【TED】学外语对健康的好处 · 不只是会说话那么简单
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| P1 | 【TED】学外语对健康的好处 · 不只是会说话那么简单 中英 | 11:49 |
| P2 | 【TED】学外语对健康的好处 · 不只是会说话那么简单 英文 | 11:49 |
| P3 | 【TED】学外语对健康的好处 · 不只是会说话那么简单 无字 | 11:49 |
P1 · 【TED】学外语对健康的好处 · 不只是会说话那么简单 p01 中英字幕 (P1)
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:10 | Learning a foreign language is good for you for so many reasons. | 学习外语对你有好处 原因很多 |
| 0:16 | Why should I learn English? | 我为什么要学英语? |
| 0:18 | It's not a question people ask themselves a lot these days, is it? | 最近人们不会问自己很多问题吧? |
| 0:22 | English is probably going to become the world's lingua franca if it's not already. | 英语如果还没有成为世界语言的话,很可能会成为世界语言. |
| 0:26 | Today, English is the most widely used language for newspaper, book and scientific publishing, | 今天,英语是报纸,书籍和科学出版最广泛使用的语言, |
| 0:32 | international telecommunications, international trade, mass entertainment, diplomacy, and, of course, the Internet. | 国际电信,国际贸易,大众娱乐,外交,当然还有互联网. |
| 0:39 | There are now more than 8,000 courses taught completely in English | 现在有8 000多个课程完全用英语授课 |
| 0:44 | by leading universities in non-English speaking countries. | 在非英语国家领先的大学。 |
| 0:49 | So, for people like me, non-native English speakers, | 所以,对于像我这样的人,非母语的英语者, |
| 0:53 | it would seem that if we want to keep up with the world, | 似乎如果我们想跟随世界 |
展开字幕全文（148 条）
| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
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| 1 | Learning a foreign language is good for you for so many reasons. | 学习外语对你有好处 原因很多 |
| 2 | Why should I learn English? | 我为什么要学英语? |
| 3 | It's not a question people ask themselves a lot these days, is it? | 最近人们不会问自己很多问题吧? |
| 4 | English is probably going to become the world's lingua franca if it's not already. | 英语如果还没有成为世界语言的话,很可能会成为世界语言. |
| 5 | Today, English is the most widely used language for newspaper, book and scientific publishing, | 今天,英语是报纸,书籍和科学出版最广泛使用的语言, |
| 6 | international telecommunications, international trade, mass entertainment, diplomacy, and, of course, the Internet. | 国际电信,国际贸易,大众娱乐,外交,当然还有互联网. |
| 7 | There are now more than 8,000 courses taught completely in English | 现在有8 000多个课程完全用英语授课 |
| 8 | by leading universities in non-English speaking countries. | 在非英语国家领先的大学。 |
| 9 | So, for people like me, non-native English speakers, | 所以,对于像我这样的人,非母语的英语者, |
| 10 | it would seem that if we want to keep up with the world, | 似乎如果我们想跟随世界 |
| 11 | learning at least one foreign language, namely English, is a must. | 学习至少一种外语即英语是必须的。 |
| 12 | We learn it to find a good job, to be more successful, or even to immigrate. | 我们学习它是为了找到一份好的工作,更成功,甚至移民. |
| 13 | I've been learning English since I was little. | 从小学习英语. |
| 14 | At first, it was my parents who taught me, | 一开始,是我父母教我的 |
| 15 | which is kind of funny because neither of them spoke any English back then, | 这有点好笑 因为当时他们都不说英语, |
| 16 | and they have successfully avoided learning it for the next 25 years. | 而且他们成功地避免了在未来25年中学习。 |
| 17 | In fact, when I got my bachelor's degree in linguistics, my mom said, | 事实上 当我拿到语言学学士学位时 我妈妈说 |
| 18 | Good job, honey! | 干得好,亲爱的! |
| 19 | What's next for you? | 你接下来要做什么? |
| 20 | Are you now going to get a real degree? | 你现在要拿到真正的学位吗? |
| 21 | After my studies, I worked as an English teacher. | 学习后,担任英语教师. |
| 22 | And whenever I taught an introductory class, I would ask my students, | 当我教入门课时 我会问学生 |
| 23 | Why do you want to learn a foreign language? | 为甚么学外语. |
| 24 | The answers I would usually get were more or less similar, | 我通常得到的答案 或多或少相似, |
| 25 | but before I share them, I would like to ask you to go back for a moment. | 但是在我分享之前 我想请你回去一下 |
| 26 | Think of the time you first started learning a foreign language. | 想想你第一次学习外语的时候 |
| 27 | Do you remember why? | 你还记得为什么吗? |
| 28 | The answers my students would give were, | 我的学生会给出的答案是, |
| 29 | My parents make me. | 我的父母让我。 |
| 30 | I want to understand social media content. | 我想了解社交媒体的内容。 |
| 31 | 我想去旅行,我需要时间 I want to travel. | |
| 32 | I want to get a good job. | 我想找个好工作 |
| 33 | And a lot of people also acknowledge that learning a language is good for you, in general. | 很多人也承认 学习一种语言对你有好处。 |
| 34 | But if we stop and think about it, work, travel, good marks at school, watching films, | 但如果我们停下来想一想,工作,旅行, 在学校的好成绩,看电影, |
| 35 | are all amazing, noble reasons to learn a foreign language. | 学习外语都是惊人的,崇高的理由. |
| 36 | But can you get all that without actually learning? | 但是,你能不能得到这一切 不实际学习? |
| 37 | I think we probably can. | 我认为我们也许可以。 |
| 38 | If we go along with this idea, it takes only a little thought to grasp what you can actually do, | 如果我们同意这个想法, 只需要考虑一下你到底能做什么, |
| 39 | even if you don't understand a word in English or any other foreign language. | 即使你不懂英语或其他任何外语 |
| 40 | For example, with the technology we have today, | 比如说,有了我们今天掌握的技术, |
| 41 | software can translate a whole web page into your native language in a split second. | 软件可以在一分秒内将整个网页翻译为您的母语。 |
| 42 | There are apps that can translate almost any text captured by your smartphone camera in real time, | 有一些应用程序可以翻译 几乎任何文本 由你的智能手机相机实时, |
| 43 | and most media are served to you with subtitles or a voiceover, | 大多数媒体都有字幕或配音 |
| 44 | available almost immediately after the recording is made. | 几乎在录音后立即提供。 |
| 45 | Not to mention those lucky enough to be born into English-speaking families. | 更别提那些幸运的 出生在说英语的家庭。 |
| 46 | They should be fine, right? | 他们应该没事吧? |
