TED中英双语演讲稿In praise of slowness.pdfVIP

In praise of slowness Carl Honoré 2007-02-28 /talks/carl_honore_in_praise_of_slowness Pollykann - A powerful video player (App) for learning languages provided technical support for the subtitles. 本字幕由【小鹦看看】- 用了会后悔，不用更后悔的外语学习App，提供技术支持。 What Id like to start off with is an observation, 在演讲开始，我愿意先讲一个事情， which is that if Ive learned anything over the last year, 如果说去年有什么让我印象深刻， its that the supreme irony 就是极具讽刺意味的 of publishing a book about slowness 出版一本号召讲将速度慢下来的书 is that you have to go around promoting it really fast. 你却不得不超快速的四处推销它。 I seem to spend most of my time these days 我这些日子花了大部分时间， zipping from city to city, studio to studio, 在城市、演播室以及 interview to interview, 访谈节目之间奔走， serving up the book in really tiny bite-size chunks. 但实际用来宣传书的时间却少的可怜。 Because everyone these days 因为现在每个人 wants to know how to slow down, 都想知道该如何放慢速度， but they want to know how to slow down really quickly. So ... 然而，他们却想要知道如何超快速的放慢速度。所以... so I did a spot on CNN the other day 前不久我在CNN上了一个通告 where I actually spent more time in makeup than I did talking on air. 在那，我上电视的时间还没有化妆的时间长 And I think that -- thats not really surprising though, is it? 而我想这还真算不上让人吃惊的事，对吧？ Because thats kind of the world that we live in now, 因为我们现在所处的，就是一个这样的世界 a world stuck in fast-forward. 一个沉溺于追求快速前进的世界。 A world obsessed with speed, 一个迷恋速度的世界， with doing everything faster, with cramming more and more 做每一件事情都追求更快，往越来越少的时间里 into less and less time. 填鸭进更多的东西。 Every moment of the day feels like 每一天每一刻都感觉像 a race against the clock. 在和时间赛跑 To borrow a phrase from Carrie Fisher, which is 引用凯利.费雪（美国影星）的一句话，这句话 in my bio there; Ill just toss it out again -- 在我的自传里面有写，我只是再次引用 These days even instant gratification takes too long. (Laughter) “现在大家连瞬间得到的快感（高潮）都嫌太久。” And 另外 if you think about how we to try to make things better, what do we do? 假如让你想我们怎样才能将事情做得更好，会有什么主意？ No, we speed them up, dont we? So we used to dial; now we speed dial. 我们会加速做事情，不是么？所以，以前我们拨电话；现在我们快拨。