TED演讲:从遥远的星系中我们可以学到什么(1)

Here are some images of clusters of galaxies. 这是一些星团的照片。 They're exactly what they sound like. 正如听上去一样。 They are these huge collections of galaxies, 它们是一堆星系， bound together by their mutual gravity. 由

TED演讲:从遥远的星系中我们可以学到什么(2)

And many of the questions that we might have about the universe at large scales, 我们关于宇宙在宏观上有很多问题， such as, how does gravity work? 比如，引力是怎么起作用的？ might be answered by studying these systems. 这些

TED演讲:从遥远的星系中我们可以学到什么(3)

Here is an image. 这是一张照片。 Since galaxy clusters are representative slices of the universe, scaled-down versions. 因为星团可以看做是宇宙的缩小版。 They are mostly made up of dark matter, 它们也是大部分由暗物质构

TED演讲:从遥远的星系中我们可以学到什么(4)

Here is a computer simulation. 这是计算机模拟。 And we need a way to simplify it. 我们需要简化它的方法。 Well, I like to think about this using an analogy. 我会用一个类比来理解。 If I want to understand the sinking of th

TED演讲:昔日纽约(1)

I'm going to read a few strips. 我马上会朗读的一些连环漫画。 These are, most of these are from a monthly page I do in and architecture and design magazine called Metropolis. 它们中的很多都选自我每月刊登在一本关于建筑设

TED演讲:昔日纽约(2)

Is it simply the byproduct of a crude mechanical action? 它仅仅是一个粗糙机械制作的副产品？ Or is it an imitation of one half the set of sounds we make to express disappointment? 或者对我们抒发不满的一种声音的一半所进

TED演讲:昔日纽约(3)

That's the end of that. The next story is called In Praise of the Taxpayer. 这个故事讲完了。下一个故事叫作《纳税人的荣耀》。 That so many of the city's most venerable taxpayers have survived yet another commercial building boo

TED演讲:昔日纽约(5)

From there, to the modern ventriloquist's dummy, is but a brief moment in history. 从这个到现代的口技者的木偶，不是一段简短的历史。 You were late for school again this morning. 今天早上你上学又迟到了。 The ventrilo

TED演讲日纽约(6)

That's the end. 故事讲完了。 The next story is called The Haverpiece Collection. 下一个故事叫做《哈弗皮斯的收藏》。 A nondescript warehouse, visible for a moment from the northbound lanes of the Prykushko Expressway 这是一个难

TED演讲:来自阿拉伯女商人的成功经验(1)

Mom, who are these people? 妈妈，这些人是谁? It was an innocent question from my young daughter Alia around the time when she was three. 这是来自我小女儿Alia的天真的疑问，大概是在她三岁的时候。 We were walking along

TED演讲:来自阿拉伯女商人的成功经验(2)

As I got my Bachelor's and PhD in electrical engineering, 当我电子工程方面取得学士与博士学位， did R And D in the UK, then consulting in the Middle East, 在英国从事研发，此外在中东咨询， I have always been in male-do

TED演讲:来自阿拉伯女商人的成功经验(3)

In my previous job, well before my current firm, 在进入我现在这间公司之前，在我的工作中， I was working with a man, we will call John. 我与一个男人共事，我们称他约翰好了。 I had teamed up with John and was workin

TED演讲:来自阿拉伯女商人的成功经验(4)

Time stood still for a long while, 好长一会儿，时间彷佛静止了， and all I could think and repeat in the chaos of my brain was: 而在混乱中，我脑中想的与重复的是： You can forget about that partnership, Leila. 你可以忘记

TED演讲:来自阿拉伯女商人的成功经验(5)

You see, as a young woman in these situations, you have two options. 你们看，作为一个年轻女人遇到这些状况，你有两个选择。 You can either decide to internalize these negative messages that are being thrown at you, 你可以决定

TED演讲:短信是语言杀手(7)

1917. This is the time when we all assume 1917年，这是我们都认为的 that everything somehow in terms of writing was perfect because the people on Downton Abbey are articulate,or something like that. 写文章没的说的时代，因为唐顿庄

TED演讲:短信是语言杀手(8)

If somebody from 1973 looked at what was on a dormitory message board in 1993, 如果一个1973年的人看着1993年一个学生宿舍信息栏， the slang would have changed a little bit since the era of Love Story, 俚语等习惯用语会跟爱情

TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(1)

First place I'd like to take you is what many believe will be the world's deepest natural abyss. 我要带大家去的第一个地方是一个天然的深渊，许多人相信它将会被证明为世界最深之渊。 And I say believe because this p

TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(2)

From the entrance, this is nothing like a commercial cave. 从洞口看，这绝不像个商业旅游的山洞。 You're looking at Camp Two in a place called J2, not K2, but J2. 你看到的是二号营地，它搭在J2,不是K2(世界第二高峰）

TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(3)

We're going to be shooting from minus 2,600 meters that's a little over 8,600 feet down at 30 kilometers from the entrance. 我们要从地下2600米处,大约8600多英尺之下--开始拍摄。那个地方离洞口30千米处。 The lead crews will

TED演讲:探索世界最深洞穴(4)

This gadget you see right here was called the digital wall mapper, 你们在这里见到的这个是电子墙体测绘仪， and it produced the first three-dimensional map anybody has ever done of a cave, and it happened to be underwater in Wakulla