SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
It's no accident that democracy and theater emerged around the same time in ancient Athens. 无怪乎民主和剧院同时出现于古代雅典。 Both of them yank the individual out of the enclosure of her private self. 民主和戏剧都把个体从私我中分离出来。 Both of them create great public experiences of shared ritual. 都从一种共同的仪式感中创立了伟大的公共体验。 Both of them bring the i...
What kind of world do we want? This is a fundamental question that most of us are asking. 到底我们需要怎么样的世界？这是一个我们常常扪心自问的问题。 Does it make sense to participate in the existing world order? 这对已有世界秩序行得通吗？ We want a world where life is preserved and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. 我们需要一个珍重生...
Every time I am home I am confronted with the usual sources of irritation for most Nigerians: our failed infrastructure, our failed government, 我每次回家的时候，都会面临那些令众多尼日利亚人头疼的事情：失败的基础设施，失败的政府。 but also by the incredible resilience of people who thrive despite the government, rather than because of it. 但与此同时，我也看到了人们面对这个政...
What we need today is an electoral culture that is about being together together, in person, in loud and passionate ways, 我们今天需要的是一种选举文化，人与人之间面对面交流思想，喧闹而又激情四射， that instead of being "eat your vegetables" or "do you duty," voting can feel more like "join the club" or, better yet, "join the party." 并...
And then she said, "I just need you to promise me three things, Bryan." I said, "Okay, Mama." 接着她说：“我想让你向我保证三件事。”我说：“好的外婆。” She said, "The first thing I want you to promise me is that you'll always love your mom." 她说：“第一，我想让你保证你会永远爱你的妈妈。” She said, "That's my baby girl, and you have to ...
Every new media technology raises privacy concerns. 每个新的媒体技术都会引起隐私问题。 In fact, in the US the very first major debates about privacy were in response to technologies that were relatively new at the time. 实际上，在美国，关于隐私的最初辩论是对当时崭新的科技的回应。 In the late 1800s, people were worried about cameras, which were just suddenly more portable tha...
And the second point I want to make, the final point, is that — and it's actually been a theme of TEDMED 我想说的第二点，也是最后一点，实际上就是TEDMED的主题– that joy is so important to your health, that very few of these behaviors will stick with me unless there's some sense of pleasure and joy in them. 快乐对人的健康非常重要，要不是这些行为可以带给我快...
We did a report: "How to Make Nuclear Cheap." 我们做了一个报告：《如何降低核能价格》。 In particular, the thorium reactor shows a lot of promise. 具体来说，钍反应堆带来了光明的前景。 So when the climate scientist, James Hansen, 所以当环境科学家詹姆斯·汉森 asked if I wanted to go to China with him and look at the Chinese advanced nuclear program, I jumped at the cha...
So what would apes like ourselves do in this circumstance? 那在这种情况下，像我们这样的“大猩猩”还能有什么用呢？ Well, we'd be free to play Frisbee and give each other massages. 我们可以悠闲地玩飞盘，给彼此做按摩。 Add some LSD and some questionable wardrobe choices, and the whole world could be like Burning Man. 服用一些迷药，穿一些奇装异服，整个世界都沉浸在狂欢节之中。 ...
Thank you so much. It's really scary to be here among the smartest of the smart. 非常感谢。站在你们这些绝顶聪明的人之间让我感到有一点可怕。 I'm here to tell you a few tales of passion. 我将会在这里讲述关于激情的故事。 There's a Jewish saying that I love. What is truer than truth? Answer: The story. 我很喜欢一句犹太谚语。比事实更为真实的是什么？答案：故事。 I'...
And here's what it feels like to be a kid in this checklisted childhood. 那么在清单式童年中长大的孩子是怎样的呢。 First of all, there's no time for free play. 首先，他们没有自由玩耍的时间。 There's no room in the afternoons, because everything has to be enriching, we think. 整个下午都没有空闲，因为我们觉得任何事都要充实起来。 It's as if every piece of homewor...
So when we went through the numbers, and just added that up 当我们查看这些数据的时候，把它们加起来， how much nuclear do we see China and India bringing online over the next 15 years, 未来15年内，中国和印度会建多少核电站呢？ how much do we see at risk of being taken offline — this was the most startling finding. 又有多少面临被报废的风险呢？答案令人震惊。 What we found ...
We did it in the larger culture, and we're doing it in marriage. 在其他文化中我们已经这么做了，现在我们把它带到婚姻中。 Right, no question about it. But it's interesting, the millennials actually want to be very good parents 是的，这一点毫无疑问。但有趣的是，如今千禧一代非常渴望成为合格的家长， whereas the generation above them wants to have a very fine marriage but ...
What do you do before you go into a job interview? 你在面试工作之前会怎么做？ You do this. You're sitting down. You're looking at your iPhone — or your Android, not trying to leave anyone out. 你会这样，对吧？你会坐下来。你盯着自己的iPhone或者安卓手机，转移自己的视线。 You're looking at your notes, you're hunching up, making yourself small, 你看着自己的...
Hi, my name is Roz Savage and I row across oceans. 大家好，我是罗兹·萨维奇，我划船穿越大洋。 Four years ago, I rowed solo across the Atlantic, and since then, 四年前，我曾独自划船横渡了大西洋，之后， I've done two out of three stages across the Pacific, from San Francisco to Hawaii and from Hawaii to Kiribati. 我又完成了跨越太平洋的两个阶段，从旧金山到夏威夷，以及从夏威...
So it will always fit together, conceptually, of course. 所以在概念的层面而言，它们一定能互相配合。 If Zappa's music is performed, it gets its own logo. 如果演出Zappa的音乐，它会有自己独特的标志。 Or Philip Glass or Lou Reed or the Chemical Brothers, who all performed there, get their own Casa da Musica logo. 或Philip Grass，或Lou Reed，或Chemical Brothers，谁在那里表演...
So, how do you top rowing across the Atlantic? 你怎么才能超越横渡大西洋？ Well, naturally, you decide to row across the Pacific. 很自然，你会决定横渡太平洋。 Well, I thought the Atlantic was big, but the Pacific is really, really big. 我知道大西洋很大，但是太平洋是非常非常大。 I think we tend to do it a little bit of a disservice in our usual maps. 我认为我们应该对平常的地图...
Bacteria are the oldest living organisms on the earth. 细菌是地球上最古老的生物。 They've been here for billions of years, and what they are are single-celled microscopic organisms. 它们已经存在数十亿年了，它们是单细胞微生物。 So they are one cell and they have this special property that they only have one piece of DNA. 它们特征是只有一个细胞，还有就是它们只有一份DNA。 T...
Let's take a closer look in the United States. 让我们来看看美国。 Over the last couple of years — really 2013, 2014 — we prematurely retired four nuclear power plants. 在过去的几年里，尤其是2013、14年，我们过早报废了四个核电站。 They were almost entirely replaced with fossil fuels, 它们的发电量几乎全部被化石燃料发电取代了， and so the consequence was that we ...
But why would a company even want to discourage salary discussions? 但是为什么公司会反对讨论薪资呢？ Why do some people go along with it, while others revolt against it? 为什么一些人服从，而另一些人反对呢？ It turns out that in addition to the assumed reasons, pay secrecy is actually a way to save a lot of money. 除了之前猜测的理由之外，对薪资保密还是省钱的良方。 You see, ke...