us do recognize ourselves as one type or the other。

　　現(xiàn)在我覺(jué)得對(duì)于這點(diǎn)我有必要說(shuō) 那就是我真的喜愛(ài)外向的人 我總是喜歡說(shuō)我最好的幾個(gè)朋友都是外向的人 包括我親愛(ài)的丈夫 當(dāng)然了我們都會(huì)在不同點(diǎn)時(shí)偏向 內(nèi)向者/外向者的范圍 甚至是卡爾·榮格，這個(gè)讓這些名詞為大眾所熟知的心理學(xué)家，說(shuō)道 世上絕沒(méi)有一個(gè)純粹的內(nèi)向的人 或者一個(gè)純粹的外向的人 他說(shuō)這樣的人會(huì)在精神病院里 如果他存在的話 還有一些人處在中間的跡象 在內(nèi)向與外向之間 我們稱這些人為“中向性格者” 并且我總是認(rèn)為他們擁有世界最美好的一切 但是我們中的大多數(shù)總是認(rèn)為自己屬于內(nèi)向或者外向，其中一類

　　And what I'm saying is that culturally we need a much better balance。 We need more of a yin and yang between these two types。 This is especially important when it comes to creativity and to productivity， because when psychologists look at the lives of the most creative people， what they find are people who are very good at exchanging ideas and advancing ideas， but who also have a serious streak of introversion in them。

　　同時(shí)我想說(shuō)從文化意義上講我們需要一種更好的平衡 我們需要更多的陰陽(yáng)的平衡 在這兩種類型的人之間 這點(diǎn)是極為重要的 當(dāng)涉及創(chuàng)造力和生產(chǎn)力的時(shí)候 因?yàn)楫?dāng)心理學(xué)家們看待 最有創(chuàng)造力的人的生命的時(shí)候 他們尋找到的 是那些擅長(zhǎng)變換思維的人 提出想法的人 但是他們同時(shí)也有著極為顯著的偏內(nèi)向的痕跡

　　And this is because solitude is a crucial ingredient often to creativity。 So Darwin， he took long walks alone in the woods and emphatically turned down dinner party invitations。Theodor Geisel， better known as Dr。 Seuss， he dreamed up many of his amazing creations in a lonely bell tower office that he had in the back of his house in La Jolla， California。 And he was actually afraid to meet the young children who read his books for fear that they were expecting him this kind of jolly Santa Claus—like figure and would be disappointed with his more reserved persona。 Steve Wozniak invented the first Apple computer sitting alone in his cubical in Hewlett—Packard where he was working at the time。 And he says that he never would have become such an expert in the first place had he not been too introverted to leave the house when he was growing up。

　　這是因?yàn)楠?dú)處是非常關(guān)鍵的因素 對(duì)于創(chuàng)造力來(lái)說(shuō) 所以達(dá)爾文 自己一個(gè)人漫步在小樹(shù)林里 并且斷然拒絕了晚餐派對(duì)的邀約 西奧多·蓋索，更多時(shí)候以蘇索博士的名號(hào)知名 他夢(mèng)想過(guò)很多的驚人的創(chuàng)作 在他在加利福尼亞州拉霍亞市房子的后面的 一座孤獨(dú)的束層的塔形辦公室中 而且其實(shí)他很害怕見(jiàn)面 見(jiàn)那些讀過(guò)他的書(shū)的年輕的孩子們 害怕他們會(huì)期待他 這樣一位令人愉快的，圣誕老人形象的人物 同時(shí)又會(huì)因發(fā)現(xiàn)他含蓄緘默的性格而失望 史蒂夫·沃茲尼亞克發(fā)明了第一臺(tái)蘋(píng)果電腦 一個(gè)人獨(dú)自坐在他的機(jī)柜旁 在他當(dāng)時(shí)工作的惠普公司 并且他說(shuō)他永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)在那方面成為一號(hào)專家 但他還沒(méi)因太內(nèi)向到要離開(kāi)那里 那個(gè)他成長(zhǎng)起來(lái)的地方

　　Now of course， this does not mean that we should all stop collaborating —— and case in point， is Steve Wozniak famously coming together with Steve Jobs to start Apple Computer —— but it does mean that solitude matters and that for some people it is the air that they breathe。 And in fact， we have known for centuries about the transcendent power of solitude。 It's only recently that we've strangely begun to forget it。 If you look at most of the world's major religions， you will find seekers —— Moses， Jesus， Buddha， Muhammad ——seekers who are going off by themselves alone to the wilderness where they then have profound epiphanies and revelations that they then bring back to the rest of the community。 So no wilderness， no revelations。

　　當(dāng)然了 這并不意味著我們都應(yīng)該停止合作—— 恰當(dāng)?shù)睦�子呢，是史蒂夫·沃茲尼亞克和史蒂夫·喬布斯的著名�?lián)手 創(chuàng)建蘋(píng)果電腦公司—— 但是這并不意味著和獨(dú)處有重大關(guān)系 并且對(duì)于一些人來(lái)說(shuō) 這是他們賴以呼吸生存的空氣 事實(shí)上，幾個(gè)世紀(jì)以來(lái)我們已經(jīng)非常明白 獨(dú)處的卓越力量只是到了最近，非常奇怪，我們開(kāi)始遺忘它了 如果你看看世界上主要的宗教 你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)探尋者—— 摩西，耶穌，佛祖，那些獨(dú)身去探尋的人們 在大自然的曠野中獨(dú)處，思索 在那里，他們有了深刻的頓悟和對(duì)于奧義的揭示 之后他們把這些思想帶回到社會(huì)的其他地方去沒(méi)有曠原，沒(méi)有啟示

　　This is no surprise though if you look at the insights of contemporary psychology。 It turns out that we can't even be in a group of people without instinctively mirroring， mimicking their opinions。 Even about seemingly personal and visceral things like who you're attracted to， you will start aping the beliefs of the people around you without even realizing that that's what you're doing。

　　盡管這并不令人驚訝 如果你注意到現(xiàn)代心理學(xué)的思想理論 它反映出來(lái)我們甚至不能和一組人待在一起 而不去本能地模仿他們的意見(jiàn)與想法 甚至是看上去私人的，發(fā)自內(nèi)心的事情 像是你被誰(shuí)所吸引 你會(huì)開(kāi)始模仿你周圍的人的信仰 甚至都覺(jué)察不到你自己在做什么

　　And groups famously follow the opinions of the most dominant or charismatic person in the room， even though there's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas —— I mean zero。 So 。。。 （Laughter） You might be following the person with the best ideas， but you might not。 And do you really want to leave it up to chance？ Much better for everybody to go off by themselves， generate their own ideas freed from the distortions of group dynamics， and then come together as a team to talk them through in a well—managed environment and take it from there。

　　還曾跟隨群體的意見(jiàn) 跟隨著房間里最具有統(tǒng)治力的，最有領(lǐng)袖氣質(zhì)的人的思路 雖然這真的沒(méi)什么關(guān)系 在成為一個(gè)卓越的演講家還是擁有最好的主意之間—— 我的意思是“零相關(guān)” 那么。。。（笑聲） 你們或許會(huì)跟隨有最好頭腦的人 但是你們也許不會(huì) 可你們真的想把這機(jī)會(huì)扔掉嗎？如果每個(gè)人都自己行動(dòng)或許好得多 發(fā)掘他們自己的想法 沒(méi)有群體動(dòng)力學(xué)的曲解 接著來(lái)到一起組成一個(gè)團(tuán)隊(duì) 在一個(gè)良好管理的環(huán)境中互相交流 并且在那里學(xué)習(xí)別的思想

　　Now if all this is true， then why are we getting it so wrong？ Why are we setting up our schools this way and our workplaces？ And why are we making these introverts feel so guilty about wanting to just go off by themselves some of the time？ One answer lies deep in our cultural history。 Western societies， and in particular the U。S。， have always favored the man of action over the man of contemplation and "man" of contemplation。 But in America's early days， we lived in what historians call a culture of character， where we still， at that point， valued people for their inner selves and their moral rectitude。 And if you look at the self—help books from this era， they all had titles with things like "Character， the Grandest Thing in the World。" And they featured role models like Abraham Lincoln who was praised for being modest and unassuming。 Ralph Waldo Emerson called him "A man who does not offend by superiority。"

　　如果說(shuō)現(xiàn)在這一切都是真的 那么為什么我們還得到這樣錯(cuò)誤的結(jié)論？ 為什么我們要這樣創(chuàng)立我們的學(xué)校，還有我們的工作單位？ 為什么我們要讓這些內(nèi)向的人覺(jué)得那么愧疚 。對(duì)于他們只是想要離開(kāi)，一個(gè)人獨(dú)處一段時(shí)間的事實(shí)？ 有一個(gè)答案在我們的文化史中埋藏已久 西方社會(huì)特別是在美國(guó) 總是偏愛(ài)有行動(dòng)的人 而不是有深刻思考的人 有深刻思考的“人” 但是在美國(guó)早期的時(shí)候 我們生活在一個(gè)被歷史學(xué)家稱作“性格特征”的文化 那時(shí)我們?nèi)匀�，在這點(diǎn)上，判斷人們的價(jià)值 從人們的內(nèi)涵和道義正直 而且如果你看一看這個(gè)時(shí)代關(guān)于自立的書(shū)籍的話 它們都有這樣一種標(biāo)題： “性格”，世界上最偉大的事物 并且它們以亞伯拉罕·林肯這樣的為標(biāo)榜 一個(gè)被形容為謙虛低調(diào)的男人 拉爾夫·瓦爾多·愛(ài)默生稱他是 “一個(gè)以‘優(yōu)越’二字形容都不為過(guò)的人”

　　But then we hit the 20th century and we entered a new culture that historians call the culture of personality。 What happened is we had evolved an agricultural economy to a world of big business。 And so suddenly people are moving from small towns to the cities。And instead of working alongside people they've known all their lives， now they are having to prove themselves in a crowd of strangers。 So， quite understandably， qualities like magnetism and charisma suddenly come to seem really important。 And sure enough， the self—help books change to meet these new needs and they start to have names like "How to Win Friends and Influence People。" And they feature as their role models really great salesmen。 So that's the world we're living in today。 That's our cultural inheritance。

　　但是接著我們來(lái)到了二十世紀(jì) 并且我們?nèi)谌肓艘环N新的文化 一種被歷史學(xué)家稱作“個(gè)性”的文化 所發(fā)生的改變就是我們從農(nóng)業(yè)經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展為 一個(gè)大商業(yè)經(jīng)濟(jì)的世界 而且人們突然開(kāi)始搬遷從小的城鎮(zhèn)搬向城市 并且一改他們之前的在生活中和所熟識(shí)的人們一起工作的方式 現(xiàn)在他們?cè)谝蝗耗吧�人中間有必要去證明自己 這樣做是非�？梢岳斫獾� 像領(lǐng)袖氣質(zhì)和個(gè)人魅力這樣的品質(zhì) 突然間似乎變得極為重要 那么可以肯定的是，自助自立的書(shū)的`內(nèi)容變更了以適應(yīng)這些新的需求 并且它們開(kāi)始擁有名稱 像是《如何贏得朋友和影響他人》（戴爾？卡耐基所著《人性的弱點(diǎn)》） 他們的特點(diǎn)是做自己的榜樣 不得不說(shuō)確實(shí)是好的推銷員 所以這就是我們今天生活的世界 這是我們的文化遺產(chǎn)

　　Now none of this is to say that social skills are unimportant， and I'm also not calling for the abolishing of teamwork at all。 The same religions who send their sages off to lonely mountain tops also teach us love and trust。 And the problems that we are facing today in fields like science and in economics are so vast and so complex that we are going to need armies of people coming together to solve them working together。 But I am saying that the more freedom that we give introverts to be themselves， the more likely that they are to come up with their own unique solutions to these problems。

　　現(xiàn)在沒(méi)有誰(shuí)能夠說(shuō) 社交技能是不重要的 并且我也不是想呼吁 大家廢除團(tuán)隊(duì)合作模式 但仍是相同的宗教，卻把他們的圣人送到了孤獨(dú)的山頂上 仍然教導(dǎo)我們愛(ài)與信任 還有我們今天所要面對(duì)的問(wèn)題 像是在科學(xué)和經(jīng)濟(jì)領(lǐng)域 是如此的巨大和復(fù)雜 以至于我們需要人們強(qiáng)有力地團(tuán)結(jié)起來(lái) 共同解決這些問(wèn)題 但是我想說(shuō)，越給內(nèi)向者自由讓他們做自己 他們就做得越好 去想出他們獨(dú)特的關(guān)于問(wèn)題的解決辦法

　　So now I'd like to share with you what's in my suitcase today。 Guess what？ Books。 I have a suitcase full of books。 Here's Margaret Atwood， "Cat's Eye。" Here's a novel by Milan Kundera。 And here's "The Guide for the Perplexed" by Maimonides。 But these are not exactly my books。 I brought these books with me because they were written by my grandfather's favorite authors。

　　所以現(xiàn)在我很高興同你們分享 我手提箱中的東西 猜猜是什么？ 書(shū) 我有一個(gè)手提箱里面裝滿了書(shū) 這是瑪格麗特·阿特伍德的《貓的眼睛》 這是一本米蘭·昆德拉的書(shū) 這是一本《迷途指津》 是邁蒙尼德寫(xiě)的 但這些實(shí)際上都不是我的書(shū) 我還是帶著它們，陪伴著我 因?yàn)樗鼈兌际俏易娓缸钕矏?ài)的作家所寫(xiě)

　　My grandfather was a rabbi and he was a widower who lived alone in a small apartment in Brooklyn that was my favorite place in the world when I was growing up， partly because it was filled with his very gentle， very courtly presence and partly because it was filled with books。 I mean literally every table， every chair in this apartment had yielded its original function to now serve as a surface for swaying stacks of books。 Just like the rest of my family， my grandfather's favorite thing to do in the whole world was to read。

　　我的祖父是一名猶太教祭司 他獨(dú)身一人 在布魯克林的一間小公寓中居住 那里是我從小到大在這個(gè)世界上最喜愛(ài)的地方 部分原因是他有著非常溫和親切的，溫文爾雅的舉止 部分原因是那里充滿了書(shū) 我的意思是，毫不夸張地說(shuō)，公寓中的每張桌子，每張椅子 都充分應(yīng)用著它原有的功能 就是現(xiàn)在作為承載一大堆都在搖曳的書(shū)的表面 就像我其他的家庭成員一樣 我祖父在這個(gè)世界上最喜歡做的事情就是閱讀

　　But he also loved his congregation， and you could feel this love in the sermons that he gave every week for the 62 years that he was a rabbi。 He would takes the fruits of each week's reading and he would weave these intricate tapestries of ancient and humanist thought。 And people would come from all over to hear him speak。

　　但是他同樣也熱愛(ài)他的宗教 并且你們可以從他的講述中感覺(jué)到他這種愛(ài) 這62年來(lái)每周他都作為一名猶太教的祭司 他會(huì)從每周的閱讀中汲取養(yǎng)分 并且他會(huì)編織這些錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的古代和人文主義的思想的掛毯 并且人們會(huì)從各個(gè)地方前來(lái) 聽(tīng)他的講話

