SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
I've always wanted to be a cyborg. 我一直想成为一个半机械人。 One of my favorite shows as a kid was "The Six Million Dollar Man," 我小时候最喜欢的电视剧之一是“无敌金刚”，它的造价是六百万美元。 and this is a little bit closer to the 240 dollar man or so, but — 而这玩意儿的价值挺相近的，大约是240万美元，但是—— At at any rate. I would normally feel very self...
I happened to be living in Springfield at the time,and the best part of it was-is that you would close the women's door in the bathroom, 当时我刚好住在斯普林菲尔德（Springfield，和波士顿一个州)，最精彩的部分是—如果你到女厕所，关上门 and I remember seeing Go Sox, and I thought, really? 我记得看到门上写着加油，红袜队，我当时想，不是吧？ Or the houses, you'd come out, b...
From there, to the modern ventriloquist's dummy, 从这个到现代的口技者的木偶， is but a brief moment in history. 不是一段简短的历史。 You were late for school again this morning. 今天早上你上学又迟到了。 The ventriloquist must first make us believe that a small boy is sitting on his lap. 口技者必须首先让我们相信，在他膝盖上坐着的是一个小男孩儿。 The illusion of speech fol...
Over the past seven years, I've been following my fascination with the built environment, 在过去的七年里，我一直在追随着我对建筑环境的兴趣， and for those of you who know me, you would say that this obsession has led me to live out of a suitcase 365 days a year. 并且对你们当中了解我的人，你们会说这种痴迷使我一年365天提着行李生活。 Being constantly on the move means that ...
There is even a photo studio where you see the sort of aspiration with a faraway place, like that hotel in Sweden. 这是甚至有一个照相馆让你看到一种期望去住在真正的大房子里或者和一个遥远的地方产生联系，比如瑞典的旅馆。 On this particular evening, 在这个特别的夜晚， I came across this live band dressed to the T in their coordinating outfits. 我遇到这个穿着舞台表演衣服的现场演...
We're going to jump onto the next one, maybe. Yes. 或许我们可以开始讨论下一个动机了。 Influence and status. 影响力和地位 So this is one of the most famous game dynamics. 这是最出名的游戏动机之一。 It's used all over the place. 在很多地方都可以利用它。 It's used in your wallets, right now. 你的钱包里现在就有它。 We all want that credit card on the far left because...
When we look at the universities, 当我们环顾大学， 60 percent of baccalaureate degrees are going to women now, which is a significant shift. 目前女性占60%的本科学历的人数，这是个巨大的转变。 And in fact, university administrators are a little uncomfortable about the idea 实际上，大学的主管们对此感到有点不安， that we may be getting close to 70 percent female population in un...
Today, they live in this area, 今天，他们生活在这片区域， approximately 50,000 to 70,000 people, 大约5万到7万人， who live in this community of self-built multi-story houses where up to three generations live in one structure. 住在自己建的多层房屋的社区里三代同堂。 While these apartments that they built for themselves appear to lack any planning or formal grid, 虽然这些他们...
Think about that one. Have you ever entered an argument thinking, 在参加辩论的时候，你有没有想过 "Let's see if we can hash something out rather than fight it out. 让我们看看能不能共同敲定一些事情，而非由一方说服另一方。 What can we work out together?" 有什么是我们可以共同协作的？ And I think the argument-as-war metaphor inhibits those other kinds of resolutions...
Will these revolutions be whole like through the transitions to democracy or be overtaken by military or extremists of all kinds? 这些革命是否能引领国家向民主过渡,它们的胜利果实会不会被军方或者各种极端分子攫取？ We cannot tell. 我们无法预测。 Same works for the Western sector, where you can see all of these excited young people protesting around the world, 发生在西方社会的抗...
Third reason that boys are out of sync with school today: 第三个原因是男孩与我们今日的学校相脱节： kindergarten is the old second grade, folks. 幼儿园是一种过时的脱节教育。 We have a serious compression of the curriculum happening out there. 我们教学课程中有严重的压缩问题。 When you're three, you better be able to write your name legibly, 当孩子三岁时，他们最好能清楚地写...
When we think of games, there's all kinds of things. 当我们提起游戏时，脑海中会浮现很多回忆。 Maybe you're ticked off, or maybe you're looking forward to a new game. You've been up too late playing a game. 或许你被某个游戏折磨得够呛，或许你正在期待着一款新游戏，或许你为了玩游戏而熬夜。 All these things happen to me. 所有这些都发生在我身上。 But when we think ...
The chemical cure and the psychological cure both have a role to play, 化学治疗和心理治疗都发挥着重要的作用 and I also figured out that depression was something that was braided so deep into us 我也发现抑郁是这样一个东西，深深的嵌入在我们的体内 that there was no separating it from our character and personality. 我们无法将它彻底剥离，它已经嵌入到我们的性格和个性中了 I want to...
Read that again. This is what we hear when you mourn over our existence. 听仔细了，当你们抱怨我们的存在，我们听到的就是这个意思。 This is what we hear when you pray for a cure-that your fondest wish for us is that someday we will cease to be and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces. 你们祈祷奇迹出现的时候，我们听到的是你们衷心希望，总有一天我们将不复存在。和...
Go figure. 想想看 But I got a little bad news for you folks. I got some bad news. 我这里也有些坏消息想对你们说，我有些坏消息 This isn't for the one in four. This is for the four in four. 比例不是四分之一，而是四分之四 We are not equipped for the 21st century. 我们还没准备好过21世纪 Evolution did not prepare us for this. 进化并没有帮我们做好准备， We just don't have t...
One day, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez was walking along the streets of downtown Los Angeles 有一天，洛杉矶时报的专栏作家Steve Lopez走在洛杉矶大街上 when he heard beautiful music. 听到一曲美妙的乐曲 And the source was a man, an African-American man, 音乐是从一个男人，一个非裔男人 charming, rugged, homeless, playing a violin that only had two strings. 一个颇有魅力，...
If the axis-tilt theory had been refuted, 倘若“地轴倾斜”理论被观察否定了 its defenders would have had nowhere to go. 它的支持者们就无路可退了 No easily implemented change could make that tilt 没有什么信手拈来的变动能让地轴的倾斜 cause the same seasons in both hemispheres. 在两个半球产生相同的季节 The search for hard-to-vary explanations is the origin of all progress. 对难以...
Like if I say, "Think about a church steeple" 比如说，“请想象一下教堂的石柱” most people get this sort of generalized generic one. 大多数人想到的是一个标准答案 Now, maybe that's not true in this room, 也许这个房间里的人的答案会很不一样 but it's going to be true in a lot of different places. 但对于大多数的地方来说，这都是适用的 I see only specific pictures. ...
Because, you know, the one thing, one thing that you get with this disease, 因为有一样东西，得了这种病你会得到它 this one comes with a package, is you get a real sense of shame, 这是整套附送的，就是你会感到很羞耻 because your friends go, "Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays," 因为你的朋友们会说 “来，给我看看肿块，给我看看X光片” and of course you've...
Ironically, it turns out, that it's our differences, and our negotiation of difference,that unite us. 讽刺的是，事实证明，正是我们的不同和我们协商彼此的不同将我们连结起来。 I decided to have children while I was working on this project. 当我做这个项目的时候我决定要孩子。 And many people were astonished and said, 很多人对此感到惊奇， But how can you decide to have childre...