励志作文之杨澜ted演讲稿中英文杨澜TED双语励志演讲稿.docx

1、励志作文之杨澜ted演讲稿中英文杨澜TED双语励志演讲稿杨澜ted演讲稿中英文杨澜TED双语励志演讲稿 以下是杨澜在ted大会上的一篇题为the generation thats remaking china(重塑中国的一代)的演讲稿中英原文。她在演讲中分享了自己的人生经历，并讲述了当下中国的一些火热现象，演讲虽然不长，但是很多观点都很精辟，值得一看。【英文演讲稿：】the night before i was heading for scotland, i was invited to host the final of chinas got talent show in shanghai

2、with the 80,000 live audience in the stadium. guess who was the performing guest? susan boyle. and i told her, im going to scotland the next day. she sang beautifully, and she even managed to say a few words in chinese. chinese soits not like hello or thank you, that ordinary stuff. it means greenon

3、ion for free. why did she say that? because it was a line from our chinese parallel susan boyle a 50-some year-old woman, a vegetable vendor inshanghai, who loves singing western opera, but she didnt understand anyenglish or french or italian, so she managed to fill in the lyrics with vegetable name

4、s in chinese. (laughter) and the last sentence of nessun dormathat she was singing in the stadium was green onion for free. so as susanboyle was saying that, 80,000 live audience sang together. that was hilarious.so i guess both susan boyle and this vegetable vendor in shanghai belonged to otherness

5、. they were the least expected to be successful in the business called entertainment, yet their courage and talent brought themthrough. and a show and a platform gave them the stage to realize their dreams.well, being different is not that difficult. we are all different from different perspectives.

6、 but i think being different is good, because you present a different point of view. you may have the chance to make a difference.my generation has been very fortunate to witness and participate in the historic transformation of china that has made so many changes in the past 20, 30 years. i remembe

7、r that in the year of 1990, when i was graduating from college, i was applying for a job in the sales department of the first five-star hotel in beijing, great wall sheraton its still there. so after being interrogated by this japanese manager for a half an hour,he finally said, so, miss yang, do yo

8、u have any questions to ask me? i summoned my courage and poise and said, yes, but could you let me know, what actually do you sell? i didnt have a clue what a sales department was about in a five-star hotel. that was the first day i set my foot in a five-star hotel.around the same time, i was going

9、 through an audition the first ever open audition by national television in china with another thousand college girls. the producer told us they were looking for some sweet,innocent and beautiful fresh face. so when it was my turn, i stood up and said,why do womens personalities on television always

10、 have to be beautiful,sweet, innocent and, you know, supportive? why cant they have their own ideas and their own voice? i thought i kind of offended them. but actually, they were impressed by my words. and so i was in the second round of competition,and then the third and the fourth. after seven ro

11、unds of competition, i was the last one to survive it. so i was on a national television prime-time show. and believe it or not, that was the first show on chinese television that allowed its hosts to speak out of their own minds without reading an approved script.(applause) and my weekly audience a

12、t that time was between 200 to 300 million people.well after a few years, i decided to go to the u.s. and columbia university to pursue my postgraduate studies, and then started my ownmedia company, which was unthought of during the years that i started mycareer. so we do a lot of things. ive interv

13、iewed more than a thousand peoplein the past. and sometimes i have young people approaching me say, lan, you changed my life, and i feel proud of that. but then we are also so fortunate to witness the transformation of the whole country. i was in beijings bidding for the olympic games. i was represe

14、nting the shanghai expo. i saw china embracing the world and vice versa. but then sometimes im thinking, what are todays young generation up to? how are they different, and what are the differences they are going to make to shape the future of china, or at large,the world?so today i want to talk abo

15、ut young people through the platform of social media. first of all, who are they? what do they look like?well this is a girl called guo meimei 20 years old, beautiful. she showed offher expensive bags, clothes and car on her microblog, which is the chinese version of twitter. and she claimed to be t