| 47 | And here we come back to this vague, learning a language is good for you. | 在这里,我们回到这个模糊的, 学习一种语言对你有好处。 |
| 48 | And it is. | 事实就是如此。 |
| 49 | It can bring many benefits, including those that can improve the quality of your life and, indeed, your health. | 它可以带来许多好处,包括能够改善你的生活质量,甚至改善你的健康。 |
| 50 | Which is a nice bonus for those of us who started learning it for something else. | 这对我们开始为别的东西学习它的人来说是一个不错的奖金. |
| 51 | It's like when you buy a pack of breakfast cereal and here's a free sticker inside. | 就像你买了一包早餐麦片 里面有免费贴纸 |
| 52 | Let's move on now and take a closer look at some of these benefits. | 让我们现在更仔细地看看这些好处。 |
| 53 | I like to visualize concepts. | 我喜欢想象概念。 |
| 54 | It helps me give form to abstract ideas and make them more simple. | 它帮助我给抽象思想以形式,使其更加简单. |
| 55 | I like to imagine every person as a musician. | 我喜欢想象每个人都是一个音乐家。 |
| 56 | Let's start with somebody who can only speak one language. | 让我们从一个只会说一种语言的人开始。 |
| 57 | You probably even know someone like that. | 你可能甚至认识这样的人 |
| 58 | Can you picture them in your mind's eye? | 你能想象出他们在你心目中吗? |
| 59 | Let's assume that this person was born and raised in their native country. | 让我们假设这个人是在他们的祖国出生和长大的. |
| 60 | They have been able to get by with their native language, be it work, travel and leisure. | 他们能够使用自己的母语,无论是工作、旅行和休闲。 |
| 61 | Now, if we visualize some more and give this person an instrument, | 现在,如果我们想象更多 给这个人一个乐器, |
| 62 | in some sense we can compare their brain to a music box. | 从某种意义上来说,我们可以把他们的大脑比作音乐盒. |
| 63 | Now, how does the box work? | 盒子怎么开的? |
| 64 | You spin the handle and magic happens. | 你转动手柄和魔法发生。 |
| 65 | Beautiful. | 美丽 |
| 66 | Just the trick. | 只是把戏 |
| 67 | But the thing about the box is that it can only play one tune. | 但是这个盒子的事情是 它只能演奏一首曲子 |
| 68 | The mechanism is kind of embedded into the box, so changing it is a lot of work. | 机制是嵌入在盒子里的, 所以改变它是一个很多的工作。 |
| 69 | You repeat one and the same movement all over again. | 你再重复一次同样的动作 |
| 70 | Now, we have bilinguals. | 现在,我们有双语。 |
| 71 | In comparison to monolinguals, they have twice as many choices on how to deliver an idea. | 与单一语言相比,他们对于如何提出一个想法有两倍的选择. |
| 72 | But it's not that simple. | 但没那么简单 |
| 73 | When bilinguals use the target language, they actually activate both languages that they know. | 当双语人使用目标语言时,他们实际上会激活他们熟悉的两种语言. |
| 74 | It means that there is always this competition going on in their heads between the two languages. | 这意味着在两种语言之间总有这种相互竞争的现象。 |
| 75 | They have to be constantly ready to respond in one language and suppress the other one. | 他们必须时刻准备用一种语言作出反应,压制另一种语言。 |
| 76 | Instead of a music box, I would give them a tape recorder and two tapes. | 而不是一个音乐盒, 我会给他们一个录音机和两个磁带。 |
| 77 | Not quite an instrument, but can play music too. | 虽然不是乐器,但也能演奏音乐. |
| 78 | Now, if you're a bilingual, your native tape is the one you know best. | 现在,如果你是双语, 你的本地磁带是你最了解的。 |
| 79 | Depending on how well you know your second language, the other one could be secondary. | 取决于你对第二语言的了解程度 另一语言可能是第二语言 |
| 80 | So each time you need to play a word or a phrase, it takes you time to get the native tape out, | 所以每次你需要玩一个词或一个短语, 它需要你的时间去取出 本地磁带, |
| 81 | insert the other one and then find the word or a phrase that you're looking for. | 插入另一个,然后找到您正在寻找的词或短语。 |
| 82 | In addition to that, you sometimes forget where exactly it is or even if this word is even on the tape. | 除此之外,你有时会忘记它的确切位置,甚至连这个单词都在录音带上. |
| 83 | Each time there is this switch between these mental tapes, it takes you mental effort. | 每当这些精神磁带之间有这种开关时,你都会付出精神上的努力. |
| 84 | It's an exercise. | 作是锻炼. |
| 85 | And like with all exercises, it gets easier and easier the more you do it until you know the tape inside out. | 和所有的练习一样,它变得越容易越容易 你越做越多 直到你知道里面的磁带。 |
| 86 | And with each new language, your musical instrument gets more elaborate, like adding new keys to a piano. | 用每种新语言 你的乐器会变得更细腻 就像在钢琴上添加新钥匙 |
| 87 | Some of them, you know better, some worse, but each time you switch, you get more fluent. | 有些,你知道的更好,有些更糟, 但每次你交换,你就会更流利。 |
| 88 | And as you learn another third, fourth language, you pick it up faster. | 当你学会第三,第四种语言时, 你把它捡得更快。 |
| 89 | You understand the logic the languages might share and you are more likely to overcome the barriers to speaking with your next foreign language. | 你明白语言可能共享的逻辑,你更有可能克服障碍,与你的下一个外语交谈。 |
| 90 | And that mental effort translates onto the other areas of your life. | 而这种精神努力 转化到你生活的其他方面。 |
| 91 | It opens your mind for greater opportunities and prepares you for possible challenges. | 它为更多的机会打开了你的心扉,并为可能的挑战做好准备. |
| 92 | And that is not only true for those who started learning a language early in life. | 这不仅对那些在生命早期开始学习语言的人来说是这样。 |
| 93 | That's right. | 没错 |
| 94 | You can pick up a new language today and start enjoying all the amazing benefits it brings. | 你可以今天拿起新语言,开始享受它带来的所有惊人好处. |
| 95 | It can even influence your life indirectly, opening new paths for you. | 它甚至可以间接影响你的生活,为你开辟新的道路. |
| 96 | In 2020, like many others, I found myself in quarantine. | 2020年,和许多其他人一样,我发现自己处于隔离状态. |
| 97 | My boyfriend, my cat and I in a tiny one room apartment for several months. | 我男朋友 我的猫和我在一间小公寓里呆了几个月 |
| 98 | I figured I needed a new hobby to stay sane. | 我想我需要新的爱好才能保持理智 |
| 99 | It needed to be a one person indoor hobby and it needed to be cheap. | 它需要一个人的室内爱好,需要便宜。 |
| 100 | So I decided I would start learning a new language. | 所以我决定开始学习新语言。 |
| 101 | I didn't have a preference, so I did several rounds of flipping a coin and it turned out to be Finnish. | 我并没有什么偏好,所以我做了几轮翻硬币,结果变成了芬兰币. |
