TED演讲procastination英文文稿.docx

1、TED演讲procastination英文文稿TED演讲英文文稿Procrastination/ prkrstnen/（拖延症)00:11So in college， I was a government major（主修行政管理专业的学生）, which means I had to write a lot of papers. Now, when a normal student writes a paper, they might spread the work out a little(一点点地展开工作) like this. So, you know 00：25you get sta

2、rted（=start) maybe a little slowly， but you get enough done in the first week that, with some heavier(=busier） days later on(infml后来）， everything gets done， things stay civil/svl/（文明的）.00:33（Laughter/l：ft（r)/笑声）00：34And I would want to do that like that。 That would be the plan. I would have it all r

3、eady to go， but then， actually, the paper would come along（出现)， and then I would kind of(用于表示不确定，“有点，可以这么说”) do this.00:45（Laughter)00：47And that would happen every single paper。00：50But then came my 90page senior thesis（/i:ss/毕业论文）， a paper youre supposed to spend a year on。 And I knew for a paper

4、like that, my normal work flow(工作流程) was not an option(/pn/选择）. It was way(used with prep or adv.非常） too big a project。 So I planned things out(精心安排，筹划）， and I decided I kind of had to go something like this. This is how the year would go。 So Id start off(开始） light(ad。轻松地）, and Id bump it up(to incr

5、ease sth.) in the middle months, and then at the end, I would kick it up into high gear(/g（r)/全力冲刺) just like a little staircase. How hard could it be to walk up the stairs? No big deal（没什么大不了的), right？01：22But then, the funniest thing happened。 Those first few months？ They came and went， and I coul

6、dnt quite（=really) do stuff /stf/. So we had an awesome（/sm/very good) new revised（/rvaz/改变，调整) plan。01:30(Laughter)01:31And then -01:32(Laughter）01：34But then those middle months actually went by, and I didnt really write words, and so we were here。 And then two months turned into one month， which

7、turned into two weeks. And one day I woke up with three days until(在之前） the deadline, still not having written a word， and so I did the only thing I could: I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours, pulling not one but two allnighters - humans are not supposed to pull two all-nighters（开两晚夜车) sprinted（/sprnt/飞跑

8、，冲刺） across campus(/kmps/校园), dove（dive,扑向,冲向） in slow motion(/mn/移动，运动), and got it in（manage to do sth。） just at the deadline.02:10I thought that was the end of everything。 But a week later I get a call, and its the school。 And they say, ”Is this Tim Urban？ And I say, ”Yeah.” And they say， ”We nee

9、d to talk about your thesis(/i:ss/毕业论文)。 And I say， ”OK. And they say， Its the best one weve ever seen.”02：28（Laughter）02：31（Applause/pl:z/掌声)02：35That did not happen。02：37(Laughter）02:39It was a very, very bad thesis.02：42(Laughter)02:44I just wanted to enjoy that one moment when all of you thought

10、， This guy is amazing！”02：50(Laughter）02:51No， no， it was very, very bad。 Anyway（不管怎么说）， today Im a writerblogger guy. I write the blog Wait But Why. And a couple of years ago, I decided to write about procrastination(/prkrstnen/拖延症)。 My behavior has always perplexed（/ppleks/使迷惑） the nonprocrastinat

11、ors（/prokrs。t.ne.t/拖延者) around me， and I wanted to explain to the non-procrastinators of the world what goes on in the heads of procrastinators, and why we are the way we are. Now， I had a hypothesis(/hapss/假设） that the brains of procrastinators were actually different than the brains of other peopl

12、e. And to test this， I found an MRI(核磁共振成像） lab that actually let me scan(/skn/扫描） both my brain and the brain of a proven nonprocrastinator, so I could compare them. I actually brought them here to show you today. I want you to take a look carefully to see if you can notice a difference。 I know tha

13、t if youre not a trained brain expert, its not that(=so）obvious（/bvis /明显的), but just take a look, OK? So heres the brain of a nonprocrastinator.03：42（Laughter）03:45Now 。 heres my brain。03:49(Laughter)03：54There is a difference。 Both brains have a Rational(/rnl/理智的） Decision-Maker in them, but the p

14、rocrastinators brain also has an Instant Gratification（/grtfken /满足） Monkey。 Now， what does this mean for the procrastinator? Well， it means everythings fine until this happens.04:08This is a perfect time to get some work done。 Nope!04:11So the Rational DecisionMaker will make the rational decision

15、to do something productive（/prdktv /富有成效的), but the Monkey doesnt like that plan， so he actually takes the wheel（/wi:l /方向盘)， and he says， ”Actually， lets read the entire（/nta（r）/整个，全部） Wikipedia（维基百科) page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal(/skndl/丑闻), because I just remembered that that

