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Those are nice words. But I got sort of curious of what he meant with liberty, and liberty for whom.
這句話很動聽。可是，我很好奇，他說的是何種自由，以及是何人的自由。
And we will think about that when we look at the wider picture of the world in 1858. Because 1858 was also watershed year in the history of Asia.
這勢必讓我們回想起，在1858年時，世界各地都發(fā)生了什么。因為1858年同時也是亞洲歷史的分水嶺。
1858 was the year when the courageous uprising against the foreign occupation of India was defeated by the British forces.
1858年，印度所爆發(fā)的民族大起義被英軍鎮(zhèn)壓了。
And India was up to 89 years more of foreign domination.
印度因此繼續(xù)忍受了89年的外人統(tǒng)治。
1858 in China was the victory in the Opium War by the British forces.
中國在1858年再一次在鴉片戰(zhàn)爭中輸給了英國。
And that meant that foreigners, as it said in the treaty, were allowed to trade freely in China. It meant paying with opium for Chinese goods.
因此在簽訂的（不平等）條約中，說明外國人在中國可自由通商。這意味著用鴉片換取中國商品。
And 1858 in Japan was the year when Japan had to sign the Harris Treaty and accept trade on favorable condition for the U.S.
日本在1858年，被迫簽訂安政條約，以及承認(rèn)美日貿(mào)易優(yōu)先權(quán)。
And they were threatened by those black ships there, that had been in Tokyo harbor over the last year.
因為他們在這幾年，被東京港里的黑船威脅。
But, Japan, in contrast to India and China, maintained its national sovereignty.
但日本仍擁有國家主權(quán)，不像印度和中國那樣。
And let's see how much difference that can make. And I will do that by bringing these bubbles back to a Gapminder graph here, where you can see each bubble is a country.
讓我們來看看這將帶來多大的差異。我將帶著這些泡泡，回到Gapminder軟件上，在這里，每個泡泡都代表著一個國家。
The size of the bubble here is the population. On this axis, as I used to have income per person in comparable dollar.
人口是由泡泡的大小所代表。一般橫軸都代表人均收入。
And on that axis I have life expectancy, the health of people. And I also bring an innovation here.
豎軸則代表人均壽命。今天，我又一次帶來了一件發(fā)明。
I have transformed the laser beam into an ecological, recyclable version here, in green India.
為了綠色印度，我將激光束轉(zhuǎn)換成，一根生態(tài)友好型木棒。
