TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(1)

The language I'm speaking right now is on its way to becoming the world's universal language, for better or for worse. 我现在说的英语正逐渐变成全球通用语言，这有好处也有弊端。 Let's face it, it's the language of the intern

TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(2)

I think there are a lot of reasons, but I first want to address the one that you're probably most likely to have heard of, 我觉得理由很多，但是我首先想要弄清一个概念，可能大家也都听过， because actually it's more danger

TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(3)

So for example, let's take an English speaker. 拿一个母语是英语的人来举例。 Up on the screen, that is Bono. He speaks English. I presume he has a worldview. 这是波诺。他说英文，他有一个世界观。 Now, that is Donald Trum

TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(4)

There's an interesting illustration of this. 举一个有趣的例子。 I have to go slightly obscure, but really you should seek it out. 可能这个例子没那么直观，但是你应该可以理解。 There's a movie by the Canadian film directo

TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(5)

Second reason: it's been shown that if you speak two languages, dementia is less likely to set in, 第二个原因：有研究指出，同时讲两种语言的人更不容易痴呆， and that you are probably a better multitasker. 而且你可能更加

TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(6)

So for example, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, a book that I'm sure we all often return to, like Moby Dick. 例如，《戴帽子的猫回来了》，这本书我相信很多人还经常读，又如《白鲸记》。 One phrase in it is, Do you know

TED演讲:学习新语言的四个理由(7)

Today you can lay down -- lie on your living room floor, sipping bourbon, 如今你可以躺着，躺在卧室地板上，喝点小酒， and teach yourself any language that you want to with wonderful sets such as Rosetta Stone. 用丰富的学习材料

TED演讲：重新定义字典(4)

So -- now, when you think about this, what we have here is a ham butt problem. 所以，现在，当你想到这些，我们面对的问题其实是火腿屁股的问题。 Does everyone know the ham butt problem? 有人知道火腿屁股的问题吗？

TED演讲：内向性格的力量(1)

When I was nine years old, I went off to summer camp for the first time. 当我九岁的时候，我第一次去参加夏令营。 And my mother packed me a suitcase full of books, which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do. 我妈妈帮我

TED演讲：内向性格的力量(2)

But the first time that I took my book out of my suitcase, the coolest girl in the bunk came up to me and she asked me, 但是当我第一次把书从行李箱中拿出来的时候，床铺中最酷的那个女孩向我走了过来，并且她问我：

TED演讲：内向性格的力量(4)

But now here's where the bias comes in. 但是现在偏见出现了。 Our most important institutions, our schools and our workplaces, 我们最重要的机构，学校及职场， they are designed mostly for extroverts and for extroverts' need for

TED演讲：内向性格的力量(5)

Okay, same thing is true in our workplaces. 在职场上何尝不是如此。 Now, most of us work in open plan offices, without walls, where we are subject to the constant noise and gaze of our coworkers. 我们大多在开放的空间工作，没有隔

TED演讲：内向性格的力量(6)

Now I think at this point it's important for me to say that I actually love extroverts. 现在我必须申明，我其实非常喜欢外向的人。 I always like to say some of my best friends are extroverts, including my beloved husband. 我很多知

TED演讲：内向性格的力量(7)

Now, of course, this does not mean that we should all stop collaborating 当然了，这并不意味着我们都应该停止合作 and case in point, is Steve Wozniak famously coming together with Steve Jobs to start Apple Computer 恰当的例子呢，

TED演讲：内向性格的力量(8)

Now if all this is true, then why are we getting it so wrong? 如果这一切都是真的，我们为何错的一塌糊涂？ Why are we setting up our schools this way, and our workplaces? 我们为何把学校跟职场架设成这样？ And why are

TED演讲：内向性格的力量(9)

Now none of this is to say that social skills are unimportant, and I'm also not calling for the abolishing of teamwork at all. 我所说的完全不是指社交技能不重要，我也不是在说团队精神没有存在价值。 The same religions w

TED演讲：内向性格的力量(10)

But he also loved his congregation, 但他也很享受宗教集会， and you could feel this love in the sermons that he gave every week for the 62 years that he was a rabbi. 62年来，他每周都会在犹太教布道会上讲道。 He would takes

TED演讲：内向性格的力量(11)

And that's a lot harder for me, because as honored as I am to be here with all of you right now, this is not my natural milieu. 这不是我拿手的事情，但能站在这里向你们说话，能对在坐的各为传达我的想法，是何等荣耀的

TED演讲：内向性格的力量(12)

Okay, number two: Go to the wilderness. Be like Buddha, have your own revelations. 好的，第二，去旷野探索吧。像佛祖一样，有自己的启示。 I'm not saying that we all have to now go off and build our own cabins in the woods and

TED演讲：细菌是怎样交流的(1)

Bacteria are the oldest living organisms on the earth. 细菌是地球上最古老的生物。 They've been here for billions of years, and what they are are single-celled microscopic organisms. 它们已经存在数十亿年了，它们是单细胞微