TED中英官方演讲稿-AlGore_2008对气候危机的新思考.docxVIP

1.I have given the slide show that I gave here two years ago about 2,000 times. 两年前我在此做了一次幻灯片演讲，后来我将同样内容的演讲作了大约2000次。2.Im giving a short slide show this morning that Im giving for the very first time, so -- well its -- I dont want or need to raise the bar; 今天上午，我要做的简短的演讲内容 是我破天荒的第一次，所以—— 呵呵， 我并非要提高演讲水平3.Im actually trying to lower the bar. 实际上我在试图去降低标准。4.Because Ive cobbled this together to try to meet the the challenge of this session. 因为我只是拼凑这些材料 来完成这个讲座。5.And I was reminded by Karen Armstrongs fantastic presentation that religion really properly understood is not about belief, but about behavior. 我想起了卡伦?阿姆斯特朗的精彩演讲， 他提到真正被理解的宗教， 并非关于教义，而是关系行为。6.Perhaps we should say the same thing about optimism. 对于乐观主义，也许我们应有同样的说法。7.How dare we be optimistic? 我们怎敢乐观？8.Optimism is sometimes characterized as a belief, an intellectual posture. 乐观主义有时被描绘为一种信念，一种智识上的心境。9.As Mahatma Gandhi famously said, You must become the change you wish to see in the world. 但是像圣雄甘地的名言所说的， “你必须成为你愿意看到的变化。”10.And the outcome about which we wish to be optimistic is not going to be created by the belief alone, except to the extent that the belief 所以，我们试图以乐观心境期待的结果 并非由信念本身就能创造出来， 除非这种信念，11.brings about new behavior. But the word behavior 能带来新的行为模式。但是“行为”这个词，12.is also, I think, sometimes misunderstood in this context. 我想，在这个语境下也经常被误解。13.Im a big advocate of changing the light bulbs and buying hybrids, and Tipper and I put 33 solar panels on our house, and dug the geothermal wells, and did all of that other stuff. 我大力提倡更换 灯泡以及购买混合动力汽车， 我和妻子Tipper也在家里的房子上安装了33个太阳能电板， 并建造地热能井和做所有其他的类似事情。14.But, as important as it is to change the light bulbs, it is more important to change the laws. 但是，就像和换灯泡一样， 更重要的是修订法律15.And when we change our behavior in our daily lives, we sometimes leave out the citizenship part and the democracy part. In order to be optimistic about this, 当我们改变我们日常生活的行为模式的时候， 我们间或忘记了“公民” 和“民主”这些部分。为了能真的乐观，16.we have to become incredibly act