第一篇：萊溫斯基演講-恥辱的代價 英文文稿

The Prices of Shame You are looking at a woman who was publicly silent for a decade.Obviously, that’s changed, but only recently.It was several months ago that I gave my very first major public talk at the Forbes 30 Under 30 summit: 1,500 brilliant people, all under the age of 30.That meant that in 1998,the oldest among the group were only 14,and the youngest, just 4.I joked with them that some might only have heard of me from rap songs.Yes, I’m in rap songs.Almost 40 rap songs.But the night of my speech, a surprising thing happened.At the age of 41, I was hit on by a 27-year-old guy.I know, right? He was charming and I was flattered, and I declined.You know what his unsuccessful pickup line was? He could make me feel 22 again.I realized later that night, I’m probably the only person over 40 who does not want to be 22 again.At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss, and at the age of 24, I learned the devastating consequences.Can I see a show of hands of anyone here who didn’t make s mistake or do something they regretted at 22? Yep.That’s what I thought.So like me, at 22, a few of you may have also wrong turns and fallen in love with the wrong person, maybe even your boss.Unlike me though, your boss probably wasn’t the president of the United States of America.Of course life is full of surprise.Not a day goes by that I’m not reminded of my mistake, and I regret that mistake deeply.In 1998, after having been swept up into an improbable romance, I was the swept up into the eye of a political, legal and media maelstrom like we had never seen before.Remember, just a few years earlier, news was consumed from just three places: reading a newspaper or magazine, listening to the radio, or watching television.That was it.But that wasn’t my fate.Instead, this scandal was brought to you by the digital revolution.That meant we could access all the information we wanted.，when we want it, anytime, anywhere, and when the story broke in January 1998.It broke online.It was the first time the traditional news was usurped by the internet for a major news story, a click that reverberated around the world.What that meant for me personally was that overnight I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one worldwide.I was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.This rush by judgment, enabled by technology, led to mobs of virtual stone-throwers.Granted, it was before social media, but people could still comment online, email stories, and, of course, email cruel jokes.News sources plastered photos of me all over to sell newspaper, banner ads online, and to keep people tuned to the TV.Do you recall a particular image of me, say, wearing a beret? Now, I admit I made mistakes, especially wearing that beret.But the attention and judgment that I received, not the story, but that I personally received, was unprecedented.I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and of course, that woman.I was seen by many but actually known by few.And I get it: it was easy to forget that woman was dimensional, had a soul, and was once unbroken.When this happened to me 17 years ago, there was no name for it.Now we call it cyberbullying and online harassment.Today, I want to share some of my experience with you, talk about how that experience has helped shape my cultural observations, and how I hope my past experience can lead to a change that result in less suffering for others.In 1998, I lost my reputation and my dignity.I lost almost everything, and I almost lost my life.Let me paint a picture for you.It is September of 1998;I’m sitting in a windowless office room inside the office of the independent counsel underneath humming fluorescent lights.I’m listening to the sound of my voice, my voice on surreptitiously taped phone calls that a supposed friend had made the year before.I’m here because I’ve been legally required to personally authenticate all 20 hours of taped conversation.For the past eight months, the mysterious content of these tapes has hung like the Sword of Damocles over my head.I mean, who can remember what they said a year ago? Scared and mortified, I listen, listen as I prattle on about the flotsam and jetsam of the day;listen as I confess my love for the president, and of course, my heartbreak;listen to my sometimes catty, sometimes churlish, sometimes silly self being cruel, unforgiving, uncouth;listen, deeply, deeply ashamed, to the worse version of myself, a self I don’t even recognize.A few days later, the Starr Report is released to Congress, and all of those tapes and transcripts, those stolen words, form a part of it.That people can read the transcripts is horrific enough, but a few weeks later, the audio tapes are aired on TV, and significant portions made available online.The public humiliation was excruciating.Life was almost unbearable.This was not something that happened with regularity back then in 1998, and by this, I mean the stealing of people’s private words, actions, conversations or photos, and then making them public—public without consent, public without context, and public without compassion.Fast forward 12 year to 2010, and now social media has been born.The landscape has sadly become much more populated with instances like mine, whether or not someone actually makes a mistake, and now it’s for both public and private people.The consequences for some have become dire, very dire.I was on the phone with my mom in September of 2010, and we were talking about the news of a young college freshman from Rutgers University named Tyler Clementi.Sweet, sensitive, creative Tyler was secretly webcammed by his roommate while being intimate with another man.When the online world learned of this incident, the ridicule and cyberbullying ignited.A few days later, Tyler jumped form the George Washington Bridge to his death.He was 18.My mom was beside herself about what happened to Tyler and his family, and she was gutted with pain in a way that I just couldn’t quite understand, and then eventually I realized she was reliving 1998, reliving a time when she sat by my bed every night, reliving a time when she made me shower with the bathroom open, and reliving a time when both of my parents feared that I would be humiliated to death, literally.Today, too many parents haven’t had the chance to step in and rescue their loved ones.Too many have learned of their child’s suffering and humiliation after it was too late.Tyler’s tragic, senseless death was a turning point for me.It served to recontextualize my experiences, and I began to look at the world of humiliation and bullying around me and see something different.In 1998, we had no way of knowing where the brave new technology called the internet would take us.Since then, it has connected people in unimaginable ways, joining lost siblings, saving lives, launching revolution, but the darkness, cyberbullying, and slut-shaming that I experienced had mushroomed.Every day online, people, especially young people who are not developmentally equipped to handle this, are so abused and humiliated that they can’t imagine living to the next day, and some, tragically, don’t, and there’s nothing virtual about that.ChildLine, a U.K.nonprofit that’s focused on helping young people on various issues, released a staggering statistic late last year: From 2012 to 2013, there was an 87 percent increase in calls and emails related to cyberbullying.A meta-analysis done out of the Netherlands showed that for the first time, cyberbullying was leading to suicidal ideations more significantly than offline bullying.And you know what shocked me ,although it shouldn’t have, was other research last year that determined humiliation was a more intensely felt emotion than either happiness or even anger.Cruelty to other is nothing new, but online, technologically enhanced shaming is amplified, uncontained, and permanently accessible.The echo of embarrassment used to extend only as far as your family, village, school or community, but now it’s the online community too.Millions of people, often anonymously, can stab you with their words, and that’s a lot of pain, and there are no perimeters around how many people can publicly observe you and put you in a public stockade.There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.For nearly two decades now, we have slowly been sowing the seeds of shame and public humiliation in our cultural soil, both on-and offline.Gossip websites, paparazzi, reality programming, politics, news outlets and sometimes hackers all traffic in shame.It’s led to desensitization and a permissive environment online which lends itself to trolling, invasion of privacy, and cyberbullying.This shift has created what Professor Nicolaus Mills calls a culture of humiliation.Consider a few prominent examples just from the past six months alone.Snapchat, the service which is used mainly by younger generations and claims that its messages only have the lifespan of a few seconds.You can imagine the range of content that gets.A third-party app which Snapchatters use to preserve the lifespan of the messages were hacked, and 100,000 personal conversations, photos, and videos were leaked online to now have a lifespan of forever.Jennifer Lawrence and several other actors had their iCloud accounts hacked, and private, intimate, nude photos were plastered across the Internet without their permission.One gossip website had over five million hits for this one story.And what about the Sony Pictures cyberhacking? The document which received the most attention was private emails that had maximum public embarrassment value.But in this culture humiliation, there another kind of price tag attached to public shaming.The price does not measure the cost to the victim, which Tyler and too many others, notably women, minorities, and members of the LGBTQ community have paid, but the price measure the profit of those who prey on them.This invasion of others is a raw material, efficiently and ruthlessly mined, packaged and sold at a profit.A marketplace has emerged where public humiliation is a community and shame is an industry.How is the money made? Clicks.The more shame the more clicks.The more clicks the more advertising dollars.We are in a dangerous cycle.The more we click on this kind of gossip, the more numb we get to the human lives behind it, and the more numb we get the more we click.All the while, someone is making money off the back of someone else’s suffering.With every click, we make a choice.The more we saturate our culture with public shaming, the more we will see behavior like cyberbullying, trolling, some forms of hacking, and online harassment.Why? Because they all have humiliation at their cores.This behavior is a symptom of the culture we’ve created.Just think about it.Changing behavior begins with evolving beliefs.We’ve seen that be true with racism, homophobia, and plenty of other biases, today and in the past.As we’ve changed beliefs about same-sex marriage, more people have been offered equal freedoms.When we began valuing sustainability more people began to recycle.So as far as our culture of our humiliation goes, what we need is a cultural revolution.Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop, and it’s time for an intervention on the Internet and in our culture.The shift began with something simple, but it’s not easy.We need to return to a long-held value of compassion—compassion and empathy.Online, we’ve got a compassion deficit, and empathy crisis.Researcher Brene Brown said, and I quote, “Shame can’t survive empathy.”

