TED演讲之感动重临 我的多调人声(1)

I'd like you all to ask yourselves a question which you may never have asked yourselves before: 我希望你们先问你们自己一个问题,这个问题可能你们从没问过自己 What is possible with the human voice? 人的声音能干些什么? What is possible with the human voice? 人的声音能干些什么? It was coming straight for me. I had to. It was, yeah. 它直接朝我飞过来,打到我了,疼啊 As you c...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(12)

But now, because the reflective self is in charge, 不过,既然现实由思考自我主导, you may end up — some people may end up moving to California. 一些人可能会得到这样一种结论,那就是搬到加州。 And it's sort of interesting to trace what is going to happen 他们搬去加州是为了过上更快乐的生活, to people who move to California in the hope of getting happier. 而追踪观看他...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(10)

The distinction between the happiness of the experiencing self 近年来,经验自我的快乐 and the satisfaction of the remembering self has been recognized in recent years, 和记忆自我的满足的差异性已能分清, and there are now efforts to measure the two separately. 目前正努力来分别测度两者, The Gallup Organization has a world poll where more than half a million people 盖洛普公司...

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TED演讲之感动重临 一人饰演地球村内多个角色(10)

But that's where we had some problems. 但问题就出在这儿 My son, he says he is not ready to get married. 我的儿子说他还不准备结婚 And he has a sweetheart, but she is American woman, not Chinese. 他有个女朋友,但她不是中国人,是美国人 It's not that it's bad, but I told him, "What's wrong with a Chinese woman?" 我不是说这下就坏事了,但我跟他说“中国姑娘...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(11)

We know something about what controls satisfaction of the happiness self. 我们知道什么能够让人的快乐得到满足。 We know that money is very important, goals are very important. 我们知道钱是很重要的,目标也非常重要。 We know that happiness is mainly being satisfied with people that we like, 我们知道要快乐是需要通过我们所喜爱的人来满足, spending time with people that we like. ...

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TED演讲之感动重临 一人饰演地球村内多个角色(11)

So, these are the words I am waiting to hear, but from my son, not my daughter. 这些话是我想听到的,但应该是从我儿子嘴里说出来,而不是我女儿 But at first I did not know what to do. 刚开始的时候,我真的不知道该怎么办 But then, over time, I have come to understand that this is who she is. 但过了一段时间,我开始明白了她真的就是这样的一个人 So, even though sometimes it's sti...

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TED演讲之感动重临 我嘴里的乐队(2)

I'm very, very stoked to be here today, 今天能来到这里我很兴奋 representing my kinfolk and all those that haven't managed to make a career out of an innate ability for inhuman noisemaking. 代表所有同仁和所有与生俱来能够发出非人的声音,却还未成功创出一番天地的朋友们 Because it is a bit of a niche market, 因为这算是一个利基市场 and there's not much work going on, e...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:哲学早餐俱乐部(3)

Richard Jones became an important economist who later influenced Karl Marx. 理查德·琼斯成为了一名重要的经济学家,日后他影响到了卡尔·马克思。 And Whewell not only coined the term scientist, as well as the words anode, cathode and ion, 胡威立不仅创造了“科学家”这个词,还创造了“阳极”、“阴极”和“离子”, but spearheaded international big science with his global research on the tide...

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TED演讲之感动重临 一人饰演地球村内多个角色(5)

I usually have to just like try to calm down and take a deep breath. 通常我要深呼吸让自己镇静下来 But then on top of that, you know, Sarah Jones told me we only have 18 minutes. 但更糟糕的是,莎拉琼斯告诉我,我们总共只有18分钟 So then I'm like, should I be nervous, you know, because maybe it's better. 于是我想也许我应该紧张点儿才好 And I'm just trying not to pani...

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TED演讲之感动重临 一人饰演地球村内多个角色(12)

And this roughly translates: "Please, let me hold your hand. 这段诗大致的翻译是:请让我牵你的手 I want to hold your hand. I want to hold your hand. 我想牵着你的手。我想牵着你的手 And when I touch you, I feel happy inside. 当我抚摸你时,我内心感到幸福无比 It's such a feeling that my love, I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide." 我亲爱的,我无法掩...