　　But here's the thing about my grandfather。 Underneath this ceremonial role， he was really modest and really introverted —— so much so that when he delivered these sermons， he had trouble making eye contact with the very same congregation that he had been speaking to for 62 years。 And even away from the podium， when you called him to say hello， he would often end the conversation prematurely for fear that he was taking up too much of your time。 But when he died at the age of 94， the police had to close down the streets of his neighborhood to accommodate the crowd of people who came out to mourn him。 And so these days I try to learn from my grandfather's example in my own way。

　　但是有這么一件關(guān)于我祖父的事情 在這個(gè)正式的角色下隱藏著 他是一個(gè)非常謙虛的非常內(nèi)向的人 是那么的謙虛內(nèi)向以至于當(dāng)他在向人們講述的時(shí)候 他都不敢有視線上的接觸 和同樣的教堂會(huì)眾 他已經(jīng)發(fā)言有62年了 甚至都還遠(yuǎn)離領(lǐng)獎(jiǎng)臺(tái) 當(dāng)你們讓他說(shuō)“你好”的時(shí)候 他總會(huì)提早結(jié)束這對(duì)話 擔(dān)心他會(huì)占用你太多的時(shí)間 但是當(dāng)他94歲去世的時(shí)候 警察們需要封鎖他所居住的街道鄰里 來(lái)容納擁擠的人們 前來(lái)哀悼他的人們 這些天來(lái)我都試著從我祖父的事例中學(xué)習(xí) 以我自己的方式

　　So I just published a book about introversion， and it took me about seven years to write。And for me， that seven years was like total bliss， because I was reading， I was writing， I was thinking， I was researching。 It was my version of my grandfather's hours of the day alone in his library。 But now all of a sudden my job is very different， and my job is to be out here talking about it， talking about introversion。 （Laughter） And that's a lot harder for me，because as honored as I am to be here with all of you right now， this is not my natural milieu。

　　所以我就出版了一本關(guān)于內(nèi)向性格的書(shū) 它花了我7年的時(shí)間完成它 而對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)，這七年像是一種極大的喜悅 因?yàn)槲以陂喿x，我在寫(xiě)作 我在思考，我在探尋 這是我的版本 對(duì)于爺爺一天中幾個(gè)小時(shí)都要獨(dú)自待在圖書(shū)館這件事 但是現(xiàn)在突然間我的工作變得很不同了 我的工作變成了站在這里講述它 講述內(nèi)向的性格 （笑聲） 而且這對(duì)于我來(lái)說(shuō)是有一點(diǎn)困難的 因?yàn)槲液軜s幸 在現(xiàn)在被你們所有人所傾聽(tīng) 這可不是我自然的文化背景

　　So I prepared for moments like these as best I could。 I spent the last year practicing public speaking every chance I could get。 And I call this my "year of speaking dangerously。" （Laughter） And that actually helped a lot。 But I'll tell you， what helps even more is my sense， my belief， my hope that when it comes to our attitudes to introversion and to quiet and to solitude， we truly are poised on the brink on dramatic change。 I mean， we are。 And so I am going to leave you now with three calls for action for those who share this vision。

　　所以我準(zhǔn)備了一會(huì)就像這樣 以我所能做到的最好的方式 我花了最近一年的時(shí)間練習(xí)在公共場(chǎng)合發(fā)言 在我能得到的每一個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)中 我把這一年稱作我的“危險(xiǎn)地發(fā)言的一年” （笑聲） 而且它的確幫了我很大的忙 但是我要告訴你們一個(gè)幫我更大的忙的事情 那就是我的感覺(jué)，我的信仰，我的希望 當(dāng)談及我們態(tài)度的時(shí)候 對(duì)于內(nèi)向性格的，對(duì)于安靜，對(duì)于獨(dú)處的態(tài)度時(shí) 我們確實(shí)是在急劇變化的邊緣上保持微妙的平衡 我的意思是，我們?cè)诒３制胶?現(xiàn)在我將要給你們留下一些東西 三件對(duì)于你們的行動(dòng)有幫助的事情 獻(xiàn)給那些觀看我的演講的人

　　Number one： Stop the madness for constant group work。 Just stop it。 （Laughter） Thank you。 （Applause） And I want to be clear about what I'm saying， because I deeply believe our offices should be encouraging casual， chatty cafe—style types of interactions —— you know， the kind where people come together and serendipitously have an exchange of ideas。That is great。 It's great for introverts and it's great for extroverts。 But we need much more privacy and much more freedom and much more autonomy at work。 School， same thing。We need to be teaching kids to work together， for sure， but we also need to be teaching them how to work on their own。 This is especially important for extroverted children too。They need to work on their own because that is where deep thought comes from in part。

　　第一： 停止對(duì)于經(jīng)常要團(tuán)隊(duì)協(xié)作的執(zhí)迷與瘋狂 停止它就好了 （笑聲） 謝謝你們 （掌聲） 我想讓我所說(shuō)的事情變得清晰一些 因?yàn)槲覍?duì)于我們的辦公深信不疑 應(yīng)該鼓勵(lì)它們 那種休閑隨意的，聊天似的咖啡廳式的相互作用—— 你們知道的，道不同不相為謀，人們聚到一起 并且互相交換著寶貴的意見(jiàn) 這是很棒的 這對(duì)于內(nèi)向者很好，同樣對(duì)于外向者也好 但是我們需要更多的隱私和更多的自由 還有更多對(duì)于我們本身工作的自主權(quán) 對(duì)于學(xué)校，也是同樣的。 我們當(dāng)然需要教會(huì)孩子們要一起學(xué)習(xí)工作 但是我們同樣需要教會(huì)孩子們?cè)趺礃营?dú)立完成任務(wù) 這對(duì)于外向的孩子們來(lái)說(shuō)同樣是極為重要的 他們需要獨(dú)立完成工作 因?yàn)閺哪撤N程度上，這是他們深刻思考的來(lái)源

　　Okay， number two： Go to the wilderness。 Be like Buddha， have your own revelations。 I'm not saying that we all have to now go off and build our own cabins in the woods and never talk to each other again， but I am saying that we could all stand to unplug and get inside our own heads a little more often。

　　好了，第二個(gè)：去到野外（打開(kāi)思維） 就像佛祖一樣，擁有你們自己對(duì)于事物的揭示啟迪 我并不是說(shuō) 我們都要跑去小樹(shù)林里建造我們自己的小屋 并且之后就永遠(yuǎn)不和別人說(shuō)話了 但是我要說(shuō)我們都可以堅(jiān)持去去除一些障礙物 然后深入我們自己的大腦思想 時(shí)不時(shí)得再深入一點(diǎn)

　　Number three： Take a good look at what's inside your own suitcase and why you put it there。 So extroverts， maybe your suitcases are also full of books。 Or maybe they're full of champagne glasses or skydiving equipment。 Whatever it is， I hope you take these things out every chance you get and grace us with your energy and your joy。 But introverts， you being you， you probably have the impulse to guard very carefully what's inside your own suitcase。 And that's okay。 But occasionally， just occasionally， I hope you will open up your suitcases for other people to see， because the world needs you and it needs the things you carry。

　　第三點(diǎn)： 好好看一眼你的旅行箱內(nèi)有什么東西 還有你為什么把它放進(jìn)去 所以外向者們 也許你們的箱子內(nèi)同樣堆滿了書(shū) 或者它們裝滿了香檳的玻璃酒杯 或者是跳傘運(yùn)動(dòng)的設(shè)備 不管它是什么，我希望每當(dāng)你們有機(jī)會(huì)你們就把它拿出來(lái) 用你的能量和你的快樂(lè)讓我們感受到美和享受 但是內(nèi)向者們，你們作為內(nèi)向者 你們很可能有仔細(xì)保護(hù)一切的沖動(dòng) 在你箱子里的東西 這沒(méi)有問(wèn)題 但是偶爾地，只是說(shuō)偶爾地 我希望你們可以打開(kāi)你們的手提箱，讓別人看一看 因?yàn)檫@個(gè)世界需要你們，同樣需要你們身上所攜帶的你們特有的事物

　　So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly。

　　所以對(duì)于你們即將走上的所有旅程，我都給予你們我最美好的祝愿 還有溫柔地說(shuō)話的勇氣

　　Thank you。 Thank you。

　　非常感謝你們

　　（掌聲）

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇5

　　I want to start by doing an experiment. I'mgoing to play three videos of a rainy day. But I've replaced the audio of oneof the videos, and instead of the sound of rain, I've added the sound of baconfrying. So I want you think carefully which one the clip with the bacon is.

　　我想用一個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn)來(lái)開(kāi)始我的演講。我將給你們播放三段雨天的視頻。不過(guò)我把其中一個(gè)視頻里的 音頻換成了別的，它不再是下雨的聲音，變成了煎培根的聲音。我想讓你們認(rèn)真聽(tīng)，找出哪個(gè)視頻里是煎培根聲。

　　Raise your hand if you've ever been asked the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

　　如果你們?cè)�被�?wèn)過(guò)這個(gè)問(wèn)題，請(qǐng)舉手“你長(zhǎng)大之后想干什么?”

　　Now if you had to guess, how old would you say you were when you were first asked this question? You can just hold up fingers. Three. Five. Three. Five. Five. OK. Now, raise your hand if the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" has ever caused you any anxiety.

　　現(xiàn)在大家回想一下，你們第一次被問(wèn)這個(gè)問(wèn)題是多大?你們可以舉手指頭來(lái)示意一下。三歲，五歲，三歲，五歲，五歲，好的。接下來(lái)，如果剛剛說(shuō)的這個(gè)問(wèn)題，“你長(zhǎng)大之后想干什么?”曾經(jīng)讓你感到焦慮，請(qǐng)舉手。

　　Any anxiety at all.

　　哪怕一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)焦慮。

　　I'm someone who's never been able to answer the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

　　我永遠(yuǎn)無(wú)法回答這個(gè)問(wèn)題，“你長(zhǎng)大之后想干什么?”

　　See, the problem wasn't that I didn't have any interests -- it's that I had too many. In high school, I liked English and math and art and I built websites and I played guitar in a punk band called Frustrated Telephone Operator. Maybe you've heard of us.

　　并不是說(shuō)我沒(méi)有興趣愛(ài)好，而是我的興趣愛(ài)好太多。高中的時(shí)候，我喜歡英語(yǔ)、數(shù)學(xué)和藝術(shù)，建過(guò)網(wǎng)站在一個(gè)叫“失意電話話務(wù)員”的朋克樂(lè)隊(duì)當(dāng)吉他手。也許你們還聽(tīng)說(shuō)過(guò)我們樂(lè)隊(duì)呢。

　　This continued after high school, and at a certain point, I began to notice this pattern in myself where I would become interested in an area and I would dive in, become all-consumed, and I'd get to be pretty good at whatever it was, and then I would hit this point where I'd start to get bored. And usually I would try and persist anyway, because I had already devoted so much time and energy and sometimes money into this field. But eventually this sense of boredom, this feeling of, like, yeah, I got this, this isn't challenging anymore -- it would get to be too much. And I would have to let it go.

　　高中畢業(yè)后我也依舊興趣廣泛，某一天，我發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有一個(gè)行為模式，我會(huì)對(duì)某一個(gè)領(lǐng)域感興趣，然后一頭扎進(jìn)去，認(rèn)真鉆研，變得越來(lái)越擅長(zhǎng)，但到了某一個(gè)階段，我就會(huì)開(kāi)始覺(jué)得無(wú)聊。通常我會(huì)繼續(xù)堅(jiān)持下去，因?yàn)槲乙呀?jīng)投入了很多時(shí)間和精力，有時(shí)候還有金錢。但是最終這種無(wú)聊的感覺(jué)，就像在說(shuō)，哦，這事我已經(jīng)會(huì)了，已經(jīng)沒(méi)有任何挑戰(zhàn)了，再繼續(xù)也不會(huì)有多大成就了。我必須要放手。

　　But then I would become interested in something else, something totally unrelated, and I would dive into that, and become all-consumed, and I'd be like, "Yes! I found my thing," and then I would hit this point again where I'd start to get bored. And eventually, I would let it go. But then I would discover something new and totally different, and I would dive into that.

　　但之后我可能又會(huì)對(duì)另一些事感興趣，跟之前完全不同的領(lǐng)域，我又會(huì)一頭扎進(jìn)去，認(rèn)真鉆研，然后說(shuō)，“太棒了!這就是我的菜!”之后我又會(huì)達(dá)到那個(gè)階段，開(kāi)始覺(jué)得無(wú)聊。最后，我又會(huì)放棄。 之后我又會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)新的興趣，不同的領(lǐng)域 然后一頭扎進(jìn)去。

　　This pattern caused me a lot of anxiety, for two reasons. The first was that I wasn't sure how I was going to turn any of this into a career. I thought that I would eventually have to pick one thing, deny all of my other passions, and just resign myself to being bored. The other reason it caused me so much anxiety was a little bit more personal. I worried that there was something wrong with this, and something wrong with me for being unable to stick with anything. I worried that I was afraid of commitment, or that I was scattered, or that I was self-sabotaging, afraid of my own success.

　　這種模式讓我非常焦慮，原因有兩點(diǎn)。 一是我不確定 如何才能將這些興趣變成我的職業(yè)。 我覺(jué)得自己最終會(huì)從 (這些興趣)里面挑一個(gè)，而對(duì)其他愛(ài)好忍痛割愛(ài)， 做好將來(lái)一定會(huì)無(wú)聊的心理準(zhǔn)備。 讓我非常焦慮的第二個(gè)原因， 跟我自身有關(guān)。 我擔(dān)心自己的這種行為模式是錯(cuò)的， 自己這么朝三暮四，是不是錯(cuò)了。我是不是害怕做出承諾， 或者自由散漫，破罐子破摔， 懼怕成功。

　　If you can relate to my story and to these feelings, I'd like you to ask yourself a question that I wish I had asked myself back then. Ask yourself where you learned to assign the meaning of wrong or abnormal to doing many things. I'll tell you where you learned it: you learned it from the culture.

　　如果你能理解我的故事和我的感受，請(qǐng)你們問(wèn)自己一個(gè)問(wèn)題，這個(gè)問(wèn)題我早就該問(wèn)自己的。就是，你是從哪里學(xué)到該如何判斷我們的所作所為是錯(cuò)誤的或者不正常的。 我來(lái)告訴你答案： 是從我們的文化中學(xué)到的。

　　We are first asked the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" when we're about five years old. And the truth is that no one really cares what you say when you're that age.

　　我們第一次被問(wèn)到“你長(zhǎng)大之后想干什么?”是在差不多五歲的時(shí)候。其實(shí)像你那么大的時(shí)候沒(méi)有人會(huì)真的關(guān)心你說(shuō)了什么。

　　It's considered an innocuous question, posed to little kids to elicit cute replies, like, "I want to be an astronaut," or "I want to be a ballerina," or "I want to be a pirate." Insert Halloween costume here.

　　這僅僅是一個(gè)無(wú)傷大雅的問(wèn)題，為的是讓小朋友做出可愛(ài)的回應(yīng)，比如，“我想當(dāng)宇航員”，或者“我想當(dāng)芭蕾舞演員”，或者“我想當(dāng)海盜”。此處應(yīng)加萬(wàn)圣節(jié)服裝的特效。

　　But this question gets asked of us again and again as we get older in various forms -- for instance, high school students might get asked what major they're going to pick in college. And at some point, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" goes from being the cute exercise it once was to the thing that keeps us up at night. Why?