Shame can’t survive empathy.I’ve seen some very dark days in my life, it was compassion and empathy from my family, friends, professionals, and sometimes even strangers that saved me.Even empathy from one person can make difference.The theory of minority influence proposed by social psychologist Serge Moscovici, says that even in small numbers, when there’s consistency over time, change can happen, in the online world, we can foster minority influence by becoming upstanders.To become a upstander means instead of bystander apathy, we can post a positive comment for someone or report a bullying situation.Trust me, compassionate comments help abate the negativity.We can also counteract the culture by supporting organizations that deal with this kind of issues, like the Tyler Clementi Foundation from the U.S.In the U.K.there’s Anti-bullying Pro, and in Australia, there’s Project Rockit.We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression.We all wanna be heard, but let’s acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and peaking up for attention.The Internet is the superhighway for the id, but online, showing empathy to others benefits us all and helps create a safer and better world.We need to communicate online with compassion, consume news with compassion, and click with compassion.Just imagine walking a mile in someone else’s headline,.I’d like to end on a personal note.In the past nine months, the question I had been asked most is why, why now, why was I sticking my head above the parapet? You can read between the lines in those questions, and answer is nothing to do with the politics.The top note answer was and is because it’s time;stop tip-toeing around my past;time to stop living a life of opprobrium;and time to take back my narrative.It’s also not just about saving myself,.Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing;you can survive it.i know it’s hard.It may not be painless, quick or easy, but you can insist on a different ending to your story.Have compassion to yourself.We all deserve compassion.And to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.Thank you for listening.

第二篇：萊溫斯基TED演講 中英對照

The price of shame

主講人：莫妮卡 萊溫斯基

主題：恥辱的代價

You're looking at a woman who was publicly silent for a decade.Obviously, that's changed, but only recently.站在你們面前的是一個在大眾面前沉默了十年之久的女人。當(dāng)然，現(xiàn)在情況不一樣了，不過這只是最近發(fā)生的事。

It was several months ago that I gave my very first major public talk at the Forbes 30 Under 30 summit:1,500 brilliant people, all under the age of 30.That meant that in 1998, the oldest among the group were only 14, and the youngest, just four.I joked with them that some might only have heard of me from rap songs.Yes, I'm in rap songs.Almost 40 rap songs.幾個月前，我在《福布斯》雜志舉辦的“30歲以下”峰會（Under 30 Summit）上發(fā)表了首次公開演講。現(xiàn)場1500位才華橫溢的與會者都不到30歲。這意味著1998年，他們中最年長的是14歲，而最年輕的只有4歲。我跟他們開玩笑道，他們中有些人可能只在說唱歌曲里聽到過我的名字。是的，大約有40首說唱歌曲唱過我。

But the night of my speech, a surprising thing happened.At the age of 41, I was hit on by a 27-year-old guy.I know, right? He was charming and I was flattered, and I declined.You know what his unsuccessful pickup line was? He could make me feel 22 again.I realized later that night, I'm probably the only person over 40 who does not want to be 22 again.但是，在我演講當(dāng)晚，發(fā)生了一件令人吃驚的事——我作為一個41歲的女人，被一個27歲的男孩示愛。我知道，這聽上去不太可能對吧？他很迷人，說了很多恭維我的話，然后我拒絕了他。你知道他為何搭訕失敗嗎？他說，他可以讓我感到又回到了22歲。后來，那晚我意識到，也許我是年過40歲的女人中唯一一個不想重返22歲的人。

