公众人物毕业演讲第194期:苏珊沃西基2014在约翰霍普金斯大学(7)
时间：2019-01-25 作者：英语课 分类：公众人物毕业演讲
英语课
You can take your phone, take a video
你可以用手机拍段视频
share it on YouTube with a few clicks 1 and share it with the world
轻松点击几下就能发到YouTube上 同世界分享
Take a picture, put a filter 2 on it, share it with everyone you know
拍张照 加个滤镜 然后同所有认识的人分享
all while listening to your music that's in the cloud
同时发些音乐到云里同大家分享
In fact, you guys could be doing this right now
实际上 你们现在就可以这样做
So instead of saying not to do that
我不阻止你们那样做
if you are doing it, just say something nice about my talk
如果你要这样做 请给我的演讲说点好话
JHU 2014 Hashtag
JHU 2014
And it's not just the web 3
不只有互联网是这样
genomics, nanotechnology, bioinformatics, health medicine
还有基因组学 纳米技术 生物信息 医药卫生
all parts of society
社会的方方面面都是如此
You will have opportunities 4 you cannot even imagine right now
你可以获得你甚至想都想不到的机遇
So here's the one thing you could choose to remember
你们也可以选择记住这一点
It's those opportunities, the ones that make you believe in the future
这些让你相信未来的机遇
those will be the best ones
就是最好的机遇
those are the ones that can change your life
就是能够改变你的生活
and those are the ones that can change the world
并改变世界的机遇
So now I want to talk about YouTube
下面我要讲YouTube
Do you guys use YouTube?
你们使用YouTube吗
I want to talk about how I first discovered it
我要讲讲我最开始是怎么发现它的
and then almost lost it
最后又是怎么几乎失去它的
It's a story about recognizing an opportunity
这个故事涉及到辨别机遇
but also about facing failure
也涉及到面对失败
I know it's hard to believe, but in 2004 there was no YouTube
我知道这很难以置信 但在2004年确实没有YouTube
and video on the Internet was rare
因特网上的视频也很少
We were trying to figure out the right strategy for Google
我们正在寻找谷歌在
to be in the online video business
网络视频方面的正确路线
We're trying lots of different things and nothing was getting traction
我们进行了很多尝试 但都没有奏效
And one day, we decided we would allow users to upload their videos to Google
有一天 我们决定允许用户上传自己的视频给谷歌
We didn't tell users what would happen to their videos
我们没有告诉用户 他们的视频会怎么样
And we had no ideas what users would send to us
我们也不知道用户会上传什么视频
It was an experiment in every sense
这只是一次实验
n.卡嗒声，咔嚓声( click的名词复数 )；点击v.使发出咔哒声，使咔哒（或咔嚓）响( click的第三人称单数 )；突然明白；配合默契；在计算机荧光屏上用鼠标器)咔嗒一按
- Typically, a user clicks on an object and it becomes selected. 比如，用户单击一个对象，对象选中。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
- It will execute as soon as a user clicks and releases it with the mouse cursor. 用户只要单击后释放鼠标，它就立即执行。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
n.滤器，过滤嘴；v.过滤，透过
- Foreign influence began to filter into the country.外国势力开始渗透进这个国家。
- Charcoal is used to filter water.木炭是用来过滤水的。
n.网，蛛丝，蹼，织物，圈套，卷筒纸；vi.生蹼，形成网；vt.织蜘蛛网于，使落入圈套
- The spider weaves a web.蜘蛛织网。
- You mean the World Wide Web?你是说国际互联网？
n.机会( opportunity的名词复数 )；适当的时机；条件；就业（或晋升、进步等）的良机
- We aim to improve opportunities for the less advantaged in society. 我们的宗旨是为社会地位比较低下的人增加机会。
- endless opportunities for making money 无数挣钱的机会