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1、 TED英文演讲稿TED英语演讲稿(2篇)关于TED英文演讲稿一 事实上，中国餐馆在美国历史上发挥了很重要的作用。古巴导弹危机是在华盛顿一家名叫“燕京馆”的中餐馆里解决的。很不幸，这家餐馆现在关门了，马上被改建成沃尔格林连锁药店。而约翰威尔克斯布斯刺杀林肯总统的那所房子现在也成了一家中餐馆，就是位于华盛顿的“锅和卷”。 and if you think about it, a lot of the foods that you think of or we thinkof or americans think of as chinese food are barely recognizable
2、 to chinese, fore_ample: beef with broccoli, egg rolls, general tso”s chicken, fortune cookies,chop suey, the take-out bo_es. 假如你认真想想，就会发觉许多你们所认为或我们所认为，或是美国人所认为的中国食物，中国人并不熟悉。比方西兰花牛肉、蛋卷、左宗棠鸡、幸运饼干、杂碎、外卖盒子。 so, the interesting question is, how do you go from fortune cookies beingsomething that is japan
3、ese to being something that is chinese? well, the shortanswer is, we locked up all the japanese during world war ii, including thosethat made fortune cookies, so that”s the time when the chinese moved in, kind ofsaw a market opportunity and took over. 所以好玩的是，幸运饼干是怎么从日本的东西变成中国的东西的呢?简洁地说，我们在二战时扣押了所以的日
4、本人，包括那些做幸运饼干的。这时候，中国人来了，看到了商机，自然就据为己有了。 general tso”s chicken - which, by the way, in the us naval academy iscalled admiral tso”s chicken. i love this dish. the original name in my book wasactually called the long march of general tso, and he has marched very farindeed, because he is sweet, he is fr
5、ied, and he is chicken - all things thatamericans love. 左宗棠鸡，在美国海军军校被称为左司令鸡。我很喜爱这道菜。在我的书里，这道菜实际上叫左将军的长征，它的确在美国很受欢送，由于它是甜的，油炸的，是鸡肉做的全部都是美国人的最爱。 so, you know, i realized when i was there, general tso is kind of a lotlike colonel sanders in america, in that he”s known for chicken and not war. butin chi
6、na, this guy”s actually known for war and not chicken. 我意识到左宗棠将军有点像美国的桑德斯上校(肯德基创始人)，由于他是因鸡肉而知名的而不是战斗。而在中国，左宗棠的确是由于战斗而不是鸡肉著名的。 so it”s kind of part of the phenomenon i called spontaneousself-organization, right, where, like in ant colonies, where little decisionsmade by - on the micro-level actually
7、have a big impact on the macro-level. 这就有点像我所说的自发组织现象。就像在蚂蚁群中，在微观层面上做的小小打算会在宏观层面上产生巨大的影响。 and the great innovation of chicken mcnuggets was not nuggetfying them,because that”s kind of an easy concept, but the trick behind chicken mcnuggetswas, they were able to remove the chicken from the bone in a
8、cost-effectivemanner, which is why it took so long for other people to copy them. 麦乐鸡块的创造并没有给他们带来切实收益，由于这个想法很简洁，但麦乐鸡背后的技巧是如何用一种划算的方式来把鸡肉从骨头上剔出来。这就是为什么过了这么久才有人仿照他们。 we can think of chinese restaurants perhaps as linu_: sort of an opensource thing, right, where ideas from one person can be copied and
9、propagatedacross the entire system, that there can be specialized versions of chinesefood, you know, depending on the region. 我们可以把中餐馆比作linu_：一种开源系统。一个人的想法可以在整个系统中被复制，被普及。在不同的地区，就有特殊版本的中国菜。 关于TED英文演讲稿二 when i was seven years old and my sister was just five years old, we wereplaying on top of a bunk
10、bed. i was two years older than my sister at the time- i mean, i”m two years older than her now - but at the time it meant she hadto do everything that i wanted to do, and i wanted to play war. so we were up ontop of our bunk beds. and on one side of the bunk bed, i had put out all of myg.i. joe sol
11、diers and weaponry. and on the other side were all my sister”s mylittle ponies ready for a cavalry charge. there are differing accounts of what actually happened that afternoon, butsince my sister is not here with us today, let me tell you the true story -(laughter) - which is my sister”s a little b
12、it on the clumsy side. somehow,without any help or push from her older brother at all, suddenly amy disappearedoff of the top of the bunk bed and landed with this crash on the floor. now inervously peered over the side of the bed to see what had befallen my fallensister and saw that she had landed p
13、ainfully on her hands and knees on all fourson the ground. i was nervous because my parents had charged me with making sure that mysister and i played as safely and as quietly as possible. and seeing as how ihad accidentally broken amy”s arm just one week before . (laughter) .heroically pushing her
14、out of the way of an oncoming imaginary sniper bullet,(laughter) for which i have yet to be thanked, i was trying as hard as i could- she didn”t even see it coming - i was trying as hard as i could to be on mybest behavior. and i saw my sister”s face, this wail of pain and suffering and surprisethre
15、atening to erupt from her mouth and threatening to wake my parents from thelong winter”s nap for which they had settled. so i did the only thing my littlefrantic seven year-old brain could think to do to avert this tragedy. and if youhave children, you”ve seen this hundreds of times before. i said,
16、“amy, amy,wait. don”t cry. don”t cry. did you see how you landed? no human lands on allfours like that. amy, i think this means you”re a unicorn.“ (laughter) now that was cheating, because there was nothing in the world my sisterwould want more than not to be amy the hurt five year-old little sister
