第一篇：TED名人演講稿：12歲的APP開發(fā)者

【趣味雅思】TED名人演講稿：12歲的APP開發(fā)者

點課臺前言：雅思聽力對于很多烤鴨來說都是一道難關(guān)，大家都在苦苦思索，怎樣的雅思聽力。今天，點課臺老師給大家整理了TED演講，附演講稿與視頻，希望可以幫助到正在備考的考生。TED是美國的一家私有非盈利機(jī)構(gòu)，該機(jī)構(gòu)以它組織的TED大會著稱，這個會議的宗旨是“用思想的力量來改變世界”。大家在鍛煉雅思聽力的時候，也可以學(xué)習(xí)一下里面的主角們的思維模式，論述方法，希望還能對大家的雅思寫作有所啟迪。

I’ve always had a fascination for computers and technology, and I made a few

apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.I’d like to share a couple with you

today.我一直都對計算機(jī)與科技很入迷，我研制了一些適用于Iphone, iTouch以及iPad的應(yīng)用。今天，我想與大家分享一些我研發(fā)出的應(yīng)用。

My first app was a unique fortune teller called Earth Fortune that would

display different colors of earth depending on what your fortune was.My

favorite and most successful app is Bustin Jieber, which is ???(Laughter)???

which is a Justin Bieber Whac-A-Mole.我最先研制出的應(yīng)用是一個叫Earth Fortune的運(yùn)勢測試器，它能根據(jù)你的運(yùn)勢 呈現(xiàn)不同顏色的地球圖形 我個人最喜歡、也是最成功的應(yīng)用叫Bustin

Jieber 它是一個---(笑聲)它是一個賈斯汀·比伯攻擊器(Whac-A-Mole原意為“打地鼠”游戲)

I created it because a lot of people at school disliked Justin Bieber a

little bit, so I decided to make the app.在學(xué)校里，我的很多同學(xué)都不太喜歡賈斯汀·比伯，所以我決定開發(fā)這樣一個應(yīng)用。

So I went to work programming it, and I released it just before the holidays

in 2010.于是我就開始寫這個程序，并且在2010年圣誕假期和新年來臨之前發(fā)布了這個應(yīng)用。

A lot of people ask me, how did I make these? A lot of times it’s because the

person who asked the question wants to make an app also.很多人都問我，是怎樣開發(fā)出這些應(yīng)用的? 很多情況下，那些問這個問題的人，其實也想開發(fā)應(yīng)用。

A lot of kids these days like to play games, but now they want to make them，and it’s difficult, because not many kids know where to go to find out how to

make a program.如今，很多的孩子都喜歡玩游戲，但是，現(xiàn)在他們也想制作游戲。這是很困難的，因為很多孩子并不知道 怎樣找到制作軟件的方法。

I mean, for soccer, you could go to a soccer team.For violin, you could get

lessons for a violin.But what if you want to make an app? And their parents，the kid’s parents might have done some of these things when they were young, but

not many parents have written apps.打個比方，你想學(xué)踢足球，那你可以加入一支足球隊。想學(xué)小提琴，你可以報個小提琴班。但如果你想開發(fā)一個應(yīng)用呢? 父母們年輕的時候

也許踢過足球、或者學(xué)習(xí)過小提琴 但沒有多少父母寫過應(yīng)用吧!

(Laughter)

(笑聲)

Where do you go to find out how to make an app? Well, this is how I

approached it.This is what I did.First of all, I’ve been programming in

multiple other programming languages to get the basics down, such as Python, C，Java, etc.那么你要怎樣學(xué)習(xí)寫應(yīng)用呢? 我是這樣學(xué)習(xí)的，最開始時，我學(xué)習(xí)了用好幾種語言來編程，由此而掌握了編程的基礎(chǔ)知識，例如Python語言、C語言以及Java語言等等。

And then Apple released the iPhone, and with it, the iPhone software

development kit, and the software development kit is a suite of tools for

creating and programming an iPhone app.This opened up a whole new world of

possibilities for me, and after playing with the software development kit a

little bit, I made a couple apps, I made some test apps.之后蘋果發(fā)行了iPhone，隨之還發(fā)布了iPhone軟件開發(fā)工具，這套軟件開發(fā)工具是一套工具，可用于開發(fā)與研制iPhone應(yīng)用。

這為我開啟了一個全新充滿可能性的世界，在稍稍擺弄過這套軟件開發(fā)工具之后，我開發(fā)出了一些應(yīng)用，以及一些測試的應(yīng)用。

One of them happened to be Earth Fortune, and I was ready to put Earth

Fortune on the App Store, and so I persuaded my parents to pay the 99 dollar fee

to be able to put my apps on the App Store.Earth Fortune便是其中之一。在我準(zhǔn)備好要將這個應(yīng)用放到App store上去時，我說服我的父母為我支付了99美元的費用，這樣我就能讓這個應(yīng)用在App Store上上線了。