At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss, and at the age of 24, I learned the devastating consequences.Can I see a show of hands of anyone here who didn't make a mistake or do something they regretted at 22? Yep.That's what I thought.So like me, at 22, a few of you may have also taken wrong turns and fallen in love with the wrong person, maybe even your boss.Unlike me, though, your boss probably wasn't the president of the United States of America.Of course, life is full of surprises.Not a day goes by that I'm not reminded of my mistake, and I regret that mistake deeply.22歲時，我愛上了我的老板；24歲的時，我飽受了這場戀愛帶來的災(zāi)難性的后果。現(xiàn)場的觀眾們，如果你們在22歲的時候沒有犯過錯，或者沒有做過讓自己后悔的事，請舉起手好嗎？是的，和我想的一樣。與我一樣，22歲時，你們中有一些人也曾走過彎路，愛上了不該愛的人，也許是你們的老板。但與我不同的是，你們的老板可能不會是美國總統(tǒng)。當(dāng)然，人生充滿驚奇。之后的每一天，我都會想起自己所犯的錯誤，并為之深深感到后悔。

In 1998, after having been swept up into an improbable romance, I was then swept up into the eye of a political, legal and media maelstrom like we had never seen before.Remember, just a few years earlier,news was consumed from just three places: reading a newspaper or magazine, listening to the radio, or watching television.That was it.But that wasn't my fate.Instead, this scandal was brought to you by the digital revolution.That meant we could access all the information we wanted, when we wanted it, anytime, anywhere, and when the story broke in January 1998, it broke online.It was the first time the traditional news was usurped by the Internet for a major news story, a click that reverberated around the world.飽受網(wǎng)絡(luò)欺凌之苦 1998年，在卷入一場不可思議的戀情后，我又被卷入了一場前所未有的政治、法律和輿論漩渦的中心。記得嗎？幾年前，新聞一般通過三個途徑傳播：讀報紙雜志、聽廣播、和看電視，僅此而已。但我的命運(yùn)并不是僅此而已。這樁丑聞是通過數(shù)字革命傳播的。這意味著我們可以獲取任何我們需要的信息，不論何時何地。這則新聞在1998年1月爆發(fā)時，它也在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上火了。這是互聯(lián)網(wǎng)第一次在重大新聞事件報道中超越了傳統(tǒng)媒體。只要輕點(diǎn)一下鼠標(biāo)，就會在全世界引起反響。

What that meant for me personally was that overnight I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one worldwide.I was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.This rush to judgment, enabled by technology, led to mobs of virtual stone-throwers.Granted, it was before social media, but people could still comment online, email stories, and, of course, email cruel jokes.News sources plastered photos of me all over to sell newspapers, banner ads online, and to keep people tuned to the TV.Do you recall a particular image of me, say, wearing a beret? 對我個人而言，這則新聞讓我一夜之間從一個無名小卒變成了全世界人民公開羞辱的對象。我成了第一個經(jīng)歷在全世界范圍內(nèi)名譽(yù)掃地的“零號病人”。科技是這場草率審判的始作俑者，無數(shù)暴民向我投擲石塊。當(dāng)然，那時還沒有社交媒體，但人們依然可以在網(wǎng)上發(fā)表評論，通過電子郵件傳播新聞和殘酷的玩笑。新聞媒體貼滿了我的照片，借此來兜售報紙，為網(wǎng)頁吸引廣告商，提高電視收視率。記得當(dāng)時的那張照片嗎？我戴著貝雷帽的照片。

Now, I admit I made mistakes, especially wearing that beret.But the attention and judgment that I received, not the story, but that I personally received, was unprecedented.I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and, of course, that woman.I was seen by many but actually known by few.And I get it: it was easy to forget that that woman was dimensional, had a soul, and was once unbroken.現(xiàn)在，我承認(rèn)我犯了錯，特別是不該戴那頂貝雷帽。但是，除了事件本身，我因此受到的關(guān)注和審判是前所未有的。我被貼上“淫婦”、“妓女”，“蕩婦”，“婊子”，“蠢女人”的標(biāo)簽，當(dāng)然，還有“那個女人”。許多人看到了我，但很少有人真正了解我。對此我表示理解，因?yàn)槿藗兒苋菀淄洝澳莻€女人”也是一個活生生的人，她也有靈魂，她也曾過著平靜的生活。

When this happened to me 17 years ago, there was no name for it.Now we call it cyberbullying and online harassment.Today, I want to share some of my experience with you, talk about how that experience has helped shape my cultural observations, and how I hope my past experience can lead to a change that results in less suffering for others.17年前，對于我經(jīng)歷的這些遭遇還沒有一個專有名詞。現(xiàn)在，我們稱之為“網(wǎng)絡(luò)欺凌”和“網(wǎng)上騷擾”。今天我要與你們分享一些我的經(jīng)歷，我想談?wù)勀谴谓?jīng)歷是如何形成了我的文化觀察，我希望我過去的經(jīng)歷能夠產(chǎn)生一些改變，減少他人的痛苦。

In 1998, I lost my reputation and my dignity.I lost almost everything, and I almost lost my life.1998年，我失去了名譽(yù)和尊嚴(yán)。我?guī)缀跏チ怂校規(guī)缀跏チ宋业娜松３舐劚l(fā)之后，鋪天蓋地都是對此事件的報道。Let me paint a picture for you.It is September of 1998.I'm sitting in a windowless office room inside the Office of the Independent Counsel underneath humming fluorescent lights.I'm listening to the sound of my voice, my voice on surreptitiously taped phone calls that a supposed friend had made the year before.I’m here because I've been legally required to personally authenticate all 20 hours of taped conversation.For the past eight months, the mysterious content of these tapes has hung like the Sword of Damocles over my head.I mean, who can remember what they said a year ago?

讓我來描繪這樣一幅場景：1998年9月的一天，我坐在美國獨(dú)立檢察官辦公室一間沒有窗的屋子里，頭頂上的日光燈嗡嗡作響。我正在聽我的錄音，那是一位所謂的朋友偷偷錄下的電話談話。我被依法要求鑒定那20個小時的電話錄音是真實(shí)的。在過去的八個月里，這些錄音帶中神秘的內(nèi)容就像一把懸在我頭頂?shù)倪_(dá)摩克利斯之劍。我的意思是，有誰會記得自己一年前說過的話？ Scared and mortified, I listen, listen as I prattle on about the flotsam and jetsam of the day;listen as I confess my love for the president, and, of course, my heartbreak;listen to my sometimes catty, sometimes churlish, sometimes silly self being cruel, unforgiving, uncouth;listen, deeply, deeply ashamed, to the worst version of myself,a self I don't even recognize.在恐懼和羞愧中，我聽著錄音，聽我閑扯每天發(fā)生的瑣碎之事；聽我坦白對總統(tǒng)的愛慕，當(dāng)然，還有我的心碎；聽有時尖酸，有時粗魯，有時愚蠢的我是如何冷酷，無情，無理取鬧。我?guī)е钌畹男呃⒙犞莻€最糟糕的我的聲音，糟糕到我自己都不認(rèn)識了。A few days later, the Starr Report is released to Congress, and all of those tapes and trans, those stolen words, form a part of it.That people can read the trans is horrific enough, but a few weeks later, the audio tapes are aired on TV, and significant portions made available online.The public humiliation was excruciating.Life was almost unbearable.幾天后，斯塔爾報告提交至國會，那些錄音帶和文字記錄，那些被竊取的言語，都是這份報告的一部分。人們能夠讀到這些文字對我來說已經(jīng)夠恐怖了，但是幾個星期后，那些錄音又在電視上播放，有一些重要的內(nèi)容還被發(fā)布在網(wǎng)絡(luò)上。公開的羞辱讓我飽受折磨。這樣的生活讓我?guī)缀鯚o法忍受。

