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So -- Here we are, back at the convention center.
那么，我們現(xiàn)在回到演講廳。
We've been on a journey, a return journey, of 13.7 billion years.
我們已經(jīng)在一個旅行、一個追溯137億年的旅行中。
I hope you agree this is a powerful story.
我希望你認(rèn)同這是一個震撼人心的故事。
And it's a story in which humans play an astonishing and creative role. But it also contains warnings.
同時這也是有關(guān)人類發(fā)揮驚人能力和創(chuàng)造性作用的故事。但是這同時也有警告。
Collective learning is a very, very powerful force, and it's not clear that we humans are in charge of it.
集體學(xué)習(xí)是一種十分，十分強大的力量，而且還不能確定它能否被我們?nèi)祟惪刂啤?/div>
I remember very vividly as a child growing up in England, living through the Cuban Missile Crisis.
當(dāng)我從小在英格蘭長大，我對古巴導(dǎo)彈危機下的生活記憶猶新。
For a few days, the entire biosphere seemed to be on the verge of destruction.
有幾天，整個生物圈好像在毀滅的邊緣。
And the same weapons are still here, and they are still armed.
同樣的武器還是在那里，他們同樣還是武裝著。
If we avoid that trap, others are waiting for us.
如果我們避免那些陷阱，其他的還在等著我們。
We're burning fossil fuels at such a rate that we seem to be
我們?nèi)绱丝焖俚厝紵停灾劣谖覀兯坪?/div>
undermining the Goldilocks conditions that made it possible for human civilizations to flourish over the last 10,000 years.
暗中在破壞讓人類文明繁榮了一萬年之久的黃金條件。
So what big history can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us,
因此宏觀的歷史能做的是展示給我們，我們自身復(fù)雜性和脆弱性的一面，以及我們面對的危機，
but it can also show us our power with collective learning.
但是它也展現(xiàn)給我們集體學(xué)習(xí)的力量。
And now, finally -- this is what I want.
現(xiàn)在，最后的，是我怎么想的。
I want my grandson, Daniel, and his friends and his generation, throughout the world, to know the story of big history,
我想我的孫子丹尼爾和他的朋友，他這代，遍布全球的一代，知道這個宏觀的故事，
and to know it so well that they understand both the challenges that face us and the opportunities that face us.
以及它如此偉大，能讓他們了解不僅僅是我們面臨的挑戰(zhàn)，同時也是我們面對的機遇。
And that's why a group of us are building a free, online syllabus in big history for high-school students throughout the world.
這也是為什么我們這一群人正在針對全世界高等教育的學(xué)生建立一個免費在線的宏觀的歷史教學(xué)綱要。
We believe that big history will be a vital intellectual tool for them, as Daniel and his generation
我們相信宏觀歷史在丹尼爾及他的同世代，
face the huge challenges and also the huge opportunities ahead of them at this threshold moment in the history of our beautiful planet.
面對挑戰(zhàn)與無窮機會，面對下一個美麗地球上的進(jìn)化門坎，會成為他們的一個智慧的工具。
I thank you for your attention.
謝謝你們的聆聽。
| 重點單詞 | 查看全部解釋 | |||
| flourish | ['flʌriʃ] |
想一想再看 vi. 繁榮，茂盛，活躍，手舞足蹈 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| understand | [.ʌndə'stænd] |
想一想再看 vt. 理解，懂，聽說，獲悉，將 ... 理解為，認(rèn)為< |
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| vital | ['vaitl] |
想一想再看 adj. 至關(guān)重要的，生死攸關(guān)的，有活力的，致命的 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| complexity | [kəm'pleksiti] |
想一想再看 n. 復(fù)雜，復(fù)雜性，復(fù)雜的事物 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| collective | [kə'lektiv] |
想一想再看 adj. 集體的，共同的 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| missile | ['misail] |
想一想再看 n. 導(dǎo)彈，投射物 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| avoid | [ə'vɔid] |
想一想再看 vt. 避免，逃避 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| destruction | [di'strʌkʃən] |
想一想再看 n. 破壞，毀滅，破壞者 |
聯(lián)想記憶 | |
| astonishing | [əs'tɔniʃiŋ] |
想一想再看 adj. 驚人的 動詞astonish的現(xiàn)在分詞 |
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| planet | ['plænit] |
想一想再看 n. 行星 |
