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「英语口语小镇」TED | 每场TED演讲，都可以用6个词来概括


北京联盟_本文原题：TED | 每场TED演讲 ， 都可以用6个词来概括
我们推荐了那么多TED演讲 ， 一般时长都在4到18分钟不等 ， 一篇大概2,300个词汇 ， 但塞巴斯蒂安·韦尼克却认为 ， 每个TED演讲用六个词就足以概括（甚至可以更少） 。
演讲者：Sebastian Wernicke
时长：07:30
There's currently over a thousand TEDTalks on the TED website. And I guess many of you here think that this is quite fantastic -- except for me. I don't agree with this. I think we have a situation here. Because if you think about it, 1,000 TEDTalks, that's over 1,000 ideas worth spreading. How on earth are you going to spread a thousand ideas?
目前在TED网站上有超过上千个TED演讲 ， 我想在场的多数人都会认为这简直太棒了--除了我 ， 我不认同 。 我认为我们有这么一种情况 ， 你想一下 ， 1000个TED演讲 ， 那可是1000个值得传播的想法 。 那么说到底如何去传播这一千个想法？
即便是将这些想法吸收到你脑子里也需要看这上千个TED视频 ， 这就要花费你超过250个小时的时间 。 我稍微计算了一下 ， 要这么做了 ， 这相当于经济损失的价值估计约15,000美元 。 看到有损经济的危险 ， 我想我们应该找个办法来解决这问题 。
Here's my approach to it all. If you look at the current situation, you have a thousand TEDTalks. Each of those TEDTalks has an average length of about 2,300 words. Now take this together and you end up with 2.3 million words of TEDTalks, which is about three Bibles-worth of content.
这是我的提议：看下这个情况 ， 这有上千个TED演讲 ， 这些TED演讲视频有一个平均长度 ， 大概2,300个词汇 。 现在放在一起所有TED演讲总计大约230万词汇 ， 这大约相当于三本【圣经】的内容 。
The obvious question here is, does a TEDTalk really need 2,300 words? Isn't there something shorter? I mean, if you have an idea worth spreading, surely you can put it into something shorter than 2,300 words. The only question is, how short can you get? What's the minimum amount of words you would need to do a TEDTalk?
明显的问题是 ， 一个TED演讲是否需要2300个词汇？没有更短的吗？我意思是 ， 如果你有值得传播的思想 ， 你肯定能让它短点儿 ， 比2300个词短 。 那么问题是：要多短？最少需要多少词汇？一个TED演讲能多短？
While I was pondering this question, I came across this urban legend about Ernest Hemingway, who allegedly said that these six words here: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," were the best novel he had ever written. And I also encountered a project called Six-Word Memoirs where people were asked, take your whole life and please sum this up into six words, such as these here: "Found true love, married someone else."
当我考虑这个问题时我想起了欧内斯特·海明威的传奇故事 ， 据说他说过一个仅仅六个词的小说 “出售：小孩的鞋 ， 永远不会穿破 。 ” 这是他写的最好的小说 。 我也有过一个项目叫“六字回忆录” ， 我请人们把整个人生总结在六个词里 ， 比如：“找到过真爱 ， 但与他人结婚 。 ”
Or "Living in existential vacuum; it sucks." I actually like that one. So if a novel can be put into six words and a whole memoir can be put into six words, you don't need more than six words for a TEDTalk. We could have been done by lunch here. I mean ... And if you did this for all thousand TEDTalks, you would get from 2.3 million words down to 6,000. So I thought this was quite worthwhile.


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