English speaking international-How to live passionately-no matter your age
Isabel Allende:
How to
live passionately—no matter your age
အသက္ၾကီးေပမဲ့
တန္ဖိုးရွိေအာင္ ဆြဲေဆာင္မွ ုရွိေအာင္
ဘယ္လိုေနထိုင္မလဲ…………………….
နားလည္သလိုဘာသာျပန္ထားတာပါ
မွားရင္ လည္းျပင္ေပးၾကပါ
TED2014 · 8:16 · Filmed Mar 2014
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0:11 Hi, kids.
0:13 (Laughter)
0:15 I'm 71.
0:17 (Applause) My husband is 76. My parents are in their
late 90s, and Olivia, the dog, is 16. So let's talk about aging.
0:31 Let me tell you how I feel when I see my wrinkles in
the mirror and I realize that some parts of me have dropped and I can't find
them down there. (Laughter)
0:41 Mary Oliver says in one of her poems, "Tell me,
what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Me,
I intend to live passionately.
0:56 When do we start aging? Society decides when we are
old, usually around 65,
when we get Medicare,
but we really start aging at birth. We are aging right now, and we all
experience
it differently. We all feel younger than our real age,
because the spirit never ages. I am still 17. Sophia Loren. Look at her. She
says that everything you see she owes to spaghetti. I tried it and gained 10 pounds
in the wrong places. But attitude, aging is also attitude and health. But my
real mentor in this
journey of aging is Olga Murray. This California girl at 60 started working in
Nepal to save young girls
from domestic
bondage. At 88, she has
saved 12,000 girls, and she has changed the culture in the country.
(Applause) Now it is illegal for fathers to sell their daughters into servitude. She has
also founded orphanages and nutritional clinics. She is always happy and
eternally young.
2:18 What have I lost in the last decades? People, of
course, places, and the boundless energy of my youth, and I'm beginning to lose
independence, and that scares me. Ram Dass says that dependency hurts, but if
you accept it, there is less suffering. After a very bad stroke, his ageless
soul watches the changes in the body with tenderness, and he is grateful to the
people who help him.
2:52 What have I gained? Freedom: I don't have to prove
anything anymore. I'm not stuck in the idea of who I was, who I want to be, or what other people expect me to be. I don't have to
please men anymore, only animals. I keep telling my superego to back off and let me enjoy what I
still have. My body may be falling apart, but my brain is not, yet. I love my
brain. I feel lighter. I don't carry grudges , ambition, vanity,
none of the deadly sins that are not even worth the trouble. It's great to let
go. I should have started sooner. And I also feel softer because I'm not scared
of being vulnerable. I don't see it as weakness anymore. And I've gained spirituality. I'm aware
that before, death was in the neighborhood. Now, it's next door, or in my
house. I try to live mindfully and be present in the moment. By the way, the
Dalai Lama is someone who has aged beautifully, but who wants to be vegetarian
and celibate? (Laughter)
4:23 Meditation helps.
4:26 (Video) Child: Ommm. Ommm. Ommm.
4:30 Isabel Allende: Ommm. Ommm. There it is. And it's good
to start early.
4:34 You know, for a vain female like myself, it's very hard
to age in this culture. Inside, I feel good, I feel charming, seductive, sexy.
Nobody else sees that. (Laughter) I'm invisible. I want to be the center of
attention. I hate to be invisible. (Laughter) (Applause)
4:57 This is Grace Dammann. She has been in a wheelchair for
six years after a terrible car accident. She says that there is nothing more sensual than a hot
shower, that every drop of water is a blessing to the senses. She doesn't see
herself as disabled. In her mind, she's still surfing in the ocean.
Ethel Seiderman, a
feisty, beloved activist in the place where I live in California. She wears red
patent shoes, and her mantra
is that one scarf is nice but two is better. She has been a widow for nine
years, but she's not looking for another mate. She says that there is only a
limited number of ways you can screw — well, she says it in another way — and
she has tried them all. (Laughter) I, on the other hand, I still have erotic
fantasies with Antonio Banderas — (Laughter) — and my poor husband has to put
up with it.
