ted英語演講稿范文

ted英語演講稿范文（精選14篇）

1.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇一

　　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)過離職長假之后重新投入到工作中來，我稱他們?yōu)椤霸購臉I(yè)者”。這些人選擇休離職長假，有些是要照顧老人，有些是要照顧孩子，也有些是追求個人愛好，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，或遣返回國者。離職長假后重返工作是非常困難的，因為雇主和再從業(yè)者之間有了隔閡。雇主們認為，雇傭這些簡歷上工作時間不連貫的人是風險極高的決策，而正在離職長假中的人可能對自己再從業(yè)的能力產(chǎn)生疑慮，特別是那些離職時間較長者。兩者間的缺乏聯(lián)系是我在嘗試解決的問題。

　　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，我們在各行各業(yè)都能見到成功的再從業(yè)者。這位是薩米·科法拉，他是英國的一位核物理學(xué)家，因為要在家照顧五個孩子而度過了五年的離職長假。新加坡的媒體最近發(fā)表了文章，內(nèi)容是有關(guān)離職長假后再從業(yè)的護士。提到長時間的離職假期，這位是米米·卡恩,她是加州奧蘭治縣的一位社工，她在度過20xx年的離職長假后回到了一個社會服務(wù)組織工作。這是據(jù)我所知最長的離職假期。最高法院法官桑德拉·戴·奧康納，在其職業(yè)生涯早期度過了五年離職長假。

　　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，她度過了20xx年的離職長假。特蕾西答復(fù)了從“今日秀”節(jié)目觀眾中征集到的問題，他們想要重返工作，卻發(fā)現(xiàn)很難做到。特蕾西寫道：自己是五個孩子的母親，也很享受居家的時間，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，因為她也很享受工作。特蕾西也曾做過我們很多人所做的事，每天不停的搜尋合適的工作。她找過財經(jīng)、會計領(lǐng)域的職位，她在那之前花掉了九個月時間，很努力地調(diào)查網(wǎng)上的公司，然后投放簡歷，卻一無所獲。

　　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年六月見到了特蕾西，那時“今日秀”節(jié)目問我可否與她合作，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，她必須公開自己求職的想法，然后告訴她認識的所有人，自己再從業(yè)的強烈意愿。我還告訴她，“有很多你參與的對話是對你完全沒有幫助的。你要做好心理準備，別因為那些而灰心喪氣。找到工作機會之前，確實要經(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發(fā)現(xiàn)，那時我剛剛回到工作中，結(jié)束了自己離開全職工作大軍20xx年的長假。這個發(fā)現(xiàn)就是，人們對你的印象凝固在過去。我的意思是，當你再次開始與人打交道，與曾經(jīng)合作過的人重新接觸，例如跟你一起上學(xué)、工作過的人，他們對你的印象是離職長假之前的你。我們的自我意識隨著時間推移逐漸淡化，我們很多人都會這樣，我們距離我們的職業(yè)身份也就越來越遠。舉個例子，你可能把你自己看成這樣。這就是我，開了一天小面包車，整個人感覺很瘋狂。這是我在廚房里的樣子。但是從前的那些人，他們對這些一無所知。他們只記得你曾經(jīng)的樣子，當你重新與這些人溝通時，真是大大的增強了自信心，而且他們對你有再從業(yè)的興趣感到非常的開心。

　　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)生在我離職長假中的一件事。那時我?guī)缀跬耆�不關(guān)注經(jīng)濟新聞。我曾是財經(jīng)行業(yè)出身，然而我在家照顧四個孩子時，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候，會講到一個不復(fù)存在的公司。所以我重新訂閱了華爾街日報，然后連續(xù)看了六個月，之后我才覺得自己對經(jīng)濟又有了點解了。

　　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.

　　我相信再從業(yè)者是勞動大軍中的精英，原因如下。想想我們?nèi)松�的階段：對于那些因為要照顧孩子而休離職假期的人，大都沒有產(chǎn)假，或是產(chǎn)假很短。我們早就做過這些了。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，正是因為我們離職一段時間了。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)于雇傭再從業(yè)者的兩個擔憂。

　　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，雇主擔心這些再從業(yè)者技術(shù)方面比較落后。我可以告訴各位，雖然有段時間我自己技術(shù)確實落后，但那只是暫時的。很早以前我用“蓮花123”軟件來做財經(jīng)分析，我不知道有沒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PowerPoint駕輕就熟。我告訴再從業(yè)者們，雇主希望找工作的人對基本的辦公管理軟件有實踐經(jīng)驗。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.

　　雇主對再從業(yè)者的第二種憂慮，就是他們擔心再從業(yè)者不清楚他們想要做什么。我告訴再從業(yè)者，他們必須仔細研究，了解自己的愛好或者技能在離職長假的過程中是否發(fā)生了變化。這不是雇主的職責。這個是再從業(yè)者的責任，把自己展現(xiàn)給雇主，來充分展示自己可創(chuàng)造的價值。

　　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，我開始注意到一件事。我從20xx年開始追蹤人們重返崗位的情況，然而在20xx年，我開始注意到，一種短期、帶薪的工作機會開始出現(xiàn)，不論它是不是名叫“實習(xí)”，但總之是一個很像實習(xí)的經(jīng)歷，這為重回崗位的專業(yè)人士開辟了一條道路。我看到高盛和莎莉集團都開始了此類二次從業(yè)的實習(xí)項目。我看到一個再從業(yè)的工程師，算是不太傳統(tǒng)的再從業(yè)人士，申請了一個軍方的初級實習(xí)項目，后來他獲得了一個永久的工作。我看到兩所大學(xué)將實習(xí)項目整合到職業(yè)中期管理學(xué)教育項目中。

　　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，我寫了一篇報告，后來它發(fā)表在了《哈佛商業(yè)評論》中，名字叫《40歲的實習(xí)生》。我必須得感謝編者擬的標題，還有這個很棒的配圖，你們可以看到那個40歲的實習(xí)生出現(xiàn)在一群大學(xué)實習(xí)生中。后來，還得感謝福克斯商業(yè)新聞，他們把這個概念稱為“50歲的實習(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)立了再從業(yè)實習(xí)項目，專為重回崗位的金融精英。截至目前，數(shù)百人參與了這些項目。這些實習(xí)項目是帶薪的，而且那些晉升到永久崗位的人，都有極具競爭力的薪資。現(xiàn)在，七家最大的工程公司，也在推行再從業(yè)實習(xí)項目，來幫助重返崗位的工程師，這也是女性工程師協(xié)會新方案的一部分。那么，為什么這些企業(yè)大力支持再從業(yè)實習(xí)呢?因為這種實習(xí)可以讓雇主基于參與者實際工作成效來做出雇傭決策，而非一系列的'面試，而且雇主不必在實習(xí)結(jié)束之前就做出永久雇傭的決定。這段試驗期消除了一定的風險，這關(guān)乎某些經(jīng)理人對雇傭再從業(yè)者的擔憂，同時，這也吸引了大量再從業(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步，在此之前，大多數(shù)雇主根本沒興趣與再從業(yè)者打交道。然而現(xiàn)在，有許多項目在開展實施，特別是針對再從業(yè)者的項目，如果簡歷上沒有一段空檔期，你根本不能申請這些項目。

　　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.

　　這標志著一種實質(zhì)變化，一種真正的制度變革，因為如果我們可以為再從業(yè)者解決這個問題，我們亦可為其他的職業(yè)轉(zhuǎn)型者解決同樣的問題。事實上，一位雇主剛剛告訴我，他們的“退伍軍人再從業(yè)項目”，就是基于他們的再從業(yè)實習(xí)項目。我們也沒有理由不去設(shè)立一個“退休人士實習(xí)項目”。不同的對象，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，她必須告訴她認識的每一個人，自己對重返工作崗位很有興趣。結(jié)果，她與自己社區(qū)里的長輩進行了一次關(guān)鍵的談話，這讓她找到了一份工作邀請。那是一個金融部門的會計工作。但那是臨時的。公司告訴她，有可能有崗位晉升的機會，但是不能保證。那是20xx年的秋天。特蕾西很愛那個公司，而且她喜歡那里的員工，從辦公室去她家只需10分鐘。所以即使她后來得到了第二份工作邀請，來自另一家公司，而且有永久、全職的保證，她決定在這份實習(xí)項目中冒冒險，盡人事，聽天命。最后，她的業(yè)績遠遠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，因為他們知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.

　　時間快進到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從業(yè)者為她工作。特蕾西的臨時工作像是一個試驗，就像實習(xí)項目，而最終，特蕾西和她的雇主達到了雙贏局面。

　　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.

