TED中英官方演讲稿-SanjayPradhan_2012G开放性数据在怎样改变国际援助.docx

1.I grew up in Bihar, Indias poorest state, and I remember when I was six years old, I remember coming home one day to find a cart full of the most delicious sweets at our doorstep. 我在印度最贫穷的地区比哈尔邦长大， 并且我记得当我六岁的时候 有一天我回到家时，在家门口找到一个手拉车， 里面装满了最美味的零食。2.My brothers and I dug in, and thats when my father came home. 我和我的兄弟们立刻开动猛吃， 然后那个时候我父亲刚好回到家。3.He was livid, and I still remember how we cried when that cart with our half-eaten sweets was pulled away from us. 他当时面色铁青，我至今还记得我们怎样嚎啕大哭， 4.Later, I understood why my father got so upset. 后来我才知道为什么我父亲如此生气。5.Those sweets were a bribe from a contractor who was trying to get my father to award him a government contract. 因为那些零食其实是来自一个承包商的贿赂， 6.My father was responsible for building roads in Bihar, and he had developed a firm stance against corruption, even though he was harassed and threatened. 我父亲负责比哈尔邦的道路建设， 并且他的立场非常坚定，坚决反对腐败， 即使他因此被骚扰甚至威胁。7.His was a lonely struggle, because Bihar was also Indias most corrupt state, where public officials were enriching themselves, [rather] than serving the poor who had no means 我父亲的故事只是一个孤单的斗争过程，因为比哈尔邦 曾经也是印度最腐败的邦， 那里的公职人员经常为自己谋取利益， 8.to express their anguish if their children had no food or no schooling. 这些穷人的孩子没有足够的食物，或者没有书读， 9.And I experienced this most viscerally when I traveled to remote villages to study poverty. 10.And as I went village to village, I remember one day, when I was famished and exhausted, and I was almost collapsing in a scorching heat under a tree, 我挨个去了许多村庄， 几乎要瘫倒的时候 11.and just at that time, one of the poorest men in that village invited me into his hut and graciously fed me. 正在那个时候，一个几乎是那个村子里最穷的人 12.Only I later realized that what he fed me was food for his entire family for two days. 13.This profound gift of generosity challenged and changed the very purpose of my life. 并且挑战了以及改变了我整个人生的意义。14.I resolved to give back. 我下定决心要回报给他。15.Later, I joined the World Bank, which sought to fight such poverty by transferr