vitasoyted英语演讲稿

2021年1月22日发(作者：水牛儿)
ted
英语演讲稿


【篇一：你不必沉迷英语
ted
演讲稿】

i know what youre thinking. you think ive lost my way, and
somebodys 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 local plants, as well as
their uses -- medicinal uses, cosmetics, cooking, herbal. how
did those students get all that knowledge? of course, from
their grandparents and even their great-grandparents. its not
necessary to tell you how important it is to be able to
communicate across generations.


恩 ，事实上，我希望能再待久一点。我在波斯湾这边生活和教书已
经超过
30
年了。（掌 声）这段时间里，我看到了很多变化。现在这
份数据是挺吓人的，而我今天要和你们说的是有关语言的消 失和英
语的全球化。我想和你们谈谈我的朋友，她在阿布达比教成人英语。
在一个晴朗的日子里 ，她决定带她的学生到花园去教他们一些大自
然的词汇。但最后却变成是她在学习所有当地植物在阿拉伯 语中是
怎么说的。还有这些植物是如何被用作药材，化妆品，烹饪，香草。
这些学生是怎么得到 这些知识的呢？当然是从他们的祖父母，甚至
曾祖父母那里得来的。不需要我来告诉你们能够跨代沟通是 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.
但遗憾的是，今天很多语言正在以前所未有的速度消失。每< br>14
天就
有一种语言消失，而与此同时，英语却无庸置疑地成为全球性的语
言。 这其中有关联吗？我不知道。但我知道的是，我见证过许多改
变。初次来到海湾地区时，我去了科威特。 当时教英文仍然是个困
难的工作。其实，没有那么久啦，这有点太久以前了。总之，我和
其他< br>25
位老师一起被英国文化协会聘用。我们是第一批非穆斯林的
老师，在科威特的国立学 校任教。我们被派到那里教英语，是因为
当地政府希望国家可以现代化并透过教育提升公民的水平。当然 ，
英国也能得到些好处，产油国可是很有钱的。

okay. now this is the major change that ive seen -- how
teaching english has morphed from being a mutually

beneficial practice to becoming a massive international

business that it is today. no longer just a foreign language on
the school curriculum. and no longer the sole domain of
mother england. it has become a bandwagon for every

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.


言归正传，我见过 最大的改变，就是英语教学的蜕变如何从一个互
惠互利的行为变成今天这种大规模的国际产业。英语不再 是学校课
程里的外语学科，也不再只是英国的专利。英语（教学）已经成为
所有英语系国家追逐 的潮流。何乐而不为呢？毕竟，最好的教育来
自于最好的大学，而根据最新的世界大学排名，那些名列前 茅的都
是英国和美国的大学。所以自然每个人都想接受英语教育，但如果
你不是以英文为母语， 你就要通过考试。

now can it be right to reject a student on linguistic ability

alone? perhaps you have a computer scientist whos a genius.
would he need the same language as a lawyer, for example?

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.


但仅凭语言能力就拒绝学生这样对吗？譬如如果你碰到一位 天才计
算机科学家，但他会需要有和律师一样的语言能力吗？我不这么认
为。但身为英语老师的 我们，却总是拒绝他们。我们处处设限，将
学生挡在路上，使他们无法再追求自己的梦想，直到他们通过 考试。
现在容我换一个方式说，如果我遇到了一位只会说荷兰话的人，而
这个人能治愈癌症，我 会阻止他进入我的英国大学吗？我想不会。
但事实上，我们的确在做这种事。我们这些英语老师就是把关 的。
你必须先让我们满意，使我们认定你的英文够好。但这可能是危险
的。把太多的权力交由这 么小的一群人把持，也许会令这种障碍太
过普及。

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，我听到你们问但是研究呢
?
研究报告都要用英文。
”
的确，研
究论著和期刊都要用英文发表，但这只是一种理所当然的现象。有
英语要求，自然就有英语供给，然后就 这么循环下去。我倒想问问
大家，为什么不用翻译呢？想想伊斯兰的黄金时代，当时翻译盛行，
人们把拉丁文和希腊文翻译成阿拉伯文或波斯文，然后再由拉伯文
或波斯文翻译为欧洲的日耳曼语言以及 罗曼语言。于是文明照亮了
欧洲的黑暗时代。但不要误会我的意思，我不是反对英语教学或是
在 座所有的英语老师。我很高兴我们有一个全球性的语言，这在今
日尤为重要。但我反对用英语设立障碍。 难道我们真希望世界上只
剩下
600
种语言，其中又以英文或中文为主流吗？我们需要 的不只
如此。那么我们该如何拿捏呢？这个体制把智能和英语能力画上等
号这是相当武断的。< br>
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.