They agreed, and now I have apps on the App Store.I’ve gotten a lot of

interest and encouragement from my family, friends, teachers and even people at

the Apple Store, and that’s been a huge help to me.他們同意了，于是現(xiàn)在App Store上便有了我開發(fā)的應(yīng)用。我的父母、朋友和老師 給了我很多靈感與鼓勵，甚至連App

Store的用戶都給了我許多鼓勵，這些對于我來說都是莫大的幫助。

I’ve gotten a lot of inspiration from Steve Jobs, and I’ve started an app

club at school, and a teacher at my school is kindly sponsoring my app club.我也從喬布斯那里得到了很多的啟發(fā)。在學(xué)校里，我建立一個app社團(tuán)，學(xué)校里的一名老師支持著我的這個社團(tuán)。

Any student at my school can come and learn how to design an app.This is so

I can share my experiences with others.There’s these programs called the iPad

Pilot Program, and some districts have them.學(xué)校里學(xué)生 都可以來學(xué)習(xí)如何設(shè)計應(yīng)用。這樣我就能與其他人一起分享我的經(jīng)驗。目前有一系列叫做Pilot Program的應(yīng)用程序，(為各大學(xué)校利用iPad教學(xué)提供技術(shù)支持的應(yīng)用軟件)有些地區(qū)可下載使用這些程序。

I’m fortunate enough to be part of one.A big challenge is, how should the

iPads be used, and what apps should we put on the iPads?

幸運(yùn)的是，我所在的地方正是這些地區(qū)之一。而我們目前面臨的挑戰(zhàn)是應(yīng)該怎樣利用iPad，以及iPad上應(yīng)該有哪些應(yīng)用程序。

So we’re getting feedback from teachers at the school to see what kind of

apps they’d like.所以我們對學(xué)校教師進(jìn)行了調(diào)研，獲得了關(guān)于他們喜歡什么樣應(yīng)用的反饋。

When we design the app and we sell it, it will be free to local districts and

other districts that we sell to, all the money from that will go into the local

ed foundations.當(dāng)我們設(shè)計完這些應(yīng)用并將其出售時，當(dāng)?shù)氐膶W(xué)?？梢悦赓M使用，而從收費地區(qū)獲得的收入，則會捐贈給當(dāng)?shù)氐慕逃龣C(jī)構(gòu)。

These days, students usually know a little bit more than teachers with the

technology.如今，學(xué)生們所掌握的科技通常 會比老師多那么一點點。

(Laughter)

(笑聲)

So--

所以--

(Laughter)

(笑聲)

--sorry--(Laughter)--

抱歉--(笑聲)

so this is a resource to teachers, and educators should recognize this

resource and make good use of it.I’d like to finish up by saying what I’d like

to do in the future.所以這對老師而言是一種資源，教育工作者們應(yīng)該了解這些資源，并充分地利用它們 最后，我想談?wù)勎椅磥淼挠媱潯?/p>

First of all, I’d like to create more apps, more games.I’m working with a

third party company to make an app.I’d like to get into Android programming and

development, and I’d like to continue my app club, and find other ways for

students to share knowledge with others.首先，我要開發(fā)出更多的應(yīng)用、更多的游戲，目前我正在與一個第三方公司合作開發(fā)App，我想開始安卓系統(tǒng)應(yīng)用的編程與開發(fā)，同時，我也要繼續(xù)我的app社團(tuán)，為同學(xué)們找到其他的方式，共同分享知識。

Thank you.謝謝!

(Applause)

第二篇：初級開發(fā)者如何學(xué)習(xí)App開發(fā)

初級開發(fā)者如何學(xué)習(xí)App開發(fā)

想要學(xué)習(xí)APP開發(fā)的初級開發(fā)者首先必須要精通一門語言，iOS培訓(xùn)一般的入門語言為C語言，因為iOS開發(fā)多用OC語言，這是一款基于C語言而發(fā)展起來的語言，雖然和C的關(guān)系也不是很大，但是如果有比較好的C語言基礎(chǔ)，學(xué)習(xí)起來OC語言會更加輕松。開發(fā)工具一般建議使用Xcode，因為是在Mac系統(tǒng)上運(yùn)行的，所以和iOS系統(tǒng)有一定的親近性，只需要自己多摸索就可以進(jìn)行簡單的APP開發(fā)了。一般學(xué)習(xí)者可以自行購買iPhone開發(fā)秘籍，手機(jī)培訓(xùn)將語言的基礎(chǔ)概念全部弄清楚之后，做一兩個例子體會一下，這樣基礎(chǔ)部分就沒有問題了。

