And in fact, if I want to speak correctly, Chinese forces me to constantly think about it. 事实上，如果要我不弄错的话，我就要不断的去想这之间的关系。 Now, that fascinated me endlessly as a child, 这是小时候让我很好奇的事情， but what fascinate
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
Now how can we think about health behaviors to think about savings? 我们能将健康相关的行为比作储蓄行为么？ Well, think about smoking, for example. Smoking is in some deep sense negative savings. 例如，吸烟这个事情，吸烟可以看作反向的储蓄。 I
Now, I use my music to reach people's hearts and have found there are no boundaries. 现在，我用我的音乐来打动人们的心灵，并发现这是没有边界的。 My audience is anyone who is here to listen, even those who are not familiar with cla
Hi, everybody. Ban-gap-seum-ni-da. 嗨，大家好。很高兴和大家见面（韩语） I'd like to share with you a little bit of me playing my life. 我想与你们分享一些我的演奏人生。 I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, 我今天
One tree is a tree. Two trees together, we have the woods. 一棵树是"木"。两棵树在一起，就是“树林”。 Three trees together, we create the forest. 三棵树在一起，就是“森林”。 Put a plank underneath the tree, we have the foundation. 把一
In fact, the Tower of Babel story in the Bible is a fable and warning about the power of language. 事实上，圣经里巴别塔的故事就是关于语言能力的一个寓言和警示 According to that story, early humans developed the conceit that, by us
My daughter came to England from Kuwait. 我的女儿从科威特回到英国。 She had studied science and mathematics in Arabic. 她已经用阿拉伯语学了科学和数学。 It's an Arabic medium school. 那是在一所阿拉伯中校。 She had to translate it into Englis
Or you can go all the way back to 63 A.D. 或者大家可以直接跳转回公元63年。 And there's this poor man who doesn't like the way people are speaking Latin. 有个可怜人不喜欢人们说拉丁语的方式。 As it happens, he was writing about what ha
What are the characteristics we can control for? 我们能够控制那些特征？ Well I'm going to match families on country of birth and residence, 我考虑的匹配包括出生地和居住地， the demographics -- what sex, their age -- their incom
A time for even grimmer stuff than that, like in last April's New Yorker magazine. 那个时辰里还有更严酷的事情发生过，比如去年4月纽约人杂志中 This short fiction piece by Martin Amis starts out, Martin Amis的短篇小说是这样开始的： "On Septemb
Just to give you a few examples: "ending a pregnancy" versus "killing a fetus;" 这里是一些例子：是“终止怀孕”还是“杀死胚胎” "a ball of cells" versus "an unborn child;" “一个细胞聚合的小球”还是“一个尚未出生的孩子” "invading Iraq" versus "lib
There are lots and lots of ways of measuring time, 在许多计量时间的方法中 but a really bizarre base 60 system 古怪的60进制制度 known as hours and minutes and seconds is nearly universal around the world. 也就是时分秒计量单位，几乎被
If the officer is honest, you get a huge penalty of being arrested for bribery. 如果警官是老实人，你因为行贿被逮起来 So this is a rather fraught situation. 所以情况挺复杂的 On the other hand, with indirect language, if you iss
Now, I'm sure most of you have seen the movie "Fargo." 我相信你们中大多数人都看过《冰血暴》这部电影 And you might remember the scene in which the kidnapper is pulled over by a police officer, 你们可能还记得其中的一段：一个警官要绑匪把车开到路边 is
Once you have things in your pocket that can receive that message, 一旦你在口袋里有了能接受这个信息的装置， then you have the conditions that allow that we can write like we speak. 你就有条件来像说话一样打字了。 And that's where textin
We see it in the constant appearance of slang and jargon, of the historical change in languages, 我们看到俗语和术语不断产生，历史上语言在变化 in divergence of dialects and the formation of new languages. 方言在分支，新的语言在形成 So l
You know, this is crazy. We do this all the time, even on an everyday level. 你知道，这很不正常。我们总是在想这些，甚至在日常生活的状态下。 If you think about the last time you had a wobbly tooth. 如果你想想最后一次，我不知道，你有一颗松动的牙。 You know
I guess we all deal with stress in different ways. 我想我们应对压力都有不同的方式。 Some people will bury themselves in work, grateful for the distraction. 有些人会把自己埋头到工作中，用以分心不去想。 Others will turn to their friends, th
And just for contrast, we can do this with any word. 相对，你也可以为其他词汇勾勒词景 We can take the word "bye" as in "good bye." 比如“goog bye”(再见)里的“bye”字 And we're now zoomed in over the entrance to the house. 我们放大
