英语流利说懂你英语Level7Unit2Part1：Never,EverGiveUp Diana Nyad: Never, ever give up
TEDWomen 2013 · 15:35 · Posted December 2013
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It's the fifth time I stand on this shore, the Cuban shore, looking out at that distant horizon, believing, again,
that I'm going to make it all the way across that vast, dangerous wilderness of an ocean.
but the greatest swimmers in the world have been trying since
since 1950, and have I tried four times, but
Not only have
still never been done.
it's still
The team is proud of our four attempts.
It's an expedition of some 30 people.
Bonnie is my best friend and head handler,
who somehow summons will (summon one's will -- strengthen one's desire to succeed), that last drop of will within me, when I think it's gone, after many, many hours and days out there.安慰自己
The shark experts are the best in the world-- large predators below.
The box jellyfish, the deadliest venom in all of the ocean, is in the waters, and I have come clo to dying from them on a previous attempt.
conditions themlves, besides the sheer distance of over 100 miles in the open ocean –
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the currents and whirling eddies and the Gulf Stream itlf, the most unpredictable of all of the planet Earth.
And by the way -- it's amusing to me that journalists and people, before the attempts, often ask me,
"Well, are you going to go with any boats or any people or anything?"
And I'm thinking, what are they imagining? That I'll just sort of do some celestial navigation --
And carry a bowie knife in my mouth,
and I'll hunt fish and skin them alive and eat them, and maybe drag a desalinization plant behind me for fresh water.
Yes, I have a team.
And the team is expert, and the team is courageous, and brimming with（to be full of it） innovation and scientific discovery, as is true of any major expedition on the planet.
Bonnie is able to push her whenever she feels like quitting.
Bonnie is my best friend and head handler, who somehow summons will, that last drop of will within me
when I think it's gone.
The team is expert, and the team is courageous, and brimming with innovation and scientific discovery, as is true of any major expedition on the planet.
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And we've been on a journey.
And the debate has raged, hasn't it, since the Greeks, or isn't it what it's all about?
Isn't life about the journey, not really the destination?
And here we've been on this journey, and the truth is, it's been thrilling.
We haven't reached that other shore, and still, our n of pride and commitment, unwavering commitment.
tried this in my 20s -- dreamed it and imagined it.
When I turned 60, the dream was still alive from having tried
The most famous body of water on the Earth today, I imagine Cuba to Florida.井井有条
And it was deep. It was deep in my soul.
When I turned 60, it wasn't so much about the athletic accomplishment, it wasn't the ego of "I want to be the first."
That's always there and it's undeniable.
But it was deeper. It was "how much life is there left?" Let's face it -- we're all on a one-way street, aren't we?
And what are we going to do?
What are we going to do as we go forward, to have no regrets looking back?
And all this past year in training, I had that Teddy Roovelt quote to paraphra it, floating around in my brain. It says, "You go ahead.
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You go ahead and sit back in your comfortable chair and you be the critic, you be the obrver,
while the brave one gets in the ring and engages
and gets bloody and gets dirty and fails over and over and over again, but yet isn't afraid and isn't timid and lives life in a bold way."
And so, of cour, I want to make it across.
It is the goal, and I should be so shallow to say that this year, the destination was even sweeter than the journey.
But the journey itlf was worthwhile taking.
And at this point, by this summer, everybody -- scientists, sports scientists, endurance experts, neurologists, my own team, Bonnie -- said it's impossible.
It just simply can't be done, and Bonnie said to me, "But if you're going to take the journey,
I'm going to e you through to the end of it, so I'll be there."
And now we're there.
面粉怎么保存As we're looking out, kind of a surreal moment before the first stroke, standing on the rocks at Marina Hemingway,
the Cuban flag is flying above, all my team is out in their boats, hands up in the air, "We're here! We're here for you!"
Bonnie and I look at each other and say, this year, the mantra is -- and I've been using it in training -- Find a way.
You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you, as we all do.
None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil,
and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perverance as a great human quality, you find your way.
And Bonnie grabbed my shoulders, and she said, "Let's find our way to Florida."
And we started, and for the next 53 hours, it was an inten, unforgettable life experience.
The highs were high, the awe -- I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you,
to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you're breathing, you're looking down miles and miles and miles,
to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on -- it's awe-inspiring.
I have a playlist of about 85 songs, and especially in the middle of the night ... That night, becau we u no lights
-- lights attract jellyfish, lights attract sharks, lights attract baitfish that attract sharks, so we go in the pitch black of the night. You've never en black this black.