6:04 So how can I stay passionate? I cannot will myself to
be passionate at 71. I have been training for some time, and when I feel flat
and bored, I fake it. Attitude,
attitude. How do I train? I train by saying yes to whatever comes my way:
drama, comedy, tragedy,
love, death, losses. Yes to life. And I train by trying to stay in love. It
doesn't always work, but you cannot blame me for trying.
6:39 And, on a final note, retirement in Spanish is
jubilación. Jubilation. Celebration. We have paid our dues. We have contributed to society. Now it's
our time, and it's a great time. Unless you are ill or very poor, you have
choices. I have chosen to stay passionate, engaged with an open heart. I am
working on it every day. Want to join me?
7:11 Thank you.
7:13 (Applause)
7:18 June Cohen: So Isabel — IA: Thank you.
7:22 JC: First of all, I never like to presume to speak for the
TED community, but I would like to tell you that I have a feeling we can all
agree that you are still charming, seductive and sexy.
Yes?
7:34 IA: Aww, thank you. (Applause)
7:36 JC: Hands down. IA: No, it's makeup.
7:39 Moderator: Now, would it be awkward if I asked you a
follow-up question about your erotic fantasies?
7:43 IA: Oh, of course. About what?
7:44 (Laughter)
7:45 Moderator: About your erotic fantasies. IA: With
Antonio Banderas.
7:48 Moderator: I was just wondering if you have anything
more to share.
7:51 IA: Well, one of them is that — (Laughter) One of them
is that I place a naked Antonio Banderas on a Mexican tortilla, I slather him
with guacamole and
salsa, I roll him up, and I eat him. (Laughter)
8:09 Thank you.
8:10 (Applause)
Meaning
- Passionate ■
adj ● ၁။ (က) ခ်စ္စိတ္ျပင္းျပေသာ။ ရမၼက္
ႀကီးေသာ။ a passionate kiss/ lover/ relationship. (ခ) ျပင္းျပေသာ။ အသည္းအသန္။ a
passionate plea for mercy m her passionate support for our cause m a passionate
defender of civil liberties. ၂။ စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားလြယ္ေသာ။ a passionate nature/
temperament/ woman. o passionately
adv အ႐ူးအမူး။ သဲႀကီးမဲႀကီး။ He loved her passionately. m He believes
passionately in freedom of speech.m passionately fond of tennis.
-Mentor ■ n ● ေကာင္းရာ ညႊန္ျပသူ။ ဆရာ။ ဂု႐ု။ a friend and mentor to many
young actors.
-grudges မလုိမုန္းတီးျခင္း။
အာဃာတ။
-vanity n မာနဘဝင္ျမင့္ျခင္း။
ဝင့္ဝါျခင္း။ (fml) အႏွစ္သာရကင္းမဲ့ျခင္း။ ။ vanities [pl] ဝင့္ဝါမႈ။ ပကာသန။
-celibate adj ျဗဟၼစရိယက်င့္ေသာ။ (ဘာသာေရးအရ) အိမ္ေထာင္မျပဳေသာ။
n အိမ္ေထာင္မျပဳေသာသူ။ ျဗဟၼစရိယက်င့္သူ။ ျဗဟၼစာရီ။ celibacy n [U] ျဗဟၼစရိယက်င့္ျခင္း။
ျဗဟၼ စရိယအက်င့္။
- Bondage n ● ၁။
(dated or fml) အက်ဥ္းသား ဘဝ။ ေက်းကၽြန္ဘဝ။ keep sb in bondage m (fig) freed from
the bondage of time. ၂။ ကာမသာယာမႈအတြက္ ႀကိဳး၊ သံႀကိဳးျဖင့္ တုပ္ေႏွာင္သည့္
အေလ့အထ။
- Servitude ■
n [U] (fml) ● သူ႕ကၽြန္၊ ခိုင္းဖတ္ ဘဝ။ a life of poverty and servitude.
