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This is a picture of Maurice Druon, 照片里的人是Maurice Druon the Honorary Perpetual Secretary of L'Academie francaise, the French Academy. L'Academie francaise的荣誉终身秘书长–也就是法兰西学院 He is splendidly attired in his 68,000-dollar uniform, befitting the role of the French Academy 穿着价值六万八千美元的豪华制服，对法兰西学院来说倒很适合 as legislating t...
So, in this suburb, the poo and the pee and the wash water are going to this treatment plant right in the middle of the community. 那么，在这片城郊，各种排泄物们和废水正涌向处于区域中心的处理池。 It looks more like a park than a treatment plant. 其实与其说处理池，它看起来更像一个公园。 The poo at the very bottom of all those layers of gravel — not touching anyone 那些...
Two, debt. In 1994, the debt-to-GDP ratio of African countries was 130 percent, and they didn't have fiscal space. 第二件事，债务。在1994年，非洲国家债务对GDP的比例是130%，而且他们没有财政空间。 They couldn't use their resources to invest in their development because they were paying debt. 他们无法用自己的资源去投资于自己的发展，因为他们都在偿还债务。 There may be so...
Five years ago, I experienced a bit of what it must have been like to be Alice in Wonderland. 五年前，我曾有过一个有如漫游爱丽丝仙境的经历。 Penn State asked me, a communications teacher, to teach a communications class for engineering students. 宾夕法尼亚州立大学让我这个教沟通学的老师给工程系的学生上沟通学课。 And I was scared. Really scared. 我被吓到了。我真的被吓坏了。 Sc...
The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the next few decades has arrived. 有可能在未来几十年带来巨大影响的科技，已经到来了。 And it's not social media. It's not big data. 并不是社交媒体，也不是大数据， It's not robotics. It's not even AI. 也不是机器人科学，甚至也不是人工智能。 You'll be surprised to learn that it's the underlying technolo...
You can't do that while you're texting, and so ways are developing of doing it within this medium. 你没有办法在短信里这么做，所以在这个交流媒介里产生了各种转换话题的方法。 All spoken languages have what a linguist calls a new information marker — or two, or three. 任何口语都有语言学家称作的一个或者两到三个的新信息标记词（话题转换词）。 Texting has developed one...
Now don't get me wrong, writing has certain advantages. 大家不要误会，文字写作确实有它自己的优势。 When you write, because it's a conscious process, because you can look backwards, 当你写字的时候，因为这是一个有意识的过程，因为你可以回顾过去， you can do things with language that are much less likely if you're just talking. 你可以用书面语言来完成一些说话时不会表...
And folks, you can buy a copy of Bill Clinton's "My Life" from the bookstore here at TED. 朋友们，你可以买一本比尔克林顿的《我的人生》，就在这里的TED书店里。 Parse it cover to cover for whatever hidden references you want. 你可以从头到尾地找你想找的暗示， Or you can go to the Random House website where there is this excerpt. 你也可以去兰登书屋网站找到这段节选，...
It works a little something like — this is a recent Google search for four in the morning. 这是结果，请看最近的一个谷歌搜索。搜索：凌晨4点 Results vary, of course. This is pretty typical. 当然搜索的结果不一，这是其中最典型的一个。 The top 10 results yield you four hits for Faron Young's song, "It's Four in the Morning," 最上面的10个结果中，4个是Faron ...
Another moon, very similar, is Europa. 另一个非常相似的卫星，木卫二。 Galileo visited Jupiter's system in 1996 and made fabulous observations of Europa. 伽利略号在1996年时探访了木星系统，对木卫二进行了详细的观察。 Europa, we also know, has an under-the-ice crust ocean. 我们知道木卫二拥有存在于冰层下的海洋。 Galileo mission told us that, but we never saw any plumes. 伽利...
I heard all of these things, but I didn't listen. 这些事都经过了我的耳朵，可惜我没有去仔细倾听。 I looked but didn't see. I read, didn't understand. 我看了，但是没看见。我读了，可是没理解。 I paid attention only when you began to vote and shout, 只有当你们去投票，去喊叫，只有当事情本身开始 and when your voting and shouting, when the substance of it, began to thre...
That year, the country was coming out of civil war. 那年，哥斯达黎加刚从一场内战中解脱。 Thousands of Costa Ricans had died, and families were bitterly split. 成千上万的哥斯达黎加人死于战乱，一个个家庭支离破碎，人们流离失所。 And yet, a surprising idea won the hearts and minds: 然而，一个令人惊讶的想法得到了大家的支持： we would reboot the country, and that Second Republic w...
In the '50s, we started investing in hydropower, 在五十年代时，我们开始投资水电工程， and that kept us away from the trap of using fossil fuels for electricity generation, 这也使我们避免陷入使用石油来发电的困局， which is what the world is struggling with today. 而现在全世界都在这个泥潭中挣扎。 In the '70s we invested in national parks, 在70年代的时候，我们投资建立了...
The simplest example of this is in the polite request. 最简单的例子出自于礼貌的要求 If you express your request as a conditional — "if you could open the window, that would be great" 倘若你用一个条件句表达请求：“您要是能开一下窗子就太好了，” even though the content is an imperative, the fact that you're not using the imperative voice 尽管内容是祈使句，仅...
And of course, a few of us are saying: okay, computers! 当然，你们中的有些人会说，计算机！ Computers! What about computers? 计算机！计算机是新东西吧？ The thing about computers is, I love computers. 不要误会，我喜欢计算机， I mean, I'm a huge geek, I love computers. 我超级喜欢计算机， I would go on a hunger strike before I let them take away Google Book Search from me. ...
I want to share a few keys on how you can do that 我想来分享几个有用的方法，告诉你们如何才能保证 to make sure that we can see that your science is sexy and that your engineering is engaging. 让我们也觉得你们的科学"性感"迷人、你们的工程学魅力四射。 First question to answer for us: so what? 第一个要回答我们的问题：高科技又怎样？ Tell us why your science is relevant t...
For one thing, I just do not do uniforms. 首先，我不喜欢制服。 And for another, deciding what words are good and what words are bad is actually not very easy. 而且，决定谁是好词谁是坏词其实一点也不容易， And it's not very fun. And when parts of your job are not easy or fun, 还不好玩。如果你的工作中有这么一部分既不容易又不好玩， you kind of look for an excuse not to do th...
This is a recent comic strip from the Los Angeles Times. The punch line? 这是最近洛杉矶时报的一幅漫画。笑点是？ "On the other hand, I don't have to get up at four every single morning to milk my Labrador." “另一方面，我不用每天凌晨4点起来，给我的拉布拉多猎犬喂奶。” This is a recent cover of New York Magazine. 这是纽约杂志最近的封面。 Best hospitals where doctor...
How do we build a society without fossil fuels? 如果不用石油，我们如何让一个社会运转起来？ This is a very complex challenge, 这是个十分严峻的挑战， and I believe developing countries could take the lead in this transition. 我相信发展中国家可以为这个改变起带头作用。 And I'm aware that this is a contentious statement, 我很清楚这是一个很有争议性的说法， but the reality is t...
If and when your anger turns to hate, 如果当你的气愤转化为痛恨， please know that there is no space for that in our shared home. 请明白在我们共享的家园里没有容纳那些痛恨的空间。 But I will admit, fellow citizen, that I have discounted the burden of coping with the loss of status. 但我会承认，我的朋友们，我忽视了应对地位丧失的压力。 I have forgotten that what is socially nece...