Now in the nature area, we look at whether or not we are innately equipped with something, 在天份的方面，我们必须要检视我们是否生来就有这天赋， perhaps in our brains, some abnormal chromosome that causes this muse-like effect.
Now that's the Good Country Index. What's it there for? 这就是好国家指数。它有什么目的？ Well, it's there really because I want to try to introduce this word, or reintroduce this word, into the discourse. 它存在的目的是因为我想
When you watch a movie and you see a bird flapping its wings... 看电影的时候你看到一只鸟在拍打着它的翅膀... They haven't really recorded the bird. 他们并没真正去给那只鸟录音。 It sounds a lot more realistic if you record a sheet or sh
It had a gas station, a general store, two houses at its peak. 那儿有一个加油站，一个百货商店，山顶还有两座房子。 And this is of course a completely irresistible metaphor to a novelist, 这对小说家而言具有非常重要的象征意义， because we would al
But actually, aren't most of us not really so very good at empathy? 但事实上，我们大多数人难道不是缺乏同情心吗？ Oh sure, we're very good at empathy when it's a question of dealing with people who kind of look like us 当然，我
He had no idea what that was, so I spent an hour trying on all these damn jeans, 他一头雾水，结果我花了一个钟头试穿了所有这些该死的牛仔裤， and I walked out of the store -- truth! -- with the best-fitting jeans I had ever had. I
But again, when it comes to the decisions which are impacting us the most, 但是，当我们谈论到最影响我们的决定， perhaps, the most important decisions that are being made about war and so forth, 可能关于类似战争这种最重要的决定时， again
That's what I would like you to do, and I'd like you to use it as a stick with which to beat your politicians. 这是我希望你做的，我希望你用它当一根棍子来鞭策你的政党。 When you elect them, when you reelect them, when you vote fo
I was in Congo in February, 二月份的时候我在刚果， dancing and celebrating with women who've survived the destruction of their selves in literally unthinkable ways 与那些自我曾遭受难以想象的毁灭的女人们一起跳舞庆祝， destroyed because ot
There is one corner, by the way, that I'm not going to tell anybody about, where the WiFi actually works. 但是，这个饭店里的确有一个地方可以无线上网。 I'm not telling you about it because I want to use it. 可我不会告诉你们在哪，不告诉你的
Ze isn't just a great public intellectual, he's also a brilliant community builder, 泽不仅是一名出色的公知，而且是一名优秀的社团组织者， and the community of people that built up around these videos was in many ways a communit
Now the other thing you'll notice about the top 10 there is, 另外一件你注意到的前十名的事情是， of course, they're all, apart from New Zealand, Western European nations. 当然，除了新西兰以外，它们都是欧州国家。 They're also all rich. Thi
I want to say -- just a little autobiographical moment -- that I actually am married to a wife, and she's really quite wonderful. 我想抽一点时间说说自己，我娶了我现在的太太，她是一个很好的妻子。 I couldn't have done better. I didn't
And you're waiting for me to tell you which one comes top. 你在等我告诉你哪个国家是第一名。 And I'm going to tell you, but first of all I want to tell you precisely what I mean when I say a good country. 我会告诉你，但首先让我告
Well, that's not exactly the story, because the problem was that Parliament delayed and delayed releasing that data, 呵呵，但我讲述的并不是很完整的故事。因为问题在于，议会不断地拖延公布这些信息， and then they tried to retrospectively chan
I think what all these masters knew is that by hiding the source, you create a sense of mystery. 我认为这些大师都懂得通过隐藏声音来源，来创造神秘的感觉。 This has been seen in cinema over and over, with Hitchcock, and Ridley Sco
And so you may say, well, given all of that, why then doesn't it work? 你可能说，就算这样，为什么不奏效呢？ Why can we not make our politicians change? Why can't we demand them? 为什么我们无法让政党改变？为什么我们无法要求他们？ Well I, like a
You really want to get the decision right if it's for all eternity, right? 当你进入极乐世界时，你一定希望你做出的决定是正确的，是吗？ You don't want to pick the wrong mutual fund, or the wrong salad dressing. So that's one effect
Frosty the coal man is a jolly, happy soul. 雪白煤碳先生是个快乐的精灵。 He's abundant here in America, and he helps our economy grow. 它在美国产量丰富，并且帮助我们的经济成长。 Frosty the coal man is getting cleaner everyday. 雪白的煤碳先生每
You know, I always wonder, who makes up those rules? 我一直都挺郁闷的，到底是谁制定这样的臭规定啊？ For years I went to -- Look, I went the Harvard Ed School. I thought I knew something. 多年以来，我一直会去哈佛的Ed学校。我想我还是了解一些情况的。 They
