【正文】 important role in american history, as a matter of fact. the cuban missile crisis was resolved in a chinese restaurant called yenching palace in washington, ., which unfortunately is closed now, and about to be turned into walgreen39。n roll, on h street in washington.事實(shí)上，中國餐館在美國歷史上發(fā)揮了很重要的作用。很不幸，這家餐館現(xiàn)在關(guān)門了，即將被改建成沃爾格林連鎖藥店。威爾克斯and if you think about it, a lot of the foods that you think of or we think of or americans think of as chinese food are barely recognizable to chinese, for e_ample: beef with broccoli, egg rolls, general tso39。比如西蘭花牛肉、蛋卷、左宗棠雞、幸運(yùn)餅干、雜碎、外賣盒子。s the time when the chinese moved in, kind of saw a market opportunity and took over.所以有趣的是，幸運(yùn)餅干是怎么從日本的東西變成中國的東西的呢?簡單地說，我們在二戰(zhàn)時(shí)扣押了所以的日本人，包括那些做幸運(yùn)餅干的。general tso39。s chicken. i love this dish. the original name in my book was actually called the long march of general tso, and he has marched very far indeed, because he is sweet, he is fried, and he is chicken all things that americans love.左宗棠雞，在美國海軍軍校被稱為左司令雞。在我的書里，這道菜實(shí)際上叫左將軍的長征，它確實(shí)在美國很受歡迎 ，因?yàn)樗翘鸬模驼ǖ?，是雞肉做的——全部都是美國人的最愛。s known for chicken and not war. but in china, this guy39。而在中國，左宗棠確實(shí)是因?yàn)閼?zhàn)爭而不是雞肉聞名的。s kind of part of the phenomenon i called spontaneous selforganization, right, where, like in ant colonies, where little decisions made by on the microlevel actually have a big impact on the macrolevel.這就有點(diǎn)像我所說的自發(fā)組織現(xiàn)象。and the great innovation of chicken muggets was not nuggetfying them, because that39。這就是為什么過了這么久才有人模仿他們。一個(gè)人的想法可以在整個(gè)系統(tǒng)中被復(fù)制，被普及。篇3：ted演講稿簡介：殘奧會(huì)短跑冠軍aimee mullins天生沒有腓骨，從小就要學(xué)習(xí)靠義肢走路和奔跑。她不喜歡字典中 “disabled”這個(gè)詞，因?yàn)樨?fù)面詞匯足以毀掉一個(gè)人。i39。m writing anything, but i39。d find.let me read you the entry. “disabled, adjective: crippled, helpless, useless, wrecked, stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, rundown, wornout, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laidup, doneup, donefor, donein crackedup, countedout。d just gotten past “mangled,” and my voice broke, and i had to stop and collect myself from the emotional shock and impact that the assault from these words unleashed.you know, of course, this is my raggedy old thesaurus so i39。t using a thesaurus back then. i mean, from this entry, it would seem that i was born into a world that perceived someone like me to have nothing positive whatsoever going for them, when in fact, today i39。s the updated version of this entry. unfortunately, it39。s not just about the words. it39。s about the values behind the words, and how we construct those values. our language affects our thinking and how we view the world and how we view other people. in fact, many ancient societies, including the greeks and the romans, believed that to utter a curse verbally was so powerful, because to say the thing out loud brought it into e_istence. so, what reality do we want to call into e_istence: a person who is limited, or a person who39。t we want to open doors for them instead?one such person who opened doors for me was my childhood doctor at the . dupont institute in wilmington, delaware. his name was dr. pizzutillo, an italian american, whose name, apparently, was too difficult for most americans to pronounce, so he went by dr. p. and dr. p always wore really colorful bow ties and had the very perfect disposition to work with children.i loved almost everything about my time spent at this hospital, with the e_ception of my physical therapy sessions. i had to do what seemed like innumerable repetitions of e_ercises with these thick, elastic bands different colors, you know to help build up my leg muscles, and i hated these bands more than anything i hated them, had names for them. i hated them. and, you know, i was already bargaining, as a five yearold child, with dr. p to try to get out of doing these e_ercises, unsuccessfully, of course. and, one day, he came in to my session e_haustive and unforgiving, these sessions and he said to me, “wow. aimee, you are such a strong and powerful little girl, i think you39。m going to give you a hundred bucks.”now, of course, this was a simple ploy on dr. p39。t want to do before the prospect of being the richest fiveyearold in the second floor ward, but what he effectively did for me was reshape an awful daily occurrence into a new and promising e_perience for me. and i have to wonder today to what e_tent his vision and his declaration of me as a strong and powerful little girl shaped my own view of myself as an inherently strong, powerful and athletic person well into the future.this is an e_ample of how adults in positions of power can ignite the power of a child. but, in the previous instances of those thesaurus entries, our language isn39。t caught up with the changes in our society, many of which have been brought about by technology. certainly, from a medical standpoint, my legs, laser surgery for vision impairment, titanium knees and hip replacements for aging bodies that are allowing people to more fully engage with their abilities, and move beyond the limits that nature has imposed on them not to mention social networking platforms allow people to selfidentify, to claim their own descriptions of themselves, so they can go align with global groups of their own choosing. so, perhaps technology is revealing more clearly to us now what has always been a truth: that everyone has something rare and powerful to offer our society, and that the human ability to adapt is our greatest asset.the human ability to adapt, it39。m going to make an admission: this phrase never sat right with me, and i always felt uneasy trying to answer people39。m starting to figure out why. implicit in this phrase of “overing adversity” is the idea that success, or happiness, is about emerging on the other side of a challenging e_perience unscathed or unmarked by the e_perience, as if my successes in life have e about from an ability to sidestep or circumnavigate the presumed pitfalls of a life with prosthetics, or what other people perceive as my disability. but, in fact, we are changed. we a