TED演讲:昔日纽约(4)

The few surfaces not covered by signs are often clad in a distinctive, dark green-gray, striated aluminum siding. 这仅存的没有被商标遮盖的建筑,一般都被包裹在有特色的阴暗铝灰条纹的铝制外壁板之中。 Take-out sandwich shops, 比如三明治快餐小店, film processing drop-offs, 卖劣质影碟的小贩, peep-shows and necktie stores. 卖西洋镜和领带的小买卖。 Now these provisional structures...

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TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(5)

While it may appear to be a completely chaotic place, 虽然它看上去好像是一个很混乱的地方, when you see it from above, there seems to be a whole grid of waterways and canals connecting each and every home. 但当你从上往下看,那里好像存在一个由水路和运河形成的格子网连接着每家每户。 From the main dock, people board long wooden canoes which carry them out to their various homes ...

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TED演讲:昔日纽约(6)

That's the end. 故事讲完了。 The next story is called The Haverpiece Collection. 下一个故事叫做《哈弗皮斯的收藏》。 A nondescript warehouse, 这是一个难以描述的仓库, visible for a moment from the northbound lanes of the Prykushko Expressway, 这会儿是你能看见它,在Prykushko高速公路向北的车道上, serves as the temporary resting place for the Haverpiece collection of Europe...

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TED演讲:从遥远的星系中我们可以学到什么(2)

And many of the questions that we might have about the universe at large scales, 我们关于宇宙在宏观上有很多问题, such as, how does gravity work? 比如,引力是怎么起作用的? might be answered by studying these systems. 这些问题可能可以通过研究这些系统来解决。 So that was very big. 所以这就是“非常大”。 The second things is very hot. 第二个特点是“非常热”。 Okay, if I take an im...

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TED演讲:昔日纽约(3)

That's the end of that. 这个故事讲完了。 The next story is called In Praise of the Taxpayer. 下一个故事叫作《纳税人的荣耀》。 That so many of the city's most venerable taxpayers have survived yet another commercial building boom,is cause for celebration. 这个城市里,很多受人尊崇的纳税人又逃过了一次拆旧楼建新的商业大楼浪潮的劫难。他们为此庆祝。 These one or two story ...

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TED演讲:从遥远的星系中我们可以学到什么(3)

Here is an image. 这是一张照片。 Since galaxy clusters are representative slices of the universe, scaled-down versions. 因为星团可以看做是宇宙的缩小版。 They are mostly made up of dark matter, 它们也是大部分由暗物质构成, and that's what you see in this bluish purple. 这就是你看到的偏蓝的紫色。 The red represents the hot gas, 红色代表高温气体, and, of course, you can se...

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TED演讲:如何推翻独裁统治(6)

When you start to mock them, it hurts. 那些统治者一旦被嘲讽,就会坐立不安。 Now, everybody is talking about His Majesty, the Internet, 现在,人们都在谈论尊贵的因特网殿下, and it is also a very useful skill, but don't rush to label things like Facebook Revolution, Twitter Revolution. 网络也确实是一个非常有用的工具,但是别急着将各种运动命名为脸书革命或者推特(微博)革命。...

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TED演讲:昔日纽约(2)

Is it simply the byproduct of a crude mechanical action? 它仅仅是一个粗糙机械制作的副产品? Or is it an imitation of one half the set of sounds we make to express disappointment? 或者对我们抒发不满的一种声音的一半所进行的模仿? The often dental consonant of no Indo-European language. 我们不满的时候经常用它在印欧语系中可找不到词源。 Or is it the amplified sound of a synapse f...

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TED演讲:大爱无疆 爱本无条件(10)

If I hadn't gone to Ohio State and crossed paths with Tom,this child wouldn't have existed and this terrible thing wouldn't have happened. 如果我没有到俄亥俄州立大学,没遇见汤姆,这个孩子就不会存在,这可怕的惨案就不会发生。 But I've come to feel that I love the children I had so much that I don't want to imagine a life without them. 但我觉得我太爱孩子们了...

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TED演讲:昔日纽约(6)

That's the end. 故事讲完了。 The next story is called The Haverpiece Collection. 下一个故事叫做《哈弗皮斯的收藏》。 A nondescript warehouse, 这是一个难以描述的仓库, visible for a moment from the northbound lanes of the Prykushko Expressway, 这会儿是你能看见它,在Prykushko高速公路向北的车道上, serves as the temporary resting place for the Haverpiece collection of Europe...

