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TED演讲:别坚持说英语

06-30

 

所有人都在拼命学英语,这究竟是为了什么?当仅有的几种语言统领全世界时,我们又会失去什么?执教30年的英语教师Patricia Ryan和我们分享了她对英语的看法——别坚持说英语。

  演讲文本(中英文)

  I know what you're thinking. You think I've lost my way, and somebody's going to come on the stage in a minute and guide me gently back to my seat. (Applause) I get that all the time in Dubai. "Here on holiday are you, dear?" (Laughter) "Come to visit the children? How long are you staying?"

  我知道你们在想什么,你们觉得我迷路了,马上就会有人走上台温和地把我带回我的座位上。(掌声)。我在迪拜总会遇上这种事。“来这里度假的吗,亲爱的?”(笑声)“来探望孩子的吗?这次要待多久呢?"

  Well actually, I hope for a while longer yet. I have been living and teaching in the Gulf for over 30 years. (Applause) And in that time, I have seen a lot of changes. Now that statistic is quite shocking. And I want to talk to you today about language loss and the globalization of English. I want to tell you about my friend who was teaching English to adults in Abu Dhabi. And one fine day, she decided to take them into the garden to teach them some nature vocabulary. But it was she who ended up learning all the Arabic words for the lo...

TED演讲:如何在社交网络溅起水花

 

这段有趣的四分钟演讲,来自 Reddit 网站创始人Alexis Ohanian。他讲了一个座头鲸在网上一夜成名的真实故事。“溅水先生”的故事是脸书时代米姆制造者和传播者共同创造的经典案例。

  演讲介绍:

  In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale's rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and marketers in the Facebook age.

  这段有趣的4分钟演讲,来自 Reddit 网站创始人 Alexis Ohanian。他讲了一个座头鲸在网上一夜成名的真实故事。“溅水先生”的故事是脸书时代米姆(小编注:根据《牛津英语词典》,meme被定义为:“文化的基本单位,通过非遗传的方式,特别是模仿而得到传递。”)制造者和传播者共同创造的经典案例。

  演讲的开头,Alexis Ohanian 介绍了“溅水先生”的故事。“绿色和平”环保组织为了阻止日本的捕鲸行为,在一只鲸鱼体内植入新片,并发起一个为这只座头鲸起名的活动。“绿色和平”组织希望起低调奢华有内涵的名字,但经过 Reddit 的宣传和推动,票数最多的却是非常不高大上的“溅水先生”这个名字。经过几番折腾,“绿色和平”接受了这个名字,并且这一行动成功阻止了日本捕鲸活动。

  演讲内容节选(Alex Ohanian 从社交网络的角度分析这个事件)

  And actually, Redditors in the Internet community were happy to participate, but they weren't whale lovers. A few of them certainly were. But we're talking about a lot of people who were just really interested and really caug...

TED演讲:走向兴盛的六大致命程序

 

  导读在过去的几个世纪中,西方国家在国家兴盛方面大显身手。历史学家尼尔·费格森问道:为何西方如此成功,而不是其它地区呢?他提出西方文化中的一系列重要思想,称之为促进财富、稳定、创新的“六大致命应用程序”。他说,在新世纪里,这些应用程序将得到共享。

  演讲文本(中英文):

  Let's talk about billions.

  我们来说说数以亿计。

  Let's talk about past and future billions.

  我们来说说过去和将来的数以亿计。

  We know that about 106 billion people have ever lived.

  众所周知在地球上生活过的人有1060亿。

  And we know that most of them are dead.

  当然大多数人已经不在人世了。

  And we also know that most of them live or lived in Asia.

  我们还知道他们大多数人生活在或曾经生活在亚洲。

  And we also know that most of them were or are very poor did not live for very long.

  我们还...

TED演讲:多国口音英语模仿秀

11-18

 

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  脱口秀演员Sarah Jones莎拉·琼斯在TED现场来了段精彩的单口秀,她惟妙惟肖地模仿了八国人说英语,惊为天人。里面包括了英式口音、美式口音、印度口音、法国口音、中式口音、阿拉伯口音、这短短的20分钟内,莎拉·琼斯好像领着你去了一次环球旅行。莎拉·琼斯一个人分别扮演了一位固执的犹太老太太、一个语速极快的多米尼加裔女大学生以及其他众多精彩角色。

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  被莎拉·琼斯模仿的八个国家和地区为:英国、纽约皇后区、澳大利亚、多米尼加、法国、德国、 印度、中国、约旦。代表了八种不同的口音:英音、美音、西班牙音、法语音、德语音、印度音、汉语音、阿拉伯音。

  当然从Sarah的本意出发,这次旅行的重点并不仅仅是口音,还有文化与交流的问题。我们生活在一个距离越来越短,联系越来越紧密的地球村里。一种语言就像是一把钥匙,打开地球另一边人们生活的大门。如果说你的语言是一个维度,它带来了一个角度,多一种语言能力就是多一个思考的维度,多了一扇看世界的窗,生活的厚度就这样叠加起来越发丰富多彩。

  以下是演讲全文:

  I should tell you that when I was asked to be here, I thought to myself that well, ...