杨澜TED演讲英文版1
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The night before I was heading for Scotland, I was
前往；出发；取向于
invited to host the final of \"China\'s Got Talent\" show in
中国达人秀 ；中国达人
Shanghai with the 80,000 live audience in the stadium.Gue who was the performing guest? Susan Boyle.And I
苏珊大妈
told her, \"I\'m going to Scotland the next day.\" She sang beautifully, and she even managed to say a few words in Chinese.[Chinese] So it\'s not like \"hello\" or \"thank you,\" that ordinary stuff .It means \"green onion for free.\" Why
n.材料；东西；填充物；素材资料vt.填塞；塞满；让吃饱vi.吃得过多
did she say that? Because it was a line from our Chinese parallel Susan Boyle -- a 50-some year-old woman, a vegetable vendor in Shanghai, who loves singing Western
n.小贩；卖主；自动售货机
opera, but she didn\'t understand any English or French or Italian, so she managed to fill in the lyrics with vegetable
填写；填充；替代
names in Chinese.(Laughter) And the last sentence of Neun Dorma that she was singing in the stadium was
今夜无人入睡（歌曲名）
\"green onion(洋葱；洋葱头)for free.\" So [as] Susan Boyle was saying that, 80,000 live audience sang together.That was hilarious.
adj.欢闹的；非常滑稽的；喜不自禁的
So I gue both Susan Boyle and this vegetable vendor in Shanghai belonged to otherne.They were the least expected to be succeful in the busine called entertainment, yet their courage and talent brought them through.And a show and a platform (平台)gave them the stage to realize their dreams.Well, being different is not that difficult.We are all different from different perspectives.
（n.透视，远景，看法；构面；观点展示）
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 witne
adj.幸运的；侥幸的；带来幸运的；吉祥的
and participate in the historic transformation of China
历史上著名的；有历史意义的 that
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（喜来登长城饭店） -- it\'s still there.So after being interrogated （审问；质问）by this Japanese manager for a half an hour, he finally said, \"So, Mi Yang, do you have any questions to ask me?\" I summoned（传唤；召集） my courage and poise（n.姿势；平衡；镇静） and said, \"Yes, but could you let me know, what actually do you sell?\" I didn\'t have a clue what a
[口语]一无所知；毫无头绪；一点不懂
sales department（n.部门；系；科；部；局） 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 through （熬过；仔细检查）an audition （面试）-- 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] women\'s personalities on television always have to be beautiful, sweet, innocent and, you know, supportive? Why can\'t they have their own ideas and their own voice?\" I thought I kind of （有点儿；有几分）offended （冒犯）them.But actually, they were impreed by my words.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（黄金时段） 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（adj.被认可的；经过检验的） script（圣经；手稿）.(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（从事；追赶；继续；纠缠） my postgraduate studies, and then started my own media company, which was unthought of （ 意外的）during the years that I started my career.So we do a lot of things.I\'ve interviewed more than a thousand people in 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 witne the transformation （n.转化；转换；变形；改革 ） of the whole country.I was in Beijing\'s bidding （n.投标；出价；命令）for the Olympic Games.I was representing the Shanghai Expo（展览会）.I saw China embracing the world and vice versa（反之亦然；反过来也一样）.But then sometimes I\'m thinking, what are today\'s young generation up to（一直到；相当于；忙于…，在做…；由…决定的）? 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 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 -- 20 years old, beautiful.She showed off（炫耀；卖弄 ） her expensive bags, clothes and car on her microblog（微博）, which is the Chinese version of Twitter.And she claimed to be the general manager（总经理）of Red Cro at the Chamber of Commerce（商会）.She didn\'t realize that she stepped on（踩上，踏上） a sensitive nerve（神经；勇气） and aroused national questioning, almost a turmoil（n.混乱，骚动）, against the credibility of Red Cro.The controversy （n.争论；辩论；论战）was so heated that the Red Cro had to open a pre （新闻；出版社）conference to clarify it, and the investigation（n.调查；调查研究） is going on.
