TED Talk    The gospel of doubt 怀疑的福音    Speaker: Casey Gerald     第三课

I held on when I arrived at Yale at 18, with the faith that my journey from Oak Cliff, Texas was a chance to leave behind all the challenges I had known, the broken dreams and broken bodies I had seen. 

But when I found myself back home one winter break,with my face planted in the floor, my hands tied behind my back and a burglar's gun pressed to my head, I knew that even the best education couldn't save me.

I held on when I showed up at Lehman Brothers as an intern in 2008.

So hopeful, that I called home to inform my family that we'd never be poor again.

But as I witnessed this temple of finance come crashing down before my eyes, I knew that even the best job couldn't save me.

I held on when I showed up in Washington DC as a young staffer, 

who had heard a voice call out from Illinois, saying, "It's been a long time coming, but in this election, change has come to America." 

But as the Congress ground to a halt and the country ripped at the seams and hope and change began to feel like a cruel joke, I knew that even the political second coming could not save me.

【词义选择题】If sth. grinds to a halt, it means... it slows down until it stops

grind vt. 磨碎；磨快vi. 磨碎；折磨  过去式 ground 或grinded过去分词 ground 或grinded现在分词 grinding

grind  有嘎嘎作响的意思。

halt是名词，停顿的意思。

grind to a halt 慢慢停下来，无法继续前进。 

Hollywood productions came to a grinding halt，好莱坞剧目的制作陷入了停顿。

I had knelt faithfully at the altar of the American Dream, praying to the gods of my time of success, and money, and power. 

But over and over again, midnight struck, and I opened my eyes to see that all of these gods were dead.

And from that graveyard, I began the search once more, not because I was brave, but because I knew that I would either believe or I would die.

【选择】-What do Gerald's experiences in college and his job and working for the government reinforce?   -the prevalence of doubt in his life 他生活中普遍存在的怀疑

【选择】-What does Gerald mean by "I would either believe or I would die."?   -A life without belief isn't worth living.

I took a pilgrimage to yet another mecca, Harvard Business School. 我去了另一个圣地——哈佛商学院。

This time, knowing that I could not simply accept the salvation that it claimed to offer. 

No, I knew there'd be more work to do.

The work began in the dark corner of a crowded party, in the late night of an early, miserable Cambridge winter, 

when three friends and I asked a question that young folks searching for something real have asked for a very long time: "What if we took a road trip?"

We didn't know where'd we go or how we'd get there, but we knew we had to do it. 

Because all our lives we yearned, as Jack Kerouac wrote, to "sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere," and go find out what everybody was doing all over the country. 

So even though there were other voices who said that the risk was too great and the proof too thin, we went on anyhow. 【朗读】

We went on 8,000 miles across America in the summer of 2013, through the cow pastures of Montana, through the desolation of Detroit, through the swamps of New Orleans, 

where we found and worked with men and women who were building small businesses that made purpose their bottom line. 

And having been trained at the West Point of capitalism, this struck us as a revolutionary idea. 【跟读】 在资本主义的西点军校接受过训练后，我们突然意识到这是一个革命性的想法。

And this idea spread, growing into a nonprofit called MBAs Across America, a movement that landed me here on this stage today.

It spread because we found a great hunger in our generation for purpose, for meaning. 

It spread because we found countless entrepreneurs in the nooks and crannies of America who were creating jobs and changing lives and who needed a little help.  它的传播是因为我们在美国的各个角落发现了无数的企业家，他们创造了就业机会，改变了人们的生活，他们需要一点帮助。

But if I'm being honest, it also spread because I fought to spread it. 但诚实地说，它也因为我的努力而传播。

There was no length to which I would not go to preach this gospel, to get more people to believe that we could bind the wounds of a broken country, one social business at a time. 

But it was this journey of evangelism that led me to the rather different gospel that I've come to share with you today.  但正是这段传福音的旅程，让我找到了今天与大家分享的福音。

【选择】-What did he find as he travelled across the country?   -entrepreneurs who wanted to build social businesses

【选择】As a result of Gerald's road trip...   he found an idea he could believe in.

【跟读】 I began the search once more because I knew that I would either believe or I would die.  我再次开始寻找，因为我知道我要么相信，要么死去。