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1、此材料由网络搜集而来，如有侵权请告知上传者立即删除。材料共分享，我们负责传递知识。杨澜TED英语演讲稿以下是应届毕业生演讲稿网站为大家整理推荐的杨澜在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。她在演讲中分享了本人的人生经历，并讲述了当下中国的一些炽热现象，演讲尽管不长，但是特别多观点都特别精辟，特别值得一看。英文演讲稿：the night before i was heading for scotland, i was invited to host the final of chinas got talen

2、trdquo; show in shanghai 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.rdquo; she sang beautifully, and she even managed to say a few words in chinese. chinese soits not like hellordquo; or thank you,r

3、dquo; that ordinary stuff. it means greenonion for free.rdquo; why did she say that? because it was a line from our chinese parallel susan boyle mdash; a 50-some year-old woman, a vegetable vendor inshanghai, who loves singing western opera, but she didnt understand anyenglish or french or italian,

4、so she managed to fill in the lyrics with vegetable names in chinese. (laughter) and the last sentence of nessun dormathat she was singing in the stadium was green onion for free.rdquo; so as susanboyle was saying that, 80,000 live audience sang together. that was hilarious.so i guess both susan boy

5、le and this vegetable vendor in shanghai belonged to otherness. 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 tha

6、t difficult. we are all different from different perspectives. 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 tha

7、t has made so many changes in the past 20, 30 years. i remember 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 mdash; its still there. so after being interrogated by this japa

8、nese manager for a half an hour,he finally said, so, miss yang, do you have any questions to ask me?rdquo; i summoned my courage and poise and said, yes, but could you let me know, what actually do you sell?rdquo; i didnt have a clue what a sales department was about in a five-star hotel. that was t

9、he first day i set my foot in a five-star hotel.around the same time, i was going through an audition mdash;the first ever open audition by national television in china mdash; with another thousand college girls. the producer told us they were looking for some sweet,innocent and beautiful fresh face

10、. so when it was my turn, i stood up and said,why do womens personalities on television always have to be beautiful,sweet, innocent and, you know, supportive? why cant they have their own ideas and their own voice?rdquo; i thought i kind of offended them. but actually, they were impressed by my word

11、s. and so i was in the second round of competition,and then the third and the fourth. after seven rounds 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

12、 speak out of their own minds without reading an approved script.(applause) and my weekly audience at 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, w

13、hich was unthought of during the years that i started mycareer. so we do a lot of things. ive interviewed more than a thousand peoplein the past. and sometimes i have young people approaching me say, lan, you changed my life,rdquo; and i feel proud of that. but then we are also so fortunate to witne

14、ss the transformation of the whole country. i was in beijings bidding for the olympic games. i was representing 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 differen

15、ces they are going to make to shape the future of china, or at large,the world?so today i want to talk about 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 mdash; 20 years old, beautiful. she showed offher e

16、xpensive bags, clothes and car on her microblog, which is the chinese version of twitter. and she claimed to be the 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 credibi

17、lity of red cross. the controversy was so heated that the red cross had to open a press conference to clarify it, and the investigation is going on.so far, as of today, we know that she herself made up that title mdash; probably because she feels proud to be associated with charity.all those expensi

18、ve items were given to her as gifts by her boyfriend, who used to be a board member in a subdivision of red cross at chamber 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-backe

19、d institutions, which lacked transparency in the past. and also it showed us the power and the impact of social media as microblog.microblog boomed in the year of XX, with visitors doubled and time spent on it tripled. sina, a major news portal, alone hasmore than 140 million microbloggers. on tence

20、nt, 200 million. the most popular blogger mdash; its not me mdash; its a movie star, and she has more than 9.5 million followers, or fans. 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 g

21、overnment, social media offers an opening to let thesteam out a little bit. but because you dont have many other openings, theheat coming 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 th

22、ey 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 families 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;

23、 were in a globalized world, so they can look for girlfriends from other countries. most of them have fairly good education.the illiteracy 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

24、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 tradition 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 pa

25、rents 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 supply. 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? the

26、y have to share space mdash; squeezed invery limited space to save money mdash; and they call themselves tribe of ants.rdquo;and for those who are ready to get 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

27、 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 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

28、 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 vulnerable to joblosses, subject to inflation, tightening loans from banks, appreciation of the renminbi, or decline of demand from europe or a

29、merica for the products theyproduce. last year, though, an appalling incident in a southern oemmanufacturing compound in china: 13 young workers in their late teens and early 20s committed suicide, just one by one like causing a contagious disease. but they died because of all different personal rea

30、sons. but this whole incident aroused a huge outcry from society about the isolation, both physical and mental, ofthese migrant workers.for those who do return back to the countryside, they find themselves very welcome locally, because with the knowledge, skills and networks they have learned in the

31、 cities, with the assistance of the internet,theyre able to create more jobs, upgrade local agriculture and create newbusiness in the less developed market. so for the past few years, the coastal areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.these diagrams show a more general social background

32、. 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 offamily 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

33、 gini coefficient has already passed the dangerous line of 0.4. now its 0.5 mdash; even worse than that in america mdash; showing us the income inequality. and so you see this whole society getting frustrated about losing some of its mobility. and also, the bitterness and even resentment towards the