| 102 | I armed myself with YouTube videos and learning apps. | 我用YouTube的视频和学习应用程序武装自己。 |
| 103 | And soon enough, I learned some stuff about some Finnish delicacies, some Finnish towns, one famous Finnish poet. | 很快,我学到了一些关于一些芬兰的美食, 一些芬兰的城镇, 一个著名的芬兰诗人。 |
| 104 | Having this tiny connection to the culture made me want to dig deeper. | 有了这种与文化的微小联系,我想更深入地挖掘。 |
| 105 | And before I even realized it, it's December and I'm applying to study at a Finnish university, | 我还没意识到 十二月就申请了芬兰大学 |
| 106 | which started small, became this huge change that helped me out of depression and gave me purpose. | 它开始小, 成为这个巨大的变化 帮助我走出抑郁症 给了我目的。 |
| 107 | Our brains are picky. | 我们的脑子很挑剔 |
| 108 | Our brains love new things. | 我们的大脑喜欢新的东西。 |
| 109 | And he was a handsome reward in dopamine in exchange for a novelty. | 他是一个帅气的奖赏 在多巴胺交换 一个新颖。 |
| 110 | That's why I have so many pairs of shoes. | 这就是为什么我有这么多双鞋。 |
| 111 | Usually when you learn something new, the brain boosting benefits decrease as soon as you get your eureka moment. | 通常当你学到了新的东西, 大脑增强的好处 一旦得到你的Eureka瞬间。 |
| 112 | For example, you want to learn to ride a bicycle. | 例如,你想学习骑自行车. |
| 113 | You start trying, you go and it feels great. | 你开始尝试,你去,感觉很好。 |
| 114 | But as soon as you get a hang on it, it's not the same satisfaction wise. | 但一旦你被绞死,那就不一样了 |
| 115 | It's just going. | 它只是前进。 |
| 116 | But that doesn't happen when you learn a foreign language. | 但学外语时不会这样. |
| 117 | Instead, your brain needs to keep working, constantly plan, concentrate and make decisions. | 相反,你的大脑需要继续工作,不断计划,集中和决定. |
| 118 | Every day is a school day. | 每日为学日. |
| 119 | It never ends. | 永无止境. |
| 120 | Which to me can be both amazing and frustrating. | 这对我来说既惊人又令人沮丧。 |
| 121 | I have been learning English for ages. | 我学英语很久了 |
| 122 | I have been teaching it as a second language for several years. | 我作为第二语言教了它几年。 |
| 123 | And I still make mistakes. | 我仍然犯错 |
| 124 | And there are still words that I don't know. | 还有一些我不知道的话 |
| 125 | Not so long ago, I was watching some British TV and I saw the word Satsuma in a joke. | 不久前,我在看一些英国的电视,我看到一个笑话中的萨苏马这个词. |
| 126 | Of course, I didn't get the joke. | 当然,我没有得到这个笑话。 |
| 127 | I'd never heard nor seen this word before. | 我从来没有听说过这个字。 |
| 128 | At that moment, I felt almost angry at all the English people who decided to adopt this word into the language | 那时,我几乎感到愤怒 所有英国人 谁决定采纳这个词 在语言 |
| 129 | just to make my life more difficult. | 只是让我的生活更困难。 |
| 130 | But I did make a mental note. | 但我确实做了个心理笔记。 |
| 131 | Apparently, it's a kind of a fruit like mandarin or tangerine. | 显然,它是一种水果 如普通话或橘子。 |
| 132 | I can never tell the difference between those because in my native language, we have one word to describe all three. | 我永远无法分辨这三者之间的区别,因为用我的母语,我们有一个词来描述这三者。 |
| 133 | Later, I was abroad in a supermarket and I saw this sign, Satsuma. | 后来,我在国外的超市里,我看到了这个标志,佐佐马。 |
| 134 | I pointed to it and I said out loud, there were people around me. | 我指着它,大声地说,我身边有人。 |
| 135 | You little piece of fruit. | 你这个小水果 |
| 136 | I know you. | 我认识你 |
| 137 | And it felt really good. | 感觉非常好 |
| 138 | Our brains like to be proud. | 我们的大脑喜欢骄傲。 |
| 139 | We like achievement. | 我们喜欢成就。 |
| 140 | We like to be the best. | 我们喜欢成为最好的。 |
| 141 | And this is the best kind of achievement because it's not competitive. | 这是最好的成就,因为它没有竞争力。 |
| 142 | The only person you're trying to out best is you. | 你唯一想摆脱的人是你 |
| 143 | And each new word, phrase and sentence brings you victory. | 每个新词,句子和句子都给你带来胜利. |
| 144 | It doesn't have to be a big victory. | 不须大胜. |
| 145 | It can be as small as understanding a joke in a foreign language. | 它可以像理解外语的笑话一样小. |
| 146 | It's never too early to learn. | 学道永不早. |
| 147 | And it's never too late. | 也永远不会太迟 |
| 148 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:10 | Learning a foreign language is good for you for so many reasons. | 学习外语对你有好处 原因很多 |
| 0:16 | Why should I learn English? | 我为什么要学英语? |
| 0:18 | It's not a question people ask themselves a lot these days, is it? | 最近人们不会问自己很多问题吧? |
| 0:22 | English is probably going to become the world's lingua franca if it's not already. | 英语如果还没有成为世界语言的话,很可能会成为世界语言. |
| 0:26 | Today, English is the most widely used language for newspaper, book and scientific publishing, | 今天,英语是报纸,书籍和科学出版最广泛使用的语言, |
| 0:32 | international telecommunications, international trade, mass entertainment, diplomacy, and, of course, the Internet. | 国际电信,国际贸易,大众娱乐,外交,当然还有互联网. |
| 0:39 | There are now more than 8,000 courses taught completely in English | 现在有8 000多个课程完全用英语授课 |
| 0:44 | by leading universities in non-English speaking countries. | 在非英语国家领先的大学。 |
| 0:49 | So, for people like me, non-native English speakers, | 所以,对于像我这样的人,非母语的英语者, |
| 0:53 | it would seem that if we want to keep up with the world, | 似乎如果我们想跟随世界 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
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| 1 | Learning a foreign language is good for you for so many reasons. | 学习外语对你有好处 原因很多 |
| 2 | Why should I learn English? | 我为什么要学英语? |
| 3 | It's not a question people ask themselves a lot these days, is it? | 最近人们不会问自己很多问题吧? |
| 4 | English is probably going to become the world's lingua franca if it's not already. | 英语如果还没有成为世界语言的话,很可能会成为世界语言. |
| 5 | Today, English is the most widely used language for newspaper, book and scientific publishing, | 今天,英语是报纸,书籍和科学出版最广泛使用的语言, |
