TED演讲之寻找真理:科学解释之新探(6)

If the axis-tilt theory had been refuted, 倘若“地轴倾斜”理论被观察否定了 its defenders would have had nowhere to go. 它的支持者们就无路可退了 No easily implemented change could make that tilt 没有什么信手拈来的变动能让地轴的倾斜 cause the same seasons in both hemispheres. 在两个半球产生相同的季节 The search for hard-to-vary explanations is the origin of all progress. 对难以...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:这个世界需要各种心智(2)

Like if I say, "Think about a church steeple" 比如说,“请想象一下教堂的石柱” most people get this sort of generalized generic one. 大多数人想到的是一个标准答案 Now, maybe that's not true in this room, 也许这个房间里的人的答案会很不一样 but it's going to be true in a lot of different places. 但对于大多数的地方来说,这都是适用的 I see only specific pictures. ...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:精神疾病有什么可笑的?(2)

Because, you know, the one thing, one thing that you get with this disease, 因为有一样东西,得了这种病你会得到它 this one comes with a package, is you get a real sense of shame, 这是整套附送的,就是你会感到很羞耻 because your friends go, "Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays," 因为你的朋友们会说 “来,给我看看肿块,给我看看X光片” and of course you've...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:精神病测试的另类答案(3)

And when Tony said that to me, 当Tony告诉我这些的时候 I thought to myself, "Am I sitting like a journalist? Am I crossing my legs like a journalist?" 我心想,“我坐得像个记者吗?我翘脚翘得像个记者吗?” He said, "You know, I've got the Stockwell Strangler on one side of me 他说,“我的邻居一边住着斯托克威尔扼杀者案的凶手 and I've got the 'Tiptoe Throu...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:精神疾病有什么可笑的?

One in four people suffer from some sort of mental illness, 每四个人中就有一人患有某种精神疾病 so if it was one, two, three, four, it's you, sir. 如果说是一二三四,就是你了先生 You. Yeah. 对,是你。 With the weird teeth. And you next to him. 牙齿有点怪的那位,还有旁边那位 You know who you are. 你自己可清楚了 Actually, that whole row isn't right. 事实上那一整排都不大...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:失落了的民主辩论艺术

One thing the world needs, 有一样东西,这个世界非常需要, one thing this country desperately needs 这个国家更是迫切需要 is a better way of conducting our political debates. 那就是一种更好地进行政治辩论的方法 We need to rediscover the lost art of democratic argument. 我们需要复兴失落了的民主辩论艺术 If you think about the arguments we have, 想想时下的所谓辩论吧 most of the ti...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:电击疗法如何改变了我(3)

It didn't work very well on the schizophrenics, 在治疗精神分裂症上,电击疗法效果不是很好, but it was pretty clear in the '30s and by the middle of the '40s 但是在30年代和40年代中期,很明显 that electroconvulsive therapy was very, very effective in the treatment of depression. 电击治疗对于治疗忧郁症非常非常有效。 And of course, in those days, there were no antide...

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TED演讲之面对灾难:海地的工程灾难(2)

This is the Ministry of Justice. 这是司法部。 Behind that door is the National Judicial Archives. 那扇门后是国家司法档案馆。 The fellow in the door, Andre Filitrault — 门旁站着的是安德烈·菲利亚特罗, who's the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Earthquake Engineering Research at the University of Buffalo — 他是布法罗大学跨学科地震工程研究中心的负责...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:内心的喧哗(4)

Throughout all of this, what I would ultimately realize 经过这一切,我才恍然大悟 was that each voice was closely related to aspects of myself, 每一个我听到的声音都跟自己密切相关 and that each of them carried overwhelming emotions that I'd never had an opportunity to process or resolve, 而且都带着丰沛的情绪,只是我以前没机会处理那些记忆 memories of sexual trauma and abuse...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:电击疗法如何改变了我(4)

I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. 60年代我结婚了, To use the word bad would be perhaps the understatement of the year. 用“糟糕透了”这个词都不足以形容 It was dreadful. 简直是糟糕极了。 There are, I'm sure, enough divorced people in this room 我相信在座的就有离婚的人 to know about the hostility, the anger, who knows what. 知道那种敌意、愤怒,谁知道呢。 Being someone who...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:这个世界需要各种心智

I think I'll start out and just talk a little bit about what exactly autism is. 我想,我就从解释自闭症是什么来开始我的演讲吧 Autism is a very big continuum 自闭症的症状范围很广 that goes from very severe — the child remains non-verbal — 有的自闭症非常严重,他们从小孩开始就一直不会说话 all the way up to brilliant scientists and engineers. 但也有的自闭症患者最...