　　我的目標是將這種再從業(yè)實習(xí)的概念推薦給越來越多的雇主。但是與此同時，如果你在離職長假后重返崗位，別猶豫向雇主提議設(shè)立實習(xí)項目，或者類似實習(xí)項目的想法，特別是那些沒有正式的再從業(yè)實習(xí)項目的公司。爭當他們的第一個成功故事，而你們都可以成為未來更多再從業(yè)者的楷模。

　　Thank you.

　　謝謝大家。

2.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇二

　　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.

　　我想用一個實驗來開始我的演講。我將給你們播放三段雨天的視頻。不過我把其中一個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。我想讓你們認真聽，找出哪個視頻里是煎培根聲。

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

　　如果你們曾被問過這個問題，請舉手“你長大之后想干什么?”

　　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，你們第一次被問這個問題是多大?你們可以舉手指頭來示意一下。三歲，五歲，三歲，五歲，五歲，好的。接下來，如果剛剛說的這個問題，“你長大之后想干什么?”曾經(jīng)讓你感到焦慮，請舉手。

　　Any anxiety at all.

　　哪怕一點點焦慮。

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

　　我永遠無法回答這個問題，“你長大之后想干什么?”

　　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.

　　并不是說我沒有興趣愛好，而是我的興趣愛好太多。高中的時候，我喜歡英語、數(shù)學(xué)和藝術(shù)，建過網(wǎng)站在一個叫“失意電話話務(wù)員”的朋克樂隊當吉他手。也許你們還聽說過我們樂隊呢。

　　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)自己有一個行為模式，我會對某一個領(lǐng)域感興趣，然后一頭扎進去，認真鉆研，變得越來越擅長，但到了某一個階段，我就會開始覺得無聊。通常我會繼續(xù)堅持下去，因為我已經(jīng)投入了很多時間和精力，有時候還有金錢。但是最終這種無聊的感覺，就像在說，哦，這事我已經(jīng)會了，已經(jīng)沒有任何挑戰(zhàn)了，再繼續(xù)也不會有多大成就了。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.

　　但之后我可能又會對另一些事感興趣，跟之前完全不同的領(lǐng)域，我又會一頭扎進去，認真鉆研，然后說，“太棒了!這就是我的菜!”之后我又會達到那個階段，開始覺得無聊。最后，我又會放棄。之后我又會發(fā)現(xiàn)新的興趣，不同的領(lǐng)域然后一頭扎進去。

　　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。一是我不確定如何才能將這些興趣變成我的職業(yè)。我覺得自己最終會從(這些興趣)里面挑一個，而對其他愛好忍痛割愛，做好將來一定會無聊的心理準備。讓我非常焦慮的第二個原因，跟我自身有關(guān)。我擔心自己的這種行為模式是錯的，自己這么朝三暮四，是不是錯了。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，請你們問自己一個問題，這個問題我早就該問自己的。就是，你是從哪里學(xué)到該如何判斷我們的所作所為是錯誤的或者不正常的。我來告訴你答案：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.

　　我們第一次被問到“你長大之后想干什么?”是在差不多五歲的時候。其實像你那么大的時候沒有人會真的關(guān)心你說了什么。

　　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.

　　這僅僅是一個無傷大雅的問題，為的是讓小朋友做出可愛的回應(yīng)，比如，“我想當宇航員”，或者“我想當芭蕾舞演員”，或者“我想當海盜”。此處應(yīng)加萬圣節(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?

　　然而這個問題，在我們成長的過程中會不斷被問到形式多種多樣，比如，高中生會被問到，你們在大學(xué)準備選什么專業(yè)。突然有一天，“你長大之后想干什么?”從原本一種秀可愛的方式變成了讓我們寢食難安的難題。為什么會這樣?

　　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."

　　盡管這個問題鼓勵小朋友想象自己將來要做什么，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，因為有人問你長大后想做什么，你不可能回答20種不同的職業(yè)，盡管有些善良的大人會笑呵呵地說，“哦，你太可愛了，但是你不能同時成為小提琴制作家和心理學(xué)家啊。你必須選一個。”

　　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，他是一名弦樂器工匠和心理醫(yī)生。這位是艾米·恩，之前是雜志編輯，后來成為插畫作家，企業(yè)家教師和創(chuàng)意總監(jiān)。但大部分孩子都沒聽說過他們。他們聽到的只是要他們進行選擇和取舍。事情遠不止這么簡單。一生都心無旁騖的這一觀念，在我們的文化中被過分浪漫化了。這種命運論或者說“命中注定的職業(yè)”的概念，意思是我們每個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。你也許會感到孤獨。你也許會覺得自己沒有目標。你也許會覺得自己是不是有問題。你沒有問題。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。聽起來很費解吧。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表述類似的意思，比如“博學(xué)者”，或者“文藝復(fù)興者”。實際上，在文藝復(fù)興時代，精通多個學(xué)科是非常被推崇的。芭芭拉·謝爾稱我們?yōu)椤皰呙鑳x”。你可以選擇一個自己喜歡的詞，或者創(chuàng)造一個新的。我感覺自己找到了組織，因為我們無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。但我通過與人們交流，以及把這些觀點發(fā)到我的網(wǎng)站上，我發(fā)現(xiàn)多重潛力者有很多優(yōu)點。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，結(jié)合兩個或兩個以上領(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好，像制圖，數(shù)據(jù)可視化，旅行，數(shù)學(xué)和設(shè)計，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)生這個獨特的'創(chuàng)意，正是因為他倆博學(xué)多才，經(jīng)歷豐富。創(chuàng)新來源于交叉處。新創(chuàng)意(大都)來源于此。而多重潛力者，擁有豐富的(知識)背景，能夠在各領(lǐng)域交叉處找到突破點。

　　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)。當多重潛力者對某件事產(chǎn)生興趣時，我們會全身心投入。我們仔細觀察，勤于實踐。我們已經(jīng)習(xí)慣于當初學(xué)者，因為我們過去曾當過無數(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發(fā)展肌肉記憶。因此，她是她所有認識的人中打字最快的。

　　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.

　　在當作家之前，諾拉是一名理財師。在初入這行的時候，她不得不學(xué)習(xí)一些高明的銷售技巧，如今這項技能被她用來給編輯寫精彩的推薦語。追求你感興趣的東西并不是浪費時間，即使最后你并沒有堅持到底。也許將來你會把這些知識用在一個完全不同的領(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，如果有需要，你能變成任何角色，以適應(yīng)不同的情況。艾比·卡胡多有時候是視頻導(dǎo)演，有時候是網(wǎng)站設(shè)計師，有時候是眾籌顧問，有時候是老師，有時候，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切換自己的角色，來滿足客戶的需要。《快公司》雜志認為，要想在21世紀取得成功，適應(yīng)性是最重要的一項技能。經(jīng)濟界的變化如此迅速且無法預(yù)測，那些能夠根據(jù)市場需要進行調(diào)整的個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的三種能力，如果強迫他們縮小自己的關(guān)注范圍，這三種能力也許就會喪失。作為一個社會，鼓勵多重潛力者保持本色對我們有利。我們?nèi)缃衩媾R許多復(fù)雜問題，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解決這些問題。

　　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。你從打娘胎里出來就知道你想當一名兒童神經(jīng)外科醫(yī)生。別擔心，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.

　　事實上，一些頂尖團隊就是由專家和多重潛力者搭配組成。專家可以深入研究，實踐想法，而多重潛力者可以為項目帶來更廣泛的知識支持。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)團隊中的那個專家。

　　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，我希望會是：接受你內(nèi)心的真實想法。如果你是專家型的人，那就用盡一切辦法，成為專家。你會干得非常不錯。但對于在座的多重潛力者們，包括那些在過去的12分鐘里剛剛意識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.

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

3.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇三

　　When Dorothy was a little girl, she wasfascinated by her goldfish. Her father explained to her that fish swim byquickly wagging their tails to propel themselves through the water. Withouthesitation, little Dorothy responded, "Yes, Daddy, and fish swim backwardsby wagging their heads."

　　當多蘿西還是一個小女孩的時候，她被她的金魚迷住了。她的父親向她解釋，魚是通過快速搖尾推動自己在水中前進。毫無猶豫地，小多蘿西回答道，“是的，爸爸，而且魚會通過搖頭來后退。”

　　In her mind, it was a fact as true as anyother. Fish swim backwards by wagging their heads. She believed it.

　　在她的心里，這是一個確切的事實。魚通過搖頭來后退。她堅信如此。

　　Our lives are full of fish swimmingbackwards. We make assumptions and faulty leaps of logic. We harbor bias. Weknow that we are right, and they are wrong. We fear the worst. We strive forunattainable perfection. We tell ourselves what we can and cannot do. In ourminds, fish swim by in reverse frantically wagging their heads and we don'teven notice them.

