TED演讲之幕后揭秘 伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特谈呵护创造力及减轻创作压力(7)

And for me, the best contemporary example that I have of how to do that is the musician Tom Waits, 就我所知的当代艺术家中,将这一问题处理得最好的是音乐家汤姆·威兹。 who I got to interview several years ago on a magazine assignment. 几年前,我就一个杂志工作采访过他, And we were talking about this, and you know, Tom, for most of his life, 当时我们谈及了这一问...

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TED演讲之神童 伊娃·韦尔泰什对医学未来的展望(1)

Thank you. It’s really an honor and a privilege to be here spending my last day as a teenager. 谢谢各位!非常荣幸能够站在这里,与大家分享我19岁的最后一天。 So today I want to talk to you about the future, but first I’m going to tell you a bit about the past. 今天我想跟大家谈谈未来,但是首先我要用一点时间讲讲我过去的经历。 My story starts way before I...

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TED演讲之神童 伊娃·韦尔泰什对医学未来的展望(4)

It seems that cancer is a direct result to injury. If you smoke, you damage your lung tissue, and then lung cancer arises. 研究表明,癌症是由损伤直接导致的,如果你吸烟,损害了你的肺部组织,就会引起肺癌。 If you drink, you damage your liver, and then liver cancer occurs. 如果你喝酒,损害了你的肝脏,就会引起肝癌。 And it was really interesting — there were a...

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TED演讲之生存故事 吉尔伯特·泰勒的奇迹(6)

And in that moment, my right arm went totally paralyzed by my side. 那一刻,我的右手完全瘫痪了, Then I realized, “Oh my gosh! I’m having a stroke!” And the next thing my brain says to me is, Wow! This is so cool! 我意识到“噢天哪!我中风了!我中风了!”接着我的脑子对我说:“哇噢!“很酷嘛! This is so cool! How many brain scientists have the oppor...

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TED演讲之生存故事 黛安·德娜珀丽:企鹅大救援(6)

And in addition, about 3,000 penguin chicks were rescued and hand raised. 此外,有大约3000只企鹅崽崽获救后由工作人员抚养长大。 And again, we know from long-term monitoring that more of these hand-raised chicks survive to adulthood and breeding age than do parent-raised chicks. 并且,我们通过长期追踪监测,发现比起那些企鹅自己抚养的孩子来说,这些人工饲养的企鹅更多的...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 马丁·里斯:这是我们最后的世纪吗?(2)

On a still bigger scale, we see entire galaxies of stars. We see entire ecosystems where gas is being recycled. 在更大的范围里,我们看到恒星组成的星系。我们看到完整的生态系统,看到气体被回收利用。 And to the cosmologist, these galaxies are just the atoms, as it were, of the large-scale universe. 对于宇宙学家来说,这些星系只不过是组成大规模宇宙空间的原子。 This p...

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TED演讲之生存故事 吉尔伯特·泰勒的奇迹(7)

And so I say to him — clear in my mind, I say to him: “This is Jill! I need help!” 我就对他说,我记得很清楚,我对他说:“我是吉尔,我需要帮助!” And what comes out of my voice is, “Woo woo woo woo woo.” I’m thinking, “Oh my gosh, I sound like a Golden Retriever.” 但是我发出的声音却是,“汪汪汪汪汪!”我想,“天哪,我听起...

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TED演讲之生存故事 布琳·布朗:脆弱的力量(9)

You can’t numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects, our emotions. 你无法只麻痹那些痛苦的情感,而不麻痹所有的感官,所有的情感。 You cannot selectively numb. So when we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. 你无法有选择性地去麻痹。当我们麻痹那些(消极的情感),我们也麻痹了欢乐,麻痹了感恩,麻痹了幸福。 And then, we ...

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TED演讲之幕后揭秘 艾布拉姆斯之神秘的盒子(7)

I was going to show you a couple of other things I’m going to skip. 我要给你看一些其它的东西,把这段略去。 I’ll show you one other thing that has nothing to do with anything. 我只是想让你看另一个东西,和任何事都没啥关联。 This is something online; six years ago, they did this. This is an online thing done by guys who had some visual effects experienc...

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TED演讲之神童 伊娃·韦尔泰什对医学未来的展望(7)

And one article that really stood out to me when I was just reading about this, 一篇文献引起了我的注意,我读这篇文献, trying to figure out why cancer doesn’t go to skeletal muscle, was that it had reported 16 percent of micro-metastases to skeletal muscle upon autopsy. 16 percent! 试图弄清楚为什么癌症不会发生在骨骼肌,这篇文献说,解剖时发现骨骼肌里有16%的微...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 汉斯·罗素林:东方崛起(4)

And we will see, you know. Look here, 1858, India was here, China was here, Japan was there, United States and United Kingdom was richer over there. 正如你们所料一样。1858年,印度和中国是在这里,日本则在那里。美国和英国则更是在那边。 And I will start the world like this. India was not always like this level. 世界将从这样开始。印度以前不是这样的。 Actually if we ...

