Every kid needs a champion

每个孩子都需要一个冠军 演讲稿中英对照：

I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse. Both my parents were educators, my maternal grandparents were educators, and for the past 40 years I've done the same thing. And so, needless to say, over those years I've had a chance to look at education reform from a lot of perspectives. Some of those reforms have been good. Some of them have been not so good. And we know why kids drop out. We know why kids don't learn. It's either poverty, low attendance, negative peer influences. We know why. But one of the things that we never discuss or we rarely discuss is the value and importance of human connection, relationships.

我这辈子，要么是在学校，要么在去学校的路上， 要么是在讨论学校里发生了什么事。 我的父母都是教育家， 我的外祖父母也都是搞教育的， 过去40年我也在从事同样的事业。 所以，很显然，过去的这些年里， 我有机会从各个角度 审视教育改革。 一些改革是有成效的。 而另一些却收效甚微。 我们知道孩子们为什么掉队辍学。 我们知道孩子们为什么学不下去。 原因无非是贫穷，低出席率， 同龄人的坏影响。我们知道为什么。 但是我们从未讨论 或者极少讨论的是 人和人之间的那种联系的价值和重要性， 这就是“关系”。

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The night before I was heading for Scotland, I was invited to host the final of “China’s 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, “I’m going to Scotland the next day.” She sang beautifully, and she even managed to say a few words in Chinese. [Chinese] So it’s 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 didn’t 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

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2016田朴珺ted演讲稿

田朴珺ted演讲稿为大家整理王石女友田朴珺的精彩演讲稿《人生与猕猴桃》，仔细回想田朴珺，大家可以对她在《甄嬛传》中饰演敦亲王福晋"她在演讲中说对于女生一定要心胸大，下面是小编整理的这篇田朴珺ted演讲稿

田朴珺ted演讲稿

我其实很羡慕现在的大学生们，不是因为年轻，也不是因为漂亮，我羡慕是因为，在更年轻的时候，他们多数人比我顺利一些。

在十几年前，我因为在校外兼职拍广告，旷课超过了学校规定，被大学赶出来，那种感受就相当于，你跳伞跳到一半，发现伞包没了。我觉得我被摔得粉身粹骨，有一种死过一次的感觉。

我认为这就是我之所以为我的开始。如果没有那段令我耻辱不堪的经历，就不会有今天的我。活着的意义不仅仅是一个一个选择或者一个一个无奈，很多时候也是一个一个问题。可能因为有过死过一次的经历吧，所以那时，我最喜欢问的一个问题就是，人活着的意义究竟是什么?当时看了一本书叫《活着》，那本书里最后一段说，活着就是活着，活着本身没有任何意义。不过我想，也许活着的意义就是在追求活着的意义。听上去很拗口吧?如同前任特首曾荫权说的，香港的核心价值就是不断维护香港的核心价值。所以你看，其实大家都搞不明白什么是价值，什么是意义。

我有时候也会问，田朴珺又是谁呢?有时候呢，我常常觉得自己是楼下的那名保安小哥。因为他经常会问三个哲学问题，你是谁?你到哪里去?你要做什么?我总是喜欢反复问自己，活着的意义是什么呢?从我的人生经历里体会到，活着的意义是让自己变得更美好，从而增加这个世界的美好。

如果没有被劝退那段令我耻辱不堪的经历，就不会有今天的我。我认为这是我对于生活意义追寻真正的开始，却是被动的，极不情愿的。常常有人说，这是命运跟你开的一个玩笑。而我不这么看，因为，这个玩笑也太大了点儿，这是我人生中第一次可以称为"惨烈失败"的经历。

总之，我希望从书中学到解决问题的办法，以度过那段耻辱的时光，那几个月不敢见人，走到地铁里，都低着头。那时，我日夜攻读《卡耐基人际关系学》，坐地铁看，坐公交看，坐马桶看，手不释卷，用句话说：这人魔怔了，为什么要看这本书?因为我要反思自己，是不是我的为人处世方式有问题?为什么那么多同学旷课，只处罚我，为什么我被处罚，没有一个老师替我说话，为什么我被处罚，没有一个同学出来挺我，不但没人挺我，说不定还会点赞。

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Before I die I want to...

There are a lot of ways the people around us can help improve our lives. We don't bump into every neighbor, so a lot of wisdom never gets passed on, though we do share the same public spaces.

我们周围的人能以很多种方式 来帮我们把生活变得更美好 我们不一定能常常碰到我们的邻居 所以即使我们生活在同一片公共空间里 邻居的智慧也难以被传递开来

So over the past few years, I've tried ways to share more with my neighbors in public space, using simple tools like stickers, stencils and chalk. And these projects came from questions I had, like, how much are my neighbors paying for their apartments? (Laughter) How can we lend and borrow more things without knocking on each other's doors at a bad time? How can we share more of our memories of our abandoned buildings, and gain a better understanding of our landscape? And how can we share more of our hopes for our vacant storefronts, so our communities can reflect our needs and dreams today?

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Matt Cutts TED中英文对照双语演讲稿

Try Something New for 30 Days

小计划帮你实现大目标

——Google工程师Matt Cutts在TED的励志演讲稿

A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, and try something new for 30 days. The idea is actually pretty simple. Think about something you’ve always wanted to add to your life and try it for the next 30 days. It turns out, 30 days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit — like watching the news — from your life.

几年前， 我感觉对老一套感到枯燥乏味， 所以我决定追随伟大的美国哲学家摩根·斯普尔洛克的脚步，尝试做新事情30天。这个想法的确是非常简单。考虑下，你常想在你生命中做的一些事情 接下来30天尝试做这些。 这就是，30天刚好是这么一段合适的时间 去养成一个新的习惯或者改掉一个习惯——例如看新闻——在你生活中。

There’s a few things I learned while doing these 30-day challenges. The first was, instead of the months flying by, forgotten, the time was much more memorable. This was part of a challenge I did to take a picture everyday for a month. And I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing that day. I also noticed that as I started to do more and harder 30-day challenges, my self-confidence grew. I went from desk-dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work — for fun. Even last year, I ended up hiking up Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. I would never have been that adventurous before I started my 30-day challenges.

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Now, I want to start with a question: When was the last time you were called childish? For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish, which really bothers me. After all, take a look at these events: Imperialism and colonization, world wars, George W. Bush. Ask yourself: Who's responsible? Adults.

Now, what have kids done? Well, Anne Frank touched millions with her powerful account of the Holocaust, Ruby Bridges helped end segregation in the United States, and, most recently, Charlie Simpson helped to raise 120,000 pounds for Haiti on his little bike. So, as you can see evidenced by such examples, age has absolutely nothing to do with it. The traits the word childish addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with

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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 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. It's not necessary to tell you how important it is to be able to communicate across generations.

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