SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
So when I started producing "The Dead Mall Series," I put the videos up onto YouTube, 当我开始制作“废弃的商场系列”时，我把这些视频放在了YouTube上， and while I thought they were interesting, frankly I didn't think others would share the enthusiasm for such a drab and depressing topic. 当时我觉得它们很有趣，可是说实话，我不觉得别人对于一个如此单调而压抑的话题也...
You can get video annotations of the events that you're reading about. 你可以看到事件的视频报道。 You can get the latest sports scores, etc. This is a more controversial one. 你可以看到体育比赛的最及时的比分，等等。接下来是一个有争议的功能。 As you interact with someone at TED, maybe you can see a word cloud of the tags, 当你在这遇到某人，你会看到一个标签云， the words t...
What was actually interesting to us was not that the bacteria made light, but when the bacteria made light. 事实上，我们感兴趣的部分并不是细菌会不会发光，而是细菌何时发光。 What we noticed is when the bacteria were alone, so when they were in dilute suspension, they made no light. 我们发现，当细菌独立存在，经稀释后进行悬浮培养时，它们不发光。 But when they grew to a certain ...
And yet, we have in this country this dynamic where we really don't like to talk about our problems. 然而，我们这个国家不喜欢讨论存在的问题。 We don't like to talk about our history. 我们不喜欢讨论历史。 And because of that, we really haven't understood what it's meant to do the things we've done historically. 正因如此，我们不能真正理解我们有史以来做了什...
But now here's where the bias comes in. 但是现在偏见出现了。 Our most important institutions, our schools and our workplaces, 我们最重要的机构，学校及职场， they are designed mostly for extroverts and for extroverts' need for lots of stimulation. 却像是为外向者设计的，并且有适合他们需要的刺激。 And also we have this belief system right now that I call the new groupth...
Now, you might wonder, "Come on, how much could five percentage points of global electricity be?" 现在你可能会问，“拜托，全球5%的电力能有多少？” Well, it turns out to be quite a bit. 事实证明还蛮多的。 It's the equivalent of 60 nuclear plants the size of Diablo Canyon, California's last nuclear plant, 这些电力等价于60个核电站的产量，每个都有加州核电站“代阿...
I was recently traveling in the Highlands of New Guinea, and I was talking with a man who had three wives. 最近，我正在新几内亚高地旅行，我访谈了一位有三个老婆的人。 I asked him, "How many wives would you like to have?" 我问他：“你想要多少个老婆？” And there was this long pause, and I thought to myself, 他停顿了很长时间，我就想， "Is he going to say five? Is h...
When I learned, some years ago, that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful, 当我多年前听说作家们必须有极其不幸的童年才能取得成功的时候， I began to think about how I could invent horrible things my parents had done to me. 我开始思考如何捏造一些我父母对我做过的恶行。 But the truth is that I had a very happy childhood, full of laughter an...
So why is that happening? So one reason is obviously economic or structural. So you think of these areas. 为什么会这样呢？一个原因显然是跟经济或结构有关。看看这些地区。 They're beset by these terrible economic trends, built around industries like coal and steel that make it harder for folks to get ahead. 它们的经济趋势很不好，当年依靠煤炭和钢铁起家，这些产业如今已经没落...
The path, it's not easy. Many obstacles arise all the time. 这一路走来并不容易。我们遇到了很多阻碍。 But we receive strength from our patients. 但我们从患者的身上汲取到了力量。 Their resilience and courage inspire our creativity. 他们的坚忍与勇气激励着我们去探索、创造。 Our goal is to make sure that no child is left behind, not because of cost or access. 我们的目标是确保...
Shortly after he published my first novel, I went to a TV station in Lagos to do an interview, 在他发布了我的第一部小说的不久后，我前往拉各斯的一家电视台接受访问， and a woman who worked there as a messenger came up to me and said, "I really liked your novel. 期间一位在那里做通信员的女士走向我，并且说道：“我真的非常喜欢你的小说。 I didn't like the ending. Now, you m...
As I was leaving China, the engineer that brought Bill Gates there kind of pulled me aside, and he said, 当我离开中国的时候，那个请来比尔·盖茨的工程师曾把我拉到一边，然后他说， "You know, Michael, I appreciate your interest in all the different nuclear supply technologies, “你知道吗，迈克尔，我很欣赏你能对不同核电技术感兴趣。 but there's this more basic issue, which...
One night, my friend Malte, were camping in the Amazon region. 有一天，我和我朋友Malte在亚马逊流域露营。 The only thing that would not burn in the fire was a green avocado branch. 我们发现唯一不能被火点燃的东西是绿鳄梨的树枝。 Then came a moment of inspiration. So we used the branch as a mold for our first invention. 这时我们有了一个灵感。我们利用这种枝条设计出了一个器材雏形...
First, a video. Yes, it is a scrambled egg. But as you look at it, I hope you'll begin to feel just slightly uneasy. 首先，来段录像。对，这是个被搅拌的鸡蛋。但是，当你看它的时候，我希望你能开始感受到有一点点的怪异。 Because you may notice that what's actually happening is that the egg is unscrambling itself. 因为你可能注意到了正在发生的是这个鸡蛋搅拌的反序过程。 And ...
This ability to make copies of DNA, as simple as it sounds, has transformed our world. DNA的这种复制能力听起来很简单，却改变了我们的世界。 Scientists use it every day to detect and address disease, to create innovative medicines, 科学家们每天都用它来检测和对付疾病，创造新药品， to modify foods, to assess whether our food is safe to eat or whether it's contaminated with d...
I gave her my whole rap, and when I finished she looked at me and she said, "Mmm mmm mmm." 我做了一个全本无删减的演讲，当我结束时，她盯着我说：“别别别。” She said, "That's going to make you tired, tired, tired." 她说：“这些会让你很累，很累，很累的。” And that's when Ms. Carr leaned forward, she put her finger in my face, 这时卡尔夫人凑过来，她把手...
But let me split sub-Saharan Africa. 下面把撒哈拉以南非洲地区分解成各个国家。 Health is there and better health is up there. 分布靠上边的国家拥有更高的健康水平。 I can go here and I can split sub-Saharan Africa into its countries. 撒哈拉以南的非洲各国是如此分布的。 And when it burst, the size of its country bubble is the size of the population. 小球的尺寸代表该国人口。 Sierr...
Now, some of you might be thinking, "Hold on a minute. 在座的有些人现在一定可能在想，“得了吧。 She doesn't look very much like an ocean rower. 她长得一点也不像个横渡大洋者。 Isn't she meant to be about this tall and about this wide and maybe look a bit more like these guys?" 她是不是长得这么高，或者这么强壮，是不是和这些家伙们有那么一点相似呢？” You'll ...
People have been using media to talk about sex for a long time. 人们借助各种媒体来谈性，这已经有着很长的历史了。 Love letters, phone sex, racy Polaroids. 比如说情书、电话性爱以及裸照。 There's even a story of a girl who eloped with a man that she met over the telegraph in 1886. 在1886年，甚至有一个女孩与一个通过电报认识的男子私奔的故事。 Today we have sexting, and I am a...
I know families who are already living in this reality. 我知道这在有些家庭中已经实现了。 The Daniels family, for example, set up a DNA lab in the basement of their suburban Chicago home. 例如丹尼尔斯一家，在芝加哥郊区的家庭地下室建立了一个DNA实验室。 This is not a family made of PhD scientists. This is a family like any other. 这不是一个由博士科学家组成的家庭。这只是一个再普...