So far, as of（自……起） today, we know that she herself made up （编造）that title -- probably because she feels proud to be aociated with（和…联系在一起；与……有关，与……有关系） charity（n.施舍；慈善；慈善团体；施舍物；宽容）.All those expensive items were given to her as gifts by her boyfriend, who used to be a board member（董事会成员） in a subdivision（分部） of Red Cro at Chamber of Commerce.It\'s very complicated to explain.But anyway, the public still doesn\'t buy it（放弃，认输）.It is still boiling.It shows us a general mistrust of government or government-backed institutions（体系）, which lacked transparency（透明性） in the past.And also it showed us the power and the impact of social media as microblog.
Microblog boomed(繁荣) in the year of 2010, with visitors doubled（加倍） and time spent on it tripled（三倍）.Sina.com, a major news portal（n.大门，入口）, alone has more than 140 million microbloggers.On Tencent, 200 million.The most popular blogger -- it\'s not me -- it\'s 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 government, social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit.But because you don\'t have many other openings, the heat coming out of （v.由...产生；从...出来）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（独生子女政策）.And because of selected abortion （n.流产，小产；流产的胎儿）by families who favored boys to girls, now we have ended up with（结束；以…而结束；以…告终） 30 million more young men than women.That could
pose （造成）a potential （adj.潜在的；可能的；势的）danger to the society, but who knows; we\'re in a globalized（全球化） world, so they can look for girlfriends from other countries.Most of them have fairly （adv.相当地；公平地；简直）good education.The illiteracy （文盲）rate in China among this generation is under one percent.In cities, 80 percent of kids go to college.But they are facing an aging（n.老化；陈化，熟化） 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 tradition that younger generations support the elders financially, and taking care of them when they\'re sick.So it means young couples will have to support four parents who have a life expectancy（预期寿命；平均寿命）of 73 years old.
So making a living is not that easy for young people.College graduates are not in short supply（供应不足；缺乏）.In urban areas（城市地区）, 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 in（榨出，挤出；挤进去） very limited space to save money -- and they call themselves \"tribe of ants（ 蚁族）.\" And for those who are ready to get married and buy their apartment, they figured out（解决；算出；想出；理解；断定） they have to work for 30 to 40 years to afford their first apartment.That ratio （n.比率，比例）in America would only cost a couple five years to earn, but in China it\'s 30 to 40 years with the skyrocketing（n.价格飞涨；突涨，飞升） real estate （n.不动产，房地产）price.
Among the 200 million migrant workers（流动工人）, 60 percent of them are young people.They find themselves sort of（有几分地；到某种程度；稍稍） sandwiched（adj.夹于两者之间的） between the urban areas and the rural areas（农村地区）.Most of them don\'t want to go back to the countryside, but they don\'t have the sense of belonging（归宿感，归属感）.They work for longer hours with le income, le social welfare.And they\'re more vulnerable（adj.有弱点的；易受伤害的；易受攻击的，易受…的攻击) to job loes, subject to(使服从；使遭受；受…管制) inflation(n.膨胀；通货膨胀；夸张；自命不凡), tightening(v.拧紧；使绷紧；扣紧（tighten的ing形式）) loans(n.借贷；贷款（loan的复数形式）) from banks, appreciation(n.欣赏，鉴别；增值；感谢) of the renminbi, or decline of demand from Europe or America for the products they produce.Last year, though, an appalling(adj.可怕的；令人震惊的) incident in a southern OEM manufacturing compound in China: 13 young workers in their late teens and early 20s committed suicide(自杀死亡), just one by one like causing a contagious disease([医] 接触传染病).But they died because of all different personal reasons.But this whole incident aroused a huge outcry(n.强烈抗议；大声疾呼；尖叫；倒彩) from society about the isolation(n.隔离；孤立), both physical and mental, of these 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 cities, with the aistance of the Internet, they\'re able to create more jobs, upgrade(vt.使升级;提升;改良品种) local agriculture and create new busine in the le developed market.So for the past few years, the coastal areas( 沿海地区), they found themselves in a shortage of labor(劳动；工作；劳工).
