普林斯顿大学世界学校辩论锦标赛（Princeton World Schools Tournament 2024）于上周末结束。本次比赛吸引了众多优秀选手的参与，经过激烈的角逐，SDcamps的选手在该项赛事中获得了公开组八强的好成绩。 Award PrincetonWSDC 2024 Princeton Debate Panel，普林斯顿大学唯一的校际竞争性辩论组织，成立于1765年，也被称为PDP，是美国历史最悠久、最优秀的大学辩论组织之一。 “The Princeton Debate Panel (PDP) is Princeto

普林斯顿大学世界学校辩论锦标赛（Princeton World Schools Tournament 2024）现已开始报名。 Princeton WSTournament 2024 Princeton Debate Panel，普林斯顿大学唯一的校际竞争性辩论组织，成立于1765年，也被称为PDP，是美国历史最悠久、最优秀的大学辩论组织之一。 “The Princeton Debate Panel (PDP) is Princeton's sole intercollegiate, competitive debating group.” 普林斯顿大学是美国

I wrote at nights, without much effect mainly because I hadn&#39t the first clue what I should write about我在晚上写作 没有造成什么影响主要是因为我不知道该写哪些东西One night, I was invited to a dinner where I sat next to the wife of a big shot at a giant Wall Street investment bank, called Salomon Brothers一天晚上 我被邀请参加一个晚宴我身旁的女士

In front of millions of people each of them think they are an expert on what are good baseball plaers有几百万人评价他们的一举一动 他们中的每一个人都认为 他们是成为优秀棒球运动员方面的专家They had statistics attached to every move they made on their job他们做的每一件事都有数据统计And yet they were misvalued because the wider world was blind to their luck但

It&#39s my pleasure and honor to introduce to you, Class of 2013, the Woz and only Mr. Steve Wozniak2013届毕业生们 我非常荣幸地为你们介绍 独一无二的史蒂夫?沃兹尼亚克先生Thank you. Thank you very much谢谢你们 非常感谢You&#39ve really got it, made it in life when you can be refered to by one name like Steve or something like that当你能被人们用一个名

So very seldom do we really pay attention to the fact that life does have rules if you look for them我们很少真正去注意这个事实 那就是如果你仔细去找 生活中是存在规则的My wife and I recently went to a basketball game in Stanford University of Colorado vs. Stanford我妻子和我最近去斯坦福看了一场篮球赛 科罗拉多大学对斯坦福大学And we were sitting in the Colorado sea

The human vs. the technology, which is more important?人类和技术 哪个更重要？Almost everyone you out there would say the human but it&#39s very intersting when you get into companies几乎你们每个人都会说人类可是等你们进了公司就会发现 有意思的是you&#39re working on products, you have to think very hard you have to put so much work in the pro

Sort of. I&#39m going to explain briefly, how that happened对吧 算是吧 我将简短的描述 我是如何飞黄腾达的I want you to understand just how mysterious careers can be before you go out and have one yourself我希望你们在走出校门追寻自己的事业前 能够明白事业发展本身是多么神秘So I graduated from Princeton without having published a word of anything, anywhere我

Exactly 30 minutes into the problem-solving the researchers interrupted each group在他们开始解决问题30分钟时 研究人员们会打断各组They entered the room bearing a plate of cookies. Four cookies他们会拿着一盘饼干进入房间The team consisted of three people and there were these four cookies总共四块 小组里有三个人 但却有四块饼干Every team member obviously go

But I didn&#39t need to think about it我根本不需要考虑I knew what intellectual passion felt like because I&#39d felt it here, at Princeton and I wanted to feel it again我知道知性表达的激情是什么感觉 因为在这里 普林斯顿 我曾感受过 而我想重燃那份激情I was 26 years old. Had I waited until I was 36我那时26岁 如果我真的等到36岁I would never have done it我将永远无法写成

Thank you. President Tilghman. Trustees and Friends感谢Tilghman主席 各位校董和朋友们Parents of the Class of 2012 wherever they put you2012年级的家长们Members of the Class of 2012普林斯顿2012年级的同学们Why don&#39t you give yourself a round of applause?为什么不给自己一次掌声呢？So the next time you look around a church and see everyone dre

Also bought my first guitar for $25 there Music was an important part of my life And it&#39s just so relaxing to play with the guitar every day for twenty years我也在那里花25美元买了第一把吉他音乐是我人生重要的一部分二十年来每天弹弹吉他真的是太放松了Top Dog, here in Berkeley, I&#39ve never... I have never... That inspired me and my computer d

In the meantime, a lot of intellectuals at this campus had stood up for universal human values同时 这座校园里的许多知识分子捍卫了人类的普世价值They had stood up for...他们捍卫了Excuse me. There&#39s a little bit of echoes why I have trouble speaking不好意思 我讲话有困难是因为有一点回声They stood up for human rights他们捍卫人权They stood up for wars th

Here in the United States less than a thirdof our fellow citizens在美国只有不超过1/3的公民Have acknowledged the troubles that lieahead认识到了未来的麻烦We have to engage in我们需要参与进来We have to bring them around so we can allget to work我们需要让所有人一起开展工作And dare I say it, change the world我敢说这样就能改变世界And I think we can, here&#3

Our human population has risen significantly这时 人类人口大幅增加了It went from one and three quarters to 2.3 billion just a couple of decades仅仅二三十年时间 从17.5亿增加到了23亿As a boy at the New York Worlds Fair in 19651965年 我还是纽约世界博览会上观展的一个小男孩I remember well a large display a tote board depicting the estimated world pop

