TED演讲之什么是爱:爱,本无条件(3)

And I said to her, "What do you think you did 我对她说, "你觉得你做了什么 that helped him to emerge as this charming, accomplished, wonderful person?" 帮他成为一个有魅力、成功、精彩的人吗?" And she said, "What did I do? I loved him, that's all. 她说,"我做了什么?我爱他,就这样 Clinton just always had that light in him. 克林顿一直都有这样的...

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TED演讲:论生物多样性(3)

We are living on a planet with a lot of activities, with reference to our living environment,done by faith and guess alone. 我们对于这个地球上所发生的许多现象,都只是通过信念或猜测来认知。 Our lives depend upon these creatures. 我们的生命依赖于这些生物。 To take an example close to home: there are over 500 species of bacteria now known friendly bacteria-living symbiotically i...

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TED演讲:如何随处种小型森林

I'm an industrial engineer. 我是一个工业工程师。 The goal in my life has always been to make more and more products in the least amount of time and resources. 在我的生命中一直追求的目标,是用最少的时间和资源,做出更多的产品。 While working at Toyota,all I knew was how to make cars until I met Dr. Akira Miyawaki,who came to our factory to make a forest in it in order to m...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:漫谈时光流逝(4)

Close encounter three: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 遭遇三:宾夕法尼亚州的费城, 1989. 1989年 In the mid-to-late '80s, 八十世纪末, the novelist Whitley Strieber wrote a book called "Communion," 小说家Whitley Strieber写了本自传, in which he described his own lifelong experiences 自传中他描述了 being abducted by aliens. 被外星人绑架的经历. And he also described the ...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:爱,本无条件(2)

Should she say, "You're just like everyone else but a little bit shorter?" 她应该说“你和其他人一样,只是矮了点儿”? Or should she try to construct some kind of dwarf identity, 还是去试图建立某种小矮人身份认同 get involved in the Little People of America, 加入美国小个子联盟 become aware of what was happening for dwarfs? 开始了解矮人生活圈的那些事? And I suddenl...

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TED演讲 世上最无聊电视节目 为何迷得无可救药(4)

But it's a long program,so some watched part of it, like the Prime Minister. 不过它真的是一部很长的节目,所以有些人只看了其中一部分,比如咱的首相大人, Some watched a little bit more. 还有的呢,看得稍微久一点, It says, I haven't used my bed for five days. 那人说,我已经五天没上床了。 And he's 82 years old, and he hardly slept. 他已经82岁了,为了看节目就没怎么睡...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:爱,本无条件(5)

I thought a lot about the mother of one disabled child I had seen, 我想起我见过的一个残疾孩子的母亲 a severely disabled child who died through caregiver neglect. 这个有严重残疾的孩子,因为照料不周而去世 And when his ashes were interred, his mother said, 当他的骨灰被安葬的时候,他的母亲说 "I pray here for forgiveness for having been twice robbed, "我在这里祈祷宽恕,...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:人类性进化的启示(3)

I'm sorry. It's true. 我很抱歉,不过这是事实 The human, some of you will be happy to hear, 你们有些人可能比较喜欢听到这个 has the largest, thickest penis of any primate. 人类有灵长类中最大最厚的阴茎 Now, this evidence goes way beyond anatomy. 证据其实还不止于解剖学 It goes into anthropology as well. 我们还有人类学证据 Historical records are full of accounts of people...

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TED演讲之生与死:如何健康长寿(6)

And we managed to boil it down to nine. 我们试图归结为九点 In fact we've done two more Blue Zone expeditions since this 其实在这次蓝区远征前 and these common denominators hold true. 我们已经调查了两个蓝区 And the first one, 第一个 and I'm about to utter a heresy here, 我想说个异端邪说, none of them exercise, 他们谁都不运动 at least the way we think of exercise. 至少...

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TED演讲:影片纪录加纳民主进程(1)

I was born in Switzerland and raised in Ghana, West Africa. 我出生在瑞士,在西非的加纳长大。 Ghana felt safe to me as a child. 加纳对儿时的我是安全的家。 I was free, I was happy. 我很自由快乐。 The early 70s marked a time of musical and artistic excellence in Ghana. 70年代早期是加纳的音乐和艺术的辉煌时期。 But then by the end of the decade,the country had fallen back into pol...

