第一篇：ted演講稿最好的禮物

ted演講稿最好的禮物

歡迎來(lái)到聘才網(wǎng)，以下是聘才小編為大家搜索整理的，歡迎大家閱讀。ted演講稿最好的禮物

說(shuō)到“禮物”，我們往往會(huì)想到祝福、驚喜等，但是對(duì)今天這個(gè)演講的主人公來(lái)說(shuō)，到底什么才是“最好的禮物”呢?快和小E一起尋找答案吧!

Imagine, if you will, a gift請(qǐng)想象一份禮物

I'd like you to picture in your mind.請(qǐng)你們?cè)谀X海中構(gòu)想一下

It's not too big.不是很大

About the size of a golf ball.大概高爾夫球般大小

So in vision what it looks like all wrapped up.包裝好大致是這個(gè)樣子

But before I show you what's inside, I will tell you that's going to do incredible things for you.在我揭開(kāi)謎底之前，我先告訴你們這件禮物會(huì)有多么精妙的效果

It will bring all of your family together.它會(huì)使你合家團(tuán)聚

You will fell loved and appreciated like never before.你會(huì)感受到前所未有的愛(ài)與感激

And reconnect to friends and acquaintances you haven't heard from in years.與久未謀面的老友和舊識(shí)重逢

Adoration and admiration will overwhelm you.愛(ài)與贊美會(huì)充盈你身

It will recalibrate what's most important in your life.你會(huì)重新檢視何為生命中的要事

It will redefine your sense of spirituality and faith.你會(huì)重新定義自己對(duì)精神和信仰的看法

You'll have a new understanding and trust in your body.你對(duì)自己的身體也會(huì)有全新的認(rèn)識(shí)和信任

You'll have unsurpassed vitality and energy.你會(huì)擁有無(wú)與倫比的生命力和能量

You'll expand your vocabulary, meet new people, and you'll have a healthier lifestyle.你將拓展你的詞匯量，結(jié)交新的朋友，并擁有更健康的生活方式

And get this, you'll have an eight-week vacation of doing absolutely nothing.當(dāng)你得到這件禮物時(shí)，你將會(huì)有八個(gè)禮拜的假期，不需要做任何事情

You'll eat countless gourmet meals.你將享用無(wú)盡的佳肴

Flowers will arrive by the truck load.收到好幾卡車(chē)的鮮花

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

人們會(huì)對(duì)你說(shuō)：“你看起來(lái)氣色真不錯(cuò) 完成什么了嗎”

And you'll have a life-time supply of good druges.你還會(huì)得到終生的良藥供給

You'll be challenged, inspired, motivated and humbled.你會(huì)面臨挑戰(zhàn)，被啟發(fā)，被鼓舞，同時(shí)變得更謙虛

Your life will have new meaning : peace, health, serenity, happiness, nirvana.你的生命將被賦予新的意義：平和、健康、寧?kù)o、快樂(lè)，猶如涅槃

The price ?禮物的價(jià)格呢

Fifty-five thousand dollars.五萬(wàn)五千美金

And that's an incredible deal.真是樁好買(mǎi)賣(mài)

By now, I know you're dying to know what it is and where you can get one.我知道你一定迫不及待地想知道，這到底是什么，在哪里可買(mǎi)到?

Does Amazon carry it ?亞馬遜網(wǎng)站上有嗎

Does it have the Apple logo on it ?是蘋(píng)果公司的產(chǎn)品嗎

Is there a waiting list ?要排隊(duì)等貨嗎

Not likely.都不對(duì)

This gift came to me about five months ago.大概五個(gè)月前，我收到了這份禮物

And looked more like this when it was all wrapped up.包裹起來(lái)的話(huà)，大概是這個(gè)樣子

Not quite so pretty.沒(méi)那么漂亮

And this之后是這個(gè)

And then this還有這個(gè)

It was a rare jam.一個(gè)罕見(jiàn)的麻煩

A brain tumor.一顆腦瘤

Hemangioblastoma.成血管細(xì)胞瘤

The gift that keeps on giving.這禮物一直在影響著我

And while I'm ok now.現(xiàn)在我已無(wú)大礙了

I wouldn't wish this gift for you.我不希望這份禮物降臨于你

I'm not sure you'd want it.我不確定你是否想得到

But I wouldn't change my experience.但是我不渴望改變過(guò)去

It profoundly altered my life in ways it didn't expect.它突如其來(lái)地徹底改變了我的生活

In all the ways I just shared with you.帶來(lái)了以上所訴的那些改變

So next time you are faced with something that's unexpected, unwanted and uncertain,consider that it just may be a gift.所以下一次，當(dāng)你面對(duì)意料之外的、避之不及和前途未卜的事，不妨就把它看成一件禮物

你們能想象到嗎?對(duì)主人公來(lái)說(shuō)，這份“最好的禮物”竟然是一顆腦瘤!是啊，生活給你的所有，不管是幸福還是災(zāi)難，都是生命的“禮物”。所以，對(duì)待生活中出現(xiàn)的困難，不妨就真的把它看成一件禮物吧!

第二篇：ted演講稿我得到的最好的禮物

ted演講稿我得到的最好的禮物

歡迎來(lái)到聘才網(wǎng)，以下是聘才小編為大家搜索整理的，歡迎大家閱讀。

ted演講稿 我們?yōu)槭裁匆咧形?/p>

簡(jiǎn)介：一生中，我們有三分之一的時(shí)間都在睡眠中度過(guò)。關(guān)于睡眠，你又了解多少?睡眠專(zhuān)家Russell Foster為我們解答為什么要睡覺(jué)，以及睡眠對(duì)健康的影響。

What I'd like to do today is talk about one of my favorite subjects, and that is the neuroscience of sleep.Now, there is a sound--(Alarm clock)--aah, it worked--a sound that is desperately, desperately familiar to most of us, and of course it's the sound of the alarm clock.And what that truly ghastly, awful sound does is stop the single most important behavioral experience that we have, and that's sleep.If you're an average sort of person, 36 percent of your life will be spent asleep, which means that if you live to 90, then 32 years will have been spent entirely asleep.Now what that 32 years is telling us is that sleep at some level is important.And yet, for most of us, we don't give sleep a second thought.We throw it away.We really just don't think about sleep.And so what I'd like to do today is change your views, change your ideas and your thoughts about sleep.And the journey that I want to take you on, we need to start by going back in time.“Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.” Any ideas who said that? Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.Yes, let me give you a few more quotes.“O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee?” Shakespeare again, from--I won't say it--the Scottish play.(Laughter)From the same time: “Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.” Extremely prophetic, by Thomas Dekker, another Elizabethan dramatist.But if we jump forward 400 years, the tone about sleep changes somewhat.This is from Thomas Edison, from the beginning of the 20th century.“Sleep is a criminal waste of time and a heritage from our cave days.” Bang.(Laughter)And if we also jump into the 1980s, some of you may remember that Margaret Thatcher was reported to have said, “Sleep is for wimps.” And of course the infamous--what was his name?--the infamous Gordon Gekko from “Wall Street” said, “Money never sleeps.”

What do we do in the 20th century about sleep? Well, of course, we use Thomas Edison's light bulb to invade the night, and we occupied the dark, and in the process of this occupation, we've treated sleep as an illness, almost.We've treated it as an enemy.At most now, I suppose, we tolerate the need for sleep, and at worst perhaps many of us think of sleep as an illness that needs some sort of a cure.And our ignorance about sleep is really quite profound.Why is it? Why do we abandon sleep in our thoughts? Well, it's because you don't do anything much while you're asleep, it seems.You don't eat.You don't drink.And you don't have sex.Well, most of us anyway.And so therefore it's--Sorry.It's a complete waste of time, right? Wrong.Actually, sleep is an incredibly important part of our biology, and neuroscientists are beginning to explain why it's so very important.So let's move to the brain.Now, here we have a brain.This is donated by a social scientist, and they said they didn't know what it was, or indeed how to use it, so--(Laughter)Sorry.So I borrowed it.I don't think they noticed.Okay.(Laughter)

The point I'm trying to make is that when you're asleep, this thing doesn't shut down.In fact, some areas of the brain are actually more active during the sleep state than during the wake state.The other thing that's really important about sleep is that it doesn't arise from a single structure within the brain, but is to some extent a network property, and if we flip the brain on its back--I love this little bit of spinal cord here--this bit here is the hypothalamus, and right under there is a whole raft of interesting structures, not least the biological clock.The biological clock tells us when it's good to be up, when it's good to be asleep, and what that structure does is interact with a whole raft of other areas within the hypothalamus，the

lateral

hypothalamus，the ventrolateral preoptic nuclei.All of those combine, and they send projections down to the brain stem here.The brain stem then projects forward and bathes the cortex, this wonderfully wrinkly bit over here, with neurotransmitters that keep us awake and essentially provide us with our consciousness.So sleep arises from a whole raft of different interactions within the brain, and essentially, sleep is turned on and off as a result of a range of