This was not something that happened with regularity back then in 1998, and by this, I mean the stealing of people's private words, actions，conversations or photos, and then making them public--public without consent, public without context, and public without compassion.在1998年，我所說的這些還并不常見。我指的是竊取他人私下的言語、行動、談話內(nèi)容和照片，并公之于眾——在未經(jīng)本人同意，未交待背景的情況下，毫無惻隱之心地將這些內(nèi)容公之于眾。

Fast forward 12 years to 2010, and now social media has been born.The landscape has sadly become much more populated with instances like mine, whether or not someone actually make a mistake, and now it's for both public and private people.The consequences for some have become dire, very dire.快進(jìn)到12年后的2010年，社交媒體誕生了。可悲的是，社交媒體上充斥著更多像我這樣的例子，不管這個當(dāng)事人是不是真的犯了錯，而且，公眾人物和普羅大眾都深受其害。對于有些人來說，后果是嚴(yán)重的，非常嚴(yán)重。

I was on the phone with my mom in September of 2010, and we were talking about the news of a young college freshman from Rutgers University named Tyler Clementi.Sweet, sensitive, creative Tyler was secretly webcammed by his roommate while being intimate with another man.When the online world learned of this incident, the ridicule and cyberbullying ignited.A few days later, Tyler jumped from the George Washington Bridge to his death.He was 18.2010年9月的一天，我正在和我的母親通電話，我們在討論一則新聞，關(guān)于羅格斯大學(xué)的一個名叫泰勒 克萊門蒂的大一新生。可愛、敏感、富有創(chuàng)意的克萊門蒂被室友偷拍到和另一個男人有親密關(guān)系。當(dāng)這個視頻在網(wǎng)絡(luò)世界曝光后，嘲笑和網(wǎng)絡(luò)欺凌的火種被點(diǎn)燃。幾天后，泰勒從喬治華盛頓大橋上縱身跳下。一個年僅18歲的生命就這樣逝去。

My mom was beside herself about what happened to Tyler and his family, and she was gutted with painin a way that I just couldn't quite understand, and then eventually I realized she was reliving 1998, reliving a time when she sat by my bed every night, reliving a time when she made me shower with the bathroom door open, and reliving a time when both of my parents feared that I would be humiliated to death,literally.我母親在講到泰勒和他的家人時情緒有些失控，她所表現(xiàn)出的痛苦讓我并不十分理解。后來，我才終于意識到，她正在重新經(jīng)歷1998年發(fā)生的一切。重新經(jīng)歷她每晚坐在我的床頭的時候；重新經(jīng)歷她要我開著浴室門洗澡的時候，重新經(jīng)歷她和父親擔(dān)心我會因?yàn)槭艿叫呷瓒詫ざ桃姷臅r候。真的是這樣。

Today, too many parents haven't had the chance to step in and rescue their loved ones.Too many have learned of their child's suffering and

humiliation after it was too late.今天，太多父母沒有機(jī)會及時介入來拯救他們摯愛的孩子。太多的人，當(dāng)他們獲悉自己的孩子的痛苦和受到的羞辱時，已為時已晚。

Tyler's tragic, senseless death was a turning point for me.It served to recontextualize my experiences, and I then began to look at the world of humiliation and bullying around me and see something different.泰勒悲慘而毫無意義的死亡對我來說是一個轉(zhuǎn)折點(diǎn)。他讓我開始重新審視我的親身經(jīng)歷，他讓我開始觀察身邊這個充滿羞辱和欺凌的世界，讓我看到了不同的東西。In 1998, we had no way of knowing where this brave new technology called the Internet would take us.Since then, it has connected people in unimaginable ways, joining lost siblings, saving lives, launching revolutions, but the darkness, cyberbullying, and slut-shaming that I experienced had mushroomed.1998年，沒有人知道這種名叫“因特網(wǎng)”的新技術(shù)會把人類帶向何方。自誕生以來，因特網(wǎng)用難以想象的方式將人類聯(lián)系起來。它讓人們找到失散的兄弟姐妹、拯救生命、發(fā)起革命，但是我所遭受的黑暗、網(wǎng)絡(luò)欺凌和被稱為“蕩婦”的羞辱也如雨后春筍般瘋長。Every day online, people, especially young people who are not developmentally equipped to handle this, are so abused and humiliated that they can't imagine living to the next day, and some, tragically, don't, and

there's nothing virtual about that.ChildLine, a U.K.nonprofit that's focused on helping young people on various issues,released a staggering statistic late last year: From 2012 to 2013, there was an 87 percent increase in calls and emails related to cyberbullying.A meta-analysis done out of the Netherlands showed that for the first time, cyberbullying was leading to suicidal ideations more significantly than offline bullying.And you know what shocked me, although it shouldn't have, was other research last year that determined humiliation was a more intensely felt emotion than either happiness or even anger.每天，在網(wǎng)絡(luò)上都會有人，特別是年輕人被辱罵和羞辱，而他們對此束手無策。這些辱罵和羞辱讓他們想立刻死去。悲劇的是，有些人，真的因此死去。這一點(diǎn)兒也不虛擬。

ChildLine是英國一個致力于幫助年輕人解決各種問題的公益組織。去年年底，該組織公布了一組令人震驚的數(shù)據(jù)：從2012年到2013年，與網(wǎng)絡(luò)欺凌有關(guān)的電話和郵件數(shù)量增加了87%。一份來自荷蘭的綜合分析首次披露，網(wǎng)絡(luò)欺凌比線下欺凌更容易讓人產(chǎn)生自殺的念頭。去年，還有一項(xiàng)研究讓我震驚，盡管我并不該感到震驚。研究顯示，羞辱是比快樂或者生氣更為強(qiáng)烈的情緒。Cruelty to others is nothing new, but online, technologically enhanced shaming is amplified, uncontained, and permanently accessible.殘忍對待他人不是什么新鮮事，但是，在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上，技術(shù)讓羞辱放大，一發(fā)而不可收，并且永遠(yuǎn)可以被看到。