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TED演讲之生与死:生死自知(4)

The fact that some people believe 事实上有些人民相信 an omnipotent god will resurrect them to live again 一个万能的神能让他们复活 and others believe an omnipotent scientist will do it 还有一些人相信万能的科学能使他们复活 suggests that neither are really believing this 这说明人们在确凿的证据面前 on the strength of the evidence. 并不相信永生这回事儿 Rather, we believe these st...

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TED演讲:超低成本的大学学位(5)

By the end of each week,the students take a quiz,hand in their homework,which are assessed by their peers under the supervision of the instructors,get a grade, move to the next week. 每周结束的时候,学生们参加一个测验,提交他们的课外作业,作业会在教师的监督下由同学互相评估,得到成绩,然后继续下一周的学习。 By the end of the course, they take the final exam,get a grade, and f...

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TED演讲之生与死:生死自知(2)

And the bias I'm talking about 我这里说的偏误 works like this: 是这么回事: Confront someone with the fact 某些人面对 that they are going to die 他们终将会死去的现实 and they will believe just about any story 他们只会相信 that tells them it isn't true 告诉他们的任何故事都不会是真的 and they can, instead, live forever, 他们可以永久的活着, even if it means taking the ...

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TED演讲请相信你可以进步(1)

The power of yet. 专注过程,而不是结果。 I heard about a high school in Chicago where students had to pass a certain number of courses to graduate,and if they didn't pass a course, they got the grade Not Yet. 我听说,在芝加哥有一所高中,那儿的学生毕业前要通过一系列课程,如果某一门课没有通过, 成绩就是暂未通过。 And I thought that was fantastic,because if you get a failin...

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TED演讲之生与死:生死自知(1)

I have a question: 我要问大家一件事: Who here remembers when they first realized 在座的各位谁还记得当自己第一次意识到 they were going to die? 自己有一天会死去时那一刻的感受? I do. I was a young boy, 我还记得,那时我还是个小男孩 and my grandfather had just died, 我的祖父刚刚过世了, and I remember a few days later lying in bed at night 记得几天后的一个夜晚,我躺在床上 tryin...

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TED演讲之生与死:为生命的终结做好准备(2)

A plan involves answering 这个计划是能包含了回应的 straightforward questions about the end you want. 直接了当关于你想如何结束的问题 Where do you want to be when you're no longer independent? 如果你不能再独立,你希望自己在哪里? What do you want in terms of medical intervention? 你希望医疗保护的干预么? And who's going to make sure your plan is followed? 谁能让你的计...

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TED演讲之生与死:昭示长寿的实验(4)

And there are certain forms of the FOXO gene 我们发现活到90或者100岁人里 that have found to be more frequently present 最常有的 in people who live to be 90 or 100. 某种FOXO基因 And that's the case all over the world, 这是遍布全球的例子 as you can see from these stars. 正如大家看到的这些星星 And each one of these stars represents a population 每一个星星代表一个人群 where ...

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TED演讲超低成本的大学学位(3)

These are the reasons I founded University of the People,a nonprofit, tuition-free,degree-granting university to give an alternative,to create an alternative to those who have no other,an alternative that will be affordable and scalable, 由于这些的原因,我创办了人民大学,一所非盈利性的、免学费的、授予学位的大学它提供了另一种选择,为那些没有其它选择的人创造了一种选择,一种价...

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TED演讲之生与死:昭示长寿的实验(2)

Okay. 好了 So what is the daf-2 gene? 那么daf-2基因到底是什么? Well as you know, genes, which are part of the DNA, 正如大家所知,基因是DNA的一部分 they're instructions to make a protein that does something. 它们是经编码的指令,用于制造特定功能的蛋白质 And the daf-2 gene 而daf-2基因的编码 encodes a hormone receptor. 对应了一类激素受体 So what you see in the picture there...

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TED演讲超低成本的大学学位(2)

Wael is from Syria. 瓦伊尔来自叙利亚 He's firsthand experiencing the misery, fear and failure imposed on his country. 他正亲身感受着他的国家所遭受的痛苦、恐惧和失败。 He's a big believer in education. 他是教育的忠实信徒。 He knew that if he would find an opportunity for higher education,an opportunity to get ahead of the rest,he has a better chance to survive in a wo...

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