Okay.So where have we got to? We've said that sleep is complicated and it takes 32 years of our life.But what I haven't explained is what sleep is about.So why do we sleep? And it won't surprise any of you that, of course, the scientists, we don't have a consensus.There are dozens of different ideas about why we sleep, and I'm going to outline three of those.The first is sort of the restoration idea, and it's somewhat intuitive.Essentially, all the stuff we've burned up during the day, we restore, we replace, we rebuild during the night.And indeed, as an explanation, it goes back to Aristotle, so that's, what, 2,300 years ago.It's gone in and out of fashion.It's fashionable at the moment because what's been shown is that within the brain, a whole raft of genes have been shown to be turned on only during sleep, and those genes are associated with restoration and metabolic pathways.So there's good evidence for the whole restoration hypothesis.What about energy conservation? Again, perhaps intuitive.You essentially sleep to save calories.Now, when you do the sums, though, it doesn't really pan out.If you compare an individual who has slept at night, or stayed awake and hasn't moved very much, the energy saving of sleeping is about 110 calories a night.Now, that's the equivalent of a hot dog bun.Now, I would say that a hot dog bun is kind of a meager return for such a complicated and demanding behavior as sleep.So I'm less convinced by the energy conservation idea.But the third idea I'm quite attracted to, which is brain processing and memory consolidation.What we know is that, if after you've tried to learn a task, and you sleep-deprive individuals, the ability to learn that task is smashed.It's really hugely attenuated.So sleep and memory consolidation is also very important.However, it's not just the laying down of memory and recalling it.What's turned out to be really exciting is that our ability to come up with novel solutions to complex problems is hugely enhanced by a night of sleep.In fact, it's been estimated to give us a threefold advantage.Sleeping at night enhances our creativity.And what seems to be going on is that, in the brain, those neural connections that are important, those synaptic connections that are important, are linked and strengthened, while those that are less important tend to fade away and be less important.Okay.So we've had three explanations for why we might sleep, and I think the important thing to realize is that the details will vary, and it's probable we sleep for multiple different reasons.But sleep is not an indulgence.It's not some sort of thing that we can take on board rather casually.I think that sleep was once likened to an upgrade from economy to business class, you know, the equiavlent of.It's not even an upgrade from economy to first class.The critical thing to realize is that if you don't sleep, you don't fly.Essentially, you never get there, and what's extraordinary about much of our society these days is that we are desperately sleep-deprived.So let's now look at sleep deprivation.Huge sectors of society are sleep-deprived, and let's look at our sleep-o-meter.So in the 1950s, good data suggests that most of us were getting around about eight hours of sleep a night.Nowadays, we sleep one and a half to two hours less every night, so we're in the six-and-a-half-hours-every-night

league.For teenagers, it's worse, much worse.They need nine hours for full brain performance, and many of them, on a school night, are only getting five hours of sleep.It's simply not enough.If we think about other sectors of society, the aged, if you are aged, then your ability to sleep in a single block is somewhat disrupted, and many sleep, again, less than five hours a night.Shift work.Shift work is extraordinary, perhaps 20 percent of the working population, and the body clock does not shift to the demands of working at night.It's locked onto the same light-dark cycle as the rest of us.So when the poor old shift worker is going home to try and sleep during the day, desperately tired, the body clock is saying, “Wake up.This is the time to be awake.” So the quality of sleep that you get as a night shift worker is usually very poor, again in that sort of five-hour region.And then, of course, tens of millions of people suffer from jet lag.So who here has jet lag? Well, my goodness gracious.Well, thank you very much indeed for not falling asleep, because that's what your brain is craving.One of the things that the brain does is indulge in micro-sleeps, this involuntary falling asleep, and you have essentially no control over it.Now, micro-sleeps can be sort of somewhat embarrassing, but they can also be deadly.It's been estimated that 31 percent of drivers will fall asleep at the wheel at least once in their life, and in the , the statistics are pretty good: 100,000 accidents on the freeway have been associated with tiredness, loss of vigilance, and falling asleep.A hundred thousand a year.It's extraordinary.At another level of terror, we dip into the tragic accidents at Chernobyl and indeed the space shuttle Challenger, which was so tragically lost.And in the investigations that followed those disasters, poor judgment as a result of extended shift work and loss of vigilance and tiredness was attributed to a big chunk of those disasters.So when you're tired, and you lack sleep, you have poor memory, you have poor creativity, you have increased impulsiveness, and you have overall poor judgment.But my friends, it's so much worse than that.(Laughter)

If you are a tired brain, the brain is craving things to wake it up.So drugs, stimulants.Caffeine represents the stimulant of choice across much of the Western world.Much of the day is fueled by caffeine, and if you're a really naughty tired brain, nicotine.And of course, you're fueling the waking state with these stimulants, and then of course it gets to 11 o'clock at night, and the brain says to itself, “Ah, well actually, I need to be asleep fairly shortly.What do we do about that when I'm feeling completely wired?” Well, of course, you then resort to alcohol.Now alcohol, short-term, you know, once or twice, to use to mildly sedate you, can be very useful.It can actually ease the sleep transition.But what you must be so aware of is that alcohol doesn't provide sleep, a biological mimic for sleep.It sedates you.So it actually harms some of the neural proccessing that's going on during memory consolidation and memory recall.So it's a short-term acute measure, but for goodness sake, don't become addicted to alcohol as a way of getting to sleep every night.Another connection between loss of sleep is weight gain.If you sleep around about five hours or less every night, then you have a 50 percent likelihood of being obese.What's the connection here? Well, sleep loss seems to give rise to the release of the hormone ghrelin, the hunger hormone.Ghrelin is released.It gets to the brain.The brain says, “I need carbohydrates,” and what it does is seek out carbohydrates and particularly sugars.So there's a link between tiredness and the metabolic predisposition for weight gain.Stress.Tired people are massively stressed.And one of the things of stress, of course, is loss of memory, which is what I sort of just then had a little lapse of.But stress is so much more.So if you're acutely stressed, not a great problem, but it's sustained stress associated with sleep loss that's the problem.So sustained stress leads to suppressed immunity, and so tired people tend to have higher rates of overall infection, and there's some very good studies showing that shift workers, for example, have higher rates of cancer.Increased levels of stress throw glucose into the circulation.Glucose becomes a dominant part of the vasculature and essentially you become glucose intolerant.Therefore, diabetes 2.Stress increases cardiovascular disease as a result of raising blood pressure.So there's a whole raft of things associated with sleep loss that are more than just a mildly impaired brain, which is where I think most people think that sleep loss resides.So at this point in the talk, this is a nice time to think, well, do you think on the whole I'm getting enough sleep? So a quick show of hands.Who feels that they're getting enough sleep here? Oh.Well, that's pretty impressive.Good.We'll talk more about that later, about what are your tips.So most of us, of course, ask the question, “Well, how do I know whether I'm getting enough sleep?” Well, it's not rocket science.If you need an alarm clock to get you out of bed in the morning, if you are taking a long time to get up, if you need lots of stimulants, if you're grumpy, if you're irritable, if you're told by your work colleagues that you're looking tired and irritable, chances are you are sleep-deprived.Listen to them.Listen to yourself.What do you do? Well--and this is slightly offensive--sleep for dummies: Make your bedroom a haven for sleep.The first critical thing is make it as dark as you possibly can, and also make it slightly cool.Very important.Actually, reduce your amount of light exposure at least half an hour before you go to bed.Light increases levels of alertness and will delay sleep.What's the last thing that most of us do before we go to bed? We stand in a massively lit bathroom looking into the mirror cleaning our teeth.It's the worst thing we can possibly do before we went to sleep.Turn off those mobile phones.Turn off those computers.Turn off all of those things that are also going to excite the brain.Try not to drink caffeine too late in the day, ideally not after lunch.Now, we've set about reducing light exposure before you go to bed, but light exposure in the morning is very good at setting the biological clock to the light-dark cycle.So seek out morning light.Basically, listen to yourself.Wind down.Do those sorts of things that you know are going to ease you off into the honey-heavy dew of slumber.Okay.That's some facts.What about some myths?

Teenagers are lazy.No.Poor things.They have a biological predisposition to go to bed late and get up late, so give them a break.We need eight hours of sleep a night.That's an average.Some people need more.Some people need less.And what you need to do is listen to your body.Do you need that much or do you need more? Simple as that.Old people need less sleep.Not true.The sleep demands of the aged do not go down.Essentially, sleep fragments and becomes less robust, but sleep requirements do not go down.And the fourth myth is, early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.Well that's wrong at so many different levels.(Laughter)There is no, no evidence that getting up early and going to bed early gives you more wealth at all.There's no difference in socioeconomic status.In my experience, the only difference between morning people and evening people is that those people that get up in the morning early are just horribly smug.(Laughter)(Applause)

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

had

been

reported

before anti-psychotics.So what's going on? Lots of groups, several groups are studying conditions like depression, schizophrenia and bipolar, and what's going on in terms of sleep disruption.We have a big study which we published last year on schizophrenia, and the data were quite extraordinary.In those individuals with schizophrenia, much of the time, they were awake during the night phase and then they were asleep during the day.Other groups showed no 24-hour patterns whatsoever.Their sleep was absolutely smashed.And some had no ability to regulate their sleep by the light-dark cycle.They were getting up later and later and later and later each night.It was smashed.So what's going on? And the really exciting news is that mental illness and sleep are not simply associated but they are physically linked within the brain.The neural networks that predispose you to normal sleep, give you normal sleep, and those that give you normal mental health are overlapping.And what's the evidence for that? Well, genes that have been shown to be very important in the generation of normal sleep, when mutated, when changed, also predispose individuals to mental health problems.And last year, we published a study which showed that a gene that's been linked to schizophrenia, which, when mutated, also smashes the sleep.So we have evidence of a genuine mechanistic overlap between these two important systems.Other work flowed from these studies.The first was that sleep disruption actually precedes certain types of mental illness, and we've shown that in those young individuals who are at high risk of developing bipolar disorder, they already have a sleep abnormality prior to any clinical diagnosis of bipolar.The other bit of data was that sleep disruption may actually exacerbate, make worse the mental illness state.My colleague Dan Freeman has used a range of agents which have stabilized sleep and reduced levels of paranoia in those individuals by 50 percent.So what have we got? We've got, in these connections, some really exciting things.In terms of the neuroscience, by understanding the neuroscience of these two systems, we're really beginning to understand how both sleep and mental illness are generated and regulated within the brain.The second area is that if we can use sleep and sleep disruption as an early warning signal, then we have the chance of going in.If we know that these individuals are vulnerable, early intervention then becomes possible.And the third, which I think is the most exciting, is that we can think of the sleep centers within the brain as a new therapeutic target.Stabilize sleep in those individuals who are vulnerable, we can certainly make them healthier, but also alleviate some of the appalling symptoms of mental illness.So let me just finish.What I started by saying is take sleep seriously.Our attitudes toward sleep are so very different from a pre-industrial age, when we were almost wrapped in a duvet.We used to understand intuitively the importance of sleep.And this isn't some sort of crystal-waving nonsense.This is a pragmatic response to good health.If you have good sleep, it increases your concentration, attention, decision-making, creativity, social skills, health.If you get sleep, it reduces your mood changes, your stress, your levels of anger, your impulsivity, and your tendency to drink and take drugs.And we finished by saying that an understanding of the neuroscience of sleep is really informing the way we think about some of the causes of mental illness, and indeed is providing us new ways to treat these incredibly debilitating conditions.Jim Butcher, the fantasy writer, said, “Sleep is God.Go worship.” And I can only recommend that you do the same.Thank you for your attention.(Applause)