16、he general manager of red cross at the chamber of commerce. she didnt realize that she stepped on a sensitive nerve and aroused national questioning, almost a turmoil, against the credibility of red cross. the controversy was so heated that the red cross had to open a press conference to clarify it,

17、 and the investigation is going on.so far, as of today, we know that she herself made up that title probably because she feels proud to be associated with charity.all those expensive items were given to her as gifts by her boyfriend, who used to be a board member in a subdivision of red cross at cha

18、mber of commerce. its very complicated to explain. but anyway, the public still doesnt buy it. it is still boiling. it shows us a general mistrust of government or government-backed institutions, which lacked transparency in the past. and also it showed us the power and the impact of social media as

19、 microblog.microblog boomed in the year of xx, with visitors doubled and time spent on it tripled. , a major news portal, alone hasmore than 140 million microbloggers. on tencent, 200 million. the most popular blogger its not me its a movie star, and she has more than 9.5 million followers, or fans.

20、 about 80 percent of those microbloggers are young people,under 30 years old. and because, as you know, the traditional media is still heavily controlled by the government, social media offers an opening to let thesteam out a little bit. but because you dont have many other openings, theheat coming

21、out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.so through microblogging, we are able to understand chinese youth even better. so how are they different? first of all, most of them were born in the 80s and 90s, under the one-child policy. and because of selected abortion by fam

22、ilies who favored boys to girls, now we have ended up with 30 million more young men than women. that could pose a potential danger to the society, but who knows; were in a globalized world, so they can look for girlfriends from other countries. most of them have fairly good education.the illiteracy

23、 rate in china among this generation is under one percent. incities, 80 percent of kids go to college. but they are facing an aging china with a population above 65 years old coming up with seven-point-some percent this year, and about to be 15 percent by the year of 2030. and you know we have the t

24、radition that younger generations support the elders financially, and taking care of them when theyre sick. so it means young couples will have to support four parents who have a life expectancy of 73 years old.so making a living is not that easy for young people.college graduates are not in short s

25、upply. in urban areas, college graduates find the starting salary is about 400 u.s. dollars a month, while the average rent is above $500. so what do they do? they have to share space squeezed invery limited space to save money and they call themselves tribe of ants.and for those who are ready to ge

26、t married and buy their apartment, they figured out they have to work for 30 to 40 years to afford their firstapartment. that ratio in america would only cost a couple five years to earn,but in china its 30 to 40 years with the skyrocketing real estate price.among the 200 million migrant workers, 60

27、 percent of them are young people. they find themselves sort of sandwiched between the urban areas and the rural areas. most of them dont want to go back to the countryside, but they dont have the sense of belonging. they work for longer hours with less income, less social welfare. and theyre more v

28、ulnerable to joblosses, subject to inflation, tightening loans from banks, appreciation of the renminbi, or decline of demand from europe or america for the products theyproduce. last year, though, an appalling incident in a southern oemmanufacturing compound in china: 13 young workers in their late

29、 teens and early 20s committed suicide, just one by one like causing a contagious disease. but they died because of all different personal reasons. but this whole incident aroused a huge outcry from society about the isolation, both physical and mental, ofthese migrant workers.for those who do retur

30、n back to the countryside, they find themselves very welcome locally, because with the knowledge, skills and networks they have learned in the cities, with the assistance of the internet,theyre able to create more jobs, upgrade local agriculture and create newbusiness in the less developed market. s

31、o for the past few years, the coastal areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.these diagrams show a more general social background. the first one is the engels coefficient, which explains that the cost of dailynecessities has dropped its percentage all through the past decade, in terms o

32、ffamily income, to about 37-some percent. but then in the last two years, it goes up again to 39 percent, indicating a rising living cost. the gini coefficient has already passed the dangerous line of 0.4. now its 0.5 even worse than that in america showing us the income inequality. and so you see t

33、his whole society getting frustrated about losing some of its mobility. and also, the bitterness and even resentment towards the rich and the powerful isquite widespread. so any accusations of corruption or backdoor dealings between authorities or business would arouse a social outcry or even unrest.so through some