　　然而這個(gè)問(wèn)題，在我們成長(zhǎng)的過(guò)程中會(huì)不斷被問(wèn)到形式多種多樣，比如，高中生會(huì)被問(wèn)到，你們?cè)诖髮W(xué)準(zhǔn)備選什么專業(yè)。突然有一天， “你長(zhǎng)大之后想干什么?” 從原本一種秀可愛(ài)的方式 變成了讓我們寢食難安的難題。為什么會(huì)這樣?

　　See, while this question inspires kids to dream about what they could be, it does not inspire them to dream about all that they could be. In fact, it does just the opposite, because when someone asks you what you want to be, you can't reply with 20 different things, though well-meaning adults will likely chuckle and be like, "Oh, how cute, but you can't be a violin maker and a psychologist. You have to choose."

　　盡管這個(gè)問(wèn)題鼓勵(lì)小朋友想象自己將來(lái)要做什么，但它并未給小朋友充分想象的自由。恰恰相反，它限制了小朋友想象的自由，因?yàn)橛腥藛?wèn)你長(zhǎng)大后想做什么，你不可能回答20種不同的職業(yè)，盡管有些善良的大人會(huì)笑呵呵地說(shuō)，“哦，你太可愛(ài)了，但是你不能同時(shí)成為小提琴制作家和心理學(xué)家啊。你必須選一個(gè)。”

　　This is Dr. Bob Childs -- and he's a luthier and psychotherapist. And this is Amy Ng, a magazine editor turned illustrator, entrepreneur, teacher and creative director. But most kids don't hear about people like this. All they hear is that they're going to have to choose. But it's more than that. The notion of the narrowly focused life is highly romanticized in our culture. It's this idea of destiny or the one true calling, the idea that we each have one great thing we are meant to do during our time on this earth, and you need to figure out what that thing isand devote your life to it.

　　這位是鮑勃·柴爾茲博士，他是一名弦樂(lè)器工匠和心理醫(yī)生。這位是艾米·恩，之前是雜志編輯，后來(lái)成為插畫(huà)作家，企業(yè)家教師和創(chuàng)意總監(jiān)。但大部分孩子都沒(méi)聽(tīng)說(shuō)過(guò)他們。他們聽(tīng)到的只是要他們進(jìn)行選擇和取舍。 事情遠(yuǎn)不止這么簡(jiǎn)單。 一生都心無(wú)旁騖的這一觀念， 在我們的文化中被過(guò)分浪漫化了。 這種命運(yùn)論或者說(shuō) “命中注定的職業(yè)”的概念， 意思是我們每個(gè)人都有一份 命中注定的偉大事業(yè)，我們需要找到它， 并為之奮斗一生。

　　But what if you're someone who isn't wired this way? What if there are a lot of different subjects that you're curious about, and many different things you want to do? Well, there is no room for someone like you in this framework. And so you might feel alone. You might feel like you don't have a purpose. And you might feel like there's something wrong with you. There's nothing wrong with you. What you are is a multipotentialite.

　　但如果你不是這樣的人呢?如果你對(duì)很多事都有好奇心，想去嘗試各種各樣的職業(yè)呢?那么在現(xiàn)有體系中，你很難有容身之處。你也許會(huì)感到孤獨(dú)。你也許會(huì)覺(jué)得自己沒(méi)有目標(biāo)。你也許會(huì)覺(jué)得自己是不是有問(wèn)題。你沒(méi)有問(wèn)題。你是一名“多重潛力者”。

　　A multipotentialite is someone with many interests and creative pursuits. It's a mouthful to say. It might help if you break it up into three parts: multi, potential, and ite. You can also use one of the other terms that connote the same idea, such as polymath, the Renaissance person. Actually, during the Renaissance period, it was considered the ideal to be well-versed in multiple disciplines. Barbara Sher refers to us as "scanners." Use whichever term you like, or invent your own. I have to say I find it sort of fitting that as a community, we cannot agree on a single identity.

　　“多重潛力者”擁有多種興趣并且追求創(chuàng)新。聽(tīng)起來(lái)很費(fèi)解吧。如果把它拆成三部分可能比較好理解：多重的，有潛力的，人。你也可以用其他詞來(lái)表述類似的意思，比如“博學(xué)者”，或者“文藝復(fù)興者”。實(shí)際上，在文藝復(fù)興時(shí)代，精通多個(gè)學(xué)科是非常被推崇的。芭芭拉·謝爾稱我們?yōu)椤皰呙鑳x”。你可以選擇一個(gè)自己喜歡的詞，或者創(chuàng)造一個(gè)新的。我感覺(jué)自己找到了組織，因?yàn)槲覀儫o(wú)法接受只有一種身份。

　　It's easy to see your multipotentiality as a limitation or an affliction that you need to overcome. But what I've learned through speaking with people and writing about these ideas on my website, is that there are some tremendous strengths to being this way. Here are three multipotentialite super powers.

　　人們很容易把多重潛力視為一種局限或者痛苦，需要克服。但我通過(guò)與人們交流，以及把這些觀點(diǎn)發(fā)到我的網(wǎng)站上，我發(fā)現(xiàn)多重潛力者有很多優(yōu)點(diǎn)。多重潛力者擁有三種“超能力”。

　　One: idea synthesis. That is, combining two or more fields and creating something new at the intersection.Sha Hwang and Rachel Binx drew from their shared interests in cartography, data visualization, travel, mathematics and design, when they founded Meshu. Meshu is a company that creates custom geographically-inspired jewelry. Sha and Rachel came up with this unique idea not despite, but because of their eclectic mix of skills and experiences. Innovation happens at the intersections. That's where the new ideas come from. And multipotentialites, with all of their backgrounds, are able to access a lot of these points of intersection.

　　第一是產(chǎn)生創(chuàng)意。就是說(shuō)，結(jié)合兩個(gè)或兩個(gè)以上領(lǐng)域從結(jié)合處尋求創(chuàng)新。黃沙和瑞秋·賓克斯找到了共同的興趣愛(ài)好，像制圖，數(shù)據(jù)可視化，旅行，數(shù)學(xué)和設(shè)計(jì)，之后他們創(chuàng)辦了Meshu。 Meshu是一家定制珠寶公司，專門制作具有地域特色的珠寶。黃沙和瑞秋之所以能產(chǎn)生這個(gè)獨(dú)特的創(chuàng)意，正是因?yàn)樗麄z博學(xué)多才，經(jīng)歷豐富。創(chuàng)新來(lái)源于交叉處。新創(chuàng)意(大都)來(lái)源于此。而多重潛力者，擁有豐富的(知識(shí))背景，能夠在各領(lǐng)域交叉處找到突破點(diǎn)。

　　The second multipotentialite superpower is rapid learning. When multipotentialites become interested in something, we go hard. We observe everything we can get our hands on. We're also used to being beginners, because we've been beginners so many times in the past, and this means that we're less afraid of trying new things and stepping out of our comfort zones. What's more, many skills are transferable across disciplines, and we bring everything we've learned to every new area we pursue, so we're rarely starting from scratch.

　　多重潛力者的第二種超能力是快速學(xué)習(xí)。當(dāng)多重潛力者對(duì)某件事產(chǎn)生興趣時(shí)， 我們會(huì)全身心投入。 我們仔細(xì)觀察，勤于實(shí)踐。 我們已經(jīng)習(xí)慣于當(dāng)初學(xué)者，因?yàn)槲覀冞^(guò)去曾當(dāng)過(guò)無(wú)數(shù)次初學(xué)者， 我們不怕嘗試新事物， 勇于走出舒適區(qū)。 除此以外，很多能力在各個(gè)學(xué)科都是通用的， 我們將之前所學(xué)用于新領(lǐng)域， 而不用從零開(kāi)始。

　　Nora Dunn is a full-time traveler and freelance writer. As a child concert pianist, she honed an incredible ability to develop muscle memory. Now, she's the fastest typist she knows.

　　諾拉·鄧恩是一位全職旅行家和自由作家。作為一名兒童鋼琴演奏家，她磨練出了非凡的能力來(lái)發(fā)展肌肉記憶。因此，她是她所有認(rèn)識(shí)的人中打字最快的。

　　Before becoming a writer, Nora was a financial planner. She had to learn the finer mechanics of sales when she was starting her practice, and this skill now helps her write compelling pitches to editors. It is rarely a waste of time to pursue something you're drawn to, even if you end up quitting. You might apply that knowledge in a different field entirely, in a way that you couldn't have anticipated.

　　在當(dāng)作家之前，諾拉是一名理財(cái)師。在初入這行的時(shí)候，她不得不學(xué)習(xí)一些高明的銷售技巧，如今這項(xiàng)技能被她用來(lái)給編輯寫(xiě)精彩的推薦語(yǔ)。追求你感興趣的東西并不是浪費(fèi)時(shí)間，即使最后你并沒(méi)有堅(jiān)持到底。也許將來(lái)你會(huì)把這些知識(shí)用在一個(gè)完全不同的領(lǐng)域，用一種你完全預(yù)料不到的方式。

　　The third multipotentialite superpower is adaptability; that is, the ability to morph into whatever you need to be in a given situation. Abe Cajudo is sometimes a video director, sometimes a web designer, sometimes a Kickstarter consultant, sometimes a teacher, and sometimes, apparently, James Bond.

　　第三種“超能力”是適應(yīng)性。 也就是說(shuō)，如果有需要， 你能變成任何角色， 以適應(yīng)不同的情況。 艾比·卡胡多有時(shí)候是視頻導(dǎo)演， 有時(shí)候是網(wǎng)站設(shè)計(jì)師， 有時(shí)候是眾籌顧問(wèn)， 有時(shí)候是老師， 有時(shí)候，很明顯，是詹姆斯·邦德。

　　He's valuable because he does good work. He's even more valuable because he can take on various roles,depending on his clients' needs. Fast Company magazine identified adaptability as the single most important skill to develop in order to thrive in the 21st century. The economic world is changing so quickly and unpredictably that it is the individuals and organizations that can pivot in order to meet the needs of the market that are really going to thrive.

　　他擁有出色的工作能力。更重要的是他可以隨時(shí)切換自己的角色，來(lái)滿足客戶的需要�！犊旃�司》雜志認(rèn)為，要想在21世紀(jì)取得成功，適應(yīng)性是最重要的一項(xiàng)技能。經(jīng)濟(jì)界的變化如此迅速且無(wú)法預(yù)測(cè)，那些能夠根據(jù)市場(chǎng)需要進(jìn)行調(diào)整的個(gè)人和公司才有可能取得成功。

　　Idea synthesis, rapid learning and adaptability: three skills that multipotentialites are very adept at, and three skills that they might lose if pressured to narrow their focus. As a society, we have a vested interest in encouraging multipotentialites to be themselves. We have a lot of complex, multidimensional problems in the world right now, and we need creative, out-of-the-box thinkers to tackle them.

　　產(chǎn)生創(chuàng)意，快速學(xué)習(xí)和適應(yīng)性是多重潛力者非常擅長(zhǎng)的三種能力，如果強(qiáng)迫他們縮小自己的關(guān)注范圍，這三種能力也許就會(huì)喪失。作為一個(gè)社會(huì)，鼓勵(lì)多重潛力者保持本色對(duì)我們有利。我們?nèi)缃衩媾R許多復(fù)雜問(wèn)題，涉及許多方面， 我們需要有創(chuàng)意的、能破除思維定式的 思想者來(lái)解決這些問(wèn)題。

　　Now, let's say that you are, in your heart, a specialist. You came out of the womb knowing you wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon. Don't worry -- there's nothing wrong with you, either.

　　我們假設(shè)，內(nèi)心深處，你是一名專家。你從打娘胎里出來(lái)就知道你想當(dāng)一名兒童神經(jīng)外科醫(yī)生。別擔(dān)心，即使這樣你也挺正常的。

　　In fact, some of the best teams are comprised of a specialist and multipotentialite paired together. The specialist can dive in deep and implement ideas, while the multipotentialite brings a breadth of knowledge to the project. It's a beautiful partnership. But we should all be designing lives and careers that are aligned with how we're wired. And sadly, multipotentialites are largely being encouraged simply to be more like their specialist peers.

　　事實(shí)上，一些頂尖團(tuán)隊(duì)就是由專家和多重潛力者搭配組成。專家可以深入研究，實(shí)踐想法，而多重潛力者可以為項(xiàng)目帶來(lái)更廣泛的知識(shí)支持。這是一種美妙的合作。但是我們都應(yīng)該根據(jù)自己的天賦來(lái)規(guī)劃與之相適應(yīng)的人生和職業(yè)。不幸的是，多重潛力者往往被要求成為(剛剛提到的)團(tuán)隊(duì)中的那個(gè)專家。

　　So with that said, if there is one thing you take away from this talk, I hope that it is this: embrace your inner wiring, whatever that may be. If you're a specialist at heart, then by all means, specialize. That is where you'll do your best work. But to the multipotentialites in the room, including those of you who may have just realized in the last 12 minutes that you are one --

　　所以，如果你從今天的演講中學(xué)到了一件事的話，我希望會(huì)是： 接受你內(nèi)心的真實(shí)想法。 如果你是專家型的人， 那就用盡一切辦法，成為專家。你會(huì)干得非常不錯(cuò)。 但對(duì)于在座的多重潛力者們， 包括那些在過(guò)去的12分鐘里 剛剛意識(shí)到自己是多重潛力者的人。

　　To you I say: embrace your many passions. Follow your curiosity down those rabbit holes. Explore your intersections. Embracing our inner wiring leads to a happier, more authentic life. And perhaps more importantly -- multipotentialites, the world needs us.Thank you.

　　我要對(duì)你們說(shuō)：接受你的眾多愛(ài)好。保持你的好奇心。探索(不同領(lǐng)域的)交叉地帶。讓真實(shí)的自我引領(lǐng)我們?nèi)ミ^(guò)更快樂(lè)、更真實(shí)的人生。也許更重要的是，(我們是)多重潛力者，這個(gè)世界需要我們。謝謝大家。

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇6

　　Have you ever held a question in mind for so long that it becomes part of how you think? Maybe even part of who you are as a person? Well I’ve had a question in my mind for many, many years and that is: how can you speed up learning? Now, this is an interesting question because if you speed up learning you can spend less time at school. And if you learn really fast, you probably wouldn’t have to go to school at all.

　　Now, when I was young, school was sort of okay but I found quite often that school got in the way of learning so I had this question in mind: how do you learn faster? And this began when I was very, very young, when I was about eleven years old I wrote a letter to researchers in the Soviet Union, asking about hypnopaedia, this is sleep learning, where you get a tape recorder, you put it beside your bed and it turns on in the middle of the night when you’re sleeping, and you’re supposed to be learning from this.

　　A good idea, unfortunately it doesn’t work. But, hypnopaedia did open the doors to research in other areas and we’ve had incredible discoveries about learning that began with that first question. I went on from there to become passionate about psychology and I have been involved in psychology in many ways for the rest of my life up until this point. In 1981 I took myself to China and I decided that I was going to be native level in Chinese inside two years.

　　Now, you need to understand that in 1981, everybody thought Chinese was really, really difficult and that a westerner could study for ten years or more and never really get very good at it. And I also went in with a different idea which was: taking all of the conclusions from psychological research up to that point and applying them to the learning process. What was really cool was that in six months I was fluent in Mandarin Chinese and took a little bit longer to get up to native. But I looked around and I saw all of these people from different countries struggling terribly with Chinese, I saw Chinese people struggling terribly to learn English and other languages, and so my question got refined down to: how can you help a normal adult learn a new language quickly, easily and effectively?