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TED演讲:大爱无疆 爱本无条件(10)

If I hadn't gone to Ohio State and crossed paths with Tom,this child wouldn't have existed and this terrible thing wouldn't have happened. 如果我没有到俄亥俄州立大学,没遇见汤姆,这个孩子就不会存在,这可怕的惨案就不会发生。 But I've come to feel that I love the children I had so much that I don't want to imagine a life without them. 但我觉得我太爱孩子们了...

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TED演讲:如何推翻独裁统治(3)

The rest is the year in front of us. And guess what? 此后一年间发生的事情我们已经熟知。 The same Generation Epsilon with their rules, 这一代人有着自己规则, with their tools, with their games and with their language, 自己的工具,自己的游戏和自己的语言, which sounds a little bit strange to me. I am 38 now. 这种语言对我来说有些奇怪。我今年38岁了。 And can you look at the age ...

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TED演讲:为了理解而游戏(3)

Can you imagine? Now let's, we can see that's a traditional Native American. Now I just want to change that guy's race. 你能想象吗?现在,我们可以看到这是一位典型的美洲原住民。现在我想改变那家伙的种族。 Just imagine if that's a black guy. 想象一下,如果这是一个黑人。 So, Honey, come here, let's get your picture with the black guy. 然后,亲爱的,到这里来,...

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TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(3)

There's only one little entrance to the entire building, 整座大楼只有一个小小的入口, and the 3,000 residents come in and out through that single door. 3000居民从这里通过这一个门进出。 Together, the inhabitants created public spaces and designed them to feel more like a home and less like an unfinished tower. 居住者合力建立了公共空间 并设计德使这里多一点家的感觉少一点烂...

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TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(9)

But then in the apartment across the hall from this cow shed lives a newly married couple in what locals describe as one of the nicest apartments in the area. 不过从这个牛棚穿过楼道的这个公寓住着一对新婚的夫妻,这里被当地人形容为当地最好的一座公寓之一。 The attention to this detail astonished me, 公寓里对细节的注意使我震惊, and as the owner of the home so proudly led me aro...

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TED演讲:如何推翻独裁统治(5)

This is dynamics between fear and apathy on one side and enthusiasm and humor on another side. 这是以热情和幽默化解恐惧和冷漠的动态。 So it works like in a video game. 它的运作方式很像电子游戏。 You have a fear high, you have status quo. 如果恐惧指数较高,那其它状态保持不变。 You have enthusiasm higher, you see fear starting to melt. 如果热情指数升高,恐惧就会开始下降。 Day ...

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TED演讲:如何推翻独裁统治(4)

That thing doesn't exist in the world. 世界上不存在这种革命。 Whenever you see young people in front of the road trying to fraternize with the police or military, 如果你看到年轻人在接上态度友好的和警察或者军队交涉, somebody was thinking about it before. 肯定有人实现计划。 Now, at the end, nonviolent discipline, 最后我要谈一谈不使用暴力的重要性, and this is probably the...

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TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(8)

Like Makoko and the Torre David, 像马卡卡和托雷大卫一样, throughout the Zabbaleen you'll find all the same facilities as in any typical neighborhood. 通过扎巴林你可以发现在任何典型的社区里都完全一样的设施。 There are the retail shops, the cafes and the restaurants, and the community is this community of Coptic Christians, 那里有零售店,咖啡厅和餐厅,并且这个社区是一个埃...

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TED演讲:游戏创造美好生活(5)

The average young person today in a country with a strong gamer culture will have spent 10,000 hours playing online games by the age of 21. 在一个玩游戏氛围很强的国家,当今的年轻人在其21岁前,平均每人花费在网络游戏上的时间可达10000小时。 Now 10,000 hours is a really interesting number for two reasons. 现在,一万小时是一个很有趣的数值主要是因为有两个原因。 First of all, for c...

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TED演讲:如何推翻独裁统治(2)

So I would like to speak a little bit about the phenomenon which is behind what already seems to be the very bad year for bad guys, and this phenomenon is called people power. 所以我想谈一谈这一年 恶霸不断倒台背后的现象,这个现象就是人民的力量。 Well, people power has been there for a while. 人民的力量并不是什么新生现象。 It helped Gandhi kick the Brits from India. 它帮助甘...

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