第三篇：TED演講集：禮物

Imagine, if you will, a gift.I’d like for you to picture in your mind.It’s not too big.About the size of a golf ball.So in vision what it looks like all wrapped up.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(崇拜，崇敬)and admiration(贊美)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(生命力，活力)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(講究吃的人，食物品嘗家)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(平靜,從容), happiness, nirvana(涅磐).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.Dose 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 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.

第四篇：ted演講稿

Brian Cox: CERN's supercollider This is the Large Hadron Collider.It's 27 kilometers in circumference.It's the biggest scientific experiment ever attempted.Over 10,000 physicists and engineers from 85 countries around the world have come together over several decades to build this machine.What we do is we accelerate protons--so, hydrogen nuclei--around 99.999999 percent the speed of light.Right? At that speed, they go around that 27 kilometers 11,000 times a second.And we collide them with another beam of protons going in the opposite direction.We collide them inside giant detectors.They're essentially digital cameras.And this is the one that I work on, ATLAS.You get some sense of the size--you can just see these EU standard-size people underneath.(Laughter)You get some sense of the size: 44 meters wide, 22 meters in diameter, 7,000 tons.And we re-create the conditions that were present less than a billionth of a second after the universe began up to 600 million times a second inside that detector--immense numbers.And if you see those metal bits there--those are huge magnets that bend electrically charged particles, so it can measure how fast they're traveling.This is a picture about a year ago.Those magnets are in there.And, again, a EU standard-size, real person, so you get some sense of the scale.And it's in there that those mini-Big Bangs will be created, sometime in the summer this year.And actually, this morning, I got an email saying that we've just finished, today, building the last piece of ATLAS.So as of today, it's finished.I'd like to say that I planned that for TED, but I didn't.So it's been completed as of today.(Applause)Yeah, it's a wonderful achievement.So, you might be asking, “Why? Why create the conditions that were present less than a billionth of a second after the universe began?” Well, particle physicists are nothing if not ambitious.And the aim of particle physics is to understand what everything's made of, and how everything sticks together.And by everything I mean, of course, me and you, the Earth, the Sun, the 100 billion suns in our galaxy and the 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.Absolutely everything.Now you might say, “Well, OK, but why not just look at it? You know? If you want to know what I'm made of, let's look at me.” Well, we found that as you look back in time, the universe gets hotter and hotter, denser and denser, and simpler and simpler.Now, there's no real reason I'm aware of for that, but that seems to be the case.So, way back in the early times of the universe, we believe it was very simple and understandable.All this complexity, all the way to these wonderful things--human brains--are a property of an old and cold and complicated universe.Back at the start, in the first billionth of a second, we believe, or we've observed, it was very simple.It's almost like...imagine a snowflake in your hand, and you look at it, and it's an incredibly complicated, beautiful object.But as you heat it up, it'll melt into a pool of water, and you would be able to see that, actually, it was just made of H20, water.So it's in that same sense that we look back in time to understand what the universe is made of.And, as of today, it's made of these things.Just 12 particles of matter, stuck together by four forces of nature.The quarks, these pink things, are the things that make up protons and neutrons that make up the atomic nuclei in your body.The electron--the thing that goes around the atomic nucleus--held around in orbit, by the way, by the electromagnetic force that's carried by this thing, the photon.The quarks are stuck together by other things called gluons.And these guys, here, they're the weak nuclear force, probably the least familiar.But, without it, the sun wouldn't shine.And when the sun shines, you get copious quantities of these things, called neutrinos, pouring out.Actually, if you just look at your thumbnail--about a square centimeter--there are something like 60 billion neutrinos per second from the sun, passing through every square centimeter of your body.But you don't feel them, because the weak force is correctly named--very short range and very weak, so they just fly through you.And these particles have been discovered over the last century, pretty much.The first one, the electron, was discovered in 1897, and the last one, this thing called the tau neutrino, in the year 2000.Actually just--I was going to say, just up the road in Chicago.I know it's a big country, America, isn't it? Just up the road.Relative to the universe, it's just up the road.(Laughter)So, this thing was discovered in the year 2000, so it's a relatively recent picture.One of the wonderful things, actually, I find, is that we've discovered any of them, when you realize how tiny they are.You know, they're a step in size from the entire observable universe.So, 100 billion galaxies, 13.7 billion light years away--a step in size from that to Monterey, actually, is about the same as from Monterey to these things.Absolutely, exquisitely minute, and yet we've discovered pretty much the full set.So, one of my most illustrious forebears at Manchester University, Ernest Rutherford, discoverer of the atomic nucleus, once said, “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” Now, I don't think he meant to insult the rest of science, although he was from New Zealand, so it's possible.(Laughter)But what he meant was that what we've done, really, is stamp collect there.OK, we've discovered the particles, but unless you understand the underlying reason for that pattern--you know, why it's built the way it is--really you've done stamp collecting.You haven't done science.Fortunately, we have probably one of the greatest scientific achievements of the twentieth century that underpins that pattern.It's the Newton's laws, if you want, of particle physics.It's called the standard model--beautifully simple mathematical equation.You could stick it on the front of a T-shirt, which is always the sign of elegance.This is it.(Laughter)I've been a little disingenuous, because I've expanded it out in all its gory detail.This equation, though, allows you to calculate everything--other than gravity--that happens in the universe.So, you want to know why the sky is blue, why atomic nuclei stick together--in principle, you've got a big enough computer--why DNA is the shape it is.In principle, you should be able to calculate it from that equation.But there's a problem.Can anyone see what it is? A bottle of champagne for anyone that tells me.I'll make it easier, actually, by blowing one of the lines up.Basically, each of these terms refers to some of the particles.So those Ws there refer to the Ws, and how they stick together.These carriers of the weak force, the Zs, the same.But there's an extra symbol in this equation: H.Right, H.H stands for Higgs particle.Higgs particles have not been discovered.But they're necessary: they're necessary to make that mathematics work.So all the exquisitely detailed calculations we can do with that wonderful equation wouldn't be possible without an extra bit.So it's a prediction: a prediction of a new particle.What does it do? Well, we had a long time to come up with good analogies.And back in the 1980s, when we wanted the money for the LHC from the U.K.government, Margaret Thatcher, at the time, said, “If you guys can explain, in language a politician can understand, what the hell it is that you're doing, you can have the money.I want to know what this Higgs particle does.” And we came up with this analogy, and it seemed to work.Well, what the Higgs does is, it gives mass to the fundamental particles.And the picture is that the whole universe--and that doesn't mean just space, it means me as well, and inside you--the whole universe is full of something called a Higgs field.Higgs particles, if you will.The analogy is that these people in a room are the Higgs particles.Now when a particle moves through the universe, it can interact with these Higgs particles.But imagine someone who's not very popular moves through the room.Then everyone ignores them.They can just pass through the room very quickly, essentially at the speed of light.They're massless.And imagine someone incredibly important and popular and intelligent walks into the room.They're surrounded by people, and their passage through the room is impeded.It's almost like they get heavy.They get massive.And that's exactly the way the Higgs mechanism works.The picture is that the electrons and the quarks in your body and in the universe that we see around us are heavy, in a sense, and massive, because they're surrounded by Higgs particles.They're interacting with the Higgs field.If that picture's true, then we have to discover those Higgs particles at the LHC.If it's not true--because it's quite a convoluted mechanism, although it's the simplest we've been able to think of--then whatever does the job of the Higgs particles we know have to turn up at the LHC.So, that's one of the prime reasons we built this giant machine.I'm glad you recognize Margaret Thatcher.Actually, I thought about making it more culturally relevant, but--(Laughter)anyway.So that's one thing.That's essentially a guarantee of what the LHC will find.There are many other things.You've heard many of the big problems in particle physics.One of them you heard about: dark matter, dark energy.There's another issue, which is that the forces in nature--it's quite beautiful, actually--seem, as you go back in time, they seem to change in strength.Well, they do change in strength.So, the electromagnetic force, the force that holds us together, gets stronger as you go to higher temperatures.The strong force, the strong nuclear force, which sticks nuclei together, gets weaker.And what you see is the standard model--you can calculate how these change--is the forces, the three forces, other than gravity, almost seem to come together at one point.It's almost as if there was one beautiful kind of super-force, back at the beginning of time.But they just miss.Now there's a theory called super-symmetry, which doubles the number of particles in the standard model, which, at first sight, doesn't sound like a simplification.But actually, with this theory, we find that the forces of nature do seem to unify together, back at the Big Bang--absolutely beautiful prophecy.The model wasn't built to do that, but it seems to do it.Also, those super-symmetric particles are very strong candidates for the dark matter.So a very compelling theory that's really mainstream physics.And if I was to put money on it, I would put money on--in a very unscientific way--that that these things would also crop up at the LHC.Many other things that the LHC could discover.But in the last few minutes, I just want to give you a different perspective of what I think--what particle physics really means to me--particle physics and cosmology.And that's that I think it's given us a wonderful narrative--almost a creation story, if you'd like--about the universe, from modern science over the last few decades.And I'd say that it deserves, in the spirit of Wade Davis' talk, to be at least put up there with these wonderful creation stories of the peoples of the high Andes and the frozen north.This is a creation story, I think, equally as wonderful.The story goes like this: we know that the universe began 13.7 billion years ago, in an immensely hot, dense state, much smaller than a single atom.It began to expand about a million, billion, billion, billion billionth of a second--I think I got that right--after the Big Bang.Gravity separated away from the other forces.The universe then underwent an exponential expansion called inflation.In about the first billionth of a second or so, the Higgs field kicked in, and the quarks and the gluons and the electrons that make us up got mass.The universe continued to expand and cool.After about a few minutes, there was hydrogen and helium in the universe.That's all.The universe was about 75 percent hydrogen, 25 percent helium.It still is today.It continued to expand about 300 million years.Then light began to travel through the universe.It was big enough to be transparent to light, and that's what we see in the cosmic microwave background that George Smoot described as looking at the face of God.After about 400 million years, the first stars formed, and that hydrogen, that helium, then began to cook into the heavier elements.So the elements of life--carbon, and oxygen and iron, all the elements that we need to make us up--were cooked in those first generations of stars, which then ran out of fuel, exploded, threw those elements back into the universe.They then re-collapsed into another generation of stars and planets.And on some of those planets, the oxygen, which had been created in that first generation of stars, could fuse with hydrogen to form water, liquid water on the surface.On at least one, and maybe only one of those planets, primitive life evolved, which evolved over millions of years into things that walked upright and left footprints about three and a half million years ago in the mud flats of Tanzania, and eventually left a footprint on another world.And built this civilization, this wonderful picture, that turned the darkness into light, and you can see the civilization from space.As one of my great heroes, Carl Sagan, said, these are the things--and actually, not only these, but I was looking around--these are the things, like Saturn V rockets, and Sputnik, and DNA, and literature and science--these are the things that hydrogen atoms do when given 13.7 billion years.Absolutely remarkable.And, the laws of physics.Right? So, the right laws of physics--they're beautifully balanced.If the weak force had been a little bit different, then carbon and oxygen wouldn't be stable inside the hearts of stars, and there would be none of that in the universe.And I think that's a wonderful and significant story.50 years ago, I couldn't have told that story, because we didn't know it.It makes me really feel that that civilization--which, as I say, if you believe the scientific creation story, has emerged purely as a result of the laws of physics, and a few hydrogen atoms--then I think, to me anyway, it makes me feel incredibly valuable.So that's the LHC.The LHC is certainly, when it turns on in summer, going to write the next chapter of that book.And I'm certainly looking forward with immense excitement to it being turned on.Thanks.(Applause)

