TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(14)

But Danny, the whole American endeavor is about life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. 可是丹尼,生命、自由和追求快乐是所有美国人奋斗的目标。 If people took seriously that finding, 假若大家都认真对待这一发现, I mean, it seems to turn upside down everything we believe about, like for example, taxation policy and so forth. 那么,这将颠覆我们固有的观念,例如,课税政策等。 Is...

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TED演讲之感动重临 一人饰演地球村内多个角色(3)

So many others you see, they're just wonderful. It's lovely to know they're concerned, you know. 还有其他好多人,他们都很棒。得知他们(对会上讨论的这些问题)非常关注,我很高兴 And — oh, I saw Goldie Hawn. Oh, Goldie Hawn. I love her, too; she's wonderful. Yeah. 噢对,我还见到了戈尔迪霍恩。噢天哪,戈尔迪霍恩,我太喜欢她了,她真的很棒,是的 You know, she&...

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TED演讲之感动重临 我的多调人声(5)

So every noise you can hear there is my voice. 所以说,你们听到的所有声响都是我的声音 I didn't just trigger something which sounds like that. 我并没有触发一个那样的装置 There's no samples. There's no synthesizers. 根本没有样本,没有音响合成器 That is literally all my voice being manipulated, 只是我在控制我的声音 and when you get to that point, you have to ask, do...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(13)

Thank you. I've got a question for you. Thank you so much. 谢谢您的演讲。我有个问题想请教您。非常感谢您的演说。 Now, when we were on the phone a few weeks ago, 几星期前,我们有过一次电话通讯, you mentioned to me that there was quite an interesting result came out of that Gallup survey. 当时您提到您从盖洛普的调查中发现了一个有趣的现象。 Is that something you can share si...

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TED演讲之感动重临 我嘴里的乐队(1)

My name is Tom, and I've come here today to come clean about what I do for money. 我叫汤姆,今天我来到这里向大家坦白交待我的谋生之道 Basically, I use my mouth in strange ways in exchange for cash. 基本上,我靠嘴巴以特殊的方式来换现金 I usually do this kind of thing in seedy downtown bars and on street corners, 我通常都在闹市区的破酒吧和街角做这事儿 so this mightn't b...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:哲学早餐俱乐部(7)

The British Association would later be the first 英国科学进步协会也是后来 of the major national science organizations in the world to admit women as full members. 第一个接收女性成为正式会员的主流国家学术团体。 Up to the 19th century, natural philosophers were expected to pay for their own equipment and supplies. 上至19世纪,自然哲学家是需要自己支付实验设备和物资的。 Occasion...

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TED演讲之感动重临 我的多调人声(4)

There's always got to be a bit of a dance at the start, 开始总会先跳点儿小舞 because it's just fun, so you can clap along if you want. 只是因为好玩儿,你们可以跟着节拍拍手 You don't have to. It's fine. Check it out. 不一定非得拍,没关系,看着 I'm going to lay down a bass sound now. 现在我要加入一个男低音 And now, a rockabilly guitar. 接下来,乡村摇滚吉他 ...

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TED演讲之感动重临 献给欺凌的受害者(7)

Every school was a big top circus tent, and the pecking order went from acrobats to lion tamers, 每个学校都像是一个大马戏团,人与人之间等级分明,从杂耍员到驯兽师, from clowns to carnies, all of these miles ahead of who we were. 从小丑到龙套,他们的等级都比我们高好几层楼。 We were freaks — lobster claw boys and bearded ladies, oddities juggling depression and lonelines...

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TED演讲之感动重临 献给欺凌的受害者(5)

So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we'd be lonely forever, 所以我们长大后觉得没有人会爱上我们,我们注定孤独一辈子, that we'd never meet someone to make us feel like the sun 而我们遇到的那些把我们当作太阳的人, was something they built for us in their toolshed. 不过是把我们当作是一种备选的工具。 So broken heartstrings bled the blues,...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(5)

From the point of view of the experiencing self, clearly, B had a worse time. 从经验自我的角度来看,病人B显然是比较难受的。 Now, what you could do with Patient A, and we actually ran clinical experiments, 那么病人A的情况该如何解释,我们实际做了一个临床试验, and it has been done, and it does work 当实验完成时,我们也得到了预期的结果, you could actually extend the colonoscop...

