TED演讲：单词的诞生(5)

And the implications of this -- there are many, 这其中蕴含的--有很多意义 but one I just want to point out, is that there must be amazing feedback loops. 但是我想指出的其中的一个，就是这个过程中必定包涵了一个惊人的

TED演讲：单词的诞生(6)

And we see these amazing structures -- these little knots of two colors of thread we call social hot spots. 我们看见令人惊讶的结构，这是两种颜色的小结点，我们把它称为社交热点 The spiral thread we call a solo hot spot.

TED演讲：重新定义字典(10)

So a word without its source is like a cut flower. 一个没有来源的词就像一朵被剪下来的花。 You know, it's pretty to look at for a while, but then it dies. It dies too fast. 看一会还可以，不久就蔫了。蔫得太快了。 S

TED演讲：暗喻言说(1)

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. 暗喻秘密地生活在我们中间。 We utter about six metaphors a minute. 于我们的言谈中，每分钟大约会出现六个暗喻。 Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselv

TED演讲：重新定义字典(9)

So, enough scientists in other disciplines are really asking people to help, and they're doing a good job of it. 足够多的科学家在其它领域正寻求大家帮忙，而且大伙也干的不错。 For instance, there's eBird, where amateur bir

TED演讲：重新定义字典(8)

So if you think of the word set, a set can be a badger's burrow, 当你想到一个词setset可以指獾的穴， a set can be one of the pleats in an Elizabethan ruff, and there's one numbered definition in the OED. 也可以指伊利沙白时代衣领

TED演讲：改变荒漠现状,扭转气候变化(10)

Thank you. Thank you. I have, and I'm sure everyone here has, A) a hundred questions, B) wants to hug you. 谢谢。谢谢。我相信这里的每个人，包括我在内，都有好多问题想问，并且想要拥抱你一下。 I'm just going to a

TED演讲：改变荒漠现状,扭转气候变化(9)

I believe I've shown you how we can work with nature at very low cost to reverse all this. 我相信我已经向你们展示了我们如何与大自然共处，用很低的成本来扭转这一切。 We are already doing so on about 15 million hectar

TED演讲：改变荒漠现状,扭转气候变化(8)

I began helping a family in the Karoo Desert in the 1970s turn the desert that you see on the right there back to grassland, 20世纪70年代我开始帮助一个在卡鲁沙漠的家庭，你们看到在右边沙漠变回了草地， and thankfully,

TED演讲：改变荒漠现状,扭转气候变化(7)

Today, we have young women like this one teaching villages in Africa how to put their animals together into larger herds, plan their grazing to mimic nature, 今天，我们有像这样的年轻女性在非洲的村庄里传授技术，如何把他们的

TED演讲：改变荒漠现状,扭转气候变化(6)

So let's do that. So on this bit of grassland, we'll do it, but just in the foreground. 那就做吧。我们将在这块小草地上实验这种方式。这只是一开始的样子。 We'll impact it very heavily with cattle to mimic nature, and we'

TED演讲：改变荒漠现状,扭转气候变化(5)

This picture is a typical seasonal grassland. 这张图是典型的季节性草原。 It has just come through four months of rain, and it's now going into eight months of dry season. 刚刚经历了4个月的雨季，将要进入8个月的旱季。

TED演讲：改变荒漠现状,扭转气候变化(4)

Clearly, we have never understood what is causing desertification, which has destroyed many civilizations and now threatens us globally. 显然，我们从未明白什么导致了荒漠化，这种荒漠化已经毁掉了很多的文明社会，而现在

TED演讲：改变荒漠现状,扭转气候变化(3)

When I was a young man, a young biologist in Africa, I was involved in setting aside marvelous areas as future national parks. 我年轻的时候，是非洲的一个年轻生物学家，我参与了一个项目，为国家公园规划未来的野生区

TED演讲：改变荒漠现状,扭转气候变化(2)

I took this picture in the Tihamah Desert while 25 millimeters -- that's an inch of rain -- was falling. 这张照片是我在提哈迈沙漠拍的下着25毫米（一英寸）的雨。 Think of it in terms of drums of water, each containing 200 lite

TED演讲：中美洲南部的园丁游击队员(2)

So me and my group, L.A. Green Grounds, we got together and we started planting my food forest, fruit trees, you know, the whole nine, vegetables. 因此我和我的团队，洛杉矶绿地，我们聚在一起开始种植自己的食物森林，果树

TED演讲：中美洲南部的园丁游击队员(1)

I live in South Central. This is South Central: liquor stores, fast food, vacant lots. 我生活在洛杉矶南区。这就是洛杉矶南区：贩酒店、快餐店、闲置的土地。 So the city planners, they get together and they figure they're

TED演讲：中美洲南部的园丁游击队员(3)

See, I have a legacy in South Central. I grew up there. I raised my sons there. 瞧，在洛杉矶我有了遗产。我在那里成长，我在那里养育我的儿子。 And I refuse to be a part of this manufactured reality that was manufactured fo

TED演讲：一个编舞者的现场创作过程(8)

Okay, brilliant. Okay, here we go. From the beginning, can we do our phrases first? 好，非常好。好，我们开始。从头，我们可以先做我们的词语吗？ And then that. And we're going to build something now, organize it, the phrase

TED演讲：一个编舞者的现场创作过程(7)

So from there, from there, we're both getting up, we're both getting up, going in this direction, going underneath. 所以从那起，我们都站起来，我们都站起来，向这个方向走， 再从底下绕过去。 Whoa, whoa, underneath. Who