SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
My name is Tom, and I've come here today to come clean about what I do for money. 我叫汤姆，今天我来到这里向大家坦白交待我的谋生之道 Basically, I use my mouth in strange ways in exchange for cash. 基本上，我靠嘴巴以特殊的方式来换现金 I usually do this kind of thing in seedy downtown bars and on street corners, 我通常都在闹市区的破酒吧和街角做这事儿 so this mightn't b...
The British Association would later be the first 英国科学进步协会也是后来 of the major national science organizations in the world to admit women as full members. 第一个接收女性成为正式会员的主流国家学术团体。 Up to the 19th century, natural philosophers were expected to pay for their own equipment and supplies. 上至19世纪，自然哲学家是需要自己支付实验设备和物资的。 Occasion...
In every work that I create, I write messages with my style of Arabic calligraphy. 在我创作的每一样作品中，我都用阿拉伯的书法风格写要旨 I make sure those messages are relevant to the place where I am painting 我确保这些信息与作画的地区有关联 but have this universal dimension, so anybody around the world can relate to it. 通过这么一个普遍的维度，使全世界的人都能理解 So for Ma...
There's always got to be a bit of a dance at the start, 开始总会先跳点儿小舞 because it's just fun, so you can clap along if you want. 只是因为好玩儿，你们可以跟着节拍拍手 You don't have to. It's fine. Check it out. 不一定非得拍，没关系，看着 I'm going to lay down a bass sound now. 现在我要加入一个男低音 And now, a rockabilly guitar. 接下来，乡村摇滚吉他 ...
This beautiful building is part of the Shitennoji Temple Complex in Osaka, Japan. 这栋美丽的建筑是日本大阪四天王寺寺庙的一部分 In fact, it's one of the oldest temples in Japan. 事实上它是日本最老的建筑之一 It was built by a Korean artisan, because at the time, Japan was not yet building temples. 它由一个韩国工匠修建，因为在那时日本还不会修建寺庙 And this Korean artisan w...
Every school was a big top circus tent, and the pecking order went from acrobats to lion tamers, 每个学校都像是一个大马戏团，人与人之间等级分明，从杂耍员到驯兽师， from clowns to carnies, all of these miles ahead of who we were. 从小丑到龙套，他们的等级都比我们高好几层楼。 We were freaks — lobster claw boys and bearded ladies, oddities juggling depression and lonelines...
Imagine you're walking through a forest. 想象你正穿行在森林中。 I'm guessing you're thinking of a collection of trees, 我猜你想的是一大片树， what we foresters call a stand, with their rugged stems and their beautiful crowns. 我们林业工作者称之为“林分”，它们有着遒劲的枝干，和美丽的树冠。 Yes, trees are the foundation of forests, but a forest is much more than wha...
Whenever I get to travel for work, 无论何时外出工作， I try to find out where my drinking water comes from, and where my poop and pee go. 我都会尝试弄清我饮用水的来源，还有我排泄物的去处。 This has earned me the nickname "The Poo Princess" in my family, 这让我赢得了“大便女皇”的家庭绰号， and it's ruined many family vacations, because this is not normal. 同时还...
You see, like all networks, mycorrhizal networks have nodes and links. 你们看，就像所有的网络一样，真菌的网络中也有节点和链接。 We made this map by examining the short sequences of DNA of every tree and every fungal individual in a patch of Douglas fir forest. 我们在一片花旗松森林中的所有树和所有真菌中，提取了它们的DNA短序列，并且制作了这份遗传图。 In this picture, the circl...
So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we'd be lonely forever, 所以我们长大后觉得没有人会爱上我们，我们注定孤独一辈子， that we'd never meet someone to make us feel like the sun 而我们遇到的那些把我们当作太阳的人， was something they built for us in their toolshed. 不过是把我们当作是一种备选的工具。 So broken heartstrings bled the blues,...
From the point of view of the experiencing self, clearly, B had a worse time. 从经验自我的角度来看，病人B显然是比较难受的。 Now, what you could do with Patient A, and we actually ran clinical experiments, 那么病人A的情况该如何解释，我们实际做了一个临床试验， and it has been done, and it does work 当实验完成时，我们也得到了预期的结果， you could actually extend the colonoscop...
If you read management books now, a leader is somebody who can foster creativity, 如果你现在读管理类的书，领导是那种可以激发创造力， who can get his — get the employees — see, I still say "his" — 可以令他的–员工们–看吧，我仍然说“他的”– who can get the employees to talk to each other, 让员工们相互交谈， who can basically build tea...
Mother trees colonize their kin with bigger mycorrhizal networks. 母树通过更大的菌根网络来覆盖住自己孩子们所在的区域。 They send them more carbon below ground. 在地下，它们给孩子们会送去更多的碳。 They even reduce their own root competition to make elbow room for their kids. 它们甚至会减少它们自己和其它树根部的竞争，来为它们的孩子们创造更多的活动空间。 When mother trees are ...
In less blatant cases, there's still a kind of negotiation that often goes on. 在不那么明显的例子中，还是有一种磋商在进行着 In the workplace, for example, 比如说在工作场所 there's often a tension over whether an employee can socialize with the boss, 在员工是否能和老板套近乎这一点上都有一点紧张不安 or refer to him or her on a first-name basis. 或者是称呼他或她首名（而...
So you mentioned corruption in your talk, and you're known, well-known as a strong anticorruption fighter. 你在你的演讲中提到了腐败，而你作为一个反腐败人士是非常知名的。 But that's had consequences. People have fought back, and your mother was kidnapped. 但这对你是有很大影响的。那些人反击，你的母亲遭到绑架。 How have you been handling this? 你是如何应对这些的？ It...
The global economic financial crisis has reignited public interest 全球金融危机让人们对早在亚当·斯密时代 in something that's actually one of the oldest questions in economics, dating back to at least before Adam Smith. 就被提出的一个古老的经济学问题重新产生了兴趣： And that is, why is it that countries with seemingly similar economies and institutions can display radical...
Well, we chose the second option, and language is the result. 我们选了第二条路，语言就是产物 Language evolved to solve the crisis of visual theft. 语言的进化解决了观察性窃取的危机 Language is a piece of social technology for enhancing the benefits of cooperation 语言是社会技术用于加强合作的益处 for reaching agreements, for striking deals and for coordinating our activities. ...
Once we have language, we can put our ideas together and cooperate to have a prosperity 一旦我们有了语言，我们可以分享想法并合作，从而创造繁荣 that we couldn't have before we acquired it. 没有语言这是无法完成的 And this is why our species has prospered around the world 这就是为什么人类在全世界繁衍发展 while the rest of the animals sit behind bars in zoos, languishing. 而...
So imagine that you're a retired household in Belgium and someone comes to your front door. 想象一下你是一个比利时的退休老人，有一天有人跑来敲你家的门。 "Excuse me, would you mind if I peruse your stock portfolio? “打扰了，你能跟我说下你的股票投资情况么？ Do you happen to know how much your house is worth? Do you mind telling me? 你知道自己的房子值多少钱么？方便告诉...
This is why we are not growing. We failed at reinventing the manufacturing space, 这就是为什么经济未能增长。我们未能重新创造工业生产活动， and large technological innovations have played away from it. 与此同时大型技术创新却与之相背。 But what if we could combine those forces? 但如果我们把这些结合起来会发生什么？ What if the existing manufacturing and large technological inno...