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TED演讲之面对灾难:通过发短信来报告危机事件(2)

I'm here to talk about the next big thing, 我在这里要谈论另一件重要事情 because what we're finding out is that 因为我们发现 we have this capacity to report eyewitness accounts of what's going on in real time. 我们有能力根据目击者所叙述的真实情况进行实时报道 We're seeing this in events like Mumbai recently, 就像最近发生在孟买的几起事件让我们意识到这点 where it...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:一个抑郁喜剧演员的自白

For a long time in my life, I felt like I'd been living two different lives. 在我生命中非常长的一段时间内,我感觉我在过着两种不同的人生。 There's the life that everyone sees, and then there's the life that only I see. 一个是每个人都看见的人生,另一个是只有我能看见的人生。 And in the life that everyone sees, 在每个人都能看见的人生里, who I am is a friend, a son, ...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:精神病测试的另类答案(6)

When I got back to London, Tony phoned me. 当我回到伦敦时,Tony给我打了电话 He said, "Why haven't you been returning my calls?" 他说,“你为什么还没给我回电?” I said, "Well they say that you're a psychopath." 我说,“因为他们说你确实有精神病。” And he said, "I'm not a psychopath." 他说,“我没精神病。” He said, "You know what, one...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:一个抑郁喜剧演员的自白(3)

The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. 解决任何问题的第一步是认识到这一问题的存在。 Well, we haven't done that, so we can't really expect to find an answer when we're still afraid of the question. 我们还没能做到,所以我们不能期待当我们还在害怕问题的时候找到答案。 And I don't know what the solution is. 我不知道该解决方案是什么。 I w...

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TED演讲之面对灾难:便宜、高效的救灾避难所(3)

Now, this quickly, my day job sent me to work out of our Milan office for a few months, 很快,因为日常工作的缘故,我会有几个月不在米兰, so I was like, what will I do? 有时候会迷惘,我要去做些啥啊? So I actually scheduled sleep on my calendar, 而实际上我忙着调整我的睡眠时间呢 and spent the 8-hour time difference on conference calls 把多出来的8个小时时差用在联系 with materia...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:一段精神疾病的传奇–从内心看起(3)

So the following episode happened the seventh week of my first semester of my first year at Yale Law School. 接下来这件事发生在我上耶鲁大学法学院的第一学期的第七周 Quoting from my writings: 从我的笔记中: "My two classmates, Rebel and Val, and I had made the date 我的两个同学,Rebel和Val和我约了一个时间 to meet in the law school library on Friday night to work on our me...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:电击疗法如何改变了我(2)

So they got very interested in producing convulsions, measured types of convulsions. 所以他们对诱发抽搐很感兴趣,控制抽搐的程度。 And they thought, "Well, we've got electricity, we'll plug somebody into the wall. 他们认为,“我们有电源,我们可以把身体通电试试看。 That always makes hair stand up and people shake a lot." 这样通电后体验者人头发竖起,身体颤动。”...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:精神病测试的另类答案

This story starts: I was at a friend's house, 故事的开头是这样的:我在一个朋友家里 and she had on her shelf a copy of the DSM manual, which is the manual of mental disorders. 在她的架子上有一本《DSM手册》,就是《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》 It lists every known mental disorder. 它列举了所有已知的精神疾病 And it used to be, back in the '50s, a very slim pamphlet. 而在50年...

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TED演讲之心灵的世界:电击疗法如何改变了我(8)

And I've always felt guilty about that. 我一直感到心虚, I've always felt that somehow I was an impostor 一直觉得自己有点像冒充的 because my readers don't know what I have just told you. 因为读者不知道我今天说的。 It's known by some people in New Haven, obviously, but it is not generally known. 很明显,纽黑文市有人知道,但一般来说,这不为人知。 So one of the ...

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