34、 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 of the hottest topics on microblogging,we can see what young people care most about. social justice and governm

35、entaccountability runs the first in what they demand. for the past decade or so, amassive urbanization and development have let us witness a lot of reports onthe forced demolition of private property. and it has aroused huge anger and frustration among our young generation. sometimes people get kill

36、ed, and sometimes people set themselves on fire to protest. so when these incidents are reported more and more frequently on the internet, people cry for thegovernment to take actions to stop this.so the good news is that earlier this year, the state council passed a new regulation on house requisit

37、ion and demolition and passedthe right to order forced demolition from local governments to the court.similarly, many other issues concerning public safety is a hot topic on the internet. we heard about polluted air, polluted water, poisoned food. and guesswhat, we have faked beef. they have sorts o

38、f ingredients that you brush on apiece of chicken or fish, and it turns it to look like beef. and then lately,people are very concerned about cooking oil, because thousands of people have been found refining cooking oil from restaurant slop. so all these things have aroused a huge outcry from the in

39、ternet. and fortunately, we have seen the government responding more timely and also more frequently to the public concerns.while young people seem to be very sure about their participation in public policy-making, but sometimes theyre a little bit lost in terms of what they want for their personal

40、life. china is soon to pass the u.s. as the number one market for luxury brands mdash; thats not including the chinese expenditures in europe and elsewhere. but you know what, half of those consumers are earning a salary below 2,000 u.s. dollars. theyre not rich atall. theyre taking those bags and c

41、lothes as a sense of identity and social status. and this is a girl explicitly saying on a tv dating show that she would rather cry in a bmw than smile on a bicycle. but of course, we do have young people who would still prefer to smile, whether in a bmw or on a bicycle.so in the next picture, you s

42、ee a very popular phenomenon called nakedrdquo; wedding, or nakedrdquo; marriage. it does not mean they will wear nothing in the wedding, but it shows that these young couples are ready to get married without a house, without a car, without a diamond ring and without a wedding banquet, to show their

43、 commitment to true love. and also, people are doing good through social media. and the first picture showed us that a truck caging 500 homeless and kidnapped dogs for food processing was spotted andstopped on the highway with the whole country watching through microblogging.people were donating mon

44、ey, dog food and offering volunteer work to stop that truck. and after hours of negotiation, 500 dogs were rescued. and here also people are helping to find missing children. a father posted his sons picture onto the internet. after thousands of unclear, the child was found, and we witnessed the reu

45、nion of the family through microblogging.so happiness is the most popular word we have heardthrough the past two years. happiness is not only related to personal experiences and personal values, but also, its about the environment. people are thinking about the following questions: are we going to s

46、acrifice our environment further to produce higher gdp? how are we going to perform our social and political reform to keep pace with economic growth, to keep sustainability and stability? and also, how capable is the system ofself-correctness to keep more people content with all sorts of friction g

47、oingon at the same time? i guess these are the questions people are going to answer. and our younger generation are going to transform this country while at the same time being transformed themselves.thank you very much.译文：来苏格兰(做ted讲演)的前夜，我被邀请去上海做rdquo;中国达人秀决赛的评委。在装有八万现场观众的演播厅里，在台上的表演嘉宾竟然是(来自苏格兰的，因参

48、加英国达人秀走红的)苏珊大妈(susan boyle)。我告诉她，我明天就要启程去苏格兰。rdquo; 她唱得特别动听，还对观众说了几句中文，她并没有说简单的rdquo;你好或者rdquo;感激，她说的是mdash;mdash;送你葱rdquo;。为什么?这句话事实上来源于中国版的苏珊大妈rdquo;mdash;mdash;一位五十岁的以卖菜为生，却对西方歌剧有出奇爱好的上海中年妇女(蔡洪平)。这位中国的苏珊大妈并不明白英文，法语或意大利文，因此她将歌剧中的词汇都换做中文中的蔬菜名，同时演唱出来。在她口中，歌剧图兰朵的最后一句便是song ni congrdquo;。当真正的英国苏珊大妈唱出这

49、一句中文的rdquo;图兰朵时，全场的八万观众也一起高声歌唱，场面确实有些滑稽。我想susan boyle和这位上海的买菜农妇确实属于人群中的少数。她们是最不可能在演艺界成功的，而她们的勇气和才华让她们成功了，这个节目和舞台给予了她们一个实现个人梦想的时机。如此看来，与众不同好似没有那么难。从不同的方面审视，我们每个人都是不同的。但是我想，与众不同是一件好事，由于你代表了不一样的观点，你拥有了做改变的时机。我这一代中国人特别幸运的目睹同时参与了中国在过去二三十年中经历的巨变。我记得1990年，当我刚大学毕业时，我申请了当时北京的第一家五星级酒店mdash;mdash;长城喜来登酒店的销售部门的工作。这家酒店如今仍在北京。当我被一位日本籍经理面试了一个半小时之后，他咨询到，杨小姐，你有什么想咨询我的吗?rdquo;，我屏住呼吸，咨询道是的，你能告诉我，详细我需要销售些什么吗?rdquo; 当时的我，对五星级酒店的销售部门没有任何概念，事实上，那是我第一次进到一家五星级酒店。我当时也在参加另一场面试rdquo;，中国国家电视台的初