TED演讲之说什么 谈语言和思想(12)

If the officer is honest, you get a huge penalty of being arrested for bribery. 如果警官是老实人,你因为行贿被逮起来 So this is a rather fraught situation. 所以情况挺复杂的 On the other hand, with indirect language, if you issue a veiled bribe, 然而,你要是含沙射影地说,如果你含蓄地提出给钱 then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, 那么不老实的警官可以把它理...

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TED演讲:区块链对货币和商业的影响(12)

Now, this is — This is not just songwriters, 现在…不仅仅是歌曲作家, it's any creator of content, like art, like inventions, scientific discoveries, journalists. 任何形式的创作活动,比如美术,比如发明,科学发现,新闻记者。 There are all kinds of people who don't get fair compensation, 各行各业的没有得到公平报酬的人, and with blockchains, they're goin...

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TED演讲之说什么 谈语言和思想(8)

Now, I'm sure most of you have seen the movie "Fargo." 我相信你们中大多数人都看过《冰血暴》这部电影 And you might remember the scene in which the kidnapper is pulled over by a police officer, 你们可能还记得其中的一段:一个警官要绑匪把车开到路边 is asked to show his driver's license and holds his wallet out 叫他出示驾照,绑匪把钱包拿出来 with a 50-dollar bil...

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TED演讲:小国家的大想法–摒弃化石燃料(7)

So if we want to get rid of oil-based transportation, we can, 所以如果我们想放弃以石油为主的交通系统,我们完全可以, because we have options now that we didn't have before. It's really exciting. 因为现在我们拥有以前所没有的选择。这真的是非常激动人心。 But of course, some get very uncomfortable with this idea, 不过当然,有些人会对这个想法感到不快, and they will come ...

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TED演讲:区块链对货币和商业的影响(2)

So today, we rely entirely on big intermediaries — middlemen like banks, government, 如今,我们完全依赖于大型中介机构,中间商比如银行,政府, big social media companies, credit card companies and so on to establish trust in our economy. 大型社交媒体公司,信用卡公司等等,来构建经济中的信用体系。 And these intermediaries perform all the business and transaction logic of ...

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TED演讲之说什么 短信是语言杀手?开玩笑吧!(4)

Once you have things in your pocket that can receive that message, 一旦你在口袋里有了能接受这个信息的装置, then you have the conditions that allow that we can write like we speak. 你就有条件来像说话一样打字了。 And that's where texting comes in. And so, texting is very loose in its structure. 这时短信就出现了。所以,短信在结构上非常松散。 No one thinks about capital let...

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TED演讲:可能存在生命的三颗卫星和一颗行星(7)

Another moon that we're looking at is Titan. 我们在研究的另一个卫星是土卫六。 Titan is a huge moon of Saturn. 土卫六是土星的一个非常大的卫星。 It perhaps is much larger than the planet Mercury. It has an extensive atmosphere. 它可能比水星还要大很多。它有着广阔的大气层。 It's so extensive — and it's mostly nitrogen with a little methane and ethane 非常的广阔...

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TED演讲之说什么 谈语言和思想(2)

We see it in the constant appearance of slang and jargon, of the historical change in languages, 我们看到俗语和术语不断产生,历史上语言在变化 in divergence of dialects and the formation of new languages. 方言在分支,新的语言在形成 So language is not so much a creator or shaper of human nature, so much as a window onto human nature. 所以语言并不只是创造、塑造人性之物,同样是...

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TED演讲:区块链对货币和商业的影响(7)

Prosperity. The first era of the internet, the internet of information, 繁荣。互联网的第一个时代,信息的互联, brought us wealth but not shared prosperity, because social inequality is growing. 带给我们财富,但是没有共享繁荣,因为社会变得日趋不平等。 And this is at the heart of all of the anger and extremism and protectionism and xenophobia and worse 而这是所有的愤怒和极端主...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 只需专注10分钟(6)

You know, this is crazy. We do this all the time, even on an everyday level. 你知道,这很不正常。我们总是在想这些,甚至在日常生活的状态下。 If you think about the last time you had a wobbly tooth. 如果你想想最后一次,我不知道,你有一颗松动的牙。 You know it's wobbly, and you know that it hurts. 你知道它是一颗松动的牙,并且你知道它很痛。 But what do you do every 20, 30 se...