17、, but amythe special unicorn. of course, this was an option that was open to her brain atno point in the past. and you could see how my poor, manipulated sister facedconflict, as her little brain attempted to devote resources to feeling the painand suffering and surprise she just e_perienced, or con
18、templating her new-foundidentity as a unicorn. and the latter won out. instead of crying, instead ofceasing our play, instead of waking my parents, with all the negativeconsequences that would have ensued for me, instead a smile spread across herface and she scrambled right back up onto the bunk bed
19、 with all the grace of ababy unicorn . (laughter) . with one broken leg. what we stumbled across at this tender age of just five and seven - we hadno idea at the time - was something that was going be at the vanguard of ascientific revolution occurring two decades later in the way that we look at th
20、ehuman brain. what we had stumbled across is something called positivepsychology, which is the reason that i”m here today and the reason that i wakeup every morning. when i first started talking about this research outside of academia, outwith companies and schools, the very first thing they said to
21、 never do is tostart your talk with a graph. the very first thing i want to do is start my talkwith a graph. this graph looks boring, but this graph is the reason i gete_cited and wake up every morning. and this graph doesn”t even mean anything;it”s fake data. what we found is - (laughter) if i got
22、this data back studying you here in the room, i would be thrilled,because there”s very clearly a trend that”s going on there, and that means thati can get published, which is all that really matters. the fact that there”s oneweird red dot that”s up above the curve, there”s one weirdo in the room - i
23、know who you are, i saw you earlier - that”s no problem. that”s no problem, asmost of you know, because i can just delete that dot. i can delete that dotbecause that”s clearly a measurement error. and we know that”s a measurementerror because it”s messing up my data. so one of the very first things
24、we teach people in economics and statisticsand business and psychology courses is how, in a statistically valid way, do weeliminate the weirdos. how do we eliminate the outliers so we can find the lineof best fit? which is fantastic if i”m trying to find out how many advil theaverage person should b
25、e taking - two. but if i”m interested in potential, ifi”m interested in your potential, or for happiness or productivity or energy orcreativity, what we”re doing is we”re creating the cult of the average withscience. if i asked a question like, “how fast can a child learn how to read in aclassroom?“
26、 scientists change the answer to “how fast does the average childlearn how to read in that classroom?“ and then we tailor the class right towardsthe average. now if you fall below the average on this curve, then psychologistsget thrilled, because that means you”re either depressed or you have a diso
27、rder,or hopefully both. we”re hoping for both because our business model is, if youcome into a therapy session with one problem, we want to make sure you leaveknowing you have 10, so you keep coming back over and over again. we”ll go backinto your childhood if necessary, but eventually what we want
28、to do is make younormal again. but normal is merely average. and what i posit and what positive psychology posits is that if we studywhat is merely average, we will remain merely average. then instead of deletingthose positive outliers, what i intentionally do is come into a population likethis one
29、and say, why? why is it that some of you are so high above the curve interms of your intellectual ability, athletic ability, musical ability,creativity, energy levels, your resiliency in the face of challenge, your senseof humor? whatever it is, instead of deleting you, what i want to do is studyyou
30、. because maybe we can glean information - not just how to move people up tothe average, but how we can move the entire average up in our companies andschools worldwide. the reason this graph is important to me is, when i turn on the news, itseems like the majority of the information is not positive
31、, in fact it”snegative. most of it”s about murder, corruption, diseases, natural very quickly, my brain starts to think that”s the accurate ratio of negativeto positive in the world. what that”s doing is creating something called themedical school syndrome - which, if you know people who”ve been to
32、medicalschool, during the first year of medical training, as you read through a list ofall the symptoms and diseases that could happen, suddenly you realize you haveall of them. i have a brother in-law named bobo - which is a whole other story. bobomarried amy the unicorn. bobo called me on the phon
