时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:TED演讲教育篇


英语课

   We're hardwired to become leaders of the pack.  我们天生就喜欢做领导。


  It's starts really, really early. How early?  这从很早很早就开始了。多早?
  Well babies will fake a cry, pause, wait to see who's coming and then go right back to crying.  婴儿就会假哭,停一下,看看谁走过来,接着哭。
  One-year-olds learn concealment 1. 一岁的孩子就学会隐瞒事实了。
  Two-year-olds bluff 2. Five-year-olds lie outright 3.  两岁的孩子就会吓唬人了。五岁的孩子撒谎都可以不打草稿了。
  They manipulate via flattery.  他们通过巴结来达到目的。
  Nine-year-olds, masters of the cover-up.  九岁的孩子是掩盖真相的高手。
  By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.  到你上大学的时候,你与你母亲的每交流五次中就有一次是在说谎。
  By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners,  到我们工作了,挣钱养家了,
  we enter a world that is just cluttered 4 with Spam, fake digital friends, partisan 5 media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers, a deception 6 epidemic 7 -- in short, what one author calls a post-truth society.  我们便进入了一个充满了垃圾邮件、虚假身份的网友、政党媒体、身份盗用、世界级的庞氏骗局、一个谎言的流行病,用一位作家的话简单地说,这是一个后真相社会。
  It's been very confusing for a long time now. 长时间以来这一直在混淆视听。

1 concealment
n.隐藏, 掩盖,隐瞒
  • the concealment of crime 对罪行的隐瞒
  • Stay in concealment until the danger has passed. 把自己藏起来,待危险过去后再出来。
2 bluff
v.虚张声势,用假象骗人;n.虚张声势,欺骗
  • His threats are merely bluff.他的威胁仅仅是虚张声势。
  • John is a deep card.No one can bluff him easily.约翰是个机灵鬼。谁也不容易欺骗他。
3 outright
adv.坦率地;彻底地;立即;adj.无疑的;彻底的
  • If you have a complaint you should tell me outright.如果你有不满意的事,你应该直率地对我说。
  • You should persuade her to marry you outright.你应该彻底劝服她嫁给你。
4 cluttered
v.杂物,零乱的东西零乱vt.( clutter的过去式和过去分词 );乱糟糟地堆满,把…弄得很乱;(以…) 塞满…
  • The room is cluttered up with all kinds of things. 零七八碎的东西放满了一屋子。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The desk is cluttered with books and papers. 桌上乱糟糟地堆满了书报。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 partisan
adj.党派性的;游击队的;n.游击队员;党徒
  • In their anger they forget all the partisan quarrels.愤怒之中,他们忘掉一切党派之争。
  • The numerous newly created partisan detachments began working slowly towards that region.许多新建的游击队都开始慢慢地向那里移动。
6 deception
n.欺骗,欺诈;骗局,诡计
  • He admitted conspiring to obtain property by deception.他承认曾与人合谋骗取财产。
  • He was jailed for two years for fraud and deception.他因为诈骗和欺诈入狱服刑两年。
7 epidemic
n.流行病;盛行;adj.流行性的,流传极广的
  • That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
  • The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
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