公众人物毕业演讲第194期:苏珊沃西基2014在约翰霍普金斯大学(7)

 　　You can take your phone, take a video

　　你可以用手机拍段视频

　　share it on YouTube with a few clicks¹ and share it with the world

　　轻松点击几下就能发到YouTube上 同世界分享

　　Take a picture, put a filter² on it, share it with everyone you know

　　拍张照 加个滤镜 然后同所有认识的人分享

　　all while listening to your music that's in the cloud

　　同时发些音乐到云里同大家分享

　　In fact, you guys could be doing this right now

　　实际上 你们现在就可以这样做

　　So instead of saying not to do that

　　我不阻止你们那样做

　　if you are doing it, just say something nice about my talk

　　如果你要这样做 请给我的演讲说点好话

　　JHU 2014 Hashtag

　　JHU 2014

　　And it's not just the web³

　　不只有互联网是这样

　　genomics, nanotechnology, bioinformatics, health medicine

　　还有基因组学 纳米技术 生物信息 医药卫生

　　all parts of society

　　社会的方方面面都是如此

　　You will have opportunities⁴ you cannot even imagine right now

　　你可以获得你甚至想都想不到的机遇

　　So here's the one thing you could choose to remember

　　你们也可以选择记住这一点

　　It's those opportunities, the ones that make you believe in the future

　　这些让你相信未来的机遇

　　those will be the best ones

　　就是最好的机遇

　　those are the ones that can change your life

　　就是能够改变你的生活

　　and those are the ones that can change the world

　　并改变世界的机遇

　　So now I want to talk about YouTube

　　下面我要讲YouTube

　　Do you guys use YouTube?

　　你们使用YouTube吗

　　I want to talk about how I first discovered it

　　我要讲讲我最开始是怎么发现它的

　　and then almost lost it

　　最后又是怎么几乎失去它的

　　It's a story about recognizing an opportunity

　　这个故事涉及到辨别机遇

　　but also about facing failure

　　也涉及到面对失败

　　I know it's hard to believe, but in 2004 there was no YouTube

　　我知道这很难以置信 但在2004年确实没有YouTube

　　and video on the Internet was rare

　　因特网上的视频也很少

　　We were trying to figure out the right strategy for Google

　　我们正在寻找谷歌在

　　to be in the online video business

　　网络视频方面的正确路线

　　We're trying lots of different things and nothing was getting traction

　　我们进行了很多尝试 但都没有奏效

　　And one day, we decided we would allow users to upload their videos to Google

　　有一天 我们决定允许用户上传自己的视频给谷歌

　　We didn't tell users what would happen to their videos

　　我们没有告诉用户 他们的视频会怎么样

　　And we had no ideas what users would send to us

　　我们也不知道用户会上传什么视频

　　It was an experiment in every sense

　　这只是一次实验

1 clicks   

n.卡嗒声，咔嚓声( click的名词复数 )；点击v.使发出咔哒声，使咔哒（或咔嚓）响( click的第三人称单数 )；突然明白；配合默契；在计算机荧光屏上用鼠标器)咔嗒一按

参考例句：

• Typically, a user clicks on an object and it becomes selected. 比如，用户单击一个对象，对象选中。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• It will execute as soon as a user clicks and releases it with the mouse cursor. 用户只要单击后释放鼠标，它就立即执行。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

2 filter   

n.滤器，过滤嘴；v.过滤，透过

参考例句：

• Foreign influence began to filter into the country.外国势力开始渗透进这个国家。
• Charcoal is used to filter water.木炭是用来过滤水的。

3 web   

n.网，蛛丝，蹼，织物，圈套，卷筒纸；vi.生蹼，形成网；vt.织蜘蛛网于，使落入圈套

参考例句：

• The spider weaves a web.蜘蛛织网。
• You mean the World Wide Web?你是说国际互联网？

4 opportunities   

n.机会( opportunity的名词复数 )；适当的时机；条件；就业（或晋升、进步等）的良机

参考例句：

• We aim to improve opportunities for the less advantaged in society. 我们的宗旨是为社会地位比较低下的人增加机会。
• endless opportunities for making money 无数挣钱的机会