TED演讲之感动重临 用班卓琴来建设中美关系(3)

It's really been eight years since that fated night in Kentucky. 距离肯塔基那改变命运的一夜的确已经过去八年了 And I've played thousands of shows. 这期间我参加过数以千计的表演 And I've collaborated with so many incredible, inspirational musicians around the world. 我和不计其数的出色音乐人合作过,他们来自世界的各个地方 And I see the power of music. I see the power ...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(4)

This is an old study. Those are actual patients undergoing a painful procedure. 这是一个古老的研究。一些真正的病人将会接受一种痛苦的治疗方法。 I won't go into detail. It's no longer painful these days, 细节不再详述。现今的疗法已不再如此难受, but it was painful when this study was run in the 1990s. 但在研究进行的九十年代时,这种方法令人痛不欲生。 They were asked to r...

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TED演讲之感动重临 用班卓琴来建设中美关系(2)

I knew I had to take a banjo with me to China. 我这时候知道我肯定会带着班卓琴去中国了 So before going to law school in China, I bought a banjo, 在出发去中国的法学院之前,我买了个班卓琴, I threw it in my little red truck and I traveled down through Appalachia 把它扔进我的红色小皮卡里,然后我一路开到了阿巴拉契亚 and I learned a bunch of old American songs, 途中也学了一堆美国...

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TED演讲之感动重临 一人饰演地球村内多个角色(2)

And so I've brought a couple of them with me. And well, they're very excited. 我今天把她们几个一起带来了。她们都非常激动 What I should tell you — what I should tell you is that they've each prepared their own little TED talks. 我要告诉你们,她们每个人都准备了一小段TED演讲 So feel free to think of this as Sarah University. 所以你们尽可以把这里想成是莎拉大学 ...

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TED演讲:我们的工作将被机器取代 但也有例外(2)

In 2012, Kaggle challenged its community to build an algorithm that could grade high-school essays. 2012年,Kaggle给当地学校出了个难题,设计一个算法来评判高中作文。 The winning algorithms were able to match the grades given by human teachers. 获胜的算法给出的分数居然和真正老师给出的分数相符。 Last year, we issued an even more difficult challenge. 去年,我们出了一道更难的题。...

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TED演讲:来自阿拉伯女商人的成功经验(5)

You see, as a young woman in these situations, you have two options. 你们看,作为一个年轻女人遇到这些状况,你有两个选择。 You can either decide to internalize these negative messages that are being thrown at you, 你可以决定去内化这些被丢在你身上的负面讯息, to let them make you feel like a failure, 任凭他们让你自我贬低, like success is way too hard to ever achieve, 就像成功...

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TED演讲:怎样让企业持续运行100年(1)

Imagine that you are a product designer. 把自己想象成一个产品设计师。 And you've designed a product, a new type of product, called the human immune system. 你设计了一种产品,一种叫做人体免疫机制的新产品 You're pitching this product to a skeptical, strictly no-nonsense manager. 你在向一个持质疑态度、不容许讲废话的经理推销这种产品 Let's call him Bob. I think we all...

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TED演讲之感动重临 一人饰演地球村内多个角色(4)

You know, between the environmental degradation and the crashing of the world markets you're talking about. 比如你们说的环境恶化的问题,全球市场崩溃的问题 And of course, we know it's all because of the — all the … 当然我们都知道这一切都是因为,所有那些… Well, I don't know how else to say it to you, so I'll just say it my way: 我真不知道还能...

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TED演讲:女性崛起的新数据(8)

Now you laugh, but that quote has kind of a sting to it, right? 你觉得好笑,但是那句话有些刺痛,对吧。 And I think the reason it has a sting 我认为它有刺的原因 is because thousands of years of history don't reverse themselves without a lot of pain, 是因为数千年的历史是不会颠覆,如果没有疼痛的话。 and that's why I talk about us all going through this together. 这也是...