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TED演讲:为掌握而不是为了分数而教学(4)

So the idea of mastery learning is to do the exact opposite. 然而掌握式教育的观念就是反其道而行之。 Instead of artificially constraining, fixing when and how long you work on something, 将人为的限制、僵化、何时学习和学多久、 pretty much ensuring that variable outcome, the A, B, C, D, F — do it the other way around. 把结果按A、B、C、D、F分级的行为,转换成另一种方式。 W...

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TED演讲:取消订阅邮件的苦恼(4)

I'll be honest, then my relationship with Dan deteriorated somewhat, because the next email I got was this: 实话实说,那之后我跟Dan的关系在某种程度上就恶化了,因为我发现下一封邮件是这样写的: "Thanks for your email – your Case Number is …" “感谢您的邮件–您的处理编号是……” That's outrageous. I said, "Dan?" 这真是让我哭笑不得。我说...

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TED演讲:为掌握而不是为了分数而教学(2)

And in a lot of ways, this is how you would master a lot of things in life. 在很多方面,这也是掌握新技能的一种途径。 It's the way you would learn a martial art. 好比学习武术。 In a martial art, you would practice the white belt skills as long as necessary, 在武术当中,你往往必须一直练习白带(最低等级)的技巧, and only when you've mastered it you would move on to becom...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 只需专注10分钟(3)

I guess we all deal with stress in different ways. 我想我们应对压力都有不同的方式。 Some people will bury themselves in work, grateful for the distraction. 有些人会把自己埋头到工作中,用以分心不去想。 Others will turn to their friends, their family, looking for support. 另一些人则会从朋友和家庭中寻求帮助。 Some people hit the bottle, start taking medication. 还有些人酗酒,或...

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TED演讲之说什么 单词的诞生(7)

And just for contrast, we can do this with any word. 相对,你也可以为其他词汇勾勒词景 We can take the word "bye" as in "good bye." 比如“goog bye”(再见)里的“bye”字 And we're now zoomed in over the entrance to the house. 我们放大到房子大门口附近 And we look, and we find, as you would expect, 我们看到,我们发现,你也会想到 a contrast in the landscape whe...

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TED演讲:新美国梦(5)

So let's dig into this first question: How should we work? 所以,我们来探讨第一个问题:我们应当如何工作? We should work like our mothers. 我们应该像我们的母亲们那样。 That's right — we've spent decades trying to fit women into a work world built for company men. 没错,好几十年的时间里,我们试图将女性融入男性的工作环境中 And many have done backbends to fit ...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 只需专注10分钟(1)

We live in an incredibly busy world. 我们生活在一个异常纷杂的世界。 The pace of life is often frantic, our minds are always busy, and we're always doing something. 生活的步调时常快得疯狂,我们的头脑(心灵)一直忙碌运转着,而我们每时每刻都在做着事情 So with that in mind, I'd like you just to take a moment to think, when did you last take any time to do nothing? 记住这点...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 只需专注10分钟(5)

So for example, right now, if I focus too much on the balls, 打个比方,现在,如果我太集中于这些球, then there's no way I can relax and talk to you at the same time. 那么我就无法能够放松并同时与你们说话。 Equally, if I relax too much talking to you, there's no way I can focus on the balls. 同样地,如果我太过于放松地跟你们说话,那我将无法专注在球上。 I'm going to ...

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TED演讲:为什么头盔不能预防脑震荡?(4)

Now, the way that we're approaching this problem to try to understand the mechanisms of concussion 当下,我们通过这样一个设备研究这一问题,从而试图理解脑震荡产生机制, and to figure out if we can prevent it is we are using a device like this. It's a mouthguard. 并确定我们是否可以防治脑震荡,我们所采用的是这样一个设备。它是个牙套。 It has sensors in it that are essent...

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TED演讲:让我们带上女超人!(6)

That's how good Marvel was at selling superheroes. 这体现了漫威是出色的英雄卖家。 Last year, they released a film called "Guardians of the Galaxy." 去年,他们发售了一部名叫《银河守护者》的影片。 It's a film that absolutely should not work. 这是一部绝不可能火的影片, Nobody knew who they were except for comic book nerds like me. 因为除了像我这样的漫画书呆子...

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