You can't e the front of your hand, and the people on the boat, Bonnie and my team on the boat
-- they just hear the slapping of the arms, and they know where I am becau there's no visual at all.
And I'm out there kind of tripping out on my little playlist.
I've got tight rubber caps, I don't hear a thing. I've got goggles and I'm turning my head 50 times a minute, and I'm singing ...
(Singing)Imagine there's no heaven doo doo doo doo doo
It's easy if you try doo doo doo doo doo
And I can sing that song a thousand times in a row.
Now there's a talent unto itlf.
And each time I get done with, (Singing) Oh, you may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one
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(Singing)Imagine there's no heaven
And when I get through the end of a thousand of John Lennon's "Imagine,"
I have swum nine hours and 45 minutes ...exactly.
To e somebody through is to help them during a difficult time.
Someone who is perverant will get back up after being knocked down.
Life is full of obstacles and the only way to realize your dream is to overcome them.
If you have faith and can get back up again after being knocked down, you will find your way.
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And then there are the cris. Of cour there are.
And the vomiting starts, the awater --you're not well. You're wearing a jellyfish mask for the ultimate protection.
It's difficult to swim in. It's causing abrasions on the inside of the mouth, but the tentacles can't get you.
And the hypothermia ts in. The water's 85 degrees, and yet you're losing weight and using calories.
And as you come over toward the side of the boat -- not allowed to touch it, not allowed to get out, but
Bonnie and her team hands me nutrition and ask me how I'm doing, am I all right. I am eing the Taj Mahal --Overhere.
I'm in a very different state -- And I'm thinking, "Wow! I never thought I'd be running into the Taj Mahal out here.
It's gorgeous! I mean, how long did it take them to build that? It's just ... So, uh -- wooo -- you know?
北京十一We kind of have a cardinal rule that I'm never told how far it is, becau we don't know how far it is.
What's going to happen to you between this point and that point? What's going to happen to the weather and the currents
and, God forbid, you're stung, when you don't think you could be stung in all this armor.
Bonnie made a decision coming into that third morning that I was suffering, and I was hanging on by a thread.
And she said, "Come here," and I came clo to the boat, and she said, "Look, look out there." And I saw light,
becau the day is easier than the night, and I thought we were coming into day. I saw a stream of white light along the horizon,
and I said, "It's going to be morning soon."
And she said, "No, tho are the lights of Key West."
It was 15 more hours, which for most swimmers would be a long time.
You have no idea how many 15-hour training swims I had done.
Why did Nyad e the Taj Mahal? She was hallucinating(v. 使产⽣幻觉（hallucinate的ing形式).
If something is hanging by a thread, it is in a risky and unstable situation.
How does the Taj Mahal story help Nyad's speech? it's as humor
-She pointed out the finish line and gave Nyad hope.
When someone says "God forbid," they hope that a certain outcome doesn't happen.
-is liking a regular training
So here we go, and I somehow, without a decision, went into no counting of strokes and no singing and no quoting Stephen Hawking on the parameters of the univer.
I just went into thinking about this dream, and why and how.
As I said, when I turned 60, it wasn't about that concrete "Can you do it?"
That's the everyday machinations. That's the discipline, and it's the preparation, and there's a pride in that.
But I decided to think, as I went along, about -- you know, the phra usually is, "reaching for the stars."And in my ca, it's reaching for the horizon.
And when you reach for the horizon, as I've proven, you may not get there. But what a tremendous build of character and spirit that you lay down;
what a foundation you lay down in reaching for tho horizons.
And now, the shore is coming. And there's just a little part of me that's sad.
The epic journey is going to be over.
So many people come up to me now and say,"What's next?"
"We love that!"."That little tracker on the computer? When are you going to do the next one? We can't wait to follow the next one."
Well, they were just there for 53 hours, and I was there for years.
And so there won't be another epic journey in the ocean.But the point is, and the point was, that every day of our lives is epic. And I'll tell you, when I walked up onto that beach, staggered up onto that beach ...
I had so many times, in a very puffed-up ego way, reheard what I would say ...on the beach.
When Bonnie thought the back of my throat was swelling up,
she brought the medical team over to our boat to say, "She's really beginning to have trouble breathing;
another 12, 24 hours in " -- the whole thing -- I just thought, in my hallucinatory moment, that I heard the word "tracheotomy."
Bonnie said to the doctor, "I'm not worried about her not breathing.
If she can't talk when she gets to the shore, she's going to be pisd off."
T he journey she had prepared Why did Nyad feel a little bit sad when she is about to reach the shore?T he journey she had prepared for was about to end.
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