TED演讲之什么是爱:漫谈时光流逝(3)

Close encounter two: Brookline, Massachusetts, 1984. 遭遇二: 1984年马萨诸塞的布鲁克林 I went to see the movie "Dune," 我去那里看电影"沙丘" and a girl talked to me. Now, on its face — 一个女孩跟我搭讪,从表面上看 — this is impossible on its face, I realize — 我意识到,这从表面上看是不可能的 — but it is absolutely true. 但它确实是真的....

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:4种声音影响我们的方式(2)

I want to spend just a moment talking about 我想只花一点点时间来谈论 the model that we've developed, which allows us to start at the top 我们所发展而来的那个模型,那个允许我们从高处开始的模型 and look at the drivers of sound, analyze the soundscape 看一下那司机的声音,分析下声音的范围, and then predict the four outcomes I've just talked about. 然后预测一下我刚才所说...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:爱,本无条件(1)

"Even in purely non-religious terms, “就算抛开宗教信仰的因素, homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty. 同性恋也是性滥交的代名词 It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality — 它是可悲的,次等的,一种现实的替代品 a pitiable flight from life. 是人生中一段令人遗憾的旅程 As such, it deserves no compassion, 因此,同性恋不值得同情 it deser...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:人类性进化的启示(4)

It's time we moved beyond Mars and Venus, 男人来自火星,女人来自金星的时代已经过去 because the truth is that men are from Africa 现在所有人都知道真相,男人来自非洲 and women are from Africa. 女人也来自非洲 Thank you. 谢谢大家 Thank you. Thank you. 谢谢,谢谢 So a question. 问个问题 It's so perplexing, trying to use arguments about evolutionary history 要将进化历史方...

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TED演讲之生与死:让现代社会中的老人生活的更好(1)

To give me an idea of how many of you here 为了让我知道这里有多少人 may find what I'm about to tell you 待会儿会觉得我告诉你的事情 of practical value, 有实用价值, let me ask you please to raise your hands: 请符合条件的人把手举起来: Who here is either over 65 years old 这里有谁已经超过65岁 or hopes to live past age 65 或者想要活到65岁以后 or has parents or grandparents w...

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TED演讲之生与死:让现代社会中的老人生活的更好(2)

At the opposite extreme 在对待老人的另一个极端 in treatment of the elderly, the happy extreme, 这个快乐的极端, are the New Guinea farming societies 是在新几内亚的农耕社会 where I've been doing my fieldwork for the past 50 years, 过去50多年来,我在那里做野外调查 and most other sedentary traditional societies 还有大多数其他在世界各地 around the world. 定居的传统社会。 In ...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:4种声音影响我们的方式(1)

Over the next five minutes, 在接下来的5分钟里 my intention is to transform your relationship with sound. 我想把你们与声音的关系作个转变 Let me start with the observation that most of the sound around us is accidental, 首先,请允许我以这样的观察开始,我发现大多数围绕我们的声音是偶然性的。 and much of it is unpleasant. 并且许多声音也是不愉悦的。 We stand on street corners, sho...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:爱,本无条件(3)

And I said to her, "What do you think you did 我对她说, "你觉得你做了什么 that helped him to emerge as this charming, accomplished, wonderful person?" 帮他成为一个有魅力、成功、精彩的人吗?" And she said, "What did I do? I loved him, that's all. 她说,"我做了什么?我爱他,就这样 Clinton just always had that light in him. 克林顿一直都有这样的...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:漫谈时光流逝(4)

Close encounter three: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 遭遇三:宾夕法尼亚州的费城, 1989. 1989年 In the mid-to-late '80s, 八十世纪末, the novelist Whitley Strieber wrote a book called "Communion," 小说家Whitley Strieber写了本自传, in which he described his own lifelong experiences 自传中他描述了 being abducted by aliens. 被外星人绑架的经历. And he also described the ...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:爱,本无条件(2)

Should she say, "You're just like everyone else but a little bit shorter?" 她应该说“你和其他人一样,只是矮了点儿”? Or should she try to construct some kind of dwarf identity, 还是去试图建立某种小矮人身份认同 get involved in the Little People of America, 加入美国小个子联盟 become aware of what was happening for dwarfs? 开始了解矮人生活圈的那些事? And I suddenl...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:爱,本无条件(5)

