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I've been thinking a lot about the world recently and how it's changed over the last 20, 30, 40 years.
最近我常常思考我們的世界以及它在過(guò)去的20，30，40年里經(jīng)歷了何等的轉(zhuǎn)變。
Twenty or 30 years ago, if a chicken caught a cold and sneezed and died in a remote village in East Asia,
20或30年前，如果在東亞一個(gè)遙遠(yuǎn)村落里，一只雞患了感冒，打個(gè)噴嚏然后死了，
it would have been a tragedy for the chicken and its closest relatives,
對(duì)那只雞和它的近親來(lái)說(shuō)可能是個(gè)災(zāi)難，
but I don't think there was much possibility of us fearing a global pandemic and the deaths of millions.
但我想我們不太可能會(huì)因此而擔(dān)心全球流行病和數(shù)百萬(wàn)人的死亡。
Twenty or 30 years ago, if a bank in North America lent too much money
20或30年前，如果北美的一家銀行借出了太多錢(qián)，
to some people who couldn't afford to pay it back and the bank went bust,
給那些無(wú)力償還的人并因此而倒閉了，
that was bad for the lender and bad for the borrower,
只是借貸雙方運(yùn)氣不好而已，
but we didn't imagine it would bring the global economic system to its knees for nearly a decade.
但我們不會(huì)想到這會(huì)給全球經(jīng)濟(jì)系統(tǒng)帶來(lái)將近10年的癱瘓期。
This is globalization. This is the miracle that has enabled us to transship our bodies and our minds
這就是全球化。這就是奇跡，它已經(jīng)讓我們的身體、我們的頭腦、
and our words and our pictures and our ideas and our teaching and our learning around the planet ever faster and ever cheaper.
我們的語(yǔ)言、圖像以及我們的思想、還有我們的教育和學(xué)習(xí)都圍繞這個(gè)星球運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)得更快、成本更低。
It's brought a lot of bad stuff, like the stuff that I just described, but it's also brought a lot of good stuff.
它帶來(lái)很多壞事，比如我剛才舉的例子。但它也帶來(lái)許多好事。
A lot of us are not aware of the extraordinary successes of the Millennium Development Goals,
我們當(dāng)中很多人并不了解千禧年發(fā)展目標(biāo)取得了非凡的成就，
several of which have achieved their targets long before the due date.
有幾個(gè)遠(yuǎn)在截止日期之前就完成了預(yù)定目標(biāo)。
That proves that this species of humanity is capable of achieving extraordinary progress
這證明了人類這個(gè)物種能夠取得超凡的進(jìn)展，
if it really acts together and it really tries hard.
如果我們真正地一起合作并努力的話。
But if I had to put it in a nutshell these days,
但如果我簡(jiǎn)明扼要地說(shuō)，
I sort of feel that globalization has taken us by surprise, and we've been slow to respond to it.
我覺(jué)得全球化有點(diǎn)兒讓我們措手不及，我們對(duì)它的回應(yīng)太慢了。
If you look at the downside of globalization, it really does seem to be sometimes overwhelming.
如果你看看全球化的負(fù)面影響，有時(shí)候的確有點(diǎn)兒難以應(yīng)付。
All of the grand challenges that we face today,
今天我們面對(duì)的所有重大挑戰(zhàn)，
like climate change and human rights and demographics and terrorism and pandemics and narco-trafficking and human slavery and species loss,
像氣候變化或人權(quán)問(wèn)題還有人口問(wèn)題、恐怖主義和流行病，還有毒品走私和奴隸販賣以及物種滅絕，
I could go on, we're not making an awful lot of progress against an awful lot of those challenges.
我可以一直說(shuō)下去，我們?cè)谶@么多可怕的挑戰(zhàn)面前并沒(méi)有取得多么重大進(jìn)展。
