公众人物毕业演讲 第165期:比尔·奈马萨诸塞大学2014(12)

 　　Wind turbines¹ are cool. You're going to love them

　　风力发电机很酷 你们会爱上它们

　　They'll be a source of pride

　　它们将是自豪的来源

　　The solar cell that powers my never winded watch

　　为我这块不用上发条的手表提供电能

　　Is around 10% efficient

　　太阳能电池的效率大概是10%

　　Which is plenty for a watch

　　这对手表已经很不错了

　　But what if it were 50% efficient or 80% efficient?

　　但如果能达到50%效率或80%效率呢

　　Here's hoping a UMass raw material scientist

　　这里我希望马萨诸塞大学的材料科学家

　　Becomes the inventor or venture capitalist

　　能够成为发明者或风险投资者

　　Or the lawyer who will grasp the value of this discovery and protect the idea

　　或是律师 实现这一发现的价值并保护这一想法

　　He or she would change the world

　　这样就能改变世界

　　If you could invent a better battery

　　如果你能发明一种更好的电池

　　One that can store more energy using less exotic metal

　　使用较少异金属 存储更多能量

　　One that can handle the heat without the loss of performance

　　能够处理热量 不损失太多功率

　　Or just playing catching on fire which you don't want in a battery

　　不会燃烧起来 你们可不希望电池烧起来

　　We could store energy from the wind and the sun

　　我们可以存储来自风和太阳的能量

　　And have it available whenever we need

　　并在任何需要的时候使用它们

　　We would change the world

　　我们将会改变世界

　　But if you were the inventor, the venture capitalist or the attorney that protect it

　　如果你能成为发明者 风投人士或是保护它的律师

　　You not only would change the world

　　你将不仅能够改变世界

　　It's a very good chance you would -- dare I say it -- get rich

　　还将能够变得非常富有

　　It is sobering for me and perhaps for more than a few of your parents

　　我思考过一个事实 你们家长也可以想想

　　To consider that many of you all UMass Lowell University graduates

　　很多马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校毕业生

　　Know more physics than Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein did

　　知道的物理知识都比牛顿和爱因斯坦多

　　You all know more about the universe than Galileo or Copernicus did

　　知道的宇宙知识都比伽利略和哥白尼多

　　I can guarantee you that significant discoveries will

　　我敢保证 在你们这一生的时间里

　　Be made in your lifetime that will change the world

　　可能会出现变革世界的重大发现

　　We hope some of you sitting here today will be the ones that make those discoveries

　　我希望在座有人将是这些发现的主导者

　　Imagine this, when I was a kid

　　想想这个 当我还是小孩时

　　No one had a good theory as to what happened to the ancient dinosaur

　　没人知道恐龙是怎么灭绝的

1 turbines   

涡轮机( turbine的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• These turbines can be broadly split into two basic types, the impulse and the reaction turbines. 这些汽轮机可大致分为两种基本类型，即冲动式和反动式。
• The steam is carried through pipes to steam turbines which drive the electric generators. 蒸汽经过输送管进入汽轮机，汽轮机再带动发电机。