我想要提醒你们，扶持当代知识分子的这些
“
巨人肩 膀不必非得具有
英文能力，他们不需要通过英语考试。爱因斯坦就是典型的例子。
顺便说一下， 他在学校还曾被认为需要课外补习，因为他其实有阅
读障碍。但对整个世界来说
,
很幸 运的当时他不需要通过英语考试，
因为他们直到
1964
年才开始使用托福。现在英语 测验太泛滥了，有
太多太多的英语测验，以及成千上万的学生每年都在参加这些考试。
现在你会 认为，你和我都这么想，这些费用不贵，价钱满合理的。
但是对数百万的穷人来说，这些费用高不可攀。 所以，当下我们又
拒绝了他们。
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.

这使我想起最近看到的一 个新闻标题：
“
教育：大鸿沟
”
现在我懂了。
我了解为什么大家都重 视英语，因为他们希望给孩子最好的人生机
会。为了达成这目的，他们需要西方教育。毕竟，不可否认， 最好
的工作都留给那些西方大学毕业出来的人。就像我之前说的，这是
一种循环。

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，我跟你们说一个关于两位科学家的故事：有两 位英国科学家在
做一项实验，是关于遗传学的，以及动物的前、后肢。但他们无法
得到他们想要 的结果。他们真的不知道该怎么办，直到来了一位德
国的科学家。他发现在英文里前肢和后肢是不同的二 个字，但在遗
传学上没有区别。在德语也是同一个字。所以，叮！问题解决了。
如果你不能想到 一个念头，你会卡在那里。但如果另一个语言能想
到那念头，然后通过合作我们可以达成目的，也学到更 多。

my daughter, came to england from kuwait. she had studied
science and mathematics in arabic. its an arabic medium
school. she had to translate it into english at her grammar
school. and she was the best in the class at those subjects.
which tells us that, when students come to us from abroad, we
may not be giving them enough credit for what they know, and
they know it in their own language. when a language dies, we
dont know what we lose with that language.


我的女儿 从科威特来到英格兰，她在阿拉伯的学校学习科学和数学。
那是所阿拉伯中学。在学校里，她得把这些知 识翻译成英文，而她
在班上却能在这些学科上拿到最好的成绩。这告诉我们，当外籍学
生来找我 们，我们可能无法针对他们所知道的给予赞赏，因为那是
来自于他们母语的知识。当一个语言消失时，我 们不知道还有什么
也会一并失去。

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,

【篇二：杨澜
ted
演讲稿中英文】


yang lan: the generation thats remaking china

the night before i was heading for scotland, i was invited to
host the final of chinas got talent show in shanghai with the
80,000 live audience in the stadium. guess who was the
performing guest?susan boyle. and i told her, im going to
scotland the next day. she sang beautifully, and she even
managed to say a few words in chinese. [chinese]so its not like
hello or thank you, that ordinary stuff. it means green onion for
free. why did she say that? because it was a line from our
chinese parallel susan boyle -- a 50-some year-old woman, a
vegetable vendor in shanghai, who loves singing western
opera, but she didnt understand any english or french or
italian, so she managed to fill in the lyrics with vegetable
names in chinese. (laughter) and the last sentence of nessun
dorma that she was singing in the stadium was green onion for
free. so

[as] susan boyle was saying that, 80,000 live audience sang
together. that was hilarious.

so i guess both susan boyle and this vegetable vendor in
shanghai belonged to otherness. they were the least expected
to be successful in the business called entertainment, yet their
courage and talent brought them through. and a show and a
platform gave them the stage to realize their dreams. well,
being different is not that difficult. we are all different from
different perspectives. but i think being different is good,
because you present a different point of view. you may have
the chance to make a difference.

