TED演讲:见证现代奴役的照片(5)

They have nothing to compare it to. 没有任何比较。 When these villagers claimed their freedom, 如果这些人要为自己争取自由, the slaveholders burned down all of their houses. 奴隶主就烧掉他们所有的房子。 I mean, these people had nothing, 这些人一无所有, and they were so petrified, they wanted to give up, 他们吓坏了,他们想要放弃, but the woman in the center rallied for them...

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TED演讲:医生们可以互相学习(7)

Compare apples to apples. Who's better? 比较治疗方案之间哪个更好, Why is that? 为什么更好? Five months ago, 五个月前, I led a workshop at the largest university hospital 我在北欧最大的医学院 in Northern Europe. 组织了一次专题讨论会。 They have a new CEO, and she has a vision: 他们换了新的CEO,而她的愿景是: I want to manage my big institution much more on quality, out...

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TED演讲:慈悲心与感同身受的真正涵义(5)

And you know, we have a society, a world, 你知道,我们的社会,这个世界, that is paralyzed by fear. 已经在恐惧中麻痹。 And in that paralysis, of course, 当然在这麻痹之中, our capacity for compassion is also paralyzed. 我们的慈悲心也受到麻痹。 The very word terror is global. 恐怖是全球性的。 The very feeling of terror is global. 这种恐怖感是全球性的。 So our work, in a certa...

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TED演讲:见证现代奴役的照片(2)

We started talking about slavery, and really, 我们聊起了奴隶制度, I started learning about slavery, 而此时我才开始真正了解奴役的现实, for I had certainly known it existed in the world, 虽然我一直都知道世上奴隶制尚存, but not to such a degree. 但完全不知道事态的严重性。 After we finished talking, I felt so horrible and honestly ashamed at my own lack of knowledge of this atro...

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TED演讲:慈悲心与感同身受的真正涵义(1)

I want to address the issue of compassion. 我想探讨慈悲心这个话题。 Compassion has many faces. 慈悲心有很多形态。 Some of them are fierce; some of them are wrathful; 有些是激烈的;有些是忿怒的; some of them are tender; some of them are wise. 有些是温和的, 有些是智慧的。 A line that the Dalai Lama once said, 达赖喇嘛曾说过, he said, Love and compassion are necessities. 他说...

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TED演讲:见证现代奴役的照片(9)

After another two hours of hiking, the winding trail abruptly ended at a clearing, and before us was a mass of holes that could fit into the size of a football field, 又走了两个小时蜿蜒的小径戛然而止,我们面前的空地上出现了一大片坑洞,每个都有一个橄榄球场那么大, and all of them were full of enslaved people laboring. 每个坑洞里都有奴隶在工作。 Many women had children strappe...

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TED演讲:见证现代奴役的照片(8)

I met these boys at five in the morning, 我在早上五点时看到这些男孩子们, when they were hauling in the last of their nets, 在收最后一个渔网, but they had been working since 1 a.m. 可他们从凌晨1点就开始工作了。 in the cold, windy night. 在这样寒冷,刮风的晚上。 And it's important to note that these nets weigh more than a thousand pounds when they're full of fish. 要...

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TED演讲:见证现代奴役的照片(3)

Many have been tricked by false promises of a good education, a better job, only to find that they're forced to work without pay under the threat of violence, 他们当中很多人都是被虚假承诺所骗轻信所谓好的教育机会、好的工作机会而被迫无偿工作经受暴力威胁, and they cannot walk away. 并且无法逃脱。 Today's slavery is about commerce, 今天的奴隶制度关乎商业利益, so the go...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(5)

The tailings ponds are the largest toxic impoundments on the planet. 那些残渣池是世上最大的毒性蓄水池 Oil sands-r rather I should say tar sands-oil sands is a P.R.-created term, 油砂-或者我该称它为沥青砂-油砂是公关部门创造的词汇, so that the oil companies wouldn't be trying to promote something that sounds like a sticky tar-like substance that's the world's d...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(1)

