SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine was nervous after she was attacked at work, 几年前，我的一位朋友在工作时被袭击后非常紧张， so I said that she could see her clients from my place for a while. 我让她暂时在我的地方见她的客户。 During that time, we had another guy turn nasty. 在那段时间，我们遇到了另一个很下流的人。 I told the guy to leave or I'd call the police. 我...
In the secular world we think, "If an idea is important, I'll bump into it. I'll just come across it." 在非宗教世界里，我们觉得 "我会毫无预兆就想到一个好主意，我是偶然想到的" Nonsense, says the religious world view. 宗教人士会说 "胡扯" Religious view says we need calendars, we need to structure time, we need to synchronize encounters. 宗...
And we think that this alignment is necessary for communication. 我们认为有效沟通必须有这样的较准。 For example, as you can tell, I am not a native English speaker. 举个例子，你们都听得出来英语并不是我的母语。 I grew up with another language, and the same might be for many of you in the audience. 我在另一种语言环境中长大，你们当中很多人可能也是如此。 And still, we can commun...
Maybe you've thought about them, too. 也许你们会有共鸣。 In this talk, I'll take you through the four main legal approaches 在我的演讲中，我将介绍全世界主流的四种与性工作者相关的 applied to sex work throughout the world, and explain why they don't work; 法律手段，并且解释为什么它们没有作用。 why prohibiting the sex industry actually exacerbates every harm that se...
This is a lesson of history. 历史的经验告诉我们 If you try to prohibit something that people want or need to do, 如果你想禁止民众想要或者需要的 whether that's drinking alcohol or crossing borders or getting an abortion or selling sex, 无论是饮酒还是跨越国界，无论是堕胎还是性交易， you create more problems than you solve. 总有解决不完的问题。 Prohibition barely makes a di...
So if you think about what it means to learn arithmetic or to learn to read, 因此，如果你思考学习算术和阅读意义何在， you're actually, literally rewriting your own brain. 那实际上你就是在重写你自己的大脑。 You're changing the microstructure of your brain as you go along. 你在学习的过程中，也正在改变大脑的微型结构。 So in a broad sense, we don't need to think abou...
And in the same way many of us are now wearing sensors that detect our heart rate, 同样的方式，我们现在很多人都使用穿戴式侦测器，可以侦测我们的心跳、 our respiration, our genes, on the hopes that this may help us prevent diseases, 呼吸、基因，让我们可以预防疾病的发生， we can ask whether monitoring and analyzing the words we speak, we tweet, we email, we write, 我们是否已可...
Let me explain. 下面我来解释一下。 One of the things that characterizes extroverts is they need stimulation. 外向性格的人的一大特征，就是他们需要刺激。 And that stimulation can be achieved by finding things that are exciting: 这种刺激可以是令人兴奋的事： loud noises, parties and social events here at TED — you see the extroverts forming a magnetic core. 比如巨大的声响...
Now, many of you might worry that the notion of well-being is truly undefined, 或许在你们之中，有许多人会担心这所谓的幸福该如何界定 and seemingly perpetually open to be re-construed. 这似乎没有一定的标准 And so, how therefore can there be an objective notion of well-being? 而且，怎么可能有一种完全客观的人身幸福的标准存在呢？ Well, consider by analogy, the concept of physical...
The artist had very cleverly suggested people and clothes and wagons and all sorts of things, 艺术家很聪明地暗示了人物和服装，以及车马还有其他事物， and my brain had taken the suggestion. 而我的大脑接受了这样的暗示。 You're familiar with a more recent technology, which is — There, 你们很熟悉一个更新的技术，就在–这个。 you can get a better view of the blobs. ...
So I'm banging out my story and I know it's good, and then I start to make it — 我大声说出我的故事，我知道很好笑，为了让故事… Suddenly, you can see that the responses in all of the subjects lock to the story, 突然间，所有人的脑波响应都随着故事的进展 and now they are going up and down in a very similar way across all listeners. 而上上下下，波型都很类似。 A...
That's probably not all that difficult. 这也许并不是太难做到的事情。 It might just be a simple hormone or something that could do this. 可能只需要一种普通激素或其它什么材料。 It's been done in voles. 人们在田鼠身上做过这种实验。 You can engineer a prairie vole to become monogamous when it's naturally polygamous. 本性上是一雄多雌制的草原田鼠，经过改造后，可变为一...
But now, notice there are two ways of seeing the cube, right? 现在，你注意到了有两种方法来看那个立方体，对吧？ It's a Necker cube. 这是一个内科尔方块。 Everybody can see the two ways of seeing the cube? OK. 大家都可以看出两种看方块的方法吧？好的 Can you see the four ways of seeing the cube? 那你们能看出四种方法来吗？ Because there's another way of seeing it. 由于有不...
This distinction between victim and empowered is imaginary. 受害者和掌权者的区别是虚假的。 It exists purely to discredit sex workers and make it easy to ignore us. 它的存在只是为了败坏性工作者的名声，让社会更加轻易的无视我们。 No doubt many of you work for a living. Well, sex work is work, too. 在座各位为谋生而工作。性工作也是工作。 Just like you, some of us like our jobs, s...
So I know TED is about a lot of things that are big, 我知道TED总是谈一些大事 but I want to talk to you about something very small. 但是我想讲一件微不足道的小事 So small, it's a single word. 小到只有一个词 The word is "misfit." “不适者。” It's one of my favorite words, because it's so literal. 这是我最喜欢的词，因为简单明了 I mean, it's a person who ...
And I'd like to run through a few of these today. 现在我想具体地解释一下 I'd like to kick off by looking at education. 先从教育说起 Now education is a field the secular world really believes in. 非宗教的人们十分相信学习、教育的力量 When we think about how we're going to make the world a better place, 我们觉得教育使世界进步 we think education; that's where we ...
It's a song about people and sasquatches — and other French science stuff. 这是一首有关人们和长毛野人的歌曲，还有些法国科技的玩意 That's French science. Okay, here we go. 没错，法国科技。好，开唱 I've been trying inside 我一直内心在争斗 I know that I'm in trouble by myself 我知道我身陷囫囵 But every time it gets me 但每次它困扰我 And I've been tryin...
I am a working mother, and I also go to school full-time. 我是个母亲，但我同时要上班，还要全日制上学 And, you know, it's like — it's so important to have like role models out there. 要知道，能找到榜样是非常重要的 I mean, I know sometimes our lifestyles are very different, whatever. 我知道我们的生活方式很不一样 But like even at my job — like, I just got pr...
And what's even more disturbing is what's happening with younger boys. 更加令人不安的是发生在年轻的男孩子身上的事情。 There's been about a decade of research about what people are calling the "boy crisis." 这有一个进行了大约十年的调查，关于人们所谓的男生危机是什么。 Now the boy crisis is this idea that very young boys, for whatever reason, 现在的男生危...
So when I decided to create an art piece in Manshiyat Naser, 当我决定在曼斯亚特·纳赛尔创建一个艺术品 the neighborhood of the Cairo garbage collectors in Egypt, 在埃及开罗附近的垃圾收集处 I never thought this project would be the most amazing human experience that I would ever live. 我从来没有想过这个项目会是我有生以来最令人惊讶的经历 As an artist, I had this humanist intenti...