SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
Two years ago, after having served four years in the United States Marine Corps 两年前，我在美国海军陆战队服役了四年 and deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan, 也曾调配到伊朗和阿富汗 I found myself in Port-au-Prince, leading a team of veterans and medical professionals 我被安排到太子港领导一支由退役军人和医疗专业人员组成的队伍。 in some of the hardest-hit areas of that ci...
At the time, what they thought 在那个时候，启蒙学者们认为 distinguished science was a radical idea about things unseen, known as empiricism. 科学的独特标志是一个关于不可见事物的激进看法，叫做经验主义 All knowledge derives from the senses. 认为所有的知识来自我们的感官 Well, we've seen that that can't be true. 呵呵，我们知道这样说有些偏颇 It did help by promoting obser...
I may feel sorrowful, or happy, or exhilarated, or angry when I play certain pieces of music, but I'm not necessarily wanting you to feel exactly the same thing. 我可能觉得很悲伤，或者很高兴，或者很雀跃，或者很生气，当我演奏某段音乐的时候，但我不应该让大家感受到我的这种情绪。 So please, the next time you go to a concert,just allow your body to open up, allow your body to...
This was basically an attempt to teach our schoolchildren 这个算是尝试着教正在上学的孩子们 that if we did get engaged in a nuclear confrontation and atomic war, 如果我们真的被卷入一次核冲突或者核战争 then we wanted our school children to kind of basically duck and cover. 我们希望我们的孩子们迅速躲到桌子下面 That was the principle. You — there would be a nuclear conflag...
And please try to create that through your clapping. Try. Just-please try. 然后通过拍击发出打雷般的声音，请大家试一试 Very good! Snow. Snow. Have you ever heard snow? 很好！那么下雪的声音呢，大家听过吗？ No. 没有 Well then, stop clapping. Try again. 那么，停下来吧。再试一试 Try again. Snow. 试一试 ，下雪的声音 See, you're awake. 看吧，大家睡醒了 Rain. Not bad. Not bad. ...
Beyond these technical solutions, 除了这些技术层面的措施意外， our work at the Georgetown Climate Center with communities 我们位于乔治城气候中心和社区共同工作 encourages them to look at what existing legal and policy tools are available 鼓励他们参考现存的法律和政策 and to consider how they can accommodate change. 并且考虑如何才能适应变化。 For example, in land use, which are...
That all that, discovered in 40 years, 这40年中的所有发现 had not been in the previous hundred thousand, 是数千年来所未有的 was not for lack of thinking about stars, and all those other urgent problems they had. 而这可不能归结为古人思维懒惰，对星星啊，还有那些迫切的问题不闻不问 They even arrived at answers, such as myths, 他们不光思考了，还给出了答案，比如说神话 that dominat...
The three writers I wanted to meet were Carole Maso, Lynne Tillman and Peggy Phelan. 我想见的三位作家是卡罗尔·马索，琳恩·蒂尔曼和佩吉·费伦。 These were not famous, best-selling authors, 她们不算是最知名和畅销的作家， but to me, they were women-writer titans. 但是我把她们奉若神明。 Carole Maso wrote the book that later became my art bible. 卡罗尔·马索的书后来成为了我的艺术指...
Now, to say this is not to say that we have got the perfect solution in our own society. 我这么说，并不是说我们的社会有最完美的解答 For instance, this is what it’s like to go to a newsstand almost anywhere in the civilized world. 举例来说，现在你到任何文明国家的报摊，都可以看到这样的景象 Now, granted, for many men it may require a degree in philosophy to see something ...
And if the results come out that actually they do, 如果结论是她们真的快乐 are you prepared to shift your instinctive current judgment on some of these issues? 你准备好改变你现在在这些议题上的直观判断了吗？ Well yeah, modulo one obvious fact, 举个真实案例 that you can love someone in the context of a truly delusional belief system. 就算在一个虚假的道德体系里，你还是可以爱人 S...
But if questions affect human well-being 但如果这个问题是影响到人身幸福的 then they do have answers, whether or not we can find them. 他们是有答案的，无论我们找不着得到 And just admitting this — just admitting that there are right and wrong answers to the question of how humans flourish 承认吧，当我们尝试解决人类幸福的问题是可能会有错误答案的 will change the way we tal...
I was so scared that day, a day I will never forget. 那天我非常害怕，我永远不会忘记的一天。 So, why do I do what I do? 然而，我为什么要这么做呢？ I do it because I believe if I didn't, a huge part of the story about Gaza will be missing. 我这么做，因为我相信如果我不，将失去加沙的这个新闻的一大部分。 There are some more stories I could tell you about my country. 我可以告...
Hello. This is my first trip, first time in life I'm outside of the walls of Gaza. 大家好，这是我的第一次旅行，人生中第一次离开加沙地带 I'm so happy to be here. 能来到这里我非常高兴 My ambition always was to be a pilot, to fly a plane, to feel free to fly the sky, to touch the sky. 一直以来，我的志向是成为一名飞行员，去开飞机，从而去感受空中飞翔的自由，与天空为伍。 B...
OK, now, you all saw what changed, right? 好，你们都看到了什么东西改变了，对吧？ How many of you noticed that every one of those squares changed color? 有多少人注意到每一个方块都变了颜色？ Every one. I'll just show you by running it again. 每个都变了。我来重放一下。 Even when you know that they're all going to change color, it's very hard to notice. 即使你们都知...
A lot of people want to believe in this concept of moral progress. 许多人想要相信道德进步的这个概念 But can you reconcile that? 但是这有可能达到和谐吗？ I think I understood you to say that you could 我想我了解你所说的 reconcile that with a world that doesn't become one dimensional, where we all have to think the same. 不要让世界变得只有一种道德，也不需要大家都只有一种想...
One of the most common ways of dividing the world 一个把人类分成两大部分很普遍的方法 is into those who believe and those who don't–into the religious and the atheists. 便是分为相信神的存在的一部分，以及不相信宗教信仰的另一部分–宗教教徒和无神论者 And for the last decade or so, 在最近的十年中 it's been quite clear what being an atheist means. 对无神论者的定...
So if criminalizing sex workers hurts them, why not just criminalize the people who buy sex? 那么如果判定，性工作者违法是在伤害她们，为什么不仅仅刑事处罚买春者呢？ This is the aim of the third approach 这正是第三种法律手段。 I want to talk about — the Swedish or Nordic model of sex-work law. 这种被瑞典或北欧各国使用的法律模型。 The idea behind this law is that selling ...
The radiance falls on all of us, and we are nothing without each other. 只有和大家团结在一起，每个人才是光芒四射的。 Instead, I flew back to Oregon, 可现实是，我飞回了俄勒冈， and as I watched the evergreens and rain come back into view, 看着窗外的雨拍打着常青树 I just drank many tiny bottles of airplane "feel sorry for yourself." 我不禁借酒浇愁。 I thought about h...
So you see, I'd missed fitting in to just about every category out there: 可以看到我与所有的生活格格不入： daughter, wife, mother, scholar. 作为女儿，作为妻子，作为妈妈，作为学者。 And the dream of being a writer was really kind of like a small, sad stone in my throat. 而想要成为作家的梦想也一直如鲠在喉。 It was pretty much in spite of myself that I got on that plane 我...
It relates to your kid — you've been back three times to the hospital, 也许这事业跟孩子有关–你已经去医院三趟了， and they still don't know what's wrong. Or it could be your mom. 医生们还是查不出你孩子的病因。或者生病的是你母亲。 And you'd been acting out of character. These are free traits. 你会做一些跟你的性格不相符的事情。这些是可变的性格特点。 ...