在進(jìn)行實際操作的時候，可以先借助網(wǎng)上一些視頻教程之類，多看看精品視頻教程的東西，等到自己覺得理解吸收得差不多了，就可以進(jìn)行上機(jī)開發(fā)了。一般建議先調(diào)動自己的思維，自行設(shè)計某一個APP，可以涵蓋你所學(xué)習(xí)到的東西，當(dāng)然過程可能會有些坎坷，不過最后的結(jié)果絕對是好的。

掌握了UI了之后，就可以往數(shù)據(jù)存儲方面走了。比如完成一個網(wǎng)絡(luò)圖片搜集的APP，包括網(wǎng)絡(luò)連接、圖片保存、UI線程安全、數(shù)據(jù)庫操作等等，在這個過程中不斷加深鞏固之前的零碎概念，這樣才可以保證自己的知識能夠牢固，為日后進(jìn)行大項目打下基礎(chǔ)。

第三篇：TED名人演講稿：老師如何創(chuàng)造魔力

【趣味雅思】TED名人演講稿：老師如何創(chuàng)造魔力

點課臺前言：雅思聽力對于很多烤鴨來說都是一道難關(guān)，大家都在苦苦思索，怎樣的雅思聽力。今天，點課臺老師給大家整理了TED演講，附演講稿與視頻，希望可以幫助到正在備考的考生。TED是美國的一家私有非盈利機(jī)構(gòu)，該機(jī)構(gòu)以它組織的TED大會著稱，這個會議的宗旨是“用思想的力量來改變世界”。大家在鍛煉雅思聽力的時候，也可以學(xué)習(xí)一下里面的主角們的思維模式，論述方法，希望還能對大家的雅思寫作有所啟迪。

Christopher Emdin:Teach teachers how to create magic

老師如何創(chuàng)造魔力.Right now there is an aspiring teacher who is working on a 60-page paper

based on some age-old education theory developed by some dead education

professor wondering to herself what this task that she’s engaging in has to do

with what she wants to do with her life, which is be an educator, change lives，and spark magic.Right now there is an aspiring teacher in a graduate school of

education who is watching a professor babble on and on about engagement in the

most disengaging way possible.現(xiàn)在 有一位有追求的老師 正在寫一篇60頁的論文 論文是基于一些古老教育理念，它們都是由一些早已逝去的教育學(xué)教授所開發(fā)，這位老師問她自己，她正從事的這項任務(wù)--成為一個教育者，改變生命并啟迪人生--和她的工作聯(lián)系呢。有一位有理想的老師 正在一所教育研究生院 聽著一位教授 用一種最無聊的方式

不停地講述著教育中的互動。

Right now there is an aspiring teacher who is working on a 60-page paper

based on some age-old education theory developed by some dead education

professor wondering to herself what this task that she’s engaging in has to do

with what she wants to do with her life, which is be an educator, change lives，and spark magic.Right now there is an aspiring teacher in a graduate school of

education who is watching a professor babble on and on about engagement in the

most disengaging way possible.Right now there’s a first-year teacher at home

who is pouring through lesson plans trying to make sense of standards, who is

trying to make sense of how to grade students appropriately, while at the same time saying to herself over and over again, “Don’t smile till November,” because

that’s what she was taught in her teacher education program.Right now there’s a

student who is coming up with a way to convince his mom or dad that he’s very，very sick and can’t make it to school tomorrow.現(xiàn)在 有一位一年級老師在家中 正檢查課程計劃，試圖達(dá)到標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的感覺。這位老師又在想如何才能合理為學(xué)生打分，同時又對她自己 反復(fù)地說，”在11

月之前都不要笑，” 因為那些都是 她從教育課程學(xué)到的?，F(xiàn)在，有一位學(xué)生 正試圖想出一個主意 去說服他的父母，他非常非常地不舒服，明天不能上學(xué)了。

On the other hand, right now there are amazing educators that are sharing

information, information that is shared in such a beautiful way that the

students are sitting at the edge of their seats just waiting for a bead of sweat

to drop off the face of this person so they can soak up all that knowledge.Right now there is also a person who has an entire audience rapt with attention，a person that is weaving a powerful narrative about a world that the people who

are listening have never imagined or seen before, but if they close their eyes

tightly enough, they can envision that world because the storytelling is so

compelling.Right now there’s a person who can tell an audience to put their

hands up in the air and they will stay there till he says, “Put them down.”

