SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
One thing the world needs, 有一样东西，这个世界非常需要， one thing this country desperately needs 这个国家更是迫切需要 is a better way of conducting our political debates. 那就是一种更好地进行政治辩论的方法 We need to rediscover the lost art of democratic argument. 我们需要复兴失落了的民主辩论艺术 If you think about the arguments we have, 想想时下的所谓辩论吧 most of the ti...
Here we go. OK. 好的，我们来亲眼看看吧 I'm back in my truck, and we drove over the Brooklyn Bridge. 回到我刚才提到的卡车，我们把它开到布鲁克林大桥 We're coming down, and we bring that truck that you just saw somewhere in here, in the Financial District. 我们一路开往市中心，我们把车开到你刚看到的金融区的某个地方 This is a 10-kiloton bomb, slightly smaller than was use...
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...
Chris. Thanks, Chris. 克里斯。谢谢，克里斯 From flutes to golf courses to same-sex marriage, that was a genius link. 从分配笛子到高尔夫球场，再到同性婚姻，真是天才式的串连 Now look, you're a pioneer of open education. 您是开放式教育的先锋之一， Your lecture series was one of the first to do it big. 您的系列讲座是这一领域最早的几个大项目 What's your vision for the nex...
Justice Scalia's opinion is questionable for two reasons. 他的论点有待商榷，原因有二 First, no real sports fan would talk that way. 首先，没有哪个真正爱好运动的人会说出那样的话 If we had thought that the rules of the sports we care about are merely arbitrary, 如果我们所喜爱的运动的规则只是些随意独断的条例 rather than designed to call forth the virtues and the excellences...
And what happens is — this is — I'm going to show you now some fallout plumes. 接下来将要发生的－这是－我现在要向大家演示放射性坠尘。 Within 20 minutes, it comes straight down. 在20分钟内，坠尘直线下落； Within 24 hours, lethal radiation is going out with prevailing winds, 24小时内，致命的辐射将随着盛行风飘散 and it's mostly in this particular direction &...
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...
And this is a problem that a lot of gamers have. 同时这也是一个很多游戏玩家的难题。 We feel that we are not as good in reality as we are in games. 我们感觉自己无法像在游戏中一样适应现实生活。 And I don't mean just good as in successful,although that's part of it. 我不认为适应就是成功，二者不是等价的，纵然适应是成功的一部分。 We do achieve more in game worlds. But I a...
And what happened was — when we get in to chapter two of the nuclear threat era, which started back in 1945. 而现实是当我们进入1945年开始的核威胁时期的第二阶段 Chapter two starts in 1991. 第二个阶段是从1991年开始的 When the Soviet Union broke up, 当苏联解体之后 we effectively lost that adversary as a potential attacker of the United States, for the most part. 美国实际...
As a conceptual artist, 作为一位概念派艺术家， I'm constantly looking for creative ways to spark challenging conversations. 我经常寻求创新的方式，通过绘画、雕塑、视频和表演 I do this through painting, sculpture, video and performance. 去启发大家思考，一些有挑战性的话题。 But regardless of the format, two of my favorite materials are history and dialogue. 但是抛开形式不谈...
Our connection to reality is never just perception. 而我们与现实的联系从不会只是感知 It's always, as Karl Popper put it, theory-laden. 而是如卡尔·波普尔所说，充满着理论假设 Scientific knowledge isn't derived from anything. 科学知识不是从什么直接推导而来 It's like all knowledge. 而是像所有其他知识一样， It's conjectural, guesswork, tested by observation, not d...
And there are also tons of collaborators. 并且游戏世界里有很多的人可以协作。 Everywhere you go, hundreds of thousands of people ready to work with you to achieve your epic mission. 不论你到了哪里，都会有成千上万的人等着和你合作去完成那些艰巨的任务。 That's not something that we have in real life that easily,this sense that at our fingertips are tons of collaborators. 在...
The average young person today in a country with a strong gamer culture will have spent 10,000 hours playing online games by the age of 21. 在一个玩游戏氛围很强的国家，当今的年轻人在其21岁前，平均每人花费在网络游戏上的时间可达10000小时。 Now 10,000 hours is a really interesting number for two reasons. 现在，一万小时是一个很有趣的数值主要是因为有两个原因。 First of all, for c...
Now, I also agree that that is rational, for now. 现在我依然觉得这很理性。 But it is not, by any means, an optimal situation. 但是，无论如何，这不是最佳选项。 We have to start making the real world more like a game. 我们不得不从现在开始把现实社会构建得像一个游戏。 So, I take my inspiration from something that happened 2,500 years ago. 因此，我从发生于2500年前的一些事情中获取...
Now this situation, already I — you know, I don't really like thinking about this, 对于这个情况，你们知道，我并不愿意去想这个问题 although somehow I got myself a job where I have to think about it. 虽然我阴差阳错地得到了一份工作使我不得不去想 So the point is that we're very, very insecure in terms of developing this material. 重点是，我们发展这些裂变物质是非常...
And one of the greatest governmental delusions of all time 政府有史以来最大的幻想之一 was something that happened in the early days of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, as we now know, 是由早期的联邦紧急情况管理署（FEMA）提出的 and are well aware of their behaviors from Katrina. 我们在卡特里娜飓风的时候已经领教过FEMA的本事了 Here is their first big public announ...
And the farther you are away in distance, 你距离爆炸点的距离越远越好 the longer it is in time from the initial blast; 距离爆炸的时间越长越好 and the more separation between you and the outside atmosphere, the better. 尽可能地将自己和外界隔绝开来 So separation — hopefully with dirt or concrete, or being in a basement — 所以，与外界隔绝隔绝–最好是用泥土和水泥...
Under no circumstances were they to refuse any application whatsoever on the basis of whether someone had no arms, no legs they could still perhaps play a wind instrument if it was supported on a stand. 在任何情况下，他们都不能拒绝任何申请者，仅仅基于他有没有胳膊或者腿等等，他们很可能仍然可以演奏管乐器，只要乐器支好。 No circumstances at all were used to refuse any entry. 无...
That was me in front of our house in Monson, Massachusetts last June. 那个就是我，在麻省的Monson，我们的房子前面， After an EF3 tornado ripped straight through our town and took parts of our roof off, 一股EF3级龙卷风袭击了这里，掀翻了我们的屋顶 I decided to stay in Massachusetts instead of pursuing the master's program 我决定留在麻省，而不是去读硕士 I had moved my boxes ...
So I'm going to speak about a problem that I have and that's that I'm a philosopher. 让我从我的一个问题开始，那就是，我是一个哲学家。 When I go to a party and people ask me what do I do 当我参加派对时，人们问我，我是干什么的。 and I say, "I'm a professor," their eyes glaze over. 我说，“我是个教授”，他们一下就失去了兴趣。 When I go to an academic coc...