TED中英官方演讲稿-DanielleWood_2017S可以用来造福地球的6种太空技术.docx

I was 17 when I chose my career.?我是在17岁的时候 选定自己的职业的。I was standing outside on a hot summer night in Florida and just a few miles from the ocean. I was waiting for a miracle to happen. That summer, I was privileged to work as an intern at NASAs Kennedy Space Center, and the miracle I was waiting for was the launch of the Columbia Space Shuttle carrying the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, a telescope that would allow scientists to peer into the edge of black holes. The entire sky filled with light. And it was as if it was daytime in the middle of the night. Soon, we could feel the rumble of the engines vibrating in our chests. And it wasnt a miracle; it was the combined effort of a team of thousands of people who worked together to make was seemed impossible a reality. And I wanted to join that team.那是在佛罗里达一个炎热的夏夜， 我站在户外距离海边 也就几英里的地方。 我在等待一个奇迹的发生。 那年夏天，我有幸作为一名实习生 在NASA的肯尼迪航天中心工作， 而我等待的这个奇迹， 就是哥伦比亚号航天飞机的发射， 它装载了钱德拉X射线天文台， 那是一台望远镜， 可以帮助科学家观察黑洞的边缘。 整个天空都被点亮了。 午夜被照得如同白昼。 很快，引擎的轰鸣 在我们的胸中产生了共鸣。 这不是奇迹， 而是数千人共同努力， 同甘共苦， 完成了一项不可能完成的任务。 我想成为他们中的一员。So I decided to apply to a university where I could study aerospace engineering. And the following year, I started at MIT in my engineering training and joined a student project building space robots. And everything was going as I planned, except I was confused about something important. Now, my confusion arose in my summer breaks. I traveled to a school in Kenya, and there I volunteered with girls ages five to 17, giving them lessons in English and math and science. And they taught me songs in Swahili. And mostly, I just spent time getting to know the girls, enjoying their presence. And I saw that these girls and the leaders in their community, they were overcoming important barriers to allow these girls to have the best possible chances in life. And I wanted to join that team.于是我决定申请一所 能让我学习航天工程学的大学。 接下来的那年， 我开始在麻省理工学习工程学， 参与了一个学生项目， 建造太空机器人。 一切都很顺利，按计划进行， 除了一点，我在 某些重要的事情上感到困惑。 具体说来，我的困惑产生于那年暑假。 我旅行到了肯尼亚的一所学校， 在那里支教，辅导5到17岁的女孩 英文、数学