TED演讲： 谈语言和思想(7)
Just to give you a few examples: ending a pregnancy versus killing a fetus; 这里是一些例子：是终止怀孕还是杀死胚胎 a ball of cells versus an unborn child; 一个细胞聚合的小球还是一个尚未出生的孩子 invading Iraq v
TED演讲： 谈语言和思想(8)
Now, I'm sure most of you have seen the movie Fargo. 我相信你们中大多数人都看过《冰血暴》这部电影 And you might remember the scene in which the kidnapper is pulled over by a police officer, 你们可能还记得其中的一段：一
TED演讲： 谈语言和思想(9)
There's an influential taxonomy by the anthropologist Alan Fiske, 人类学家Alan Fiske给出了一个关于影响力的分类法 in which relationships can be categorized, more or less, into communality, which works on the principle 其中人际关系
TED演讲： 谈语言和思想(10)
In less blatant cases, there's still a kind of negotiation that often goes on. 在不那么明显的例子中，还是有一种磋商在进行着 In the workplace, for example, 比如说在工作场所 there's often a tension over whether an employee
TED演讲：谈语言和思想(11)
The simplest example of this is in the polite request. 最简单的例子出自于礼貌的要求 If you express your request as a conditional -- if you could open the window, that would be great 倘若你用一个条件句表达请求：您要是能开
TED演讲：谈语言和思想(12)
If the officer is honest, you get a huge penalty of being arrested for bribery. 如果警官是老实人，你因为行贿被逮起来 So this is a rather fraught situation. 所以情况挺复杂的 On the other hand, with indirect language, if you i
TED演讲：不要固执于英语(1)
I know what you're thinking. 我知道你们在想什么。 You think I've lost my way, 你们想我迷路了， and somebody's going to come on the stage in a minute and guide me gently back to my seat. 有人马上会上台，把我领回到我的座
TED演讲 不要固执于英语(2)
Now, at the same time, English is the undisputed global language. 而同时，现在英语又无可争辩地成为全球性语言。 Could there be a connection? Well I don't know. 这两者间有联系吗？我不知道。 But I do know that I've se
TED演讲 不要固执于英语(3)
But if you're not a native speaker, you have to pass a test. 如果你的母语不是英语的话，你要通过一个考试。 Now can it be right to reject a student on linguistic ability alone? 那么仅仅根据学生的语言能力就拒绝一个学
TED演讲： 不要固执于英语(4)
I ask you, what happened to translation? 那我问你，翻译还需要吗？ If you think about the Islamic Golden Age, there was lots of translation then. 如果你想想伊斯兰的黄金时代，当时有很多翻译。 They translated from Latin
TED演讲： 不要固执于英语(5)
There are lots and lots of tests of English. 各种各样的英语测试。 And millions and millions of students take these tests every year. 每年成千上万的学生参加这样的考试。 Now you might think, you and me, Those fees aren't bad,
TED演讲 不要固执于英语(6)
My daughter came to England from Kuwait. 我的女儿从科威特回到英国。 She had studied science and mathematics in Arabic. 她已经用阿拉伯语学了科学和数学。 It's an Arabic medium school. 那是在一所阿拉伯中校。 She h
TED演讲 你存钱的能力跟你用的语言有关?(1)
The global economic financial crisis has reignited public interest 全球金融危机让人们对早在亚当斯密时代 in something that's actually one of the oldest questions in economics, dating back to at least before Adam Smith. 就被提出的一
TED演讲： 你存钱的能力跟你用的语言有关?(2)
Holding down the right flank of the OECD, all the way on the other side, is Greece. 在图右侧的这些国家，最右边的是希腊， And what you can see is that over the last 25 years, 我们看到在过去25年 Greece has barely managed to sa
TED演讲： 你存钱的能力跟你用的语言有关?(3)
And in fact, if I want to speak correctly, Chinese forces me to constantly think about it. 事实上，如果要我不弄错的话，我就要不断的去想这之间的关系。 Now, that fascinated me endlessly as a child, 这是小时候让我很好