Right now.現(xiàn)在，在另一方面，了不起地教育家們 傳授知識，以一種最優(yōu)美地方式傳授知識，以至于學(xué)生坐在他們邊緣 只是為了等待一滴甘甜的露珠 從老師的臉上掉下來，并去汲取所有的知識?，F(xiàn)在，又有一位 讓所有觀眾全神貫注的人，他編織生動的語言 描繪著 一個聽眾們 聞所未聞地的世界，但如果人們緊閉雙眼，便能想像出那個世界，因為那個故事實在是太精彩?，F(xiàn)在，有一個人 叫觀眾將手放在空中 直到他說”放下來” 才可以放下來?，F(xiàn)在。

So people will then say, “Well, Chris, you describe the guy who is going

through some awful training but you’re also describing these powerful educators.If you’re thinking about the world of education or urban education in

particular, these guys will probably cancel each other out, and then we’ll be

okay.”

這樣一來，人們會說，“克里斯，你描述了 正接受可怕訓(xùn)練的伙計，但你還描述那些有感召力教育者。如果你在想關(guān)于教育的世界，或?qū)Ｗ⒂诔鞘薪逃?，那些人可能會有相反的效?yīng)并相互抵消，也就沒什么事了?！?/p>

The reality is, the folks I described as the master teachers, the master

narrative builders, the master storytellers are far removed from classrooms.The

folks who know the skills about how to teach and engage an audience don’t even

know what teacher certification means.They may not even have the degrees to be

able to have anything to call an education.And that to me is sad.It’s sad

because the people who I described, they were very disinterested in the learning

process, want to be effective teachers, but they have no models.I’m going to

paraphrase Mark Twain.Mark Twain says that proper preparation, or teaching, is

so powerful that it can turn bad morals to good, it can turn awful practices

into powerful ones, it can change men and transform them into angels.事實上，我所描述 教育大師，敘述大師，講故事大師，都離課堂很遙遠(yuǎn)。那些掌握如何教學(xué)并 與觀眾互動的人 甚至都不知道什么是教師資格證。

也許他們連可以 叫做教育的東西 都沒有。對我來說，這是一件非常悲哀的事情。之所以悲哀，是因為我所描述的那些人 他們對學(xué)習(xí)的過程沒有興趣，他們想成為高效的老師，卻沒有范例。我要概括一下馬克·吐溫說過的一句話。馬克·吐溫說適當(dāng)?shù)臏?zhǔn)備或教學(xué)，是非常強(qiáng)大的，可以將不好的品行變好，將糟糕的實踐變得強(qiáng)有力，將人們改變，并將他們改造成為天使。

The folks who I described earlier got proper preparation in teaching, not in

any college or university, but by virtue of just being in the same spaces of

those who engage.Guess where those places are? Barber shops, rap concerts, and

most importantly, in the black church.And I’ve been framing this idea called

Pentecostal pedagogy.Who here has been to a black church? We got a couple of

hands.You go to a black church, their preacher starts off and he realizes that

he has to engage the audience, so he starts off with this sort of wordplay in

the beginning oftentimes, and then he takes a pause, and he says, “Oh my gosh，they’re not quite paying attention.” So he says, “Can I get an amen?”

我之前所說的那些 有著適當(dāng)教學(xué)準(zhǔn)備的人，他們不在大學(xué)里，只在那些有同樣有著人們參與和互動的地方。猜猜看有哪些地方? 理發(fā)店，說唱音樂會，和最首要的黑人教堂。我一直都在構(gòu)造這個叫做五旬節(jié)教學(xué)法的主意。誰去過黑人教堂? 有幾個人。你到一所黑人教堂，他們的祭祀開始

并意識到他必須吸引觀眾的目光，因此他一般 從文字游戲開始，然后停頓一下，說：”哦，我的天，他們并沒有集中注意力。”

然后他說：”你們可以說阿門么?”

Audience: Amen.觀眾：阿門。

Chris Emdin: So I can I get an amen? Audience: Amen.克里斯·艾姆丁：大家能一起說”阿門”么? 觀眾：阿門。

CE: And all of a sudden, everybody’s reawoken.That preacher bangs on the

pulpit for attention.He drops his voice at a very, very low volume when he

wants people to key into him, and those things are the skills that we need for

the most engaging teachers.So why does teacher education only give you theory

and theory and tell you about standards and tell you about all of these things

that have nothing to do with the basic skills, that magic that you need to

engage an audience, to engage a student? So I make the argument that we reframe

teacher education, that we could focus on content, and that’s fine, and we could

focus on theories, and that’s fine, but content and theories with the absence of

the magic of teaching and learning means nothing.克里斯·艾姆丁：頃刻間，人們都清醒了。那個祭祀提高傳道的聲音吸引注意力。當(dāng)他想鎖住人們的注意力時，便將音量放得很低，那些都是最鼓舞人心的老師

所需要的技能。為什么教師培訓(xùn) 僅是不停地傳授理論 并告訴你教學(xué)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，告訴你那些與基本技能無關(guān)的 不能鼓舞觀眾 和激勵學(xué)生的，沒有魔力的東西呢?