　　我們的生活中充滿著倒游的魚。我們制造假設(shè)和錯誤跳躍的邏輯。我們心懷偏見。我們知道我們是對的，而他們是錯的。我們害怕最糟糕的。我們力求無法獲得的完美。我們告訴自己什么是我們能做的和不能做的。在我們心里，魚是通過往相反方向瘋狂搖頭來游泳的，而我們甚至不曾察覺過它們。

　　I'm going to tell you five facts aboutmyself. One fact is not true. One: I graduated from Harvard at 19 with anhonors degree in mathematics. Two: I currently run a construction company inOrlando. Three: I starred on a television sitcom. Four: I lost my sight to arare genetic eye disease. Five: I served as a law clerk to two US Supreme Courtjustices. Which fact is not true? Actually, they're all true. Yeah. They're alltrue.

　　我想告訴你們五件關(guān)于我的事實。其中有一件不是真的。第一：我19歲的時候以數(shù)學(xué)榮譽學(xué)士學(xué)位畢業(yè)于哈佛大學(xué)。第二：我現(xiàn)在在奧蘭多經(jīng)營著一家建筑公司。第三：我主演過一部電視情景劇。第四：我因為患上一種罕有的遺傳性眼疾而失去了視力。第五：我曾經(jīng)給兩位美國最高法院的法官當過法律助手。哪一個不是真的呢?事實上，它們都是真的。是的，它們都是真的。

　　At this point, most people really only careabout the television show.

　　這時候，大部分人其實都只關(guān)心那部電視劇。

　　I know this from experience. OK, so theshow was NBC's "Saved by the Bell: The New Class." And I playedWeasel Wyzell, who was the sort of dorky, nerdy character on the show, whichmade it a very major acting challenge for me as a 13-year-old boy.

　　這是經(jīng)驗告訴我的。好吧，那部電視劇是NBC的“SavedbytheBell:TheNewClass."而我飾演了WeaselWyzell，一個在劇中帶點笨拙書呆子性格的角色，對于13歲的我來說，這是一個很重大的演出挑戰(zhàn)。

　　Now, did you struggle with number four, myblindness? Why is that? We make assumptions about so-called disabilities. As ablind man, I confront others' incorrect assumptions about my abilities everyday. My point today is not about my blindness, however. It's about my vision.Going blind taught me to live my life eyes wide open. It taught me to spotthose backwards-swimming fish that our minds create. Going blind cast them intofocus.

　　現(xiàn)在，你是否糾結(jié)于第四個事實，我的失明?為什么會這樣呢?我們對所謂的殘疾做出一些假設(shè)。作為盲人，我每天都面對別人對我能力的錯誤假設(shè)。然而，我今天的重點不在于我的失明。而是在于我的視野。失明教會我用開闊的眼界去生活。它教會我去發(fā)現(xiàn)那些倒游的魚，我們內(nèi)心創(chuàng)造出來的魚。失明使它們變成了焦點。

　　What does it feel like to see? It'simmediate and passive. You open your eyes and there's the world. Seeing isbelieving. Sight is truth. Right? Well, that's what I thought.

　　看得見是怎么樣的一種感覺?是即時并且被動的。你睜開雙眼，世界就在你眼前。看見什么相信什么。眼見為實。對吧?好吧，我當初是這么想的。

　　Then, from age 12 to 25, my retinasprogressively deteriorated. My sight became an increasingly bizarre carnivalfunhouse hall of mirrors and illusions. The salesperson I was relieved to spotin a store was really a mannequin. Reaching down to wash my hands, I suddenlysaw it was a urinal I was touching, not a sink, when my fingers felt its trueshape.

　　接著，從12歲到15歲，我的視網(wǎng)膜逐漸衰弱。我的視像變成了愈加奇異的嘉年華游樂場里的哈哈鏡。我在商店里好不容易發(fā)現(xiàn)的銷售員實際上是一個人體模型。俯下身去洗手，當我的手指感受到它的真實形狀，我意識到我去觸摸的是小便池，而不是洗手池。

　　A friend described the photograph in my hand, and only then I could seethe image depicted. Objects appeared, morphed and disappeared in my reality. Itwas difficult and exhausting to see. I pieced together fragmented, transitoryimages, consciously analyzed the clues, searched for some logic in my crumblingkaleidoscope, until I saw nothing at all.

　　一位朋友向我描述我手中的照片，只有在那時候我才能明白圖像描畫了些什么。物體在我的現(xiàn)實中出現(xiàn)、變形和消失。看見成為了一件困難的使我筋疲力盡的事情。我把支離破碎的、片刻的圖像拼接起來，憑感覺分析線索，在我破碎的萬花筒中尋找符合邏輯的對應(yīng)，直到我什么都看不見。

　　I learned that what we see is not universaltruth. It is not objective reality. What we see is a unique, personal, virtualreality that is masterfully constructed by our brain.

　　我認識到我們所看到的并不即是普遍真理。并不是客觀現(xiàn)實。我們所看到的是獨一無二的虛擬現(xiàn)實，它是由我們的大腦巧妙地構(gòu)造出來的。

　　Let me explain with a bit of amateurneuroscience. Your visual cortex takes up about 30 percent of your brain.That's compared to approximately eight percent for touch and two to threepercent for hearing. Every second, your eyes can send your visual cortex as manyas two billion pieces of information. The rest of your body can send your brainonly an additional billion. So sight is one third of your brain by volume andcan claim about two thirds of your brain's processing resources. It's nosurprise then that the illusion of sight is so compelling. But make no mistakeabout it: sight is an illusion.

　　請讓我以外行的身份解釋一遍神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)學(xué)。你的視覺皮層占據(jù)了你腦部的大概30%。相比于觸覺的8%以及聽覺的2-3%。每一秒鐘，你的雙眼能夠向你的視覺皮層傳達多達二十億的信息片段。其余的身體部分加起來也僅能夠傳達另外的十億。所以視覺占據(jù)了你腦部容量的三分之一并且占用了你腦部中三分之二的信息處理資源。因此意想得到的是視覺幻象是多么的令人信服。但是別誤會了：我們所看到的只是一種幻象。

　　Here's where it gets interesting. To createthe experience of sight, your brain references your conceptual understanding ofthe world, other knowledge, your memories, opinions, emotions, mentalattention. All of these things and far more are linked in your brain to yoursight. These linkages work both ways, and usually occur subconsciously. So for example, what you see impacts how you feel, and the way you feel can literally change what you see.

　　這是事情變得有趣的地方。為了制造視覺經(jīng)驗，你的大腦參考了你對這個世界的概念性理解，其它知識、你的記憶、看法、情緒和心理關(guān)注。所有的這些東西和以及其它的都連結(jié)于你的大腦和視覺景象之間。這些連結(jié)是雙向作用的，并且常常在潛意識中發(fā)生。舉例子來說，你所看到的會影響到你的感覺，而你的感覺又能夠直接改變你所看到的。

　　Numerous studies demonstrate this. If you are asked toestimate the walking speed of a man in a video, for example, your answer willbe different if you're told to think about cheetahs or turtles. A hill appearssteeper if you've just exercised, and a landmark appears farther away if you'rewearing a heavy backpack. We have arrived at a fundamental contradiction.

　　許多的研究證明了這一點。如果你被要求去估計視頻中人物的行走速度，舉例來說，在被告知去想著獵豹或者烏龜?shù)那闆r下，你的答案將會不一樣。如果你剛剛運動完，你會感覺山變陡峭了，如果你背著一個很重的背包，眼前的目的地看起來距離更遠。我們在這里遇到了一種基本的矛盾。

　　What you see is a complex mental construction of your own making, but you experienceit passively as a direct representation of the world around you. You createyour own reality, and you believe it. I believed mine until it broke apart. Thedeterioration of my eyes shattered the illusion.

　　你肉眼所看到的東西是你自己創(chuàng)造的一種復(fù)雜的心智建造，但是你被動地經(jīng)歷著它讓它作為你周遭世界的一種直接呈現(xiàn)。你創(chuàng)造了屬于你自己的現(xiàn)實并且深信著它。我深信于我的現(xiàn)實直到它瓦解了。我雙眼的衰退粉碎了這種幻象。

　　You see, sight is just one way we shape ourreality. We create our own realities in many other ways. Let's take fear asjust one example. Your fears distort your reality. Under the warped logic offear, anything is better than the uncertain. Fear fills the void at all costs,passing off what you dread for what you know, offering up the worst in place ofthe ambiguous, substituting assumption for reason. Psychologists have a greatterm for it: awfulizing.

