TED演讲之说什么 你存钱的能力跟你用的语言有关?(2)

Holding down the right flank of the OECD, all the way on the other side, is Greece. 在图右侧的这些国家,最右边的是希腊, And what you can see is that over the last 25 years, 我们看到在过去25年 Greece has barely managed to save more than 10 percent of their GDP. 希腊的国民储蓄率刚超过10%。 It should be noted, of course, that the United States and the U.K. are the next in line...

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TED演讲之说什么 不要固执于英语(1)

I know what you're thinking. 我知道你们在想什么。 You think I've lost my way, 你们想我迷路了, and somebody's going to come on the stage in a minute and guide me gently back to my seat. 有人马上会上台,把我领回到我的座位。 I get that all the time in Dubai. "Here on holiday are you, dear?" 在迪拜老是有人这样问我。“亲爱的,来度假啊?” "Come to visit ...

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TED演讲之说什么 重新定义字典(4)

So — now, when you think about this, what we have here is a ham butt problem. 所以,现在,当你想到这些,我们面对的问题其实是火腿屁股的问题。 Does everyone know the ham butt problem? 有人知道火腿屁股的问题吗? Woman's making a ham for a big, family dinner. 有个女人正在弄火腿,给一个大家庭做晚餐。 She goes to cut the butt off the ham and throw it away, 她正要把火腿根...

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TED演讲:区块链对货币和商业的影响(4)

And trust is established, not by some big institution, 信任的建立并不是基于一些大型机构, but by collaboration, by cryptography and by some clever code. 而是基于合作,基于密码技术和一些精巧的代码。 And because trust is native to the technology, I call this, "The Trust Protocol." 因为信任正是起源于这一技术。我把它叫做“信任协议”。 Now, you're probably wondering: ...

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TED演讲之说什么 语言如何改变人类(3)

Now the reason the chimpanzees don't do that 黑猩猩不那么做的原因 is that they lack what psychologists and anthropologists call social learning. 是它们缺乏心理学家和人类学家所谓的社会学习能力 They seem to lack the ability to learn from others by copying or imitating or simply watching. 它们似乎缺乏向别人学习的能力,通过照搬或模仿或者仅仅观察 As a result, they can't i...

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TED演讲:可能存在生命的三颗卫星和一颗行星(4)

A few months ago the fairy tale came true. 几个月前,童话故事成真了! We announced to the world that we know what these streaks are. It's liquid water. 我们向世界宣布,我们已经知道这些条纹是什么了。是液态水。 These craters are weeping during the summer. 这些陨石坑在夏天浸出水分。 Liquid water is flowing down these craters. 这些液态水顺着陨石坑向下流。 So what are we goin...

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TED演讲之说什么 语言如何改变人类(9)

Language really is the voice of our genes. 语言的确是我们基因的声音 Now having evolved language, though, we did something peculiar, even bizarre. 尽管我们有发达的语言,但我们也做了件特殊,甚至可以说是件奇怪的事 As we spread out around the world, we developed thousands of different languages. 当我们分散到全世界,我们发展出成千上万种语言 Currently, there are about seven or 8,0...

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TED演讲之说什么 语言如何改变人类(4)

Okay, so what this tells us is that, contrary to the old adage, "monkey see, monkey do," 这与我们所知的,“有样学样”(猴子见什么学什么)的谚语完全相反 the surprise really is that all of the other animals really cannot do that — at least not very much. 令人惊讶的事实是,其他的所有动物都无法做到有样学样,至少做到很少 And even this picture has the suspicious tain...

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TED演讲之说什么 轻松学习阅读汉字(1)

Growing up in Taiwan as the daughter of a calligrapher, 我在台湾长大。作为一位书法家的女儿, one of my most treasured memories was my mother showing me the beauty, the shape and the form of Chinese characters. 我最珍贵的记忆之一是妈妈为我展示了汉字的形意之美。 Ever since then, I was fascinated by this incredible language. 从那时起,我开始着迷于这美妙的语言。 But to an outsid...

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TED演讲之说什么 你存钱的能力跟你用的语言有关?(5)

Interestingly enough, when you start to crank the data, 有意思的是,当你开始收集数据时, these pockets of futureless language speakers all around the world turn out to be, by and large, some of the world's best savers. 你就会发现这些说没有将来时态的语言的国家,很大程度上,恰恰是最喜欢储蓄的国家。 Just to give you a hint of that, let's look back at that OECD graph tha...