　　Now this a really, really important question in today’s world. We have massive challenges with environment we have massive challenges with social dislocation, with wars, all sorts of things going on and if we can’t communicate we’re really going to have difficulty solving these problems. So we need to be able to speak each other’s languages, this is really, really important.

　　The question then is how do you do that. Well, it’s actually really easy. You look around for people who can already do it, you look for situations where it’s already working and then you identify the principles and apply them. It’s called modelling and I’ve been looking at language learning and modelling language learning for about fifteen to twenty years now.

　　And my conclusion, my observation from this is that any adult can learn a second language to fluency inside six months. Now when I say this, most people think I’m crazy, this is not possible. So let me remind everybody of the history of human progress, it’s all about expanding our limits.

　　In 1950 everybody believed that running one mile in four minutes was impossible and then Roger Bannister did it in 1956 and from there it’s got shorter and shorter. 100 years ago everybody believed that heavy stuff doesn’t fly. Except it does and we all know this. How does heavy stuff fly? We reorganise the materials using principles that we have learned from observing nature, birds in this case. And today we’ve gone ever further, so you can fly a car. You can buy one of these for a couple hundred thousand US dollars. We now have cars in the world that can fly. And there’s a different way to fly that we’ve learned from squirrels. So all you need to do is copy what a flying squirrel does, build a suit called a wing suit and off you go, you can fly like a squirrel.

　　No, most people, a lot of people, I wouldn’t say everybody but a lot of people think they can’t draw. However there are some key principles, five principles that you can apply to learning to draw and you can 2 actually learn to draw in five days. So, if you draw like this, you learn these principles for five days and apply them and after five days you can draw something like this. Now I know this is true because that was my first drawing and after five days of applying these principles that was what I was able to do. And I looked at this and I went ‘wow,’ so that’s how I look like when I’m concentrating so intensely that my brain is exploding. So, anybody can learn to draw in five days and in the same way, with the same logic, anybody can learn a second language in six months.

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇7

　　We're going to go on a dive to the deep sea， and anyone that's had that lovely opportunity knows that for about two and half hours on the way down， it's a perfectly positively pitch—black world。 And we used to see the most mysterious animals out the windowthat you couldn't describe： these blinking lights —— a world of bioluminescence， like fireflies。 Dr。 Edith Widder —— she's now at the Ocean Research and Conservation Association —— was able to come up with a camera that could capture some of these incredible animals， and that's what you're seeing here on the screen。

　　好了，我們即將潛入海底深處。 任何一個(gè)有過(guò)這種美妙機(jī)會(huì)的人都知道 在這兩個(gè)半小時(shí)的下降過(guò)程中， 是一個(gè)完全漆黑的世界。 我們透過(guò)窗戶會(huì)看見(jiàn)世界上各種最神秘的動(dòng)物， 各種無(wú)法形容的動(dòng)物。這些閃亮著的光， 完美地構(gòu)成了如螢火蟲(chóng)般發(fā)光的世界。 研究保護(hù)協(xié)會(huì)的Edith Witter博士 發(fā)明了一種照相機(jī)， 這種照相機(jī)可以拍下這些令人難以置信的生物。 這就是你現(xiàn)在在屏幕上看到的。

　　That's all bioluminescence。 So， like I said： just like fireflies。 There's a flying turkey under a tree。 （Laughter） I'm a geologist by training。 But I love that。 And you see， some of the bioluminescence they use to avoid being eaten， some they use to attract prey， but all of it， from an artistic point of view， is positively amazing。 And a lot of what goes on inside 。。。 there's a fish with glowing eyes， pulsating eyes。 Some of the colors are designed to hypnotize， these lovely patterns。 And then this last one， one of my favorites， this pinwheel design。 Just absolutely amazing， every single dive。

　　他們?nèi)�部都是生物發(fā)光體。像我說(shuō)的，就像螢火蟲(chóng)一樣。 這是個(gè)會(huì)飛的火雞，在樹(shù)下。（笑聲） 我知道我現(xiàn)在像是個(gè)實(shí)習(xí)期的地質(zhì)學(xué)家，不過(guò)我就是喜歡。 你可以看到這些生物發(fā)出的光， 有些是為了避免被吃掉。 有些又是為引誘食物上鉤。 盡管如此，用藝術(shù)的角度來(lái)看，這些都如此神奇。 再來(lái)看看這里發(fā)生了些什么—— 這條魚(yú)有著會(huì)發(fā)光，閃爍的眼睛。 有些顏色則可以催眠。 多么有趣的圖案。這是最后一個(gè)： 也是我的最愛(ài)，像轉(zhuǎn)輪一樣的設(shè)計(jì)。 每一次潛水都充滿著驚喜。

　　That's the unknown world， and today we've only explored about 3 percent of what's out there in the ocean。 Already we've found the world's highest mountains， the world's deepest valleys， underwater lakes， underwater waterfalls —— a lot of that we shared with you from the stage。 And in a place where we thought no life at all， we find more life， we think， and diversity and density than the tropical rainforest， which tells us that we don't know much about this planet at all。 There's still 97 percent， and either that 97 percent is empty or just full of surprises。

　　這正是一個(gè)未知的世界。到今天為止，我們只探索了其中的極小部分， 大約只占了所有海洋的3%。 到現(xiàn)在，我們已經(jīng)發(fā)現(xiàn)了世界上最高的山峰， 最深的峽谷， 水下湖，水下瀑布， 還有我們剛才看到的。 然而，恰是我們?cè)��?jīng)以為根本不可能有生命的地方， 我們發(fā)現(xiàn)了眾多的生物，還有它們的密度和多樣性， 都超過(guò)了熱帶雨林。這告訴我們 我們實(shí)際上對(duì)自己的星球還不甚了解。 還有剩下的97%，那里要不就是一片荒蕪，要不就是充滿驚喜。

　　But I want to jump up to shallow water now and look at some creatures that are positively amazing。Cephalopods —— head—foots。 As a kid I knew them as calamari， mostly。 （Laughter） This is an octopus —— this is the work of Dr。 Roger Hanlon at the Marine Biological Lab —— and it's just fascinating how cephalopods can， with their incredible eyes， sense their surroundings， look at light， look at patterns。 Here's an octopus moving across the reef， finds a spot to settle down， curls up and then disappears into the background。 Tough thing to do。

　　不過(guò)我現(xiàn)在還是想說(shuō)說(shuō)淺水里的世界， 來(lái)看看那些神奇的生物。 頭足類動(dòng)物，有頭有角。小時(shí)候我把他們當(dāng)作是槍烏賊。 這是一條章魚(yú)。 這是來(lái)自Roger Hanlon博士，海洋生物實(shí)驗(yàn)室的成果。 這些頭足類動(dòng)物真令人著迷， 它用它們的眼睛，它們那難以置信的眼睛來(lái)觀察周圍的環(huán)境， 看光，看圖案。 這有只章魚(yú)正在穿過(guò)礁石。 找到一個(gè)位置，停下來(lái)，卷起，然后馬上消失在背景之中。 這很難做到。

　　In the next bit， we're going to see a couple squid。 These are squid。 Now males， when they fight， if they're really aggressive， they turn white。 And these two males are fighting， they do it by bouncing their butts together， which is an interesting concept。 Now， here's a male on the left and a female on the right， and the male has managed to split his coloration so the female only always sees the kinder gentler squid in him。 And the male 。。。 （Laughter） We're going to see it again。 Let's take a look at it again。 Watch the coloration： white on the right， brown on the left。 He takes a step back —— so he's keeping off the other males by splitting his body —— and comes up on the other side 。。。 Bingo！ Now I'm told that's not just a squid phenomenon with males， but I don't know。 （Laughter）

　　接下來(lái)，再來(lái)一起看一對(duì)魷魚(yú)。 這就是魷魚(yú)。當(dāng)雄性魷魚(yú)搏斗時(shí)， 如果它們想要顯示出自己的侵略性，它們就變?yōu)榘咨�了�?這有兩條雄魷魚(yú)在搏斗。 它們用撞屁股的方式來(lái)搏斗， 真是挺有意思的方法。這里有一條雄性在左邊， 雌性在右邊。 看，這條雄性能有辦法利用顏色把自己分為兩半， 所以雌性只能看到它溫順，優(yōu)雅的一邊， 雄性—— （笑聲）再來(lái)看一次。 讓我們?cè)倏匆淮巍Ｗ⒁馑�的顏色�?白色在右邊，棕色在左邊。 它后退一步，讓其它的雄性無(wú)法靠近 來(lái)到另外一邊，并且馬上轉(zhuǎn)換顏色。 瞧！以前有人告訴我 這個(gè)雄性特征不僅僅是在魷魚(yú)身上，不過(guò)我也不太確定。 （掌聲）

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇8

　　Over the next five minutes, my intention is to transform your relationship with sound. Let me start with the observation that most of the sound around us is accidental, and much of it is unpleasant. (Traffic noise) We stand on street corners, shouting over noise like this, and pretending that it doesn't exist. Well, this habit of suppressing sound has meant that our relationship with sound has become largely unconscious.

　　There are four major ways sound is affecting you all the time, and I'd like to raise them in your consciousness today. First is physiological. (Loud alarm clocks) Sorry about that. I've just given you a shot of cortisol, your fight/flight hormone. Sounds are affecting your hormone secretions all the time, but also your breathing, your heart rate -- which I just also did -- and your brainwaves.

　　It's not just unpleasant sounds like that that do it. This is surf. (Ocean waves) It has the frequency of roughly 12 cycles per minute. Most people find that very soothing, and, interestingly, 12 cycles per minute is roughly the frequency of the breathing of a sleeping human. There is a deep resonance with being at rest. We also associate it with being stress-free and on holiday.

　　The second way in which sound affects you is psychological. Music is the most powerful form of sound that we know that affects our emotional state. (Albinoni's Adagio) This is guaranteed to make most of you feel pretty sad if I leave it on. Music is not the only kind of sound, however, which affects your emotions.

　　Natural sound can do that too. Birdsong, for example, is a sound which most people find reassuring. (Birds chirping) There is a reason for that. Over hundreds of thousands of years we've learned that when the birds are singing, things are safe. It's when they stop you need to be worried.

　　The third way in which sound affects you is cognitively. You can't understand two people talking at once ("If you're listening to this version of") ("me you're on the wrong track.") or in this case one person talking twice. Try and listen to the other one. ("You have to choose which me you're going to listen to.")

　　We have a very small amount of bandwidth for processing auditory input, which is why noise like this -- (Office noise) -- is extremely damaging for productivity. If you have to work in an open-plan office like this, your productivity is greatly reduced. And whatever number you're thinking of, it probably isn't as bad as this. (Ominous music) You are one third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. And I have a tip for you. If you have to work in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound like birdsong. Put them on and your productivity goes back up to triple what it would be.

　　The fourth way in which sound affects us is behaviorally. With all that other stuff going on, it would be amazing if our behavior didn't change. (Techno music inside a car) So, ask yourself: Is this person ever going to drive at a steady 28 miles per hour? I don't think so. At the simplest, you move away from unpleasant sound and towards pleasant sounds. So if I were to play this -- (Jackhammer) -- for more than a few seconds, you'd feel uncomfortable; for more than a few minutes, you'd be leaving the room in droves. For people who can't get away from noise like that, it's extremely damaging for their health.

　　And that's not the only thing that bad sound damages. Most retail sound is inappropriate and accidental, and even hostile, and it has a dramatic effect on sales. For those of you who are retailers, you may want to look away before I show this slide. They are losing up to 30 percent of their business with people leaving shops faster, or just turning around on the door. We all have done it, leaving the area because the sound in there is so dreadful.

　　I want to spend just a moment talking about the model that we've developed, which allows us to start at the top and look at the drivers of sound, analyze the soundscape and then predict the four outcomes I've just talked about. Or start at the bottom, and say what outcomes do we want, and then design a soundscape to have a desired effect. At last we've got some science we can apply. And we're in the business of designing soundscapes.

　　Just a word on music. Music is the most powerful sound there is, often inappropriately deployed. It's powerful for two reasons. You recognize it fast, and you associate it very powerfully. I'll give you two examples. (First chord of The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night") Most of you recognize that immediately. The younger, maybe not. (Laughter) (First two notes of "Jaws" theme) And most of you associate that with something! Now, those are one-second samples of music. Music is very powerful. And unfortunately it's veneering commercial spaces, often inappropriately. I hope that's going to change over the next few years.

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇9

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　　So Im starting to think, I know what I might want to do when I grow up, but if you ask me what do I want to be when I grow up? Ill always know that I want to be happy. Thank you.

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇10

　　What I'd like to do today is talk about one of my favorite subjects, and that is the neuroscience of sleep.

　　Now, there is a sound -- (Alarm clock) -- aah, it worked -- a sound that is desperately, desperately familiar to most of us, and of course it's the sound of the alarm clock. And what that truly ghastly, awful sound does is stop the single most important behavioral experience that we have, and that's sleep. If you're an average sort of person, 36 percent of your life will be spent asleep, which means that if you live to 90, then 32 years will have been spent entirely asleep.

　　Now what that 32 years is telling us is that sleep at some level is important. And yet, for most of us, we don't give sleep a second thought. We throw it away. We really just don't think about sleep. And so what I'd like to do today is change your views, change your ideas and your thoughts about sleep. And the journey that I want to take you on, we need to start by going back in time.

　　"Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber." Any ideas who said that? Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Yes, let me give you a few more quotes. "O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee?" Shakespeare again, from -- I won't say it -- the Scottish play. [Correction: Henry IV, Part 2] (Laughter) From the same time: "Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together." Extremely prophetic, by Thomas Dekker, another Elizabethan dramatist.

　　But if we jump forward 400 years, the tone about sleep changes somewhat. This is from Thomas Edison, from the beginning of the 20th century. "Sleep is a criminal waste of time and a heritage from our cave days." Bang. (Laughter) And if we also jump into the 1980s, some of you may remember that Margaret Thatcher was reported to have said, "Sleep is for wimps." And of course the infamous -- what was his name? -- the infamous Gordon Gekko from "Wall Street" said, "Money never sleeps."

　　What do we do in the 20th century about sleep? Well, of course, we use Thomas Edison's light bulb to invade the night, and we occupied the dark, and in the process of this occupation, we've treated sleep as an illness, almost. We've treated it as an enemy. At most now, I suppose, we tolerate the need for sleep, and at worst perhaps many of us think of sleep as an illness that needs some sort of a cure. And our ignorance about sleep is really quite profound.

　　Why is it? Why do we abandon sleep in our thoughts? Well, it's because you don't do anything much while you're asleep, it seems. You don't eat. You don't drink. And you don't have sex. Well, most of us anyway. And so therefore it's -- Sorry. It's a complete waste of time, right? Wrong. Actually, sleep is an incredibly important part of our biology, and neuroscientists are beginning to explain why it's so very important. So let's move to the brain.

