2015考研英语阅读英文原刊《经济学人》：重塑创意产业的TED

　　Potential speakers are carefully auditioned and extensively trained—and subtly remindedthat only successful talks will be put online.

　　被精心挑选出的演讲者会接受多方面的训练，并被暗示说只有成功的演讲视频才会被发布。

　　TED is constantly striving to improve its products and expand its pipeline.

　　TED在努力不断提升产品的品质和并扩宽来源渠道。

　　It has invested heavily in camera crews and stagecraft.

　　它在摄影和舞台技术方面已经投入了大量资金。

　　It has experimented with shorter formats such as TED in three minutes.

　　它还试验了缩短般的三分钟TED。

　　It has even introduced an American Idol element:

　　它甚至引入了美国偶像的元素：

　　about half of the speakers at each conference are chosen by competitive auditions thattake place all over the world and are theoretically open to anyone.

　　有将近一半的演讲者是通过全球海选的形式挑选的，理论上所有人都能参加这个选拔。

　　Modern-day missionaries

　　现代传教士

　　TED has become the leading ideas festival of the digital world.

　　TED已经成为数字世界最重要的思想盛会。

　　It draws much of its audience as well as many of its star speakers from the technocracy.

　　它的观众和演讲者很多都来技术专家政治群体。

　　It champions tech solutions to problems:

　　它赞成用科技手段解决问题：

　　its talks tend to give the impression that there is no ill in the world that cannot be solvedwith a laptop and an internet connection.

　　许多演讲都给人一种这样的印象：世界上没有什么问题是计算机和互联网解决不了的。

　　But there is also something old-fashioned about it.

　　但是TED也有传统的一面。

　　TED meetings have a revivalist feel,

　　TED的集会给人一种像是宗教复兴运动的感觉：

　　from the preacher's promises of salvation to the happy-clappy congregation.

　　演讲者像布道者一样给出救赎的承诺，观众们则像一群狂热的教众。

　　It is revealing that Mr Anderson is the son of missionaries, and, in rather Victorian fashion,

　　克里斯·安德森是一名传教士的儿子，而且极具维多利亚时期风格的是，

　　grew up in India before going to Oxford.

　　他在印度长大，后来又上了牛津大学。

　　TEDsters can also sound like modern versions of Dale Carnegie, the author of The Art ofPublic Speaking and How to Win Friends and Influence People.

　　TED的演讲则也像是现代版本的戴尔·卡耐基，此人是《演讲的艺术》和《人性的弱点》的作者。

　　A striking number of TED talks preach that you can have it all, a great career and a fulfilledlife, if only you work hard and follow your passion.

　　大量的TED演讲都宣扬，只要你努力工作并追随自己的激情，你就可以同时工作和生活的双丰收。

　　The ultimate secret of TED's success is not its commitment to disruptive innovation butits ability to repackage old-time religion for the digital age.

　　TED成功的奥秘并不是它恪守了破坏性创新的理念，而是它把旧时的宗教重新包装，使之适应数字时代。

　　词语解释

　　1.present in 呈现于

　　Those present in 2001 will recall how difficult thenegotiation process was.

　　那些在2001年参与此事的人，将回忆起谈判过程是如何的艰难。

　　The same mutated genes were present in plantswith the van gogh characteristics.

　　具有梵高笔下向日葵特征的品种均存在有相同的基因突变。

　　2.gather in 聚拢;收贮

　　Women gather in a mosque in jakarta, indonesia

　　印度尼西亚雅加达，妇女们聚集在清真寺。

　　They hang around team hotels, gather in restaurants, debate in bars.

　　他们游离在球队下榻的酒店、聚集在餐馆、在酒吧大肆争论。

　　3.stand for 代表;为…而奋斗

　　In the 1980s, germans came to stand for everything un-dutch.

　　到了80年代，德国人变成了一切荷兰人不认可的东西的代表。

　　Now they stand for a liberal, democratic and successful republic.

　　而现在它们代表着一个自由、民主和成功的共和政体。

　　4.in danger 在危险中，有…的危险

　　Yet we are in danger of doing just that.

　　但我们现在正面临这样做的危险。

　　Manned spacecraft are also in danger.

　　载人航天器也将处于危险之中。

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