【TED】是一個會議的名稱，它是英文technology,entertainment, design三個單詞的首字母縮寫。它是社會各界精英交流的盛會，這里有當代最杰出的思想家，這里有當代最優(yōu)秀的科學家，這里有迸發(fā)著最閃耀的思想火花，這里孕育著最光輝的夢想。
James Geary
Aphorism enthusiast and author James Geary waxes on a fascinating fixture of human language: the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvis, metaphor can subtly influence the decisions we make, Geary says.

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Elvis Presley
"All Shook Up"
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate, learn, discover and invent. But metaphor is a way of thought before it is a way with words. Now, to assist me in explaining this, I've enlisted the help of one of our greatest philosophers, the reigning king of the metaphorians, a man whose contributions to the field are so great that he himself has become a metaphor. I am, of course, referring to none other than Elvis Presley. Now, "All Shook Up" is a great love song. It's also a great example of how whenever we deal with anything abstract -- ideas, emotions, feelings, concepts, thoughts -- we inevitably resort to metaphor.
暗喻秘密地生活在我們中間。于我們的言談中，每分鐘大約會出現(xiàn)六個暗喻。暗喻思維是一把鑰匙，它可以開啟我們相互理解溝通、學習、發(fā)現(xiàn)和創(chuàng)新的大門。首先，暗喻是一種思維方式。 為了說明這一點，我請教了一位當代最偉大的哲學家，當權的暗喻皇帝，一位因其對暗喻學的巨大貢獻而自身成了一位暗喻的人物。當然，我指的不是別人，正是貓王埃爾維斯-普雷斯利。 好，《神魂顛倒》（意即整個人都被動搖了）是一首經(jīng)典情歌。也是一個極好的暗喻范例，它詮釋了當我們面臨抽象事物時，無論是主意、情緒、感覺、概念亦或是思想，都不得不求助于暗喻。