　　你看，視覺只是我們認識世界的一種途徑。我們可以通過許多其它的方式去創(chuàng)造屬于我們自己的現(xiàn)實。讓我們來舉恐懼作為一個例子。你的恐懼扭曲了你的現(xiàn)實。在扭曲的恐懼邏輯影響下，任何事情都比未知要好。恐懼不惜一切代價填補空白，把你所懼怕的冒充成你所知道的，讓最糟糕取代了不明確，使假設(shè)代替了原因。心理學(xué)家對此有一個很好的術(shù)語：往壞處想。

　　Right? Fear replaces the unknown with theawful. Now, fear is self-realizing. When you face the greatest need to lookoutside yourself and think critically, fear beats a retreat deep inside yourmind, shrinking and distorting your view, drowning your capacity for criticalthought with a flood of disruptive emotions. When you face a compellingopportunity to take action, fear lulls you into inaction, enticing you topassively watch its prophecies fulfill themselves.

　　對吧?恐懼把未知的替換成了可怕的。現(xiàn)在，恐懼在自我實現(xiàn)著。當你非常迫切的需要去客觀看待自己并進行批判性思考的時候，恐懼在你的內(nèi)心深處打起了退堂鼓，收縮并扭曲你的觀點，以洪水般涌現(xiàn)的破壞性情緒淹沒你批判思考的能力。當你面對一個極具吸引力的機會去采取行動時，恐懼誤導(dǎo)你去無所作為，誘使你被動地看著它的預(yù)言一個個實現(xiàn)成真。

　　When I was diagnosed with my blindingdisease, I knew blindness would ruin my life. Blindness was a death sentencefor my independence. It was the end of achievement for me. Blindness meant Iwould live an unremarkable life, small and sad, and likely alone. I knew it.This was a fiction born of my fears, but I believed it. It was a lie, but itwas my reality, just like those backwards-swimming fish in little Dorothy'smind. If I had not confronted the reality of my fear, I would have lived it. Iam certain of that.

　　當我被診出患有致盲眼疾時，我料到失明將會毀了我的生活。失明對我的獨立能力判了死刑。它是我一生成就的終點。失明意味著我將度過平凡的一生，渺小且凄慘，極有可能孤獨終老。我就知道會這樣。這是我因為恐懼帶來的胡編亂造，但我相信了。它是一個謊言，但它曾是我的現(xiàn)實。就像小多蘿西內(nèi)心那些倒游的魚一樣。如若我不曾面對過我內(nèi)心恐懼創(chuàng)造出來的現(xiàn)實，我會就那樣活著。我很確定。

　　So how do you live your life eyes wideopen? It is a learned discipline. It can be taught. It can be practiced. I willsummarize very briefly.

　　所以你們?nèi)绾稳ヒ蚤_闊的眼界生活呢?這是一個需要學(xué)習(xí)的學(xué)科。它能被傳授。它能被練習(xí)。我簡單地總結(jié)一下。

　　Hold yourself accountable for every moment,every thought, every detail. See beyond your fears. Recognize your assumptions.Harness your internal strength. Silence your internal critic. Correct yourmisconceptions about luck and about success. Accept your strengths and yourweaknesses, and understand the difference. Open your hearts to your bountifulblessings.

　　讓自己學(xué)會負責，對每一時刻，每個想法，每個細節(jié)。超越你內(nèi)心的恐懼。識別出你所作的假設(shè)。展現(xiàn)你內(nèi)在的能力。消除你內(nèi)心的批判。修正你對于運氣和成功的錯誤概念。接受自己的長處和短處，并清楚認識它們之間的區(qū)別。打開你的心扉去迎接對你滿滿的祝福。

　　Your fears, your critics, your heroes, yourvillains -- they are your excuses, rationalizations, shortcuts, justifications,your surrender. They are fictions you perceive as reality. Choose to seethrough them. Choose to let them go. You are the creator of your reality. Withthat empowerment comes complete responsibility.

　　你的恐懼，你的批判，你的英雄，你的敵人——他們都是你的借口、合理化作用、捷徑、辯護、屈服。它們是你錯認為現(xiàn)實的小說。嘗試選擇看穿它們。嘗試讓它們遠離自己。你是自我現(xiàn)實的創(chuàng)造者。伴隨這種權(quán)利而來的是你需要負起全部的責任。

　　I chose to step out of fear's tunnel intoterrain uncharted and undefined. I chose to build there a blessed life. Farfrom alone, I share my beautiful life with Dorothy, my beautiful wife, with ourtriplets, whom we call the Tripskys, and with the latest addition to thefamily, sweet baby Clementine.

　　我選擇走出恐懼的隧道，步入了未知的領(lǐng)域。我選擇在那里構(gòu)建幸福的人生。遠離孤單，我分享我的美好生活，與多蘿西，我美麗的妻子，與我們的三胞胎，我們稱之為“Tripskys”，還有新添的家庭成員，可愛的寶貝克萊蒙蒂。

　　What do you fear? What lies do you tellyourself? How do you embellish your truth and write your own fictions? Whatreality are you creating for yourself?

　　你在害怕什么?你在欺騙自己什么?你是如何修飾自己的真相，編寫自己的小說?你在為自己創(chuàng)造著怎么樣的現(xiàn)實?

　　In your career and personal life, in yourrelationships, and in your heart and soul, your backwards-swimming fish do yougreat harm. They exact a toll in missed opportunities and unrealized potential,and they engender insecurity and distrust where you seek fulfillment andconnection. I urge you to search them out.

　　在你的職業(yè)生涯和個人生活中，在你的人際關(guān)系中，在你的內(nèi)心和靈魂中，倒游的魚給你帶來巨大的傷害。它們使你為錯失的機會以及尚未實現(xiàn)的潛能付出代價。它們在你尋求滿足與聯(lián)系時引起你的不安以及不信任。我呼吁大家把它們找出來。

　　Helen Keller said that the only thing worsethan being blind is having sight but no vision. For me, going blind was aprofound blessing, because blindness gave me vision. I hope you can see what Isee.

　　海倫·凱勒曾說過，唯一比失明更糟糕的是擁有視力，卻沒有遠見。失明對我來說是一種深深的祝福，因為失明給予了我遠見。我衷心希望你們也能看見我所看見的。

　　Thank you.(Applause)

　　謝謝。(掌聲)

　　Bruno Giussani: Isaac, before you leave thestage, just a question. This is an audience of entrepreneurs, of doers, ofinnovators. You are a CEO of a company down in Florida, and many are probablywondering, how is it to be a blind CEO? What kind of specific challenges do youhave, and how do you overcome them?

　　布魯諾·朱薩尼：艾薩克，在你離開之前，我想問一個問題。在座的各位都是創(chuàng)業(yè)者、實干家、創(chuàng)新者。你是佛羅里達一家公司的執(zhí)行總裁，很多人大概都會好奇，身為一名失明的執(zhí)行總裁究竟是怎么樣的呢?這使你面臨哪些具體的挑戰(zhàn)，而你又是怎么克服它們的呢?

　　Isaac Lidsky: Well, the biggest challengebecame a blessing. I don't get visual feedback from people.

　　艾薩克·利德斯基：好吧，最大的挑戰(zhàn)成了一種祝福。我看不到別人的反應(yīng)。

　　BG: What's that noise there? IL: Yeah. So,for example, in my leadership team meetings, I don't see facial expressions orgestures. I've learned to solicit a lot more verbal feedback. I basically forcepeople to tell me what they think. And in this respect, it's become, like Isaid, a real blessing for me personally and for my company, because wecommunicate at a far deeper level, we avoid ambiguities, and most important, myteam knows that what they think truly matters.

　　布：有什么聲音在哪里嗎?艾：是的。比如說在我的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)團隊的會議中，我無法看到別人的表情或者手勢。我學(xué)會去征求更多的言語反饋。我基本都要求人們把他們的想法告訴我。正因如此，它成為了，如我所說，對我個人還有我公司的一種真正的祝福。因為我們獲得了更深層次的溝通。我們避免了歧義，還有更重要的，我的團隊清楚知道他們的想法是真的要緊的。

　　BG: Isaac, thank you for coming to TED. IL:Thank you, Bruno.

　　布：艾薩克，感謝你來到了TED。艾：謝謝你，布魯諾。

4.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇四

　　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.

　　當我九歲的時候 我第一次去參加夏令營 我媽媽幫我整理好了我的行李箱 里面塞滿了書 這對于我來說是一件極為自然的事情 因為在我的家庭里 閱讀是主要的家庭活動 聽上去你們可能覺得我們是不愛交際的 但是對于我的家庭來說這真的只是接觸社會的另一種途徑 你們有自己家庭接觸時的溫暖親情 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樂園里我有一個想法 野營會變得像這樣子，當然要更好些 (笑聲) 我想象到十個女孩坐在一個小屋里 都穿著合身的女式睡衣愜意地享受著讀書的過程

　　(Laughter)

　　(笑聲)

　　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.