my generation has been very fortunate to witness and
participate in the historic transformation of china that has
made so many changes in the past 20, 30 years. i remember
that in the year of 1990,when i was graduating from college, i
was applying for a job in the sales department of the first five-
star hotel in beijing, great wall sheraton -- its still there. so
after being interrogated by this japanese manager for a half an
hour, he finally said, so, miss yang, do you have any questions
to ask me?i summoned my courage and poise and said,yes,
but could you let me know, what actually do you sell? i didnt
have a clue what a sales department was about in a five-star
hotel. that was the first day i set my foot in a five-star hotel.

around the same time, i was going through an audition -- the
first ever open audition by national television in china -- with
another thousand college girls. the producer told us they were
looking for some sweet, innocent and beautiful fresh face. so
when it was my turn, i stood up and said, why [do] womens
personalities on television always have to be beautiful, sweet,
innocent and, you know, supportive? why cant they have their
own ideas and their own voice? i thought i kind of offended
them. but actually, they were impressed by my words. and so i
was in the second round of competition, and then the third and
the fourth. after seven rounds of competition, i was the last
one to survive it. so i was on a national television prime-time
show. and believe it or not, that was the first show on chinese
television that allowed its hosts to speak out of their own
minds without reading an approved script. (applause) and my
weekly audience at that time was between 200 to 300 million
people.

well after a few years, i decided to go to the u.s. and columbia
university to pursue my postgraduate studies, and then started
my own media company, which was unthought of during the
years that i started my career. so we do a lot of things. ive
interviewed more than a thousand people in the past. and
sometimes i have young people approaching me say, lan, you
changed

my life, and i feel proud of that. but then we are also so
fortunate to witness the transformation of the whole country. i
was in beijings bidding for the olympic games. i was
representing the shanghai expo. i saw china embracing the
world and vice versa. but then sometimes im thinking, what are
todays young generation up to? how are they different, and
what are the differences they are going to make to shape the
future of china, or at large, the world?

so today i want to talk about young people through the
platform of social media. first of all, who are they? [what] do
they look like? well this is a girl called guo meimei -- 20 years
old, beautiful. she showed off her expensive bags, clothes and
car on her microblog, which is the chinese version of twitter.
and she claimed to be the general manager of red cross at the
chamber of commerce. she didnt realize that she stepped on a
sensitive nerve and aroused national questioning, almost a
turmoil, against the credibility of red cross. the controversy
was so heated that the red cross had to open a press
conference to clarify it, and the investigation is going on.

so far, as of today, we know that she herself made up that title
-- probably because she feels proud to be associated with
charity. all those expensive items were given to her as gifts by
her boyfriend,who used to be a board member in a subdivision
of red cross at chamber of commerce. its very complicated to
explain. but anyway, the public still doesnt buy it. it is still
boiling. it shows us a general mistrust of government or
government-backed institutions, which lacked transparency in
the past. and also it showed us the power and the impact of
social media as microblog.

microblog boomed in the year of 2010, with visitors doubled
and time spent on it tripled. , a major news portal,
alone has more than 140 million microbloggers. on tencent,
200 most popular blogger -- its not me -- its a movie
star, and she has more than 9.5 million followers, or fans.
about 80 percent of those microbloggers are young people,
under 30 years old. and because, as you know, the traditional
media is still heavily controlled by the government,social
media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. but
because you dont have many other openings, the heat coming
out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even
violent.

so through microblogging, we are able to understand chinese
youth even better. so how are they different? first of all, most
of them were bornin the 80s and 90s, under the one-child
policy. and because of selected abortion by families who
favored boys to girls, now we have ended up with 30 million
more young men than women. that could pose a potential
danger to the society, but who knows; were in a globalized
world, so they can look for girlfriends from other countries.
most of them have fairly good education. the illiteracy rate in
china among this generation is under one percent. in cities, 80
percent of kids go to they are facing an aging china
with a population above 65 years old coming up with seven-
point-some percent this year, and about to be 15 percent by
the year of 2030. and you know we have the tradition that
younger generations support the elders financially, and taking
care of them when theyre sick. so it means young coupleswill
have to support four parents who have a life expectancy of 73
years old.

so making a living is not that easy for young people. college
graduates are not in short

urban areas, college graduates find the starting salary is about
400 u.s. dollars a month, while the average rent is above $$500.
so what do they do? they have to share space -- squeezed in
very limited space to save money -- and they call themselves
tribe of ants. and for those who are ready to get married and
buy their apartment, they figured out they have to work for 30
to 40 years to afford their first apartment. that ratio in
americawould only cost a couple five years to earn, but in
china its 30 to 40 years with the skyrocketing real estate price.

