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But I was curious to know, what else would they do if they could do this much?
但我好奇地是，他們既已達(dá)到如此水平還能干些別的什么？
I started experimenting with other subjects, among them, for example, pronunciation.
我開始在他們中間用別的課題作實(shí)驗(yàn)，例如，發(fā)音。
There's one community of children in southern India whose English pronunciation is really bad,
在南印度，有一個(gè)社區(qū)的孩子們英語發(fā)音非常糟糕，
and they needed good pronunciation because that would improve their jobs.
而他們需要更好的發(fā)音來找到更好地工作。
I gave them a speech-to-text engine in a computer, and I said, "Keep talking into it until it types what you say."
我給了他們一臺(tái)帶有語音轉(zhuǎn)換文字工具的電腦，我說，“一直對(duì)著它講話直到你講的東西被打出來。”
They did that, and watch a little bit of this.
他們照做了，并看了一會(huì)兒。
Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.
很高興見到你。很高興見到你。
The reason I ended with the face of this young lady over there is because I suspect many of you know her.
視頻結(jié)尾給了這個(gè)年輕女孩的臉一個(gè)特寫，因?yàn)槲也履銈儺?dāng)中有許多人可能知道她。
She has now joined a call center in Hyderabad and may have tortured you about your credit card bills in a very clear English accent.
她如今在海得拉巴的一個(gè)呼叫中心工作，也許曾為了你的信用卡賬單騷擾過你，用她那純正的英式口音。
So then people said, well, how far will it go? Where does it stop?
那么有人會(huì)說，還能到什么程度？到什么程度為止？
I decided I would destroy my own argument by creating an absurd proposition.
我為此想出來一個(gè)可笑的計(jì)劃，用來打敗我自己之前的論證。
I made a hypothesis, a ridiculous hypothesis.
我做了一個(gè)假設(shè)，一個(gè)荒唐的假設(shè)。
Tamil is a south Indian language, and I said, can Tamil-speaking children in a south Indian village learn the biotechnology of DNA replication in English from a streetside computer?
泰米爾語是南印度的一種語言，我想，在南印度村莊里說泰米爾語的孩子可能通過一臺(tái)街邊的電腦學(xué)會(huì)用英語表述的關(guān)于DNA復(fù)制的生物技術(shù)科學(xué)嗎？
And I said, I'll measure them. They'll get a zero.
我想，考他們這個(gè)，他們肯定得零分。
I'll spend a couple of months, I'll leave it for a couple of months, I'll go back, they'll get another zero.
我要花上幾個(gè)月，離開幾個(gè)月，然后回來，再考下他們，應(yīng)該還是零分。
I'll go back to the lab and say, we need teachers.
接著我會(huì)回到實(shí)驗(yàn)室并說，我們需要老師。
I found a village. It was called Kallikuppam in southern India.
我找到了一個(gè)村子。它叫Kallikuppam，位于南印度。
I put in Hole in the Wall computers there, downloaded all kinds of stuff from the Internet about DNA replication, most of which I didn't understand.
我在墻洞里裝上了電腦，從網(wǎng)上下載了各種關(guān)于DNA復(fù)制的東西，絕大部分我都不懂。