　　野營這時更像是一個不提供酒水的派對聚會 在第一天的時候呢 我們的顧問把我們都集合在一起 并且她教會了我們一種今后要用到的慶祝方式 在余下夏令營的每一天中 讓“露營精神”浸潤我們 之后它就像這樣繼續(xù)著 R-O-W-D-I-E 這是我們拼寫“吵鬧"的口號 我們唱著“噪音，喧鬧，我們要變得吵一點” 對，就是這樣 可我就是弄不明白我的生活會是什么樣的 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單詞錯誤地拼寫 (笑聲) 但是我可沒有忘記慶祝。我與每個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 我可以離開吵鬧的聚會去捧起我摯愛的書

　　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.

　　但是當我第一次把書從行李箱中拿出來的時候 床鋪中最酷的那個女孩向我走了過來 并且她問我：“為什么你要這么安靜?” 安靜，當然，是R-O-W-D-I-E的反義詞 “喧鬧”的反義詞 而當我第二次拿書的時候 我們的顧問滿臉憂慮的向我走了過來 接著她重復(fù)了關(guān)于“露營精神”的要點并且說我們都應(yīng)當努力 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 放回了屬于它們的行李箱中 并且我把它們放到了床底下 在那里它們度過了暑假余下的每一天 我對這樣做感到很愧疚 不知為什么我感覺這些書是需要我的 它們在呼喚我，但是我卻放棄了它們 我確實放下了它們，并且我再也沒有打開那個箱子 直到我和我的家人一起回到家中 在夏末的時候

　　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，我向你們講述這個夏令營的故事 我完全可以給你們講出其他50種版本就像這個一樣的故事-- 每當我感覺到這樣的時候 它告訴我出于某種原因，我的寧靜和內(nèi)向的風格 并不是正確道路上的必需品 我應(yīng)該更多地嘗試一個外向者的角色 而在我內(nèi)心深處感覺得到，這是錯誤的內(nèi)向的人們都是非常優(yōu)秀的，確實是這樣 但是許多年來我都否認了這種直覺 于是我首先成為了華爾街的一名律師 而不是我長久以來想要成為的一名作家 一部分原因是因為我想要證明自己 也可以變得勇敢而堅定 并且我總是去那些擁擠的酒吧 當我只是想要和朋友們吃一頓愉快的晚餐時 我做出了這些自我否認的抉擇 如條件反射一般 甚至我都不清楚我做出了這些決定

5.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇五

　　do you think it's possible to control someone's attention? even more than that, what about predicting human behavior? i think those are interesting ideas, if you could. i mean, for me, that would be the perfect superpower, actually kind of an evil way of approaching it. but for myself, in the past, i've spent the last 20 years studying human behavior from a rather unorthodox way: picking pockets. when we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side, when actually it's often the things that are right in front of us that are the hardest things to see, the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.

　　for example, how many of you still have your cell phones on you right now? great. double-check. make sure you still have them on you. i was doing some shopping beforehand. now you've looked at them probably a few times today, but i'm going to ask you a question about them. without looking at your cell phone directly yet, can you remember the icon in the bottom right corner? bring them out, check, and see how accurate you were. how'd you do? show of hands. did we get it?

　　now that you're done looking at those, close them down, because every phone has something in common. no matter how you organize the icons, you still have a clock on the front. so, without looking at your phone, what time was it? you just looked at your clock, right? it's an interesting idea. now, i'll ask you to take that a step further with a game of trust. close your eyes. i realize i'm asking you to do that while you just heard there's a pickpocket in the room, but close your eyes.

　　now, you've been watching me for about 30 seconds. with your eyes closed, what am i wearing? make your best guess. what color is my shirt? what color is my tie? now open your eyes. by a show of hands, were you right?

　　it's interesting, isn't it? some of us are a little bit more perceptive than others. it seems that way. but i have a different theory about that, that model of attention. they have fancy models of attention, posner's trinity model of attention. for me, i like to think of it very simple, like a surveillance system. it's kind of like you have all these fancy sensors, and inside your brain is a little security guard. for me, i like to call him frank. so frank is sitting at a desk. he's got all sorts of cool information in front of him, high-tech equipment, he's got cameras, he's got a little phone that he can pick up, listen to the ears, all these senses, all these perceptions. but attention is what steers your perceptions, is what controls your reality. it's the gateway to the mind. if you don't attend to something, you can't be aware of it. but ironically, you can attend to something without being aware of it. that's why there's the cocktail effect: when you're in a party, you're having conversations with someone, and yet you can recognize your name and you didn't even realize you were listening to that.

　　now, for my job, i have to play with techniques to exploit this, to play with your attention as a limited resource. so if i could control how you spend your attention, if i could maybe steal your attention through a distraction. now, instead of doing it like misdirection and throwing it off to the side, instead, what i choose to focus on is frank, to be able to play with the frank inside your head, your little security guard, and get you, instead of focusing on your external senses, just to go internal for a second. so if i ask you to access a memory, like, what is that? what just happened? do you have a wallet? do you have an american express in your wallet? and when i do that, your frank turns around. he accesses the file. he has to rewind the tape. and what's interesting is, he can't rewind the tape at the same time that he's trying to process new data.

　　now, i mean, this sounds like a good theory, but i could talk for a long time and tell you lots of things, and they may be true, a portion of them, but i think it's better if i tried to show that to you here live. so if i come down, i'm going to do a little bit of shopping. just hold still where you are.

　　hello, how are you? it's lovely to see you. you did a wonderful job onstage. you have a lovely watch that doesn't come off very well. do you have your ring as well? good. just taking inventory. you're like a buffet. it's hard to tell where to start, there's so many great things.

　　hi, how are you? good to see you.

　　hi, sir, could you stand up for me, please? just right where you are. oh, you're married. you follow directions well. that's nice to meet you, sir. you don't have a whole lot inside your pockets. anything down by the pocket over here? hopefully so. have a seat. there you go. you're doing well.

　　hi, sir, how are you? good to see you, sir. you have a ring, a watch. do you have a wallet on you? joe: i don't. apollo robbins: well, we'll find one for you. come on up this way, joe. give joe a round of applause. come on up joe. let's play a game.

　　(applause)

　　pardon me.

　　i don't think i need this clicker anymore. you can have that. thank you very much. i appreciate that.

　　come on up to the stage, joe. let's play a little game now. do you have anything in your front pockets? joe: money. ar: money. all right, let's try that. can you stand right over this way for me? turn around and, let's see, if i give you something that belongs to me, this is just something i have, a poker chip. hold out your hand for me. watch it kind of closely. now this is a task for you to focus on. now you have your money in your front pocket here? joe: yup. ar: good. i'm not going to actually put my hand in your pocket. i'm not ready for that kind of commitment. one time a guy had a hole in his pocket, and that was rather traumatizing for me. i was looking for his wallet and he gave me his phone number. it was a big miscommunication.

　　so let's do this simply. squeeze your hand. squeeze it tight. do you feel the poker chip in your hand? joe: i do. ar: would you be surprised if i could take it out of your hand? say yes. joe: very. ar: good. open your hand. thank you very much. i'll cheat if you give me a chance. make it harder for me. just use your hand. grab my wrist, but squeeze, squeeze firm. did you see it go? joe: no. ar: no, it's not here. open your hand. see, while we're focused on the hand, it's sitting on your shoulder right now. go ahead and take it off. now, let's try that again. hold your hand out flat. open it up all the way. put your hand up a little bit higher, but watch it close there, joe. see, if i did it slowly, it'd be back on your shoulder. (laughter) joe, we're going to keep doing this till you catch it. you're going to get it eventually. i have faith in you. squeeze firm. you're human, you're not slow. it's back on your shoulder. you were focused on your hand. that's why you were distracted. while you were watching this, i couldn't quite get your watch off. it was difficult. yet you had something inside your front pocket. do you remember what it was? joe: money. ar: check your pocket. see if it's still there. is it still there? (laughter) oh, that's where it was. go ahead and put it away. we're just shopping. this trick's more about the timing, really. i'm going to try to push it inside your hand. put your other hand on top for me, would you? it's amazingly obvious now, isn't it? it looks a lot like the watch i was wearing, doesn't it?

