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1、 TED英语演讲稿(范文五篇) My generation really, sadly, is not going to change the numbers at the top. They”re just not moving. We are not going to get to where 50 percent of the population in my generation, there will not be 50 percent of women at the top of any industry. But I”m hopeful that future generatio

2、ns can. I think a world where half of our countries and our companies were run by women, would be a better world. It”s not just because people would know where the women”s bathrooms are, even though that would be very helpful.I think it would be a better world. I have two children. I have a five-yea

3、r-old son and a two-year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home, and I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments. 第三篇：经典TED英语演讲稿第五篇：经典TED英语演讲稿 Look, I had second thoughts, really, about wheth

4、er I could talk about this to such a vital and alive audience as you guys. Then I remembered the quote from Gloria Steinem, which goes, “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.“ (Laughter) So - (Laughter) So with that in mind, I”m going to set about trying to do those things her

5、e, and talk about dying in the 21st century. Now the first thing that will piss you off, undoubtedly, is that all of us are, in fact, going to die in the 21st century. There will be no exceptions to that. There are, apparently, about one in eight of you who think you”re immortal, on surveys, but - (

6、Laughter) Unfortunately, that isn”t going to happen. While I give this talk, in the next 10 minutes, a hundred million of my cells will die, and over the course of today, 2,000 of my brain cells will die and never come back, so you could argue that the dying process starts pretty early in the piece.

7、 Anyway, the second thing I want to say about dying in the 21st century, apart from it”s going to happen to everybody, is it”s shaping up to be a bit of a train wreck for most of us, unless we do something to try and reclaim this process from the rather inexorable trajectory that it”s currently on.

8、So there you go. That”s the truth. No doubt that will piss you off, and now let”s see whether we can set you free. I don”t promise anything. Now, as you heard in the intro, I work in intensive care, and I think I”ve kind of lived through the heyday of intensive care. It”s been a ride, man. This has

9、been fantastic. We have machines that go ping. There”s many of them up there. And we have some wizard technology which I think has worked really well, and over the course of the time I”ve worked in intensive care, the death rate for males in Australia has halved, and intensive care has had something

10、 to do with that. Certainly, a lot of the technologies that we use have got something to do with that. So we have had tremendous success, and we kind of got caught up in our own success quite a bit, and we started using expressions like “lifesaving.“ I really apologize to everybody for doing that, b

11、ecause obviously, we don”t. What we do is prolong people”s lives, and delay death, and redirect death, but we can”t, strictly speaking, save lives on any sort of permanent basis. And what”s really happened over the period of time that I”ve been working in intensive care is that the people whose live

12、s we started saving back in the ”70s, ”80s, and ”90s, are now coming to die in the 21st century of diseases that we no longer have the answers to in quite the way we did then. So what”s happening now is there”s been a big shift in the way that people die, and most of what they”re dying of now isn”t

13、as amenable to what we can do as what it used to be like when I was doing this in the ”80s and ”90s. So we kind of got a bit caught up with this, and we haven”t really squared with you guys about what”s really happening now, and it”s about time we did. I kind of woke up to this bit in the late ”90s

14、when I met this guy. This guy is called Jim, Jim Smith, and he looked like this. I was called down to the ward to see him. His is the little hand. I was called down to the ward to see him by a respiratory physician. He said, “Look, there”s a guy down here. He”s got pneumonia, and he looks like he ne

15、eds intensive care. His daughter”s here and she wants everything possible to be done.“ Which is a familiar phrase to us. So I go down to the ward and see Jim, and his skin his translucent like this. You can see his bones through the skin. He”s very, very thin, and he is, indeed, very sick with pneum

16、onia, and he”s too sick to talk to me, so I talk to his daughter Kathleen, and I say to her, “Did you and Jim ever talk about what you would want done if he ended up in this kind of situation?“ And she looked at me and said, “No, of course not!“ I thought, “Okay. Take this steady.“ And I got talking

17、 to her, and after a while, she said to me, “You know, we always thought there”d be time.“ Jim was 94. (Laughter) And I realized that something wasn”t happening here. There wasn”t this dialogue going on that I imagined was happening. So a group of us started doing survey work, and we looked at four

18、and a half thousand nursing home residents in Newcastle, in the Newcastle area, and discovered that only one in a hundred of them had a plan about what to do when their hearts stopped beating. One in a hundred. And only one in 500 of them had plan about what to do if they became seriously ill. And I realized, of course, this dialogue is definitely not occurring in the public at large.