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1、精品资料TED英语演讲：生命无限，勇往直前艾咪.普蒂19岁时，双脚膝盖以下遭截肢，但现在，她已成为滑雪专家。在这则充满力量的演说中，她分享了如何从人生的阻碍中获得灵感和鼓舞。那些局限和障碍只会造成两种结局：要么让我们停滞不前,要么逼我们迸发出巨大的创造力。下面是WTT为大家收集关于TED英语演讲：生命无限，勇往直前，欢迎借鉴参考。| 中英文演讲稿 |If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? Thats the question that changed my li
2、fe forever.Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free.I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.如果你的人生是一本书 你是书的作者 你会怎么写你的故事? 这个问题永远改变了我的一生 生长在拉斯维加斯的炎热沙漠 我一直向往自由 我做着白日梦 梦想周
3、游世界 住在能看见雪的地方 编我想讲述的 所有故事At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a place where it snowed and I became a massage therapist.With this job all I needed were my hands and my massage table by my side and I could go anywhere.For the first time in my life, I felt free, independe
4、nt and pletely in control of my life.That is, until my life took a detour.I went home from work early one day with what I thought was the flu, and less than 24 hours later I was in the hospital on life support with less than a two percent chance of living.It wasnt until days later as I lay in a a th
5、at the doctors diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis, a vaccine-preventable blood infection.Over the course of two and a half months I lost my spleen, my kidneys, the hearing in my left ear and both of my legs below the knee.19岁那年 在我从高中毕业后 我搬到了能见到雪的地方 我成为一名按摩师 这份工作只需要双手 以及身边的按摩桌 而且我可以去任何地方 有生以来头一次
6、我感到自由 独立 对生活充满把握 直到人生出现了一个转折 一天我下班比往常早 以为自己得了流感 24小时不到 我就进了医院 生命垂危 只有2%的存活几率 之后的几天 我陷入昏迷 医生诊断我得了 细菌性脑膜炎 疫苗可预防性血液感染 在为期两个半月的治疗中 我切除了脾和肾 左耳失聪 膝盖以下截肢When my parents wheeled me out of the hospital I felt like I had been pieced back together like a patchwork doll.I thought the worst was over until weeks
7、later when I saw my new legs for the first time.The calves were bulky blocks of metal with pipes bolted together for the ankles and a yellow rubber foot with a raised rubber line from the toe to the ankle to look like a vein.I didnt know what to e_pect, but I wasnt e_pecting that.当父母把我推出医院时 我感到自己被重新
8、拼凑起来 像一个拼布娃娃 我以为最惨的事已完结 直到我第一次见到 自己的新腿 小腿是笨重的金属块 脚踝用管子和螺丝固定 外加黄色的橡胶脚 突起的橡胶线从脚趾延伸到脚踝 为了使它们看起来像血管 我不知道我想要的结果是什么 但绝不会是这个With my mom by my side and tears streaming down our faces, I strapped on these chunky legs and I stood up.They were so painful and so confining that all I could think was, how am I ev
9、er going to travel the world in these things? How was I ever going to live the life full of adventure and stories, as I always wanted? And how was I going to snowboard again?妈妈站在我旁边 两个人泪水肆意 我绑上这两条粗短腿 然后站起来 它们让我感到十分痛苦，并且充满限制 我脑子里只有一个想法： 用这些破玩意我怎么能周游世界? 我如何才能过我 一直想要的异彩纷呈的生活?That day, I went home, I cr
10、awled into bed and this is what my life looked like for the ne_t few months: me passed out, escaping from reality, with my legs resting by my side.I was absolutely physically and emotionally broken.But I knew that in order to move forward, I had to let go of the old Amy and learn to embrace the new
11、Amy.And that is when it dawned on me that I didnt have to be five-foot-five anymore.I could be as tall as I wanted! (Laughter) (Applause) Or as short as I wanted, depending on who I was dating.(Laughter) And if I snowboarded again, my feet arent going to get cold.(Laughter) And best of all, I though
12、t, I can make my feet the size of all the shoes that are on the sales rack.(Laughter) And I did! So there were benefits here.但是我知道 为了向前走 我必须放开过去的艾米 学着接受新的艾米 那时 我突然想到 我再也不只有5.5英尺高了 我可以想多高有多高 (笑声)(掌声) 或者想多矮有多矮 这得看我和谁约会 (笑声) 如果我再玩单板滑雪 脚再也不会冷 (笑声) 我觉得最棒的是 我可以调整脚的大小来适合 货架上任何尺码的鞋子 (笑声) 我真那么干了! 所以这还是有些好处的I
13、t was this moment that I asked myself that life-defining question: If my life were a book and I were the author, how would I want the story to go? And I began to daydream.I daydreamed like I did as a little girl and I imagined myself walking gracefully, helping other people through my journey and sn
14、owboarding again.And I didnt just see myself carving down a mountain of powder, I could actually feel it.I could feel the wind against my face and the beat of my racing heart as if it were happening in that very moment.And that is when a new chapter in my life began.Four months later I was back up o
15、n a snowboard, although things didnt go quite as e_pected: My knees and my ankles wouldnt bend and at one point I traumatized all the skiers on the chair lift when I fell and my legs, still attached to my snowboard (Laughter) went flying down the mountain, and I was on top of the mountain still.I wa
16、s so shocked, I was just as shocked as everybody else, and I was so discouraged, but I knew that if I could find the right pair of feet that I would be able to do this again.And this is when I learned that our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: one, stop us in our tracks or two, force us to get creative.4个月之后，我重拾单板滑雪 虽然事情并不像我期待的那样 我的膝盖和脚踝无法弯曲 在某一点上我吓坏了升降椅上所有的滑雪者 (笑声)就是当我摔倒时,我的腿还连着滑