　　(laughter) (applause)

　　joe: that's pretty good. that's pretty good. ar: oh, thanks. but it's only a start. let's try it again, a little bit differently. hold your hands together. put your other hand on top. now if you're watching this little token, this obviously has become a little target. it's like a red herring. if we watch this kind of close, it looks like it goes away. it's not back on your shoulder. it falls out of the air, lands right back in the hand. did you see it go? yeah, it's funny. we've got a little guy. he's union. he works up there all day. if i did it slowly, if it goes straightaway, it lands down by your pocket. i believe is it in this pocket, sir? no, don't reach in your pocket. that's a different show. so -- (squeaking noise) -- that's rather strange. they have shots for that. can i show them what that is? that's rather bizarre. is this yours, sir? i have no idea how that works. we'll just send that over there.

　　that's great. i need help with this one. step over this way for me. now don't run away. you had something down by your pants pocket. i was checking mine. i couldn't find everything, but i noticed you had something here. can i feel the outside of your pocket for a moment? down here i noticed this. is this something of yours, sir? is this? i have no idea. that's a shrimp.

　　joe: yeah. i'm saving it for later.

　　ar: you've entertained all of these people in a wonderful way, better than you know. so we'd love to give you this lovely watch as a gift. (laughter) hopefully it matches his taste. but also, we have a couple of other things, a little bit of cash, and then we have a few other things. these all belong to you, along with a big round of applause from all your friends. (applause)

　　oe, thank you very much.

　　(applause)

　　so, same question i asked you before, but this time you don't have to close your eyes. what am i wearing?

　　(laughter)

　　(applause)

　　attention is a powerful thing. like i said, it shapes your reality. so, i guess i'd like to pose that question to you. if you could control somebody's attention, what would you do with it?

　　thank you.

6.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇六

　　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.

7.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇七

　　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.

8.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇八

　　我選擇在網(wǎng)絡(luò)聲中被倒下就在網(wǎng)絡(luò)聲中爬起來，當你被罵得小有名氣的時候我就暗自思量，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"愛的罵罵"的微博，只要在我這條微博下面留言的，，不管是鼓勵我的，罵我的，還是隨便說說的，我都捐五毛，24個小時，有十萬多條留言，捐款金額是50693.5元，作為北京一家殘疾孤兒康復(fù)機構(gòu)的手術(shù)費，在這里我要對每一位留言的人表示感謝。

　　在現(xiàn)實生活中頑強活著的殘疾孤兒，其中有一個孩子在手術(shù)后的一年，終于有機會可以站起來了，當我看到她第一次站起，我很感動，也很驕傲，這個"黑姑娘"干了一件痛快的事。是的，我說出了金額，我知道一定會有人說，"捐那么少還好意思報數(shù)"我相信現(xiàn)在大部分人都不愿意公布捐款金額，因為捐款已經(jīng)不再是一件隨心的行為，而是成為大家根據(jù)金額的多少來衡量愛心的大小。

　　我相信在座的的各位，也一定有過朋友之間隨份子，該給多少才合適的煩惱，我之所以說出來，不僅僅是因為，我覺得隨心的行為需要躲閃，更因為"愛的罵罵"是每一個留言的鏡子。當時罵過我的人，也許在兩年后的今天聽到我說這番話，會想起曾經(jīng)不太善意的留言，卻給了這些孩子們有機會獲得新生，這同樣值得高興，其實我們每個人都有不同階段的新生，不是嗎?"愛的罵罵"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)，我相信只要通過自己的努力和善待他人，就可以讓自己的家人和自己過上幸福美滿的生活，然而這一切，在20__年的夏天，被一句開創(chuàng)演藝界網(wǎng)絡(luò)暴力先河的"滾出娛樂圈"所動搖，我是第一個被放在主語位置的人，袁姍姍，這個名字好像從此和"一無是處"劃上了等號，那個時候不管說什么、做什么、演什么都不對。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"沒有理由"這是得有多深厚的感情基礎(chǔ)，才能達到的境界。

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

　　也是從那個時候，我重拾扔下了多年的小提琴，還有健身，運動讓我心情愉快，不工作的時候練琴和健身會讓我的每一天都過得很充實，根本沒有過多的時間停留在網(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，每天可以擠出一點時間鍛煉身體，當有朝一日被他人欺負的時候，至少可以像我一樣，身輕如燕，自由翻滾，作為過去也許將來還會遭遇網(wǎng)絡(luò)暴力的過來人，我不喜歡再有人因為網(wǎng)絡(luò)暴力而受到傷害，請善用語言讓人言可敬。

　　特別感謝在那段特殊時間陪伴，我的家人和朋友，感謝他們承受住了一個當時還沒有來得及減肥，各方面份量都很重的我，經(jīng)歷了這些，并不是想說明自己有多強大，但確實因為這些切身經(jīng)歷讓我有了足夠的時間去思考，我曾經(jīng)問過自己一個問題，如果我當時真的不堪重負放棄了演員這個職業(yè)，是否網(wǎng)絡(luò)暴力就會消失，答案當然不會，既然還是要面對，就應(yīng)該積極地面對.

　　前不久，我參與了一部公益電影的拍攝，電影傳遞了一個非常積極的理念：每個人都有自由選擇的機會和權(quán)利，無論你生下來是幸福的還是不幸的，我非常贊同，所以我選擇做一個積極快樂的自己，不再受控于網(wǎng)絡(luò)暴力中，不再只能看到消極的一面，都說做公益是在幫助他人，在我身上成全了一個更加快樂的自己，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)�來很多啟發(fā)和感動，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，我擔心因為自己不小心的舉動傷害到他，但是見面之后，我才發(fā)現(xiàn)成年人的世界真的是，因為想太多而變得復(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，每當完成一個鏡頭，這個小少年都會跟我豎起大拇指示意，他這個小小的舉動也提醒了我和我們，有人選擇贊美，有人則不!

　　感謝"愛的罵罵"感謝《有一天》感謝喝倒彩時刻提醒我的人，感謝一直鼓勵我的家人和朋友，我希望能有更多的人

　　可以像我一樣，主動地從逆境中走出來，這個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，保持自己的真實，倔強地活下去。

　　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.

9.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇九

　　Do you think it's possible to control someone's attention? Even more than that, what about predicting human behavior? I think those are interesting ideas, if you could. I mean, for me, that would be the perfect superpower, actually kind of an evil way of approaching it. But for myself, in the past, I've spent the last 20 years studying human behavior from a rather unorthodox way: picking pockets. When we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side, when actually it's often the things that are right in front of us that are the hardest things to see, the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.

　　For example, how many of you still have your cell phones on you right now? Great. Double-check. Make sure you still have them on you. I was doing some shopping beforehand. Now you've looked at them probably a few times today, but I'm going to ask you a question about them. Without looking at your cell phone directly yet, can you remember the icon in the bottom right corner? Bring them out, check, and see how accurate you were. How'd you do? Show of hands. Did we get it?

　　Now that you're done looking at those, close them down, because every phone has something in common. No matter how you organize the icons, you still have a clock on the front. So, without looking at your phone, what time was it? You just looked at your clock, right? It's an interesting idea. Now, I'll ask you to take that a step further with a game of trust. Close your eyes. I realize I'm asking you to do that while you just heard there's a pickpocket in the room, but close your eyes.

　　Now, you've been watching me for about 30 seconds. With your eyes closed, what am I wearing? Make your best guess. What color is my shirt? What color is my tie? Now open your eyes. By a show of hands, were you right?

　　It's interesting, isn't it? Some of us are a little bit more perceptive than others. It seems that way. But I have a different theory about that, that model of attention. They have fancy models of attention, Posner's trinity model of attention. For me, I like to think of it very simple, like a surveillance system. It's kind of like you have all these fancy sensors, and inside your brain is a little security guard. For me, I like to call him Frank. So Frank is sitting at a desk. He's got all sorts of cool information in front of him, high-tech equipment, he's got cameras, he's got a little phone that he can pick up, listen to the ears, all these senses, all these perceptions. But attention is what steers your perceptions, is what controls your reality. It's the gateway to the mind. If you don't attend to something, you can't be aware of it. But ironically, you can attend to something without being aware of it. That's why there's the cocktail effect: When you're in a party, you're having conversations with someone, and yet you can recognize your name and you didn't even realize you were listening to that.

　　Now, for my job, I have to play with techniques to exploit this, to play with your attention as a limited resource. So if I could control how you spend your attention, if I could maybe steal your attention through a distraction. Now, instead of doing it like misdirection and throwing it off to the side, instead, what I choose to focus on is Frank, to be able to play with the Frank inside your head, your little security guard, and get you, instead of focusing on your external senses, just to go internal for a second. So if I ask you to access a memory, like, what is that? What just happened? Do you have a wallet? Do you have an American Express in your wallet? And when I do that, your Frank turns around. He accesses the file. He has to rewind the tape. And what's interesting is, he can't rewind the tape at the same time that he's trying to process new data.

