SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
I want to share a few keys on how you can do that 我想来分享几个有用的方法，告诉你们如何才能保证 to make sure that we can see that your science is sexy and that your engineering is engaging. 让我们也觉得你们的科学"性感"迷人、你们的工程学魅力四射。 First question to answer for us: so what? 第一个要回答我们的问题：高科技又怎样？ Tell us why your science is relevant t...
For one thing, I just do not do uniforms. 首先，我不喜欢制服。 And for another, deciding what words are good and what words are bad is actually not very easy. 而且，决定谁是好词谁是坏词其实一点也不容易， And it's not very fun. And when parts of your job are not easy or fun, 还不好玩。如果你的工作中有这么一部分既不容易又不好玩， you kind of look for an excuse not to do th...
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait 每一个人都拥有一个最强大，危险并具有颠覆性的特性 that natural selection has ever devised. 这一特性是自然选择前所未有的设计 It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. 它是一个神经声频技术，用于与他人交流思想 I'm talking about your language, of course, 我说的当然...
And so, for example, there is in texting a convention, which is LOL. 比如说，在短信里有这样一个习惯用语，就是LOL。 Now LOL, we generally think of as meaning "laughing out loud." 我们通常认为LOL的意思是“捧腹大笑”。 And of course, theoretically, it does, 当然，从理论上看，它确实是这个意思， and if you look at older texts, then people used it to actually indicate laug...
For example, most other Germanic language speakers 例如，说日尔曼语系的人 feel completely comfortable talking about rain tomorrow by saying, "Morgen regnet es," 会很自然的用以下的话表达明天下雨：“Morgen regnet es” quite literally to an English ear, "It rain tomorrow." 说英语的人听了就类似“It rain tomorrow.” This led me, as a behavioral economist, to an in...
So, if you have a ham butt problem, and you're thinking about the ham butt problem, 所以如果你知道火腿屁股这事儿，而你又正在考虑这个问题， the conclusion that it leads you to is inexorable and counterintuitive: paper is the enemy of words. 它引向的结论是决绝又有违直觉的：纸张是文字的敌人。 How can this be? I mean, I love books. I really love books. 怎么可能？我爱书，非常...
So, a problem in explaining how children learn language, 所以在解释孩子们如何学习语言时候，有一个问题 a problem in teaching language to adults so that they don't make grammatical errors, 同样也是教成人学外语语法时的一个问题 and a problem in programming computers to use language is which verbs go in which constructions. 以及给电脑编使用语言的程序时–在哪个构式里该用...
There's an influential taxonomy by the anthropologist Alan Fiske, 人类学家Alan Fiske给出了一个关于影响力的分类法 in which relationships can be categorized, more or less, into communality, which works on the principle 其中人际关系可以被或多或少地归为“公社性”，它的作用原则是 "what's mine is thine, what's thine is mine," “我的就是你的，你的就是我的” the ki...
I ask you, what happened to translation? 那我问你，翻译还需要吗？ If you think about the Islamic Golden Age, there was lots of translation then. 如果你想想伊斯兰的黄金时代，当时有很多翻译。 They translated from Latin and Greek into Arabic, into Persian, 他们把拉丁文和希腊语翻译成阿拉伯语和波斯语， and then it was translated on into the Germanic languages of Europe and the Ro...
So we have gone through almost 30 characters. 我们已经学了差不多三十个汉字， By using this method, the first eight radicals will allow you to build 32. 通过这个方法，这八个基本字可以衍生出三十二个汉字， The next group of eight characters will build an extra 32. 下一组的八个汉字又会衍生出另外32个汉字。 So with very little effort, you will be able to learn a couple hundred cha...
Open your mouth as wide as possible until it's square. You get a mouth. 把你的嘴张得越大越好，直到变成正方形。这就是一个“口”字。 This is a person going for a walk. Person. 这是一个人正在散步。“人”字。 If the shape of the fire is a person with two arms on both sides, “火”字的形状就是一个人在两边有两只胳膊， as if she was yelling frantically, "Help! I'm on fire!&q...
There are lots and lots of tests of English. 各种各样的英语测试。 And millions and millions of students take these tests every year. 每年成千上万的学生参加这样的考试。 Now you might think, you and me, "Those fees aren't bad, they're okay," 你会觉得，你和我都这么认为，这些考试价格还是合理的， but they are prohibitive to so many millions of poor people. 但是...
And so some time around 200,000 years ago, our species confronted this crisis. 大约二十万年前，人类遇到了这一困境 And we really had only two options for dealing with the conflicts that visual theft would bring. 我们只有两种选择来解决观察性窃取导致的冲突 One of those options was that we could have retreated into small family groups. 一个选择是我们可以退回到小的家庭单位 Becaus...
And the trick here is to use a single, readable sentence that the audience can key into if they get a bit lost, 这里的窍门就是使用简单、易读的句子，让观众即使有点儿不明白也能够掌握要点， and then provide visuals which appeal to our other senses 然后接下来提供一些能够刺激我们感官的图像， and create a deeper sense of understanding of what's being described. 并且能让我们对...
Now, have any of y'all ever looked up this word? 好，你们中有谁查过这个单词？ You know, in a dictionary? Yeah, that's what I thought. 用字典？是的，我想也就这个样子。 How about this word? Here, I'll show it to you. 这个单词呢？看看解释： Lexicography: the practice of compiling dictionaries. Lexicography(字典学):编纂字典的活动。 Notice — we're very speci...
But if you're not a native speaker, you have to pass a test. 如果你的母语不是英语的话，你要通过一个考试。 Now can it be right to reject a student on linguistic ability alone? 那么仅仅根据学生的语言能力就拒绝一个学生的做法合适吗？ Perhaps you have a computer scientist who's a genius. 也许你们中一个计算机科学家是一个天才。 Would he need the same language as a lawyer, f...
Now, at the same time, English is the undisputed global language. 而同时，现在英语又无可争辩地成为全球性语言。 Could there be a connection? Well I don't know. 这两者间有联系吗？我不知道。 But I do know that I've seen a lot of changes. 但是我知道我已目睹了很多变化。 When I first came out to the Gulf, I came to Kuwait in the days when it was still a hardship post. 当我...
Take that person from 1993 — not that long ago, 我们让1993年的那个人－这可不算太久远， this is "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" — those people. 那还是“比尔和泰德历险记”（1989年美国电影）时代， Take those people and they read a very typical text written by a 20-year-old today. 我们让这些人读现在20岁年轻人写的一段短信。 Often they would have no id...
Mark, one question. Svante found that the FOXP2 gene, which seems to be associated with language, 马克，我有个问题。斯万特发现FOXP2基因，好像它与语言有关 was also shared in the same form in Neanderthals as us. 而尼安德特人也像我们一样有此基因 Do we have any idea how we could have defeated Neanderthals if they also had language? 那么我们有没有什么办法能够打败尼安德特人，如果...
Now I can't speak for you, 虽然我不能完全代表你们 but it seems to be the case that we don't have sex with people we can't talk to. 但可以这样说，我们不会跟无法交流的人去做爱 Now we have to counter that, though, against the evidence we've heard 不过也许现在得算上这种情况，基于已有证据表明 that we might have had some rather distasteful genetic dalliances with t...