第五篇：TED演講稿

ted精彩演講：墜機(jī)讓我學(xué)到的三件事 imagine a big explosion as you climb through 3,000 ft.imagine a plane full of smoke.imagine an engine going clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack.it sounds scary.想像一個(gè)大爆炸，當(dāng)你在三千多英尺的高空；想像機(jī)艙內(nèi)布滿(mǎn)黑煙，想像引擎發(fā)出喀啦、喀啦、喀啦、喀啦、喀啦的聲響，聽(tīng)起來(lái)很可怕。well i had a unique seat that day.i was sitting in 1d.i was the only one who can talk to the flight attendants.so i looked at them right away, and they said, no problem.we probably hit some birds.the pilot had already turned the plane around, and we werent that far.you could see manhattan.那天我的位置很特別，我坐在1d，我是唯一可以和空服員說(shuō)話(huà)的人，于是我立刻看著他們，他們說(shuō)，“沒(méi)問(wèn)題，我們可能撞上鳥(niǎo)了。” 機(jī)長(zhǎng)已經(jīng)把機(jī)頭轉(zhuǎn)向，我們離目的地很近，已經(jīng)可以看到曼哈頓了。two minutes later, 3 things happened at the same time.the pilot lines up the plane with the hudson river.thats usually not the route.he turns off the engines.now imagine being in a plane with no sound.and then he says 3 words-the most unemotional 3 words ive ever heard.he says, brace for impact.兩分鐘以后，三件事情同時(shí)發(fā)生：機(jī)長(zhǎng)把飛機(jī)對(duì)齊哈德遜河，一般的航道可不是這樣。他關(guān)上引擎。想像坐在一架沒(méi)有聲音的飛機(jī)上。然后他說(shuō)了幾個(gè)字，我聽(tīng)過(guò)最不帶情緒的幾個(gè)字，他說(shuō)，“即將迫降，小心沖擊。” i didnt have to talk to the flight attendant anymore.i could see in her eyes, it was terror.life was over.我不用再問(wèn)空服員什么了。我可以在她眼神里看到恐懼，人生結(jié)束了。now i want to share with you 3 things i learned about myself that day.現(xiàn)在我想和你們分享那天我所學(xué)到的三件事。i leant that it all changes in an instant.we have this bucket list, we have these things we want to do in life, and i thought about all the people i wanted to reach out to that i didnt, all the fences i wanted to mend, all the experiences i wanted to have and i never did.as i thought about that later on, i came up with a saying, which is, collect bad wines.because if the wine is ready and the person is there, im opening it.i no longer want to postpone anything in life.and that urgency, that purpose, has really changed my life.在那一瞬間內(nèi)，一切都改變了。我們的人生目標(biāo)清單，那些我們想做的事，所有那些我想聯(lián)絡(luò)卻沒(méi)有聯(lián)絡(luò)的人，那些我想修補(bǔ)的圍墻，人際關(guān)系，所有我想經(jīng)歷卻沒(méi)有經(jīng)歷的事。之后我回想那些事，我想到一句話(huà)，那就是，“我收藏的酒都很差。” 因?yàn)槿绻埔殉墒欤窒韺?duì)象也有，我早就把把酒打開(kāi)了。我不想再把生命中的任何事延后，這種緊迫感、目標(biāo)性改變了我的生命。the second thing i learnt that dayi thought about, wow, i really feel one real regret, ive lived a good life.in my own humanity and mistaked, ive tired to get better at everything i tried.but in my humanity, i also allow my ego to get in.and i regretted the time i wasted on things that did not matter with people that matter.and i thought about my relationship with my wife, my friends, with people.and after, as i reflected on that, i decided to eliminate negative energy from my life.its not perfect, but its a lot better.ive not had a fight with my wife in 2 years.it feels great.i no longer try to be right;i choose to be happy.那天我學(xué)到的第二件事是，正當(dāng)我們通過(guò)喬治華盛頓大橋，那也沒(méi)過(guò)多久，我想，哇，我有一件真正后悔的事。雖然我有人性缺點(diǎn)，也犯了些錯(cuò)，但我生活得其實(shí)不錯(cuò)。我試著把每件事做得更好。但因?yàn)槿诵裕译y免有些自我中心，我后悔竟然花了許多時(shí)間，和生命中重要的人討論那些不重要的事。我想到我和妻子、朋友及人們的關(guān)系，之后，回想這件事時(shí)，我決定除掉我人生中的負(fù)面情緒。還沒(méi)完全做到，但確實(shí)好多了。過(guò)去兩年我從未和妻子吵架，感覺(jué)很好，我不再?lài)L試爭(zhēng)論對(duì)錯(cuò)，我選擇快樂(lè)。that sadness really framed in one thought, which is, i only wish for one thing.i only wish i could see my kids grow up.我所學(xué)到的第三件事是，當(dāng)你腦中的始終開(kāi)始倒數(shù)“15，14，13”，看到水開(kāi)始涌入，心想，“拜托爆炸吧！” 我不希望這東西碎成20片，就像紀(jì)錄片中看到的那樣。當(dāng)我們逐漸下沉，我突然感覺(jué)到，哇，死亡并不可怕，就像是我們一生一直在為此做準(zhǔn)備，但很令人悲傷。我不想就這樣離開(kāi)，我熱愛(ài)我的生命。這個(gè)悲傷的主要來(lái)源是，我只期待一件事，我只希望能看到孩子長(zhǎng)大。

about a month later, i was at a performance by my daugterand please dont-but imagine, and how would you change? what would you get done that youre waiting to get done because you think youll be here forever? how would you change your relationtships and the negative energy in them? and more than anything, are you being the best parent you can? 我鼓勵(lì)今天要坐飛機(jī)的各位，想像如果你坐的飛機(jī)出了同樣的事，最好不要－但想像一下，你會(huì)如何改變？有什么是你想做卻沒(méi)做的，因?yàn)槟阌X(jué)得你有其它機(jī)會(huì)做它？你會(huì)如何改變你的人際關(guān)系，不再如此負(fù)面？最重要的是，你是否盡力成為一個(gè)好父母？ thank you.篇二：你不必沉迷英語(yǔ) ted演講稿

我知道你們?cè)谙胧裁矗銈冇X(jué)得我迷路了，馬上就會(huì)有人走上臺(tái)溫和地把我?guī)Щ匚业淖簧稀＃ㄕ坡暎Ｎ以诘习菘倳?huì)遇上這種事。“來(lái)這里度假的嗎，親愛(ài)的？”（笑聲）“來(lái)探望孩子的嗎？這次要待多久呢？