The echo of embarrassment used to extend only as far as your family, village, school or community, but now it's the online community too.Millions of people, often anonymously, can stab you with their words, and that's a lot of pain, and there are no perimeters around how many people can publicly observe you and put you in a public stockade.There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.過去，丑聞最多在你的家庭、村莊、學(xué)校或者社區(qū)傳播。但是現(xiàn)在也在網(wǎng)絡(luò)社區(qū)流傳。數(shù)百萬的網(wǎng)民，經(jīng)常匿名地惡語相向，這帶來很多痛苦。而且，到底有多少人可以公開地關(guān)注你，讓你成為眾矢之的？這是無法計算的。被公開羞辱對個人而言代價很大，而互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的發(fā)展加劇了這種代價。

For nearly two decades now, we have slowly been sowing the seeds of shame and public humiliation in our cultural soil, both on-and offline.Gossip websites, paparazzi, reality programming, politics, news outlets and

sometimes hackers all traffic in shame.It's led to desensitization and a

permissive environment online which lends itself to trolling, invasion of privacy, and cyberbullying.This shift has created what Professor Nicolaus Mills calls a culture of humiliation.近20年來，我們慢慢地在文化的土壤中播下恥辱和公開羞辱的種子，無論是線上還是線下。八卦網(wǎng)站、狗仔隊(duì)、真人秀節(jié)目、政治、新聞媒體，有時甚至是黑客都是羞辱的通道。冷酷、放縱的網(wǎng)絡(luò)環(huán)境助長了網(wǎng)絡(luò)煽動、侵犯個人隱私、和網(wǎng)絡(luò)欺凌。這種轉(zhuǎn)變形成了一種尼古拉斯

米爾斯教授所說的羞辱文化。Consider a few prominent examples just from the past six months alone.Snapchat, the service which is used mainly by younger generationsand claims that its messages only have the lifespan of a few

seconds.You can imagine the range of content that that gets.A third-party app which Snapchatters use to preserve the lifespan of the messages was hacked, and 100,000 personal conversations, photos, and videos were leaked online to now have a lifespan of forever.想想最近六個月發(fā)生的事情。Snapchat是一項(xiàng)主要是年輕人使用的服務(wù)，它號稱所有的信息只有幾秒鐘的壽命。你可以想象這些信息會包含哪些內(nèi)容。Snapchat用戶使用的保存信息的第三方應(yīng)用被黑客攻擊，近10萬名用戶的私人談話、照片、視頻被泄露到網(wǎng)上。現(xiàn)在，它們可以永久保留了。Jennifer Lawrence and several other actors had their iCloud accounts hacked, and private, intimate, nude photos were plastered across the Internet without their permission.One gossip website had over five million hits for this one story.And what about the Sony Pictures

cyberhacking? The documents which received the most attention were private emails that had maximum public embarrassment value.詹妮弗 勞倫斯和其他幾位演員的iCloud賬戶被攻擊，他們所有私人的、親密的、裸體的照片在未經(jīng)允許的情況下在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上鋪天蓋地地傳播。一個八卦網(wǎng)站僅僅因?yàn)檫@一則新聞就獲得了超過500萬的點(diǎn)擊量。索尼影視被黑客攻擊的情況又如何呢？最受關(guān)注的文件是那些公開羞辱價值最大的私人電子郵件。

But in this culture of humiliation, there is another kind of price tag attached to public shaming.The price does not measure the cost to the victim, which Tyler and too many others, notably women, minorities,and members of the LGBTQ community have paid, but the price measures the profit of those who prey on them.This invasion of others is a raw material, efficiently and ruthlessly mined, packaged and sold at a profit.但是在這種羞辱文化中，公開羞辱還被貼上了另一種價格標(biāo)簽。這個價格標(biāo)簽衡量的并不是受害者付出的代價，比如泰勒、還有其他很多人，特別是婦女，少數(shù)群體和同性戀、雙性戀、變性群體(LGBTQ)成員所付出的代價，而是衡量損害他們利益的牟利者的收益。侵入他人領(lǐng)域成了一種原材料，被人以最快的速度無情地挖掘，打包并出售。

A marketplace has emerged where public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.How is the money made? Clicks.The more shame, the more clicks.The more clicks, the more advertising dollars.We're in a dangerous cycle.The more we click on this kind of gossip, the more numb we get to the human lives behind it, and the more numb we get, the more we click.一個市場橫空出世，公開羞辱是商品，恥辱變成了一種產(chǎn)業(yè)。靠什么賺錢呢？點(diǎn)擊。恥辱越多，點(diǎn)擊越多。點(diǎn)擊越多，廣告收入就越多。我們身處一個惡性循環(huán)。我們對這類八卦點(diǎn)擊得越多，我們就會對故事背后的當(dāng)事人越麻木。我們越麻木，就越會去點(diǎn)擊。

All the while, someone is making money off of the back of someone else's suffering.With every click, we make a choice.The more we saturate our culture with public shaming, the more accepted it is, the more we will see behavior like cyberbullying, trolling, some forms of hacking, and online harassment.Why? Because they all have humiliation at their cores.This behavior is a symptom of the culture we've created.Just think about it.與此同時，有些人把自己的利益建立在他人的痛苦之上，每一次點(diǎn)擊，我們都是在做出選擇。我們文化中充斥的公開恥辱越多，它就越容易被接受，我們就會看到越多的網(wǎng)絡(luò)欺凌、網(wǎng)絡(luò)煽動、某些形式的黑客入侵，和線上騷擾。為什么呢？因?yàn)樗鼈兊暮诵亩际切呷琛＿@種行為成為了我們所創(chuàng)造的一種文化病癥。想想吧。

Changing behavior begins with evolving beliefs.We've seen that to be true with racism, homophobia, and plenty of other biases, today and in the past.As we've changed beliefs about same-sex marriage, more people have been offered equal freedoms.When we began valuing sustainability, more people began to recycle.向網(wǎng)絡(luò)欺凌說不。改變行為從改變信念開始。不管是現(xiàn)在還是過去，無論是種族歧視、同性戀歧視和其它很多的歧視，都是這樣來消除的。隨著對同性戀結(jié)婚觀念的改變，更多人被賦予了平等的自由。隨著對可持續(xù)性的提倡，越來越多的人開始循環(huán)利用。