所以我立論：我們應(yīng)該重塑師資培訓(xùn)，我們可以專注于教學(xué)內(nèi)容，我們可以專注于教學(xué)理論，但是只有內(nèi)容和理論 卻沒有那教與學(xué)的魔力 那都是空談。

Now people oftentimes say, “Well, magic is just magic.” There are teachers

who, despite all their challenges, who have those skills, get into those schools

and are able to engage an audience, and the administrator walks by and says，“Wow, he’s so good, I wish all my teachers could be that good.” And when they

try to describe what that is, they just say, “He has that magic.”

人們常說：”魔力只是魔力罷了?！?有老師不畏挑戰(zhàn) 并擁有那些技能 在學(xué)校能夠激勵和鼓舞學(xué)生，當(dāng)學(xué)校管理者路過時便說：

“喔，他很會教學(xué)!我希望其他老師都可以和他一樣優(yōu)秀?！?但是當(dāng)他們描述他教學(xué)成功的原因時，他們只說：”他擁有魔力。”

But I’m here to tell you that magic can be taught.Magic can be taught.Magic

can be taught.Now, how do you teach it? You teach it by allowing people to go

into those spaces where the magic is happening.If you want to be an aspiring

teacher in urban education, you’ve got to leave the confines of that university

and go into the hood.You’ve got to go in there and hang out at the barbershop，you’ve got to attend that black church, and you’ve got to view those folks that

have the power to engage and just take notes on what they do.At our teacher

education classes at my university, I’ve started a project where every single

student that comes in there sits and watches rap concerts.They watch the way

that the rappers move and talk with their hands.They study the way that he

walks proudly across that stage.但是我想告訴你們 那種魔力是可以被教的。魔力是可以被教的。魔力是可以被教的。但是怎么去傳授? 你可以通過允許人們參觀 那些魔力在發(fā)生的地方

教授他們這種技能。如果你想成為城市教育中一位有抱負(fù)的老師 你得走出大學(xué)的限制 進(jìn)入到魔力發(fā)生的地方。你得在理發(fā)店內(nèi)與人們交談，你得去看看黑人教堂，你還得去看看 那些有感召力的人 學(xué)習(xí)他們的做法。在我大學(xué)的教師培訓(xùn)課堂中，我開啟了一個項目，讓每一個學(xué)生看說唱音樂會。他們觀察說唱歌手 的步法與說話時的手勢。他們研究說唱歌手在舞臺上自信走動的姿態(tài)。

They listen to his metaphors and analogies, and they start learning these

little things that if they practice enough becomes the key to magic.They learn

that if you just stare at a student and raise your eyebrow about a quarter of an

inch, you don’t have to say a word because they know that that means that you

want more.And if we could transform teacher education to focus on teaching

teachers how to create that magic then poof!we could make dead classes come

alive, we could reignite imaginations, and we can change education.他們聽說唱歌手的暗示和比喻，他們遍開始學(xué)習(xí)這些東西，如果他們有足夠的練習(xí)，這些將會成為掌握魔力的關(guān)鍵。他們學(xué)到如果你凝視一個學(xué)生

并將你的眉毛抬高四分之一英寸，你一個字都不用說 因為學(xué)生會知道你想要更多的答案。如果我們可以將將是培訓(xùn)轉(zhuǎn)型，專注于 對于魔力的教學(xué)，我們可以將無趣的課堂變得生動起來，我們可以重新點燃想象力，我們可以改變教育。

Thank you.謝謝.(Applause)

(掌聲)

