SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
I thought I would start with a very brief 我觉得我得从城市的历史 history of cities. 简单说起 Settlements typically began 人们聚井而居 with people clustered around a well, and the size 揭开了典型的定居生活 of that settlement was roughly the distance you could walk 而这种定居的范围，也不过是你头顶着一盆水 with a pot of water on your head. 所能走的距离罢了 In fact, if you fly o...
The will to live life differently can start 想把生命活得与众不同的愿望 in some of the most unusual places. 能够在一些不平凡的地方实现 This is where I come from, Todmorden. 这是我的家乡，托德莫登 It's a market town in the north of England, 是英格兰北部的一个城镇 15,000 people, between Leeds and Manchester, 一万五千人口，在利兹和曼彻斯特之间 fairly normal market town. 相当...
I would also like to tell the world that animals love. 我还想分享一下关于动物爱情的故事。 There's not an animal on this planet 世界上任何一种动物 that will copulate with anything that comes along. 都不会饥不择食地寻找活物进行交配。 Too old, too young, too scruffy, too stupid, and they won't do it. 太老的、太年轻的、太脏的或是太蠢笨的，它们都不会选择。 Unless you'...
So here's two questions 每当我思考这个问题 that I have in my head when I think about this problem. 两个疑问一直在我脑子里打转 The first is: 第一 Are cities part of biology? 城市是生物界的一部分吗 Is London a great big whale? 伦敦是一只大鲸鱼吗 Is Edinburgh a horse? 爱丁堡是一匹马吗 Is Microsoft a great big anthill? 微软是一座巨型蚁山吗 What do we learn from that? 我们从...
Cities are the crucible of civilization. 城市是文明的熔炉 They have been expanding, 它们一直在扩张 urbanization has been expanding, 城市化的扩张速度 at an exponential rate in the last 200 years 在过去的200年里变得越来越快 so that by the second part of this century, 到了本世纪下半叶 the planet will be completely dominated 整个地球都将被城市 by cities. 所主宰 Cities are the or...
We are the only ones who have an erotic life, 人类是唯一过性生活的物种， which means that it's sexuality transformed by the human imagination. 所谓性生活完全是人类想象出来的东西 We are the only ones who can make love for hours, 人类也是唯一能持续几个小时做爱 have a blissful time, multiple orgasms, 有幸福时光，有多次高潮 and touch nobody, just because we can imagine it. ...
Now the site itself was easy enough to build, 网站本身是容易建成的， but the team was faced with the challenge 但团队面临的挑战是 of how they populate all of the content. 他们如何填充所有内容。 It would have taken the three of them 这将会占用他们三个人 a very long time, 很长的时间， especially given that none of them are actually from Honolulu. 特别是在他们都不是，檀香山本地...
So, why does good sex so often fade, 为何性爱的激情那么容易褪色？ even for couples who continue to love each other as much as ever? 就算是那些爱得如胶似漆的夫妇也无一例外。 And why does good intimacy not guarantee good sex, 为何亲密的爱情也无法维持激情的色彩呢？ contrary to popular belief? 这和我们普遍对性生活与爱情的关系的认知相违背。 Or, the next question would be, 或者说...
It goes up by 15 percent, 对于所有事物都是如此 and you have a 15 percent savings 你还能节省 on the infrastructure. 15%的基础设施经费 This, no doubt, is the reason 这无疑就是 why a million people a week are gathering in cities. 城市每周新增一百万人口的原因 Because they think that all those wonderful things — 他们觉得那些美好的事物 like creative people, wealth, income &#...
So we said, we'll, let's look at new cities, and we're involved 所以我们说，看看这些新城市 in a couple of new city projects in China. 我们也要在中国弄几个新城市出来 So we said, let's start with that neighborhood cell. 那我们就从社区单元开始着手吧 We think of it as a compact urban cell. 我们觉得这是一种紧凑的城市单元 So provide most of what most people want 这...