So as far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a cultural revolution.Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop, and it's time for an intervention on the Internet and in our culture.對于羞辱的文化也應(yīng)該如此。我們需要文化革命。公開羞辱這種血腥的運(yùn)動應(yīng)該終止，是時候?qū)τ⑻鼐W(wǎng)和我們的文化采取干預(yù)行動了。

The shift begins with something simple, but it's not easy.We need to return to a long-held value of compassion--compassion and empathy.Online, we've got a compassion deficit, an empathy crisis.Researcher Brené Brown said, and I quote, “Shame can't survive empathy.” Shame cannot survive empathy.I've seen some very dark days in my life, and it was the compassion and empathy from my family, friends, professionals, and sometimes even strangers that saved me.轉(zhuǎn)變可以從簡單的事開始，不過這也不容易。我們需要回歸人類固有的一種價值，也就是同情心和同理心。互聯(lián)網(wǎng)正經(jīng)歷著同情心匱乏和同理心危機(jī)。引用研究者布林 布朗的話來說就是，“羞辱在同理心之下無法存活”。羞辱在同理心之下無法存活。我的人生中有過一些非常黑暗的日子，是來自家人、朋友、專業(yè)人士、甚至是一些陌生人的同情心和同理心拯救了我。

Even empathy from one person can make a difference.The theory of minority influence, proposed by social psychologist Serge Moscovici, says that even in small numbers, when there's consistency over time, change can happen.In the online world, we can foster minority influence by becoming upstanders.To become an upstander means instead of bystander apathy, we can post a positive comment for someone or report a bullying situation.哪怕只有一個人的同情也會產(chǎn)生改變。社會心理學(xué)家謝爾蓋 莫斯科維奇提出了小眾影響理論。他說，哪怕是小眾人群，只要能堅持下去，也能做出改變。在網(wǎng)絡(luò)世界中，我們可以成為行動派，培養(yǎng)小眾影響力。成為行動派意味著不再袖手旁觀，而是發(fā)表積極評論或是舉報欺凌現(xiàn)象。

Trust me, compassionate comments help abate the negativity.We can also counteract the culture by supporting organizations that deal with these kinds of issues, like the Tyler Clementi Foundation in the U.S., In the U.K., there's Anti-Bullying Pro, and in Australia, there's Project Rockit.相信我，表達(dá)同情的評論能夠削弱負(fù)面影響。我們還可以通過支持處理這類問題的組織機(jī)構(gòu)來對抗這種羞辱文化。例如，美國有泰勒 克萊門蒂基金，英國有反欺凌項(xiàng)目，澳大利亞有Rockit項(xiàng)目。

We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression.We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.The Internet is the superhighway for the id, but online, showing empathy to others benefits us all and helps create a safer and better world.We need to communicate online with compassion, consume news with compassion, and click with compassion.Just imagine walking a mile in someone else's headline.I'd like to end on a personal note.關(guān)于言論自由的權(quán)力我們討論了很多，但我們還應(yīng)該更多地談?wù)勏硎苎哉撟杂蓵r所承擔(dān)的責(zé)任。我們都希望自己的聲音被聽到，但是我們要區(qū)分有意圖的發(fā)聲和尋求關(guān)注的發(fā)聲。因特網(wǎng)是表達(dá)自我的超級高速公路，但是，站在他人角度考慮問題對我們都是有利的，而且能夠幫助創(chuàng)建更安全，更美好的世界。

我們需要懷著同情心在網(wǎng)絡(luò)上交流，懷著同情心閱讀新聞，懷著同情心點(diǎn)擊鼠標(biāo)。試著想象活在別人的新聞頭條里。

In the past nine months, the question I've been asked the most is why.Why now? Why was I sticking my head above the parapet? You can read between the lines in those questions, and the answer has nothing to do with politics.最后我想以個人說明做總結(jié)。過去九個月里，我被人問得最多的問題是“為什么”。為什么是現(xiàn)在？為什么要逆流而上？你們應(yīng)該可以聽出這些問題的言外之意。答案與政治無關(guān)。

The top note answer was and is because it's time: time to stop tip-toeing around my past;time to stop living a life of opprobrium;and time to take back my narrative.It's also not just about saving myself.Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it.I know it's hard.It may not be painless, quick or easy, but you can insist on a different ending to your story.我的答案是，因?yàn)槭菚r候了，是時候不再為過去而過得如履薄冰，是時候結(jié)束背負(fù)罵名的生活，是時候奪回我的話語權(quán)了。這不僅僅是為了拯救我自己。任何遭受恥辱和公開羞辱的人，都需要明白一點(diǎn)：你能挺過來。我知道這很難，肯定會伴隨痛苦，肯定不會又快又輕松，但你可以通過你的堅持，書寫一個不同的故事結(jié)局。

Have compassion for yourself.We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.同情自己。我們都值得同情，無論線上還是線下，我們都應(yīng)該生活在一個更富有同情心的世界。Thank you for listening.謝謝聆聽！

第三篇：英文演講文稿

大家好，今天我演講的題目是“生活”

Hello everyone, today my topic is “Life” 我的報告分兩部分，第一部分介紹什么是生活。第二部分介紹怎么去生活。

My report is divided into two parts, the first part of the introduction of what life is.The second part describes how to live life.什么是生活，第一點(diǎn)，生活中我們往往因?yàn)槿狈ψ晕业恼J(rèn)知而錯過了我們很多原本屬于自己的生活，生活總是在不經(jīng)意間見錯過了那些最美好的東西。所以請留意你生活中的細(xì)節(jié)。

What is life？First point，In our life, we often miss us because of the lack of self-awareness and miss us a lot of our own lives, life always missed those most beautiful things.So please pay attention to the details of your life.第二點(diǎn)，尊重人比尊重頭銜重要，每個人的生命都有自己的價值。在這里的“頭銜”是指他人的評價，也就是所謂的面子，我們往往太在意他人的評價而忽略了自己最真實(shí)的需求，有一句話說的很好“外面只有自己，沒有別人”；這句話反過來說也挺有意義：“里面只有別人，沒有自己”，真正的忽略了別人的評價。其實(shí)，我們在生活的道場中要認(rèn)真的反思與修行。

Second point，“Respect people over job titles.Everyone’s life has meaning.”

