TED演讲之说什么 语言如何改变人类(11)

Now think of the absurdity of this situation. 现在试想下这种奇怪的状况: If 27 individuals from those 27 member states sat around table, speaking their 23 languages, 如果27个来自各个盟国的人围坐在桌边,说着23种语言 some very simple mathematics will tell you that you need an army of 253 translators to anticipate all the pairwise possibilities. 简单计算就可以知道,你需要一个25...

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TED演讲之说什么 短信是语言杀手?开玩笑吧!(6)

Any spoken language that's used by real people has them. 任何口语都有这些词语。 If you happen to speak Japanese, think about that little word "ne" that you use at the end of a lot of sentences. 如果你会说日语的话,想想你在很多句子后面加上的那个“ne”字。 If you listen to the way black youth today speak, think about the use of the word "yo." 如果你听现在...

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TED演讲:通过卫星追寻秘鲁遗落的文明(2)

This is why I am so excited to share with you all today 因此我是那么激动,迫不及待想要与你共享, that we will begin the 2016 TED Prize platform in Latin America, more specifically Peru. 我们将在拉丁美洲开展2016TED奖金平台,特别是在秘鲁。 Thank you. We will be taking Hiram Bingham's impossible dream 谢谢。海拉姆·宾厄姆未完成的梦想,由我们为其实现, and turning it into an ...

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TED演讲:变得更健康的不能说的秘密(4)

And Portland is not alone here. 波特兰市在这件事上并不孤独。 Forty percent of municipalities self-report dumping raw or partially treated sewage into our waterways. 40%的市政当局在自述汇报中指出曾倾倒未处理或仅部分处理的污水进入水网。 The other bummer going on here with our status quo is that half of all of your poop and pee is going to fertilize farmland. 另一件当下令人不悦...

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TED演讲之说什么 语言如何改变人类(5)

Our species can make stuff, 人类这一物种可以创造事物 therefore we prospered in a way that no other species has. 所以我们比任何其他物种都要繁荣先进 In fact, we can even make the "stuff of life" — 事实上我们甚至可以创造“生命本身的东西”– as I just said, all the stuff around us. 如我所说,我们周围的一切 But in fact, it turns out 实际上 that some time around...

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TED演讲之说什么 短信是语言杀手?开玩笑吧!(3)

Now of course, as history has gone by, 当然,随着历史的演进, it's been natural for there to be a certain amount of bleed between speech and writing. 在言语对话和书面文字表达之间有些交集也是很自然的事情。 So, for example, in a distant era now, 比如说,在以前一个遥远的时代, it was common when one gave a speech to basically talk like writing. 当一个人作演讲,说起话来像在...

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TED演讲:下一次工业革命就在眼前(8)

Of course China and other emerging economies won't be the factory of the world anymore. 诚然,中国和其他发展中国家不再会是世界工厂。 Actually, it was not a sustainable model in the long term, as those countries are becoming richer. 实际上,随着这些国家变得更为富有,作为世界工厂长期来看也不是一个可持续发展方式。 Last year, it was already as expensive to produce in Brazil ...

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TED演讲:献给所有迷失在这个时代的人(6)

I could fail to see change's consequences. 我可能忽视改变带来的后果, I could overlook the importance of roots, traditions, rituals, stability — and belonging. 我可能忽视那些根源,传统,仪式,稳定性–归属感的重要性。 And the more fundamentalist I became in my worship of change and openness, 当我越发变得崇拜改变和开放, the more I drove you towards the other po...

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TED演讲:区块链对货币和商业的影响(5)

And then — this is the key part — that block is linked to the previous block 随后是关键的部分,该区块连接到前一个区块, and the previous block to create a chain of blocks. 以及更前面的区块,形成了一连串的区块。 And every one is time-stamped, kind of like with a digital waxed seal. 每一个区块都是时间标记,有点像是数字蜡印。 So if I wanted to go and hack a block an...

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TED演讲:下一次工业革命就在眼前(3)

When fast-fashion competitors like Zara started replenishing their stocks faster 当像Zara等“快速时尚”竞争者加快存货周转率, from two collections a year to one collection a month, 从一年两个时装系列提高到一个月一个时装系列, none of them have been able to keep up with the pace. 传统的服装企业就都跟不上其节奏了。 Most of them are in great difficulties today. 它们中的绝大多数如...