第四篇：12歲演講稿

12歲演講稿

尊敬的爺爺奶奶，叔叔阿姨，以及在做的各位大朋友小朋友們！

大家中午好！

今天的我特別高興、也特別激動。首先，感謝大家在百忙中參加我的十二歲生日宴會，我代表我的全家對大家的到來表示誠摯的歡迎！

12年的時間，既短又長，對于我的人生來說，是剛剛起步，濃墨重彩更在未來；大樹新添了一圈年輪，小鳥的羽毛漸漸豐滿，我12歲了。在這里，我要感謝我最最親愛的爸爸媽媽。他們不僅給了我健康的身體，舒適的生活環(huán)境，更給了我一個幸福快樂的童年，一個充滿歡笑充滿愛的家。他們用辛勤的汗水全心全意的培育著我漸漸長大。在今天這個特殊的日子里，我要真心地對爸爸媽媽說一句：“爸爸媽媽，你們辛苦了，謝謝你們！”我還要感謝一直關(guān)愛著我的親朋好友們。你們的關(guān)心和愛護(hù)象陽光一般照耀著我，像雨露一樣滋潤著我。我的每一點進(jìn)步，都離不開你們的鼓勵和幫助。在此，我想對你們說：“謝謝你們！”

12歲，是人生中新的里程碑，也是我立志向上，追求崇高理想的新起點。我立志成為一個勇敢正直、健康樂觀，擁有優(yōu)秀品質(zhì)、博大胸懷的人！為實現(xiàn)這個目標(biāo)，我要發(fā)奮圖強(qiáng)，刻苦學(xué)習(xí)，用豐富的知識充實自己，用優(yōu)良的品質(zhì)塑造自己，用堅強(qiáng)的毅力鍛煉自己，用最優(yōu)異的成績報答所有關(guān)心關(guān)愛我的人！

最后在這個充滿幸福和快樂的時刻，我祝愿爸爸媽媽爺爺奶奶姥

姥姥爺以及各位長輩身體健康，萬事如意；祝各位哥哥姐姐弟弟妹妹們學(xué)習(xí)進(jìn)步、事業(yè)有成！

第五篇：TED名人演講稿 用舞蹈戰(zhàn)勝癌癥

TED名人演講稿 用舞蹈戰(zhàn)勝癌癥

點課臺前言：雅思聽力對于很多烤鴨來說都是一道難關(guān)，大家都在苦苦思索，怎樣的雅思聽力。今天，點課臺老師給大家整理了TED演講，附演講稿與視頻，希望可以幫助到正在備考的考生。TED是美國的一家私有非盈利機(jī)構(gòu)，該機(jī)構(gòu)以它組織的TED大會著稱，這個會議的宗旨是“用思想的力量來改變世界”。大家在鍛煉雅思聽力的時候，也可以學(xué)習(xí)一下里面的主角們的思維模式，論述方法，希望還能對大家的雅思寫作有所啟迪。

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[Sanskrit] This is an ode to the mother goddess, that most of us in India

learn when we are children.I learned it when I was four at my mother’s knee.That year she introduced me to dance, and thus began my tryst with classical

dance.Since then--it’s been four decades now--I’ve trained with the best in

the field, performed across the globe, taught young and old alike, created，collaborated, choreographed, and wove a rich tapestry of artistry, achievement

and awards.The crowning glory was in 2007, when I received this country’s

fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, for my contribution to art.(梵文)，有一首關(guān)于印度神母的頌歌，是我們大部分的印度人從小就學(xué)習(xí)的。在我四歲的時候也學(xué)習(xí)了這首歌，坐在我母親的膝頭上。也正是那一年，她引導(dǎo)我進(jìn)入舞蹈的殿堂。而這一開端，正是我與印度古典舞幽會的伊始。從那時開始，到現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)40年了——，我?guī)煆倪@一行最優(yōu)秀的舞者，在世界各地演出，教導(dǎo)年輕的和年老的舞蹈愛好者，創(chuàng)造，合作，編舞，我編織了一個絢麗的掛毯，用我的藝術(shù)，成就，和獎?wù)隆?007年我獲得了至高無上的榮譽(yù)，那一年

我得到了印度，授予公民的第四高榮譽(yù)，蓮花獎(Padma Shri)，作為我對藝術(shù)貢獻(xiàn)的回報

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But nothing, nothing prepared me for what I was to hear on the first of July

2008.I heard the word “carcinoma.” Yes, breast cancer.As I sat dumbstruck in my doctor’s office, I heard other words: “cancer,” “stage,” “grade.” Until then，Cancer was the zodiac sign of my friend, stage was what I performed on, and

grades were what I got in school.That day, I realized I had an unwelcome，uninvited, new life partner.As a dancer, I know the nine rasas or the

navarasas: anger, valor, disgust, humor and fear.I thought I knew what fear

was.That day, I learned what fear was.但是任何事都不足以讓我有心理準(zhǔn)備，去面對我將要得知的，在2008年的7月1號，我得知了一個詞“惡性腫瘤”，是的，乳腺癌，我坐在醫(yī)生的辦公室里，呆若木雞，我聽到了另外一些詞，“癌癥”，“期”，“惡性程度”，那時之前，癌(Cancer)是十二宮中的巨蟹座。是我朋友的星座，“期”(Stage)是我表演的舞臺，“惡性程度”(Grade)是我在學(xué)校得到的成績，那一天，我意識到，我有一個不受歡迎的，不請自來的，新終生伴侶，作為一個舞者，我知道九情操(印度古典舞蹈中通過肢體或表情表達(dá)不同情緒的方式)，憤怒，勇敢，厭惡，詼諧，與恐怖，我以為我知道什么是恐懼，那一天，我學(xué)會了什么是恐懼

