(完整版)TED英语演讲稿：二十岁是不可以挥霍的光阴

哦，

很好。

如果你和

20

多岁的人一起工作，

你喜欢

20

多岁的人，

你因为

20

多岁的人辗转难眠，我想看到你们。很棒，看来

20

多岁的

人确实很受重视。

So

I

specialize

in

twentysomethings

because

I

believe

that every single one of those 50 million twentysomethings

deserves

to

know

what

psychologists,

sociologists,

neurologists

and

fertility

specialists

already

know:

that

claiming

your

20s

is

one

of

the

simplest,

yet

most

transformative,

things

you

can

do

for

work,

for

love,

for

your happiness, maybe even for the world.

因此我专门研究< /p>

20

多岁的人，

因为我坚信这五千万的< /p>

20

多岁的

人，每一个人都应该去了解那 些心理学家、社会学家、神经学家和生

育专家已经知道的事实：你的

20

多岁是极简单却极具变化的时期之

一。你

20

多岁的时光决定了你的事业、爱情、幸福甚至整个世界。

This is not my opinion. These are the facts. We know that

80 percent of life's most defining moments take place by age

35.

That

means

that

eight

out

of

10

of

the

decisions

and

experiences and

is will have happened by your mid-30s.

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这不是我的看法。这些是事实。我们知道

80%

决定你生活的时刻

发生在

3 5

岁之前。这就意味着你生活的重要决定、经历和突然的领

悟， 有八成是在你

30

多岁之前发生的。

People who are over 40, don't panic. This crowd is going

to be fine, I think. We know that the first 10 years of a

career

has

an

exponential

impact

on

how

much

money

you're

going to earn. We know that more than half of Americans are

married or are living with or dating their future partner by

30.

那些超过

40

岁的朋友不要惊慌，我想这群人会没事的。我们知

道职业生涯的前

2019

年对你将来的 收入有重大影响。我们知道到了

30

岁的时候，超过半数的美国 人会结婚或者和未来的另一半同居或

者约会。

We

know

that

the

brain

caps

off

its

second

and

last

growth spurt in your 20s as it rewires itself for adulthood,

which

means

that

whatever

it

is

you

want

to

change

about

yourself,

now

is

the

time

to

change

it.

We

know

that

personality changes more during your 20s than at any other

time in life, and we know that female fertility peaks at age

28, and things get tricky after age 35.

我们知道人在

20

多岁的时候大脑停止第二次也是最后一次重组，

以适应 成年世界的快速发育阶段。

这就意味着不管你想怎样改变自己，

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现在就是时间改变了。我 们知道在

20

多岁的时候，性格的改变多于

生命中任何时期。我们也知道女性的最佳生育时期在

28

岁 的时候达

到顶峰，

35

岁之后生育变得 困难。

So your 20s are the time to educate yourself about your

body

and

your

options.

So

when

we

think

about

child

development,

we

all

know

that

the

first

five

years

are

a

critical

period

for

language

and

attachment

in

the

brain.

It's

a

time

when

your

ordinary,

day-to-day

life

has

an

inordinate impact on who you will become.

所以你的

20

多岁正是了解你自身和选择的时期。当我们想到孩

童的成长时，我们都知道

1-5

岁是大脑学习语言和感 知的重要时期。

这个时期，日常的普通生活都会对你的未来道路影响巨大。

But what we hear less about is that there's such a thing

as adult development, and our 20s are that critical period

of adult development. But this isn't what twentysomethings

are hearing. Newspapers talk about the changing timetable of

adulthood.

但是我们却很少听到成年发展期， 而我们的

20

多岁正是成年发

展期的关 键。但是

20

多岁的人却听不到这些，报纸讨论的只是成年

年龄界线的变更。

Researchers

call

the

20s

an

extended

adolescence.

Journalists coin silly nicknames for twentysomethings like

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trivialized what is actually the defining decade of adulthood.

研究者称

20

多岁是延长的青春期。记者就引用傻傻的外号称呼

20

多岁的 人，比如“

twixters

”

(twenty-mixters)

和“

kidults

”

(kid- adults)

。

这是真的。作为一 种文化，我们的忽视的正是对成

年起到决定性作用的十年

(

从

20

岁到

30< /p>

岁

)

。

Leonard Bernstein said that to achieve great things, you

need a plan and not quite enough time. Isn't that true? So

what do you think happens when you pat a twentysomething on

the head and you say,

life

urgency and ambition, and absolutely nothing happens.

雷昂纳德·伯恩斯坦说过：要想取得成就，你需要一个计划和 紧

迫的时间。

这是大实话啊

!