SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
One tree is a tree. Two trees together, we have the woods. 一棵树是"木"。两棵树在一起，就是“树林”。 Three trees together, we create the forest. 三棵树在一起，就是“森林”。 Put a plank underneath the tree, we have the foundation. 把一块木板放在树下面，我们就有了“基本”。 Put a mouth on the top of the tree, that's "idiot." 把一张嘴放在树上，那是“呆子”。 E...
So the question is, what is the next big idea for this generation? 那么问题来了，我们这一代的下一个大想法又是什么呢？ And I believe what comes next is for this generation to let go of fossil fuels for good, just as we did with the army. 我相信我们这一代，将会为了更好的环境放弃使用化石燃料，就像我们当初废除了军队一样。 Fossil fuels create climate change. 化石燃料造成了全球气...
So here's the cool part. 接下来是极棒的部分。 My team, headed up by Chase Childs, is already beginning to look at some of the satellite imagery. 由蔡斯·蔡尔兹带领的我们的团队，已经开始着眼于部分卫星图像。 Of course, what you can see here is 0.3-meter data. 当然你能看到的是0.3米长的资料。 This is site called Chan Chan in northern Peru. It dates to 850 AD. 这一地点位于秘鲁...
In fact, the Tower of Babel story in the Bible is a fable and warning about the power of language. 事实上，圣经里巴别塔的故事就是关于语言能力的一个寓言和警示 According to that story, early humans developed the conceit that, by using their language to work together, 这个故事说，远古的人类变得自以为是，他们以为通过同一种语言一起合作 they could build a tower that would take the...
Finally — Finally, number five: there are a whole number of creators of content who don't receive fair compensation, 最后–最后，第五点：有许多内容的创造者并没有得到公平的报酬， because the system for intellectual property is broken. 因为知识产权系统遭到了损害。 It was broken by the first era of the internet. Take music. 在互联网的第一个时代就遭到损害。就拿音...
My daughter came to England from Kuwait. 我的女儿从科威特回到英国。 She had studied science and mathematics in Arabic. 她已经用阿拉伯语学了科学和数学。 It's an Arabic medium school. 那是在一所阿拉伯中校。 She had to translate it into English at her grammar school. 在文法学院学习时，她要把所学的内容翻译成英语。 And she was the best in the class at those subjects. 在她们班...
This was the first permit of its kind in Oregon. 下面是这类技术在俄勒冈州第一个通过法令的例子。 Brave and open-minded people sat down and felt comfortable saying, "Yeah, that shit makes sense." 勇敢而心胸开阔的人们在圆桌会议上阔谈到：“对，那坨粑粑听起来很有道理。” "Let's do it." You know? “我们放手干吧！”你们知道吗？ I keep showing examples where ever...
Last year in the US, they helped Amazon prepare and ship all the products required for Cyber Monday, 去年在美国，机器人帮助亚马逊发货，以应对网络星期一带来的 the annual peak of online retail. 年度线上零售消费高峰。 Last year in the US, it was the biggest online shopping day of the year and of history. 那是去年在美国的，有史以来最大的线上购物日。 Consumers spent 3 billion dol...
Or you can go all the way back to 63 A.D. 或者大家可以直接跳转回公元63年。 And there's this poor man who doesn't like the way people are speaking Latin. 有个可怜人不喜欢人们说拉丁语的方式。 As it happens, he was writing about what had become French. 实际上，他正在控诉的是日后形成的法语。 And so, there are always…there are always people worrying about these thin...
What are the characteristics we can control for? 我们能够控制那些特征？ Well I'm going to match families on country of birth and residence, 我考虑的匹配包括出生地和居住地， the demographics — what sex, their age — their income level within their own country, 人口信息–性别、年龄–相对居住国的收入水平， their educational achievement, a lot about thei...
Guys, we have an issue. Growth is fading away, and it's a big deal. 各位，我们遇到问题了。经济增长逐渐放缓，这可是个大问题。 Our global economy stops growing. And it's not new. 全球经济停止增长。这已经不是什么新闻了。 Growth has actually declined for the last 50 years. 事实上，过去50年来增速一直在逐渐放缓。 If we continue like this, we need to learn how to live in a ...
It's hurting people, it's hurting companies, and it's hurting our health. 这影响了百姓的利益，也伤害了公司的利益，同时也在影响我们的身体健康。 Because when policies and infrastructure fail, 因为当政府政策和基础设施的建设都无法发挥作用的时候， this is what happens on a daily basis. 这就是每天都要发生的情况。 Two hours in the morning, two hours in the evening. 早上...
People feel powerless, and they are tired of not being heard. 群众很多时候都会觉得自己有心无力，他们再也不希望自己的呼声被无视了。 So what we do is concrete things, 所以我们要做的是基础观念的建立， and we translate technical issues into citizen language 把专业问题转述成百姓听得懂的语言， to show that citizens have a role to play and can play it together. 这样才能让他们觉得有...
Number one: we can fertilize our food. 第一：这能为我们的食物施肥。 Each one of us is pooping and peeing something that could fertilize half or maybe all of our food, depending on our diet. 我们每个人都产生能够肥沃我们一半甚至全部食物的排泄物，具体取决于我们的食谱。 That dark brown poo in the toilet is dark brown because of what? 我们的便便为什么是深棕色的？ Dead stuff, bact...
So what if there were not only an internet of information, 如果我们有的不仅仅是信息的互联， what if there were an internet of value — 如果还有价值的互联： some kind of vast, global, distributed ledger running on millions of computers and available to everybody. 大量的，全球性的分散式的账本，可以在数千万台电脑上运转，每个人都有权访问。 And where every kind of asset, fro...
Do you know that feeling you get when you know it's going to storm before it storms? 你们了解那种感觉吗？那种在暴风雨来临前的感觉？ Do you also feel that now, fellow citizen? 你们现在有这种感觉吗，我的公民朋友们？ That malaise and worry that some who know feel reminds them of the 1930s? 那种心神不安又焦虑的感觉，会让你们当中的一些人想起上世纪30年代？ Perhaps you don'...
A time for even grimmer stuff than that, like in last April's New Yorker magazine. 那个时辰里还有更严酷的事情发生过，比如去年4月纽约人杂志中 This short fiction piece by Martin Amis starts out, Martin Amis的短篇小说是这样开始的： "On September 11, 2001, he opened his eyes at 4 a.m. in Portland, Maine, and Mohamed Atta's last day began." “2001年9月11日，他睁...
But that narrative is being challenged now 然而，这个故事现在遇到了挑战 because the continent has not been doing well in the last two years. 因为非洲大陆在过去两年内一直表现不佳。 It had been growing at five percent per annum for the last one and a half decades, 虽然在过去的十五年里，它都是以每年5%的速度在增长， but this year's forecast was three percent. Why? 但今年的预...
Just to give you a few examples: "ending a pregnancy" versus "killing a fetus;" 这里是一些例子：是“终止怀孕”还是“杀死胚胎” "a ball of cells" versus "an unborn child;" “一个细胞聚合的小球”还是“一个尚未出生的孩子” "invading Iraq" versus "liberating Iraq;" “侵略伊拉克”或是“解放伊拉克” "redistributing wealth" ...
There are lots and lots of ways of measuring time, 在许多计量时间的方法中 but a really bizarre base 60 system 古怪的60进制制度 known as hours and minutes and seconds is nearly universal around the world. 也就是时分秒计量单位，几乎被全世界采用 There are many, many ways of imprinting CDs or DVDs, 有很多很多方法压印CD和DVD but those are all being standardized as well. 但它们也...