TED演讲之什么是爱:性与感性的故事(1)

So when I was in Morocco, 我在摩洛哥的时候, in Casablanca, not so long ago, 不久前,在卡萨布兰卡, I met a young unmarried mother called Faiza. 我遇到一个名叫法伊扎(Faiza)的年轻未婚妈妈。 Faiza showed me photos of her infant son 法伊扎给我看了她儿子婴儿时期的照片 and she told me the story of his conception, pregnancy, and delivery. 并且告诉了我她怀孕、妊娠、分娩的故事。 I...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:互联网怎样使人们变得亲密(1)

I believe that there are new, hidden tensions 我相信,有新的,隐藏的紧张关系 that are actually happening between people and institutions — 发生在人们与制度之间, institutions that are the institutions that people 在人们日常生活中 inhabit in their daily life: 的制度如: schools, hospitals, workplaces, 学校、医院、工作场所、 factories, offices, etc. 工厂、办公室等等。 An...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:互联网怎样使人们变得亲密(2)

So, think of the three settings I've talked to you about: 那么想想这3个我所谈到的背景: factory, migration, office. 工厂,移民,办公室。 But it could be in a school, it could be an administration, 但这也可能在学校,在政府, it could be a hospital. 也可能在医院发生。 Three settings that, if we just step back 15 years, 这3种背景下,如果我们只追随到15年前, if you just thin...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:为何市长应该统治世界(4)

Eighty percent of carbon emissions come from cities, 80%的碳排放来自于城市, which means cities are in a position 而这意味着城市正处于一个 to solve the carbon problem, or most of it, 解决碳排放问题的关键位置。 whether or not the states of which they are a part 无论这些城市是否来自于同一个国家, make agreements with one another. 他们达成协议。 And they are doing it. 并且履行...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:漫谈时光流逝(3)

Close encounter two: Brookline, Massachusetts, 1984. 遭遇二: 1984年马萨诸塞的布鲁克林 I went to see the movie "Dune," 我去那里看电影"沙丘" and a girl talked to me. Now, on its face — 一个女孩跟我搭讪,从表面上看 — this is impossible on its face, I realize — 我意识到,这从表面上看是不可能的 — but it is absolutely true. 但它确实是真的....

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TED演讲:孩子需要结构

如何协助孩子拥有好的开始?在这场发自内心、充满个人体验的演讲中,美国前国务卿鲍威尔请求父母、朋友和亲戚,在孩子上小学前,即透过小区和一份强烈的责任感,提供孩童协助. 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...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:4种声音影响我们的方式(2)

I want to spend just a moment talking about 我想只花一点点时间来谈论 the model that we've developed, which allows us to start at the top 我们所发展而来的那个模型,那个允许我们从高处开始的模型 and look at the drivers of sound, analyze the soundscape 看一下那司机的声音,分析下声音的范围, and then predict the four outcomes I've just talked about. 然后预测一下我刚才所说...

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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 全球经济的隐形推动力—寄钱回家(1)

I live in Washington, D.C.,but I grew up in Sindhekela, a village in Orissa, in India. 我住在华盛顿特区但我是在新河克拉,印度奥里萨邦的一个小村庄长大。 My father was a government worker. 我父亲是个政府雇员, My mother could not read or write, but she would say to me, A king is worshipped only in his own kingdom. A poet is respected everywhere. 我母亲不会读书写字,但她跟我说...

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TED演讲 全球经济的隐形推动力—寄钱回家(2)

And in poorer countries, smaller countries, fragile countries,conflict-afflicted countries, remittances are a lifeline,as in Somalia or in Haiti. 在更穷,更小,或者正发生冲突的国家,移民汇款就如同救命稻草,比如说在索马里或海蒂。 No wonder these flows have huge impacts on economies and on poor people. 难怪这些资金流会对经济和贫困人口带来巨大的影响。 Remittances, unlike privat...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:爱,本无条件(1)

"Even in purely non-religious terms, “就算抛开宗教信仰的因素, homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty. 同性恋也是性滥交的代名词 It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality — 它是可悲的,次等的,一种现实的替代品 a pitiable flight from life. 是人生中一段令人遗憾的旅程 As such, it deserves no compassion, 因此,同性恋不值得同情 it deser...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:人类性进化的启示(4)

It's time we moved beyond Mars and Venus, 男人来自火星,女人来自金星的时代已经过去 because the truth is that men are from Africa 现在所有人都知道真相,男人来自非洲 and women are from Africa. 女人也来自非洲 Thank you. 谢谢大家 Thank you. Thank you. 谢谢,谢谢 So a question. 问个问题 It's so perplexing, trying to use arguments about evolutionary history 要将进化历史方...

