TED演讲之现在或永不 只需专注10分钟(1)

We live in an incredibly busy world. 我们生活在一个异常纷杂的世界。 The pace of life is often frantic, our minds are always busy, and we're always doing something. 生活的步调时常快得疯狂,我们的头脑(心灵)一直忙碌运转着,而我们每时每刻都在做着事情 So with that in mind, I'd like you just to take a moment to think, when did you last take any time to do nothing? 记住这点...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 只需专注10分钟(5)

So for example, right now, if I focus too much on the balls, 打个比方,现在,如果我太集中于这些球, then there's no way I can relax and talk to you at the same time. 那么我就无法能够放松并同时与你们说话。 Equally, if I relax too much talking to you, there's no way I can focus on the balls. 同样地,如果我太过于放松地跟你们说话,那我将无法专注在球上。 I'm going to ...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 每天一秒钟(4)

I was on a three-month road trip this summer. 今年夏天我度了三个月的假。 It was something that I've been dreaming about doing my whole life, 这是我一生梦寐以求的东西, just driving around the U.S. and Canada and just figuring out where to go the next day, and it was kind of outstanding. 开车环游美国和加拿大,每天只需想明天去哪里,这样的生活太棒了。 I actually ran out, I ...

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TED演讲之说什么 单词的诞生(9)

And so fundamentally, rather than, for example, measuring content based on how many people are watching, 从根本上,而不是,比如根据收视率衡量内容 this gives us the basic data for looking at engagement properties of content. 这个给了我们观察这些内容参与性的最基本的资料 And just like we can look at feedback cycles and dynamics in a family, 就跟我们可以看见家里的反馈循环和互动...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 我无家可归的一年(4)

A friend told me, shortly after that, that she had heard that Tim Russert, 在那不久后,我的一个朋友就告诉我,她听说提姆·路塞特, a nationally renowned journalist, had been talking about me on national T.V. 一个全国知名的记者在全国播放的电视节目上谈论到了我。 An essay I'd written about my father, the year before he died, was in Tim's new book. 一篇我写的关于我父亲的短...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 只需专注10分钟(4)

Now we're not here for that long anyway, 虽然不管怎样我们不会在此地待多长时间, but to spend almost half of our life lost in thought and potentially quite unhappy, I don't know, 但耗费大半人生迷失在思考中并因此可能变得非常不幸福,我不知道, it just kind of seems tragic, actually, especially when there's something we can do about it, 这真的听起来太可悲了尤其是当我...

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TED演讲之说什么 重新定义字典(7)

You didn't break it. It's just in a new position, 你没有破坏它,只是让它移到一个新的地方, and that new position can be just as beautiful. 这新的地方也可以是一样美丽。 Now, if you're no longer a traffic cop — the problem with being a traffic cop is 现在,你不再是交警–交警管理交通的问题是 there can only be so many traffic cops in any one intersection, ...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 每天一秒钟(3)

You know, this project for me is a way for me to bridge that gap and remember everything that I've done. 这个项目对我而言,就是一座让我能够回忆起我过去生活的桥梁。 Even just this one second allows me to remember everything else I did that one day. 即使只是短短的一秒钟的视频,也能让我回忆起一整天的事情。 It's difficult, sometimes, to pick that one second. 有时候要在一...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 尝试做新事情30天(1)

A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, 几年前,我感觉对老一套感到枯燥乏味, so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, 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, and try something new for 30 days. The idea is actually pretty simple. 尝试做新事情30天。这个想法的确是非常简单。 Think about something you'...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 能让你多出10年额外寿命的游戏(7)

Here are the top five things that people with post-traumatic growth say: "My priorities have changed." 这是排在前五位的被创伤后精神再生的人们说过的话:我做事情的优先级改变了。 "I'm not afraid to do what makes me happy." "I feel closer to my friends and family." 我再也不害怕去做那些能让我开心的事了。我感觉到我和我的家人和朋友们的关系更紧密了...

