目标与任务
1.TED素材，The power of time为内容，完成TED素材的精听默写
2.学习素材的内容，记录重点句子、词组和单词
3.熟读、跟读整篇素材，选取重点句子脱口而出
重点句子、词组及单词
1.At every stage of our lives we make decisions that will profoundly influence the lives of the people we're going to become.
at every stage of our lives 在人生的每个阶段； make decisions 做决定；profoundly adv.深深地
2.And then when we become those people,we're not always thrilled with the decisions we made.
thrilled adj.兴奋的，激动的
3.So young people pay good money to get tattoos removed that teenagers paid good money to get.
tattoos n.纹身，get sth removed 除去，使....除去
4.Middle-aged people rushed to divorce people who young adults rushed to marry.
Middle-aged adj.中年的；divorce vt.分离，离婚
5.Older adults work hard to lose what middle-aged adults worked hard to gain.
6.On and on and on,The question is,as a psychologist,that fascinates me is,why do we make decisions that our future selves so often regret?
on and on and on 如此循环往复；fascinate vt.使着迷，使感兴趣；regret n.遗憾
7.I think one of the reasons-I'll try to convince you today-is that we have a fundamental misconception about the power of time.
convince vt.使确信；fundamental adj.基本的；misconception n.错觉、误解
8.Every one of you knows that the rate of change slows over the human lifespan,that your children seem to change by the minute but your parents seem to change by the year.
lifespan n.寿命
9.But what is the name of this magical point in life where change suddenly goes from a gallop to a crawl?Is it teenage years?Is it middle age?Is it old age?The answer,is turns out, for most people,is now,wherever now happens to be.
magical adj.有魔力的； gallop n.飞速，飞奔 ; crawl n.爬行
10.What I want to convince you today is that all of us are walking around with an illusion, an illusion that history, our personal history,has just come to an end,that we have just recently become the people that we were always meant to be and will be for the rest of our lives.
walk around 四处走动，绕走；illusion n.幻觉; come to an end 结束；mean vt.意味着(过去式meant)
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