You all know this story. 你们都知道这个故事. In the summer of 1950, 在1950年的夏天, Enrico Fermi, the Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, 美籍意大利心理学家 and atomic-pile builder, 和原子堆创造者 went to lunch at Los Alamos National Laboratory 在Los Alamos国家实验室和一些同事们共进午餐, and joined some colleagues there, and asked them a question: 问他们一些问题: "...
And a lot of the time the question of parenthood is, 父母常常面对的问题是 what do we validate in our children, 孩子在哪些方面值得肯定 and what do we cure in them? 哪些方面需要治愈？ Jim Sinclair, a prominent autism activist, said, 有名的自闭症专家，吉姆·辛克莱说， "When parents say 'I wish my child did not have autism,' "当父母说 '我希望我的孩子没有自闭...
I'm going to go off script and make Chris quite nervous here 我打算不按预定的来，这让克里斯很紧张 by making this audience participation. 我打算让观众参与互动 All right. Are you with me? Yeah. Yeah. All right. 懂我的意思吧，懂。很好 So what I'd like to do is have you raise your hand 我要你举手 if you've ever heard a heterosexual couple having sex. 如果你听到过异性...
Encounter one: Ocean City, New Jersey, 1980. 遭遇一: 1980年,新泽西的欧欣城. This was the summer when the special edition of 那是个夏天,正好赶上《第三类接触》的 "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was released. 特别版发布. And I went on vacation with my parents to the Jersey shore. 我和父母一起去新泽西的滨海度假. Within 12 hours, I was horribly sunburned, 我在12个...
I was one of the only kids in college who had a reason 上大学时，我是唯一一个需要 to go to the P.O. box at the end of the day, 在一天结束的时候去开邮箱的人， and that was mainly because my mother has never believed 主要是因为我妈妈从不信赖 in email, in Facebook, in texting or cell phones in general. 电子邮件、社交网站、短信，甚至电话。 And so while other kids were BBM-ing th...
Close encounter four: the Algarve, 遭遇四:阿尔加瓦 Portugal, 1991. 葡萄牙,1991. Some years later, I and this woman — 许多年过后,我和这个女人– we'll call her "Catherine Fletcher" — 我们将称她为“Catherine Fletcher”- went traveling through the south of Portugal together. 我们穿越葡萄牙南部去旅行. We stayed in old, crumbling, walled cities, 我们住...
So when I was in Morocco, 我在摩洛哥的时候， in Casablanca, not so long ago, 不久前，在卡萨布兰卡， I met a young unmarried mother called Faiza. 我遇到一个名叫法伊扎（Faiza）的年轻未婚妈妈。 Faiza showed me photos of her infant son 法伊扎给我看了她儿子婴儿时期的照片 and she told me the story of his conception, pregnancy, and delivery. 并且告诉了我她怀孕、妊娠、分娩的故事。 I...
I believe that there are new, hidden tensions 我相信，有新的，隐藏的紧张关系 that are actually happening between people and institutions — 发生在人们与制度之间， institutions that are the institutions that people 在人们日常生活中 inhabit in their daily life: 的制度如： schools, hospitals, workplaces, 学校、医院、工作场所、 factories, offices, etc. 工厂、办公室等等。 An...
So, think of the three settings I've talked to you about: 那么想想这3个我所谈到的背景： factory, migration, office. 工厂，移民，办公室。 But it could be in a school, it could be an administration, 但这也可能在学校，在政府， it could be a hospital. 也可能在医院发生。 Three settings that, if we just step back 15 years, 这3种背景下，如果我们只追随到15年前， if you just thin...
Eighty percent of carbon emissions come from cities, 80%的碳排放来自于城市， which means cities are in a position 而这意味着城市正处于一个 to solve the carbon problem, or most of it, 解决碳排放问题的关键位置。 whether or not the states of which they are a part 无论这些城市是否来自于同一个国家， make agreements with one another. 他们达成协议。 And they are doing it. 并且履行...