- Orphan ■
n ●
မိဘမဲ့။ He has been an orphan since he was five. m orphan girls/ boys. v (usu
passive) မိဘမဲ့ျဖစ္သြားသည္။ She was orphaned in the war. o orphanage
/'ç:fånÇd£/n မိဘမဲ့ကေလးေဂဟာ။
- Ego ■
n ●
အတၱ။ အတၱမာန။ SELF-ESTEEM: a bruised/fragile ego m Losing the match made quite a
dent in his ego. o ego-trip n (sl) လူေပၚလူေဇာ္လုပ္ျခင္း။လူထင္ေပၚလုပ္ျခင္း။
(derog) If you ask me, her charity work is just one big ego-trip.
- Spiritual ■
adj ●
၁။ စိတ္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ။ concerned about sb's spiritual welfare m the modern
world's lack of spiritual values. ၂။
ဘာသာေရး။ The Pope is the spiritual leader of many Christians. ၁ (also Negro
spiritual) n မူလက အေမရိကမွ ကပၸလီကၽြန္မ်ား သီဆိုေသာ ခရစ္ယာန္ ဓမၼေတး။ o one's
spiritual home [IDM] ႏွလံုးသား ေမြ႕ေလ်ာ္ရာ အရပ္။ o spirituality
/¿spÇrÇtƒu'ælåti / n [U] ဘာသာအယူဝါဒ။
ယံုၾကည္သက္ဝင္မႈ။ o spiritually /-tƒuåli / adv စိတ္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာအရ။ a
spiritually impoverished culture.
- Mindful ■
adj ~ of sb/sth; ~ that…(fml)
●
သတိရွိ [ေသာ]။ be mindful of one's family/one's reputation/the risks/the need
for discretion.
- Vain ■
adj (-er, -est) ● ၁။ စိတ္ႀကီးဝင္ေသာ။ ဂုဏ္ ေမာက္ေသာ။ မာနေထာင္လႊားေသာ။ ၂။ အခ်ည္းႏွီး။ အလကား။ အလဟႆ။ a vain attempt m in
the vain hope of persuading him. ၃။ (dated or rhet) အႏွစ္မဲ့ေသာ။ အရာမေရာက္ေသာ။
vain promises. o in vain [IDM] ၁။ အခ်ည္းႏွီး။ အလကား။ I tried in vain to sleep.
၂။ အလဟႆ။ အလကား။ All our efforts were in vain. o vainly adv ၁။ အခ်ည္းႏွီး။ He
was vainly trying to find the keyhole in the dark. ၂။ ေမာက္ေမာက္မာမာ။
- Sensual ■
adj ● ကာမဂုဏ္အာ႐ံု။ ရမၼက္ေသြး(ၾကြေသာ၊
ၾကြေစေသာ)။ sensual pleasure m the sensual curves of her body m He was darkly
sensual and mysterious. o sensualist n ကာမဂုဏ္လိုက္စားသူ။ ရမၼက္ႀကီးသူ။ o
sensuality /¿senƒu'ælåti/ n [U] ကာမဂုဏ္။ ရမၼက္ေသြး။ the sensuality of his
poetry m Her appearance hinted at the languid sensuality that lay beneath the
surface. sensually /-ƒuåli/ adv
- Mantra ■
n ●
မႏၱန္။ မႏၱရား။
- Attitude ■
n ● ၁။ ~ (to/ towards sb/sth) သေဘာထား။
changes in public attitudes m That's a very sexist attitude. m I don't like
your attitude. m What is your attitude to abortion? m She shows a very
professional/ positive attitude to her work. m I take the attitude that people
are in control of their own destinies. ၂။ (fml) ကိုယ္ေနဟန္ထား။ The photographer
has caught him in the attitude of prayer (ie kneeling).