　　Now, I mean, this sounds like a good theory, but I could talk for a long time and tell you lots of things, and they may be true, a portion of them, but I think it's better if I tried to show that to you here live. So if I come down, I'm going to do a little bit of shopping. Just hold still where you are.

　　Hello, how are you? It's lovely to see you. You did a wonderful job onstage. You have a lovely watch that doesn't come off very well. Do you have your ring as well? Good. Just taking inventory. You're like a buffet. It's hard to tell where to start, there's so many great things.

　　Hi, how are you? Good to see you.

　　Hi, sir, could you stand up for me, please? Just right where you are. Oh, you're married. You follow directions well. That's nice to meet you, sir. You don't have a whole lot inside your pockets. Anything down by the pocket over here? Hopefully so. Have a seat. There you go. You're doing well.

10.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇十

　　01. Remember to say thank you

　　Hi. I'm here to talk to you about the importance of praise, admiration and thank you, and having it be specific and genuine.

　　And the way I got interested in this was, I noticed in myself, when I was growing up, and until about a few years ago, that I would want to say thank you to someone, I would want to praise them, I would want to take in their praise of me and I'd just stop it. And I asked myself, why? I felt shy, I felt embarrassed. And then my question became, am I the only one who does this? So, I decided to investigate.

　　I'm fortunate enough to work in the rehab facility, so I get to see people who are facing life and death with addiction. And sometimes it comes down to something as simple as, their core wound is their father died without ever saying he's proud of them. But then, they hear from all the family and friends that the father told everybody else that he was proud of him, but he never told the son. It's because he didn't know that his son needed to hear it.

　　So my question is, why don't we ask for the things that we need? I know a gentleman, married for 25 years, who's longing to hear his wife say, "Thank you for being the breadwinner, so I can stay home with the kids," but won't ask. I know a woman who's good at this. She, once a week, meets with her husband and says, "I'd really like you to thank me for all these things I did in the house and with the kids." And he goes, "Oh, this is great, this is great." And praise really does have to be genuine, but she takes responsibility for that. And a friend of mine, April, who I've had since kindergarten, she thanks her children for doing their chores. And she said, "

　　But before I show you what’s inside,

　　I will tell you that’s going to do incredible things for you .

　　It will bring all of your family together.

　　You will feel loved and appreciated like never before.

　　And reconnect to friends and acquaintances you haven’t heard from in years.

　　Adoration and admiration will overwhelm you.

　　It will recalibrate what’s important in your life.

　　It will redefine your sense of spirituality and faith.

　　You’ll have a new understanding and trust in your body.

　　You’ll have unsurpassed vitality and energy.

　　You’ll expand your vocabulary, meet new people, and you’ll have a healthier lifestyle. And get this, you’ll have an eight-week vacation of doing absolutely nothing.

　　You’ll eat countless gourmet meals.

　　Flowers will arrive by the truck load.

　　People will say to you: “you look great! Have you had any work done?”

　　And you’ll have a life-time supply of good drugs.

　　You’ll be challenged, inspired, motivated and humbled.

　　Your life will have new meaning: peace, health, serenity, happiness, nirvana.

　　The price?

　　Fifty-five thousand dollars.

　　And that’s an incredible deal.

　　By now, I know you’re dying to know what it is and where you can get one.

　　Does Amazon carry it?

　　Dose it have the Apple logo on it?

　　Is there a waiting list?

　　Not likely.

　　This gift came to me about five months ago.

　　And looked more like this when it was all wrapped up.

　　Not quite so pretty.

　　And this.

　　And then this.

　　It was a rare jam.

　　A brain tumor.

　　Hemangioblastoma.

　　The gift that keeps on giving.

　　And while I’m ok now.

　　I wouldn’t wish this gift for you.

　　I’m not sure you’d want it.

　　But I would’t change my experience.

　　It profoundly altered my life in ways it didn’t expect.

　　In all the ways I just shared with you.

　　So the next time you are faced with something that’s unexpected, unwanted and uncertain. Consider that it just may be a gift.

11.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇十一

　　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.

12.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇十二

　　I'd like to share with you a discovery that I made a few months ago while writing an article for Italian Wired. I always keep my thesaurus handy whenever I'm writing anything, but I'd already finished editing the piece, and I realized that I had never once in my life looked up the word "disabled" to see what I'd find.

　　Let me read you the entry. "Disabled, adjective: crippled, helpless, useless, wrecked, stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in cracked-up, counted-out; see also hurt, useless and weak. Antonyms, healthy, strong, capable." I was reading this list out loud to a friend and at first was laughing, it was so ludicrous, but I'd just gotten past "mangled," and my voice broke, and I had to stop and collect myself from the emotional shock and impact that the assault from these words unleashed.

　　You know, of course, this is my raggedy old thesaurus so I'm thinking this must be an ancient print date, right? But, in fact, the print date was the early 1980s, when I would have been starting primary school and forming an understanding of myself outside the family unit and as related to the other kids and the world around me. And, needless to say, thank God I wasn't using a thesaurus back then. I mean, from this entry, it would seem that I was born into a world that perceived someone like me to have nothing positive whatsoever going for them, when in fact, today I'm celebrated for the opportunities and adventures my life has procured.

　　So, I immediately went to look up the 20__ online edition, expecting to find a revision worth noting. Here's the updated version of this entry. Unfortunately, it's not much better. I find the last two words under "Near Antonyms," particularly unsettling: "whole" and "wholesome."

　　So, it's not just about the words. It's what we believe about people when we name them with these words. It's about the values behind the words, and how we construct those values. Our language affects our thinking and how we view the world and how we view other people. In fact, many ancient societies, including the Greeks and the Romans, believed that to utter a curse verbally was so powerful, because to say the thing out loud brought it into existence. So, what reality do we want to call into existence: a person who is limited, or a person who's empowered? By casually doing something as simple as naming a person, a child, we might be putting lids and casting shadows on their power. Wouldn't we want to open doors for them instead?

　　One such person who opened doors for me was my childhood doctor at the A.I. duPont Institute in Wilmington, Delaware. His name was Dr. Pizzutillo, an Italian American, whose name, apparently, was too difficult for most Americans to pronounce, so he went by Dr. P. And Dr. P always wore really colorful bow ties and had the very perfect disposition to work with children.

　　I loved almost everything about my time spent at this hospital, with the exception of my physical therapy sessions. I had to do what seemed like innumerable repetitions of exercises with these thick, elastic bands -- different colors, you know -- to help build up my leg muscles, and I hated these bands more than anything -- I hated them, had names for them. I hated them. And, you know, I was already bargaining, as a five year-old child, with Dr. P to try to get out of doing these exercises, unsuccessfully, of course. And, one day, he came in to my session -- exhaustive and unforgiving, these sessions -- and he said to me, "Wow. Aimee, you are such a strong and powerful little girl, I think you're going to break one of those bands. When you do break it, I'm going to give you a hundred bucks."

　　Now, of course, this was a simple ploy on Dr. P's part to get me to do the exercises I didn't want to do before the prospect of being the richest five-year-old in the second floor ward, but what he effectively did for me was reshape an awful daily occurrence into a new and promising experience for me. And I have to wonder today to what extent his vision and his declaration of me as a strong and powerful little girl shaped my own view of myself as an inherently strong, powerful and athletic person well into the future.

　　This is an example of how adults in positions of power can ignite the power of a child. But, in the previous instances of those thesaurus entries, our language isn't allowing us to evolve into the reality that we would all want, the possibility of an individual to see themselves as capable. Our language hasn't caught up with the changes in our society, many of which have been brought about by technology. Certainly, from a medical standpoint, my legs, laser surgery for vision impairment, titanium knees and hip replacements for aging bodies that are allowing people to more fully engage with their abilities, and move beyond the limits that nature has imposed on them -- not to mention social networking platforms allow people to self-identify, to claim their own descriptions of themselves, so they can go align with global groups of their own choosing. So, perhaps technology is revealing more clearly to us now what has always been a truth: that everyone has something rare and powerful to offer our society, and that the human ability to adapt is our greatest asset.

13.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇十三

　　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.

14.　ted英語演講稿范文 篇十四

　　How many of you are tired of seeingcelebrities adopting kids from the African continent?

　　你們之中有多少人已經(jīng)對那些從非洲領(lǐng)養(yǎng)小孩的明星而感到厭倦了?

　　Well, it's not all that bad. I was adopted.I grew up in rural Uganda, lost both my parents when I was very, very young.And when my parents passed, I experienced all the negative effects of poverty,from homelessness, eating out of trash piles, you name it.