| 6 | international telecommunications, international trade, mass entertainment, diplomacy, and, of course, the Internet. | 国际电信,国际贸易,大众娱乐,外交,当然还有互联网. |
| 7 | There are now more than 8,000 courses taught completely in English | 现在有8 000多个课程完全用英语授课 |
| 8 | by leading universities in non-English speaking countries. | 在非英语国家领先的大学。 |
| 9 | So, for people like me, non-native English speakers, | 所以,对于像我这样的人,非母语的英语者, |
| 10 | it would seem that if we want to keep up with the world, | 似乎如果我们想跟随世界 |
| 11 | learning at least one foreign language, namely English, is a must. | 学习至少一种外语即英语是必须的。 |
| 12 | We learn it to find a good job, to be more successful, or even to immigrate. | 我们学习它是为了找到一份好的工作,更成功,甚至移民. |
| 13 | I've been learning English since I was little. | 从小学习英语. |
| 14 | At first, it was my parents who taught me, | 一开始,是我父母教我的 |
| 15 | which is kind of funny because neither of them spoke any English back then, | 这有点好笑 因为当时他们都不说英语, |
| 16 | and they have successfully avoided learning it for the next 25 years. | 而且他们成功地避免了在未来25年中学习。 |
| 17 | In fact, when I got my bachelor's degree in linguistics, my mom said, | 事实上 当我拿到语言学学士学位时 我妈妈说 |
| 18 | Good job, honey! | 干得好,亲爱的! |
| 19 | What's next for you? | 你接下来要做什么? |
| 20 | Are you now going to get a real degree? | 你现在要拿到真正的学位吗? |
| 21 | After my studies, I worked as an English teacher. | 学习后,担任英语教师. |
| 22 | And whenever I taught an introductory class, I would ask my students, | 当我教入门课时 我会问学生 |
| 23 | Why do you want to learn a foreign language? | 为甚么学外语. |
| 24 | The answers I would usually get were more or less similar, | 我通常得到的答案 或多或少相似, |
| 25 | but before I share them, I would like to ask you to go back for a moment. | 但是在我分享之前 我想请你回去一下 |
| 26 | Think of the time you first started learning a foreign language. | 想想你第一次学习外语的时候 |
| 27 | Do you remember why? | 你还记得为什么吗? |
| 28 | The answers my students would give were, | 我的学生会给出的答案是, |
| 29 | My parents make me. | 我的父母让我。 |
| 30 | I want to understand social media content. | 我想了解社交媒体的内容。 |
| 31 | 我想去旅行,我需要时间 I want to travel. | |
| 32 | I want to get a good job. | 我想找个好工作 |
| 33 | And a lot of people also acknowledge that learning a language is good for you, in general. | 很多人也承认 学习一种语言对你有好处。 |
| 34 | But if we stop and think about it, work, travel, good marks at school, watching films, | 但如果我们停下来想一想,工作,旅行, 在学校的好成绩,看电影, |
| 35 | are all amazing, noble reasons to learn a foreign language. | 学习外语都是惊人的,崇高的理由. |
| 36 | But can you get all that without actually learning? | 但是,你能不能得到这一切 不实际学习? |
| 37 | I think we probably can. | 我认为我们也许可以。 |
| 38 | If we go along with this idea, it takes only a little thought to grasp what you can actually do, | 如果我们同意这个想法, 只需要考虑一下你到底能做什么, |
| 39 | even if you don't understand a word in English or any other foreign language. | 即使你不懂英语或其他任何外语 |
| 40 | For example, with the technology we have today, | 比如说,有了我们今天掌握的技术, |
| 41 | software can translate a whole web page into your native language in a split second. | 软件可以在一分秒内将整个网页翻译为您的母语。 |
| 42 | There are apps that can translate almost any text captured by your smartphone camera in real time, | 有一些应用程序可以翻译 几乎任何文本 由你的智能手机相机实时, |
| 43 | and most media are served to you with subtitles or a voiceover, | 大多数媒体都有字幕或配音 |
| 44 | available almost immediately after the recording is made. | 几乎在录音后立即提供。 |
| 45 | Not to mention those lucky enough to be born into English-speaking families. | 更别提那些幸运的 出生在说英语的家庭。 |
| 46 | They should be fine, right? | 他们应该没事吧? |
| 47 | And here we come back to this vague, learning a language is good for you. | 在这里,我们回到这个模糊的, 学习一种语言对你有好处。 |
| 48 | And it is. | 事实就是如此。 |
| 49 | It can bring many benefits, including those that can improve the quality of your life and, indeed, your health. | 它可以带来许多好处,包括能够改善你的生活质量,甚至改善你的健康。 |
| 50 | Which is a nice bonus for those of us who started learning it for something else. | 这对我们开始为别的东西学习它的人来说是一个不错的奖金. |
| 51 | It's like when you buy a pack of breakfast cereal and here's a free sticker inside. | 就像你买了一包早餐麦片 里面有免费贴纸 |
| 52 | Let's move on now and take a closer look at some of these benefits. | 让我们现在更仔细地看看这些好处。 |
| 53 | I like to visualize concepts. | 我喜欢想象概念。 |
| 54 | It helps me give form to abstract ideas and make them more simple. | 它帮助我给抽象思想以形式,使其更加简单. |
| 55 | I like to imagine every person as a musician. | 我喜欢想象每个人都是一个音乐家。 |
| 56 | Let's start with somebody who can only speak one language. | 让我们从一个只会说一种语言的人开始。 |
| 57 | You probably even know someone like that. | 你可能甚至认识这样的人 |
| 58 | Can you picture them in your mind's eye? | 你能想象出他们在你心目中吗? |
| 59 | Let's assume that this person was born and raised in their native country. | 让我们假设这个人是在他们的祖国出生和长大的. |
| 60 | They have been able to get by with their native language, be it work, travel and leisure. | 他们能够使用自己的母语,无论是工作、旅行和休闲。 |
| 61 | Now, if we visualize some more and give this person an instrument, | 现在,如果我们想象更多 给这个人一个乐器, |
| 62 | in some sense we can compare their brain to a music box. | 从某种意义上来说,我们可以把他们的大脑比作音乐盒. |
| 63 | Now, how does the box work? | 盒子怎么开的? |
| 64 | You spin the handle and magic happens. | 你转动手柄和魔法发生。 |
| 65 | Beautiful. | 美丽 |
| 66 | Just the trick. | 只是把戏 |
| 67 | But the thing about the box is that it can only play one tune. | 但是这个盒子的事情是 它只能演奏一首曲子 |
| 68 | The mechanism is kind of embedded into the box, so changing it is a lot of work. | 机制是嵌入在盒子里的, 所以改变它是一个很多的工作。 |
| 69 | You repeat one and the same movement all over again. | 你再重复一次同样的动作 |