“Title” here refers to the evaluation of others, also is the so-called face, we are too care about others' evaluation and ignore the needs of their most true, there's a phrase said very well “outside only yourself, no one else”;, in turn, said this sentence is quite meaningful, “only others, does not have”, really ignore others' evaluation.In fact, we need to rethink and practice seriously in life.第二部分，如何生活？第一點(diǎn)，不要輕易說“不”.學(xué)會重新認(rèn)識拒絕。當(dāng)你努力想要成為領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者或者建立公司的時候，人們會經(jīng)常告訴你“不行”。但是與其把這個NO視為事情的結(jié)束，不如把它看作一個尋找原因的機(jī)會：你是不是找了錯誤的人?你是不是還沒有展現(xiàn)出你具有承擔(dān)這個新責(zé)任的能力? 水滴石穿，NO會變成另一個等待，學(xué)習(xí)和再次嘗試的機(jī)會。

Part 2, How to live? First point，Do not say “no”.Learn to recognize rejection.Whether you’re working towards a leadership position or building a company, people will frequently tell you no.Instead of seeing it as a shutdown, look at it as an opportunity to figure out why.Are you asking the wrong person? Have you not yet demonstrated

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new responsibility? Over time, ‘no’ becomes just another opportunity to wait, learn and try again.第二點(diǎn)，挑戰(zhàn)自我.找到一個挑戰(zhàn)自己的事業(yè)。問自己:“我是否為我的工作感到自豪”？如果你不去熱愛你的工作與生活，不能發(fā)現(xiàn)工作與生活中的價值，再大的努力你的人生體驗(yàn)都會停留在峰底.Second point，Challenge yourself.“Find a place where you can be challenged.Ask yourself: Am I proud of my work ?”If you don't love your work and life, you can't find the value of work and life, and your life experience will stay at the bottom of the peak.第3，回顧過去的經(jīng)歷。當(dāng)你進(jìn)入你人生的新階段，別忘了停下來回頭看看，去發(fā)現(xiàn)你過去經(jīng)歷的意義。它可以讓你更好的了解你是誰，將到哪里去，如何去那里。

No.3，Review past experience。“As you move forward into the next stage of your life, do not forget to stop and look back to discover the meaning of where you have been.That will help you better understand who you are, where you may be heading, and how you can get there.”

第4，受到教育不等于聰明。別把受到教育這件事和聰明這件事混為一個概念。特別是在中國，別把自己的高等教育當(dāng)回事，真正的思考能力、創(chuàng)新能力及優(yōu)秀的品格才是職業(yè)發(fā)展的源動力。

No.4，Being educated is not smart。“Never confuse being educated with being smart.” Especially in China, higher education don't take yourself seriously, the real thinking ability, innovation ability and good character is the source power of career development.第5，誠實(shí)比什么都重要。誠實(shí)的對待自己，愿意學(xué)習(xí)，愿意被指導(dǎo)。NO.5，Honesty is more important than anything。“Be true to yourself.Be willing to learn and to be coachable.”

第6，擁有感恩的心。回報用感恩的心，感恩身邊的人和事。懷感恩之心的人，內(nèi)心總是充滿了感動，這是一種幸福生活的方式。NO.6，Have a heart of gratitude。“Give back—serve from a sense of gratitude.” The heart of Thanksgiving, the heart is always full of moving, this is a way of happy life.第7，堅持。堅持，堅持，再堅持。雖然生活中有很多困難、痛苦，但我們堅信，今天很難，明天更難，但后天終將美好 NO.7，Stick with it。

Although there are many difficulties in life, pain, but we believe one thing，today is difficult，tomorrow is more difficult，but the day after tomorrow is beautiful。So“Stick with it，and keep moving”

Some people say: This is the worst of times，有人說，這是最壞的時代，while the other people say: this is the best of times.也有人說，這是最好的時代。But in the face of this complicated era, 但是面對這個復(fù)雜的時代

you can never find truth by poking one eye out.你永遠(yuǎn)無法通過戳瞎自己的一只眼睛來尋求真相。

If you are bright, life will never be dark.你光明，生活便不黑暗。

你好，請問你今天為什么做這個主題的演講呢？因?yàn)槲艺J(rèn)為現(xiàn)在有太多的人生活很悲觀，但我相信正因?yàn)槭澜缡遣煌昝溃圆判枰覀?Hello, could you tell me why are you doing today this theme speech ?Because I think there are too many people now living is very pessimistic , But I believe that is because the world is not perfect, so it needs us.你好，請問你如何看待中國未來的發(fā)展呢？

Hello, How do you see the future development of China? 每件事都會變，問題在于前進(jìn)還是后退。

Everything will change.The only question is growing up or decaying.我想借用馬云的一句話：

I would like to borrow Ma's words:(我們堅信，今天很難，明天更難，但后天終將美好)

We believe one thing，today is difficult，tomorrow is more difficult，but the day after tomorrow is beautiful。

第四篇：喬布斯斯坦福演講英文文稿

Steve Jobs’ Speech in Stanford

(This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.)I am honored to be with you today for(at)your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.Truth be told, I never graduated from college.And this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life.That's it.No big deal.Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.So why did I drop out? It started before I was born.My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We got an unexpected baby boy, do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and my father had never graduated from high school.She refused to sign the final adoption papers.She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.This was a start in my life.And 17 years later I did go to college.But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.It wasn't all romantic.I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5￠ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.I loved it.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.And we designed it all into the Mac.It was the first computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards.So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma whatever.Because believing that these dots would connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path and that will make all the difference.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life.Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20.We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.We just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.And then I got fired.How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out.When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.So at 30 I was out.And very publicly out.What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months.I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs downthese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.You are already naked.There is no reason not to follow your heart.About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer.I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas.I didn't even know what a pancreas was.The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months.My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die.It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months.It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family.It means to say your goodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all day.Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.I had the surgery and thankfully I'm fine now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades.Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:No one wants to die.Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.And yet death is the destination we all share.No one has ever escaped it.And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.It is Life's change agent.It clears out the old to make way for the new.Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become.Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation.It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch.This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras.It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along.It was idealistic and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue.It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age.On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.And I have always wished that for myself.And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry.Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.4