among the 200 million migrant workers, 60 percent of them
are young people. they find themselves sort of sandwiched
between the urban areas and the rural areas. most of them
dont want to go back to the countryside, but they dont have
the sense of belonging. they work for longer hours with less
income, less social welfare. and theyre more vulnerable to job
losses, subject to inflation,tightening loans from banks,
appreciation of the renminbi, or decline of demand from
europe or america for the products they produce. last year,
though, an appalling incident in a southern oem manufacturing
compound in china: 13 young workers in their late teens and
early 20s committed suicide, just one by one like causing a
contagious disease. but they died because of all different
personal reasons. but this whole incident aroused a huge
outcry from society about the isolation, both physical and
mental, of these migrant workers.

for those who do return back to the countryside,they find
themselves very welcome locally,because with the knowledge,
skills and networksthey have learned in the cities, with the
assistance of the internet, theyre able to create more
jobs,upgrade local agriculture and create new businessin the
less developed market. so for the past few years, the coastal
areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.

these diagrams show a more general social background. the
first one is the engels coefficient,which explains that the cost
of daily necessitieshas dropped its percentage all through the
past decade, in terms of family income, to about 37-some
percent. but then in the last two years, it goes up again to 39
percent, indicating a rising living cost. the gini coefficient has
already passed the dangerous line of 0.4. now its 0.5 -- even
worse than that in america -- showing us the income inequality.
and so you see this whole society getting frustrated about
losing some of its mobility. and also, the bitterness and even
resentment towards the rich and the powerful is quite
widespread. so any accusations of corruptionor backdoor
dealings between authorities or business would arouse a
social outcry or even uest.

so through some of the hottest topics on microblogging, we
can see what young people care most about. social justice and
government accountability runs the first in what they
the past decade or so, a massive urbanization and
development have let us witness a lot of reports on the forced
demolition of private it has aroused huge anger
and frustrationamong our young generation. sometimes
people get killed, and sometimes people set themselves on fire
to protest. so when these incidents are reported more and
more frequently on the internet,people cry for the government
to take actions to stop this.

so the good news is that earlier this year, the state council
passed a new regulation on house requisition and demolition
and passed the right to order forced demolition from local
governments

to the court. similarly, many other issues concerning public
safety is a hot topic on the internet. we heard about polluted
air, polluted water, poisoned food. and guess what, we have
faked beef. they have sorts of ingredients that you brush on a
piece of chicken or fish, and it turns it to look like
then lately, people are very concerned about cooking oil,
because thousands of people have been found [refining]
cooking oil from restaurant slop. so all these things have
aroused a huge outcry from the internet. and fortunately, we
have seen the government responding more timely and also
more frequently to the public concerns.

while young people seem to be very sure about their
participation in public policy-making, but sometimes theyre a
little bit lost in terms of what they want for their personal life.
china is soon to pass the u.s. as the number one market for
luxury brands -- thats not including the chinese expenditures
in europe and elsewhere. but you know what, half of those
consumers are earning a salary below 2,000 u.s. dollars. theyre
not rich at all. theyre taking those bags and clothes as a sense
of identity and social status. and this is a girl explicitly saying
on a tv dating show that she would rather cry in a bmw than
smile on a of course, we do have young people
who would still prefer to smile, whether in a bmw or [on] a
bicycle.

so in the next picture, you see a very popular phenomenon
called naked wedding, or naked marriage. it does not mean
they will wear nothing in the wedding, but it shows that these
young couples are ready to get married without a house,
without a car, without a diamond ring and without a wedding
banquet, to show their commitment to true love. and also,
people are doing good through social media. and the first
picture showed us that a truck caging 500 homeless and
kidnapped dogsfor food processing was spotted and stopped
on the highway with the whole country watchingthrough
microblogging. people were donating money, dog food and
offering volunteer work to stop that truck. and after hours of
negotiation, 500 dogs were rescued. and here also people are
helping to find missing children. a father posted his sons
picture onto the internet. after thousands of [unclear], the child
was found, and we witnessed the reunion of the family through
microblogging.