TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(4)

So one contemporary equivalent of the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca is the Place de la Dfense in Paris, 说一个与萨拉曼卡的马约尔广场相较衡的现代广场，巴黎的协和广场， a windswept, glass-walled open space that office workers

TED演讲:为什么要跟别人一样?(1)

Embracing otherness. When I first heard this theme, I thought, well, embracing otherness is embracing myself. 拥抱他人。当我第一次听到这个主题时，我觉得拥抱他人就是拥抱我自己。 And the journey to that place of underst

TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(9)

There are also things, quite uncanny, which bring me information that will help me in the writing of the book. 除此以外，还有一些离奇的事件在写作时为我带来了不同的写作资料。 In this case, I was writing a story that incl

TED演讲:书呆子教你如何在线学习(6)

And then, in 2006, I met that guy. His name is Ze Frank. 然后，在2006年，我遇见了这个家伙。他叫泽弗兰克。 I didn't actually meet him, just on the Internet. 其实我们没有真正见面，只是在网上。 Ze Frank was running

TED演讲:书呆子教你如何在线学习(2)

It had a gas station, a general store, two houses at its peak. 那儿有一个加油站，一个百货商店，山顶还有两座房子。 And this is of course a completely irresistible metaphor to a novelist, 这对小说家而言具有非常重要的

TED演讲:书呆子教你如何在线学习(1)

This is a map of New York State that was made in 1937 by the General Drafting Company. 这是一张纽约州的地图，由通用制图公司在1937年绘制。 It's an extremely famous map among cartography nerds, 这张地图在地图发烧友中非常

地道英语对话：Prohibited Parking(1)

A: Is there anything specific that I should know about where to park my car? B: You have an assigned place in the back of the building with your apartment number on it. A: Are there any other spots available to me? B: You will see several visitor and

地道英语对话：Prohibited Parking(3)

A: Where can I park my car? B: You have one assigned place right beside your own apartment. A: Are there any other open spots available in the parking lot? B: Your guests can park in a visitor or unmarked spot if one is available. A: Is there any pla

TED演讲:一位性工作者的诉求(8)

Forced labor does occur in many industries, 强制劳动在很多国家都屡见不鲜， especially those where the workers are migrants or otherwise vulnerable, and this needs to be addressed. 尤其发生在移民劳工和其他弱势群体中，这

TED演讲:一位性工作者的诉求(4)

A couple of years ago, a friend of mine was nervous after she was attacked at work, 几年前，我的一位朋友在工作时被袭击后非常紧张， so I said that she could see her clients from my place for a while. 我让她暂时在我的地方

TED演讲:特殊环境里的不同寻常的房子(6)

There is even a photo studio where you see the sort of aspiration with a faraway place, like that hotel in Sweden. 这是甚至有一个照相馆让你看到一种期望去住在真正的大房子里或者和一个遥远的地方产生联系，比如瑞

TED演讲:影片纪录加纳民主进程(4)

And I realized it had to come from the people. 我意识到和平必然来自人民。 After all, they decide, 毕竟是他们的抉择， and they did. 而他们这样做了。 So the sounds that were before distorted and loud, 于是之前嘈杂混乱

TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(8)

We are all concerned with things that we see in the world that we are aware of. 我们总是在意这世界上我们所感知的事物。 We come to this point and say, what do I as an individual do? 我们对自己说：我能做什么？ Not all of

TED演讲：医生们会犯错误(2)

Now let's take this back into my world of medicine where I'm a lot more comfortable, 现在让我们回到我的世界，医疗领域。这个领域我比较熟悉， or perhaps a bit less comfortable after what I'm going to talk to you about. 但我接

美国俚语:一边开车一边发短信 intexticated

今天要介绍的新词是intexticated，intexticated是什么意思呢？意思就是一边开车一边用手机发短信。为了您的生命安全，请您不要这样做。 好了，我们来看对话： How did he get in a car accident? 他是怎

TED演讲:我们不要一成不变的教育(4)

You know, I always wonder, who makes up those rules? 我一直都挺郁闷的，到底是谁制定这样的臭规定啊？ For years I went to -- Look, I went the Harvard Ed School. I thought I knew something. 多年以来，我一直会去哈佛的E

TED演讲:关于人性名利和爱(4)

I started to feel that I had arrived, and generally, by the time I was 40, I was really, really flying. 我开始意识到我成功了，在我40岁左右，我感觉自己真的就像是身处云端。 I was all over the place. You know? I'd done 50

TED演讲:我难忘的一次中国行(5)

As we continued walking, we visited many of the places that the previous speakers talked about the Confucian tradition 我们继续赶路，参观了许多地方。前面的发言者们谈到儒家传统， which is so important I think to help peopl

TED演讲:无创治疗心脏疾病的新方法(4)

But we live in a place that is 12,000 feet high. 但我们住在海拔3600多米的地方。 And, the patients there need a special device to solve their heart condition. 而且，那里的病人们需要一种特别的器材来解决他们的心脏问

TED演讲：重新定义字典(4)

So -- now, when you think about this, what we have here is a ham butt problem. 所以，现在，当你想到这些，我们面对的问题其实是火腿屁股的问题。 Does everyone know the ham butt problem? 有人知道火腿屁股的问题吗？