第五篇：璀璨蘇格蘭演講英文文稿3

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening ,ladies and gentleman.I don’t know exactly the time when you will watch this video, so, I send all greetings.Hope you can enjoy the next twenty minutes.It won’t be too boring, I promise.First, let me introduce myself.My name isHe Jiao, a freshman in the Central South University of Forestry and Technology, studying International economy and trade.The theme of my speech today is about the comparison in one specific aspect between cultures of Scotland and comtemporary China :theScottish kilt and the Chinese Chi-pao.You can see the skirt I wear today is with Scottish features.I think it’s awesome.I love it.What do you think? Actually, I truly wish I were a boy now.If so ,I can demonstrate the culture of kilt better ,worn like this.Scottish men’s wearing a kilt is the highlight.But the skirt I wear now is not the traditional kilt.A Scottish kilt has knee-deep length, collocating with a vest which has the same tone and a tweed Jacket andsilk thick stockings.A Leather skirt fastened with a wide belt hanging below a big purse.A tweed scarf hanging in the middle of the front, and sometimes bare shoulders also are disclosed an oblique plaid blanket, pinned to the left shoulder.Like this.In addition, if we look at it carefully, we can find there has a very subtle ornament—a pin in the kilt’s corner.This pin doesn’t pin two pieces of cloth together,but only one.Why？Because it justadds to the kilt’s weight,letting it droop.Thus, the skirt will not be blown uncovered.There are a variety of plaids in the Scottish kilts.But plaids are not just designed for the beauty.Each plaid represents a family name.so even if people do not know each other, they can recognize each other by the kilt.Scots are also very concerned about how to namethe kilt.The square pattern on behalf of the company and the family recorded in register is called tarten, others general square pattern are called cheque.In the 17th and 18th century ,scottish highlands had year-round endless warsbetween tribes.The men on the battlefield had to wear plaid to identify themselves, it’s just like the current “military uniform.” And now, a military band cannot play music without wearingkilt in Scotland.The British royal family also meets foreign guests with kilts.This shows the importance andthe status of the Scottish kilt.The saying “ a kilt is equal to the history of the British Empire” really has no exaggeration.By the way, in Scotland, there is a custom that men do not wear underwear with a kilt.From such an interesting story: 300 years ago, in a battle to defend the Scottish Highlands, an officer suddenly forced the soldiers to take off the kilt and underwear , wearing only a shirt to fight.Seeing this, the enemy thought they were crazy, then turned around and fled.Since then, the custom wearing a kiltwithout underwear is spreadwidely.Today, the kilt is popular everywhere ,and it wasreformed several times, becoming common in daily clothing.It also plays an increasingly important role in the fashion , and isloved by morepopular stars and designers, more frequently getting on the fashion stage.Besides, as more and more derivatives from the square pattern appear ,the plaid ,as an element ,has penetrated into a variety of costume and even architectural design.Such as plaid shirt, plaid coat,plaid bag, plaid scarf.I appreciate the kilt very much, but I didn’t find any poems about it ,so I wrote one myself.I just want to express my love of the kilt.The title is the invitation of life.The Invitation of Life

I cannot forget your passionate face ,like fire

I cannot forget your flowing emotion,like water

The rays from your square

Like light’s resplendence

Shine into my heart

You are a holy virgin

You are a flourishing blossom

You hide in the wind

And keep in the highland

I can see

Your skirt is swinging

Your color is swaying

As if you

Sent me a life invitation

Soplease come to my arms

OrLet me live in your heart

He Jiao

Thank you!Oh, how wonderful I am!the poem is great,right? Maybe I could consider to be a poet in the future, ifI cannot find any job.Just kidding.Let’s return to the subject.I really think that kilts can be included in the must-have items!Referring the must-have item, I must mention Chinese Chi-pao!Last decades, chi-pao appeared frequently in the international fashion stage, And it was the representative of nation as a kind of formal dress ,appearing in a variety of ceremonial occasions and the international communities.On the streets , we can see people wearing it as they regard it as a fashion style.First, let’s watch a video.That's so amazing!I am very fond of the Chi-pao, because its cut and design can perfectly show the shape of the curve of a woman, giving people the impression of Eastern women’s sex appeal , gentleness, decency and so on.Additionally, wearing Chi-pao can improve women’s sitting and walking temperament , shaping her into to an elegant woman.A Scottish kilt is made of pure wool, by handworkin scotland.Similarly, a Chi—pao with Chinese characteristics also has some requirements.It’s generally believed that a modern chi-pao has the following features : standing collar;waist

line;round buttons;slits in leg side.But chi—pao still has a lot of styles incollar, material, color, pattern and button.They can have many changes in details.However,the most special design with ethnic characteristics are Chinese Collarand hand-making buttons.Also worth mentioning isthe traditional Chinese Chi-pao’s pattern decoration, such as rich flowers, plum blossoms andthe floral patterns with Chinese ink paintings.All of these enrich Chinese elements ,makingchi—pao’s Chinese features more obvious.This unique design and excellent handwork gives Chi-pao more of a delicate beauty.Asthe most representative clothes of a country, kilts and chi-paos all reflectthe evolution, development and innovation of the culture.Meanwhile ,it reflects the national people’sawareness of the beauty and national people’s character.Scots are enthusiastic andlively, however, Chinese women have reserved style.Moreover,it reflects the inner spirit of a nation.Today, in the cultural exchanging world ,kilts and chi-paos are not only

belonging to their own residents, but also can be appreciated, loved and worn by people all over the world.They all have made huge contributions to the modern fashion.And it does impact every detail of our lives.This is the charm and magic of the culture!Kilts do not conflict with chi-paos , I can like both, And I do love both.I think we should treat cultural differences with a tolerant attitude and seek common ground.Under the background of globalization,the combination of different cultures is the major trend.Like a popular drinking way in China, mixing a kind ofwhiskey ,exported from Scotland ,named Chivas,with a typicalChinese drinking-tea together, I really hope that one day a piece of clothing could have both Scottish and Chinesefeatures.Maybe it could be the style of that,the upperis chi-pao, the rest is the kilt.Fashion changes fast, who knows the future.Kilts and chi-paos are just two micro shadows under Scottish and Chinese culture.I hope China and Scotland could have more and more cooperations and developments in the aspect of the culture, making more significant progress for human beings.Finally, I would like to express my love of Scotland and the yearning to study there.I very want to be a disseminator of Chinese-Scottish culture, letting people in China and Scottland understand and love each other more,Perhaps one day, I will wear a chi-pao ,sitting in the Highlands ,enjoying the bagpipes, telling the local people about Chinese history!

Thank you for listening!