TED演讲 网络设计 事关你我(4)

And we try to use one of these phones from time to time to keep in touch with their reality. 而且我们尝试着时常使用这些手机以确保我们了解用户的实际使用情况。 So what does it mean to design at a global scale? 所以这个对全球范围的设计有什么意义? It means difficult and sometimes exasperating work to try to improve and evolve products. 这是一项困难而且出力不讨好的工作去尝试着改...

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TED演讲:论生物多样性(6)

And let us call it the Encyclopedia of Life. 不妨将此项目称为生命百科。 What is the Encyclopedia of Life? A concept that has already taken hold and is beginning to spread and be looked at seriously? 生命百科的概念已经得到人们的认同并且正在不断的传播与普及? It is an encyclopedia that lives on the Internet and is contributed to by thousands of scientists around the world. 这...

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TED演讲:论生物多样性(2)

In so doing, I reached a frontier of biology so strange, so rich,that it seemed as though it exists on another planet. 通过这样的方式,我来到一个非常古怪却又非常丰富的生物学领域,简直就像降临到别的星球一样。 In fact, we live on a mostly unexplored planet. 事实上,我们就生活在一个很多地方皆未被研究的星球上。 The great majority of organisms on Earth remain unknown to science. ...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:城市与企业中的奇妙数学(4)

It goes up by 15 percent, 对于所有事物都是如此 and you have a 15 percent savings 你还能节省 on the infrastructure. 15%的基础设施经费 This, no doubt, is the reason 这无疑就是 why a million people a week are gathering in cities. 城市每周新增一百万人口的原因 Because they think that all those wonderful things — 他们觉得那些美好的事物 like creative people, wealth, income &#...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:设计改变城市,创意成就舒适(2)

So we said, we'll, let's look at new cities, and we're involved 所以我们说,看看这些新城市 in a couple of new city projects in China. 我们也要在中国弄几个新城市出来 So we said, let's start with that neighborhood cell. 那我们就从社区单元开始着手吧 We think of it as a compact urban cell. 我们觉得这是一种紧凑的城市单元 So provide most of what most people want 这...

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TED演讲 自杀者的生死之桥(4)

For most suicidal folks,or those contemplating suicide,they wouldn't think of hurting another person. 对于大多数试图自杀者,或考虑自杀的人,他们不会想到会伤害到另一个人, They just want their own pain to end. 他们就是想结束自己的痛苦。 Typically, this is accomplished in just three ways: 通常,只有三种方法可以实现: sleep, drugs or alcohol, or death. 睡觉,毒品或酒精,或...

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TED演讲 谈上帝与海啸(4)

The supreme commander toying with expendable units in a great campaign. 在一场大战中,最高指挥官玩弄着可被牺牲掉的部队。 We are still left with a God who can do the tsunami and allow Auschwitz. 留给我们的仍然是一个可以引发海啸、允许奥斯威辛集中营存在的上帝。 In his great novel, The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky gives these words to Ivan,addressed to his naive and devout you...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:漫谈时光流逝(1)

You all know this story. 你们都知道这个故事. In the summer of 1950, 在1950年的夏天, Enrico Fermi, the Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, 美籍意大利心理学家 and atomic-pile builder, 和原子堆创造者 went to lunch at Los Alamos National Laboratory 在Los Alamos国家实验室和一些同事们共进午餐, and joined some colleagues there, and asked them a question: 问他们一些问题: "...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:爱,本无条件(4)

And a lot of the time the question of parenthood is, 父母常常面对的问题是 what do we validate in our children, 孩子在哪些方面值得肯定 and what do we cure in them? 哪些方面需要治愈? Jim Sinclair, a prominent autism activist, said, 有名的自闭症专家,吉姆·辛克莱说, "When parents say 'I wish my child did not have autism,' "当父母说 '我希望我的孩子没有自闭...

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TED演讲:论生物多样性(1)

I have all my life wondered what mind-boggling meant. 我整整一生都在想,mind-boggling(令人难以置信的)到底是指什么。 After two days here, I declare myself boggled, and enormously impressed,and feel that you are one of the great hopes not just for American achievement in science and technology,but for the whole world. 在这里呆了两天,我承认,我已经被深深感染,我感到,你们代...

