SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
But something strikes you when you move to America and travel around the world: 但搬到美国后，有些事使我印象深刻： Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects. Every one. 如果你周游世界，你会发现每个国家的教育体系都存在相同的学科等级制度。没有例外。 Doesn't matter where you go. You'd think it would be otherwise, but it isn't. 不论哪个国家。...
These bacteria are not passive riders, these are incredibly important, they keep us alive. 这些细菌不是顺从的乘客，他们难以置信得重要，他们让我们活着。 They cover us in an invisible body armor that keeps environmental insults out so that we stay healthy. 它们是我们身上的无形盔甲，阻断来之环境的伤，保持我们的健康。 They digest our food, they make our vitamins, they actually e...
Now the final part of the trilogy was I wanted to focus on the body and try to be the healthiest person I could be, the healthiest person alive. 最后一步是，我希望注重自己的身体，尽可能达到最健康的状态，成为世上最健康的人。 So that's what I've been doing the last couple of years. 所以过去几年内我做了刚才提到的那些事情。 And I just finished a couple of months ago. And...
The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, 巴勒斯坦诗人Mourid Barghouti曾经写到：如果你想剥夺一群人的权利， the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, "secondly." 最简单的办法就是讲述一个关于他们的故事，并且从“第二点”开始讲起。 Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, 从印第安土著人...
The World Health Organization just did a big study that they published this year. 世界卫生组织做了一个大型研究，并于今年出版。 And it was done in Europe. 研究在欧洲进行。 And they estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution. 他们预计，人类过去160万年形成的健康生活方式在欧洲逐年减少，这正是由于噪音污染。 So they ...
Our system isn't just being shaped in these ways that seem to be distorting around race, they're also distorted by poverty. 我们的司法系统不仅是改变了，而是围绕着种族问题扭曲了，也围绕着贫困扭曲了。 We have a system of justice in this country that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. 如果你是有罪的富人而不是无辜的...
But the first time that I took my book out of my suitcase, the coolest girl in the bunk came up to me and she asked me, 但是当我第一次把书从行李箱中拿出来的时候，床铺中最酷的那个女孩向我走了过来，并且她问我： "Why are you being so mellow?" — mellow, of course, being the exact opposite of R-O-W-D-I-E. “为什么你要这么安静？”安静，当然，是R-O-W-D-I-E的反义词，“...
What these things have in common is that kids will take a chance. 以上例子的共同点就是孩子们愿意冒险。 If they don't know, they'll have a go. Am I right? 对于未知的事物，他们愿意去尝试。难道不是吗？ They're not frightened of being wrong. I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. 即使尝试的结果是错误的，他们也不惧怕。当然，我并...
Good morning. How are you? It's been great, hasn't it? 早上好，还好吗? 很好吧，对不对? I've been blown away by the whole thing. In fact, I'm leaving. 我已经飘飘然了! 我要飘走了。 There have been three themes running through the conference which are relevant to what I want to talk about. 这次会议有三个主题，这三个主题贯穿会议始终，并且和我要谈的内容有关。 One ...
Data is often better than you think. Many people say data is bad. 大家总说数据不准确，数据其实比我们想象的好很多。 There is an uncertainty margin, but we can see the difference here: Cambodia, Singapore. 数据是有误差，但我们看一下柬埔寨和新加坡的差距。 The differences are much bigger than the weakness of the data. 这一差距肯定远大于数据的误差。 East Europe: Soviet economy fo...
I've spent the last decade subjecting myself to pain and humiliation, hopefully for a good cause, which is self-improvement. 过去的10年时间，我一直处于悲伤和羞辱中，期待着有一个好的理由改变自己，这个理由就是自我提高。 And I've done this in three parts. So first I started with the mind. 于是我从三方面开始做起，首先从心智开始。 And I decided to try to get smarter by re...
Of course, Africa is a continent full of catastrophes: 当然了，非洲大陆充满了灾难： There are immense ones, such as the horrific rapes in Congo and depressing ones, 有的灾难，比如刚果猖獗的强奸，是无比巨大的； such as the fact that 5,000 people apply for one job vacancy in Nigeria. 而有的现实，比如尼日利亚5千人申请一个工作职位，则更让人无比的压抑。 But there are other storie...
So this might be a good moment to take a quick time-out to answer a few FAQs about ocean rowing that might be going through your mind. 现在也许正好可以利用一点时间来进行关于大洋横渡的一些问题的解答，当然，这些问题有可能就是你们想问的。 Number one that I get asked: What do you eat? A few freeze-dried meals, but mostly I try and eat much more unprocessed foods. 第一个问题是：...
We then have these coders look at these tapes, four of them. 接着我们得出下列四种结果。 They're blind to the hypothesis. They're blind to the conditions. 他们不知道假设前提。他们不知道具体情形。 They have no idea who's been posing in what pose, and they end up looking at these sets of tapes, 他们不知道谁摆什么样的姿势，接着他们观看了这些带子， and they say, "...
To finish I'll just show you the strategy. 最后，我只跟你们说一下战略。 In this one I'm just using the interspecies molecule, but the logic is exactly the same. 在这里，我们只是使用跨菌种分子，但是思维逻辑是一模一样的。 What you know is that when that bacterium gets into the animal, in this case, a mouse, it doesn't initiate virulence right away. 你们都知道，当细...
Then one Saturday, we went to his village to visit, 后来的一个星期六，我们去Fide的村庄拜访， and his mother showed us a beautifully patterned basket made of dyed raffia that his brother had made. 她的母亲向我们展示了一个精美别致的草篮–是Fide的哥哥用染过色的酒椰叶编织的。 I was startled. It had not occurred to me that anybody in his family could actually make something....
And I remember looking at these two versions of my obituary and thinking, "Oh boy, I'm on totally the wrong track here. 我记得我面对着我的这两份讣告，心想：“哦，天呐，我处在错误的人生轨道上， If I carry on living as I am now, I'm just not going to end up where I want to be in five years, or 10 years, or at the end of my life." 如果我继续这样生活下去，我是不...
So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. 当我们提起肢体语言，我们就想到我们如何论断别人，别人如何论断我们以及后果会是什么。 We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves. 我们往往忘记这点，受到肢体动作所影响的那群观众，就是我们自己。 We are a...
But, as I was approaching the end of my water reserves, luckily, our courses were converging. 但是正当我储备的水接近枯竭时，我们幸运地碰到了一起。 They were running out of food; I was running out of water. 他们没有了食物，我没有了水。 So we liaised by satellite phone and arranged to meet up. 我们用卫星电话取得了联系，安排见面。 And it took about a week for us to actually gra...
When I was 19, I was in a really bad car accident. 在我19岁的时候，发生了一场很严重的车祸。 I was thrown out of a car, rolled several times. I was thrown from the car. 我整个人飞出车外，滚了好几圈。我是被扔出车外的。 And I woke up in a head injury rehab ward, and I had been withdrawn from college, 之后我在休息室醒来以后，头部重伤，于是我从大学里休学， and I learned that my I...