The world's largest and most devastating environmental and industrial project is situated in the heart of the largest and most intact forest in the world, 世上最大、最具破坏性的环境及工业计划发生于世上最大、保存最完整的森林当中 Canada's boreal forest. 加拿大北方森林。 It stretches right across northern Canada, in Labrador, 它横跨加拿大北部的拉布拉多省, it's home...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(6)

We either draw in a liquid sample, 我们收集液体样本, or we can actually take a solid core from the wall. 或者我们从墙体上直接采集固体岩芯标本。 No hands at the wheel. 这一过程无需人来遥控。 This is all behavioral autonomy here that's being conducted by the robot on its own. 这全都由机器人自己执行。 The real hat trick for this vehicle, though, is a disruptive new navigat...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(3)

We're going to be shooting from minus 2,600 meters that's a little over 8,600 feet down at 30 kilometers from the entrance. 我们要从地下2600米处,大约8600多英尺之下–开始拍摄。那个地方离洞口30千米处。 The lead crews will be underground for pushing 30 days straight. 先头部队将会在地下向前不停地推进30天。 I don't think there's been a mission like that in a ...

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TED演讲:短信是语言杀手(4)

And that's where texting comes in. 这时短信就出现了。 And so, texting is very loose in its structure. 所以,短信在结构上非常松散。 No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, 没有人在写短信的时候在乎大写字母或者标点, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk? 话说回来,你在说话的时候也会想到这些东西吗? No, and so therefore why...

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TED演讲:短信是语言杀手(6)

It's used to change the scene. 它被用来转换话题。 So for example, this Sally person says, 比如说,这个萨莉说, So I need to find people to chill with and Jake says, Haha,you could write a dissertation about Haha too, but we don't have time for that.Haha so you're going by yourself? Why? 我想找个伴儿来陪我然后,杰克说,哈哈你也可以写一篇关于哈哈的论文,但是我们没...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(2)

From the entrance, this is nothing like a commercial cave. 从洞口看,这绝不像个商业旅游的山洞。 You're looking at Camp Two in a place called J2, not K2, but J2. 你看到的是二号营地,它搭在J2,不是K2(世界第二高峰),而是J2. We're roughly two days from the entrance at that point. 在那里我们大约距出口两天路程。 And it's kind of like a high altitude mountaineering trip ...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(10)

And we need to all gather together and say no to the tar sands. 我们必须团结一致向油砂说不。 And we can do that. There is a huge network all over the world fighting to stop this project. 我们可以做到这一点,遍布全球的庞大网络社群正致力于制止这项计划。 And I quite simply think that this is not something that should be decided just in Canada. 我认为这不仅是加拿大本身该做的决定...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(4)

This gadget you see right here was called the digital wall mapper, 你们在这里见到的这个是电子墙体测绘仪, and it produced the first three-dimensional map anybody has ever done of a cave, and it happened to be underwater in Wakulla Springs. 它制出了世界上第一个山洞的三维地图,那是在瓦库拉泉水下。 It was that gadget that serendipitously opened a door to another unexplored worl...

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TED演讲:石油真正的代价(2)

In Saskatchewan, as across all of the boreal, 横跨北方森林的萨克其万省, home to some of our most famous rivers, 拥有一些著名湖泊, an incredible network of rivers and lakes that every school-age child learns about, 形成令人叹为观止的河流及湖泊网络,这是每位学龄儿童都读过的知识, the Peace, the Athabasca, the Churchill here, the Mackenzie, 和平河、阿萨帕斯卡尔河,丘吉尔河、...

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TED演讲:短信是语言杀手(3)

So, for example, in a distant era now, 比如说,在以前一个遥远的时代, it was common when one gave a speech to basically talk like writing. 当一个人作演讲,说起话来像在写作一样,是很平常的事情。 So I mean the kind of speech that you see someone giving in an old movie where they clear their throat, and they go, 我的意思是那种你在一部老电影里看到的演讲,人们会清一下喉咙,然后说...

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TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(7)

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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