TED中英双语演讲稿Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce.pdfVIP

Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce Malcolm Gladwell 2006-09-19 /talks/malcolm_gladwell_choice_happiness_and_spaghetti_sauce 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。 I think I was supposed to talk about my new book, 我想我本该谈谈我的新书， which is called Blink, and its about snap judgments and first impressions. 书名叫做《倾覆》，讲的是瞬间决定和第一印象。 And it comes out in January, and I hope you all buy it in triplicate. 书在一月上市，我希望你们每人都买个两三本。 (Laughter) But I was thinking about this, 不过当我想到这里时， and I realized that although my new book makes me happy, 我发现我的新书虽然使我很开心， and I think would make my mother happy, 我觉得也使我妈妈很开心， its not really about happiness. 但是书本身谈的并不是快乐。 So I decided instead, I would talk about someone 因此我决定，我要谈一个人 who I think has done as much to make Americans happy 我认为在过去的二十年里，他为了让美国人快乐 as perhaps anyone over the last 20 years, 付出了比任何人都多的努力。 a man who is a great personal hero of mine: 他是我个人崇敬的一个伟大英雄。 someone by the name of Howard Moskowitz, 他的名字是霍华德·莫斯科维茨， who is most famous for reinventing spaghetti sauce. 一个以重新发明了意粉酱而闻名的人。 Howards about this high, and hes round, 霍华德大概有这么高，圆圆的， and hes in his 60s, and he has big huge glasses 他六十多岁，戴着大大的眼镜， and thinning gray hair, and he has a kind of wonderful exuberance and vitality, 头发稀疏灰白，不过他很有精神活力。 and he has a parrot, and he loves the opera, 他养有一只鹦鹉，他喜欢歌剧， and hes a great aficionado of medieval history. 他还是一个中世纪历史的狂热爱好者。 And by profession, hes a psychophysicist. 他的职业，是精神物理学家。 Now, I should tell you that I have no idea what psychophysics is, 老实说，我根本不知道精神物理学是干什么的， although at some point in my life, 虽然我早年曾与一个女孩交往过两年， I dated a girl for two years who was getting her doctorate in psychophysics. 她当时读的就是精神物理学博士。 Which should tell you something about that relationship. 你也知道这段交往大概是怎么样的了。 (Laughter) As far as I know, psychophysics is about measuring things. 据我所知，精神物理学讲的是测量事物。 And How