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TED演讲:女性崛起的新数据(9)

And the other reason it's kind of urgent is because it's not just happening in the U.S. 这件事情比较紧急的另一个原因是因为它不仅仅发生在美国。 It's happening all over the world. 它发生在整个世界。 In India, poor women are learning English faster than their male counterparts 在印度,贫穷的女人们学习英语比男同伴们更快 in order to staff the new call centers that are...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜

Everybody talks about happiness these days. 最近大家都在谈论着快乐。 I had somebody count the number of books with "happiness" in the title published in the last five years 在过去的五年里,我请人数了近年来有多本书的书名中提到“快乐”, and they gave up after about 40, and there were many more. 他们数到大约有40本,而且还有更多没数到的。 There is a huge wave of interes...

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TED演讲之感动重临 我的多调人声(2)

So there's things you can't do, and these limitations on the human voice have always really annoyed me, 所以说,总有声响是你发不出来的,这些人声的局限总是困扰我呀 because beatbox is the best way of getting musical ideas out of your head and into the world, 因为B-Box是把你脑子里的音乐想法发挥出来并走向世界的最好的办法 but they're sketches at best, which is what...

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TED演讲:女性崛起的新数据(3)

And I remembered back to about 10 years ago 我还记得大约十年前 when I read a book by Susan Faludi called "Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man", 当我在读苏珊·法露迪的“失信:美国男人的背叛”这本书 in which she described how hard the recession had hit men, 书中她描述了经济衰退是如何剧烈地影响男人们。 and I started to think about whether it had gotten worse this t...

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TED演讲之感动重临 我的多调人声(1)

I'd like you all to ask yourselves a question which you may never have asked yourselves before: 我希望你们先问你们自己一个问题,这个问题可能你们从没问过自己 What is possible with the human voice? 人的声音能干些什么? What is possible with the human voice? 人的声音能干些什么? It was coming straight for me. I had to. It was, yeah. 它直接朝我飞过来,打到我了,疼啊 As you c...

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TED演讲:来自阿拉伯女商人的成功经验(2)

As I got my Bachelor's and PhD in electrical engineering, 当我电子工程方面取得学士与博士学位, did R And D in the UK, then consulting in the Middle East, 在英国从事研发,此外在中东咨询, I have always been in male-dominated environments. 我总是处在男权至上的环境。 Truth be told, I have never found a role model I could truly identify with. 老实说,我从未找到能让我共鸣的榜...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(12)

But now, because the reflective self is in charge, 不过,既然现实由思考自我主导, you may end up — some people may end up moving to California. 一些人可能会得到这样一种结论,那就是搬到加州。 And it's sort of interesting to trace what is going to happen 他们搬去加州是为了过上更快乐的生活, to people who move to California in the hope of getting happier. 而追踪观看他...

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TED演讲:怎样让企业持续运行100年(6)

Fujifilm used its capabilities in chemistry, material science and optics to diversify into a number of areas, 富士胶片运用了自己在化学、材料科学和光学上的造诣,将自己的涉及领域多样化 ranging from cosmetics to pharmaceuticals, to medical systems to biomaterials. 从化妆品到医药,到医学系统、到生物材料 Some of these diversification attempts failed. 有一些多样化的尝试失败了 But ...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(10)

The distinction between the happiness of the experiencing self 近年来,经验自我的快乐 and the satisfaction of the remembering self has been recognized in recent years, 和记忆自我的满足的差异性已能分清, and there are now efforts to measure the two separately. 目前正努力来分别测度两者, The Gallup Organization has a world poll where more than half a million people 盖洛普公司...

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TED演讲之感动重临 一人饰演地球村内多个角色(10)

But that's where we had some problems. 但问题就出在这儿 My son, he says he is not ready to get married. 我的儿子说他还不准备结婚 And he has a sweetheart, but she is American woman, not Chinese. 他有个女朋友,但她不是中国人,是美国人 It's not that it's bad, but I told him, "What's wrong with a Chinese woman?" 我不是说这下就坏事了,但我跟他说“中国姑娘...

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TED演讲:树木之间如何交流(6)

And then in later experiments, we found the opposite, 而在随后的实验中,我们发现了相反的情况, that fir was sending more carbon to birch than birch was sending to fir, 花旗松给纸皮桦送的碳比纸皮桦给它的碳多, and this was because the fir was still growing while the birch was leafless. 这是因为当纸皮桦树叶掉光了的时候花旗松还在不停的生长。 So it turns out the two species were...

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