We didn't get our authority from the board of selectmen 我们既没有得到行政委员会的授权 or the emergency management director or the United Way. 也没有被应急办主任或是Uited Way批准 We just started answering questions and makin
Every day, in the smallest towns and biggest cities across this country, about one in three Americans gets up and goes to work at a small business. Maybe they have coworkers, or maybe, for now, it'
But the second truth is that we're all going to spend most of our lives not in that place 而第二条真理我们总是将生命中大部分时间用在这个地方之外 We keep veering away from that place again and again and again In fact, we may
So how can we find ways to make arguments yield something positive? 所以我们如何去进行辩论，并使之有一些积极的影响呢？ What we need is new exit strategies for arguments. 我们所需要的是一个新的方式来终止一场辩论。 But we're not going to have n
Now around Chernobyl, there are scattered ghost villages, 如今切尔诺贝利附近到处是毫无人烟的村庄， eerily silent, strangely charming, bucolic, totally contaminated. 静得吓人，诡谲迷人的气息，一片荒芜，完全受到污染。 Many were bulldozed under at
The Bible suggests that those who divorce and remarry should be put to death. 圣经里建议那些离婚之后又再婚的人，应该被处以死刑。 Why? Well because the New Testament defines divorce as adultery; the Old Testament prescribes de
Wow! Let me just take it in. First of all, it is beyond a pleasure and an honor to be here to celebrate the City College of New York Class of 2016! You all, I mean, this has been the most fun I think
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 Cen
And I can't imagine a place where I would be more likely to find the leaders of that revolution 我想象不到其它任何地方比史密斯学院更适合作为这场革命领导者的孕育之地 Than right here at Smith At the moment, our society's notion
After a lethal 1995 heat wave 在历经了1995年致命热浪侵袭后， turned refrigerator trucks from the popular Taste of Chicago festival into makeshift morgues, 它将那些在芝加哥美食庆典的冷藏车转换成临时搭建的停尸间 Chicago became a recognized le
In Nigeria, 在尼日利亚 open-source SMS tools are being used by the Red Cross community workers 红十字会的工作人员也在使用开放的短信工具 to gather information from the local community 他们从当地社区里收集资料 in an attempt to better under
Hi, I'm Joni Ernst and I have the honor of serving the great state of Iowa in the United States Senate. It's a long way from Red Oak, Iowa to Washington, D.C., but often I think back to even m
People always laugh when I say Strom Thurmond. You remember Strom Thurmond. Strom Thurmond was the senator from South Carolina. 我一提到斯特罗姆·舍尔蒙德这名字观众们就开始笑，你们还记得斯特罗姆这人吧？斯特罗姆·舍尔蒙德是个来自南卡罗来纳州的参议员。 He had bee
With millions of young people from china and India and brazil. 来自中国 印度 巴西 数以百万计的年轻人。 Many of whom started with a whole lot less than all of you did. 很多人比你们最初所拥有的还要少很多。 All of them entering the global
Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives 糟糕政策结果更主要的原因是 碰到复杂难解问题时所犯下的诚实错误 而不是出于恶劣动机 For these reasons, th
It's useful, in part, because it reminds us that we all have feelings that we don't act upon, maybe shouldn't act upon. 它的好处在于，这种区分提醒我们：我们都有很多并没有付诸行动的，或者本就不该付诸行动的情感和感受。 I'll give you a
"I don't care how well your business is doing You're not taking care of you "我不关心你的生意做得怎样""你肯定没照顾好自己" Your business might have a great bottom line, but you are your mo
Data. Data is inherently unsexy, but it can jumpstart an area's recovery. 看看数据。数据一向很枯燥，但能极大推动一个地区的重建 FEMA and the state will pay 85 percent of the cost of a federally declared disaster, FEMA和所在州会支
One illustration of the transformational power of technology is in Kibera. 一个与科技改革力量有关的例子发生在基贝拉 Kibera is one of Africa's largest slums. 基贝拉是非洲最大的贫民窟之一 It's on the outskirts of Nairobi, the ca
Hi Well, it's nice to be back at Princeton I find it difficult to believe that it's been almost 11 years 嗨 很高兴能回到普林斯顿 很难相信我离校赴华盛顿任职 Since I departed these halls for Washington I wrote recently
