關於Ted的意思和用法的提問

A: It is a verb

In the context of a speech, saying "to close" is like saying "to end" or "to summarize"

A: It does help to know the context here. I certainly agree that we should not treat overweight people unkindly. However, being overweight is hazardous to the health of the individual, so it is not loving to pretend that is a good thing just to make someone feel better.

Certainly, we should be kind to everyone, but we should not lie or pretend that something is true when it is not. We should be kind to them and help them in anyway that we can. Making someone feel good about themselves for a moment, if the eventual consequences are bad, is not kind or loving.

I also agree that just because something is socially acceptable doesn’t make it right.

And of course, you are right that many people are way too obsessive about being thin. This also is not healthy.

A: I’m guessing they mean someone who has given a TED talk. A TED talk is a popular platform for educational and/or inspirational presentations.

https://www.ted.com/talks

If there is another meaning I’m not familiar with it.

🙂

A: TED videos are educational.

The person has been watching them for many years.

A: Ted talks are only those public speaking events recorded by the Ted organisation. See www.ted com.

A: 아마도요. yardstick의 기본의미는 measuring stick의 한 가지니까요.

A: It's called procrastinate as well :)

A: it's pronounced as tact

A: Can you tell me the exact pronunciation of the TED lecture video that you hear? I'm going to study English listening.

A: Joining TED was stressful , the reason being the activity was way over my capacity (/ capabilities)

A: TED presentations are online video series which I watch regularly.

TED is an excellent presentation platform given by prestigious scientists, activists, and entrepreneurs. These presentations are world famous.
TED runs one or two themes per event, where presenters show the outcomes of their research covering different topics, such as discrimination, phycology, photography, cutting edge technology and so on.

The reason why I am eager to watch TED talks are following
1- I can get deep knowledge about the latest research outcomes, which is informative for me to know where the world is going.
2- I get to know a wide range of information apart from the day-to-day knowledge.
3- I acquire different ideas, which makes me broaden my mind.

I hope that students, especially graduated students, would watch these informative video series to get more insight and to have a global way of thinking.
I believe that young individuals can have a better future.

A: The "almost past its best before date" is an expression, the "best before date" is a tag or sticker found on food items or things that will expire and no longer be usable after a specific date, another phrase that means the same thing is "expiration date"
so what she means is that English as a language is going to "expire" or "it won't be as important or relevant anymore"
expressions like these are hard to understand because you have to know the expression but then also know what it could mean in different contexts

The second expression is "there it is in white and black", this expression could mean "there it is, very obvious" this expression is difficult to explain but think about the colors white and black together, they contrast with each other and "stand out", so what she is saying is that it's obvious and it is proven, if that makes sense

so putting these expressions together she's saying that English is not going to be relevant or viable in the future and that the proof was just presented

Sorry if I didn't make that much sense

A: "Straight out" means something taken out of anywhere thats not changed.

For example

"I took this apple straight out of the basket"

Or

"This new phone is straight out of its packaging