These diagrams show a more general social background.The first one is the Engels coefficient(恩格斯系数), which explains that the cost of daily neceities has dropped its percentage all through the past decade, in terms of family 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（基尼系数） has already paed the dangerous line of 0.4.Now it\'s 0.5 -- even worse than that in America -- showing us the income inequality（n.不平等；不同；不平均）.And so you see this whole society getting frustrated about losing some of its mobility（n.移动性；机动性）.And also, the bitterne（n.苦味；苦难；怨恨） and even resentment（n.愤恨，怨恨） towards the rich and the powerful is quite widespread（adj.普遍的，广泛的；分布广的）.So any accusations（n.控告，指控；谴责） of corruption （n.贪污，腐败；堕落）or backdoor dealings between authorities（n.当局，官方） or busine would arouse a social outcry（n.强烈抗议；大声疾呼；尖叫；倒彩） or even unrest（n.不安；动荡的局面；不安的状态）.
So through some of the hottest topics on microblogging, we can see what young people care most about.Social justice（社会主义）and government accountability（n.有义务；有责任；可说明性） runs the first in what they demand.For the past decade or so（大约，左右）, a maive urbanization （n.都市化；文雅化）and development have let us witne a lot of reports on the forced demolition（n.拆除（等于demolishment）；破坏；毁坏） of private property（[法] 私有财产；私有制）.And it has aroused huge anger and frustration among our young generation.Sometimes people get killed, and sometimes people set themselves on fire to protest（抗议）.So when these incidents are reported more and more frequently on the Internet, people cry for the government to take actions to stop this.
So the good news is that earlier this year, the state council（ n.委员会；会议；理事会；地方议会；顾问班子） paed a new regulation（n.管理；规则；校准
） on house requisition and demolition and paed the right to order forced demolition from local governments to the court.Similarly, many other iues concerning public safety is a hot topic on the Internet.We heard about polluted air, polluted water, poisoned food.And gue what, we have faked beef（伪造的牛肉）.They have sorts of ingredients（材料；作料） that you brush on a piece 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 Internet.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 they\'re a little bit lost in terms of what they want for their personal life.China is soon to pa the U.S.as the number one market for luxury（adj.奢侈的） brands -- that\'s not including the Chinese expenditures（n.
开支，支出
） in Europe and elsewhere.But you know what, half of those consumers are earning a salary below 2,000 U.S.dollars.They\'re not rich at all.They\'re taking those bags and clothes 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 see a very popular phenomenon called \"naked\" wedding, or \"naked\" 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 （钻石戒指，钻戒）and without a wedding banquet（n.宴会，盛宴；宴请，款待）, to show their commitment to （恪守承诺）true love.And also, people are doing good through social media.And the first picture showed us that a truck caging（v.把…关入笼内） 500 homele and kidnapped（v.诱拐，绑架（kidnap过去时形式）） dogs for food proceing（ v.加工；[自] 处理；对…起诉（proce的ing形式）） was spotted（发现） and stopped on the highway with the whole country watching through microblogging.People were donating money, dog food and offering volunteer work to stop that truck.And after hours of negotiation（n.谈判；转让；顺利的通过）, 500 dogs were rescued.And here also people are helping to find miing children.A father posted his son\'s picture onto the Internet.After thousands of [unclear], the child was found, and we witneed the reunion of the family through microblogging.
So happine is the most popular word we have heard through the past two years.Happine is not only related to personal experiences and personal values, but also, it\'s about the environment.People are thinking about the following questions: Are we going to sacrifice 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（adj.能干的，能胜任的；有才华的） is the system of self-correctne to keep more people content with(满足于…；对…感到满意) all sorts of (各种各样的)friction(n.摩擦) going on at the same time? I gue 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.
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