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TED演讲之说什么 重新定义字典(6)

Lexicography is really more about material science. 字典编纂学是研究物质的科学。 We are studying the tolerances of the materials that you use to build the structure of your expression: your speeches and your writing. 我们在研究不同物料的偏差,当你去架构你的表达的时候:你的演说和写作。 And then, often people say to me, "Well, OK, how do I know that this word is real?&quo...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 依照圣经指导原则生活的一年(9)

But it was interesting because I had some very preconceived notions about, for instance, evangelical Christianity, 但是这很有趣,因为我有一些先入为主的想法,例如,福音派基督教, and I found that it's such a wide and varied movement that it is difficult to make generalizations about it. 我发现这是一个广泛的风潮,很难概括解释。 There's a group I met with called the Red...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 我无家可归的一年(1)

I'm a writer and a journalist, and I'm also an insanely curious person, 我是一个作家,一个新闻记者,我也是一位具有强烈求知欲的人。 so in 22 years as a journalist, I've learned how to do a lot of new things. 所以在做新闻记者的22年里,我知道了很多新奇的事物。 And three years ago, one of the things I learned how to do was to become invisible. 而三年前,我学会做的一...

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TED演讲之说什么 暗喻言说(2)

This formula works wherever metaphor is present. 这个公式适用于所有的暗喻。 Elvis uses it, but so does Shakespeare in this famous line from "Romeo and Juliet:" Juliet is the sun. 埃尔维斯用到它,莎士比亚也同样用到它,于《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中有这样的名句:朱丽叶是太阳。 Now, here, Shakespeare gives the thing, Juliet, a name that belongs to something else, the sun. 在...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 依照圣经指导原则生活的一年(8)

Third, that thou shall have reverence. 第三,诸位应心存尊敬。 This one was unexpected because I started the year as an agnostic, 这是个意外的体会。因为我刚开始是一个不可知论者, and by the end of the year, I became what a friend of mine calls a reverent agnostic, which I love. 但是到这一年结束时,我变成一个虔敬的不可知论者。我的朋友这样叫我,我喜欢这样的称号。 And I'm tr...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 依照圣经指导原则生活的一年(7)

But this one is — the Bible says that you cannot touch women during certain times of the month, 但这一个是,圣经告诉我们在每个月的某些时间不能碰女人, and more than that, you cannot sit on a seat where a menstruating woman has sat. 更甚者–你不能坐在经期妇女曾做过的椅子。 And my wife thought this was very offensive, so she sat in every seat in our apartment, 我太...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 能让你多出10年额外寿命的游戏(2)

Now, 21 billion hours, it's a lot of time. 现在看起来,两百一十亿个小时是很多时间。 It's so much time, in fact, that the number one unsolicited comment that I have heard from people all over the world 真的是很多时间。事实上,我看到的最多的来自世界各地的评论 since I gave that talk, is this: Jane, games are great and all, 自从我做完那个演讲是:Jane, 游戏是好东西, but ...

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TED演讲之说什么 单词的诞生(8)

We've started analyzing television content using the same principles — 我们开始分析电视内容,用同样的原则– analyzing event structure of a TV signal — 分析一个电视信号的事件结构– episodes of shows, commercials, all of the components that make up the event structure. 电视剧集,广告,所有的组成事件结构的成分 And we're now, with satellite dishes, ...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 能让你多出10年额外寿命的游戏(8)

So, everybody ready? This is your first quest. Here we go. 怎么样,每个人都准备好了吗?第一个任务来了。 Pick one: Stand up and take three steps, or make your hands into fists, 选择一项做:站起来并走三步,或者握起拳头, raise them over your head as high as you can for five seconds, go! 把它们高高地举过头顶,保持5秒钟。开始! All right, I like the people doing both. You are ov...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 休假的力量(3)

I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. 我不信教,但我尊重自然。 I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. 我的第一个长修假是在纽约市度过的,我希望第二次会有所不同。 Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. 欧洲和美国对我吸引力不大,我太...

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