People are living longer and societies are getting grayer. 人们现在越活越久，社会也逐渐变得老龄化。 You hear about it all the time. You read about it in your newspapers. 你可能总是听到别人这么说。你从报纸上如是读到。 You hear about it on your
And two of the things about Bengal: they like their savory dishes and they like their sweets. 孟加拉人有两大爱好：他们喜欢美食和甜点。 So by the time I grew up, again, I had a well-established passion for food. Now I was
In my early days as a graduate student, I went on a snorkeling trip off the coast of the Bahamas. 当我还在读研究生的时候，我在巴哈马海岸参加了一次潜泳之旅。 I'd actually never swum in the ocean before, so it was a bit terrifying.
Continue to ask yourself that question. Now your answer may change over time. 不断地问自己这个问题，答案可能随着时间而改变。 That's fine, but do yourself this favor: Whatever your answer is, don't choose anything that will
I am holding something remarkably old. It is older than any human artifact, 我拿着的是一个十分古老的东西。它比任何一个人工制品都要古老， older than life on Earth, older than the continents and the oceans between them. 比地球上的生命古老，也比
No. 4: Define success for yourself. 第四点：定义自己的成功。 You all really like that one? Define success for yourself. 你们都喜欢这一点吗？你们要自己定义成功。 Now check this out: I'm in the south of New Orleans a few years ago. 现在
You know that group of friends that you hang out with that really might not bring out the best in you? 你们知道吗，那群你们常厮混在一起的朋友并不能让你展现出最好的一面。 You know, they gossip too much, or they're kind of shady, and t
I was 16 and in love for the first time. 那时我16岁，第一次恋爱。 Going together to the Christmas dance was a public confirmation of our relationship, 我们一起参加圣诞舞会，意味着，我们之间关系的正式公开， and I felt like the luckiest gir
You see, at college, you have a fair amount of control around your social interactions. 要知道，在大学里，你们还可以掌控不少自己的社交活动。 You can decide who to sit next to in class; you can decide who to room with. 你们可以决定课堂
Next, I've always felt a deep sense of obligation to make the biggest impact possible with this incredible platform. 其次，我深感自己有责任利用这么好的平台去尽可能发挥最大的影响。 So I took on issues that were personal to me -- iss
But there's really not much else. 除此之外，也没什么其它东西了。 As a result, most of my colleagues who are astronomers spent at least part of their youth looking up at the sky in their backyard. 我的大多数天文学家同事们，至少都有过一
Now you don't need a PhD to see that that leaves four percent for the rest of diversity. 你不需要一个博士学位都能发现其他的种族只有4%。 And in my own searching, I've discovered that far less than one percent have actually
And I'm supposed to tell you that the rest of your life, 我要告诉你们，在你们的余生里， you're not going to be regretting the fact that you've left here. 你们不会为你们的离开而感到遗憾。 All I can really say is there's probably a r
I love my food. And I love information. 我热爱食品，我也热爱信息。 My children usually tell me that one of those passions is a little more apparent than the other. 我的孩子们常常对我说我看起来显然更像个吃货。 But what I want to do in t
So... No. 3: Happiness is different than joy. 那么...第三点：快乐不同于喜悦。 You hear that all the time, don't ya? "I just want to be happy." Hum... just wanna be happy. 你们常听到这种说法，不是吗？“我只不过是想快乐。”嗯...只不过是想快乐。 What'
Now social scientists call this the paradox of aging. 社会学家称这种现象为老龄化悖论。 I mean, after all, aging is not a piece of cake. 老龄化可不是小事。 So we've asked all sorts of questions to see if we could undo this fin
The funny thing about "Erased de Kooning" is that it isn't for sale. 有趣的是，《擦掉的德库宁》这幅画并不出售。 It's safe and sound in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 这幅画完好无损地收藏在旧金山现代艺术博物馆里。 It's tremendously valu
What followed is a nine-year period that can best be titled as "Denial and Running." 接下来的九年，可以被称作：“否认和逃避”。 When I got a chance to identify the real torment that I caused, I didn't stand still long eno
And when he was up in the sky, Charles sometimes looked down to see black folks out in the cotton fields not far from here 查尔斯在空中飞行时，有时会向下看，看到棉田中， the same fields where decades before, their ancestors
As a culture, we have trivialized what is actually the defining decade of adulthood. 作为一种文化，我们把实际上是成人期中最重要的一个十年列为不重要的东西。 Leonard Bernstein said that to achieve great things, you need a plan and not qu