| 70 | Now, we have bilinguals. | 现在,我们有双语。 |
| 71 | In comparison to monolinguals, they have twice as many choices on how to deliver an idea. | 与单一语言相比,他们对于如何提出一个想法有两倍的选择. |
| 72 | But it's not that simple. | 但没那么简单 |
| 73 | When bilinguals use the target language, they actually activate both languages that they know. | 当双语人使用目标语言时,他们实际上会激活他们熟悉的两种语言. |
| 74 | It means that there is always this competition going on in their heads between the two languages. | 这意味着在两种语言之间总有这种相互竞争的现象。 |
| 75 | They have to be constantly ready to respond in one language and suppress the other one. | 他们必须时刻准备用一种语言作出反应,压制另一种语言。 |
| 76 | Instead of a music box, I would give them a tape recorder and two tapes. | 而不是一个音乐盒, 我会给他们一个录音机和两个磁带。 |
| 77 | Not quite an instrument, but can play music too. | 虽然不是乐器,但也能演奏音乐. |
| 78 | Now, if you're a bilingual, your native tape is the one you know best. | 现在,如果你是双语, 你的本地磁带是你最了解的。 |
| 79 | Depending on how well you know your second language, the other one could be secondary. | 取决于你对第二语言的了解程度 另一语言可能是第二语言 |
| 80 | So each time you need to play a word or a phrase, it takes you time to get the native tape out, | 所以每次你需要玩一个词或一个短语, 它需要你的时间去取出 本地磁带, |
| 81 | insert the other one and then find the word or a phrase that you're looking for. | 插入另一个,然后找到您正在寻找的词或短语。 |
| 82 | In addition to that, you sometimes forget where exactly it is or even if this word is even on the tape. | 除此之外,你有时会忘记它的确切位置,甚至连这个单词都在录音带上. |
| 83 | Each time there is this switch between these mental tapes, it takes you mental effort. | 每当这些精神磁带之间有这种开关时,你都会付出精神上的努力. |
| 84 | It's an exercise. | 作是锻炼. |
| 85 | And like with all exercises, it gets easier and easier the more you do it until you know the tape inside out. | 和所有的练习一样,它变得越容易越容易 你越做越多 直到你知道里面的磁带。 |
| 86 | And with each new language, your musical instrument gets more elaborate, like adding new keys to a piano. | 用每种新语言 你的乐器会变得更细腻 就像在钢琴上添加新钥匙 |
| 87 | Some of them, you know better, some worse, but each time you switch, you get more fluent. | 有些,你知道的更好,有些更糟, 但每次你交换,你就会更流利。 |
| 88 | And as you learn another third, fourth language, you pick it up faster. | 当你学会第三,第四种语言时, 你把它捡得更快。 |
| 89 | You understand the logic the languages might share and you are more likely to overcome the barriers to speaking with your next foreign language. | 你明白语言可能共享的逻辑,你更有可能克服障碍,与你的下一个外语交谈。 |
| 90 | And that mental effort translates onto the other areas of your life. | 而这种精神努力 转化到你生活的其他方面。 |
| 91 | It opens your mind for greater opportunities and prepares you for possible challenges. | 它为更多的机会打开了你的心扉,并为可能的挑战做好准备. |
| 92 | And that is not only true for those who started learning a language early in life. | 这不仅对那些在生命早期开始学习语言的人来说是这样。 |
| 93 | That's right. | 没错 |
| 94 | You can pick up a new language today and start enjoying all the amazing benefits it brings. | 你可以今天拿起新语言,开始享受它带来的所有惊人好处. |
| 95 | It can even influence your life indirectly, opening new paths for you. | 它甚至可以间接影响你的生活,为你开辟新的道路. |
| 96 | In 2020, like many others, I found myself in quarantine. | 2020年,和许多其他人一样,我发现自己处于隔离状态. |
| 97 | My boyfriend, my cat and I in a tiny one room apartment for several months. | 我男朋友 我的猫和我在一间小公寓里呆了几个月 |
| 98 | I figured I needed a new hobby to stay sane. | 我想我需要新的爱好才能保持理智 |
| 99 | It needed to be a one person indoor hobby and it needed to be cheap. | 它需要一个人的室内爱好,需要便宜。 |
| 100 | So I decided I would start learning a new language. | 所以我决定开始学习新语言。 |
| 101 | I didn't have a preference, so I did several rounds of flipping a coin and it turned out to be Finnish. | 我并没有什么偏好,所以我做了几轮翻硬币,结果变成了芬兰币. |
| 102 | I armed myself with YouTube videos and learning apps. | 我用YouTube的视频和学习应用程序武装自己。 |
| 103 | And soon enough, I learned some stuff about some Finnish delicacies, some Finnish towns, one famous Finnish poet. | 很快,我学到了一些关于一些芬兰的美食, 一些芬兰的城镇, 一个著名的芬兰诗人。 |
| 104 | Having this tiny connection to the culture made me want to dig deeper. | 有了这种与文化的微小联系,我想更深入地挖掘。 |
| 105 | And before I even realized it, it's December and I'm applying to study at a Finnish university, | 我还没意识到 十二月就申请了芬兰大学 |
| 106 | which started small, became this huge change that helped me out of depression and gave me purpose. | 它开始小, 成为这个巨大的变化 帮助我走出抑郁症 给了我目的。 |
| 107 | Our brains are picky. | 我们的脑子很挑剔 |
| 108 | Our brains love new things. | 我们的大脑喜欢新的东西。 |
| 109 | And he was a handsome reward in dopamine in exchange for a novelty. | 他是一个帅气的奖赏 在多巴胺交换 一个新颖。 |
| 110 | That's why I have so many pairs of shoes. | 这就是为什么我有这么多双鞋。 |
| 111 | Usually when you learn something new, the brain boosting benefits decrease as soon as you get your eureka moment. | 通常当你学到了新的东西, 大脑增强的好处 一旦得到你的Eureka瞬间。 |
| 112 | For example, you want to learn to ride a bicycle. | 例如,你想学习骑自行车. |
| 113 | You start trying, you go and it feels great. | 你开始尝试,你去,感觉很好。 |
| 114 | But as soon as you get a hang on it, it's not the same satisfaction wise. | 但一旦你被绞死,那就不一样了 |
| 115 | It's just going. | 它只是前进。 |
| 116 | But that doesn't happen when you learn a foreign language. | 但学外语时不会这样. |
| 117 | Instead, your brain needs to keep working, constantly plan, concentrate and make decisions. | 相反,你的大脑需要继续工作,不断计划,集中和决定. |
| 118 | Every day is a school day. | 每日为学日. |
| 119 | It never ends. | 永无止境. |
| 120 | Which to me can be both amazing and frustrating. | 这对我来说既惊人又令人沮丧。 |
| 121 | I have been learning English for ages. | 我学英语很久了 |
| 122 | I have been teaching it as a second language for several years. | 我作为第二语言教了它几年。 |
