TED演讲：重新定义字典(4)
So -- now, when you think about this, what we have here is a ham butt problem. 所以，现在，当你想到这些，我们面对的问题其实是火腿屁股的问题。 Does everyone know the ham butt problem? 有人知道火腿屁股的问题吗？
TED演讲：重新定义字典(5)
So, if you have a ham butt problem, and you're thinking about the ham butt problem, 所以如果你知道火腿屁股这事儿，而你又正在考虑这个问题， the conclusion that it leads you to is inexorable and counterintuitive: paper is the
TED演讲：重新定义字典(6)
Lexicography is really more about material science. 字典编纂学是研究物质的科学。 We are studying the tolerances of the materials that you use to build the structure of your expression: your speeches and your writing. 我们在研究不同
TED演讲：重新定义字典(7)
You didn't break it. It's just in a new position, 你没有破坏它，只是让它移到一个新的地方， and that new position can be just as beautiful. 这新的地方也可以是一样美丽。 Now, if you're no longer a traffic cop -- the pr
TED演讲：重新定义字典(8)
So if you think of the word set, a set can be a badger's burrow, 当你想到一个词setset可以指獾的穴， a set can be one of the pleats in an Elizabethan ruff, and there's one numbered definition in the OED. 也可以指伊利沙白时代衣领
TED演讲：重新定义字典(9)
So, enough scientists in other disciplines are really asking people to help, and they're doing a good job of it. 足够多的科学家在其它领域正寻求大家帮忙，而且大伙也干的不错。 For instance, there's eBird, where amateur bir
TED演讲：重新定义字典(10)
So a word without its source is like a cut flower. 一个没有来源的词就像一朵被剪下来的花。 You know, it's pretty to look at for a while, but then it dies. It dies too fast. 看一会还可以，不久就蔫了。蔫得太快了。 S
TED演讲：暗喻言说(1)
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. 暗喻秘密地生活在我们中间。 We utter about six metaphors a minute. 于我们的言谈中，每分钟大约会出现六个暗喻。 Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselv
TED演讲：暗喻言说(2)
This formula works wherever metaphor is present. 这个公式适用于所有的暗喻。 Elvis uses it, but so does Shakespeare in this famous line from Romeo and Juliet: Juliet is the sun. 埃尔维斯用到它，莎士比亚也同样用到它，于《
TED演讲：暗喻言说(3)
If you are like 98 percent of other people, 如果你象其余百分之九十八的人一样， you will identify the round, amoeboid shape as Bouba, and the sharp, spiky one as Kiki. 你会把这个圆圆的，变形虫形状的叫做Bouba，把尖尖
TED演讲：暗喻言说(4)
Why? Because we cannot ignore the metaphorical meaning of words either. 这是为什么？因为我们同样也不能忽视这些词暗喻的意义。 One of the sentences was, Some jobs are jails. 其中一句话是：有些工作是监狱 Now, unle
TED演讲： 暗喻言说(5)
A group of students was told that a small democratic country had been invaded and had asked the U.S. for help. 在一项研究中，一群学生被告知某个民主小国在遭到侵略后向美国寻求援助。 And they had to make a decision. Wha
TED演讲：暗喻言说(6)
Ralph Waldo Emerson described language as fossil poetry. 诗人艾默生曾将语言描述为化石般的诗。 But before it was fossil poetry, language was fossil metaphor. 但是在它成为化石般的诗之前，语言是化石般的暗喻。 An
TED演讲：单词的诞生(1)
Imagine if you could record your life -- everything you said, everything you did, 想象一下如果你能记录你的生活--你说的一切，做的一切 available in a perfect memory store at your fingertips, 就存储在一个完美的你触手可
TED演讲：单词的诞生(2)
Over the course of three years, we recorded eight to 10 hours a day, 历经3年的时间，我们每天记录8到10个小时 amassing roughly a quarter-million hours of multi-track audio and video. 积累了大约25万小时的多轨音频和视频资料