　　Now, here we have a brain. This is donated by a social scientist, and they said they didn't know what it was, or indeed how to use it, so -- (Laughter) Sorry. So I borrowed it. I don't think they noticed. Okay. (Laughter)

　　The point I'm trying to make is that when you're asleep, this thing doesn't shut down. In fact, some areas of the brain are actually more active during the sleep state than during the wake state. The other thing that's really important about sleep is that it doesn't arise from a single structure within the brain, but is to some extent a network property, and if we flip the brain on its back -- I love this little bit of spinal cord here -- this bit here is the hypothalamus, and right under there is a whole raft of interesting structures, not least the biological clock. The biological clock tells us when it's good to be up, when it's good to be asleep, and what that structure does is interact with a whole raft of other areas within the hypothalamus, the lateral hypothalamus, the ventrolateral preoptic nuclei. All of those combine, and they send projections down to the brain stem here. The brain stem then projects forward and bathes the cortex, this wonderfully wrinkly bit over here, with neurotransmitters that keep us awake and essentially provide us with our consciousness. So sleep arises from a whole raft of different interactions within the brain, and essentially, sleep is turned on and off as a result of a range of

　　Okay. So where have we got to? We've said that sleep is complicated and it takes 32 years of our life. But what I haven't explained is what sleep is about. So why do we sleep? And it won't surprise any of you that, of course, the scientists, we don't have a consensus. There are dozens of different ideas about why we sleep, and I'm going to outline three of those.

　　The first is sort of the restoration idea, and it's somewhat intuitive. Essentially, all the stuff we've burned up during the day, we restore, we replace, we rebuild during the night. And indeed, as an explanation, it goes back to Aristotle, so that's, what, 2,300 years ago. It's gone in and out of fashion. It's fashionable at the moment because what's been shown is that within the brain, a whole raft of genes have been shown to be turned on only during sleep, and those genes are associated with restoration and metabolic pathways. So there's good evidence for the whole restoration hypothesis.

　　What about energy conservation? Again, perhaps intuitive. You essentially sleep to save calories. Now, when you do the sums, though, it doesn't really pan out. If you compare an individual who has slept at night, or stayed awake and hasn't moved very much, the energy saving of sleeping is about 110 calories a night. Now, that's the equivalent of a hot dog bun. Now, I would say that a hot dog bun is kind of a meager return for such a complicated and demanding behavior as sleep. So I'm less convinced by the energy conservation idea.

　　But the third idea I'm quite attracted to, which is brain processing and memory consolidation. What we know is that, if after you've tried to learn a task, and you sleep-deprive individuals, the ability to learn that task is smashed. It's really hugely attenuated. So sleep and memory consolidation is also very important. However, it's not just the laying down of memory and recalling it. What's turned out to be really exciting is that our ability to come up with novel solutions to complex problems is hugely enhanced by a night of sleep. In fact, it's been estimated to give us a threefold advantage. Sleeping at night enhances our creativity. And what seems to be going on is that, in the brain, those neural connections that are important, those synaptic connections that are important, are linked and strengthened, while those that are less important tend to fade away and be less important.

　　Okay. So we've had three explanations for why we might sleep, and I think the important thing to realize is that the details will vary, and it's probable we sleep for multiple different reasons. But sleep is not an indulgence. It's not some sort of thing that we can take on board rather casually. I think that sleep was once likened to an upgrade from economy to business class, you know, the equiavlent of. It's not even an upgrade from economy to first class. The critical thing to realize is that if you don't sleep, you don't fly. Essentially, you never get there, and what's extraordinary about much of our society these days is that we are desperately sleep-deprived.

　　So let's now look at sleep deprivation. Huge sectors of society are sleep-deprived, and let's look at our sleep-o-meter. So in the 1950s, good data suggests that most of us were getting around about eight hours of sleep a night. Nowadays, we sleep one and a half to two hours less every night, so we're in the six-and-a-half-hours-every-night league. For teenagers, it's worse, much worse. They need nine hours for full brain performance, and many of them, on a school night, are only getting five hours of sleep. It's simply not enough. If we think about other sectors of society, the aged, if you are aged, then your ability to sleep in a single block is somewhat disrupted, and many sleep, again, less than five hours a night. Shift work. Shift work is extraordinary, perhaps 20 percent of the working population, and the body clock does not shift to the demands of working at night. It's locked onto the same light-dark cycle as the rest of us. So when the poor old shift worker is going home to try and sleep during the day, desperately tired, the body clock is saying, "Wake up. This is the time to be awake." So the quality of sleep that you get as a night shift worker is usually very poor, again in that sort of five-hour region. And then, of course, tens of millions of people suffer from jet lag. So who here has jet lag? Well, my goodness gracious. Well, thank you very much indeed for not falling asleep, because that's what your brain is craving.

　　One of the things that the brain does is indulge in micro-sleeps, this involuntary falling asleep, and you have essentially no control over it. Now, micro-sleeps can be sort of somewhat embarrassing, but they can also be deadly. It's been estimated that 31 percent of drivers will fall asleep at the wheel at least once in their life, and in the U.S., the statistics are pretty good: 100,000 accidents on the freeway have been associated with tiredness, loss of vigilance, and falling asleep. A hundred thousand a year. It's extraordinary. At another level of terror, we dip into the tragic accidents at Chernobyl and indeed the space shuttle Challenger, which was so tragically lost. And in the investigations that followed those disasters, poor judgment as a result of extended shift work and loss of vigilance and tiredness was attributed to a big chunk of those disasters.

　　So when you're tired, and you lack sleep, you have poor memory, you have poor creativity, you have increased impulsiveness, and you have overall poor judgment. But my friends, it's so much worse than that.

　　(Laughter)

　　If you are a tired brain, the brain is craving things to wake it up. So drugs, stimulants. Caffeine represents the stimulant of choice across much of the Western world. Much of the day is fueled by caffeine, and if you're a really naughty tired brain, nicotine. And of course, you're fueling the waking state with these stimulants, and then of course it gets to 11 o'clock at night, and the brain says to itself, "Ah, well actually, I need to be asleep fairly shortly. What do we do about that when I'm feeling completely wired?" Well, of course, you then resort to alcohol. Now alcohol, short-term, you know, once or twice, to use to mildly sedate you, can be very useful. It can actually ease the sleep transition. But what you must be so aware of is that alcohol doesn't provide sleep, a biological mimic for sleep. It sedates you. So it actually harms some of the neural proccessing that's going on during memory consolidation and memory recall. So it's a short-term acute measure, but for goodness sake, don't become addicted to alcohol as a way of getting to sleep every night.

　　Another connection between loss of sleep is weight gain. If you sleep around about five hours or less every night, then you have a 50 percent likelihood of being obese. What's the connection here? Well, sleep loss seems to give rise to the release of the hormone ghrelin, the hunger hormone. Ghrelin is released. It gets to the brain. The brain says, "I need carbohydrates," and what it does is seek out carbohydrates and particularly sugars. So there's a link between tiredness and the metabolic predisposition for weight gain.

　　Stress. Tired people are massively stressed. And one of the things of stress, of course, is loss of memory, which is what I sort of just then had a little lapse of. But stress is so much more. So if you're acutely stressed, not a great problem, but it's sustained stress associated with sleep loss that's the problem. So sustained stress leads to suppressed immunity, and so tired people tend to have higher rates of overall infection, and there's some very good studies showing that shift workers, for example, have higher rates of cancer. Increased levels of stress throw glucose into the circulation. Glucose becomes a dominant part of the vasculature and essentially you become glucose intolerant. Therefore, diabetes 2. Stress increases cardiovascular disease as a result of raising blood pressure. So there's a whole raft of things associated with sleep loss that are more than just a mildly impaired brain, which is where I think most people think that sleep loss resides.

　　So at this point in the talk, this is a nice time to think, well, do you think on the whole I'm getting enough sleep? So a quick show of hands. Who feels that they're getting enough sleep here? Oh. Well, that's pretty impressive. Good. We'll talk more about that later, about what are your tips.

　　So most of us, of course, ask the question, "Well, how do I know whether I'm getting enough sleep?" Well, it's not rocket science. If you need an alarm clock to get you out of bed in the morning, if you are taking a long time to get up, if you need lots of stimulants, if you're grumpy, if you're irritable, if you're told by your work colleagues that you're looking tired and irritable, chances are you are sleep-deprived. Listen to them. Listen to yourself.

　　What do you do? Well -- and this is slightly offensive -- sleep for dummies: Make your bedroom a haven for sleep. The first critical thing is make it as dark as you possibly can, and also make it slightly cool. Very important. Actually, reduce your amount of light exposure at least half an hour before you go to bed. Light increases levels of alertness and will delay sleep. What's the last thing that most of us do before we go to bed? We stand in a massively lit bathroom looking into the mirror cleaning our teeth. It's the worst thing we can possibly do before we went to sleep. Turn off those mobile phones. Turn off those computers. Turn off all of those things that are also going to excite the brain. Try not to drink caffeine too late in the day, ideally not after lunch. Now, we've set about reducing light exposure before you go to bed, but light exposure in the morning is very good at setting the biological clock to the light-dark cycle. So seek out morning light. Basically, listen to yourself. Wind down. Do those sorts of things that you know are going to ease you off into the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

　　Okay. That's some facts. What about some myths?

　　Teenagers are lazy. No. Poor things. They have a biological predisposition to go to bed late and get up late, so give them a break.

　　We need eight hours of sleep a night. That's an average. Some people need more. Some people need less. And what you need to do is listen to your body. Do you need that much or do you need more? Simple as that.

　　Old people need less sleep. Not true. The sleep demands of the aged do not go down. Essentially, sleep fragments and becomes less robust, but sleep requirements do not go down.

　　And the fourth myth is, early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Well that's wrong at so many different levels. (Laughter) There is no, no evidence that getting up early and going to bed early gives you more wealth at all. There's no difference in socioeconomic status. In my experience, the only difference between morning people and evening people is that those people that get up in the morning early are just horribly smug.

　　(Laughter) (Applause)

　　Okay. So for the last part, the last few minutes, what I want to do is change gears and talk about some really new, breaking areas of neuroscience, which is the association between mental health, mental illness and sleep disruption. We've known for 130 years that in severe mental illness, there is always, always sleep disruption, but it's been largely ignored. In the 1970s, when people started to think about this again, they said, "Yes, well, of course you have sleep disruption in schizophrenia because they're on anti-psychotics. It's the anti-psychotics causing the sleep problems," ignoring the fact that for a hundred years previously, sleep disruption had been reported before anti-psychotics.

　　So what's going on? Lots of groups, several groups are studying conditions like depression, schizophrenia and bipolar, and what's going on in terms of sleep disruption. We have a big study which we published last year on schizophrenia, and the data were quite extraordinary. In those individuals with schizophrenia, much of the time, they were awake during the night phase and then they were asleep during the day. Other groups showed no 24-hour patterns whatsoever. Their sleep was absolutely smashed. And some had no ability to regulate their sleep by the light-dark cycle. They were getting up later and later and later and later each night. It was smashed.

　　So what's going on? And the really exciting news is that mental illness and sleep are not simply associated but they are physically linked within the brain. The neural networks that predispose you to normal sleep, give you normal sleep, and those that give you normal mental health are overlapping. And what's the evidence for that? Well, genes that have been shown to be very important in the generation of normal sleep, when mutated, when changed, also predispose individuals to mental health problems. And last year, we published a study which showed that a gene that's been linked to schizophrenia, which, when mutated, also smashes the sleep. So we have evidence of a genuine mechanistic overlap between these two important systems.

　　Other work flowed from these studies. The first was that sleep disruption actually precedes certain types of mental illness, and we've shown that in those young individuals who are at high risk of developing bipolar disorder, they already have a sleep abnormality prior to any clinical diagnosis of bipolar. The other bit of data was that sleep disruption may actually exacerbate, make worse the mental illness state. My colleague Dan Freeman has used a range of agents which have stabilized sleep and reduced levels of paranoia in those individuals by 50 percent.

　　So what have we got? We've got, in these connections, some really exciting things. In terms of the neuroscience, by understanding the neuroscience of these two systems, we're really beginning to understand how both sleep and mental illness are generated and regulated within the brain. The second area is that if we can use sleep and sleep disruption as an early warning signal, then we have the chance of going in. If we know that these individuals are vulnerable, early intervention then becomes possible. And the third, which I think is the most exciting, is that we can think of the sleep centers within the brain as a new therapeutic target. Stabilize sleep in those individuals who are vulnerable, we can certainly make them healthier, but also alleviate some of the appalling symptoms of mental illness.

　　So let me just finish. What I started by saying is take sleep seriously. Our attitudes toward sleep are so very different from a pre-industrial age, when we were almost wrapped in a duvet. We used to understand intuitively the importance of sleep. And this isn't some sort of crystal-waving nonsense. This is a pragmatic response to good health. If you have good sleep, it increases your concentration, attention, decision-making, creativity, social skills, health. If you get sleep, it reduces your mood changes, your stress, your levels of anger, your impulsivity, and your tendency to drink and take drugs. And we finished by saying that an understanding of the neuroscience of sleep is really informing the way we think about some of the causes of mental illness, and indeed is providing us new ways to treat these incredibly debilitating conditions.

　　Jim Butcher, the fantasy writer, said, "Sleep is God. Go worship." And I can only recommend that you do the same.

　　Thank you for your attention.

　　(Applause)

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇11

　　我選擇在網(wǎng)絡(luò)聲中被倒下就在網(wǎng)絡(luò)聲中爬起來(lái)，當(dāng)你被罵得小有名氣的時(shí)候我就暗自思量，反正也是挨罵，不如用最積極的方式迎接罵聲。20__年3月3日，我在微博上面發(fā)出了一條名為"愛(ài)的罵罵"的微博，只要在我這條微博下面留言的，，不管是鼓勵(lì)我的，罵我的，還是隨便說(shuō)說(shuō)的，我都捐五毛，24個(gè)小時(shí)，有十萬(wàn)多條留言，捐款金額是50693.5元，作為北京一家殘疾孤兒康復(fù)機(jī)構(gòu)的手術(shù)費(fèi)，在這里我要對(duì)每一位留言的人表示感謝。

　　在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中頑強(qiáng)活著的殘疾孤兒，其中有一個(gè)孩子在手術(shù)后的一年，終于有機(jī)會(huì)可以站起來(lái)了，當(dāng)我看到她第一次站起，我很感動(dòng)，也很驕傲，這個(gè)"黑姑娘"干了一件痛快的事。是的，我說(shuō)出了金額，我知道一定會(huì)有人說(shuō)，"捐那么少還好意思報(bào)數(shù)"我相信現(xiàn)在大部分人都不愿意公布捐款金額，因?yàn)榫杩钜呀?jīng)不再是一件隨心的行為，而是成為大家根據(jù)金額的多少來(lái)衡量愛(ài)心的大小。

　　我相信在座的的各位，也一定有過(guò)朋友之間隨份子，該給多少才合適的煩惱，我之所以說(shuō)出來(lái)，不僅僅是因?yàn)椋�我覺(jué)得隨心的行為需要躲閃，更因?yàn)?quot;愛(ài)的罵罵"是每一個(gè)留言的鏡子。當(dāng)時(shí)罵過(guò)我的人，也許在兩年后的今天聽(tīng)到我說(shuō)這番話，會(huì)想起曾經(jīng)不太善意的留言，卻給了這些孩子們有機(jī)會(huì)獲得新生，這同樣值得高興，其實(shí)我們每個(gè)人都有不同階段的新生，不是嗎?"愛(ài)的罵罵"發(fā)出那一刻，我如重生般釋然了，雖然，我不像很多演員那樣，擁有令人贊嘆的表演才華，自己也覺(jué)得不是天生吃這碗飯的，但是既然選擇了演員這份職業(yè)，我相信只要通過(guò)自己的努力和善待他人，就可以讓自己的家人和自己過(guò)上幸福美滿的生活，然而這一切，在20__年的夏天，被一句開(kāi)創(chuàng)演藝界網(wǎng)絡(luò)暴力先河的"滾出娛樂(lè)圈"所動(dòng)搖，我是第一個(gè)被放在主語(yǔ)位置的人，袁姍姍，這個(gè)名字好像從此和"一無(wú)是處"劃上了等號(hào)，那個(gè)時(shí)候不管說(shuō)什么、做什么、演什么都不對(duì)。更有媒體總結(jié)了"袁姍姍不被觀眾所喜歡的五大理由"第一條理由是"沒(méi)有理由"這是得有多深厚的感情基礎(chǔ)，才能達(dá)到的境界。

　　20__年確實(shí)挺讓人操心的，從春天到夏天，都沒(méi)有平靜過(guò)，一開(kāi)始我也有些懊惱，不知道到底發(fā)生了什么，我既沒(méi)有不勞而獲，也沒(méi)有做傷天害理的事，為什么讓我"滾"?沒(méi)多久，我想明白一個(gè)道理，誰(shuí)都可以說(shuō)我不好，但是自己必須接納那個(gè)心安理得的自己，既然我的演藝生涯要從倒數(shù)開(kāi)始，那我之后的每一點(diǎn)進(jìn)步都是充滿喜悅，從零分到六十分比從滿分到六十分，哪個(gè)更讓人開(kāi)心呢?

