TED演讲:大爱无疆 爱本无条件(2)

When I was little, my mother used to say, 当我很小的时候,母亲曾经说过, The love you have for your children is like no other feeling in the world. 父母对子女的爱是世界上其它一切感情都无法比拟的, And until you have children, you don't know what it's like. 只有当你拥有自己的孩子时,你才能体会到。 And when I was little, I took it as the greatest compliment in the worl...

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TED演讲:为了理解而游戏(2)

I happened to be living in Springfield at the time,and the best part of it was-is that you would close the women's door in the bathroom, 当时我刚好住在斯普林菲尔德(Springfield,和波士顿一个州),最精彩的部分是—如果你到女厕所,关上门 and I remember seeing Go Sox, and I thought, really? 我记得看到门上写着加油,红袜队,我当时想,不是吧? Or the houses, you'd come out, b...

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TED演讲:昔日纽约(5)

From there, to the modern ventriloquist's dummy, 从这个到现代的口技者的木偶, is but a brief moment in history. 不是一段简短的历史。 You were late for school again this morning. 今天早上你上学又迟到了。 The ventriloquist must first make us believe that a small boy is sitting on his lap. 口技者必须首先让我们相信,在他膝盖上坐着的是一个小男孩儿。 The illusion of speech fol...

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TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(2)

Over the past seven years, I've been following my fascination with the built environment, 在过去的七年里,我一直在追随着我对建筑环境的兴趣, and for those of you who know me, you would say that this obsession has led me to live out of a suitcase 365 days a year. 并且对你们当中了解我的人,你们会说这种痴迷使我一年365天提着行李生活。 Being constantly on the move means that ...

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TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(6)

There is even a photo studio where you see the sort of aspiration with a faraway place, like that hotel in Sweden. 这是甚至有一个照相馆让你看到一种期望去住在真正的大房子里或者和一个遥远的地方产生联系,比如瑞典的旅馆。 On this particular evening, 在这个特别的夜晚, I came across this live band dressed to the T in their coordinating outfits. 我遇到这个穿着舞台表演衣服的现场演...

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TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(7)

Today, they live in this area, 今天,他们生活在这片区域, approximately 50,000 to 70,000 people, 大约5万到7万人, who live in this community of self-built multi-story houses where up to three generations live in one structure. 住在自己建的多层房屋的社区里三代同堂。 While these apartments that they built for themselves appear to lack any planning or formal grid, 虽然这些他们...

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TED演讲:如何推翻独裁统治(7)

Will these revolutions be whole like through the transitions to democracy or be overtaken by military or extremists of all kinds? 这些革命是否能引领国家向民主过渡,它们的胜利果实会不会被军方或者各种极端分子攫取? We cannot tell. 我们无法预测。 Same works for the Western sector, where you can see all of these excited young people protesting around the world, 发生在西方社会的抗...

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TED演讲:为了理解而游戏(1)

When we think of games, there's all kinds of things. 当我们提起游戏时,脑海中会浮现很多回忆。 Maybe you're ticked off, or maybe you're looking forward to a new game. You've been up too late playing a game. 或许你被某个游戏折磨得够呛,或许你正在期待着一款新游戏,或许你为了玩游戏而熬夜。 All these things happen to me. 所有这些都发生在我身上。 But when we think ...

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TED演讲:大爱无疆 爱本无条件(9)

Read that again. This is what we hear when you mourn over our existence. 听仔细了,当你们抱怨我们的存在,我们听到的就是这个意思。 This is what we hear when you pray for a cure-that your fondest wish for us is that someday we will cease to be and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces. 你们祈祷奇迹出现的时候,我们听到的是你们衷心希望,总有一天我们将不复存在。和...

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TED演讲:大爱无疆 爱本无条件(11)

Ironically, it turns out, that it's our differences, and our negotiation of difference,that unite us. 讽刺的是,事实证明,正是我们的不同和我们协商彼此的不同将我们连结起来。 I decided to have children while I was working on this project. 当我做这个项目的时候我决定要孩子。 And many people were astonished and said, 很多人对此感到惊奇, But how can you decide to have childre...

