SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
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 fascinates me even more today as an economist 而现在我作为一个经济学家更加好奇的是 is that some of these same differences carry through to how ...
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 ...
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。 If savings is current pain in exchange for future pleasure, smoking is just the opposite. 如果储蓄是增加当下的痛苦增加未来的快感，那么吸...
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 classical music. 我的听众是所有愿意倾听的人，包括那些对古典音乐不熟悉的人。 I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegi...
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, 我今天在大家面前可能看起来很成功，很快乐， but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair. 但我曾得过严重的抑郁症，陷入彻...
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. 把一块木板放在树下面，我们就有了“基本”。 Put a mouth on the top of the tree, that's "idiot." 把一张嘴放在树上，那是“呆子”。 E...
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 using their language to work together, 这个故事说，远古的人类变得自以为是，他们以为通过同一种语言一起合作 they could build a tower that would take the...
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 English at her grammar school. 在文法学院学习时，她要把所学的内容翻译成英语。 And she was the best in the class at those subjects. 在她们班...
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 had become French. 实际上，他正在控诉的是日后形成的法语。 And so, there are always…there are always people worrying about these thin...
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 income level within their own country, 人口信息–性别、年龄–相对居住国的收入水平， their educational achievement, a lot about thei...
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 September 11, 2001, he opened his eyes at 4 a.m. in Portland, Maine, and Mohamed Atta's last day began." “2001年9月11日，他睁...
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 "liberating Iraq;" “侵略伊拉克”或是“解放伊拉克” "redistributing wealth" ...
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，几乎被全世界采用 There are many, many ways of imprinting CDs or DVDs, 有很多很多方法压印CD和DVD but those are all being standardized as well. 但它们也...
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 issue a veiled bribe, 然而，你要是含沙射影地说，如果你含蓄地提出给钱 then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, 那么不老实的警官可以把它理...
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 asked to show his driver's license and holds his wallet out 叫他出示驾照，绑匪把钱包拿出来 with a 50-dollar bil...
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 texting comes in. And so, texting is very loose in its structure. 这时短信就出现了。所以，短信在结构上非常松散。 No one thinks about capital let...
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 language is not so much a creator or shaper of human nature, so much as a window onto human nature. 所以语言并不只是创造、塑造人性之物，同样是...
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 it's wobbly, and you know that it hurts. 你知道它是一颗松动的牙，并且你知道它很痛。 But what do you do every 20, 30 se...
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, their family, looking for support. 另一些人则会从朋友和家庭中寻求帮助。 Some people hit the bottle, start taking medication. 还有些人酗酒，或...
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. 我们放大到房子大门口附近 And we look, and we find, as you would expect, 我们看到，我们发现，你也会想到 a contrast in the landscape whe...