Overcome with the enormity of it all and the complete feeling of loss of

control, I shed copious tears and asked my dear husband, Jayant.I said, “Is

this it? Is this the end of the road? Is this the end of my dance?” And he, the

positive soul that he is, said, “No, this is just a hiatus, a hiatus during the

treatment, and you’ll get back to doing what you do best.”

經(jīng)歷所有的巨痛，并徹底感到失去控制，我流了很多淚水，問我親愛的丈夫，Jayant，我說，“結(jié)束了么?這就是我生命之路的盡頭么?”，這就是我舞蹈的終結(jié)么?，然而他，這個樂觀的靈魂，說，“不，這只是一個間隙，治療的間隙，而且你將回來做你擅長的事

I realized then that I, who thought I had complete control of my life, had

control of only three things: My thought, my mind--the images that these

thoughts created--and the action that derived from it.So here I was wallowing

in a vortex of emotions and depression and what have you, with the enormity of

the situation, wanting to go to a place of healing, health and happiness.I

wanted to go from where I was to where I wanted to be, for which I needed

something.I needed something that would pull me out of all this.So I dried my

tears, and I declared to the world at large...I said, “Cancer’s only one page

in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.”

當(dāng)時我醒悟到，我認(rèn)為自己完全控制了自己的人生，但我僅僅控制了3件事，我的思想，我的情緒——，這些思想所創(chuàng)造的想象，和由這些想象所引起的行動，所以現(xiàn)在我沉迷于，一種情緒的漩渦中，沮喪，和那些令你，感到情況的嚴(yán)酷的思緒，我想得到痊愈，健康和幸福，我想從現(xiàn)在的我，到達(dá)我想到的彼方，為了達(dá)到這一目標(biāo)，我需要有一股可以把我從痛苦中拉出來的力量，所以

我擦干淚水，然后 我向世界宣告，我說，癌癥只是我生命中的一頁，我不會讓這一頁去影響我其余的人生

I also declared to the world at large that I would ride it out, and I would

not allow cancer to ride me.But to go from where I was to where I wanted to be，I needed something.I needed an anchor, an image, a peg to peg this process on，so that I could go from there.And I found that in my dance, my dance, my

strength, my energy, my passion, my very life breath.But it wasn’t easy.Believe me, it definitely wasn’t easy.How do you keep cheer when you go from

beautiful to bald in three days? How do you not despair when, with the body

ravaged by chemotherapy, climbing a mere flight of stairs was sheer torture，that to someone like me who could dance for three hours? How do you not get

overwhelmed by the despair and the misery of it all? All I wanted to do was curl

up and weep.But I kept telling myself fear and tears are options I did not

have.我還向世界宣告，我將度過難關(guān)，我不會允許癌癥將我打倒，但是

要從我的現(xiàn)狀，到達(dá)我的期望，我需要一些東西，我需要一個依靠，一種意象，一個標(biāo)桿，釘在這一過程的起始，然后我可以從那里開始，然后

我從舞蹈中發(fā)現(xiàn)了它，我的舞蹈，我的力量，我的能量，我的熱情，我生命的氣息，但這并不容易，相信我，這絕不容易，你怎能保持振奮，在你的外型從美麗，在三天之內(nèi)變成禿字，你怎能不絕望，在你的身體對化療產(chǎn)生不良反應(yīng)時，爬幾節(jié)樓梯都像攀登險峰，對于我這樣一個能連續(xù)跳3個小時的舞者?，你怎能不彷徨失措，因為痛苦和絕望，我想做的只有蜷縮起來哭泣，但是我一直告訴我自己

