TED演讲：每天一秒钟(1)

 　　So, I'm an artist. I live in New York, and I've been working in advertising¹ for -- ever since I left school, 我是一名艺术家。我住在纽约，从事广告设计，从毕业开始我就一直做这行，

　　so about seven, eight years now, and it was draining. I worked a lot of late nights.  至今已经七、八年了，慢慢的感觉有点厌倦了。我熬了很多夜，

　　I worked a lot of weekends, and I found myself never having time for all the projects that I wanted to work on on my own. 在办公室度过了很多的周末，我发现自己一直没有时间来做我真正想做的个人项目。

　　And one day I was at work and I saw a talk by Stefan Sagmeister on TED²,  有一天我在工作的时候看到了施德明在TED上的演讲，

　　and it was called "The power of time off," and he spoke³ about how every seven years,  主题叫“时间流逝的力量”，他提到他每过七年，

　　he takes a year off from work so he could do his own creative projects, and I was instantly inspired, and I just said,  就拿出一年时间来休假，抛开工作，做自己的富有创造力的项目，我的思路被他打开了，然后我说：

　　"I have to do that. I have to take a year off.  “我也要这么干，我要休一年的假。

　　I need to take time to travel and spend time with my family and start my own creative ideas." 我需要时间旅行，陪伴家人，开始自己的富有创造力的想法。”

　　So the first of those projects ended up being something I called "One Second Every Day." 我的项目中，第一个项目的名字叫“每天一秒钟”。

　　Basically I'm recording⁴ one second of every day of my life for the rest of my life, 大意就是我每天都坚持给自己录一秒钟的视频，下半辈子一直坚持下去，

　　chronologically⁵ compiling these one-second tiny slices of my life into one single continuous video until, 慢慢的将这些一秒钟的视频拼接起来，将我的生活的片段拼接成一段连续的视频，

　　you know, I can't record them anymore. 直到我没有能力再录制这些视频为止。

1 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

2 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

4 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

5 chronologically   

ad. 按年代的

参考例句：

• Manuscripts show cases arranged topically not chronologically. 从原稿看案例是按专题安排的而不是按年代次序安排的。
• Though the exhibition has been arranged chronologically, there are a few exceptions. 虽然展览的时间便已经安排好了，但是也有少数的例外。