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TED演讲之感动重临 用最有趣的方法让你晕头转向(4)

So, as I say before the last piece, feel not as though it is a sphere we live on, 所以,就像我在最后一首歌前说的,不要只觉得地球只是我们生存的地方 rather an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin. 它其实是一个广袤无垠的平原,有着带领你溯本追源的幻觉 Once we understand that all the spheres in the sky are just large infinite plane...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(5)

And this mobile money is also providing a platform for access to alternative energy. 这项移动支付技术也为获取替代能源提供了一个平台。 You know, people who can now pay for solar the same way they pay for cards for their telephone. 人们现在可以像支付电话费一样支付太阳能费用。 So this was a very good development, something that went right. 所以这是个非常好的发展,方向是正确的。...

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TED演讲:下一次工业革命就在眼前(7)

Scale does not matter anymore, flexibility does. 批量化不再重要,弹性化取而代之。 They will be operating on a multi-product, made-to-order basis. 工厂将会基于多种类产品及订制的基础上生产。 The change will be drastic. Globalization will enter a new era. 这将是个剧变。全球化将进入一个新纪元。 The East-to-West trade flows will be replaced by regional trade flows. 由东至西的贸易...

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TED演讲:小国家的大想法–摒弃化石燃料(2)

Hydropower, geothermal, wind, solar, biomass. 水力,地热,风力,太阳能以及生物质。 Did you know that last year, for 299 days, 你们知道去年总共有299天, we did not use any fossil fuels in order to generate all our electricity? 我们生产的所有电力压根没有使用任何化石燃料吗? It's a fantastic achievement, and yet, it hides a paradox, 这是一个了不起的成就,但同时这也隐藏了一...

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TED演讲之感动重临 凌晨4点(6)

What happens to American presidents at 0400 on inauguration day? 总统就职那天的凌晨4点美国总统到底怎么了? What happened to William Jefferson Clinton? We might not ever know. 威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿到底怎么了?我们也许无从知道。 And I noticed, he's not exactly around here today to face any tough questions. 而且我注意到,他今天人没来面对这难以回答的问题。 It could get awkward,...

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TED演讲:献给所有迷失在这个时代的人(11)

Imagine if I let go of my habit of saving the world behind your back, 想像我放弃在你们背后拯救世界的习惯, of deliberating on the future of your work, your food, your schools, in places where you couldn't get past security. 想像去放弃对在连安保都无法通过地方,你未来的工作,食物,学校的幻想。 We can do this only if we first accept that we have neglected each other. 我们只...

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TED演讲:献给所有迷失在这个时代的人(3)

I have walked through your towns and, while looking, failed to see. 当我经过你们的城镇,观赏时却什么也没看见。 I did notice in Stephenville, Texas, 我在德克萨斯州斯蒂芬威尔市注意到 that the town square was dominated by one lawyer's office after another, 那里的市中心广场是被连排的律师事务所霸占的, because of all the people rotating in and out of the prison. 因为那些不断...

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TED演讲:献给所有迷失在这个时代的人(1)

June 29, 2016. My dear fellow citizen: 2016年6月29日,我亲爱的公民朋友们: I write to you today, to you who have lost in this era. 今天我在这向你们致辞,献给那些迷失在这个时代中的人们。 At this moment in our common life, 在我们平凡生活中的这个时刻, when the world is full of breaking and spite and fear, 在这个充满了分裂,恶意,和恐惧的世界, I address this letter simply to y...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(7)

So even though we've been growing, the structure of the economies has not changed very much. 即使我们一直在发展,经济的机构并没有什么改变。 We are still exporting commodities, and exporting commodities is what? It's exporting jobs. 我们仍然出口商品,而出口商业等于什么?等于出口就业岗位。 Our manufacturing value-added is only 11 percent. 我们的制造业只增值了11%。 We a...

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TED演讲:通过卫星追寻秘鲁遗落的文明(4)

He also runs this amazing drone mapping program, 他同时管理着无人机测绘地图工程, some of the images of which you can see behind me here and here. 你们能看到我身后的一些图片,这儿,还有这儿。 And this data will be incorporated into the platform, 这些数据将会收录到平台内部, and also he'll be helping to image some of the new sites you help find. 同时他也会帮助反映你们发现...

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