时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:TED演讲国际问题篇


英语课

 Thank you so much. It's really scary to be here among the smartest of the smart. 非常感谢。站在你们这些绝顶聪明的人之间让我感到有一点可怕。


I'm here to tell you a few tales of passion. 我将会在这里讲述关于激情的故事。
There's a Jewish saying that I love. What is truer than truth? Answer: The story. 我很喜欢一句犹太谚语。比事实更为真实的是什么?答案:故事。
I'm a storyteller. I want to convey something that is truer than truth about our common humanity. 我善于讲故事。我希望能够向大家诉说比事实更为真实且有关于日常人性的故事。
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. 我对所有的故事都感兴趣,让我念念不忘,直到我的写作结束。
Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty 1, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. 总有一些特定的话题涌入我的脑海:公正,诚实,暴力,死亡,政治以及社会问题,当然也包括自由。
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. 我知道在我们周围充满了神奇,所以我写下了关于偶遇,预感,感情,梦想,自然的力量,魔术的故事。
In the last 20 years I have published a few books, but I have lived in anonymity 2 until February of 2006, 在过去的20年间我出版了一些书籍,但是直到2006年2月我的生活一直很平淡,
when I carried the Olympic flag in the Winter Olympics in Italy. That made me a celebrity 3. 那时我在意大利冬奥会上举着奥林匹克旗,这让我成为了名人。
Now people recognize me in Macy's, and my grandchildren think that I'm cool. 现在去商场也能被认出来,我的孙子们都觉得这很酷。
Allow me to tell you about my four minutes of fame. 请允许我在四分钟内讲述关于荣誉的故事。

1 loyalty
n.忠诚,忠心
  • She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
  • His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。
2 anonymity
n.the condition of being anonymous
  • Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity. 为了姓名保密,书中的人用的都是化名。
  • Our company promises to preserve the anonymity of all its clients. 我们公司承诺不公开客户的姓名。
3 celebrity
n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
  • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
  • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。
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absorption enhancement effect
acrinyl
aerospace plane
anglican churches
antimonyl mirror
apicoectomia
ass whoopings
at sb's disposition
autolatinas
azidothymidines
ball-and-socket support
Ben Wheeler
biliprotein
blind lift
bridged-T network
central control line
channel fasten assembly
Chetwynd Aston
clinical root
colpus transversalis
commander receiver of remote control
commodity products
companyon
contractor's personnel
corneocytes
cyclical deficit
de-professionalization
declined penalty
denatured alcohols
diagonal form
dk-limited sequence
double-end stud
double-wall cofferdam
dripdry
Duborimycin
efficient score
epicopeia mencia
epidnral lymph spaces
equi-orthometric surface
ethylene sulfocyanate
exacdy
feedback envelope
froth nozzle
Galderma
have the pull with someone
head-drums
headcollar
health-care assistant
heat loss through walls
high-temperature reheat pipe
honked
Kargapol'skiy Rayon
kinetic masking
lanzia huangshanica
lithium
logarithm exposure
lydiates
mail programs
malitius
mobile telemetering station
Neisser-Wechsberg's tests
nervus peroneus profundus
net interest
normal
North Magellan Rise
nose candies
obstinate as a mule
open handed
overstabilities
pacing function
peaced
Phytojacobsonia
porta arteriarum
put before
quantity controller
rectal burning
retinal cones
Reynolds alloy
Rhodymenieae
satellite telecommunication system
screwing brass
sharp-fanged
Sinospirifer(Cyrtospirifer)
skin-pass rolling
slasht
St Endellion
sudsing
sulfite oxidase
swiveling angular table
taken note
trigonum retromolare (mandibul?)
tunne
turgid cell
uncunting
upbow
velocity of escape
warfare economics
water stage register
welding settings
wilecki
Winslow Homer
Young R.