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TED演讲之说什么 谈语言和思想(10)

In less blatant cases, there's still a kind of negotiation that often goes on. 在不那么明显的例子中,还是有一种磋商在进行着 In the workplace, for example, 比如说在工作场所 there's often a tension over whether an employee can socialize with the boss, 在员工是否能和老板套近乎这一点上都有一点紧张不安 or refer to him or her on a first-name basis. 或者是称呼他或她首名(而...

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TED演讲之说什么 你存钱的能力跟你用的语言有关?(1)

The global economic financial crisis has reignited public interest 全球金融危机让人们对早在亚当·斯密时代 in something that's actually one of the oldest questions in economics, dating back to at least before Adam Smith. 就被提出的一个古老的经济学问题重新产生了兴趣: And that is, why is it that countries with seemingly similar economies and institutions can display radical...

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TED演讲之说什么 语言如何改变人类(7)

Well, we chose the second option, and language is the result. 我们选了第二条路,语言就是产物 Language evolved to solve the crisis of visual theft. 语言的进化解决了观察性窃取的危机 Language is a piece of social technology for enhancing the benefits of cooperation 语言是社会技术用于加强合作的益处 for reaching agreements, for striking deals and for coordinating our activities. ...

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TED演讲之说什么 语言如何改变人类(8)

Once we have language, we can put our ideas together and cooperate to have a prosperity 一旦我们有了语言,我们可以分享想法并合作,从而创造繁荣 that we couldn't have before we acquired it. 没有语言这是无法完成的 And this is why our species has prospered around the world 这就是为什么人类在全世界繁衍发展 while the rest of the animals sit behind bars in zoos, languishing. 而...

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TED演讲之说什么 你存钱的能力跟你用的语言有关?(6)

So imagine that you're a retired household in Belgium and someone comes to your front door. 想象一下你是一个比利时的退休老人,有一天有人跑来敲你家的门。 "Excuse me, would you mind if I peruse your stock portfolio? “打扰了,你能跟我说下你的股票投资情况么? Do you happen to know how much your house is worth? Do you mind telling me? 你知道自己的房子值多少钱么?方便告诉...

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TED演讲之说什么 你存钱的能力跟你用的语言有关?(2)

Holding down the right flank of the OECD, all the way on the other side, is Greece. 在图右侧的这些国家,最右边的是希腊, And what you can see is that over the last 25 years, 我们看到在过去25年 Greece has barely managed to save more than 10 percent of their GDP. 希腊的国民储蓄率刚超过10%。 It should be noted, of course, that the United States and the U.K. are the next in line...

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TED演讲之说什么 不要固执于英语(1)

I know what you're thinking. 我知道你们在想什么。 You think I've lost my way, 你们想我迷路了, and somebody's going to come on the stage in a minute and guide me gently back to my seat. 有人马上会上台,把我领回到我的座位。 I get that all the time in Dubai. "Here on holiday are you, dear?" 在迪拜老是有人这样问我。“亲爱的,来度假啊?” "Come to visit ...

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TED演讲之说什么 重新定义字典(4)

So — now, when you think about this, what we have here is a ham butt problem. 所以,现在,当你想到这些,我们面对的问题其实是火腿屁股的问题。 Does everyone know the ham butt problem? 有人知道火腿屁股的问题吗? Woman's making a ham for a big, family dinner. 有个女人正在弄火腿,给一个大家庭做晚餐。 She goes to cut the butt off the ham and throw it away, 她正要把火腿根...

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TED演讲之说什么 语言如何改变人类(3)

Now the reason the chimpanzees don't do that 黑猩猩不那么做的原因 is that they lack what psychologists and anthropologists call social learning. 是它们缺乏心理学家和人类学家所谓的社会学习能力 They seem to lack the ability to learn from others by copying or imitating or simply watching. 它们似乎缺乏向别人学习的能力,通过照搬或模仿或者仅仅观察 As a result, they can't i...

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TED演讲之说什么 语言如何改变人类(9)

Language really is the voice of our genes. 语言的确是我们基因的声音 Now having evolved language, though, we did something peculiar, even bizarre. 尽管我们有发达的语言,但我们也做了件特殊,甚至可以说是件奇怪的事 As we spread out around the world, we developed thousands of different languages. 当我们分散到全世界,我们发展出成千上万种语言 Currently, there are about seven or 8,0...

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