SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
Does the Taliban have a point of view on physics that is worth considering? No. 难道塔利班对物理学的意见也值得我们考虑吗？不。 How is their ignorance any less obvious on the subject of human well-being? 但他们对幸福的无知和他们对物理的无知有什么不同？ So, this, I think, is what the world needs now. 现在世界所需要的是 It needs people like ourselves to admit that there are rig...
We have to recognize that real faith has no easy answers. 我们须认识到真正的信仰，从来没有简单答案 It's difficult and stubborn. 它是困难的、固执而不顺从的 It involves an ongoing struggle, 牵涉不间断的挣扎 a continual questioning of what we think we know, a wrestling with issues and ideas. 要不断怀疑自以为知道的，它是一场争议和想法之争 It goes hand in hand with doubt, in ...
Another worrying thing: if you're selling sex in places like Kenya, South Africa or New York, 另一件令人担忧的事：如果你在肯尼亚，南非或纽约这些地方卖淫， a police officer can arrest you if you're caught carrying condoms, 如果你被抓到持有避孕套，警察就可以逮捕你， because condoms can legally be used as evidence that you're selling sex. 因为如果你卖淫，避孕套就是...
In the space that used to house one transistor, we can now fit one billion. 在以前，可以放置一个晶体管的空间，现在可以放10亿个。 That made it so that a computer the size of an entire room now fits in your pocket. 这导致曾经占据了一整个房间的电脑，现在可以放在你的口袋里。 You might say the future is small. 也许你会说，未来东西都会越来越小。 As an engineer, I'm inspired by...
Now, as an introvert, I might gently allude to certain "assholic" qualities in this man's behavior, 作为一名内向者，我也许会委婉地暗示这个人的行为确实比较混蛋， but I'm not going to lunge for the a-word. 但我不会直接使用“混蛋”这个词。 But the extrovert says, "If he walks like one, if he talks like one, I call him one." 但外向者会说，“如果他表现得...
There is clearly a range of materials that constitute healthy food. 一个健康的饮食方式中有许多不同食物 But there's nevertheless a clear distinction between food and poison. 但从没有人会把食物和毒物搞错 The fact that there are many right answers to the question, "What is food?" 当我们问“什么是食物？”的时候，有许多正确答案 does not tempt us to say that there are ...
In my lab, we recently made a cancer nanodetector 在我的实验室，我们最近研制出了一种癌症纳米检测器， that is so small that it could travel into the body and look for tumors. 小到可以进入全身血液循环并寻找肿瘤。 We designed it to listen for tumor invasion: 我们设计它用于监听肿瘤的侵袭： the orchestra of chemical signals that tumors need to make to spread. 即肿瘤扩散所需要的化...
And I can understand why the sex industry provokes strong feelings. 我可以理解为什么性产业会引发强烈的不满情绪。 People have all kinds of complicated feelings when it comes to sex. 当提到性的时候，人们都有很复杂的情绪。 But we can't make policy on the basis of mere feelings, 但是我们不能仅仅根据情绪立法， especially not over the heads of the people actually effected by t...
And the more I thought about it, the more it made sense that he doubted, 我越想越觉得他的怀疑是源自于 because doubt is essential to faith. 怀疑是相信的必要部分 If this seems a startling idea at first, 如果最初听起来让人吃惊的话 consider that doubt, as Graham Greene once put it, is the heart of the matter. 就试想一下葛兰姆·葛林说过的话，怀疑是事情的核心部分 Abolish all doubt,...
Well a sermon wants to change your life and a lecture wants to give you a bit of information. 宗教里的传教想改变你的生活，而一个演讲只是给你一些信息资料 And I think we need to get back to that sermon tradition. 我觉得我们有必要找回传教的习俗 The tradition of sermonizing is hugely valuable, 这个习俗是非常有用的 because we are in need of guidance, morality and consolation R...
So listen, all of the work I've shown you, 听我说，我向你们展示的所有工作， the stuff that I've built that's all around me on this stage 我身边所有这些自己造出来的东西， and the other projects my lab is involved in 还有我的实验室参与的其他项目， are all a direct result of me playing with your garbage. 都是我玩转你们丢的垃圾的直接结果。 Play — play is a key ...
Imagine that you invented a device 想象你发明了一种设备 that can record my memories, my dreams, my ideas, and transmit them to your brain. 能记录我的记忆、我的梦想、我的想法，并且传到你的大脑。 That would be a game-changing technology, right? 那将是改变世界的新科技，对吧? But in fact, we already possess this device, 但事实上，我们已拥有这样的设备， and it's called human ...
Now, let me spend the rest of my time on the third big problem, 现在，让我把余下的时间花在对第三个重大问题的探讨上。 because it's more subtle and perhaps difficult to grasp. 因为这个问题更加微妙，也可能难以把握。 Think about some time in your life — 试着回忆一下你生命中的某些时刻—— some people might never have experienced it — but some people, 有些人可能从未...
I would say that there are many, many gaps in secular life and these can be plugged. 我觉得世俗的世界是有许多缺点的，但是那些缺点是可以被弥补的 It's not as though, as I try to suggest, 但这不是说 it's not as though either you have religion and then you have to accept all sorts of things 要么你相信宗教，然后你就要相信宗教所有的教条 or you don't have religion and t...
What I'm really curious about is if one day, 我真正好奇的是会不会有一天， it will be possible to repair, rebuild and augment our own bodies with stuff we make in the kitchen. 人们有可能修复、改造、强化我们自己的身体，用到的只是我们厨房里的材料。 Speaking of kitchens, here's some asparagus. 好，说到厨房，这是一些芦笋。 They're tasty, and they make your pee smell f...
Now, this nice picture shows a thought-balloon, a thought-bubble. 好了，这张图展示的是一个“思维泡泡”。 I think everybody understands what that means. 我想大家都知道这是什么意思。 That's supposed to exhibit the stream of consciousness. 它展示了意识流。 This is my favorite picture of consciousness that's ever been done. 这是到目前，我最喜欢的展示意识的图片。 It's a...
He likes chocolate, he likes vanilla. 他喜欢巧克力，他喜欢香草 There's nothing that one should be able to say to the other that should persuade the other. 无论跟他们说什么，都不能改变他们。 Notice that we don't do this in science. 但我们不会这样讨论科学 On the left you have Edward Witten. He's a string theorist. 左边这位是爱德华·威滕。他是弦理论的专家 If you ask ...
So I'm banging out my story and I know it's good, 我要大声地说出我的故事，我知道很好笑 and then I start to make it better – by adding an element of embellishment. 为了让故事更生动我会加点油、添点醋， Reporters call this "making shit up." 记者们称之为“瞎掰”。 And they recommend against crossing that line. 他们建议不要逾越那条线， But I had just seen th...
I want to talk today about 今天我所要讲的是 I've been asked to take the long view, 他们让我谈谈长远的观点 and I'm going to tell you what I think are the three biggest problems for humanity from this long point of view. 我要告诉你们，我认为，从长远来看，人类面临着三大问题。 Some of these have already been touched upon by other speakers, which is encouraging. 其中有些...
My view is that museums should take a leaf out of the book of religions. 我觉得艺术馆应该向宗教学习 And they should make sure that when you walk into a museum — if I was a museum curator, 艺术馆应该确保，当游客走进馆内时候–如果我是馆长 I would make a room for love, a room for generosity. 我会专门为爱，为慷慨而准备特定的展览 All works of art are talking to us abou...