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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( 二 )


或者“活于存在的空虚中 ， 太糟了 。 ”我喜欢这个 。 如果一个小说只用六个词 ， 一整个回忆录也能用六个词 ， 在TED上你就不需要多于六个词 ， 我们中午前就能做完 。 我意思是... ... 若在全部的上千个TED演讲这么做 ， 那么230万词就减少到6000个词汇 。 那我认为这太值得了 。
So I started asking all my friends, please take your favorite TEDTalk and put that into six words. So here are some of the results that I received. I think they're quite nice. For example, Dan Pink's talk on motivation, which was pretty good if you haven't seen it: "Drop carrot. Drop stick. Bring meaning."
我开始问我所有朋友们 ， 选择最喜欢的TED演讲并总结成六个词汇 。 我得到些结果 ， 很不错 。 比如：Dan Pink关于激励的TED演讲 ， 他的演讲很好 ， 可总结为：“不要萝卜和大棒 ， 要有意义”
It's what he's basically talking about in those 18 and a half minutes. Or some even included references to the speakers, such as Nathan Myhrvold's speaking style, or the one of Tim Ferriss, which might be considered a bit strenuous at times.
这就是他在18分半钟里谈的基本意思 。 或者还包括给演讲人的参考 ， 比如内森·梅尔沃德的演讲类型 ， 或者Tim Ferriss的演讲 ， 他的演讲可能有点费力 。
The challenge here is, if I try to systematically do this, I would probably end up with a lot of summaries, but not with many friends in the end. So I had to find a different method, preferably involving total strangers. And luckily there's a website for that called Mechanical Turk, which is a website where you can post tasks that you don't want to do yourself, such as "Please summarize this text for me in six words." And I didn't allow any low-cost countries to work on this, but I found out I could get a six-word summary for just 10 cents, which I think is a pretty good price.
这可是个挑战 ， 如果我系统性地这么做 ， 我可能要做很多总结 ， 但很多朋友撑不到最后 。 所以我得找个不同办法 ， 最好都是陌生人 。 幸好的是有个网站叫Mechanical Turk ， 你可以在这网站发布任务 ， 任务你不用自己做 ， 网友可以认领 。 比如：“请帮我用六个词汇总结这段文字 ， ”我没有让低薪国家的人来做这个 ， 我发现“六字总结”只需要10美分 ， 我认为这是个好价 。
Even then, unfortunately, it's not possible to summarize each TEDTalk individually. Because if you do the math, you have a thousand TEDTalks, the pay 10 cents each; you have to do more than one summary for each of those talks, because some of them will probably be, or are, really bad. So I would end up paying hundreds of dollars.
即便如此 ， 还是有遗憾 ， 去总结每个TED演讲是不可能的 ， 因为你算下 ， 有一千个TED演讲 ， 每个10美分 ， 你得为每个TED演讲做不止一个总结 ， 因为有些演讲可能真的很糟 。 如此的话 ， 我得支付几百美元 。
于是我想到另外一个办法 ， 想到那些围绕特定主题的TED演讲 。 如果我不是让大家将单个的TED演讲总结成六个词汇 ， 而是同时给大家10个TED演讲 ， 并说：“请为此做六词总结” 。 那么成本就能砍90% ， 大概就是60美元我能把一千个TED演讲归到只有600个总结里来 ， 这就特别好了 。
Now some of you might actually right now be thinking, It's downright crazy to have 10 TEDTalks summarized into just six words. But it's actually not, because there's an example by statistics professor, Hans Rosling. I guess many of you have seen one or more of his talks. He's got eight talks online, and those talks can basically be summed up into just four words, because that's all he's basically showing us, our intuition is really bad. He always proves us wrong.


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