| 123 | And I still make mistakes. | 我仍然犯错 |
| 124 | And there are still words that I don't know. | 还有一些我不知道的话 |
| 125 | Not so long ago, I was watching some British TV and I saw the word Satsuma in a joke. | 不久前,我在看一些英国的电视,我看到一个笑话中的萨苏马这个词. |
| 126 | Of course, I didn't get the joke. | 当然,我没有得到这个笑话。 |
| 127 | I'd never heard nor seen this word before. | 我从来没有听说过这个字。 |
| 128 | At that moment, I felt almost angry at all the English people who decided to adopt this word into the language | 那时,我几乎感到愤怒 所有英国人 谁决定采纳这个词 在语言 |
| 129 | just to make my life more difficult. | 只是让我的生活更困难。 |
| 130 | But I did make a mental note. | 但我确实做了个心理笔记。 |
| 131 | Apparently, it's a kind of a fruit like mandarin or tangerine. | 显然,它是一种水果 如普通话或橘子。 |
| 132 | I can never tell the difference between those because in my native language, we have one word to describe all three. | 我永远无法分辨这三者之间的区别,因为用我的母语,我们有一个词来描述这三者。 |
| 133 | Later, I was abroad in a supermarket and I saw this sign, Satsuma. | 后来,我在国外的超市里,我看到了这个标志,佐佐马。 |
| 134 | I pointed to it and I said out loud, there were people around me. | 我指着它,大声地说,我身边有人。 |
| 135 | You little piece of fruit. | 你这个小水果 |
| 136 | I know you. | 我认识你 |
| 137 | And it felt really good. | 感觉非常好 |
| 138 | Our brains like to be proud. | 我们的大脑喜欢骄傲。 |
| 139 | We like achievement. | 我们喜欢成就。 |
| 140 | We like to be the best. | 我们喜欢成为最好的。 |
| 141 | And this is the best kind of achievement because it's not competitive. | 这是最好的成就,因为它没有竞争力。 |
| 142 | The only person you're trying to out best is you. | 你唯一想摆脱的人是你 |
| 143 | And each new word, phrase and sentence brings you victory. | 每个新词,句子和句子都给你带来胜利. |
| 144 | It doesn't have to be a big victory. | 不须大胜. |
| 145 | It can be as small as understanding a joke in a foreign language. | 它可以像理解外语的笑话一样小. |
| 146 | It's never too early to learn. | 学道永不早. |
| 147 | And it's never too late. | 也永远不会太迟 |
| 148 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:10 | Learning a foreign language is good for you for so many reasons. | 学习外语对你有好处 原因很多 |
| 0:16 | Why should I learn English? | 我为什么要学英语? |
| 0:18 | It's not a question people ask themselves a lot these days, is it? | 最近人们不会问自己很多问题吧? |
| 0:22 | English is probably going to become the world's lingua franca if it's not already. | 英语如果还没有成为世界语言的话,很可能会成为世界语言. |
| 0:27 | Today, English is the most widely used language for newspaper, book and scientific publishing, | 今天,英语是报纸,书籍和科学出版最广泛使用的语言, |
| 0:32 | international telecommunications, international trade, mass entertainment, diplomacy, and, of course, the Internet. | 国际电信,国际贸易,大众娱乐,外交,当然还有互联网. |
| 0:39 | There are now more than 8,000 courses taught completely in English | 现在有8 000多个课程完全用英语授课 |
| 0:44 | by leading universities in non-English speaking countries. | 在非英语国家领先的大学。 |
| 0:49 | So, for people like me, non-native English speakers, | 所以,对于像我这样的人,非母语的英语者, |
| 0:53 | it would seem that if we want to keep up with the world, | 似乎如果我们想跟随世界 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
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| 1 | Learning a foreign language is good for you for so many reasons. | 学习外语对你有好处 原因很多 |
| 2 | Why should I learn English? | 我为什么要学英语? |
| 3 | It's not a question people ask themselves a lot these days, is it? | 最近人们不会问自己很多问题吧? |
| 4 | English is probably going to become the world's lingua franca if it's not already. | 英语如果还没有成为世界语言的话,很可能会成为世界语言. |
| 5 | Today, English is the most widely used language for newspaper, book and scientific publishing, | 今天,英语是报纸,书籍和科学出版最广泛使用的语言, |
| 6 | international telecommunications, international trade, mass entertainment, diplomacy, and, of course, the Internet. | 国际电信,国际贸易,大众娱乐,外交,当然还有互联网. |
| 7 | There are now more than 8,000 courses taught completely in English | 现在有8 000多个课程完全用英语授课 |
| 8 | by leading universities in non-English speaking countries. | 在非英语国家领先的大学。 |
| 9 | So, for people like me, non-native English speakers, | 所以,对于像我这样的人,非母语的英语者, |
| 10 | it would seem that if we want to keep up with the world, | 似乎如果我们想跟随世界 |
| 11 | learning at least one foreign language, namely English, is a must. | 学习至少一种外语即英语是必须的。 |
| 12 | We learn it to find a good job, to be more successful, or even to immigrate. | 我们学习它是为了找到一份好的工作,更成功,甚至移民. |
| 13 | I've been learning English since I was little. | 从小学习英语. |
| 14 | At first, it was my parents who taught me, | 一开始,是我父母教我的 |
| 15 | which is kind of funny because neither of them spoke any English back then, | 这有点好笑 因为当时他们都不说英语, |
| 16 | and they have successfully avoided learning it for the next 25 years. | 而且他们成功地避免了在未来25年中学习。 |
| 17 | In fact, when I got my bachelor's degree in linguistics, my mom said, | 事实上 当我拿到语言学学士学位时 我妈妈说 |
| 18 | Good job, honey! | 干得好,亲爱的! |
| 19 | What's next for you? | 你接下来要做什么? |
| 20 | Are you now going to get a real degree? | 你现在要拿到真正的学位吗? |
| 21 | After my studies, I worked as an English teacher. | 学习后,担任英语教师. |
| 22 | And whenever I taught an introductory class, I would ask my students, | 当我教入门课时 我会问学生 |
| 23 | Why do you want to learn a foreign language? | 为甚么学外语. |
| 24 | The answers I would usually get were more or less similar, | 我通常得到的答案 或多或少相似, |
| 25 | but before I share them, I would like to ask you to go back for a moment. | 但是在我分享之前 我想请你回去一下 |
| 26 | Think of the time you first started learning a foreign language. | 想想你第一次学习外语的时候 |
| 27 | Do you remember why? | 你还记得为什么吗? |
| 28 | The answers my students would give were, | 我的学生会给出的答案是, |
