【TED演讲】我们为什么工作？（中英字幕）

主题词 : work

why : the technology of ideas 思维技术

Human nature will be changed by the theories we have that are designed to explain and help us understand human beings.

We design human nature by designing the institutions within which people live and work.

积累:

1.drag ourselves out of bed 挣扎着起床

2.descriptive adj. 描写的，说明的，叙述的；描述性的（学科）

3.we are not just being descriptive.

翻译:背后的含义大家懂的。

（字面意思:不是我们所描述的那样）

4.the overwhelming majority of people

绝大多数人

5.shrink into despair 陷入绝望

6.表示原因的句子:

That is the role that ideas play in shaping us as human beings, and this is why idea technology may be the most profoundly important technology that the science gives us.这就是思想在将我们塑造成人类过程中所起的作用，这就是为什么思维技术也许是科学赋予我们的。

7.factory system 工厂制度

8.be consistent with 和...一致

9.assembly lines 生产线