　　也是從那個(gè)時(shí)候，我重拾扔下了多年的小提琴，還有健身，運(yùn)動(dòng)讓我心情愉快，不工作的時(shí)候練琴和健身會(huì)讓我的每一天都過(guò)得很充實(shí)，根本沒(méi)有過(guò)多的時(shí)間停留在網(wǎng)上，更顧不上網(wǎng)友的圍觀。

　　我建議那些沉迷于網(wǎng)絡(luò)的年輕人，每天可以擠出一點(diǎn)時(shí)間鍛煉身體，當(dāng)有朝一日被他人欺負(fù)的時(shí)候，至少可以像我一樣，身輕如燕，自由翻滾，作為過(guò)去也許將來(lái)還會(huì)遭遇網(wǎng)絡(luò)暴力的過(guò)來(lái)人，我不喜歡再有人因?yàn)榫W(wǎng)絡(luò)暴力而受到傷害，請(qǐng)善用語(yǔ)言讓人言可敬。

　　特別感謝在那段特殊時(shí)間陪伴，我的家人和朋友，感謝他們承受住了一個(gè)當(dāng)時(shí)還沒(méi)有來(lái)得及減肥，各方面份量都很重的我，經(jīng)歷了這些，并不是想說(shuō)明自己有多強(qiáng)大，但確實(shí)因?yàn)檫@些切身經(jīng)歷讓我有了足夠的時(shí)間去思考，我曾經(jīng)問(wèn)過(guò)自己一個(gè)問(wèn)題，如果我當(dāng)時(shí)真的不堪重負(fù)放棄了演員這個(gè)職業(yè)，是否網(wǎng)絡(luò)暴力就會(huì)消失，答案當(dāng)然不會(huì)，既然還是要面對(duì)，就應(yīng)該積極地面對(duì).

　　前不久，我參與了一部公益電影的拍攝，電影傳遞了一個(gè)非常積極的理念：每個(gè)人都有自由選擇的機(jī)會(huì)和權(quán)利，無(wú)論你生下來(lái)是幸福的還是不幸的，我非常贊同，所以我選擇做一個(gè)積極快樂(lè)的自己，不再受控于網(wǎng)絡(luò)暴力中，不再只能看到消極的一面，都說(shuō)做公益是在幫助他人，在我身上成全了一個(gè)更加快樂(lè)的自己，電影的名字叫《有一天》我想在這里特別推薦一下，雖然我只參演了電影的一部分，但也給我?guī)��?lái)很多啟發(fā)和感動(dòng)，這部電影關(guān)注了九類特殊兒童群體，我參與拍攝的故事和聾啞兒童有關(guān)，跟我一起搭檔演出的也是一名聾啞兒童，拍攝之前，我還有些顧慮，我不知道該怎么去跟他交流，我擔(dān)心因?yàn)樽约翰恍⌒牡呐e動(dòng)傷害到他，但是見(jiàn)面之后，我才發(fā)現(xiàn)成年人的世界真的是，因?yàn)橄胩�多而變得�?fù)雜，只要我們保持一顆平常的心，用平等的方式去交流，就不會(huì)存在特別的障礙，重要的是你怎么看，而不是他怎么想，拍攝的那幾天，我平靜而快樂(lè)，每當(dāng)完成一個(gè)鏡頭，這個(gè)小少年都會(huì)跟我豎起大拇指示意，他這個(gè)小小的舉動(dòng)也提醒了我和我們，有人選擇贊美，有人則不!

　　感謝"愛(ài)的罵罵"感謝《有一天》感謝喝倒彩時(shí)刻提醒我的人，感謝一直鼓勵(lì)我的家人和朋友，我希望能有更多的人

　　可以像我一樣，主動(dòng)地從逆境中走出來(lái)，這個(gè)世界還有很多需要我們關(guān)心的事去做，需要我們關(guān)心的人去愛(ài)，保持自己的真實(shí)，倔強(qiáng)地活下去。

　　I choose in network sound by the fall on the climb up the network sound, when you get it a little famous I thought, it is better to meet with scolded, condemning the most positive way. In March 3, 20__, I issued a "love mama" micro-blog on micro-blog, as long as in my micro-blog comments below, and whether it is encouraging me, scold me, or casual, I donated 50 Fen, 24 hours, more than 100 thousand message, the donation amount is 50693.5 yuan, as a Beijing disabled orphans surgery rehabilitation institutions, here I want to every message thank you.

　　In real life, live strong disabled orphans, one child in a year after operation, finally have the opportunity to stand up, when I saw her for the first time to stand up, I was very moved, very proud of this "black girl" did a good thing. Yes, I say the amount I know some people will say, "donate so little Weasley off" I believe now that most people are not willing to publish the donation amount, because the donation is no longer a heart of behavior, but we become according to the amount to measure how much the size of love.

　　I believe all of you, there must have been friends with the elements, how much is appropriate trouble, I say, not just because I feel heart behavior need to dodge, but also because "love mama is a mirror of the message. When scolded me, maybe two years later to hear me say these words, will remember not too good message, gave the children a chance, this is happy, in fact, we each have a different stage of the new, not love mama? From that moment, I like reborn as relieved, though, I like a lot of actors that have admirable acting talent, feel not born to eat a bowl of rice, but since the choice of the actors of this occupation, I believe that through their own efforts and be kind to others, you can make your own family. And they live a happy life, but all of this, in the summer of 20__, was a pioneering shake showbiz network violence first get out of entertainment, I was the first one to be placed in the subject position of people, Yuan Shanshan, this name seems to be from "Nothing is right." sign, at that time no matter what to say, what to do, what's wrong. More media summed up the Yuan Shanshan is not the audience like the five reasons, the first reason is that there is no reason, this is a more profound emotional foundation, in order to achieve the realm.

　　20__ is really a worry, from spring to summer, are not calm, I also started a little vexed, don't know what happened, I have neither something for nothing, nor do wicked things, why let me roll? Not long, I want to understand a truth, who can say I'm not good, but he must accept that comfort myself, since my career is going to start from the bottom, every bit of progress that I later are full of joy, from zero to sixty from out to sixty points, which make people happy?

　　From that time, I regain dropped years of violin, and fitness, exercise makes me feel good, and practicing fitness will let me every day to the fullest when not working, there is not too much time on the Internet, no more friends in the crowd.

　　I suggest young people who are addicted to the Internet, every day can squeeze a little time to exercise, when some day in the future is bullied, at least you can like me, shenqingruyan, free rolling, as past, perhaps the future will encounter the network violence over, I don't love hurt because the network violence again, please use let the other person worthy of language.

　　Special thanks to the company at that period of time, my family and friends, thank them to withstand a time yet to lose weight, the weight is very heavy for me, these experiences, and not to show how powerful you are, but because these experiences let me have enough time to think and I asked you a question, if I was really overwhelmed abandoned actor in this occupation, whether the network violence will disappear, of course not, since still have to face, should actively face.

　　Not long ago, I participated in a charity film, the film has a very positive philosophy: everyone has the freedom to choose the right and opportunity, whether it is happy or not you born, I agree very much, so I choose to be a positive and happy self, no longer controlled by the network of violence, not only see the negative side, say to do charity is to help other people, in my body into a more happy, the name of the movie called "one day" here I would like to recommend a special, although I only made a part of the film, but also to I brought a lot of inspiration and moved, the film focused on nine classes of special groups of children, I participated in the filming of the story and deaf children, together with my partner before the show is also a deaf children, shooting, I still have some Worry, I do not know how to communicate with him, I am worried because you accidentally move to hurt him, but after the meeting, I found that the adult world is really too much, because I want to become more complex, as long as we keep a normal heart, with equal way to communicate, do not there are particular obstacles, it is important how you see, rather than what he thinks, that a few days of shooting, I am calm and happy, whenever a lens, the boy will tell me the thumbs up sign, he this small action also remind me and us, some people choose to have praise. People are not!

　　Thank you love mama for "one day" to remind me of the boos, thank you always encourage my family and friends, I hope to have more people

　　Can be like me, take the initiative to come out from the face of adversity, the world there are many things we need to do to do, we need to care about people to love, to maintain their true, stubborn to live.

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇12

　　I'm a lifelong traveler. Even as a little kid, I was actually working out that it would be cheaper to go to boarding school in England than just to the best school down the road from my parents' house in California.

　　我這輩子都是個(gè)旅行者。 即使還是一個(gè)小孩子的時(shí)候， 我便了解，事實(shí)上， 去讀英國(guó)寄宿學(xué)校會(huì)比 去加州父母家附近 最好的學(xué)校就讀還來(lái)得便宜。

　　So, from the time I was nine years old I was flying alone several times a year over the North Pole, just to go to school. And of course the more I flew the more I came to love to fly, so the very week after I graduated from high school, I got a job mopping tables so that I could spend every season of my 18th year on a different continent.

　　所以，當(dāng)我 9 歲時(shí)， 我在一年中，會(huì)獨(dú)自飛行幾回， 穿越北極，就只是去上學(xué)。 當(dāng)然，飛得越頻繁， 我越是愛(ài)上旅行， 所以就在我高中畢業(yè)后一周， 我找到一份清理桌子的工作， 為了讓自己可以在 18 歲那年， 在地球不同的大陸上， 分別待上一季。

　　And then, almost inevitably, I became a travel writer so my job and my joy could become one.

　　接著，幾乎不可避免地 我成了一個(gè)旅游作家， 使我的工作和志趣 可以結(jié)合在一塊兒。

　　And I really began to feel that if you were lucky enough to walk around the candlelit temples of Tibet or to wander along the seafronts in Havana with music passing all around you, you could bring those sounds and the high cobalt skies and the flash of the blue ocean back to your friends at home, and really bring some magic and clarity to your own life.

　　我真的開(kāi)始發(fā)覺(jué) 如果你可以幸運(yùn)地 漫步于西藏的燭光寺廟， 或者在音樂(lè)的繚繞間 悠然信步于哈瓦那海岸， 你便能將那聲音、天際 與靛藍(lán)海洋的閃爍光芒 帶給你家鄉(xiāng)的朋友， 真確地捎來(lái)些許神奇， 點(diǎn)亮自身生命。

　　Except, as you all know, one of the first things you learn when you travel is that nowhere is magical unless you can bring the right eyes to it.

　　除了，如你們所知， 當(dāng)旅行時(shí)，你學(xué)到的第一件事情是 你必須以正確的視角看世界， 否則大地依然黯淡無(wú)光。

　　You take an angry man to the Himalayas, he just starts complaining about the food. And I found that the best way that I could develop more attentive and more appreciative eyes was, oddly, by going nowhere, just by sitting still.

　　你帶一個(gè)易怒的男人爬喜馬拉雅山， 他只會(huì)抱怨那兒的食物。 我發(fā)現(xiàn)，有點(diǎn)怪異的是， 最好的讓自己可以培養(yǎng) 更專注和更珍惜世界的視角的訣竅是 哪兒都不去，靜止于原處即可。

　　And of course sitting still is how many of us get what we most crave and need in our accelerated lives, a break. But it was also the only way that I could find to sift through the slideshow of my experience and make sense of the future and the past.

　　當(dāng)然呆在原地正是我們?cè)S多人 尋常所得到的東西， 我們都渴望在快速的生活中獲得休息。 但那卻是我唯一的方法， 讓自己可以重歷自身的經(jīng)驗(yàn)幻燈， 理解未來(lái)與過(guò)去。

　　And so, to my great surprise, I found that going nowhere was at least as exciting as going to Tibet or to Cuba.

　　如此，我驚異地發(fā)現(xiàn)， 我發(fā)現(xiàn)無(wú)所去處 和游覽西藏或古巴一樣，令人興奮。

　　And by going nowhere, I mean nothing more intimidating than taking a few minutes out of every day or a few days out of every season, or even, as some people do, a few years out of a life in order to sit still long enough to find out what moves you most, to recall where your truest happiness lies and to remember that sometimes making a living and making a life point in opposite directions.

　　無(wú)所去處，只不過(guò)意謂著 每天花幾分鐘， 或每季花幾天， 甚至，如同有些人所做的， 在生命中花上幾年 長(zhǎng)久地靜思于某處， 尋找感動(dòng)你最多的一瞬， 回憶你最真實(shí)的幸福時(shí)刻， 同時(shí)記住， 有時(shí)候，謀生與生活 彼此是處于光譜線上的兩端的。

　　And of course, this is what wise beings through the centuries from every tradition have been telling us.

　　當(dāng)然，這是明智的眾生歷經(jīng)幾百年 從每個(gè)傳統(tǒng)中所告訴我們的。

　　It's an old idea. More than 2,000 years ago, the Stoics were reminding us it's not our experience that makes our lives, it's what we do with it.

　　這是一個(gè)古老的概念。 早在兩千多年前， 斯多葛學(xué)派提醒我們 并不是我們的經(jīng)驗(yàn) 成就了我們的生命， 而是我們用那經(jīng)驗(yàn)做了什么。

　　Imagine a hurricane suddenly sweeps through your town and reduces every last thing to rubble. One man is traumatized for life.

　　想象一下，一陣颶風(fēng) 迅速撲向你的城市， 將所有一切化為廢墟。 某個(gè)人身心遭受終身頓挫

　　But another, maybe even his brother, almost feels liberated, and decides this is a great chance to start his life anew. It's exactly the same event, but radically different responses. There is nothing either good or bad, as Shakespeare told us in "Hamlet," but thinking makes it so.

　　但另一個(gè)人，也許甚至是他的兄弟， 卻幾乎感覺(jué)釋?xiě)眩?并認(rèn)定，這是一個(gè)可以 使自己重獲新生的重要機(jī)會(huì)。 這是同樣的事件， 截然不同的回應(yīng)。 沒(méi)有什么是絕對(duì)的好壞， 正如莎士比亞 在《哈姆雷特》中所告訴我們的， 好壞由思維決定。

　　And this has certainly been my experience as a traveler. Twenty-four years ago I took the most mind-bending trip across North Korea. But the trip lasted a few days.

