英语演讲

TED演讲之感动重临 凌晨4点(6)

What happens to American presidents at 0400 on inauguration day? 总统就职那天的凌晨4点美国总统到底怎么了？ What happened to William Jefferson Clinton? We might not ever know. 威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿到底怎么了？我们也许无从知道。 And I noticed, he’s not exactly around here today to face any tough questions. 而且我注意到，他今天人没来面对这难以回答的问题。 ...

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英语演讲

TED演讲之感动重临 凌晨4点(5)

And folks, you can buy a copy of Bill Clinton’s “My Life” from the bookstore here at TED. 朋友们，你可以买一本比尔克林顿的《我的人生》，就在这里的TED书店里。 Parse it cover to cover for whatever hidden references you want. 你可以从头到尾地找你想找的暗示， Or you can go to the Random House website where there is this excerpt. 你也可以去兰登书...

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英语演讲

TED演讲之感动重临 凌晨4点(3)

It works a little something like — this is a recent Google search for four in the morning. 这是结果，请看最近的一个谷歌搜索。搜索：凌晨4点 Results vary, of course. This is pretty typical. 当然搜索的结果不一，这是其中最典型的一个。 The top 10 results yield you four hits for Faron Young’s song, “It’s Four in the Morning,” 最上面的1...

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英语演讲

TED演讲之感动重临 凌晨4点(1)

This is a recent comic strip from the Los Angeles Times. The punch line? 这是最近洛杉矶时报的一幅漫画。笑点是？ “On the other hand, I don’t have to get up at four every single morning to milk my Labrador.” “另一方面，我不用每天凌晨4点起来，给我的拉布拉多猎犬喂奶。” This is a recent cover of New York Magazine. 这是纽约杂志最近的封面。 Best...

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英语演讲

TED演讲之感动重临 凌晨4点(4)

Coincidence to me has a much simpler metric. 对我来说，巧合有一个非常简单的魔力。 That’s like me telling you, “Hey, you know the Nobel Prize was established in 1901, 比如，我对你说，“嗨，诺贝尔奖是1901年建立的， which coincidentally is the same year Alberto Giacometti was born?” 那正巧合是阿尔贝托·贾科梅蒂出生的那年。” No, not everything ...

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英语演讲

TED演讲之感动重临 凌晨4点(2)

A time for even grimmer stuff than that, like in last April’s New Yorker magazine. 那个时辰里还有更严酷的事情发生过，比如去年4月纽约人杂志中 This short fiction piece by Martin Amis starts out, Martin Amis的短篇小说是这样开始的： “On September 11, 2001, he opened his eyes at 4 a.m. in Portland, Maine, and Mohamed Atta’s last day began.” ...

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