○  TED英文演讲稿：谈转变心态的珠峰游（附翻译）  ○

　　Last year when I was here, I was speaking to you about a swim which I did across the North Pole.去年，当我站在这里的时候，我在谈论我横跨 北极的游泳。

　　And while that swim took place three years ago, I can remember it as if it was yesterday.那还是发生在3年前， 对我则好像是昨天一般。

　　I remember standing on the edge of the ice, about to dive into the water, and thinking to myself, I have never ever seen any place on this earth which is just so frightening.我还记得我站在冰层的边缘， 就要扎进水里， 然后我自己想到，我再也再也 不要看到地球上的这个地方，这里是如此的让人恐惧。

　　The water is completely black.The water is minus 1.7 degrees centigrade, or 29 degrees Fahrenheit.It's flipping freezing in that water.

　　那里的水是全黑色。水的温度是负1.7摄氏度， 华氏29度。那水里就是翻动的冰块。

　　And then a thought came across my mind: if things go pear-shaped on this swim, how long will it take for my frozen body to sink the four and a half kilometers to the bottom of the ocean?然后一个念头在我脑中划过： 如果这场泳出了点问题， 我这冰冻的身体要花多长时间 才能沉到这4500米的底部呢?

　　And then I said to myself, I've just got to get this thought out of my mind as quickly as possible.然后我告诫我自己，我要把这个念头尽快的 抛在我的脑后。

　　And the only way I can dive into that freezing cold water and swim a kilometer is by listening to my iPod and really revving myself up,能让我扎入 这冰冷的水里 然后游了4千米的唯一方法就是 听着我的iPod，让我自己全力运转起来，

　　listening to everything from beautiful opera all the way across to Puff Daddy, and then committing myself a hundred percent -- there is nothing more powerful than the made-up mind --and then walking up to the edge of the ice and just diving into the water.

　　我听了所有的歌，从华丽的歌剧 到吹牛老爹， 然后全身心的投入 没有什么比下定决心还要厉害的 --然后走到冰的边缘 扎入水里。

　　And that swim took me 18 minutes and 50 seconds, and it felt like 18 days.这次游泳花了我 18分50秒， 但好像是18天一样。

　　And I remember getting out of the water and my hands feeling so painful and looking down at my fingers, and my fingers were literally the size of sausages because -- you know, we're made partially of water -- when water freezes it expands, and so

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