　　嗯，那也不全是壞事。我就是被其中領(lǐng)養(yǎng)的一員。我在烏干達的郊區(qū)長大，在我很小的時候，我的父母就去世了。在我父母離世之后，我經(jīng)歷了所有貧困帶來的困難，從無家可歸，到撿食路邊的垃圾，所有你能想得到的。

　　But my life changed when I got acceptedinto an orphanage. Through one of those sponsor-an-orphan programs, I wassponsored and given an opportunity to acquire an education. I started off inUganda. I went through school, and the way this particular program worked, youfinished high school and after high school, you go learn a trade -- to become acarpenter, a mechanic or something along those lines.

　　但自從我被一家孤兒院收養(yǎng) 我的生活就發(fā)生了巨變。通過孤兒院的一個補助項目，我獲得了接受教育的機會，以及相應(yīng)的資助。一開始是在烏干達。我去了學(xué)校念書，而根據(jù)這個項目的運作流程，他們會在你讀完高中以后，送你去學(xué)一門手藝，比如木匠，或者機修工或者其他的一些專業(yè)技術(shù)。

　　My case was a little different. The sponsorfamily that was sending these 25 dollars a month to this orphanage to sponsorme, which -- I had never met them -- said, "Well ... we would like to sendyou to college instead." Oh -- it gets better.

　　而我的情況卻有所不同。每個月我會在孤兒院收到25美元補助。這錢來自資助我的家庭，我從未見過他們他們說，“我們希望資助你去上大學(xué)” 哦，那再好不過了。

　　And they said, "If you get thepaperwork, we'll send you to school in America instead." So with theirhelp, I went to the embassy and applied for the visa. I got the visa.

　　他們還說：“如果你能通過申請 我們會把你送到美國的大學(xué)讀書。“ 所以，在他們的幫助下，我去大使館申請了簽證。并且通過了簽證。

　　I remember this day like it was yesterday.I walked out of the embassy with this piece of paper in my hand, a hop in mystep, smile on my face, knowing that my life is about to change. I went homethat night, and I slept with my passport, because I was afraid that someonemight steal it.

　　那一天對我來說就像昨天一樣。我拿著手里的文件走出大使館，一路蹦跳，難掩笑意，我明白我的生活將不復(fù)從前。那天晚上我回到家里，抱著我的護照睡著了，因為我擔心有人會把它偷走。

　　I couldn't fall asleep. I kept feeling it.I had a good idea for security. I was like, "OK, I'm going to put it in aplastic bag, and take it outside and dig a hole, and put it in there." Idid that, went back in the house. I could not fall asleep. I was like,"Maybe someone saw me." I went back --

　　而我輾轉(zhuǎn)反側(cè)。那念頭依然揮之不去。我突然想到了一個萬全的主意。我說：”好吧，我可以把它放進一個塑料袋里然后在外面地上挖一個洞，把袋子放進去。” 我真的做了，然后又回到屋子里。但我依然無眠，我想，“也許有人看到我了。” 我又回去了

　　I pulled it out, and I put it with me theentire night -- all to say that it was an anxiety-filled night.

　　我把袋子拿出來，然后抓著它度過了一宿 我只想說那真是焦慮的一晚。

　　Going to the US was, just like anotherspeaker said, was my first time to see a plane, be on one, let alone sit on itto fly to another country. December 15, 20xx. 7:08pm. I sat in seat 7A. FlyEmirates. One of the most gorgeous, beautiful women I've ever seen walked up,red little hat with a white veil. I'm looking terrified, I have no idea whatI'm doing. She hands me this warm towel -- warm, steamy, snow white. I'mlooking at this warm towel; I don't know what to do with my life, let alonewith this damn towel --

　　來到美國的感受，和其他初來乍到的人一樣 那是我第一次坐飛機，坐在座位上，飛向另一個國家。20xx年12月15日 晚上7點08分 我坐在7A座位上。乘坐阿聯(lián)酋航班。一個我有生以來見過的最美的女人朝我走來，她戴著紅色的帽子和白色的口罩。我真的嚇壞了，我簡直手足無措。她遞給我一張溫熱的紙巾 溫暖，濕潤，白凈如雪。我盯著這張溫暖的紙巾; 我都不知道我該拿我的生活怎么辦，更別說這張紙巾了

　　I did one of the -- you know, anythinganyone could do in that situation: look around, see what everyone else isdoing. I did the same. Mind you, I drove about seven hours from my village tothe airport that day. So I grab this warm towel, wipe my face just likeeveryone else is doing, I look at it -- damn.

　　我做了一件——你懂的，任何人都會做的事：我環(huán)顧四周，看其他人的舉動。然后我也跟著他們做。順便一提，從村子到機場，那一天我開了7個小時的車。所以我拿起那張溫暖的紙，效仿著別人擦拭了自己的臉，我看了看紙巾——該死。

　　It was all dirt brown.I remember being so embarrassed that whenshe came by to pick it up, I didn't give mine.I still have it.

　　已經(jīng)變成屎黃色了。我記得我是那么的尷尬，以至于當她來回收紙巾的時候，我沒好意思給她。我現(xiàn)在都還帶著它。

　　Going to America opened doors for me tolive up to my full God-given potential. I remember when I arrived, the sponsorfamily embraced me, and they literally had to teach me everything from scratch:this is a microwave, that's a refrigerator -- things I'd never seen before. Andit was also the first time I got immersed into a new and different culture.These strangers showed me true love. These strangers showed me that I mattered,that my dreams mattered.Thank you.

　　美國向我敞開了大門讓我能夠發(fā)揮自己最大的潛力。我記得我剛到的時候，我的資助家庭迎接了我，然后他們就把一切從頭開始教給我：這是一個微波爐，那是一個冰箱——那些都是我以前聞所未聞的東西。那也是我第一次 被放置在全新的文化環(huán)境當中。這些陌生人向我展示了真正的關(guān)愛。這些陌生人讓我明白，我很重要 我的夢想很重要。謝謝。

　　These individuals had two of their ownbiological children. And when I came in, I had needs. They had to teach meEnglish, teach me literally everything, which resulted in them spending a lotof time with me. And that created a little bit of jealousy with their children.So, if you're a parent in this room, and you have those teenager children whodon't want anything to do with your love and affection -- in fact, they find itrepulsive -- I got a solution: adopt a child.

　　他們有兩個親生孩子。當我走進他們家庭的時候，我急需幫助。他們要教我英文，教我?guī)缀跛�有的事情，這導(dǎo)致他們要在我的身上 花費很多的精力。而這致使他們的親生孩子對我產(chǎn)生了一絲妒忌。所以，如果你們有人是家長，而你又有這樣一群青少年小孩 他們對你們的愛和關(guān)心置若罔聞 事實上，還對你們很冷淡 我有一個辦法： 領(lǐng)養(yǎng)一個孩子。

　　It will solve the problem.

　　問題就會迎刃而解。

　　I went on to acquire two engineeringdegrees from one of the best institutions in the world. I've got to tell you:talent is universal, but opportunities are not. And I credit this to theindividuals who embrace multiculturalism, love, empathy and compassion forothers. We live in a world filled with hate: building walls, Brexit, xenophobiahere on the African continent. Multiculturalism can be an answer to many ofthese worst human qualities.

　　在一所世界一流學(xué)府中 我習(xí)得了兩個工程師學(xué)位。我必須要說： 天賦人人都有，但機會一緣難求。我想要贊美 那些擁抱多元文化的人，那些關(guān)愛，理解并且同情他人的人。我們生活在一個充滿憎恨的世界上：高筑圍墻，英國脫歐，非洲大陸的仇外心理。而這些人類最負面的東西 都可以被多元文化海涵。

　　Today, I challenge you to help a youngchild experience multiculturalism. I guarantee you that will enrich their life,and in turn, it will enrich yours. And as a bonus, one of them may even give aTED Talk.

　　今天，我挑戰(zhàn)你們在座的觀眾們 去幫助一個年輕的孩子 感受多元文化的魅力。我保證那會充實他的生活，作為回報，你們的生活也會得到升華。而作為獎勵，他們其中之一也許還會在TED演講。

　　We may not be able to solve the bigotry andthe racism of this world today, but certainly we can raise children to create apositive, inclusive, connected world full of empathy, love and compassion.

　　我們也許無力解決 當今社會的種族歧視與偏見，但我們完全可以引導(dǎo)我們的孩子 去創(chuàng)建一個積極的，包容的，緊密相連的世界。那里將充滿理解，關(guān)愛，同情。

　　Love wins.Thank you.

　　真愛無敵。謝謝