TED演讲:我们不要一成不变的教育(1)

 　　I'm a little nervous, because my wife Yvonne said to me, she said, "Geoff, you watch the TED¹ Talks." 我有点紧张，因为我的妻子Yvonne对我说：“Geoff，你看TED演讲的，对吧？”

　　I said, "Yes, honey, I love TED Talks." 我说：“对啊，亲爱的，我喜欢TED演讲。”

　　She said, "You know, they're like, really smart, talented..." 她说：“那些演讲者可都是很聪明、很有才能的人哦！”

　　I said, "I know, I know." 我说：“这我知道、知道。”

　　She said, "They don't want, like, the angry black man." 她说：“那观众不会喜欢你这个怒气冲冲的黑老头吧？”

　　So I said, "No, I'm gonna be good, Honey, I'm gonna be good. I am." 因此，我对她说：“放心好了，我不会发火的，亲爱的！我会控制我的情绪的，我会的！”

　　But I am angry. And the last time I looked, I'm... 可是，我还是火大了。最后我还是生气了不是？

　　So this is why I'm excited but I'm angry. 这就是我兴奋的原因，可我还是生气了。

　　This year, there are going to be millions of our children that we're going to needlessly² lose, 今年，将会有成百上千万的学生完全没必要地在我们的手中流失，

　　that we could -- right now, we could save them all. 而其实，我们现在还可以拉他们一把的。

　　You saw the quality of the educators who were here. 我们的师资质量各位是有目共睹的。

　　Do not tell me they could not reach those kids and save them. 你可别对我说我们的教育工作者没法帮那些孩子和拉他们一把。

　　I know they could. It is absolutely possible. Why haven't we fixed³ this? 我知道，他们可以的。他们完全可以做到的。可为什么我们没去做这件事呢？

　　Those of us in education have held on to a business plan that we don't care how many millions of young people fail, 我们有些教育工作者已经习惯墨守成规，我们不太在乎有几百万的学生学无所成，

　　we're going to continue to do the same thing that didn't work, and nobody is getting crazy about it -- right? 而我们还乐此不疲地继续做着那些无用功，而从来都没有人因此生过气，发过火，对不？

　　Enough to say, "Enough is enough." So here's a business plan that simply does not make any sense. 这些足够我说：“我受够了”。所以，我想讲一下这种毫无意义的教育模式。

1 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

2 needlessly   

adv.不需要地，不必要地

参考例句：

• Thousands of children in the world today suffer needlessly. 当今世界有成千上万的儿童遭受着不必要的痛苦。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Yet they were built on stilts, quite needlessly. 半山上也用吊脚楼形式，这形式是必须的吗？ 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译

3 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。