恩，事實(shí)上，我希望能再待久一點(diǎn)。我在波斯灣這邊生活和教書(shū)已經(jīng)超過(guò)30年了。（掌聲）這段時(shí)間里，我看到了很多變化。現(xiàn)在這份數(shù)據(jù)是挺嚇人的，而我今天要和你們說(shuō)的是有關(guān)語(yǔ)言的消失和英語(yǔ)的全球化。我想和你們談?wù)勎业呐笥眩诎⒉歼_(dá)比教成人英語(yǔ)。在一個(gè)晴朗的日子里，她決定帶她的學(xué)生到花園去教他們一些大自然的詞匯。但最后卻變成是她在學(xué)習(xí)所有當(dāng)?shù)刂参镌诎⒗Z(yǔ)中是怎么說(shuō)的。還有這些植物是如何被用作藥材，化妝品，烹飪，香草。這些學(xué)生是怎么得到這些知識(shí)的呢？當(dāng)然是從他們的祖父母，甚至曾祖父母那里得來(lái)的。不需要我來(lái)告訴你們能夠跨代溝通是多么重要。but sadly, today, languages are dying at an unprecedented rate.a language dies every 14 days.now, at the same time, english is the undisputed global language.could there be a connection? well i dont know.but i do know that ive seen a lot of changes.when i first came out to the gulf, i came to kuwait in the days when it was still a hardship post.actually, not that long ago.that is a little bit too early.but nevertheless, i was recruited by the british council along with about 25 other teachers.and we were the first non-muslims to teach in the state schools there in kuwait.we were brought to teach english because the government wanted to modernize the country and empower the citizens through education.and of course, the u.k.benefited from some of that lovely oil wealth.但遺憾的是，今天很多語(yǔ)言正在以前所未有的速度消失。每14天就有一種語(yǔ)言消失，而與此同時(shí)，英語(yǔ)卻無(wú)庸置疑地成為全球性的語(yǔ)言。這其中有關(guān)聯(lián)嗎？我不知道。但我知道的是，我見(jiàn)證過(guò)許多改變。初次來(lái)到海灣地區(qū)時(shí)，我去了科威特。當(dāng)時(shí)教英文仍然是個(gè)困難的工作。其實(shí)，沒(méi)有那么久啦，這有點(diǎn)太久以前了。總之，我和其他25位老師一起被英國(guó)文化協(xié)會(huì)聘用。我們是第一批非穆斯林的老師，在科威特的國(guó)立學(xué)校任教。我們被派到那里教英語(yǔ)，是因?yàn)楫?dāng)?shù)卣Ｍ麌?guó)家可以現(xiàn)代化并透過(guò)教育提升公民的水平。當(dāng)然，英國(guó)也能得到些好處，產(chǎn)油國(guó)可是很有錢(qián)的。okay.now this is the major change that ive seen--how teaching english has morphed from being a mutually english-speaking nation on earth.and why not? after all, the best education--according to the latest world university rankings--is to be found in the universities of the u.k.and the u.s.so everybody wants to have an english education, naturally.but if youre not a native speaker, you have to pass a test.言歸正傳，我見(jiàn)過(guò)最大的改變，就是英語(yǔ)教學(xué)的蛻變?nèi)绾螐囊粋€(gè)互惠互利的行為變成今天這種大規(guī)模的國(guó)際產(chǎn)業(yè)。英語(yǔ)不再是學(xué)校課程里的外語(yǔ)學(xué)科，也不再只是英國(guó)的專(zhuān)利。英語(yǔ)（教學(xué)）已經(jīng)成為所有英語(yǔ)系國(guó)家追逐的潮流。何樂(lè)而不為呢？畢竟，最好的教育來(lái)自于最好的大學(xué)，而根據(jù)最新的世界大學(xué)排名，那些名列前茅的都是英國(guó)和美國(guó)的大學(xué)。所以自然每個(gè)人都想接受英語(yǔ)教育，但如果你不是以英文為母語(yǔ)，你就要通過(guò)考試。now can it be right to reject a student on linguistic ability well, i dont think so.we english teachers reject them all the time.we put a stop sign, and we stop them in their tracks.they cant pursue their dream any longer, till they get english.now let me put it this way, if i met a dutch speaker who had the cure for cancer, would i stop him from entering my british university? i dont think so.but indeed, that is exactly what we do.we english teachers are the gatekeepers.and you have to satisfy us first that your english is good enough.now it can be dangerous to give too much power to a narrow segment of society.maybe the barrier would be too universal.但僅憑語(yǔ)言能力就拒絕學(xué)生這樣對(duì)嗎？譬如如果你碰到一位天才計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)家，但他會(huì)需要有和律師一樣的語(yǔ)言能力嗎？我不這么認(rèn)為。但身為英語(yǔ)老師的我們，卻總是拒絕他們。我們處處設(shè)限，將學(xué)生擋在路上，使他們無(wú)法再追求自己的夢(mèng)想，直到他們通過(guò)考試。現(xiàn)在容我換一個(gè)方式說(shuō)，如果我遇到了一位只會(huì)說(shuō)荷蘭話(huà)的人，而這個(gè)人能治愈癌癥，我會(huì)阻止他進(jìn)入我的英國(guó)大學(xué)嗎？我想不會(huì)。但事實(shí)上，我們的確在做這種事。我們這些英語(yǔ)老師就是把關(guān)的。你必須先讓我們滿(mǎn)意，使我們認(rèn)定你的英文夠好。但這可能是危險(xiǎn)的。把太多的權(quán)力交由這么小的一群人把持，也許會(huì)令這種障礙太過(guò)普及。okay.but, i hear you say, what about the research? its all in english.so the books are in english, the journals are done in english, but that is a self-fulfilling.it feeds the english requirement.and so it goes on.i ask you, what happened to translation? if you think about the islamic golden age, there was lots of translation then.they translated from latin and greek into arabic, into persian, and then it was translated on into the germanic languages of europe and the romance languages.and so light shone upon the dark ages of europe.now dont get me wrong;i am not against teaching english, all you english teachers out there.i love it that we have a global language.we need one today more than ever.but i am against using it as a barrier.do we really want to end up with 600 languages and the main one being english, or chinese? we need more than that.where do we draw the line? this system equates intelligence with a knowledge of english which is quite.于是，我聽(tīng)到你們問(wèn)但是研究呢?研究報(bào)告都要用英文。”的確，研究論著和期刊都要用英文發(fā)表，但這只是一種理所當(dāng)然的現(xiàn)象。有英語(yǔ)要求，自然就有英語(yǔ)供給，然后就這么循環(huán)下去。我倒想問(wèn)問(wèn)大家，為什么不用翻譯呢？想想伊斯蘭的黃金時(shí)代，當(dāng)時(shí)翻譯盛行，人們把拉丁文和希臘文翻譯成阿拉伯文或波斯文，然后再由拉伯文或波斯文翻譯為歐洲的日耳曼語(yǔ)言以及羅曼語(yǔ)言。于是文明照亮了歐洲的黑暗時(shí)代。但不要誤會(huì)我的意思，我不是反對(duì)英語(yǔ)教學(xué)或是在座所有的英語(yǔ)老師。我很高興我們有一個(gè)全球性的語(yǔ)言，這在今日尤為重要。但我反對(duì)用英語(yǔ)設(shè)立障礙。難道我們真希望世界上只剩下600種語(yǔ)言，其中又以英文或中文為主流嗎？我們需要的不只如此。那么我們?cè)撊绾文媚竽兀窟@個(gè)體制把智能和英語(yǔ)能力畫(huà)上等號(hào)這是相當(dāng)武斷的。

and i want to remind you that the giants upon whose shoulders todays stand did not have to have english, they didnt have to pass an english test.case in point, einstein.he, by the way, was considered remedial at school because he was, in fact, dyslexic.but fortunately for the world, he did not have to pass an english test.because they didnt start until 1964 with toefl, the american test of english.now its exploded.there are lots and lots of tests of english.and millions and millions of students take these tests every year.now you might think, you and me, those fees arent bad, theyre okay, but they are prohibitive to so many millions of poor people.so immediately, were rejecting them.我想要提醒你們，扶持當(dāng)代知識(shí)分子的這些“巨人肩膀不必非得具有英文能力，他們不需要通過(guò)英語(yǔ)考試。愛(ài)因斯坦就是典型的例子。順便說(shuō)一下，他在學(xué)校還曾被認(rèn)為需要課外補(bǔ)習(xí)，因?yàn)樗鋵?shí)有閱讀障礙。但對(duì)整個(gè)世界來(lái)說(shuō),很幸運(yùn)的當(dāng)時(shí)他不需要通過(guò)英語(yǔ)考試，因?yàn)樗麄冎钡?964年才開(kāi)始使用托福。現(xiàn)在英語(yǔ)測(cè)驗(yàn)太泛濫了，有太多太多的英語(yǔ)測(cè)驗(yàn)，以及成千上萬(wàn)的學(xué)生每年都在參加這些考試。現(xiàn)在你會(huì)認(rèn)為，你和我都這么想，這些費(fèi)用不貴，價(jià)錢(qián)滿(mǎn)合理的。但是對(duì)數(shù)百萬(wàn)的窮人來(lái)說(shuō)，這些費(fèi)用高不可攀。所以，當(dāng)下我們又拒絕了他們。it brings to mind a headline i saw recently: education: the great divide.now i get it, i understand why people would focus on english.they want to give their children the best chance in life.and to do that, they need a western education.because, of course, the best jobs go to people out of the western universities, that i put on earlier.its a circular thing.這使我想起最近看到的一個(gè)新聞標(biāo)題：“教育：大鴻溝”現(xiàn)在我懂了。我了解為什么大家都重視英語(yǔ)，因?yàn)樗麄兿Ｍo孩子最好的人生機(jī)會(huì)。為了達(dá)成這目的，他們需要西方教育。畢竟，不可否認(rèn)，最好的工作都留給那些西方大學(xué)畢業(yè)出來(lái)的人。就像我之前說(shuō)的，這是一種循環(huán)。