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TED演讲之生与死:让现代社会中的老人生活的更好(1)

To give me an idea of how many of you here 为了让我知道这里有多少人 may find what I'm about to tell you 待会儿会觉得我告诉你的事情 of practical value, 有实用价值, let me ask you please to raise your hands: 请符合条件的人把手举起来: Who here is either over 65 years old 这里有谁已经超过65岁 or hopes to live past age 65 或者想要活到65岁以后 or has parents or grandparents w...

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TED演讲 自杀者的生死之桥(1)

I recently retired from the California Highway Patrol after 23 years of service. 我最近刚退休,离开了加利福尼亚公路巡警局,我工作了23年的地方。 The majority of those 23 years was spent patrolling the southern end of Marin County,which includes the Golden Gate Bridge. 这23年里的大多数时间,我都是在马林县的南部巡逻,我都是在马林县的南部巡逻,其中包括金门大桥, The bridge is an...

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TED演讲 全球经济的隐形推动力—寄钱回家(3)

U.S. Fed started a program with Mexico to enable money service businesses to send money to Mexico for a fixed cost of only 67 cents per transaction. 美国联邦政府和墨西哥之间启动了一个项目,使得汇款公司往墨西哥寄钱时只需要每笔67美分的手续费。 And yet, these faster, cheaper, better options can't be applied internationally because of the fear of money laundering,even though...

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TED演讲 世上最无聊电视节目 为何迷得无可救药(1)

Thank you. 谢谢大家。 I have only got 18 minutes to explain something that lasts for hours and days,so I'd better get started. 我只有18分钟的时间来讲一件持续了数天数夜的事情,所以最好述不宜迟, Let's start with a clip from Al Jazeera's Listening Post. 我们先来看一段来自Al Jazeera监听站的短片。 Richard Gizbert: Norway is a country that gets relatively little media...

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TED演讲 世上最无聊电视节目 为何迷得无可救药(3)

This guy, for instance,he's head of research at the University in Troms? 比如说这个家伙,他是特罗姆瑟大学的科研带头人。 And I will show you a piece of cloth,this one. 我给你们看看这块布条,就是这个。 It's the other strong memory. 这是另外一段深刻的记忆, It belongs to a guy called Erik Hansen. 它属于这个叫Erik Hansen的人。 And it's people like those two who took ...

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TED演讲 谈上帝与海啸(5)

In the end, we have to say, I don't know. 最后,我们不得不说,我不知道。 If we knew, God would not be God. 如果我们知道,上帝就不是上帝了。 To have faith in this God would be more like trusting an essential benevolence in the universe,and less like believing a system of doctrinal statements. 相信这个上帝应该更象是相信宇宙中的原善,而不是相信一套教义的陈述。 Isn't it ...

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TED演讲之生与死:让现代社会中的老人生活的更好(2)

At the opposite extreme 在对待老人的另一个极端 in treatment of the elderly, the happy extreme, 这个快乐的极端, are the New Guinea farming societies 是在新几内亚的农耕社会 where I've been doing my fieldwork for the past 50 years, 过去50多年来,我在那里做野外调查 and most other sedentary traditional societies 还有大多数其他在世界各地 around the world. 定居的传统社会。 In ...

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TED演讲之2.0版城市:4种声音影响我们的方式(1)

Over the next five minutes, 在接下来的5分钟里 my intention is to transform your relationship with sound. 我想把你们与声音的关系作个转变 Let me start with the observation that most of the sound around us is accidental, 首先,请允许我以这样的观察开始,我发现大多数围绕我们的声音是偶然性的。 and much of it is unpleasant. 并且许多声音也是不愉悦的。 We stand on street corners, sho...

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