奥巴马每周电视讲话:总统呼吁拉中产阶级一把

Hi, everybody. 大家好! This week, in my State of the Union Address, I talked about what we can do to make sure middle-class economics helps more Americans get ahead in the new economy. 本周,在我的国情咨文演讲中,我谈论了为保证中产阶级经济发展方式帮助更多美国人民在新经济环境下取得进步,我们所应该做的事情。 See, after some tough years, and thanks to some tough decisions we m...

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金墉美国东北大学(2)

A recent study by a group of psychologists in the journal Science 几位心理学家最近在《科学》杂志上发表了一篇研究论文 found that people are extremely poor at predicting their futures 他们发现人极其不擅长预测自己的未来 The study showed 他们的研究显示 that, for example, a typical 20-year-old woman's predictions 例如 一个典型的20岁女性 for life changes in the next decade of ...

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TED演讲:飞向海洋(2)

Well, it's the relative importance. 就是二者间的相对重要性。 You would say — yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know this;water covers twice the area of the planet than dry land. 也许你会说,是,是,是,我们都知道,地球上水覆盖的面积是陆地的两倍。 But it's a question of perception, and if that's what you're thinking, if that's what you think I mean when I say...

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奥巴马总统在马里兰州布莱登斯堡高中的演讲

Hello, Mustangs! (Applause.) Fantastic. Well, everybody have a seat. Have a seat. Thank you, Leah, for the great introduction. Give Leah a big round of applause. Yay! (Applause.) Meeting young people like Leah just makes me inspired. It’s a good way to start the week. And all of the students here who are discovering and exploring new ideas is one of the reasons I love visiti...

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英国首相卡梅伦对英国小型企业的致辞

My message to Britain’s small businesses is you are the lifeblood of our economy. Over 90% of firms in this country are small firms, over 60% people working in the private sector work for businesses like yours. So please keep doing what you are doing, creating the jobs, the wealth and the success our country needs. The government is on your side. We want to get out of your w...

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奥巴马总统呼吁美国国会延长紧急失业保险法案的演讲

THE PRESIDENT: Please, everybody, have a seat.(Applause.) Well, Happy New Year, everybody. AUDIENCE: Happy New Year! THE PRESIDENT: I hope you’re keeping warm. A few weeks ago, I said that 2014 could be a breakthrough year for America. Think about it: Five years ago this month oureconomy was shedding 800,000 jobs just in one month. But as Americans buckled down and worked ha...

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国际货币基金组织总裁拉加德2014年国际妇女节致辞

We at the IMF are celebrating International Women’s Day today. And I would like to share this moment with you to tell you that, at the IMF, we are trying to focus on women’s issues: making sure that everybody knows that women make a difference, that women bring value to the table, that they contribute to the economy and that they matter enormously when it’s a question of foc...

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奥巴马每周电视讲话:总统提出帮助中产阶级繁荣经济

Hi, everybody. 大家好! At a moment when our economy is growing, our businesses are creating jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990s, and wages are starting to rise again, we have to make some choices about the kind of country we want to be. 当前我们的经济发展走势良好,我们的企业也正创造着超过上世纪90年代最高水平的工作机遇,而且工资也开始上涨,但我们要选择一下我们国家需要什...

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TED演讲:我们向前了一步 接下来呢?(6)

And it turns out, everywhere in the world, women need more self-confidence,because the world tells us we're not equal to men. 我们发现,在世界上任何地方 女性也要拥有更多的自信因为社会告诉我们和男性并不平等。 Everywhere in the world, we live in a world where the men get and, and women get or. 在世界的任何角落,我们也生活在 一个男性可兼顾家庭事业的社会而女性必须两者选择其...

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奥巴马总统在安赛乐米塔尔集团克利夫兰钢铁厂的演讲

THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Ohio! (Applause.) It is good to be backin Cleveland. The last time I was herewas about a year ago, in the final days of the campaign. I know how much you miss hearing how Iapprove this message every night on your TV. (Laughter.) I will say it is niceto be here when the only real battle for Ohio is the Browns-Bengals game thisSunday. (Applause.) He’s got...