okay.let me tell you a story about two scientists, two english scientists.they were doing an experiment to do with genetics and the forelimbs and the hind limbs of animals.but they couldnt get the results they wanted.they really didnt know what to do, until along came a german scientist who realized that they were using two words for forelimb and hind limb, whereas genetics does not differentiate and neither does german.so bingo, problem solved.if you cant think a thought, you are stuck.but if another language can think that thought, then, by cooperating, we can achieve and learn so much more.好，我跟你們說(shuō)一個(gè)關(guān)于兩位科學(xué)家的故事：有兩位英國(guó)科學(xué)家在做一項(xiàng)實(shí)驗(yàn)，是關(guān)于遺傳學(xué)的，以及動(dòng)物的前、后肢。但他們無(wú)法得到他們想要的結(jié)果。他們真的不知道該怎么辦，直到來(lái)了一位德國(guó)的科學(xué)家。他發(fā)現(xiàn)在英文里前肢和后肢是不同的二個(gè)字，但在遺傳學(xué)上沒(méi)有區(qū)別。在德語(yǔ)也是同一個(gè)字。所以，叮！問(wèn)題解決了。如果你不能想到一個(gè)念頭，你會(huì)卡在那里。但如果另一個(gè)語(yǔ)言能想到那念頭，然后通過(guò)合作我們可以達(dá)成目的，也學(xué)到更多。

我的女兒從科威特來(lái)到英格蘭，她在阿拉伯的學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)科學(xué)和數(shù)學(xué)。那是所阿拉伯中學(xué)。在學(xué)校里，她得把這些知識(shí)翻譯成英文，而她在班上卻能在這些學(xué)科上拿到最好的成績(jī)。這告訴我們，當(dāng)外籍學(xué)生來(lái)找我們，我們可能無(wú)法針對(duì)他們所知道的給予贊賞，因?yàn)槟鞘莵?lái)自于他們母語(yǔ)的知識(shí)。當(dāng)一個(gè)語(yǔ)言消失時(shí)，我們不知道還有什么也會(huì)一并失去。this is--i dont know if you saw it on cnn recently--they gave the heroes award to a young kenyan shepherd boy who couldnt study at night in his village like all the village children,篇三：世上最好的演講：ted演講吸引人的秘密 why ted talks are better than the last speech you sat through 世上最好的演講：ted演講吸引人的秘密 think about the last time you heard someone give a speech, or any formal presentation.maybe it was so long that you were either overwhelmed with data, or you just tuned the speaker out.if powerpoint was involved, each slide was probably loaded with at least 40 words or figures, and odds are that you dont remember more than a tiny bit of what they were supposed to show.回想一下你上次聆聽(tīng)某人發(fā)表演講或任何正式陳述的情形。它也許太長(zhǎng)了，以至于你被各種數(shù)據(jù)搞得頭昏腦脹，甚或干脆不理會(huì)演講者。如果演講者使用了ppt文檔，那么每張幻燈片很可能塞入了至少40個(gè)單詞或數(shù)字，但你現(xiàn)在或許只記得一丁點(diǎn)內(nèi)容。pretty uninspiring, huh? talk like ted: 9 public-speaking secrets of the worlds best mindsexamines why in prose thats as lively and appealing as, well, a ted talk.timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary in march of those now-legendary ted conferences, the book draws on current brain science to explain what wins over, and fires up, an audience--and what doesnt.author carmine gallo also studied more than 500 of the most popular ted speeches(there have been about 1,500 so far)and interviewed scores of the people who gave them.相當(dāng)平淡，是吧？《像ted那樣演講：全球頂級(jí)人才九大演講秘訣》(talk like ted: 9 public-speaking secrets of the worlds best minds)一書(shū)以流暢的文筆審視了為什么ted演講如此生動(dòng)，如此引人入勝。出版方有意安排在今年3月份發(fā)行此書(shū)，以慶賀如今已成為經(jīng)典的ted大會(huì)成立30周年。這部著作借鑒

當(dāng)代腦科學(xué)解釋了什么樣的演講能夠說(shuō)服聽(tīng)眾、鼓舞聽(tīng)眾，什么樣的演講無(wú)法產(chǎn)生這種效果。

much of what he found out is surprising.consider, for instance, the fact that each ted talk is limited to 18 minutes.that might sound too short to convey much.yet ted curator chris anderson imposed the time limit, he told gallo, because its long enough to be serious and short enough to hold peoples attention...by forcing speakers who are used to going on for 45 minutes to bring it down to 18, you get them to think about what they really want to say.its also the perfect length if you want your message to go viral, anderson says.他挖出了不少令人吃驚的演講策略。例如，每場(chǎng)ted演講都被限制在18分鐘以?xún)?nèi)。聽(tīng)起來(lái)太過(guò)短暫，似乎無(wú)法傳達(dá)足夠多訊息。然而，ted大會(huì)策辦人克里斯?安德森決議推行這項(xiàng)時(shí)間限制規(guī)則，因?yàn)椤斑@個(gè)時(shí)間長(zhǎng)度足夠莊重，同時(shí)又足夠短，能夠吸引人們的注意力。通過(guò)迫使那些習(xí)慣于滔滔不絕講上45分鐘的嘉賓把演講時(shí)間壓縮至18分鐘，你就可以讓他們認(rèn)真思考他們真正想說(shuō)的話(huà)，”他對(duì)加洛說(shuō)。此外，安德森說(shuō)，如果你希望你的訊息像病毒般擴(kuò)散，這也是一個(gè)完美的時(shí)間長(zhǎng)度。recent neuroscience shows why the time limit works so well: people listening to a presentation are storing data for retrieval in the future, and too much information leads to cognitive overload, which gives rise to elevated levels of anxiety--meaning that, if you go on and on, your audience will start to resist you.even worse, they wont recall a single point you were trying to make.最近的神經(jīng)科學(xué)研究說(shuō)明了為什么這項(xiàng)時(shí)間限制產(chǎn)生如此好的效果：聆聽(tīng)陳述的人們往往會(huì)存儲(chǔ)相關(guān)數(shù)據(jù)，以備未來(lái)檢索之用，而太多的信息會(huì)導(dǎo)致“認(rèn)知超負(fù)荷”，進(jìn)而推升聽(tīng)眾的焦慮度。它意味著，如果你說(shuō)個(gè)沒(méi)完沒(méi)了，聽(tīng)眾就會(huì)開(kāi)始抗拒你。更糟糕的是，他們不會(huì)記得你努力希望傳遞的信息點(diǎn)，甚至可能一個(gè)都記不住。

如何把一個(gè)復(fù)雜的陳述壓縮至18分鐘左右？加洛就這個(gè)問(wèn)題提供了一些小建議，其中包括他所稱(chēng)的“三的法則”。具體說(shuō)就是，把大量觀(guān)點(diǎn)高度濃縮為三大要點(diǎn)。ted大會(huì)上的許多演講高手就是這樣做的。他還指出，即使一篇演講無(wú)法提煉到這樣的程度，單是這番努力也一定能改善演講的效果：“僅僅通過(guò)這番提煉，你就可以大大增強(qiáng)陳述的創(chuàng)造性和影響力。” then theres powerpoint.ted represents the end of powerpoint as we know it, writes gallo.he hastens to add that theres nothing wrong with powerpoint as a tool, but that most speakers unwittingly make it work against them by cluttering up their slides with way too many words(40, on average)and numbers.另一個(gè)建議與ppt文檔有關(guān)。“ted大會(huì)象征著我們所知的ppt文檔正走向終結(jié)，”加洛寫(xiě)道。他隨后又馬上補(bǔ)充說(shuō)，作為工具的powerpoint本身并沒(méi)有什么錯(cuò)，但大多數(shù)演講者為他們的幻燈片塞進(jìn)了太多的單詞（平均40個(gè)）和數(shù)字，讓這種工具不經(jīng)意間帶來(lái)了消極影響。the remedy for that, based on the most riveting ted talks: if you must use slides, fill them with a lot more images.once again, research backs this up, with something academics call the picture superiority effect: three days after hearing or reading a set of facts, most people will remember about 10% of the information.add a photo or a drawing, and recall jumps to 65%.最吸引人的ted演講為我們提供了一個(gè)補(bǔ)救策略：如果你必須使用幻燈片，務(wù)必記得要大量運(yùn)用圖像資源。這種做法同樣有科學(xué)依據(jù)，它就是研究人員所稱(chēng)的“圖優(yōu)效應(yīng)”(picture superiority effect)：聽(tīng)到或讀到一組事實(shí)三天后，大多數(shù)人會(huì)記得大約10%的信息。而添加一張照片或圖片后，記憶率將躍升至65%。one study, by molecular biologist john medina at the university of washington school of medicine, found that not only could people recall more than 2,500 pictures with at least 90% accuracy several days later, but accuracy a whole year afterward was still at about 63%.華盛頓大學(xué)醫(yī)學(xué)院(university of washington school of medicine)分子生物學(xué)家約翰?梅迪納主持的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，幾天后，人們能夠回想起超過(guò)2,500張圖片，準(zhǔn)確率至少達(dá)到90%；一年后的準(zhǔn)確率依然保持在63%左右。that result demolishes print and speech, both of which were tested on the same group of subjects, medinas study indicated, which is something worth bearing in mind for anybody hoping that his or her ideas will be remembered.梅迪納的研究表明，這個(gè)結(jié)果“完勝”印刷品和演講的記憶效果（由同一組受試者測(cè)試）。任何一位希望自己的思想被聽(tīng)眾銘記在心的演講者或許都應(yīng)該記住這一點(diǎn)。篇四：ted演講稿

