TED演讲之2.0版城市:为什么好的黑客可以塑造好的公民(2)

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...

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TED演讲 谈上帝与海啸(2)

He wrote, "If some religious genius did come up with an explanation of exactly why all these deaths made sense,would we feel happier, or safer, or more confident in God?" 他写道:“如果真有宗教天才能够解释通为什么这些死亡是合理的,难道我们会感到更幸福、更安全或对上帝更有信心吗?” If the man in the photograph that appeared in the newspapers,holding the hand of his de...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:探索性商的奥秘(1)

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...

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TED演讲 网络设计 事关你我(4)

And we try to use one of these phones from time to time to keep in touch with their reality. 而且我们尝试着时常使用这些手机以确保我们了解用户的实际使用情况。 So what does it mean to design at a global scale? 所以这个对全球范围的设计有什么意义? It means difficult and sometimes exasperating work to try to improve and evolve products. 这是一项困难而且出力不讨好的工作去尝试着改...

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TED演讲:论生物多样性(6)

And let us call it the Encyclopedia of Life. 不妨将此项目称为生命百科。 What is the Encyclopedia of Life? A concept that has already taken hold and is beginning to spread and be looked at seriously? 生命百科的概念已经得到人们的认同并且正在不断的传播与普及? It is an encyclopedia that lives on the Internet and is contributed to by thousands of scientists around the world. 这...

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TED演讲:论生物多样性(2)

In so doing, I reached a frontier of biology so strange, so rich,that it seemed as though it exists on another planet. 通过这样的方式,我来到一个非常古怪却又非常丰富的生物学领域,简直就像降临到别的星球一样。 In fact, we live on a mostly unexplored planet. 事实上,我们就生活在一个很多地方皆未被研究的星球上。 The great majority of organisms on Earth remain unknown to science. ...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:城市与企业中的奇妙数学(4)

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 &#...

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奥巴马总统在2014北约峰会期间举办的新闻发布会

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon. Let me begin by thanking my great friend, Prime Minister Cameron — and his entire team — for hosting this NATO Summit and making it such a success. And I want to thank the people of Newport and Cardiff and the people of Wales for welcoming me and my delegation so warmly. It’s a great honor to be the first sitting U.S. President to...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:设计改变城市,创意成就舒适(2)

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...

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英国副首相克莱格给2014年穆斯林古尔邦节的视频致辞

I want to wish Eid Mubarak to all Muslims celebrating Eid and a safe journey to those now on Hajj. I know that many of you use this special time to reflect on what’s important to you in your lives: your family, your friends, your beliefs, your commitment to do the best you can for others. It’s also a time to think about sacrifice and struggle – and that is particularly poign...

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耶伦纽约大学(7)

My predecessor at the Fed, Chairman Ben Bernanke 我在美联储的前任本·伯南克主席 demonstrated such courage 就证明了这份勇气 especially in his response to the threat of the financial crisis 特别体现在他对金融危机威胁所作出的反应 To stabilize the financial system and restore economic growth 为了让金融体系保持稳定并恢复经济增长 he took courageous actions that were unprecedented i...

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耶伦纽约大学(2-1)

Janet, I offer you my deepest appreciation you were my teacher for macroeconomics when I was a graduate student. 珍妮特 我在此表示对你深深的尊敬你是我读研究生时的宏观经济学老师 Thank you 谢谢你 That learning has meant a lifetime to me. 这一学习过程让我受益终生 In 2004 you took the helm of the District Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco before rising to become vice chair a...

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奥巴马美国军事学院(7)

Like Eisenhower, this generation of men and women in uniform know all too well the wages of war and that includes those of you here at West Point 同艾森豪威尔一样 这一代身着军装的年轻人 也都非常清楚战争的代价 你们西点人肯定知道这一点 Four of the servicemembers who stood in the audience when I announced the surge of our forces in Afghanistan gave their lives in that effort 在...

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英国国防大臣法伦在2014年英国保守党秋季年会上的演讲

To address this Conference is always an honour; to do so as Defence Secretary is a privilege. The first duty of government is to keep Britain safe. As a Party we can be proud that not only have we tackled the largest peacetime deficit but we have also sorted the defence budget. That’s because we have a Prime Minister who puts defence at the top of his priorities. And a Chanc...

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百度CEO李彦宏演讲 :中国硅谷的发展

It's not a million-dollar question. 这不仅仅是几百万美元的问题 It's a trillion-dollar question. 这可关系到几万亿美元 I think many of the Chinese are very eager to find out 许多中国人急于找出 what it takes to form a Silicon Valley in China, 在中国形成硅谷的方法 especially for the government officials. 尤其是政府官员 During the past 30 years, 在过去的30年里 China maint...

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TED演讲 自杀者的生死之桥(4)

For most suicidal folks,or those contemplating suicide,they wouldn't think of hurting another person. 对于大多数试图自杀者,或考虑自杀的人,他们不会想到会伤害到另一个人, They just want their own pain to end. 他们就是想结束自己的痛苦。 Typically, this is accomplished in just three ways: 通常,只有三种方法可以实现: sleep, drugs or alcohol, or death. 睡觉,毒品或酒精,或...

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TED演讲 谈上帝与海啸(4)

The supreme commander toying with expendable units in a great campaign. 在一场大战中,最高指挥官玩弄着可被牺牲掉的部队。 We are still left with a God who can do the tsunami and allow Auschwitz. 留给我们的仍然是一个可以引发海啸、允许奥斯威辛集中营存在的上帝。 In his great novel, The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky gives these words to Ivan,addressed to his naive and devout you...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:漫谈时光流逝(1)

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: "...

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加拿大总理哈珀10月30日在安大略省旺市发表演讲

Thank you very much. Good afternoon. It’s wonderful to have so many of you here, in particular to see all of the kids who have been able to join us today. Thank you all for being here. Thank you first of all to my introducer. Joe is not just a great member of our team but you should know that he really took up the work that Jim Flaherty and I had begun. He has worked very ha...

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美国国务卿克里在波士顿学院2014年毕业典礼上的演讲

Your Eminence Cardinal O’Malley, Father President Leahy, Father Monan, Father Devino, members of the faculty, my fellow recipients of honorary degrees, parents, siblings, and the distinguished class of 2014: Congratulations to everybody here today. You know I thought I had a lot to worry about as I was listening to the introduction, between Afghanistan and Iran and so forth....

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