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇13

　　When you are a kid, you get asked this one particular question a lot, it really gets kind of annoying. What do you want to be when you grow up? Now, adults are hoping for answers like, I want to be an astronaut or I want to be a neurosurgeon, you’re adults in your imaginations.

　　Kids, they’re most likely to answer with pro-skateboarder, surfer or minecraft player. I asked my little brother, and he said, seriously dude, I’m 10, I have no idea, probably a pro-skier, let’s go get some ice cream.

　　See, us kids are going to answer something we’re stoked on, what we think is cool, what we have experience with, and that’s typically the opposite of what adults want to hear.

　　But if you ask a little kid, sometimes you’ll get the best answer, something so simple, so obvious and really profound. When I grow up, I want to be happy.

　　For me, when I grow up, I want to continue to be happy like I am now. I’m stoked to be here at TedEx, I mean, I’ve been watching Ted videos for as long as I can remember, but I never thought I’d make it on the stage here so soon. I mean, I just became a teenager, and like most teenage boys, I spend most of my time wondering, how did my room get so messy all on its own.

　　Did I take a shower today? And the most perplexing of all, how do I get girls to like me? Neurosciences say that the teenage brain is pretty weird, our prefrontal cortex is underdeveloped, but we actually have more neurons than adults, which is why we can be so creative, and impulsive and moody and get bummed out.

　　But what bums me out is to know that, a lot of kids today are just wishing to be happy, to be healthy, to be safe, not bullied, and be loved for who they are. So it seems to me when adults say, what do you want to be when you grow up? They just assume that you’ll automatically be happy and healthy.

　　Well, maybe that’s not the case, go to school, go to college, get a job, get married, boom, then you’ll be happy, right? You don’t seem to make learning how to be happy and healthy a priority in our schools, it’s separate from schools. And for some kids, it doesn’t exists at all? But what if we didn’t make it separate? What if we based education on the study and practice of being happy and healthy, because that’s what it is, a practice, and a simple practice at that?

　　Education is important, but why is being happy and healthy not considered education, I just don’t get it. So I’ve been studying the science of being happy and healthy. It really comes down to practicing these eight things. Exercise, diet and nutrition, time in nature, contribution, service to others, relationships, recreation, relaxation and stress management, and religious or spiritual involvement, yes, got that one.

　　So these eight things come from Dr. Roger Walsh, he calls them Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes or TLCs for short. He is a scientist that studies how to be happy and healthy. In researching this talk, I got a chance to ask him a few questions like; do you think that our schools today are making these eight TLCs a priority? His response was no surprise, it was essentially no. But he did say that many people do try to get this kind of education outside of the traditional arena, through reading and practices such as meditation or yoga.

　　But what I thought was his best response was that, much of education is oriented for better or worse towards making a living rather than making a life.

　　In 20__, Sir Ken Robinson gave the most popular Ted talk of all time. Schools kill creativity. His message is that creativity is as important as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

　　A lot of parents watched those videos, some of those parents like mine counted it as one of the reasons they felt confident to pull their kids from traditional school to try something different. I realized I’m part of this small, but growing revolution of kids who are going about their education differently, and you know what? It freaks a lot of people out.

　　Even though I was only nine, when my parents pulled me out of the school system, I can still remember my mom being in tears when some of her friends told her she was crazy and it was a stupid idea.

　　Looking back, I’m thankful she didn’t cave to peer pressure, and I think she is too. So, out of the 200 million people that have watched Sir Ken Robinson’s talk, why aren’t there more kids like me out there?

　　Shane McConkey is my hero. I loved him because he was the world’s best skier. But then, one day I realized what I really loved about Shane, he was a hacker. Not a computer hacker, he hacked skiing. His creativity and inventions made skiing what it is today, and why I love to ski. A lot of people think of hackers as geeky computer nerds who live in their parent’s basement and spread computer viruses, but I don’t see it that way.

　　Hackers are innovators, hackers are people who challenge and change the systems to make them work differently, to make them work better, it’s just how they think, it’s a mindset.

　　I’m growing up in a world that needs more people with the hacker mindset, and not just for technology, everything is up for being hacked, even skiing, even education. So whether it’s Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg or Shane McConkey having the hacker mindset can change the world.

　　Healthy, happy, creativity in the hacker mindset are all a large part of my education. I call it Hackschooling, I don’t use any one particular curriculum, and I’m not dedicated to any one particular approach, I hack my education.

　　I take advantage of opportunities in my community, and through a network of my friends and family. I take advantage of opportunities to experience what I’m learning, and I’m not afraid to look for shortcuts or hacks to get a better faster result. It’s like a remix or a mash-up of learning. It’s flexible, opportunistic, and it never loses sight of making happy, healthy and creativity a priority.

　　And here is the cool part, because it’s a mindset, not a system. Hackschooling can be used anyone, even traditional schools. Soo what does my school look like? Well, it looks like Starbucks a lot of the time, but like most kids I study lot of math, science, history and writing. I didn’t used to like to write because my teachers made me write about butterflies and rainbows, and I wanted to write about skiing.

　　It was a relief for my good friend’s mom, started the Squaw Valley Kids Institute, where I got to write through my experiences and my interests, while, connecting with great speakers from around the nation, and that sparked my love of writing.

　　I realized that once you’re motivated to learn something, you can get a lot done in a short amount of time, and on your own, Starbucks is pretty great for that. Hacking physics was fun, we learned all about Newton and Galileo, and we experienced some basic physics concepts like kinetic energy through experimenting and making mistakes.

　　My favorite was the giant Newton’s cradle that we made out of bowling balls, no bocce balls. We experimented with lot of other things like bowling balls and event giant jawbreakers.

　　Project Discovery’s ropes course is awesome, and slightly stressful. When you’re 60 feet off the ground, you have to learn how to handle your fears, communicate clearly, and most importantly, trust each other.

　　Community organizations play a big part in my education, High Fives Foundation’s Basics Program being aware and safe in critical situations. We spent a day with the Squaw Valley Ski Patrol to learn more about mountain safety, then the next day we switched to science of snow, weather and avalanches.

　　But most importantly, we learned that making bad decisions puts you and your friends at risk. Young should talk, well brings history to life. You study a famous character in history, and so that you can stand on stage and perform as that character, and answer any question about their lifetime.

　　In this photo, you see Al Capone and Bob Marley getting grilled with questions at the historical Piper’s Opera House in Virginia City, the same stage where Harry Houdini got his start.

　　Time and nature is really important to me, it’s calm, quiet and I get to just log out of reality. I spend one day a week, outside all day. At my Fox Walkers classes, our goal is to be able to survive in the wilderness with just a knife. We learn to listen to nature, we learn to sense our surroundings, and I’ve gained a spiritual connection to nature that, I never knew existed.

　　But the best part is that we get to make spears, bows and arrows, fires with just a bow drill and survival shelters for the snowy nights when we camp out. Hanging out at the Moment Factory where they hand make skis and design clothes, has really inspired me to one day have my own business. The guys at the factory showed me why I need to be good at math, be creative and get good at selling.

　　So I got an internship at Big Shark Print to get better at design and selling. Between fetching lunch, scrubbing toilets and breaking their vacuum cleaner, I’m getting to contribute to clothing design, customizing hats and selling them. The people who work there are happy, healthy, creative, and stoked to be doing what they are doing, this is by far my favorite class.

　　So, this is why I’m really happy, powder days, and it’s a good metaphor for my life, my education, my hackschooling. If everyone ski this mountain, like most people think of education, everyone will be skiing the same line, probably the safest and most of the powder would go untouched.

　　I look at this, and see a thousand possibilities, dropping the corners, shredding the spine, looking for a churning from cliff-to-cliff. Skiing to me is freedom, and so is my education, it’s about being creative; doing things differently, it’s about community and helping each other. It’s about being happy and healthy among my very best friends.

　　So I’m starting to think, I know what I might want to do when I grow up, but if you ask me what do I want to be when I grow up? I’ll always know that I want to be happy. Thank you.

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇14

　　The power of yet.

　　專注過(guò)程，而不是結(jié)果。

　　I heard about a highschool in Chicago where students had to pass a certain number of courses tograduate, and if they didn't pass a course, they got the grade "NotYet." And I thought that was fantastic, because if you get a failinggrade, you think, I'm nothing, I'm nowhere. But if you get the grade "NotYet" you understand that you're on a learning curve. It gives you a pathinto the future.

　　我聽(tīng)說(shuō)，在芝加哥有一所高中，那兒的學(xué)生畢業(yè)前要通過(guò)一系列課程，如果某一門課沒(méi)有通過(guò)，成績(jī)就是「暫未通過(guò)」。我想，這真是個(gè)絕妙的做法，因?yàn)椋�如果你某門課的成績(jī)不及格，你會(huì)想，我什么都不是，我什么都沒(méi)有學(xué)到。但如果你的成績(jī)是「暫未通過(guò)」，你會(huì)明白，學(xué)習(xí)的步伐并沒(méi)有停下，你還需逐步向前，爭(zhēng)取未來(lái)。

　　"Not Yet"also gave me insight into a critical event early in my career, a real turningpoint. I wanted to see how children coped with challenge and difficulty, so Igave 10-year-olds problems that were slightly too hard for them. Some of them reactedin a shockingly positive way. They said things like, "I love achallenge," or, "You know, I was hoping this would beinformative."

　　「暫未通過(guò)」也讓我聯(lián)想起一件尤為重要的、發(fā)生在我職業(yè)生涯初期的事情，這件事對(duì)我而言是一個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)折點(diǎn)。當(dāng)時(shí)，我想探究孩子是如何應(yīng)對(duì)挑戰(zhàn)和困難的，因此，我讓一些10歲大的孩子嘗試解決一些對(duì)于他們而言稍稍偏難的問(wèn)題。一些孩子積極應(yīng)對(duì)的方式讓我感到震驚。他們會(huì)這樣說(shuō)，「我喜歡挑戰(zhàn)，」或說(shuō)，「你知道的，我希望能有所獲�！�

　　They understood that their abilities could be developed.They had what I call a growth mindset. But other students felt it was tragic,catastrophic. From their more fixed mindset perspective, their intelligence hadbeen up for judgment and they failed. Instead of luxuriating in the power ofyet, they were gripped in the tyranny of now.

　　這些孩子明白，他們的能力是可以提升的。他們有我所說(shuō)的成長(zhǎng)型思維模式。但另一些孩子覺(jué)得面對(duì)這些難題是不幸，宛如面對(duì)一場(chǎng)災(zāi)難。從他們的固定型思維角度來(lái)看，他們的才智受到了評(píng)判，而他們失敗了。他們不懂得享受學(xué)習(xí)的過(guò)程，而只盯住眼前的成與敗。

　　So what do they donext? I'll tell you what they do next. In one study, they told us they wouldprobably cheat the next time instead of studying more if they failed a test. Inanother study, after a failure, they looked for someone who did worse than theydid so they could feel really good about themselves. And in study after study,they have run from difficulty.

　　這些孩子們后面表現(xiàn)如何?讓我告訴你他們的表現(xiàn)。在一項(xiàng)研究中，他們告訴我們，如果他們某次考試未通過(guò)，他們很可能會(huì)在下次考試中作弊，而不是更加努力地學(xué)習(xí)。在另一項(xiàng)研究中，他們掛了一門后，他們會(huì)找到那些考得還不如他們高的孩子，以尋求自我安慰。后續(xù)的研究陸續(xù)表明，他們會(huì)逃避困難。

　　Scientists measured the electrical activity fromthe brain as students confronted an error. On the left, you see the fixedmindset students. There's hardly any activity. They run from the error. Theydon't engage with it. But on the right, you have the students with the growthmindset, the idea that abilities can be developed. They engage deeply. Theirbrain is on fire with yet. They engage deeply. They process the error. Theylearn from it and they correct it.

　　科學(xué)家們監(jiān)測(cè)了學(xué)生們面對(duì)錯(cuò)誤時(shí)的腦電活動(dòng)圖像。在左側(cè)，是固定型思維模式的學(xué)生，幾乎沒(méi)有什么活動(dòng)。他們?cè)阱e(cuò)誤面前選擇了逃避。他們沒(méi)有積極地投入。但請(qǐng)看右側(cè)，這是成長(zhǎng)型思維模式的學(xué)生，這些學(xué)生相信能力會(huì)通過(guò)鍛煉得以提升。他們積極地應(yīng)對(duì)錯(cuò)誤。他們的大腦在高速運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)，他們積極地投入，他們剖析錯(cuò)誤，從中學(xué)習(xí)，最終訂正。

　　How are we raising ourchildren? Are we raising them for now instead of yet? Are we raising kids whoare obsessed with getting A's? Are we raising kids who don't know how to dreambig dreams? Their biggest goal is getting the next A or the next test score?

　　如今我們是如何教育孩子的呢?是教育他們專注眼前，而不是注重過(guò)程嗎?我們培育了一些迷戀刷A的孩子們嗎?我們培育了沒(méi)有遠(yuǎn)大理想的孩子們嗎?他們最遠(yuǎn)大的目標(biāo)就是再拿一個(gè)A，心里所想的就是下一次考試嗎?

　　And are they carrying this need for constant validation with them into theirfuture lives? Maybe, because employers are coming to me and saying, we havealready raised a generation of young workers who can't get through the daywithout an award.

　　他們?cè)诮窈蟮纳�活中，都以分�(jǐn)?shù)的高低來(lái)評(píng)判自己?jiǎn)?或許是的，因?yàn)槠髽I(yè)雇主們跑來(lái)找我，說(shuō)我們養(yǎng)育的這新一代走上工作崗位的人，如果不給他們獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)，他們一天都過(guò)不下去。

　　So what can we do? Howcan we build that bridge to yet?

　　我們?cè)撛趺醋瞿?如何讓孩子注重過(guò)程而不是結(jié)果呢?

　　Here are some things wecan do. First of all, we can praise wisely, not praising intelligence ortalent. That has failed. Don't do that anymore. But praising the process thatkids engage in: their effort, their strategies, their focus, theirperseverance, their improvement. This process praise creates kids who are hardyand resilient.

　　我們可以做這樣幾件事。首先，我們可以有技巧地去表?yè)P(yáng)：不去表?yè)P(yáng)天分或才智，這行不通。不要再這樣做了。而是要對(duì)孩子積極投入的過(guò)程進(jìn)行表?yè)P(yáng)：他們的努力與策略，他們的專注、堅(jiān)持與進(jìn)步。對(duì)過(guò)程的表?yè)P(yáng)，會(huì)塑造孩子的韌性。

　　There are other ways toreward yet. We recently teamed up with game scientists from the University ofWashington to create a new online math game that rewarded yet. In this game,students were rewarded for effort, strategy and progress. The usual math gamerewards you for getting answers right right now, but this game rewardedprocess. And we got more effort, more strategies, more engagement over longerperiods of time, and more perseverance when they hit really, really hardproblems.

