TED英語演講：西方是如何看待中國大學聯考的
Jay Walker 解釋爲什麼全世界20億人在學英語。 他展示了一些圖片和一些令人激動的錄像,展示了成千上萬的中國學生練習世界第二語言英語的場面。下面是小編爲大家收集關於TED英語演講：西方是如何看待中國大學聯考的，歡迎借鑑參考。
演說題目：The world's English mania
演說者：Jay Walker
演講稿
Let's talk about manias. Let's start with Beatlemania.(Recording of crowd roaring)Hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium.(Recording of crowd roaring)Sports mania: deafening crowds, all for one idea — get the ball in the net. (Recording) Goal! Okay, religious mania: there's rapture, there's weeping, there's visions. Manias can be good. Manias can be alarming. Or manias can be deadly.(Recording of crowd cheering)
讓我們來談談狂熱。先從甲殼蟲熱說起。歇斯底里的少年們，高呼、尖叫、喧囂的場面。體育熱，震耳欲聾的人羣。都是爲了一個目標，要球進網。還有，宗教熱。有歡笑，也有淚水。還有夢想。狂熱可以是件好事，狂熱也可以使人擔心，有時狂熱也可以是致命的。
The world has a new mania. A mania for learning English. Listen as Chinese students practice their English, by screaming it:
現在世界上有一種新的狂熱。學習英語的狂熱。聽，中國學生在練習講英語用高聲叫喊的方式練習英語。
Teacher: ... change my life!
Students: I want to change my life!
T: I don't want to let my parents down!
S: I don't want to let my parents down!
T: I don't ever want to let my country down!
S: I don't ever want to let my country down!
T: Most importantly... S: Most importantly...
T: I don't want to let myself down!
S: I don't want to let myself down!
老師：... 改變我的生活!
學生：我要改變我的命運。
老師：我不想讓父母失望。
學生：我不想讓父母失望。
老師：我從不想讓國家失望。
學生：我從不想讓國家失望。
老師：最重要的...學生：最重要的...
老師：我不想讓我自己失望。
學生：我不想讓我自己失望。
How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? Two billion of them.
Students: A t-shirt. A dress.
Jay Walker: 全世界現在有多少人學習英語?20億
學生：一件襯衫。一條裙子。
Jay Walker: In Latin America, in India, in Southeast Asia, and most of all, in China. If you're a Chinese student, you start learning English in the third grade, by law. That's why this year, China will become the world's largest English-speaking country.
JW：在拉丁美洲、在印度、在東南亞、和幾乎整個中國。如果你是個中國學生根據法律，在國小三年級你得開始學習英語。這就是爲什麼今年中國會成爲全世界最大的講英語的國家。
Why English? In a single word: opportunity. Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table. Imagine a student taking a giant test for three full days. Her score on this one test literally determines her future. She studies 12 hours a day for three years to ty-five percent of her grade is based on English. It's called the gaokao, and 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken this grueling test. The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable, unless you witness it.
爲什麼是英語?用一個詞來回答：機會。一個獲得更好生活、工作的機會。可以上得起學，可以吃更好的食物。想象一個學生用整整三天時間參加一次大考。她的這個考試的成績真正地決定了她的前途。她每天學習12個小時，三年間都是如此，就是爲了準備這個考試，其中25%的成績是由英語決定的，這個考試叫做大學聯考。有8000萬的中國高中生都已經參加過這個“獨木橋”考試，學習英語的強度幾乎不可想象。除非你親自見證過。
Teacher: Perfect! Students: Perfect!
T: Perfect! S: Perfect!
T: I want to speak perfect English!
S: I want to speak perfect English!
T: I want to speak ... S: I want to speak ...
T: ... perfect English! S: ... perfect English!
T (yelling more loudly): I want to change my life!
S (yelling more loudly): I want to change my life!
老師：完美!學生：完美!
老師：完美!學生：完美!
老師：我想講完美的英語
學生：我想講完美的英語
老師：我想說—學生：我想說—
學生：完美的英語。學生：完美的英語
老師：我要改變我的命運!
學生：我要改變我的命運!
JW: So is English mania good or bad? Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages? Not ish is the world's second language. Your native language is your life. But with English you can become part of a wider conversation — a global conversation about global problems, like climate change or poverty, or hunger or disease.
JW：那麼這股英語熱是好還是壞呢?英語是海嘯嗎，席捲其他所有的語言?不見得，英語是世界第二大語言。你的母語是你的生活，但是英語可以讓你參與更大範圍的討論。一個全世界範圍的關於全球問題的討論。比如氣候改變或者貧窮或者飢餓，或是疾病。
The world has other universal languages. Mathematics is the language of science. Music is the language of emotions. And now English is becoming the language of problem-solving. Not because America is pushing it, but because the world is pulling it.
這個世界上還有其他的全球性語言，數學是科學的語言、音樂是感情的語言。現在，英語正在成爲解決問題的語言，並不是因爲美國促使其如此。而是因爲全世界的需要。
So English mania is a turning the harnessing of electricity in our cities, or the fall of the Berlin Wall, English represents hope for a better future — a future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems.
所以英語熱是一個轉折點，就像我們城市裏的供電系統或者柏林牆的倒塌，英語代表着希望，擁有一個更好的未來的希望，未來全世界將用共同語言去解決共同的問題。
Thank you very much.(Applause)
非常感謝 (掌聲)