每天一小段英语（15）

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I spent most of the day in my hotel room, alternating between rewriting the last part of the talk and trying to better memorize the first part. Finally, late that night, I settled on my final script. I liked it. Finally. Only one problem.

Back at 3A with the last part

again,

this time with only about 16 hours until the talk.

I woke up the morning of my talk, did some jumping jacks in my hotel room like a psycho, and then spent four hours saying the last part over and over, eventually getting things here:

That would have to be good enough—I was out of time. I showed up at the theater the required 90 minutes before my talk for “hair and makeup,” i.e. an upsettingly-friendly lady painting my face with stuff while I engaged in a 10-minute discussion with her about her two cats back at home. Finally free of that, I spent the final hour pacing back and forth and running through the talk in my head, and then, suddenly, I was doing this:

I will say this: The TED stage is a weirdly comforting place. It doesn’t feel like you’re in some huge theater—it feels like you’re on some little red circle surrounded by a bunch of friendly, supportive people who want you to succeed. They designed it that way on purpose, and it works. I was less nervous doing the actual talk than I had been in any of the rehearsals.

当天我在旅店改改结尾背背开头。晚上很晚的时候我才满意地定稿，但是还有一个问题。

结尾还是3A，距离演讲只有16小时。

第二天早上在房间里像精神病似的做了几个跳跃运动，花了4小时背结尾，最后成这样：

能这样已经不错，毕竟没时间了。用90分钟在剧场洗头整理，因为一个过度友好的女士让我帮她把两只猫送回家，拒绝就用了10分钟，最后她往我脸上画了些东西。好不容易处理好，最后4小时我走来走去，脑子里想了一遍又一遍讲稿。突然，我：

我想说：TED的舞台出奇地舒服。感觉起来不像在剧场，就像站在被默默为你加油的观众围着的小红圈上。TED就是这么设计的，而且很奏效。比上拖延日子里的紧张，演讲已经不算什么了。

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每日一词
psycho
n. 心理分析，精神分析；精神病患者
adj. 精神病的；精神病学的

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Constantly pacing back and forth 不停的走来走去

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