33、e from yale medical school,and bobo said, “shawn, i have leprosy.“ (laughter) which, even at yale, ise_traordinarily rare. but i had no idea how to console poor bobo because he hadjust gotten over an entire week of menopause. (laughter) see what we”re finding is it”s not necessarily the reality that
34、 shapes us,but the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we canchange every single educational and business outcome at the same time. when i applied to harvard, i applied on a dare. i didn”t e_pect to get in,a
35、nd my family had no money for college. when i got a military scholarship twoweeks later, they allowed me to go. suddenly, something that wasn”t even apossibility became a reality. when i went there, i assumed everyone else wouldsee it as a privilege as well, that they”d be e_cited to be there. even
36、ifyou”re in a classroom full of people smarter than you, you”d be happy just to bein that classroom, which is what i felt. but what i found there is, while somepeople e_perience that, when i graduated after my four years and then spent thene_t eight years living in the dorms with the students - harv
37、ard asked me to; iwasn”t that guy. (laughter) i was an officer of harvard to counsel studentsthrough the difficult four years. and what i found in my research and myteaching is that these students, no matter how happy they were with theiroriginal success of getting into the school, two weeks later t
38、heir brains werefocused, not on the privilege of being there, nor on their philosophy or theirphysics. their brain was focused on the competition, the workload, the hassles,the stresses, the complaints. when i first went in there, i walked into the freshmen dining hall, whichis where my friends from
39、 waco, te_as, which is where i grew up - i know some ofyou have heard of it. when they”d come to visit me, they”d look around, they”dsay, “this freshman dining hall looks like something out of hogwart”s from themovie “harry potter,“ which it does. this is hogwart”s from the movie “harrypotter“ and t
40、hat”s harvard. and when they see this, they say, “shawn, why do youwaste your time studying happiness at harvard? seriously, what does a harvardstudent possibly have to be unhappy about?“ embedded within that question is the key to understanding the science ofhappiness. because what that question as
41、sumes is that our e_ternal world ispredictive of our happiness levels, when in reality, if i know everything aboutyour e_ternal world, i can only predict 10 percent of your long-term happiness.90 percent of your long-term happiness is predicted not by the e_ternal world,but by the way your brain pro
42、cesses the world. and if we change it, if we changeour formula for happiness and success, what we can do is change the way that wecan then affect reality. what we found is that only 25 percent of job successesare predicted by i.q. 75 percent of job successes are predicted by your optimismlevels, you
43、r social support and your ability to see stress as a challengeinstead of as a threat. i talked to a boarding school up in new england, probably the mostprestigious boarding school, and they said, “we already know that. so everyyear, instead of just teaching our students, we also have a wellness week
44、. andwe”re so e_cited. monday night we have the world”s leading e_pert coming in tospeak about adolescent depression. tuesday night it”s school violence andbullying. wednesday night is eating disorders. thursday night is elicit druguse. and friday night we”re trying to decide between risky se_ or ha
45、ppiness.“(laughter) i said, “that”s most people”s friday nights.“ (laughter) (applause)which i”m glad you liked, but they did not like that at all. silence on thephone. and into the silence, i said, “i”d be happy to speak at your school, butjust so you know, that”s not a wellness week, that”s a sick
46、ness week. whatyou”ve done is you”ve outlined all the negative things that can happen, but nottalked about the positive.“ the absence of disease is not health. here”s how we get to health: we needto reverse the formula for happiness and success. in the last three years, i”vetraveled to 45 different
47、countries, working with schools and companies in themidst of an economic downturn. and what i found is that most companies andschools follow a formula for success, which is this: if i work harder, i”ll bemore successful. and if i”m more successful, then i”ll be happier. thatundergirds most of our pa
48、renting styles, our managing styles, the way that wemotivate our behavior. and the problem is it”s scientifically broken and backwards for tworeasons. first, every time your brain has a success, you just changed thegoalpost of what success looked like. you got good grades, now you have to getbetter grades, you got into a good school and after you get into a betterschool, you got a good job, now you have to get a better job, you hit your salestarget, we”re going to change your sales target. and if happiness is on theopposite side of success, your brain never ge