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TED演讲:关于听的艺术(4)

However, that is simply not enough. 但是,这完全不够。 And I think what Herbie said-please listen, listen. 我在想Herbie的话,请听一听。 We have to listen to ourselves, first of all. 首先,我们必须聆听我们自己。 If I play, for example, holding the stick-where literally I do not let go of the stick you'll experience quite a lot of shock coming up through the arm. 举个例子...

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TED演讲:为了理解而游戏(4)

Pause for about 10 seconds. 暂停了大约10 秒钟。 Can I play a game, Mommy? 我可以玩游戏了吗,妈妈? And I thought, that's it? And so, you know, 而我想,这就完了?因为,你知道, this is the Middle Passage, this is an incredibly significant event, and she's treating it like, basically some black people went on a cruise, is more or less how it sounds to her. 这是可是中央...

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TED演讲:大爱无疆 爱本无条件(7)

In the time since that Atlantic Monthly story ran, 自从大西洋月刊刊载了那片文章以来, the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome has tripled. 唐氏综合征患者的寿命增加了两倍。 The experience of Down syndrome people includes those who are actors, 唐氏综合征的人有些是演员, those who are writers, some who are able to live fully independently in adulthood. 作家,有些在成...

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TED演讲:大爱无疆 爱本无条件(3)

It felt as valid perhaps even as American culture. 它甚至可以和美国文化相媲美。 Then a friend of a friend of mine had a daughter who was a dwarf. 我朋友的朋友有个女儿,是个小矮人。 And when her daughter was born, 当她女儿出生的时候, she suddenly found herself confronting questions that now began to seem quite resonant to me. 她突然发现她要面对很多问题,这些问题使我产生共鸣...

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TED演讲:为了理解而游戏(6)

And originally it was a math problem more or less. 最初它差不多只是一个数学问题的游戏。 Like, here's the economics of illegal immigration. 就像,关于非法移民的经济学问题。 And the more I learned about the Mexican culture my partner is Mexican — the more I learned that, 之后,随着我学到越来越多的墨西哥文化—我的搭档是墨西哥人—我越来越发现, you know, for all of us, food is...

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TED演讲:大爱无疆 爱本无条件(13)

And yet, I knew from the work I had done that if he had any of the things we were about to start testing for, 我的工作经验让我得知,如果经过哪些检查,发现他有什么问题, that those would ultimately be his identity,and if they were his identity they would become my identity,that that illness was going to take a very different shape as it unfolded. 那将永久成为他的特性,如果这...

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TED演讲:游戏创造美好生活(4)

And there are also tons of collaborators. 并且游戏世界里有很多的人可以协作。 Everywhere you go, hundreds of thousands of people ready to work with you to achieve your epic mission. 不论你到了哪里,都会有成千上万的人等着和你合作去完成那些艰巨的任务。 That's not something that we have in real life that easily,this sense that at our fingertips are tons of collaborators. 在...

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TED演讲:大爱无疆 爱本无条件(5)

And in the course of his childhood, 他的童年, he had 30 major surgical procedures. 经历了 30次重大外科手术。 And he spent all this time stuck in the hospital while he was having those procedures, 他一直待在医院里,而正是这些治疗过程, as a result of which he now can walk. 让他现在有了行走的能力。 And while he was there, they sent tutors around to help him with his school wo...

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TED演讲:大爱无疆 爱本无条件(12)

So the shorthand is five parents of four children in three states. 五位父母,生了四个孩子,生活在三个不同的州。 And there are people who think that the existence of my family somehow undermines or weakens or damages their family. 当然有些人会认为,这样的家庭的存在,在某种程度上破坏或削弱,甚至损害了他们的家庭。 And there are people who think that families like mine shouldn&#...

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TED演讲:关于听的艺术(5)

And so on. There is a little bit of a difference there that is worth just thinking about. 等等…但即便是有些许的不同,那也值得仔细想一想。 And I remember when I was 12 years old,and I started playing tympani and percussion, and my teacher said,Well, how are we going to do this? You know, music is about listening. 我记得在我12岁的时候,我开始演奏定音鼓和打击乐,我的老师...

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