TED Talk Never, ever give up 永不放弃 Speaker: Diana Nyad 第一课
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. 这是我第5次站在这个海岸，古巴海岸，望着远处的地平线，我再次相信我可以。
All the way across that vast, dangerous wilderness of an ocean. 穿越这一片广阔、危险的海洋荒野。
Not only have I tried four times, but the greatest swimmers in the world have been trying since 1950, and it's still never been done. 不仅仅是我已经尝试了四次，世界上其他伟大的游泳健将自从1950年以来就开始尝试了，而至今还没有人可以做到。
The team is proud of our four attempts. 我们的团队为前四次的尝试感到引以为豪。
It's an expedition of some 30 people. 它是大约30人组成的远征。
Bonnie is my best friend and headhandler, who somehow summons will, that last drop of will within me, when I think it's gone, 邦妮是我最好的朋友兼领队，不知如何竟召唤起了我的勇气，那最后一滴我以为已经消失了的勇气，
after many, many hours and days out there. 在经历过无数个外面的日日夜夜后。
The shark experts are the best in the world; large predators below. 我们有着全世界最好的鲨鱼专家，海底深处有大型的敌人。
The box jellyfish, the deadliest venom inall of the ocean, is in these waters, and I have come close to dying from themon a previous attempt. 有箱型水母，海洋中最致命的毒液，在这片海洋，这片水域里我前一次尝试的时候差点因此死亡。我前一次的尝试差点因此死亡。【填空题】
The conditions themselves, besides thesheer distance of over 100 miles in the open ocean, 这些条件本身，除了浩瀚海洋中100多英里的距离，
the currents and whirling eddies and the Gulf Stream itself, the most unpredictable of all of the planet Earth. 除了浩瀚海洋中100多英里的距离，还有洋流和旋转的涡流，和墨西哥湾流本身，是地球上最不可预知的。
【选择】-Why is swimming across the ocean a challenge? -The are many dangerous animals.
And by the way, it's amusing to me that journalists and people before these attempts often ask me, 顺便说一句，我觉得很可笑的是记者和一些人在这些尝试之前经常问我：
"Well, are you going to go with any boats or any people or anything?" "那…你有带着任何船只或任何人或什么东西一起去吗？"
And I'm thinking, what are they imagining? 而我在想，他们到底都在想什么？
That I'll just sort of do some celestial navigation, and carry a bowie knife in my mouth, and I'll hunt fish and skinthem alive and eat them, 以为我会运用什么天文导航嘴里叼着一把猎刀，亲自捕鱼，现场扒皮并食用吗？
【选择】Why is it amusing to Nyad when people asked if she would need help while swimming? -It is obviously impossible to complete the journey without assistance.
and maybe drag a desalinization plantbehind me for fresh water. 还是也许身后还拖着一个海水淡化装置来换取淡水
Yes, I have a team. 是的，我有一个团队。
And the team is expert, and the team is courageous, and brimming with innovation and scientific discovery, as is true with any major expedition on the planet. 这个团队的人都是专家，他们非常勇敢，而且溢满了创新力与科学发现，地球上任何大型的远征都是这样的。
【词义】To innovate means to develop new ideas or ways of doing things.
【跟读】For Nyad, the journey is a personal battle that she can't stop fighting.