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TED演讲:变得更健康的不能说的秘密(8)

What's driving all that innovation? It's us. 是什么驱动了这些创新?是我们人类。 We're talking about energy. It's cool to talk about energy. 我们正在谈论能源。这听起来很酷炫。 Some folks are even talking about the problems with the limited resources where our current energy is coming from. 有一些人甚至在谈论当下能源紧张的问题。 We encourage our best and bright...

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TED演讲:人体解剖艺术的魅力(1)

As a lover of human anatomy, 作为人体解剖学的爱好者, I'm so excited that we're finally putting our bodies at the center of focus. 我很高兴我们终于开始关注人体之美了。 Through practices such as preventive medicine, patient empowerment and self-monitoring 从预防医学、病患赋权、自我监测, down to now obsessing over every single step we take in a day. 到现在我们甚至痴迷...

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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?(3)

And in fact, if I want to speak correctly, Chinese forces me to constantly think about it. 事实上,如果要我不弄错的话,我就要不断的去想这之间的关系。 Now, that fascinated me endlessly as a child, 这是小时候让我很好奇的事情, but what fascinates me even more today as an economist 而现在我作为一个经济学家更加好奇的是 is that some of these same differences carry through to how ...

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TED演讲:下一次工业革命就在眼前(2)

I'm here today to tell you that we are on the verge of another huge change, 我今天想要告诉各位,我们即将经历另一次剧变, and that this change, surprisingly enough, is going to come from manufacturing, again. 这次改变,出乎意料的是,也再次会从制造业开始。 It will get us out of our growth slump 它将使我们走出经济的萧条期, and it will change radically the way globalization...

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TED演讲之说什么 短信是语言杀手?开玩笑吧!(1)

We always hear that texting is a scourge. 人们总说短信的出现是一种灾难。 The idea is that texting spells the decline and fall of any kind of serious literacy, or at least writing ability, 这么说的原因是短信降低了人们的读写能力,或者至少是书面表达能力, among young people in the United States and now the whole world today. 这个问题影响着美国青年人,今天也变成了全球问题。 The ...

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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?(8)

Now how can we think about health behaviors to think about savings? 我们能将健康相关的行为比作储蓄行为么? Well, think about smoking, for example. Smoking is in some deep sense negative savings. 例如,吸烟这个事情,吸烟可以看作反向的储蓄。 If savings is current pain in exchange for future pleasure, smoking is just the opposite. 如果储蓄是增加当下的痛苦增加未来的快感,那么吸...

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TED演讲之感动重临 小提琴和我的灵魂低谷(2)

Now, I use my music to reach people's hearts and have found there are no boundaries. 现在,我用我的音乐来打动人们的心灵,并发现这是没有边界的。 My audience is anyone who is here to listen, even those who are not familiar with classical music. 我的听众是所有愿意倾听的人,包括那些对古典音乐不熟悉的人。 I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegi...

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TED演讲:小国家的大想法–摒弃化石燃料(8)

Second, we have to change, but incremental change is not going to be sufficient. 第二,我们必须改变,但是逐步的变化是不够的。 We need transformational change. 我们需要的是转型和变革。 And there are some incremental projects in my country, and I am the first one to celebrate them. 我们的国家也在实施一些逐步改善计划,而我也是第一个为这些计划叫好的人。 But let's not kid our...

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TED演讲之感动重临 小提琴和我的灵魂低谷(1)

Hi, everybody. Ban-gap-seum-ni-da. 嗨,大家好。很高兴和大家见面(韩语) I'd like to share with you a little bit of me playing my life. 我想与你们分享一些我的演奏人生。 I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, 我今天在大家面前可能看起来很成功,很快乐, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair. 但我曾得过严重的抑郁症,陷入彻...

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TED演讲:通过卫星追寻秘鲁遗落的文明(5)

Peru is just the beginning. 秘鲁只是一个起点。 We're going to be expanding this platform to the world, 我们将把这一平台拓展到全世界, but already I've gotten thousands of emails 我已经收到了数以万计的电子邮件, from people all across the world — professors, educators, students, 来自全世界的人们–教授,教育学者,学生, and other archaeologists — who a...

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