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TED演讲之幕后揭秘 艾布拉姆斯之神秘的盒子(3)

Now, I bought this decades ago and I’m not kidding. If you look at this, you’ll see it’s never been opened. 我几十年前买的这个,我不是开玩笑的。但我从来没有打开过它。 But I’ve had this forever. Now, I was looking at this, it was in my office, as it always is, on the shelf, and I was thinking, why have I not opened this? 已经很久了。现在它还...

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TED演讲之生存故事 吉尔伯特·泰勒的奇迹(8)

But then I realized, “But I’m still alive! I’m still alive, and I have found Nirvana. 但我意识到,“我还活着,我还活着!而且我找到了天堂, And if I have found Nirvana and I’m still alive, then everyone who is alive can find Nirvana.” 如果我找到了天堂而且我还活着,那么活着的每一个人都能找到天堂。” And I pictured a world filled with be...

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TED演讲之生存故事 黛安·德娜珀丽:企鹅大救援(3)

The other thing that was so striking was the sheer number of volunteers. 另外一件令我震撼的事,便是那庞大的志愿者队伍。 Up to 1,000 people a day came to the rescue center. 每天有多达1000位朋友来到救助中心。 Eventually, over the course of this rescue, more than 12-and-a-half thousand volunteers came from all over the world to Cape Town, to help save these birds. ...

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TED演讲之神童 一名12岁的手机应用开发者(2)

I’ve gotten a lot of inspiration from Steve Jobs, and I’ve started an app club at school, and a teacher at my school is kindly sponsoring my app club. 我也从乔布斯那里得到了很多的启发。在学校里,我建立一个app社团,学校里的一名老师支持着我的这个社团。 Any student at my school can come and learn how to design an app. This is so I can share my experiences wit...

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TED演讲之超短集 坎迪·张:在死之前,我想…(1)

There are a lot of ways the people around us can help improve our lives. 我们周围的人能以很多种方式来帮我们把生活变得更美好。 We don’t bump into every neighbor, so a lot of wisdom never gets passed on, though we do share the same public spaces. 我们不一定能常常碰到我们的邻居,所以即使我们生活在同一片公共空间里,邻居的智慧也难以被传递开来。 So over the past...

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TED演讲之幕后揭秘 艾布拉姆斯之神秘的盒子(9)

There are three things you don’t want to do. Number two is: Don’t hurt Tom’s nose. 有三件事情绝对不能干。第二条就是:别弄伤汤姆克鲁斯的鼻子。 So Eddie has this gun — and he’s this sweet English guy. He’s like, “Sorry, I don’t want to hurt you.” 所以Eddie拿着这把枪-他也是个好人-他就像非常贴心的英国男人。他说:“...

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TED演讲之神奇奥秘 艾莉森·高普尼克:婴儿在想什么?(3)

And sort of the posterbirds for this idea are the birds up there. 图片上的鸟可以证明这个观点。 On one side is a New Caledonian crow. And crows and other corvidae, ravens, rooks and so forth, are incredibly smart birds. 左边是一只新喀里多尼亚岛的乌鸦。像乌鸦,其它雅科,渡鸦,和秃鼻乌鸦那类的鸟,都非常的聪明。 They’re as smart as chimpanzees in some respects...

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TED演讲之神奇奥秘 奥利弗·萨克斯:幻觉背后的心智(4)

With him and with Rosalie, what seems to be going on — and Rosalie said, “What’s going on?” — 这种在查尔斯·鲁林和罗斯莉身上发生的让罗斯莉问道“我这是这么了?”的现象 and I said that as you lose vision, as the visual parts of the brain are no longer getting any input, they become hyperactive and excitable, and they start to fire spontaneousl...

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TED演讲之幕后揭秘 伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特谈呵护创造力及减轻创作压力(8)

When I heard that story, it started to shift a little bit the way that I worked too, and this idea already saved me once. 这个故事潜移默化地改变了我的工作方式,这一转变已经拯救了我一次,这个故事潜移默化地改变了我的工作方式,这一转变已经拯救了我一次。 It saved me when I was in the middle of writing “Eat, Pray, Love,” 那是在写《美食、祈祷、爱》的时候, ...

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