TED中英双语演讲稿The freakonomics of crack dealing.pdfVIP

The freakonomics of crack dealing Steven Levitt 2006-09-19 /talks/steven_levitt_the_freakonomics_of_crack_dealing Pollykann - A powerful video player (App) for learning languages provided technical support for the subtitles. 本字幕由【小鹦看看】- 用了会后悔，不用更后悔的外语学习App，提供技术支持。 Youll be happy to know that Ill be talking not about my own tragedy, 你们将会很庆幸我要讲的并非自己的遭遇， but other peoples tragedy. 是其他人的遭遇。 Its a lot easier to be lighthearted about other peoples tragedy 相比亲身经历不幸，别人的遭遇听起来就轻松得多。 than your own, and I want to keep it in the spirit of the conference. 我想把这条列为这次大会的基本精神。 So, if you believe the media accounts, 如果你相信媒体的数据， being a drug dealer in the height of the crack cocaine epidemic 在可卡因泛滥成灾的时代，作为一个毒品贩子， was a very glamorous life, in the words of Virginia Postrel. 用Virginia Postrel的话来说，他们的生活十分绚烂。 There was money, there was drugs, guns, women, 有金钱，有毒品，有枪，有女人， you know, you name it -- jewelry, bling-bling -- it had it all. 还有你所能想到的--珠宝，在那儿熠熠发光--所有这些。 What Im going to tell you today is that, in fact, based on 10 years of research, 但经过十年的研究，今天我要与你们分享 a unique opportunity to go inside a gang -- 一个独一无二的深入黑帮内部的机会-- to see the actual books, the financial records of the gang -- 去看看他们最真实的财政纪录-- that the answer turns out not to be that being in the gang was a glamorous life. 你会发现他们的生活一点都不绚烂。 But I think, more realistically, that being in a gang -- 更实际地说，作为黑帮的一员-- selling drugs for a gang -- is perhaps the worst job in all of America. 为组织贩卖毒品--可能是全美国最悲惨的工作。 And thats what Id like to convince you of today. 今天我要说服你们。 So there are three things I want to do. 我有三件事要做。 First, I want to explain how and why crack cocaine 首先，我会解释为什么快克（片状可卡因） had such a profound influence on inner-city gangs. 对城市黑帮的影响如此深远。 Secondly, I want to tell you how somebody like me came to be able to see 其次，我想告诉你们 the inner workings of a gang -- an interesting story, I think. 我是如何了解到黑帮的内幕的。这个故事很有趣，至少我是这么认为的。 And then third, I want to tell you, in a very superficial way, 最