信不信：无聊大会受热捧_BEC初级作文

信不信：无聊大会受热捧

无聊大会过去讨论的话题包括打喷嚏、IBM收款机、烤面包、自动售货机的声音、条形码、海上天气预报，还有其它类似的没人感兴趣的话题。今年的大会有20位演讲者，话题也同样让人听了打瞌睡——比如说1999年的家用喷墨式打印机、德国电影的名字、怎么用旅馆房间里的设备做出精致菜肴、还有世界各国国歌的相似性，每个人的发言时间为10分钟。

If you're wondering about the purpose of such a pointless conference, Ward says that it's meant to be "a one-day celebration of the mundane, the ordinary, the obvious and the overlooked." He adds that the topics covered may be considered "trivial and pointless, but when you look at them more closely, they reveal themselves to be actually deeply fascinating." So it's actually only the topics that are boring – the speakers are expected to find a way to make their talks interesting.

如果你想知道举办这种没有意义的大会目的何在，沃德说“这一天是为了庆祝平凡普通、显而易见却又容易被忽视的事物。”他补充说，人们可能认为涉及的话题“琐碎无味，但当你更细致地审视它们，就会发现它们深藏的魅力。”因此，事实上只有话题是无聊的——人们期待着演讲者能够找到方法，让他们的讲话变得有趣。

"The basic idea is that the theme needs to be boring, but the content shouldn't be," explained Ward, who works in marketing and has also written a book called Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case. "There has to be something in the topic that a speaker with a real enthusiasm for it can bring out and make interesting. In fact most things, if you look at them in enough detail, can become fascinating. There's almost always something there."