我是個(gè)說(shuō)書(shū)之人。在這里，我想和大家分享一些我本人的故事。一些關(guān)于所謂的“單一故事的危險(xiǎn)性”的經(jīng)歷。我成長(zhǎng)在尼日利亞?wèn)|部的一所大學(xué)校園里。我母親常說(shuō)我從兩歲起就開(kāi)始讀書(shū)。不過(guò)我認(rèn)為“四歲起”比較接近事實(shí)。所以我從小就開(kāi)始讀書(shū)，讀的是英國(guó)和美國(guó)的兒童書(shū)籍。

我也是從小就開(kāi)始寫(xiě)作，當(dāng)我在七歲那年，開(kāi)始強(qiáng)迫我可憐的母親閱讀我用鉛筆寫(xiě)好的故事，外加上蠟筆描繪的插圖時(shí)，我所寫(xiě)的故事正如我所讀的故事那般，我故事里的人物們都是白皮膚、藍(lán)眼睛的。常在雪中嬉戲，吃著蘋(píng)果。而且他們經(jīng)常討論天氣，討論太陽(yáng)出來(lái)時(shí)，一切都多么美好。我一直寫(xiě)著這樣故事，雖然說(shuō)我當(dāng)時(shí)住在尼日利亞，并且從來(lái)沒(méi)有出過(guò)國(guó)。雖然說(shuō)我們從來(lái)沒(méi)見(jiàn)過(guò)雪，雖然說(shuō)我們實(shí)際上只能吃到芒果；雖然說(shuō)我們從不討論天氣，因?yàn)楦緵](méi)這個(gè)必要。

我故事里的人物們也常喝姜汁啤酒，因?yàn)槲宜x的那些英國(guó)書(shū)中的人物們常喝姜汁啤酒。雖然說(shuō)我當(dāng)時(shí)完全不知道姜汁啤酒是什么東西。時(shí)隔多年，我一直都懷揣著一個(gè)深切的渴望，想嘗嘗姜汁啤酒的味道。不過(guò)這要另當(dāng)別論了。這一切所表明的，正是在一個(gè)個(gè)的故事面前，我們是何等的脆弱，何等的易受影響，尤其當(dāng)我們還是孩子的時(shí)候，因?yàn)槲耶?dāng)時(shí)讀的所有書(shū)中只有外國(guó)人物，我因而堅(jiān)信：書(shū)要想被稱(chēng)為書(shū)，就必須有外國(guó)人在里面，就必須是關(guān)于我無(wú)法親身體驗(yàn)的事情，而這一切都在我接觸了非洲書(shū)籍之后發(fā)生了改變。當(dāng)時(shí)非洲書(shū)并不多，而且他們也不像國(guó)外書(shū)籍那樣好找。不過(guò)因?yàn)椋『停≈?lèi)的作家，我思維中對(duì)于文學(xué)的概念，產(chǎn)生了質(zhì)的改變。我意識(shí)到像我這樣的人---有著巧克力般的膚色和永遠(yuǎn)無(wú)法梳成馬尾辮的卷曲頭發(fā)的女孩們，也可以出現(xiàn)在文學(xué)作品中。

我開(kāi)始撰寫(xiě)我所熟知的事物，但這并不是說(shuō)我不喜愛(ài)那些美國(guó)和英國(guó)書(shū)籍，恰恰相反，那些書(shū)籍激發(fā)了我的想象力，為我開(kāi)啟了新的世界。但隨之而來(lái)的后果就是，我不知道原來(lái)像我這樣的人，也是可以存在于文學(xué)作品中的，而與非洲作家的結(jié)緣，則是將我從對(duì)于書(shū)籍的單一故事中拯救了出來(lái)。

我來(lái)自一個(gè)傳統(tǒng)的尼日利亞中產(chǎn)家庭，我的父親是一名教授，我的母親是一名大學(xué)管理員。因此我們和很多其他家庭一樣，都會(huì)從附近的村莊中雇傭一些幫手來(lái)打理家事。在我八歲那一年，我們家招來(lái)了一位新的男仆。他的名字叫做fide.我父親只告訴我們說(shuō)，他是來(lái)自一個(gè)非常窮苦的家庭，我母親會(huì)時(shí)不時(shí)的將山芋、大米，還有我們穿舊的衣服送到他的家里。每當(dāng)我剩下晚飯的時(shí)候，我的母親就會(huì)說(shuō)：吃?xún)裟愕氖澄铮‰y道你不知道嗎？像fide家這樣的人可是一無(wú)所有。因此我對(duì)他們家人充滿(mǎn)了憐憫。

后來(lái)的一個(gè)星期六，我們?nèi)ide的村莊拜訪(fǎng)，他的母親向我們展示了一個(gè)精美別致的草籃----用fide的哥哥用染過(guò)色的酒椰葉編制的。我當(dāng)時(shí)完全被震驚了。我從來(lái)沒(méi)有想過(guò)fide的家人居然有親手制造東西的才能。在那之前，我對(duì)fide家唯一的了解就是他們是何等的窮困，正因?yàn)槿绱耍麄冊(cè)谖夷X中的印象只是一個(gè)字------“窮”。他們的貧窮是我賜予他們的單一故事。

多年以后，在我離開(kāi)尼日利亞前往美國(guó)讀大學(xué)的時(shí)候，我又想到了這件事。我那時(shí)19歲，我的美國(guó)室友當(dāng)時(shí)完全對(duì)我感到十分驚訝了。他問(wèn)我是從哪里學(xué)的講一口如此流利的英語(yǔ)，而當(dāng)我告知她尼日利亞剛巧是以英語(yǔ)作為官方語(yǔ)言的時(shí)候，她的臉上則是寫(xiě)滿(mǎn)了茫然。她問(wèn)我是否可以給她聽(tīng)聽(tīng)她所謂的“部落音樂(lè)”，可想而知，當(dāng)我拿出瑪麗亞凱莉的磁帶時(shí)，她是何等的失望，她斷定我不知道如何使用電爐。

我猛然意識(shí)到“在他見(jiàn)到我之前，她就已經(jīng)對(duì)我充滿(mǎn)了憐憫之心。她對(duì)我這個(gè)非洲人的預(yù)設(shè)心態(tài)是一種充滿(mǎn)施恩與好意的憐憫之情。我那位室友的腦中有一個(gè)關(guān)于非洲的單一故事。一個(gè)充滿(mǎn)了災(zāi)難的單一故事。在這個(gè)單一的故事中，非洲人是完全沒(méi)有可能在任何方面和她有所相似的；沒(méi)有可能接收到比憐憫更復(fù)雜的感情；沒(méi)有可能以一個(gè)平等的人類(lèi)的身份與她

溝通。

我不得不強(qiáng)調(diào)，在我前往美國(guó)之前，我從來(lái)沒(méi)有有意識(shí)的把自己當(dāng)做個(gè)非洲人。但在美國(guó)的時(shí)候，每當(dāng)人們提到”非洲“時(shí)，大家都會(huì)轉(zhuǎn)向我，雖然我對(duì)納米比亞之類(lèi)的地方一無(wú)所知。但我漸漸的開(kāi)始接受這個(gè)新的身份，現(xiàn)在很多時(shí)候我都是把自己當(dāng)做一個(gè)非洲人來(lái)看待。不過(guò)當(dāng)人們把非洲當(dāng)做一個(gè)國(guó)家來(lái)討論的時(shí)候，我還是覺(jué)得挺反感的。最近的一次例子就發(fā)生在兩天前，我從拉各斯搭乘航班，旅程原本相當(dāng)愉快，直到廣播里開(kāi)始介紹在”印度、非洲以及其他國(guó)家”所進(jìn)行的慈善事業(yè)。

當(dāng)我以一名非洲人的身份在美國(guó)讀過(guò)幾年之后，我開(kāi)始理解我那位室友當(dāng)時(shí)對(duì)我的反應(yīng)。如果我不是在尼日利亞長(zhǎng)大，如果我對(duì)非洲的一切認(rèn)識(shí)都是來(lái)自于大眾流行的影像，我相信我眼中的非洲也同樣是充滿(mǎn)了美麗的地貌、美麗的動(dòng)物，以及一群難以理解的人們進(jìn)行著毫無(wú)意義的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)、死于艾滋和貧窮、無(wú)法為自己辯護(hù)，并且等待著一位慈悲的、白種的外國(guó)人的救贖，我看待非洲的方式將會(huì)和我兒時(shí)看待fide一家的方式是一樣的。

我認(rèn)為關(guān)于非洲的這個(gè)單一故事從根本上來(lái)自于西方的文學(xué)。這是來(lái)自倫敦商人john locke的一段話(huà)。他在1561年的時(shí)候，曾游歷非洲西部，并且為他的航行做了翻很有趣的記錄。他先是把黑色的非洲人稱(chēng)為“沒(méi)有房子的野獸”，隨后又寫(xiě)道：“他們也是一群無(wú)頭腦的人，他們的嘴和眼睛都長(zhǎng)在了他們的胸口上。”

