TED演讲：拥有大脑的真正原因(13)

And the fundamental idea is you want to plan your movements so as to minimize the negative consequence of the noise. 话说回来，我们的基本思路是要找到一种动作方式，能够把杂音带来的负面影响降到最低。 And one intu

TED演讲：用"云"建立一所学校(7)

The children came rushing, said, What's all this? 孩子们涌了过来问：这些都是什么？ So I said, It's very topical, very important. But it's all in English. 我说：这些都是热门的，重要的东西。但都是英文写的。 So t

TED演讲：用"云"建立一所学校(5)

When they saw me, they said, We want a faster processor and a better mouse. 当他们看到我时，他们说：我们想要更快一点的处理器和更好一点的鼠标。 So I said, How on Earth do you know all this? 我说：你们到底是怎么

TED演讲：怎样用科技改造人体?(2)

I'm fascinated with the idea of what happens when you merge biology with technology, 我非常着迷于这点子，要是把科技和生物学融合在一起会发生什么， and I remember reading about this idea of being able to reprogram biology,

TED演讲：拥有大脑的真正原因(14)

Quick question for you, Dan. So you're a movement -- (DW: Chauvinist.) -- chauvinist. 我问一个简短的问题。所以你是一个运动--（沃：沙文主义者。）--沙文主义者。 Does that mean that you think that the other things we th

TED演讲：单一故事的危险性(10)

Shortly after he published my first novel, I went to a TV station in Lagos to do an interview, 在他发布了我的第一部小说的不久后，我前往拉各斯的一家电视台接受访问， and a woman who worked there as a messenger came up

TED演讲：单一故事的危险性(1)

I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call the danger of the single story. 我是个说书之人。在这里，我想和大家分享一些我本人的故事，一些关于所谓的单一故事的危

TED演讲：单一故事的危险性(9)

Of course, Africa is a continent full of catastrophes: 当然了，非洲大陆充满了灾难： There are immense ones, such as the horrific rapes in Congo and depressing ones, 有的灾难，比如刚果猖獗的强奸，是无比巨大的； such

TED演讲：单一故事的危险性(8)

When I learned, some years ago, that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful, 当我多年前听说作家们必须有极其不幸的童年才能取得成功的时候， I began to think about how I could invent ho

TED演讲：单一故事的危险性(7)

The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, 巴勒斯坦诗人Mourid Barghouti曾经写到：如果你想剥夺一群人的权利， the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, secondl

TED演讲：单一故事的危险性(6)

I remember walking around on my first day in Guadalajara, 我还记得当我到达瓜达拉哈拉的第一天， watching the people going to work, rolling up tortillas in the marketplace, smoking, laughing. 看着人们前往工作，在市集上吃着

TED演讲：单一故事的危险性(5)

Now, I've laughed every time I've read this. And one must admire the imagination of John Lok. 我每次读到这一段的时候，都不禁大笑起来。John Locke的想象力真的是让人敬佩。 But what is important about his writing is that i

TED演讲：单一故事的危险性(4)

I must say that before I went to the U.S., I didn't consciously identify as African. 我不得不强调，在我前往美国之前，我从来没有有意识地把自己当作个非洲人。 But in the U.S., whenever Africa came up, people turned to

TED演讲：单一故事的危险性(3)

Then one Saturday, we went to his village to visit, 后来的一个星期六，我们去Fide的村庄拜访， and his mother showed us a beautifully patterned basket made of dyed raffia that his brother had made. 她的母亲向我们展示了一个精

TED演讲：单一故事的危险性(2)

What this demonstrates, I think, is how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children. 这一切所表明的，正是在一个个的故事面前我们是何等的脆弱，何等的易受影响，尤其当我们还

TED演讲:逗号的故事(2)

Soon, she seems a couple of subordinates attempting to lift the weight of sentences directly in front of themselves. 不久，她看见了一些从属关联词试图举起放在他们面前的句子。 Even though Bartheleme loves to sing, he never s

TED演讲：单一故事的危险性(11)

Every time I am home I am confronted with the usual sources of irritation for most Nigerians: our failed infrastructure, our failed government, 我每次回家的时候，都会面临那些令众多尼日利亚人头疼的事情：失败的基础设施

TED演讲:逗号的故事(1)

Commas are tricky things, especially when subordinates and conjunctions are involved. 逗号的运用是很讲究技巧的，尤其是当从属关联词和连词也一并参与其中的时候。 If you can remember a few basic rules, a simple law of

TED演讲：依照圣经指导原则生活的一年(8)

Third, that thou shall have reverence. 第三，诸位应心存尊敬。 This one was unexpected because I started the year as an agnostic, 这是个意外的体会。因为我刚开始是一个不可知论者， and by the end of the year, I became

TED演讲：依照圣经指导原则生活的一年(5)

So, you know, if you want to become more compassionate, 所以，你知道的，如果你想要变得更有同情心， you visit sick people in the hospital, and you will become more compassionate. 你去医院探望生病的人，然后你会变得比