SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
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...
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait 每一个人都拥有一个最强大，危险并具有颠覆性的特性 that natural selection has ever devised. 这一特性是自然选择前所未有的设计 It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. 它是一个神经声频技术，用于与他人交流思想 I'm talking about your language, of course, 我说的当然...
The second story has to do with something that I'm sure most of you have seen or will remember. 第二个故事，和那些我相信你们大多数人都见过或者记得相关事情。 Very often, countries in Africa suffer drought and floods, 非洲的国家常常遭受干旱和洪涝， and it's getting more frequent because of climate change effects. 而随着气候变化的影响，它们正发生得越发频繁。 When this h...
And so, for example, there is in texting a convention, which is LOL. 比如说，在短信里有这样一个习惯用语，就是LOL。 Now LOL, we generally think of as meaning "laughing out loud." 我们通常认为LOL的意思是“捧腹大笑”。 And of course, theoretically, it does, 当然，从理论上看，它确实是这个意思， and if you look at older texts, then people used it to actually indicate laug...
For example, most other Germanic language speakers 例如，说日尔曼语系的人 feel completely comfortable talking about rain tomorrow by saying, "Morgen regnet es," 会很自然的用以下的话表达明天下雨：“Morgen regnet es” quite literally to an English ear, "It rain tomorrow." 说英语的人听了就类似“It rain tomorrow.” This led me, as a behavioral economist, to an in...
We have genius in our young people. I see it every day. 我们的年轻人拥有天赋。我每天都看得到。 It's what makes me wake up in the morning and feel ready to go. 这就是每天早上叫醒我并且让我整装待发的东西。 We have to unleash the genius of our young people, 我们必须解开我们的年轻人身上天赋的枷锁， get out of their way, support them to create and innovate and lead the way. ...
So what comes next? The people. 那么接下来呢？我们的百姓。 How do we get people to own this? 我们如何才能让人们去接受这个想法？ How do we get people to believe that it's possible to build a society without fossil fuels? 我们如何才能让人们相信，建造一个没有石油的社会是有可能的？ A lot of work from the ground up is needed. 从最基本的工作开始是必经过程。 That is why, in 201...
So, if you have a ham butt problem, and you're thinking about the ham butt problem, 所以如果你知道火腿屁股这事儿，而你又正在考虑这个问题， the conclusion that it leads you to is inexorable and counterintuitive: paper is the enemy of words. 它引向的结论是决绝又有违直觉的：纸张是文字的敌人。 How can this be? I mean, I love books. I really love books. 怎么可能？我爱书，非常...
We want to accelerate adoption of sustainable building and development practices. 我们想要提高高承受性建筑及其应用的采纳度。 We want more innovation. 我们想拥抱更多革新。 But a lot of times, whole categories of innovation — 但是很多情况却是，目录上所有革新当中， ones that can help us live more beautifully — turn out to be illegal. 那些能够帮助我们生活更美好的，最...
Secondly: a lot of writers talk about Uber and Airbnb and TaskRabbit and Lyft and so on as part of the sharing economy. 第二点：很多写手谈论起Uber，Airbnb，TaskRabbit，Lyft等企业时，把他们当做了共享经济的一部分。 This is a very powerful idea, that peers can come together and create and share wealth. 这个想法很不错，个人也可以汇聚在一起创造并共享财富。 My view is that …...
So, a problem in explaining how children learn language, 所以在解释孩子们如何学习语言时候，有一个问题 a problem in teaching language to adults so that they don't make grammatical errors, 同样也是教成人学外语语法时的一个问题 and a problem in programming computers to use language is which verbs go in which constructions. 以及给电脑编使用语言的程序时–在哪个构式里该用...
There's an influential taxonomy by the anthropologist Alan Fiske, 人类学家Alan Fiske给出了一个关于影响力的分类法 in which relationships can be categorized, more or less, into communality, which works on the principle 其中人际关系可以被或多或少地归为“公社性”，它的作用原则是 "what's mine is thine, what's thine is mine," “我的就是你的，你的就是我的” the ki...
I did notice the news about those parts of London becoming ghost quarters, 我注意到了那些关于伦敦市区空洞化的新闻， where the global super-rich turn fishy money into empty apartments 在那儿，世界级富豪把现钱变为空洞公寓， and price lifelong residents of a city, young couples starting out, out of their own home. 为城市定居居民定价，年轻夫妇从这儿离开，离开他们本来的家。 And I...
I ask you, what happened to translation? 那我问你，翻译还需要吗？ If you think about the Islamic Golden Age, there was lots of translation then. 如果你想想伊斯兰的黄金时代，当时有很多翻译。 They translated from Latin and Greek into Arabic, into Persian, 他们把拉丁文和希腊语翻译成阿拉伯语和波斯语， and then it was translated on into the Germanic languages of Europe and the Ro...
So we have gone through almost 30 characters. 我们已经学了差不多三十个汉字， By using this method, the first eight radicals will allow you to build 32. 通过这个方法，这八个基本字可以衍生出三十二个汉字， The next group of eight characters will build an extra 32. 下一组的八个汉字又会衍生出另外32个汉字。 So with very little effort, you will be able to learn a couple hundred cha...
I want to show you some brave souls who've had the courage to embrace this advanced potty training approach. 我想要给你们展示这些英勇地灵魂，就是那些有勇气去拥抱这种先进如厕技术地人们。 So those folks in New Mexico — why did they do it? 所以这些在新墨西哥州地人们–他们为什么要这么做呢？ 'Cause they're in a desert? 'Cause they save money? Yeah. 因为...
Open your mouth as wide as possible until it's square. You get a mouth. 把你的嘴张得越大越好，直到变成正方形。这就是一个“口”字。 This is a person going for a walk. Person. 这是一个人正在散步。“人”字。 If the shape of the fire is a person with two arms on both sides, “火”字的形状就是一个人在两边有两只胳膊， as if she was yelling frantically, "Help! I'm on fire!&q...
There are lots and lots of tests of English. 各种各样的英语测试。 And millions and millions of students take these tests every year. 每年成千上万的学生参加这样的考试。 Now you might think, you and me, "Those fees aren't bad, they're okay," 你会觉得，你和我都这么认为，这些考试价格还是合理的， but they are prohibitive to so many millions of poor people. 但是...
Now, where do we go from there? 现在，我们该走向何方？ I believe that the way forward is to learn to manage success. 我相信前进的道路就是学会管理成功。 Very often, when people succeed or countries succeed, they forget what made them succeed. 当一个人成功了，或一个国家成功以后，他们往往会忘记是什么导致他们成功的。 Learning what you're successful at, managing it and keepin...
And so some time around 200,000 years ago, our species confronted this crisis. 大约二十万年前，人类遇到了这一困境 And we really had only two options for dealing with the conflicts that visual theft would bring. 我们只有两种选择来解决观察性窃取导致的冲突 One of those options was that we could have retreated into small family groups. 一个选择是我们可以退回到小的家庭单位 Becaus...