TED演讲:短信是语言杀手(8)

If somebody from 1973 looked at what was on a dormitory message board in 1993, 如果一个1973年的人看着1993年一个学生宿舍信息栏, the slang would have changed a little bit since the era of Love Story, 俚语等习惯用语会跟爱情故事时代有些不同, but they would understand what was on that message board. 但是他们会看明白那个信息栏上的内容。 Take that person from 1993-not that long a...

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TED演讲:短信是语言杀手(2)

So first there's speech, and then writing comes along as a kind of artifice. 所以首先是语音,然后文字作为一种技巧出现了。 Now don't get me wrong, writing has certain advantages. 大家不要误会,文字写作确实有它自己的优势。 When you write, because it's a conscious process, 当你写字的时候,因为这是一个有意识的过程, because you can look backwards, 因为你可以回顾过去...

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TED演讲:短信是语言杀手(1)

We always hear that texting is a scourge. 人们总说短信的出现是一种灾难。 The idea is that texting spells the decline and fall of any kind of serious literacy, or at least writing ability, 这么说的原因是短信降低了人们的读写能力,或者至少是书面表达能力, among young people in the United States and now the whole world today. 这个问题影响着美国青年人今天也变成了全球问题。 The fa...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(5)

You need an AUV, an autonomous underwater vehicle. 你需要个AUV,一个自行式水下航行器。 It needs to be one smart puppy, able to navigate and make decisions on its own in an alien ocean. 它必须很聪明,能够自己导航在陌生的外星球的大洋里能够自己做决定。 What Jim didn't know when he released that movie was that six months earlier NASA had funded a team I assembled to develop ...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(1)

First place I'd like to take you is what many believe will be the world's deepest natural abyss. 我要带大家去的第一个地方是一个天然的深渊,许多人相信它将会被证明为世界最深之渊。 And I say believe because this process is still ongoing. 我说相信是因为这个探索过程还未结束。 Right now there are major expeditions being planned for next year that I'll talk a little bit...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(4)

Now, here you see-of course, as you go further on, 如图所示-当然,当你将视线拉远, these trucks become like a pixel. 这些卡车彷佛图中的小点。 Again, imagine those all back and forth there. 同样地,想象一下这片区域。 How large is that one portion of a mine? 占整个矿场多大部分? That would be a huge, vast metropolitan area, 相当于幅员广大的都会区, probably much larger than t...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(9)

And yet there's a proposal, of course, to build a pipeline to take huge tankers, 10 times the size of the Exxon Valdez, 然而,其中一项提案是-当然-建造输油管供应比Exxon Valdez大10倍的巨型油轮装载原油, through some of the most difficult to navigate waters in the world, 通过世上某些最难航行的水域, where only just a few years ago, 仅仅几年前, a B.C. ferry ran aground. ...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(9)

We have to beat that. 我们必须克服它。 We can do it because in space there are no aerodynamics. 我们能够这样做是因为太空里没有空气阻力。 We can go and use inflatable systems for almost everything. 我们几乎总是能够使用充气系统。 This is an idea that, again, came out of Livermore back in 1989,with Dr. Lowell Wood's group. 这个设想又是出自1989年在利弗莫尔洛厄尔伍德教授领导...

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TED演讲:短信是语言杀手(5)

It's evolved into something that is much subtler. 它已演变成某种更微妙的东西。 This is an actual text that was done by a non-male person of about 20 years old not too long ago. 这是一段真实的短信对话它是由一个20出头的姑娘在前不久写的。 I love the font you're using, btw. 第一句:顺便说一句,我喜欢你用的字体。 Julie: lol thanks gmail is being slow right now. 朱莉: lol...