16、happened.04:27(Laughter)04:28Then 04:29(Laughter)04:30Then were going to go over to the fridge（/frd /冰箱), to see if theres anything new in there since 10 minutes ago. After that， were going to go on a YouTube spiral(/sparl /） that starts with videos of Richard Feynman talking about magnets（/mgnt/磁铁）

17、 and ends much, much later with us watching interviews with Justin Biebers mom。04:46（Laughter）04:48”All of thats going to take a while, so were not going to really have room on the schedule for any work today。 Sorry!04：54（Sigh/sa/叹气）04:57Now， what is going on here? The Instant Gratification Monkey d

18、oes not seem like a guy you want behind the wheel. He lives entirely(=completely) in the present moment。 He has no memory of the past, no knowledge of the future, and he only cares about two things: easy and fun。05:15Now， in the animal world, that works fine. If youre a dog and you spend your whole

19、life doing nothing other than(除了) easy and fun things， youre a huge success！05：24（Laughter）05:26And to the Monkey， humans are just another animal species（/spi：i：z/物种). You have to keep well-slept， well-fed and propagating（/prpget/繁衍) into the next generation, which in tribal(/trabl/部落的）times（时代） mig

20、ht have worked OK. But， if you havent noticed, now were not in tribal times。 Were in an advanced civilization(/svlazen/文明)， and the Monkey does not know what that is. Which is why we have another guy in our brain， the Rational Decision-Maker, who gives us the ability to do things no other animal can

21、 do。 We can visualize(/vulaz/设想） the future。 We can see the big picture. We can make long-term plans。 And he wants to take all of that into account/ kant/(把考虑在内）。 And he wants to just have us do whatever makes sense（有意义，合理) to be doing right now. Now， sometimes it makes sense to be doing things that

22、 are easy and fun， like when youre having dinner or going to bed or enjoying well-earned leisure(/le(r)/闲暇) time. Thats why theres an overlap（/vlp/重叠)。 Sometimes they agree(一致）. But other times， it makes much more sense to be doing things that are harder and less pleasant, for the sake of(为了，因为) the

23、 big picture。 And thats when we have a conflict. And for the procrastinator， that conflict tends to end a certain way every time， leaving him spending a lot of time in this orange zone(/zn/区域）， an easy and fun place thats entirely out of the Makes Sense circle。 I call it the Dark Playground.06：41(La

24、ughter）06：42Now， the Dark Playground is a place that all of you procrastinators out there know very well. Its where leisure（/le(r)/） activities（休闲活动） happen at times（=sometimes) when leisure activities are not supposed to be happening. The fun you have in the Dark Playground isnt actually fun， becau

25、se its completely unearned(不应得的), and the air is filled with guilt， dread(/dred/忧虑，恐惧）， anxiety(/zati/焦虑）, self-hatred（/hetrd/自我憎恨） - all of those good procrastinator feelings. And the question is, in this situation, with the Monkey behind the wheel, how does the procrastinator ever get himself over

26、 here to this blue zone, a less pleasant place, but where really important things happen？07：16Well， turns out the procrastinator has a guardian(/g：din/) angel（守护天使）， someone whos always looking down on（俯瞰) him and watching over（照看） him in his darkest moments - someone called the Panic（/pnk/恐慌) Monst

27、er（怪物).07：27(Laughter）07:33Now, the Panic Monster is dormant（/d：mnt/蛰伏的) most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up anytime a deadline gets too close or theres danger of public embarrassment（/mbrsmnt/难堪)， a career disaster or some other scary（/skeri/使人恐慌的） consequence（/knskwns/结果). And importantly,

28、hes the only thing the Monkey is terrified（/terfad/) of（非常害怕）。 Now， he became very relevant(/relvnt/密切相关的) in my life pretty(=quite) recently, because the people of TED reached out to me（=contact联系到我) about six months ago and invited me to do a TED Talk.08：00(Laughter）08：06Now, of course, I said yes

29、. Its always been a dream of mine to have done a TED Talk in the past.08:11(Laughter）08:15（Applause） But in the middle of all this excitement， the Rational Decision-Maker seemed to have something else on his mind. He was saying, Are we clear on what we just accepted? Do we get whats going to be now

30、happening one day in the future? We need to sit down and work on this right now。 And the Monkey said, Totally agree, but lets just open Google Earth and zoom in（拉近镜头) to the bottom of India, like 200 feet above the ground, and scroll(/skrl/) up(向上 ） for two and a half hours till we get to the top of

31、 the country, so we can get a better feel（总体印象) for India。08:48（Laughter）08:54So thats what we did that day。08:55（Laughter）08:59As six months turned into four and then two and then one， the people of TED decided to release(/rli:s/公布) the speakers. And I opened up the website, and there was my face staring right back at me. And guess who woke up?09:12（Laughter）09：16So the Panic Monster starts losing his mind(发疯，抓狂), and a few seconds later, the whole systems in mayhem（/mehem/混乱)。09:21（Laughter）09：26And the Monkey remember， hes terrified of the Panic Monster boom（吼