| 29 | My parents make me. | 我的父母让我。 |
| 30 | I want to understand social media content. | 我想了解社交媒体的内容。 |
| 31 | 我想去旅行,我需要时间 I want to travel. | |
| 32 | I want to get a good job. | 我想找个好工作 |
| 33 | And a lot of people also acknowledge that learning a language is good for you, in general. | 很多人也承认 学习一种语言对你有好处。 |
| 34 | But if we stop and think about it, work, travel, good marks at school, watching films, | 但如果我们停下来想一想,工作,旅行, 在学校的好成绩,看电影, |
| 35 | are all amazing, noble reasons to learn a foreign language. | 学习外语都是惊人的,崇高的理由. |
| 36 | But can you get all that without actually learning? | 但是,你能不能得到这一切 不实际学习? |
| 37 | I think we probably can. | 我认为我们也许可以。 |
| 38 | If we go along with this idea, it takes only a little thought to grasp what you can actually do, | 如果我们同意这个想法, 只需要考虑一下你到底能做什么, |
| 39 | even if you don't understand a word in English or any other foreign language. | 即使你不懂英语或其他任何外语 |
| 40 | For example, with the technology we have today, | 比如说,有了我们今天掌握的技术, |
| 41 | software can translate a whole web page into your native language in a split second. | 软件可以在一分秒内将整个网页翻译为您的母语。 |
| 42 | There are apps that can translate almost any text captured by your smartphone camera in real time, | 有一些应用程序可以翻译 几乎任何文本 由你的智能手机相机实时, |
| 43 | and most media are served to you with subtitles or a voiceover, | 大多数媒体都有字幕或配音 |
| 44 | available almost immediately after the recording is made. | 几乎在录音后立即提供。 |
| 45 | Not to mention those lucky enough to be born into English-speaking families. | 更别提那些幸运的 出生在说英语的家庭。 |
| 46 | They should be fine, right? | 他们应该没事吧? |
| 47 | And here we come back to this vague, learning a language is good for you. | 在这里,我们回到这个模糊的, 学习一种语言对你有好处。 |
| 48 | And it is. | 事实就是如此。 |
| 49 | It can bring many benefits, including those that can improve the quality of your life and, indeed, your health. | 它可以带来许多好处,包括能够改善你的生活质量,甚至改善你的健康。 |
| 50 | Which is a nice bonus for those of us who started learning it for something else. | 这对我们开始为别的东西学习它的人来说是一个不错的奖金. |
| 51 | It's like when you buy a pack of breakfast cereal and here's a free sticker inside. | 就像你买了一包早餐麦片 里面有免费贴纸 |
| 52 | Let's move on now and take a closer look at some of these benefits. | 让我们现在更仔细地看看这些好处。 |
| 53 | I like to visualize concepts. | 我喜欢想象概念。 |
| 54 | It helps me give form to abstract ideas and make them more simple. | 它帮助我给抽象思想以形式,使其更加简单. |
| 55 | I like to imagine every person as a musician. | 我喜欢想象每个人都是一个音乐家。 |
| 56 | Let's start with somebody who can only speak one language. | 让我们从一个只会说一种语言的人开始。 |
| 57 | You probably even know someone like that. | 你可能甚至认识这样的人 |
| 58 | Can you picture them in your mind's eye? | 你能想象出他们在你心目中吗? |
| 59 | Let's assume that this person was born and raised in their native country. | 让我们假设这个人是在他们的祖国出生和长大的. |
| 60 | They have been able to get by with their native language, be it work, travel and leisure. | 他们能够使用自己的母语,无论是工作、旅行和休闲。 |
| 61 | Now, if we visualize some more and give this person an instrument, | 现在,如果我们想象更多 给这个人一个乐器, |
| 62 | in some sense we can compare their brain to a music box. | 从某种意义上来说,我们可以把他们的大脑比作音乐盒. |
| 63 | Now, how does the box work? | 盒子怎么开的? |
| 64 | You spin the handle and magic happens. | 你转动手柄和魔法发生。 |
| 65 | Beautiful. | 美丽 |
| 66 | Just the trick. | 只是把戏 |
| 67 | But the thing about the box is that it can only play one tune. | 但是这个盒子的事情是 它只能演奏一首曲子 |
| 68 | The mechanism is kind of embedded into the box, so changing it is a lot of work. | 机制是嵌入在盒子里的, 所以改变它是一个很多的工作。 |
| 69 | You repeat one and the same movement all over again. | 你再重复一次同样的动作 |
| 70 | Now, we have bilinguals. | 现在,我们有双语。 |
| 71 | In comparison to monolinguals, they have twice as many choices on how to deliver an idea. | 与单一语言相比,他们对于如何提出一个想法有两倍的选择. |
| 72 | But it's not that simple. | 但没那么简单 |
| 73 | When bilinguals use the target language, they actually activate both languages that they know. | 当双语人使用目标语言时,他们实际上会激活他们熟悉的两种语言. |
| 74 | It means that there is always this competition going on in their heads between the two languages. | 这意味着在两种语言之间总有这种相互竞争的现象。 |
| 75 | They have to be constantly ready to respond in one language and suppress the other one. | 他们必须时刻准备用一种语言作出反应,压制另一种语言。 |
| 76 | Instead of a music box, I would give them a tape recorder and two tapes. | 而不是一个音乐盒, 我会给他们一个录音机和两个磁带。 |
| 77 | Not quite an instrument, but can play music too. | 虽然不是乐器,但也能演奏音乐. |
| 78 | Now, if you're a bilingual, your native tape is the one you know best. | 现在,如果你是双语, 你的本地磁带是你最了解的。 |
| 79 | Depending on how well you know your second language, the other one could be secondary. | 取决于你对第二语言的了解程度 另一语言可能是第二语言 |
| 80 | So each time you need to play a word or a phrase, it takes you time to get the native tape out, | 所以每次你需要玩一个词或一个短语, 它需要你的时间去取出 本地磁带, |
| 81 | insert the other one and then find the word or a phrase that you're looking for. | 插入另一个,然后找到您正在寻找的词或短语。 |
| 82 | In addition to that, you sometimes forget where exactly it is or even if this word is even on the tape. | 除此之外,你有时会忘记它的确切位置,甚至连这个单词都在录音带上. |
| 83 | Each time there is this switch between these mental tapes, it takes you mental effort. | 每当这些精神磁带之间有这种开关时,你都会付出精神上的努力. |
| 84 | It's an exercise. | 作是锻炼. |
| 85 | And like with all exercises, it gets easier and easier the more you do it until you know the tape inside out. | 和所有的练习一样,它变得越容易越容易 你越做越多 直到你知道里面的磁带。 |
| 86 | And with each new language, your musical instrument gets more elaborate, like adding new keys to a piano. | 用每种新语言 你的乐器会变得更细腻 就像在钢琴上添加新钥匙 |