-Tragedy ■ n ● ၁။ [C,
U] ကံဆိုးမိုးေမွာင္က်ျခင္း။ အျဖစ္ဆုိး။ Investigators are searching the wreckage
of the plane to try to find the cause of the tragedy. m The whole affair ended
in tragedy. m It's a tragedy (ie extremely unfortunate) for this country that
such a great musician died so young. ၂။ (က) [C] အလြမ္းဇာတ္။ အေဆြးဇာတ္။
Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies. (ခ) [U] …အလြမ္းဇာတ္သဘင္။ Greek tragedy. Compare COMEDY၁ o
tragedian /trå'd£i:diån/ n ၁။ အလြမ္းျပဇာတ္ေရးဆရာ။ ၂။ အလြမ္းမင္းသား။ o
tragedienne /trå¿d£i:di'en/ n အလြမ္းမင္းသမီး။
- Due ■
adj ●
၁။ (က) ~ (to do sth) (အခ်ိန္ကာလ ေစ့ေရာက္မည္ဟု) ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားေသာ။ စီစဥ္ထားေသာ။
When's the baby due? m His book is due to be published in October. m The train
is due (in) (ie should arrive) in five minutes. (ခ) ေပးရန္ရွိေသာ၊
ေပးရန္အခ်ိန္ေစ့ေရာက္ေသာ (ေငြ)။ fall/become due m My rent isn't due till
Wednesday. m Payment should be made on or before the due date. ၂။ ~ to sth/sb
ေသာေၾကာင့္။ အေၾကာင္းေၾကာင့္။ အတြက္ေၾကာင့္။ absent due to illness m The team's
success was partly/largely/entirely due to her efforts. ၃။ ေလ်ာ္ကန္ေသာ။
ထိုက္သင့္ ေသာ။ after due consideration m make due allowance for sth. ၄။ (က) ~ (to sb) ေပးဆပ္ရန္ရွိေသာ။ တင္ရွိေသာ။
Have they been paid the money due to them? m I'm still due fifteen days' leave.
(ခ) ~ for sth ထိုက္တန္ေသာ။ ရသင့္ေသာ။ She's due for promotion soon. n ၁။ one's/sb's due [U] ရထိုက္ေသာအရာ။
ေပးထိုက္ေသာ အရာ။ He received a large reward, which was no more than his
due (ie at least what he deserved). m She's a slow worker but, to give her her
due (ie to be fair to her), she does try very hard. ၂။ dues [pl] အခြန္၊ အေကာက္။
ေၾကး။ trade union dues m I haven't paid my dues yet. adv စူးစူး။ (East, West,
South, North ေရွ႕၌ထားသံုး သည္။) sail due east m walk three miles due north. o
in due course [IDM] အခ်ိန္တန္ေတာ့။ ေနာက္ဆံုးေတာ့။ Your request will be dealt
with in due course. o with (all) due respect [IDM] ေလးစားပါတယ္၊ ဒါေပမဲ့့…။ With
all due respect, the figures simply do not support you on this.
- presume ■
v ●
၁။ မွတ္ယူသည္။ ထင္ရသည္။ ယူဆသည္။ မွန္းဆသည္။ I presume (that) you still want to
come. m ‘Are the neighbours away on vacation?’ ‘I presume so.’ m In English
law, an accused person is presumed (to be ) innocent until proved guilty. m
Twelve passengers are missing, presumed dead. ၂။ (fml) ဝံ့သည္။ I wouldn't presume to argue with
you.
- Guacamole n. dip made of mashed avocado mixed with other ingredients
(Mexican Cookery)
- Salsa ■
n [U] ● ၁။ ေတာင္အေမရိက အကတစ္မ်ဳိး။ ၂။ မကၠဆီကိုအစာႏွင့္တဲြရေသာ
ေဆာ့။
- slather v. (Slang) smear generously, spread thickly; waste, squander
n. large amount, generous amount (Slang)