畏縮和哭泣，都不是我將要做的選擇

So I would drag myself into my dance studio--body, mind and spirit--every

day into my dance studio, and learn everything I learned when I was four, all

over again, reworked, relearned, regrouped.It was excruciatingly painful, but I

did it.Difficult.I focused on my mudras, on the imagery of my dance, on the

poetry and the metaphor and the philosophy of the dance itself.And slowly, I

moved out of that miserable state of mind.所以我強(qiáng)拉自己到我的舞蹈室，我的身體，思想，和靈魂，每天都在我的舞蹈室，學(xué)習(xí)我曾經(jīng)學(xué)習(xí)過的所有東西，就好像我又回到四歲，從新工作，從頭學(xué)習(xí)，從新組織，這一過程非常痛苦，但是我完成了，困難，我專注于我的身印手印，專注于我舞蹈的意境，專注于韻律和意象，和舞蹈的哲學(xué)本身，然后

緩慢的 我脫離了，我心中的悲慘境遇

But I needed something else.I needed something to go that extra mile, and I

found it in that metaphor which I had learned from my mother when I was four.The metaphor of Mahishasura Mardhini, of Durga.Durga, the mother goddess, the

fearless one, created by the pantheon of Hindu gods.Durga, resplendent，bedecked, beautiful, her 18 arms ready for warfare, as she rode astride her lion

into the battlefield to destroy Mahishasur.Durga, the epitome of creative

feminine energy, or shakti.Durga, the fearless one.I made that image of Durga

and her every attribute, her every nuance, my very own.但是 我需要另外一些東西，我需要增加我的旅程，我在意象中找到了它，那是從我四歲就學(xué)起的，濕婆神的意象，杜爾迦女神，杜爾迦女神

無畏的神母，由印度諸神所創(chuàng)造，杜爾迦女神 輝煌 雍容

美麗，她的十八支手臂，隨時準(zhǔn)備戰(zhàn)斗，她乘坐神獅，進(jìn)入戰(zhàn)場去毀滅水牛阿修羅，杜爾迦女神，女性創(chuàng)造力量的象征，或者叫女性力量，杜爾迦

無畏的女神，我做成了杜爾迦女神的意象，和她所有的屬性和特質(zhì)，我專屬的意象

Powered by the symbology of a myth and the passion of my training, I brought

laser-sharp focus into my dance, laser-sharp focus to such an extent that I

danced a few weeks after surgery.I danced through chemo and radiation cycles，much to the dismay of my oncologist.I danced between chemo and radiation cycles

and badgered him to fit it to my performing dance schedule.What I had done is I

had tuned out of cancer and tuned into my dance.Yes, cancer has just been one

page in my life.在她那種神秘符號的推動下，并伴隨著我對訓(xùn)練的熱情，我像激光刀般精準(zhǔn)的專注于我的舞蹈，像激光刀般專注這樣一個領(lǐng)域，在手術(shù)之后我跳了幾周的舞，在化療和放射療法的治療周期我依然跳舞，我的治療醫(yī)生很驚異，我在化療和放射的期間跳舞，我糾纏著讓他使治療周期，配合我的舞蹈計劃，我所成就的是，我擺脫了癌癥，專注于我的舞蹈，是的，癌癥只成為我生命中的一頁

My story is a story of overcoming setbacks, obstacles and challenges that

life throws at you.My story is the power of thought.My story is the power of

choice.It’s the power of focus.It’s the power of bringing ourselves to the

attention of something that so animates you, so moves you, that something even

like cancer becomes insignificant.My story is the power of a metaphor.It’s the

power of an image.Mine was that of Durga, Durga the fearless one.She was also

called Simhanandini, the one who rode the lion.我的故事，是一個克服挫折，障礙和挑戰(zhàn)的故事，那些生命帶給你的，我的故事是思想的力量，我的故事是選擇的力量，是專注的力量，這是一種力量讓我們注意那些，賦予我們生機(jī)活力，深刻的感動我們，和令癌癥變得無足輕重的東西，我的故事是意境的力量，是意象的力量，我的意象是杜爾迦，杜爾迦無畏的女神，她也叫做Simhanandini，騎獅子的人

As I ride out, as I ride my own inner strength, my own inner resilience，armed as I am with what medication can provide and continue treatment, as I ride

out into the battlefield of cancer, asking my rogue cells to behave, I want to

be known not as a cancer survivor, but as a cancer conqueror.在我度過難關(guān)的過程中，我駕馭了我自己的內(nèi)在力量，我的內(nèi)在恢復(fù)力，我武裝自己并聯(lián)合治療效果，我繼續(xù)治療，我經(jīng)歷了與癌癥的戰(zhàn)爭，我命令那些肆意妄為的細(xì)胞順從起來，我希望被世人認(rèn)可，不是作為癌癥幸存者，而是作為癌癥征服者

I present to you an excerpt of that work “Simhanandini.”

我向你們呈現(xiàn)一段我的舞蹈，“獅子吼經(jīng)”(Simhanandani)

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