我每次讀到這一段的時(shí)候，都不禁大笑起來(lái)。他的想象力真的是讓人敬佩。但關(guān)于他的作品極其重要的一點(diǎn)是它昭示著西方社會(huì)講述非洲故事的一個(gè)傳統(tǒng)，在這個(gè)傳統(tǒng)中，撒哈拉以南的非洲充滿(mǎn)了消極、差異以及黑暗，是偉大的詩(shī)人rudyard kipling筆下所形容的“半惡魔、半孩童”的奇異人種。

正因?yàn)槿绱耍议_(kāi)始意識(shí)到我的那位美國(guó)室友一定在她的成長(zhǎng)過(guò)程中，看到并且聽(tīng)過(guò)關(guān)于這個(gè)單一故事的不同版本，就如同之前一位曾經(jīng)批判我的小說(shuō)缺乏“真實(shí)的非洲感”的教授一樣。話(huà)說(shuō)我倒是甘愿承認(rèn)我的小說(shuō)有幾處寫(xiě)的不好的地方，有幾處敗筆，但我很難想象我的小說(shuō)既然會(huì)缺乏“真實(shí)的非洲感”。事實(shí)上，我甚至不知道真實(shí)的非洲感到底是個(gè)什么東西。那位教授跟我說(shuō)我書(shū)中的人物都和他太相近了，都是受過(guò)教育的中產(chǎn)人物。我的人物會(huì)開(kāi)車(chē)，他們沒(méi)有受到饑餓的困擾。正因此，他們?nèi)狈α苏鎸?shí)的非洲感。

我在這里不得不指出，我本人也常常被單一的故事蒙蔽雙眼。幾年前，我從美國(guó)探訪(fǎng)墨西哥，當(dāng)時(shí)美國(guó)的政治氣候比較緊張。關(guān)于移民的辯論一直在進(jìn)行著。而在美國(guó)，“移民”和“墨西哥人”常常被當(dāng)做同義詞來(lái)使用。關(guān)于墨西哥人的故事是源源不絕，講的都是欺詐醫(yī)療系統(tǒng)、偷渡邊境、在邊境被捕之類(lèi)的事情。

我還記得當(dāng)我到達(dá)瓜達(dá)拉哈拉的第一天，看著人們前往工作，在市集上吃著墨西哥卷、抽著煙、大笑著，我記得我剛看到這一切時(shí)是何等的驚訝，但隨后我的心中便充滿(mǎn)了羞恥感。我意識(shí)到我當(dāng)時(shí)完全被沉浸在媒體上關(guān)于墨西哥人的報(bào)道，以致于他們?cè)谖业哪X中幻化成一個(gè)單一的個(gè)體---卑賤的移民。我完全相信了關(guān)于墨西哥人的單一故事，對(duì)此我感到無(wú)比的羞愧。這就是創(chuàng)造單一故事的過(guò)程，將一群人一遍又一遍地呈現(xiàn)為一個(gè)事物，并且只是一個(gè)事物，時(shí)間久了，他們就變成了那個(gè)事物。

而說(shuō)到單一的故事，就自然而然地要講到權(quán)力這個(gè)問(wèn)題。每當(dāng)我想到這個(gè)世界的權(quán)力結(jié)構(gòu)的時(shí)候，我都會(huì)想起一個(gè)伊傅語(yǔ)中的單詞，叫做“nkali”,它是一個(gè)名詞，可以在大意上被翻譯成”比另一個(gè)人強(qiáng)大。”就如同我們的經(jīng)濟(jì)和政治界一樣，我們所講的故事也是建立在它的原則上的。這些故事是怎樣被講述的、由誰(shuí)來(lái)講述、何時(shí)被講述、有多少故事被講述，這一切都取決于權(quán)力。篇五：ted演講的十條黃金法則

如何登上ted演講舞臺(tái)——ted演講的十條黃金法則、導(dǎo)讀：如果你喜歡ted，甚至夢(mèng)想，有一天自己也站在ted的舞臺(tái)上做一個(gè)演講，本文將介紹著名的ted演講十個(gè)黃金法則，請(qǐng)往下看吧~~ 如果你喜歡ted，觀(guān)看了ted的演講視頻，感到激動(dòng)不已，甚至夢(mèng)想，有一天自己也站在ted的舞臺(tái)上做一個(gè)演講，分享你的精彩創(chuàng)意想法和精彩故事！這太好了，這種熱情的向往，是通往ted講臺(tái)之路的最大動(dòng)力。除此之外還需要了解一些演講技巧。these 10 tips are the heart of a great ted talk.1.dream big.strive to create the best talk you have ever given.reveal something never seen before.do something the audience will remember forever.share an idea that could change the world.給自己一個(gè)高目標(biāo)，要把這個(gè)演講做成你最成功的一個(gè)演講。你可以向觀(guān)眾展示某些未曾公開(kāi)展示的東西或做出能夠讓觀(guān)眾留下深刻印象的事情。分享一個(gè)有可能改變世界的想法。2.show us the real you.share your passions, your dreams...and also your fears.be vulnerable.speak of failure as well as success.展示一個(gè)最真實(shí)的你。分享你的激情、夢(mèng)想，乃至恐懼。不要把自己當(dāng)成是完美無(wú)缺的，你可以講成功的故事，也可以講失敗的故事。4.connect with peoples emotions.make us laugh!make us cry!要說(shuō)得動(dòng)人一點(diǎn)，使得觀(guān)眾聽(tīng)了會(huì)發(fā)出由衷的微笑或感動(dòng)到禁不住要哭泣。5.dont flaunt your ego.dont boast.it’s the surest way to switch everyone off.不要自吹自擂。那樣做的話(huà)，最容易嚇跑觀(guān)眾。

臺(tái)上不能推銷(xiāo)！除非事先有通知，否則不可談?wù)撃愕墓净蚪M織。更別指望在臺(tái)上展示你的產(chǎn)品。

要給其他演講嘉賓一定的回應(yīng)，可以贊可以彈。意見(jiàn)之對(duì)立才會(huì)擦出思維之火火嘛。激情的參與本身的力量就是這么強(qiáng)大的。8.if possible, dont read your talk.notes are fine.but if the choice is between reading or rambling, then read!除非萬(wàn)不得已，否則不要照著講稿閱讀。當(dāng)然可以看自己寫(xiě)的小紙片。但假如不看講稿你會(huì)表述得含糊不清的話(huà)，那還是看著稿子講吧。9.you must end your talk on time.doing otherwise is to steal time from the people that follow you.we won’t allow it.必須在規(guī)定的時(shí)間內(nèi)說(shuō)完。因?yàn)槌瑫r(shí)就意味著剝奪了其他人的時(shí)間。這是不允許的。10.rehearse your talk in front of a trusted friend...for timing, for clarity, for impact.為了保證演講準(zhǔn)時(shí)、清晰、高質(zhì)量，我們希望你提前跟朋友一起做試講。關(guān)于ted ted于1984年由理查德·溫曼和哈里·馬克思共同創(chuàng)辦，從1990年開(kāi)始每年在美國(guó)加州的蒙特利舉辦一次，而如今，在世界的其他城市也會(huì)每半年舉辦一次。

它邀請(qǐng)世界上的思想領(lǐng)袖與實(shí)干家來(lái)分享他們最熱衷從事的事業(yè)。“ted”由“科技”、“娛樂(lè)”以及“設(shè)計(jì)”三個(gè)英文單詞首字母組成，這三個(gè)廣泛的領(lǐng)域共同塑造著我們的未來(lái)。事實(shí)上，這場(chǎng)盛會(huì)涉及的領(lǐng)域還在不斷擴(kuò)展，展現(xiàn)著涉及幾乎各個(gè)領(lǐng)域的各種見(jiàn)解。參加者們稱(chēng)它為 “超級(jí)大腦spa”和“四日游未來(lái)”。

大會(huì)觀(guān)眾往往是企業(yè)的ceo、科學(xué)家、創(chuàng)造者、慈善家等等，他們幾乎和演講嘉賓一樣優(yōu)秀。比爾·克林頓、比爾·蓋茨、維基百科創(chuàng)始人吉米·威爾斯、dna結(jié)構(gòu)的發(fā)現(xiàn)者詹姆斯·華森、google創(chuàng)辦人、英國(guó)動(dòng)物學(xué)家珍妮·古道爾、美國(guó)建筑大師弗蘭克·蓋里、歌手保羅·西蒙、維珍品牌創(chuàng)始人理查德·布蘭森爵士、國(guó)際設(shè)計(jì)大師菲利普·斯達(dá)克以及u2樂(lè)隊(duì)主唱bono都曾經(jīng)擔(dān)任過(guò)演講嘉賓。

大凡有機(jī)會(huì)來(lái)到ted大會(huì)現(xiàn)場(chǎng)作演講的均有非同尋常的經(jīng)歷，他們要么是某一領(lǐng)域的佼佼者，要么是某一新興領(lǐng)域的開(kāi)創(chuàng)人，要么是做出了某些足以給社會(huì)帶來(lái)改觀(guān)的創(chuàng)舉。比如人類(lèi)基因組研究領(lǐng)域的領(lǐng)軍人物craig venter，“給每位孩子一百美元筆記本電腦”項(xiàng)目的創(chuàng)建人 nicholas negroponte，只身滑到北極的第一人 ben saunders，當(dāng)代杰出的語(yǔ)言學(xué)家

steven pinker??至于像 al gore 那樣的明星就更是ted大會(huì)之常客了。每一個(gè)ted 演講的時(shí)間通常都是18分鐘以?xún)?nèi)，但是，由于演講者對(duì)于自己所從事的事業(yè)有一種深深的熱愛(ài)，他們的演講也往往最能打動(dòng)聽(tīng)者的心，并引起人們的思考與進(jìn)一步探索。