SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
So the way we acquired the games is very interesting and very unorthodox. 我们收购游戏的方式是十分有趣的，也是极不寻常的。 You see them here displayed alongside other examples of design, 你看在这里，它们陈列在其它设计样品的旁边， furniture and other parts, 家具和其他的部分， but there's no paraphernalia, no nostalagia, 但是这儿没有游戏设备，没有怀旧街机， only the screen...
And we need to all gather together and say no to the tar sands. 我们必须团结一致向油砂说不。 And we can do that. There is a huge network all over the world fighting to stop this project. 我们可以做到这一点，遍布全球的庞大网络社群正致力于制止这项计划。 And I quite simply think that this is not something that should be decided just in Canada. 我认为这不仅是加拿大本身该做的决定...
This gadget you see right here was called the digital wall mapper, 你们在这里见到的这个是电子墙体测绘仪， and it produced the first three-dimensional map anybody has ever done of a cave, and it happened to be underwater in Wakulla Springs. 它制出了世界上第一个山洞的三维地图，那是在瓦库拉泉水下。 It was that gadget that serendipitously opened a door to another unexplored worl...
In Saskatchewan, as across all of the boreal, 横跨北方森林的萨克其万省， home to some of our most famous rivers, 拥有一些著名湖泊， an incredible network of rivers and lakes that every school-age child learns about, 形成令人叹为观止的河流及湖泊网络，这是每位学龄儿童都读过的知识， the Peace, the Athabasca, the Churchill here, the Mackenzie, 和平河、阿萨帕斯卡尔河，丘吉尔河、...
These are ancient dice, made out of sheep's knuckles. Right? 这些是古老的骰子，由羊的关节骨制作而成 Before we had awesome game controllers, 在我们设计出游戏控制器前 we had sheep's knuckles. 我们人类已经拥有了羊关节制作的骰子 And these represent the first game equipment 这就是人类设计出的 designed by human beings. 最早的游戏器械 And if you're familiar with the wor...
And I just look at this, and I think, yes, 看到这些，我想，是的 we could take that so much further by allowing people to set targets 我们能可以把它带到更广阔的境界，以让人们去设定目标的方式 by setting calibrated targets, 以设置校准目标的方式 by using elements of uncertainty, 以使用不确定因素的方式 by using these multiple targets, 以使用这些多重目标的方式 by using a grand, un...
So, for example, in a distant era now, 比如说，在以前一个遥远的时代， it was common when one gave a speech to basically talk like writing. 当一个人作演讲，说起话来像在写作一样，是很平常的事情。 So I mean the kind of speech that you see someone giving in an old movie where they clear their throat, and they go, 我的意思是那种你在一部老电影里看到的演讲，人们会清一下喉咙，然后说...
What then of manned space exploration? 那载人的空间探索呢？ The government recently announced plans to return to the moon by 2024. 美国政府最近宣布了2024重返月球的计划。 The successful conclusion of that mission will result in infrequent visitation of the moon by a small number of government scientists and pilots. 这项任务的成功将使少数的政府雇佣的科学家和飞行员的探访月球活...
If somebody from 1973 looked at what was on a dormitory message board in 1993, 如果一个1973年的人看着1993年一个学生宿舍信息栏， the slang would have changed a little bit since the era of Love Story, 俚语等习惯用语会跟爱情故事时代有些不同， but they would understand what was on that message board. 但是他们会看明白那个信息栏上的内容。 Take that person from 1993-not that long a...
So first there's speech, and then writing comes along as a kind of artifice. 所以首先是语音，然后文字作为一种技巧出现了。 Now don't get me wrong, writing has certain advantages. 大家不要误会，文字写作确实有它自己的优势。 When you write, because it's a conscious process, 当你写字的时候，因为这是一个有意识的过程， because you can look backwards, 因为你可以回顾过去...
We did a game called Superstruct 我们在“未来研究所” at The Institute For The Future. 做了一个叫"Superstruct"的游戏 And the premise was a supercomputer has calculated 这个游戏的假设是， that humans have only 23 years left on the planet. 超级计算机经过计算发现人类在地球上只剩下23年的生存时间了 This supercomputer was called the Global Extinction 这台超级计算机被称作：...
We always hear that texting is a scourge. 人们总说短信的出现是一种灾难。 The idea is that texting spells the decline and fall of any kind of serious literacy, or at least writing ability, 这么说的原因是短信降低了人们的读写能力，或者至少是书面表达能力， among young people in the United States and now the whole world today. 这个问题影响着美国青年人今天也变成了全球问题。 The fa...
Some of the highlights were things like "The Terminator," 其中有一些让我引以为荣的，像《终结者》 "Aladdin," the "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles." 《阿拉丁》还有《英雄神龟》（《忍者神龟》的英版名字） Because I was from the United Kingdom, 因为我来自英国 they thought the word ninja was a little too mean for children, 英国的有关部门觉得“忍者”对孩子们...
On the one hand, there's the wanting processes. 在一方面，有一个期望过程 This is a bit like ambition and drive, 有点像野心和驱动力– I'm going to do that. I'm going to work hard. 我要去做那件事，我要努力 On the other hand, there's the liking processes, 在另一方面，有趣味的过程 fun and affection and delight 乐趣，感情和愉悦 and an enormous flying beast wi...
You need an AUV, an autonomous underwater vehicle. 你需要个AUV，一个自行式水下航行器。 It needs to be one smart puppy, able to navigate and make decisions on its own in an alien ocean. 它必须很聪明，能够自己导航在陌生的外星球的大洋里能够自己做决定。 What Jim didn't know when he released that movie was that six months earlier NASA had funded a team I assembled to develop ...
We've–No, first of all, New York Magazine always gets it. 我们，不，首先，纽约杂志总是最先得到。 I love them. So we are in the right quadrant. 我爱他们。所以我们是在右边的象限。 We are in the Highbrow, that's daring, that's courageous, and Brilliant, which is great. 我们是知识分子，有胆量，有勇气，并且有智慧，这相当的棒。 Timidly, we've been higher on t...
First place I'd like to take you is what many believe will be the world's deepest natural abyss. 我要带大家去的第一个地方是一个天然的深渊，许多人相信它将会被证明为世界最深之渊。 And I say believe because this process is still ongoing. 我说相信是因为这个探索过程还未结束。 Right now there are major expeditions being planned for next year that I'll talk a little bit...
Now, here you see-of course, as you go further on, 如图所示－当然，当你将视线拉远， these trucks become like a pixel. 这些卡车彷佛图中的小点。 Again, imagine those all back and forth there. 同样地，想象一下这片区域。 How large is that one portion of a mine? 占整个矿场多大部分？ That would be a huge, vast metropolitan area, 相当于幅员广大的都会区， probably much larger than t...
I love video games. 我爱电子游戏 I'm also slightly in awe of them. 也对它抱有些许敬畏 I'm in awe of their power 我敬畏它们 in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. 想象力，技术，概念方面的力量 But I think, above all, 但是最重要的是 I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, 我所敬畏它们能够激励着，迫使着我们...
In that hut, we walked in, 我们走进那间小草屋 and her father and his four wives were sitting there, 她的父亲和四个妻子坐在那里 and her sisters who had just returned because 她的姐妹们也回来了， they had all fled when she had fled, 她们也跟她一同离家出走的 and her primary mother, who had been beaten 还有她的母亲， in standing up for her with the elders. 她曾因站在她的一边而被...