SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
You didn't break it. It's just in a new position, 你没有破坏它，只是让它移到一个新的地方， and that new position can be just as beautiful. 这新的地方也可以是一样美丽。 Now, if you're no longer a traffic cop — the problem with being a traffic cop is 现在，你不再是交警–交警管理交通的问题是 there can only be so many traffic cops in any one intersection, ...
Lexicography is really more about material science. 字典编纂学是研究物质的科学。 We are studying the tolerances of the materials that you use to build the structure of your expression: your speeches and your writing. 我们在研究不同物料的偏差，当你去架构你的表达的时候：你的演说和写作。 And then, often people say to me, "Well, OK, how do I know that this word is real?&quo...
This formula works wherever metaphor is present. 这个公式适用于所有的暗喻。 Elvis uses it, but so does Shakespeare in this famous line from "Romeo and Juliet:" Juliet is the sun. 埃尔维斯用到它，莎士比亚也同样用到它，于《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中有这样的名句：朱丽叶是太阳。 Now, here, Shakespeare gives the thing, Juliet, a name that belongs to something else, the sun. 在...
We've started analyzing television content using the same principles — 我们开始分析电视内容，用同样的原则– analyzing event structure of a TV signal — 分析一个电视信号的事件结构– episodes of shows, commercials, all of the components that make up the event structure. 电视剧集，广告，所有的组成事件结构的成分 And we're now, with satellite dishes, ...
Imagine if you could record your life — everything you said, everything you did, 想象一下如果你能记录你的生活–你说的一切，做的一切 available in a perfect memory store at your fingertips, 就存储在一个完美的你触手可及的记忆库 so you could go back and find memorable moments and relive them, 你可以回到过去，找寻那难忘一刻回顾这一切 or sift through traces of time and ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson described language as "fossil poetry." 诗人艾默生曾将语言描述为“化石般的诗”。 But before it was fossil poetry, language was fossil metaphor. 但是在它成为化石般的诗之前，语言是化石般的暗喻。 And these fossils still breathe. 而这些化石现在仍具有生气。 Take the three most famous words in all of Western philosophy: "Cogito ergo sum." 就拿...
Over the course of three years, we recorded eight to 10 hours a day, 历经3年的时间，我们每天记录8到10个小时 amassing roughly a quarter-million hours of multi-track audio and video. 积累了大约25万小时的多轨音频和视频资料 So you're looking at a piece of what is by far the largest home video collection ever made. 所以你现在看到的是有史以来最大的家庭录相集 And what this data...
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. 暗喻秘密地生活在我们中间。 We utter about six metaphors a minute. 于我们的言谈中，每分钟大约会出现六个暗喻。 Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, 暗喻思维是一把钥匙，它可以开启我们相互理解 how we communicate, learn, discover and invent. 沟通、学习、发现和创新的大门。 But metaphor is a way of...
So, to summarize, the idea is this: 所以，总结来说，观点是： As our world becomes increasingly instrumented 当我们的世界变得越来越工具化 and we have the capabilities to collect and connect the dots 我们有能力搜集和链接一个一个小点 between what people are saying and the context they're saying it in, 将人们的话语和他们说这些话时所处得环境联系起来 what's emerging is an ...
In order to convert this opaque, 90,000 hours of video into something that we could start to see, 为了把这个9万小时的录像变成我们能识辨的东西 we use motion analysis to pull out, as we move through space and through time, what we call space-time worms. 我们用行动分析来抽取我们在时空的移动，我们称之为时空虫。 And this has become part of our toolkit for being able to look and s...
A group of students was told that a small democratic country had been invaded and had asked the U.S. for help. 在一项研究中，一群学生被告知某个民主小国在遭到侵略后向美国寻求援助。 And they had to make a decision. What should they do? 学生们必须决定怎么办。他们该怎么做呢？ Intervene, appeal to the U.N., or do nothing? 干预，向联合国申诉，还是袖手旁观？ They were each then giv...
And he was quiet for a moment. 那一刻他很安静 And I thought, "What am I thinking? He's five years old. He's not going to understand this." 我想：“我在想什么啊？他才5岁，他不会理解这些。” And just as I was having that thought, he looked up at me and said, 而正当我怎么想着，他抬头对我说： "So that when I grow up, I can show this to my kids?" “那等我...
Why? Because we cannot ignore the metaphorical meaning of words either. 这是为什么？因为我们同样也不能忽视这些词暗喻的意义。 One of the sentences was, "Some jobs are jails." 其中一句话是：“有些工作是监狱” Now, unless you're a prison guard, the sentence "Some jobs are jails" is literally false. 当然，除非你是监狱看守，“有些工作是监狱”这句话字面上是错的...
And the implications of this — there are many, 这其中蕴含的–有很多意义 but one I just want to point out, is that there must be amazing feedback loops. 但是我想指出的其中的一个，就是这个过程中必定包涵了一个惊人的反馈循环 Of course, my son is learning from his linguistic environment, but the environment is learning from him. 当然，我的儿子是在他的语言环境中学习，但...
So he didn't just learn water. 而他并不只是学会了水 Over the course of the 24 months, the first two years that we really focused on, 在24个月里，在最初的2年里，这才是我真正关注的 this is a map of every word he learned in chronological order. 这里有一张图按照时序列出了他所学到的词汇 And because we have full transcripts, 因为我们有全部的记录 we've identified each of th...
So a word without its source is like a cut flower. 一个没有来源的词就像一朵被剪下来的花。 You know, it's pretty to look at for a while, but then it dies. It dies too fast. 看一会还可以，不久就蔫了。蔫得太快了。 So, this whole time I've been saying, "The dictionary, the dictionary, the dictionary, the dictionary." 我一直在说，“字典，字典，字典，字典。” Not &...
If you are like 98 percent of other people, 如果你象其余百分之九十八的人一样， you will identify the round, amoeboid shape as Bouba, and the sharp, spiky one as Kiki. 你会把这个圆圆的，变形虫形状的叫做Bouba，把尖尖的，刺猬状的叫做Kiki。 Can we do a quick show of hands? Does that correspond? 是这样的请举手？是不是象我说的那样？ Okay, I think 99.9 would about cover it. Why do ...
And we see these amazing structures — these little knots of two colors of thread we call "social hot spots." 我们看见令人惊讶的结构，这是两种颜色的小结点，我们把它称为社交热点 The spiral thread we call a "solo hot spot." 那些螺旋线我们称为单一热点 And we think that these affect the way language is learned. 我们觉得这个影响语言学习 What we'd like...
So if you think of the word "set," a set can be a badger's burrow, 当你想到一个词“set”—“set”可以指獾的穴， a set can be one of the pleats in an Elizabethan ruff, and there's one numbered definition in the OED. 也可以指伊利沙白时代衣领上的褶–在OED里就有好几个定义， The OED has 33 different numbered definitions for set. Tiny, little word, 33 numbered de...
We call this a co-viewing clique, a virtual living room if you will. 我们称之为共视团体，你可以把它当成一个虚拟的客厅 And there are fascinating dynamics at play. It's not one way. 这里头上演着引人注目的戏剧。它不是单向的 A piece of content, an event, causes someone to talk. They talk to other people. 一个内容，一个事件促使某人发表了意见。他们和其他人对话 That drives tune...