　　還有其他的辦法來(lái)獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)過(guò)程。最近，我們與來(lái)自華盛頓大學(xué)的游戲研究者合作，制作了一款獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)過(guò)程的數(shù)學(xué)游戲。在這個(gè)游戲中，學(xué)生們因他們的努力、策略與進(jìn)步而受到獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)。通常的數(shù)學(xué)游戲中，玩家只有在解得正確答案后才能得到獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)，但這個(gè)游戲獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)過(guò)程。隨著游戲的深入，孩子們更加努力，想出更多的策略，身心更加投入，當(dāng)遇到尤為困難的問(wèn)題時(shí)，他們也展現(xiàn)了更為持久的韌勁。

　　Just the words"yet" or "not yet," we're finding, give kids greaterconfidence, give them a path into the future that creates greater persistence.And we can actually change students' mindsets. In one study, we taught themthat every time they push out of their comfort zone to learn something new anddifficult, the neurons in their brain can form new, stronger connections, andover time they can get smarter.

　　我們發(fā)現(xiàn)，注重過(guò)程的思維模式，會(huì)賦予孩子們更多自信，指引他們不斷向前，越發(fā)堅(jiān)持不懈。事實(shí)上，我們能夠改變學(xué)生的思維模式。在一項(xiàng)研究中，我們告訴學(xué)生們，每當(dāng)他們迫使自己走出舒適區(qū)，學(xué)習(xí)新知識(shí)，迎接新挑戰(zhàn)，大腦中的神經(jīng)元會(huì)形成新的、更強(qiáng)的連接，他們會(huì)逐漸變得越來(lái)越聰明。

　　Look what happened: inthis study, students who were not taught this growth mindset continued to showdeclining grades over this difficult school transition, but those who weretaught this lesson showed a sharp rebound in their grades. We have shown thisnow, this kind of improvement, with thousands and thousands of kids, especiallystruggling students.

　　看看后面發(fā)生了什么吧：在這項(xiàng)研究中，沒(méi)有接受成長(zhǎng)型思維模式訓(xùn)練的學(xué)生，在這一困難的過(guò)渡階段，成績(jī)持續(xù)下滑，但那些受過(guò)該訓(xùn)練的學(xué)生，成績(jī)強(qiáng)勢(shì)反彈，卓有起色。如今，我們已證實(shí)這一結(jié)論，通過(guò)成千上萬(wàn)個(gè)孩子的實(shí)例，尤其是那些在學(xué)業(yè)上掙扎的孩子。

　　So let's talk aboutequality. In our country, there are groups of students who chronically underperform,for example, children in inner cities, or children on Native Americanreservations. And they've done so poorly for so long that many people thinkit's inevitable. But when educators create growth mindset classrooms steeped inyet, equality happens.

　　那我們就來(lái)談?wù)劷逃�平等吧。在我們�?guó)家，有些特定區(qū)域的孩子總是在學(xué)業(yè)上處于下游，比如，內(nèi)城區(qū)的孩子，或印第安人居留地里的孩子。長(zhǎng)期以來(lái)這里的孩子都沒(méi)什么起色， 以致于很多人認(rèn)為沒(méi)的救了。但是當(dāng)教育家們將孩子的思維轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)槌砷L(zhǎng)型思維模式時(shí)，教育平等實(shí)現(xiàn)了。

　　And here are just a few examples. In one year, akindergarten class in Harlem, New York scored in the 95th percentile on theNational Achievement Test. Many of those kids could not hold a pencil when theyarrived at school. In one year, fourth grade students in the South Bronx, waybehind, became the number one fourth grade class in the state of New York onthe state math test. In a year to a year and a half, Native American studentsin a school on a reservation went from the bottom of their district to the top,and that district included affluent sections of Seattle. So the native kidsoutdid the Microsoft kids.

　　舉幾個(gè)例子吧。紐約哈萊姆區(qū)的一所幼兒園的學(xué)生在一年的時(shí)間內(nèi)，國(guó)家水平測(cè)試(NationalAchievement Test) 成績(jī)飛躍到前百分之五。這些孩子中有很多在入學(xué)時(shí)甚至還不會(huì)握筆。一年之內(nèi)，遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)落后的南布朗克斯區(qū)的四年級(jí)學(xué)生，其標(biāo)準(zhǔn)數(shù)學(xué)測(cè)試成績(jī)攀升到紐約州所有四年級(jí)學(xué)生的第一名。在一年到一年半的時(shí)間內(nèi)， 某印第安人居留地的一所學(xué)校里的學(xué)生成績(jī)從全區(qū)墊底到名列前茅，而這個(gè)區(qū)包括了西雅圖市的富饒地段。印第安孩子戰(zhàn)勝了「微軟」孩子。

　　This happened becausethe meaning of effort and difficulty were transformed. Before, effort anddifficulty made them feel dumb, made them feel like giving up, but now, effortand difficulty, that's when their neurons are making new connections, strongerconnections. That's when they're getting smarter.

　　這得以實(shí)現(xiàn)的原因，是努力與困難的意義在孩子心目中發(fā)生了改變。在此之前，努力與困難讓他們感覺(jué)自己很笨，讓他們想放棄，但如今，正是努力與困難讓他們大腦中的神經(jīng)元得以形成新的連接，更強(qiáng)的連接。正是在這個(gè)過(guò)程中，他們變得越來(lái)越聰明。

　　I received a letterrecently from a 13-year-old boy. He said, "Dear Professor Dweck, Iappreciate that your writing is based on solid scientific research, and that'swhy I decided to put it into practice. I put more effort into my schoolwork,into my relationship with my family, and into my relationship with kids atschool, and I experienced great improvement in all of those areas. I nowrealize I've wasted most of my life."

　　最近，我收到一個(gè)13歲男孩的來(lái)信。他說(shuō)，「親愛(ài)的德韋克教授，我欣賞你的著作，因?yàn)樗鼈兌蓟�于可靠的科學(xué)試驗(yàn)，因此，我決定將你的方法付諸實(shí)踐。我更用功地學(xué)習(xí)，更用心地處好與家人的關(guān)系，與同學(xué)的關(guān)系，而在這些方面我都有了長(zhǎng)足的進(jìn)步。現(xiàn)在我才意識(shí)到，過(guò)去浪費(fèi)了太多生命�！�

　　Let's not waste anymore lives, because once we know that abilities are capable of such growth, itbecomes a basic human right for children, all children, to live in places thatcreate that growth, to live in places filled with yet.

　　讓我們不再浪費(fèi)生命， 因?yàn)�，既然我們知�?能力可以增長(zhǎng)，那么，生活在一個(gè)能激發(fā)進(jìn)步并讓這一切變得可能的地方就是每個(gè)孩子的權(quán)利。

　　Thank you.(Applause)

　　謝謝。(掌聲)

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇15

　　人有了錢就會(huì)變壞？社會(huì)心理學(xué)家Paul Piff通過(guò)操縱大富翁游戲做了一個(gè)有趣的實(shí)驗(yàn)，測(cè)試人們感到富有時(shí)會(huì)如何表現(xiàn)。

　　I want you to， for a moment， think about playing a game of Monopoly， except in this game， that combination of skill， talent and luck that help earn you success in games， as in life， has been rendered irrelevant， because this game's been rigged， and you've got the upper hand。 You've got more money， more opportunities to move around the board， and more access to resources。 And as you think about that experience， I want you to ask yourself， how might that experience of being a privileged player in a rigged game change the way that you think about yourself and regard that other player？

　　So we ran a study on the U。C。 Berkeley campus to look at exactly that question。 We brought in more than 100 pairs of strangers into the lab， and with the flip of a coin randomly assigned one of the two to be a rich player in a rigged game。 They got two times as much money。 When they passed Go， they collected twice the salary， and they got to roll both dice instead of one， so they got to move around the board a lot more。 （Laughter） And over the course of 15 minutes， we watched through hidden cameras what happened。 And what I want to do today， for the first time， is show you a little bit of what we saw。 You're going to have to pardon the sound quality， in some cases， because again， these were hidden cameras。 So we've provided subtitles。 Rich Player： How many 500s did you have？ Poor Player： Just one。

　　Rich Player： Are you serious。 Poor Player： Yeah。

　　Rich Player： I have three。 （Laughs） I don't know why they gave me so much。

　　Paul Piff： Okay， so it was quickly apparent to players that something was up。 One person clearly has a lot more money than the other person， and yet， as the game unfolded， we saw very notable differences and dramatic differences begin to emerge between the two players。 The rich player started to move around the board louder， literally smacking the board with their piece as he went around。 We were more likely to see signs of dominance and nonverbal signs， displays of power and celebration among the rich players。

　　We had a bowl of pretzels positioned off to the side。 It's on the bottom right corner there。 That allowed us to watch participants' consummatory behavior。 So we're just tracking how many pretzels participants eat。

　　Rich Player： Are those pretzels a trick？

　　Poor Player： I don't know。

　　PP： Okay， so no surprises， people are onto us。 They wonder what that bowl of pretzels is doing there in the first place。 One even asks， like you just saw， is that bowl of pretzels there as a trick？ And yet， despite that， the power of the situation seems to inevitably dominate， and those rich players start to eat more pretzels。

　　Rich Player： I love pretzels。

　　（Laughter）

　　PP： And as the game went on， one of the really interesting and dramatic patterns that we observed begin to emerge was that the rich players actually started to become ruder toward the other person， less and less sensitive to the plight of those poor， poor players， and more and more demonstrative of their material success， more likely to showcase how well they're doing。 Rich Player： I have money for everything。 Poor Player： How much is that？ Rich Player： You owe me 24 dollars。 You're going to lose all your money soon。 I'll buy it。 I have so much money。 I have so much money， it takes me forever。 Rich Player 2： I'm going to buy out this whole board。 Rich Player 3： You're going to run out of money soon。 I'm pretty much untouchable at this point。

　　PP： Okay， and here's what I think was really， really interesting， is that at the end of the 15 minutes， we asked the players to talk about their experience during the game。 And when the rich players talked about why they had inevitably won in this rigged game of Monopoly —— （Laughter） — they talked about what they'd done to buy those different properties and earn their success in the game， and they became far less attuned to all those different features of the situation， including that flip of a coin that had randomly gotten them into that privileged position in the first place。 And that's a really， really incredible insight into how the mind makes sense of advantage。

　　Now this game of Monopoly can be used as a metaphor for understanding society and its hierarchical structure， wherein some people have a lot of wealth and a lot of status， and a lot of people don't。 They have a lot less wealth and a lot less status and a lot less access to valued resources。 And what my colleagues and I for the last seven years have been doing is studying the effects of these kinds of hierarchies。 What we've been finding across dozens of studies and thousands of participants across this country is that as a person's levels of wealth increase， their feelings of compassion and empathy go down， and their feelings of entitlement， of deservingness， and their ideology of self—interest increases。 In surveys， we found that it's actually wealthier individuals who are more likely to moralize greed being good， and that the pursuit of self—interest is favorable and moral。 Now what I want to do today is talk about some of the implications of this ideology self—interest， talk about why we should care about those implications， and end with what might be done。

TED英語(yǔ)演講稿范文 篇16

　　This is Tim Ferriss circa 1979 A.D. Age two. You can tell by the power squat, I was a very confident boy -- and not without reason. I had a very charming routine at the time, which was to wait until late in the evening when my parents were decompressing from a hard day's work, doing their crossword puzzles, watching television. I would run into the living room, jump up on the couch, rip the cushions off, throw them on the floor, scream at the top of my lungs and run out because I was the Incredible Hulk. (Laughter) Obviously, you see the resemblance. And this routine went on for some time.

　　When I was seven I went to summer camp. My parents found it necessary for peace of mind. And at noon each day the campers would go to a pond, where they had floating docks. You could jump off the end into the deep end. I was born premature. I was always very small. My left lung had collapsed when I was born. And I've always had buoyancy problems. So water was something that scared me to begin with. But I would go in on occasion. And on one particular day, the campers were jumping through inner tubes, They were diving through inner tubes. And I thought this would be great fun. So I dove through the inner tube, and the bully of the camp grabbed my ankles. And I tried to come up for air, and my lower back hit the bottom of the inner tube. And I went wild eyed and thought I was going to die. A camp counselor fortunately came over and separated us. From that point onward I was terrified of swimming. That is something that I did not get over. My inability to swim has been one of my greatest humiliations and embarrassments. That is when I realized that I was not the Incredible Hulk.

　　But there is a happy ending to this story. At age 31 -- that's my age now -- in August I took two weeks to re-examine swimming, and question all the of the obvious aspects of swimming. And went from swimming one lap -- so 20 yards -- like a drowning monkey, at about 200 beats per minute heart rate -- I measured it -- to going to Montauk on Long Island, close to where I grew up, and jumping into the ocean and swimming one kilometer in open water, getting out and feeling better than when I went in. And I came out, in my Speedos, European style, feeling like the Incredible Hulk.

　　And that's what I want everyone in here to feel like, the Incredible Hulk, at the end of this presentation. More specifically, I want you to feel like you're capable of becoming an excellent long-distance swimmer, a world-class language learner, and a tango champion. And I would like to share my art. If I have an art, it's deconstructing things that really scare the living hell out of me. So, moving onward.

　　Swimming, first principles. First principles, this is very important. I find that the best results in life are often held back by false constructs and untested assumptions. And the turnaround in swimming came when a friend of mine said, "I will go a year without any stimulants" -- this is a six-double-espresso-per-day type of guy -- "if you can complete a one kilometer open water race." So the clock started ticking. I started seeking out triathletes because I found that lifelong swimmers often couldn't teach what they did. I tried kickboards. My feet would slice through the water like razors, I wouldn't even move. I would leave demoralized, staring at my feet. Hand paddles, everything. Even did lessons with Olympians -- nothing helped. And then Chris Sacca, who is now a dear friend mine, had completed an Iron Man with 103 degree temperature, said, "I have the answer to your prayers." And he introduced me to the work of a man named Terry Laughlin who is the founder of Total Immersion Swimming. That set me on the road to examining biomechanics.

　　So here are the new rules of swimming, if any of you are afraid of swimming, or not good at it. The first is, forget about kicking. Very counterintuitive. So it turns out that propulsion isn't really the problem. Kicking harder doesn't solve the problem because the average swimmer only transfers about three percent of their energy expenditure into forward motion. The problem is hydrodynamics. So what you want to focus on instead is allowing your lower body to draft behind your upper body, much like a small car behind a big car on the highway. And you do that by maintaining a horizontal body position. The only way you can do that is to not swim on top of the water. The body is denser than water. 95 percent of it would be, at least, submerged naturally.

　　So you end up, number three, not swimming, in the case of freestyle, on your stomach, as many people think, reaching on top of the water. But actually rotating from streamlined right to streamlined left, maintaining that fuselage position as long as possible. So let's look at some examples. This is Terry. And you can see that he's extending his right arm below his head and far in front. And so his entire body really is underwater. The arm is extended below the head. The head is held in line with the spine, so that you use strategic water pressure to raise your legs up -- very important, especially for people with lower body fat. Here is an example of the stroke. So you don't kick. But you do use a small flick. You can see this is the left extension. Then you see his left leg. Small flick, and the only purpose of that is to rotate his hips so he can get to the opposite side. And the entry point for his right hand -- notice this, he's not reaching in front and catching the water. Rather, he is entering the water at a 45-degree angle with his forearm, and then propelling himself by streamlining -- very important. Incorrect, above, which is what almost every swimming coach will teach you. Not their fault, honestly. And I'll get to implicit versus explicit in a moment. Below is what most swimmers will find enables them to do what I did, which is going from 21 strokes per 20-yard length to 11 strokes in two workouts with no coach, no video monitoring. And now I love swimming. I can't wait to go swimming. I'll be doing a swimming lesson later, for myself, if anyone wants to join me.