I thought a lot about the mother of one disabled child I had seen, 我想起我见过的一个残疾孩子的母亲 a severely disabled child who died through caregiver neglect. 这个有严重残疾的孩子,因为照料不周而去世 And when his ashes were interred, his mother said, 当他的骨灰被安葬的时候,他的母亲说 "I pray here for forgiveness for having been twice robbed, "我在这里祈祷宽恕,...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:人类性进化的启示(3)

I'm sorry. It's true. 我很抱歉,不过这是事实 The human, some of you will be happy to hear, 你们有些人可能比较喜欢听到这个 has the largest, thickest penis of any primate. 人类有灵长类中最大最厚的阴茎 Now, this evidence goes way beyond anatomy. 证据其实还不止于解剖学 It goes into anthropology as well. 我们还有人类学证据 Historical records are full of accounts of people...

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TED演讲之生与死:生死自知(4)

The fact that some people believe 事实上有些人民相信 an omnipotent god will resurrect them to live again 一个万能的神能让他们复活 and others believe an omnipotent scientist will do it 还有一些人相信万能的科学能使他们复活 suggests that neither are really believing this 这说明人们在确凿的证据面前 on the strength of the evidence. 并不相信永生这回事儿 Rather, we believe these st...

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TED演讲之生与死:生死自知(2)

And the bias I'm talking about 我这里说的偏误 works like this: 是这么回事: Confront someone with the fact 某些人面对 that they are going to die 他们终将会死去的现实 and they will believe just about any story 他们只会相信 that tells them it isn't true 告诉他们的任何故事都不会是真的 and they can, instead, live forever, 他们可以永久的活着, even if it means taking the ...

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TED演讲之生与死:生死自知(1)

I have a question: 我要问大家一件事: Who here remembers when they first realized 在座的各位谁还记得当自己第一次意识到 they were going to die? 自己有一天会死去时那一刻的感受? I do. I was a young boy, 我还记得,那时我还是个小男孩 and my grandfather had just died, 我的祖父刚刚过世了, and I remember a few days later lying in bed at night 记得几天后的一个夜晚,我躺在床上 tryin...

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TED演讲之生与死:为生命的终结做好准备(2)

A plan involves answering 这个计划是能包含了回应的 straightforward questions about the end you want. 直接了当关于你想如何结束的问题 Where do you want to be when you're no longer independent? 如果你不能再独立,你希望自己在哪里? What do you want in terms of medical intervention? 你希望医疗保护的干预么? And who's going to make sure your plan is followed? 谁能让你的计...

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TED演讲之生与死:昭示长寿的实验(4)

And there are certain forms of the FOXO gene 我们发现活到90或者100岁人里 that have found to be more frequently present 最常有的 in people who live to be 90 or 100. 某种FOXO基因 And that's the case all over the world, 这是遍布全球的例子 as you can see from these stars. 正如大家看到的这些星星 And each one of these stars represents a population 每一个星星代表一个人群 where ...

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TED演讲之生与死:昭示长寿的实验(2)

Okay. 好了 So what is the daf-2 gene? 那么daf-2基因到底是什么? Well as you know, genes, which are part of the DNA, 正如大家所知,基因是DNA的一部分 they're instructions to make a protein that does something. 它们是经编码的指令,用于制造特定功能的蛋白质 And the daf-2 gene 而daf-2基因的编码 encodes a hormone receptor. 对应了一类激素受体 So what you see in the picture there...

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TED演讲之生与死:让我们来谈谈死亡(1)

Look, I had second thoughts, really, 说实话,我犹豫过 about whether I could talk about this 到底应不应该 to such a vital and alive audience as you guys. 对你们一群如此有活力的观众讲这个题目。 Then I remembered the quote from Gloria Steinem, 但我又想起了Gloria Steinem的一句话 which goes, 她是这样说的 "The truth will set you free, “真相会给你自由, but first it will piss ...

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TED演讲之生与死:我的专属蘑菇寿衣(2)

I realize this is not the kind of relationship 我意识到,我们一般不会热衷于 that we usually aspire to have with our food. 与我们的食物建立这样的关系 We want to eat, not be eaten by, our food. 我们吃食物,而不是被食物吃掉 But as I watch the mushrooms grow 然而,但我看着这些蘑菇长大 and digest my body, 分解我的身体 I imagine the Infinity Mushroom 我把这无极蘑菇 as a symbol of a n...

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