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TED演讲:你见过最好的幼儿园

你会看到学生们亲身解决一些身边的问题,领导同龄人,甚至教育他们的父母。 NSDA“SDcamps”全国英语演讲与辩论大赛(大学组)/SDcamps全国中小学生英语演讲与辩论大会(中小学及幼儿组)/美式辩论赛(以下简称大赛/大会)现诚招全国省市合作伙伴或城市合伙人,共同进行推广NSDA赛事品牌、举办赛事及培训活动、开展素质教育、美式营地项目等多方面合作。 我们希望认同NSDA理念,有赛事组织经验,或有教育资...

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TED演讲 自杀者的生死之桥(3)

A witness had observed him jumping off the bridge at 1:58 p.m. the previous day. 一名目击者看到他从桥上冲下去,就在前一天下午1点58分。 Thanks so much for standing up for those who may be only temporarily too weak to stand for themselves. 我非常感谢你一直在鼓励那些人,他们可能只是一时软弱而自己无法承受。 Who hasn't been low before? 谁没有消沉过? without suffering from a ...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:人类性进化的启示(1)

I'm going to go off script and make Chris quite nervous here 我打算不按预定的来,这让克里斯很紧张 by making this audience participation. 我打算让观众参与互动 All right. Are you with me? Yeah. Yeah. All right. 懂我的意思吧,懂。很好 So what I'd like to do is have you raise your hand 我要你举手 if you've ever heard a heterosexual couple having sex. 如果你听到过异性...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:漫谈时光流逝(2)

Encounter one: Ocean City, New Jersey, 1980. 遭遇一: 1980年,新泽西的欧欣城. This was the summer when the special edition of 那是个夏天,正好赶上《第三类接触》的 "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was released. 特别版发布. And I went on vacation with my parents to the Jersey shore. 我和父母一起去新泽西的滨海度假. Within 12 hours, I was horribly sunburned, 我在12个...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:给陌生人的情书

I was one of the only kids in college who had a reason 上大学时,我是唯一一个需要 to go to the P.O. box at the end of the day, 在一天结束的时候去开邮箱的人, and that was mainly because my mother has never believed 主要是因为我妈妈从不信赖 in email, in Facebook, in texting or cell phones in general. 电子邮件、社交网站、短信,甚至电话。 And so while other kids were BBM-ing th...

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TED演讲 世上最无聊电视节目 为何迷得无可救药(2)

We brought it on air in November 2009. 我们在2009年11月的时候播出了这个节目。 But no, this was far more attractive. 但其实,这节目火了起来。 This is the five biggest TV channels in Norway on a normal Friday,and if you look at NRK2 over here,look what happened when they put on the Bergen Railway show: 这张图是挪威平常周五当天五大电视频道的收视状况,看到NRK2没?看到他们播出卑...

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TED演讲 自杀者的生死之桥(2)

Well one day, curiosity got the better of Pandora,and she did open the box. 终于有一天,好奇心战胜了潘多拉,她真的打开了盒子。 Out flew plagues, sorrows,and all sorts of evils against man. 飞出了瘟疫、悲伤,以及对人类有害的种种坏事。 The only good thing in the box was hope. 盒内唯一的好东西只有希望。 Jason then asked us,What happens when you open the box and hope isn't t...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:漫谈时光流逝(5)

Close encounter four: the Algarve, 遭遇四:阿尔加瓦 Portugal, 1991. 葡萄牙,1991. Some years later, I and this woman — 许多年过后,我和这个女人– we'll call her "Catherine Fletcher" — 我们将称她为“Catherine Fletcher”- went traveling through the south of Portugal together. 我们穿越葡萄牙南部去旅行. We stayed in old, crumbling, walled cities, 我们住...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:人类性进化的启示(2)

All Cacilda and I have done is extend this sharing behavior to sexuality. 我和卡希尔达只是将这种分享行为扩展到了性上 So we've argued that human sexuality 我们认为人类的性 has essentially evolved, until agriculture, 直到农业出现之前 as a way of establishing and maintaining 一直是作为一种方式来建立和维持 the complex, flexible social systems, networks, that our ancestors we...

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TED演讲 世上最无聊电视节目 为何迷得无可救药(5)

They did not succeed,but remember the old Norwegian saying,it's not whether you win or lose that counts. 失败了呀。不过大家要记得那句挪威古语云:成败不重要, In fact, nothing counts, and death is coming for us all. 其实,什么都不重要,因为人终有生老病死。 Exactly. So why does this stand out? 此言极是。那么这个节目出彩在哪里呢? This is so completely different to other TV...

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