Ted英文演講稿-Whatfearcanteachus[工作范文]

1、這些人在離家10000萬英里的地方， 離最近的陸地也 Ted 英文演講稿 ：What fear can teach us One day in 1819, 3,000 miles off the coast of Chile, in one of the most remote regions of the Pacific Ocean, 20 American sailors watched their ship flood with seawater. 1819年的某一天， 在距離智利海岸3000英里的地方， 有一個太平洋上的最偏遠(yuǎn)的水域， 20名美國船員目睹了他 們的船只進(jìn)水的場面。 Th

2、eyd been struck by a sperm whale, which had ripped a catastrophic hole in the ships hull. As their ship began to sink beneath the swells, the men huddled together in three small whaleboats. 他們和一頭抹香鯨相撞，給船體撞了 一個毀滅性的大 洞。當(dāng)船在巨浪中開始沉沒時， 人們在三條救生小艇中抱 作一團(tuán)。 These men were 10,000 miles from home, more than 1,00

3、0 miles from the nearest scrap of land. In their small boats, they carried only rudimentary navigational equipment and limited supplies of food and water. 超過1000英里。在他們的小艇中，他們只帶了 落后的導(dǎo) 航設(shè)備和有限的食物和飲水。 These were the men of the whaleship Essex, whose story would later inspire parts of Moby Dick. 他們就是捕鯨船

4、ESSEX上的人們， 后來的他們的故事 成為白鯨記的一部分。 Even in todays world, their situation would be really dire, but think about how much worse it would have been then. 即使在當(dāng)今的世界，碰上這種情況也夠杯具的，更不用 說在當(dāng)時的情況有多糟糕。 No one on land had any idea that anything had gone wrong. No search party was ing to look for these men. So most of

5、 us have never experienced a situation as frightening as the one in which these sailors found themselves, but we all know what its like to be afraid. 岸上的人根本就還沒意識到出了什么問題。 沒有任何 人來搜尋他們。我們當(dāng)中大部分人沒有經(jīng)歷過 這些船員所 處的可怕情景，但我們都知道害怕是什么感覺。 We know how fear feels, but rm not sure we spend enough time thinking about

6、what our fears mean. 我們知道恐懼的感覺， 但是我不能肯定我們會花很多 時間想過 我們的恐懼到底意味著什么 As we grow up, were often encouraged to think of fear as a weakness, just another childish thing to discard like baby teeth or roller skates. 我們長大以后，我們總是會被鼓勵把恐懼 視為軟弱， 需要像乳牙或輪滑鞋一樣 扔掉的幼稚的東西。 And I think its no accident that we think this

7、way. Neuroscientists have actually shown that human beings are hard-wired to be optimists. 我想意外事故并非我們所想的那樣。 神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)科學(xué)家 已經(jīng)知道人類生來就是樂觀主義者。 So maybe thats why we think of fear, sometimes, as a danger in and of itself. Dont worry, we like to say to one another. Dont panic. In English, fear is something we c

8、onquer. Its something we fight. 這也許就是為什么我們認(rèn)為有時候恐懼， 本身就是一 種危險或帶來危險。 “不要愁?！蔽覀兛偸菍e人說。 “不 要慌”。 英語中，恐懼是我們需要征服的東西。 是我們必 須對抗的東西，是我們必須克服的東西。 Its something we overe. But what if we looked at fear in a fresh way? What if we thought of fear as an amazing act of the imagination, something that can be as profoun

9、d and insightful as storytelling itself? 但是我們?nèi)绻麚Q個視角看恐懼會如何呢 ？如果我們把 恐懼當(dāng)做是想象力的一個驚人成果， 是和我們講故事一樣 精妙而有見地的東西，又會如何呢 ？ Its easiest to see this link between fear and the imagination in young children, whose fears are often extraordinarily vivid. 在小孩子當(dāng)中，我們最容易看到恐懼與想象之間的聯(lián) 系，他們的恐懼經(jīng)常是超級生動的。 When I was a child, I

10、lived in California, which is, you know, mostly a very nice place to live, but for me as a child, California could also be a little scary. 我小時候住在加利福尼亞， 你們都知道，是非常適合 居住的位置， 但是對一個小孩來說，加利福尼亞也會有點(diǎn) 嚇人。 I remember how frightening it was to see the chandelier that hung above our dining table swing back and f

11、orth during every minor earthquake, and I sometimes couldnt sleep at night, terrified that the Big One might strike while we were sleeping. 我記得每次小地震的時候 當(dāng)我看到我們餐桌上的吊燈 晃來晃去的時候是多么的嚇人， 我經(jīng)常會徹夜難眠，擔(dān)心 大地震 會在我們睡覺的時候突然襲來。 And what we say about kids who have fears like that is that they have a vivid imagination. But at a certain point, most of us learn to leave these kinds of visions behind and grow up. 我們說小孩子感受到這種恐懼 是因?yàn)樗麄冇猩鷦拥南?象力。但是在某個時候，我們大多數(shù)學(xué)會了 拋棄這種想法 而變得成熟。 We learn that there are no monsters hiding under the bed, and not every earthquake brings buildings down.