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TED演讲之感动重临 我嘴里的乐队(4)

I got way too much time on my hands. 我的手可是闲得不得了啊 And last but not least, 最后 the one on my right here allows me to loop loop loop loop loop loop loop loop my voice. 右边的这个功能让我能够重复重复重复重复重复重复重复重复我的声音 So with all that in mind, ladies and gentlemen, 以上表演,女士们先生们 I would like to take you on a journey to a completely separate par...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(6)

I mean, most of the moments of our life — 我们生活中的大多片刻– and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; 我算了算–从心理学角度来说仅仅只是三秒长。 that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; 这意味着人一生中大约有六亿个片刻。 in a month, there are about 600,000 — most o...

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TED演讲之感动重临 用班卓琴来建设中美关系(4)

Like the time I was in Sichuan Province 有一次我去四川 and I was singing for kids in relocation schools in the earthquake disaster zone. 在地震灾后的临时小学里给孩子们唱歌 And this little girl comes up to me. 然后一个小女孩走过来 "Big sister Wong, Washburn, Wong, same difference. 王大姐,沃什伯恩和王差不多 "Big sister Wong, can I sing you a song that my mom sang fo...

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TED演讲之感动重临 我的多调人声(3)

So once this thing really gets going, 一旦系统开始运作 and it really starts to mangle the audio I'm putting into it, 它就会把我录进去的声音切成片段 it becomes not obvious that it is the human voice, 人声的特点就不会那么明显了 but it is, so I'm going to take you through it bit by bit and start nice and simple. 所以我先一点一点的带你们体验一下,来点儿简单易懂的 So the ...

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TED演讲之感动重临 我嘴里的乐队(3)

And before we reach our final destination, ladies and gentlemen, 在到达本次旅途终点前,女士们先生们 I would like to share with you some technology 我想给大家展示一下 that I brought all the way from the thriving metropolis of Brisbane. 从新兴大都市布里斯班带来的一项技术 These things in front of me here are called Kaoss Pads, 我面前的这堆东西叫合成器 and they allow me to do a ...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(8)

I mean, how much do we consume our memories? 我们使用了多少的记忆? That is one of the explanations that is given for the dominance of the remembering self. 这可以解释记忆自我为何能成为主导的自我。 And when I think about that, I think about a vacation we had in Antarctica a few years ago, 这让我想起一次假期,几年前在南极度过的假期, which was clearly the best vacation I'...

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TED演讲之感动重临 献给欺凌的受害者(2)

We were being told that we somehow must become what we are not, 不知道为什么我们总是被灌输,我们必须变成跟自己不同的样子, sacrificing what we are to inherit the masquerade of what we will be. 牺牲原本的自我来适应我们将要戴上的身份面具。 I was being told to accept the identity that others will give me. 我总是被要求接受别人赋予我的身份。 And I wondered, what made my dreams so...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(7)

And in this way, time is actually the critical variable 因此时间是区分 that distinguishes a remembering self from an experiencing self; 记忆自我和经验自我的关键因素。 time has very little impact on the story. 时间对这个故事的影响不大。 Now, the remembering self does more than remember and tell stories. 记忆自我所做的不仅是记忆和讲述故事。 It is actually the one that makes de...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(3)

What this is telling us, really, 这告诉我们, is that we might be thinking of ourselves and of other people in terms of two selves. 我们在思考自己和别人时,用了两种自我。 There is an experiencing self, 第一种则为经验自我, who lives in the present and knows the present, is capable of re-living the past, 这种自我活在当下,洞察当下,同时也能回味过往, but basically it has only...

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TED演讲之感动重临 用班卓琴来建设中美关系(1)

If you had caught me straight out of college in the halls of the Vermont State House 如果你在我本科刚毕业后在佛蒙特州议会大楼里遇到我 where I was a lobbyist in training and asked me what I was going to do with my life, 那时我还正在参加说客培训,并同时问我我的人生理想是什么 I would have told you that I'd just passed the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, 我会告诉你我刚通过了汉语水平...

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