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TED演讲:短信是语言杀手(7)

1917. This is the time when we all assume 1917年,这是我们都认为的 that everything somehow in terms of writing was perfect because the people on Downton Abbey are articulate,or something like that. 写文章没的说的时代,因为唐顿庄园里的人物各个都伶牙俐齿的。 So, From every college in the country goes up the cry, 然而,整个国家里的每一所学院都应感到羞愧, 'Our freshmen can&...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(8)

What then of manned space exploration? 那载人的空间探索呢? The government recently announced plans to return to the moon by 2024. 美国政府最近宣布了2024重返月球的计划。 The successful conclusion of that mission will result in infrequent visitation of the moon by a small number of government scientists and pilots. 这项任务的成功将使少数的政府雇佣的科学家和飞行员的探访月球活...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(3)

And I think particularly now, 我认为尤其是目前, as we see ourselves in a time of environmental crisis, 我们明白人类身处环境危机时代, we can learn so much from these people who have lived so sustainably in this ecosystem for over 10,000 years. 我们可从这些族群身上学到许多东西他们在这片生态系统中生活了1万多年。 In the heart of this ecosystem is the very antithesis of all of ...

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TED演讲:从遥远的星系中我们可以学到什么(1)

Here are some images of clusters of galaxies. 这是一些星团的照片。 They're exactly what they sound like. 正如听上去一样。 They are these huge collections of galaxies, 它们是一堆星系, bound together by their mutual gravity. 由于互相的引力而吸引在一起。 So most of the points that you see on the screen are not individual stars, 你在屏幕上看到的大部分点,不是单独的恒星, bu...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(10)

That's not true. 这是错的。 In seven years, we could pull off an industrial mission to Shackleton and demonstrate that you could provide commercial reality out of this in low-earth orbit. 七年之内,我们能够胜利完成一项去沙克尔顿(有水的月球环形山)的工业计划,显示人类能利用月球能源在近地轨道上提供商业活动 We're living in one of the most exciting times in history. 我...

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TED演讲:昔日纽约(1)

I'm going to read a few strips. 我马上会朗读的一些连环漫画。 These are, most of these are from a monthly page I do in and architecture and design magazine called Metropolis. 它们中的很多都选自我每月刊登在一本关于建筑设计杂志上的小故事。那本杂志叫《摩登都市》。 And the first story is called "The Faulty Switch." 第一个故事叫做《开关的小瑕疵》。 Another beautifull...

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TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(1)

Throughout my career, I've been fortunate enough to work with many of the great international architects, 在我的职业生涯里,我非常幸运的和很多着名的国际建筑师一起工作过, documenting their work and observing how their designs have the capacity to influence the cities in which they sit. 整理他们的工作,并观察他们的设计是如何有能力去影响其所在的城市。 I think of new cities...

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TED演讲:从遥远的星系中我们可以学到什么(4)

Here is a computer simulation. 这是计算机模拟。 And we need a way to simplify it. 我们需要简化它的方法。 Well, I like to think about this using an analogy. 我会用一个类比来理解。 If I want to understand the sinking of the Titanic, 如果我想了解泰坦尼克号的沉没, the most important thing to do is not to model the little positions of every single little piece of the boat that b...

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TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(10)

When I asked people why they were digging their houses from the ground, 当我问人们为什么要地上往下挖洞建房子时, they simply replied that they are poor wheat and apple farmers who didn't have the money to buy materials, and this digging out was their most logical form of living. 他们只是很简单的告诉我,他们是种小麦和苹果的穷农民,没钱买材料,而这种挖窑洞是他们最符合逻辑...

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TED演讲:如何推翻独裁统治(1)

Good afternoon. I am proud to be here at TEDxKrakow. 下午好。能来到TEDxKrakow(克拉科夫,波兰城市)我非常骄傲。 I'll try to speak a little bit today about a phenomenon which can and is actually changing the world, 今天我要说一说一个有能力并且正在改变世界的现象, and whose name is people power. 这个现象就是人民的力量。 I'll start with the anecdote, or for those of you...

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TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(4)

When a new inhabitant moves into the tower, 当一个新的居住者搬进这座大楼, they already have a roof over their head, 他们已经有一个可以遮盖的房顶, so they just typically mark their space with a few curtains or sheets. 所以他们通常只是使用很小的窗帘和单子来突出他们的地方。 Slowly, from found materials, walls rise, 慢慢地,从现成的材料,高墙, and people create a space out of...

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