| 87 | Some of them you know better, some worse, but each time you switch, you get more fluent. | 有些你更了解,有些更坏, 但每次你交换,你就会更流利。 |
| 88 | And as you learn another third, fourth language, you pick it up faster. | 当你学会第三,第四种语言时, 你把它捡得更快。 |
| 89 | You understand the logic the languages might share and you are more likely to overcome the barriers to speaking with your next foreign language. | 你明白语言可能共享的逻辑,你更有可能克服障碍,与你的下一个外语交谈。 |
| 90 | And that mental effort translates onto the other areas of your life. | 而这种精神努力 转化到你生活的其他方面。 |
| 91 | It opens your mind for greater opportunities and prepares you for possible challenges. | 它为更多的机会打开了你的心扉,并为可能的挑战做好准备. |
| 92 | And that is not only true for those who started learning a language early in life. | 这不仅对那些在生命早期开始学习语言的人来说是这样。 |
| 93 | That's right. | 没错 |
| 94 | You can pick up a new language today and start enjoying all the amazing benefits it brings. | 你可以今天拿起新语言,开始享受它带来的所有惊人好处. |
| 95 | It can even influence your life indirectly, opening new paths for you. | 它甚至可以间接影响你的生活,为你开辟新的道路. |
| 96 | In 2020, like many others, I found myself in quarantine. | 2020年,和许多其他人一样,我发现自己处于隔离状态. |
| 97 | My boyfriend, my cat and I in a tiny one room apartment for several months. | 我男朋友 我的猫和我在一间小公寓里呆了几个月 |
| 98 | I figured I needed a new hobby to stay sane. | 我想我需要新的爱好才能保持理智 |
| 99 | It needed to be one person, indoor hobby, and it needed to be cheap. | 它需要一个人, 室内爱好, 它需要便宜。 |
| 100 | So I decided I would start learning a new language. | 所以我决定开始学习新语言。 |
| 101 | I didn't have a preference, so I did several rounds of flipping a coin and it turned out to be Finnish. | 我并没有什么偏好,所以我做了几轮翻硬币,结果变成了芬兰币. |
| 102 | I armed myself with YouTube videos and learning apps. | 我用YouTube的视频和学习应用程序武装自己。 |
| 103 | And soon enough, I learned some stuff about some Finnish delicacies, some Finnish towns, one famous Finnish poet. | 很快,我学到了一些关于一些芬兰的美食, 一些芬兰的城镇, 一个著名的芬兰诗人。 |
| 104 | Having this tiny connection to the culture made me want to dig deeper. | 有了这种与文化的微小联系,我想更深入地挖掘。 |
| 105 | And before I even realized it, it's December and I'm applying to study at a Finnish university, | 我还没意识到 十二月就申请了芬兰大学 |
| 106 | which started small, became this huge change that helped me out of depression and gave me purpose. | 它开始小, 成为这个巨大的变化 帮助我走出抑郁症 给了我目的。 |
| 107 | Our brains are picky. | 我们的脑子很挑剔 |
| 108 | Our brains love new things. | 我们的大脑喜欢新的东西。 |
| 109 | And he was like, handsome reward and dopamine in exchange for a novelty. | 他像,帅气的赏金和多巴胺 以换取新的东西。 |
| 110 | That's why I have so many pairs of shoes. | 这就是为什么我有这么多双鞋。 |
| 111 | Usually when you learn something new, the brain boosting benefits decrease as soon as you get your Eureka moment. | 通常当你学到了新的东西, 一旦你得到你的Eureka瞬间,大脑增强的好处就会减少。 |
| 112 | For example, you want to learn to ride a bicycle. | 例如,你想学习骑自行车. |
| 113 | You start trying your goal and it feels great. | 你开始尝试你的目标,感觉很好。 |
| 114 | But as soon as you get a hang on it, it's not the same satisfaction wise. | 但一旦你被绞死,那就不一样了 |
| 115 | It's just going. | 它只是前进。 |
| 116 | But that doesn't happen when you learn a foreign language. | 但学外语时不会这样. |
| 117 | Instead, your brain needs to keep working, constantly plan, concentrate and make decisions. | 相反,你的大脑需要继续工作,不断计划,集中和决定. |
| 118 | Every day is a school day. | 每日为学日. |
| 119 | It never ends, which to me can be both amazing and frustrating. | 它永远不会结束, 这对我来说既惊人又令人沮丧。 |
| 120 | I have been learning English for ages. | 我学英语很久了 |
| 121 | I have been teaching it as a second language for several years and I still make mistakes. | 几年来,我一直把它当作第二语言,我仍然犯错误。 |
| 122 | And there are still words that I don't know. | 还有一些我不知道的话 |
| 123 | Not so long ago, I was watching some British TV and I saw the word Satsuma in a joke. | 不久前,我在看一些英国的电视,我看到一个笑话中的萨苏马这个词. |
| 124 | Of course, I didn't get the joke. | 当然,我没有得到这个笑话。 |
| 125 | I'd never heard nor seen this word before. | 我从来没有听说过这个字。 |
| 126 | At that moment, I felt almost angry at all the English people who decided to adopt this word into the language just to make my life more difficult. | 那时,我几乎对所有决定把这个词用到语言中的英国人感到愤怒,只是为了让我的生活更加困难. |
| 127 | But I did make a mental note. | 但我确实做了个心理笔记。 |
| 128 | Apparently, it's a kind of a fruit like mandarin or tangerine. | 显然,它是一种水果 如普通话或橘子。 |
| 129 | I can never tell the difference between those because in my native language, we have one word to describe all three. | 我永远无法分辨这三者之间的区别,因为用我的母语,我们有一个词来描述这三者。 |
| 130 | Later, I was abroad in a supermarket and I saw this sign, Satsuma. | 后来,我在国外的超市里,我看到了这个标志,佐佐马。 |
| 131 | I pointed to it and I said out loud, there were people around me. | 我指着它,大声地说,我身边有人。 |
| 132 | You little piece of fruit. | 你这个小水果 |
| 133 | I know you. | 我认识你 |
| 134 | And it felt really good. | 感觉非常好 |
| 135 | Our brains like to be proud. | 我们的大脑喜欢骄傲。 |
| 136 | We like achievement. | 我们喜欢成就。 |
| 137 | We like to be the best. | 我们喜欢成为最好的。 |
| 138 | And this is the best kind of achievement because it's not competitive. | 这是最好的成就,因为它没有竞争力。 |
| 139 | The only person you're trying to out best is you. | 你唯一想摆脱的人是你 |
| 140 | And each new word, phrase and sentence brings you victory. | 每个新词,句子和句子都给你带来胜利. |
| 141 | It doesn't have to be a big victory. | 不须大胜. |
| 142 | It can be as small as understanding a joke in a foreign language. | 它可以像理解外语的笑话一样小. |
| 143 | It's never too early to learn and it's never too late. | 学道永不早,学道永不晚. |
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