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金墉美国东北大学(7)

Baumeister and his colleagues 鲍迈斯特和他的同事们 have shown that taking certain actions to improve willpower 已经证明 采取某些行动来提高意志力 is the surest way to a more successful life 是实现更成功的人生的最可靠的途径 Moreover, they've shown that willpower is like a muscle 此外 他们也已证明 意志力就像肌肉 that can be built with practice 可以通过锻炼来强化 but also th...

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TED演讲:银行是如何被掏空的(5)

And this was a matter first of dogma. 首先,这完全是意识形态在作祟。 They're just horrifically opposed to anything regulatory. 他们反对任何形式的监管措施令人震惊和深恶痛绝。 But it is also the international competition in laxity, the race to the bottom between the United States and the United Kingdom, the city of London, in particular,and the city of London won that race...

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肖恩库姆斯霍华德大学(15)

Okay, I see some of you will need to talk to yourselves a little bit 我认为你们有些人应该对自己说一下 Start on Monday 周一开始 if you aren't talking to yourself like crazy and you don't know how powerful you are 如果你不知道自己有多强大 you know, you will need to start to talk to yourself in a mirror 你每天早上可以对着镜子问自己 every morning, do you know how powerfu...

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TED演讲:如何不对世界感到无知(1)

I'm going to ask you three multiple choice questions. 我会给你们做三道多项选择题。 Use this device. Use this device to answer. 用这个装置来回答。 The first question is, how did the number of deaths per year from natural disaster,how did that change during the last century? 第一个问题是 在过去一个世纪里每年因自然灾害死亡的人数发生了怎样的变化。 Did it more than double, di...

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TED演讲:飞向海洋(4)

And then by moving through the water it's able to take that control. 通过在水中的运动,它能够控制自如。 Now, look at that; look, it's she just blew me away. 现在,看,看—她刚刚把我刮走了。 She just rolled right away from underneath. 她刚刚从下面翻了个跟斗, Really that's the only real dive I've ever made in this machine. 这是我在这台机器里唯一一次真正的下潜。...

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美国国务院"2014年国际妇女勇气奖"颁奖典礼

AMBASSADOR RUSSELL: Good morning,everyone. Mrs. Obama, Deputy Secretary Higginbottom, all of your excellencieswith us today, distinguished guests, it’s my pleasure to welcome all of you tothe Department of State for the eighth annual presentation of the Secretary ofState’s International Woman of Courage Awards. We’re delighted to have you heretoday to celebrate the 103th ann...

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TED演讲:如何不对世界感到无知(5)

Okay, this was good evolutionarily,but now when it comes to the worldview,it is the exact reason why it's upside down. 好吧 这对进化来说是件好事,但是当涉及到世界观时这恰恰是导致结论颠倒的原因。 The trends that are increasing are instead falling,and the other way around,and in this case, the chimps use our intuition against us,and it becomes our weakness instead of our s...

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肖恩库姆斯霍华德大学(16)

For a lot of people, the distance between their dreams and their reality is intimidating 在很多人看来 梦想和现实之间的差距太吓人 and they get stuck they get paralyzed 他们因此变得无力 不敢往前 just like I was in that marathon 就像我在马拉松中的情况那样 and the only way forward 前进的唯一办法 is to be real about what it's going to take for you to achieve those dreams 是坦...

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肖恩库姆斯霍华德大学(6)

Right there, in that library 就在那个图书馆里 I realized 我意识到 there is nothing greater than a mother's love and desire to protect her child 没有什么比母亲的爱和想保护孩子的心更伟大 nothing 没有什么比得了 I also decided that I will live my life in a way to make her proud 我还决定以让她自豪的方式过好我这一生 I decided to embrace the entrepreneurial spirit of my father ...

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