It&#39s my pleasure now to introduce this year&#39s commencement speaker我很高兴介绍今年的毕业典礼演讲嘉宾Maybe that&#39s enough也许这就够了Scientist科学家engineer工程师comedian喜剧演员author作家inventor发明家he is a man with a mission to help for us to scientifically literate society他是一个带有使命的人帮助我们普及科学知识and to help people everywhere und

And you know why?.知道为什么吗。No one knows why.没人知道为什么。If a umass Lowell engineer.如果马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校的。Or scientist can figure it out.某位工程师或科学家能够弄清。He or she may be able to control energy in a way that.他/她将能够以科幻小说家。Science fiction writers have only dreamed about.梦寐以求的方式控制能量。Maybe you all will find the darkons.

We will never run out of fossil fuels we&#39ll never use it all up, not for centuries化石燃料将永远烧不完几个世纪都用不完Sure, there is less oil and less especially of that really sweet Appalachian crude than there ever used to be没错 石油越来越少了特别是阿帕拉契山脉原油的数量正在减少but there is also oil sand and tar sand and oil shale and th

is a consequence of ultraviolet light, of latitude and climate.这只不过是紫外线 纬度和气候造成的。There really is no such thing as race.实际上并没有什么&quot种族&quot。We&#39re one species, each of us much much more alike than we are different.我们都是一个物种 相似性要远大于差异性。We all came from Africa.我们都来自非洲。Thank you.谢谢。We&#39re are all ma

When we announce that Bill Nye would be here to address you我们宣布比尔·奈要来演讲后Boston Magazine called him the region&#39s best commencement speaker波士顿杂志将他称为区域最佳毕业典礼演讲嘉宾And the Today Show highlighted him as one of the four most interesting commencement speakers in the nation而&quot今日秀&quot节目则强调他将是全国最有趣的四位毕业典

I realize我意识到that with my brain我能使用脑which is only this big虽然它只有这么一点大and if you have ever met my old boss你们见过我原来的老板没quite a bit smaller他的还要更小but with your brain, you can imagine all of that但使用脑 你能想象所有这些With your brain, you can understand the process of science使用脑 你能理解科学过程It is enabling us to make the

But even harder than the technological troubles are the political ones as preposterous as it might sound to many of us但在技术难题之外 更复杂的是政治难题也许看起来有点荒谬there are great many people claim that climate change is a hoax很多人都声称气候变化只是个骗局perpetrated by an international conspiracy of scientists and government offic

For me this point of view is just heartbreaking在我看来这种观点太让人伤心了The United States leads the world in technology and in big ideas美国领导着世界科技 领导着大思想We do not sit by and let other country show us how to innovate我们不会坐等其它国家向我们展示如何创新Workers in China and India will soon demand a higher quality of life along wit

The television program by that name would inspire&quot比尔教科学&quot这一电视节目激发了an entire generation to become interested in science and my guess is many of you are here this morning一整代人对科学的兴趣我猜 其中很多人今天早上都来到了这里How many of you remember who are fans of the show?有多少节目的粉丝 还记得这个节目He won 7 Emmy Awards for writin

but perhaps you are hoping to remotely touch someone you&#39ll never meet有可能 你会同遥远的未曾相识的人产生联系。the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rovers which are on Mars勇气号 机遇号 好奇号火星探测器。are each fitted with a photometric calibration target都载有一个光度校准目标。a test pattern for the cameras一个摄像机测试图案。which also serves as a

And by the time you all reach your billionth second here on earth when you&#39re a little over six months into your 31st year你们也会等到十亿位变动的那一刻到时你们大约是31岁半过一点We will probably be over 9 billion and perhaps well on our way to 12 billion humans on earth地球人口可能会超过90亿甚至可能会一直增长到120亿What this means is we are al

Directs a great deal of that bucket blast around your waistband.仍然会将大量的水引向你的腰间。So you get a lot less cold water in your trousers.抽出下摆 能够让水较少地流进裤子里。I know this to be true.我知道这是真的。Because I did it many times on the science show.因为我在科学秀中做过很多次。Mine was unique experience.这是我独特的经验。I&#39m telling you this

People in other parts of the world in the factories of India and China在世界其它地方 例如印度和中国的工厂are facing the same problems and clamoring for the same kinds of improvement in their air当地也面临着相同问题 也希望空气质量得到改善It is another opportunity for leadership这是另一个争取领导权的机会Toxic fogs were a thing of the past毒雾已经成为过去时Coal

Wind turbines are cool. You&#39re going to love them风力发电机很酷 你们会爱上它们They&#39ll be a source of pride它们将是自豪的来源The solar cell that powers my never winded watch为我这块不用上发条的手表提供电能Is around 10% efficient太阳能电池的效率大概是10%Which is plenty for a watch这对手表已经很不错了But what if it were 50% efficient or 80% efficient?但如果能

Skyrocketed to over 50 cents a liter 2 dollars a gallon, everybody猛涨到50多美分一升2美元一加仑 大伙Now we&#39re the last country我们是最后一个国家I&#39m hoping someday we&#39ll get leaders in gasoline as well as other things我希望有一天我们能够有汽油及其它东西的领袖Back then we were still in the throes of the disco era当时 我们还处在迪斯科年代We had leis