演讲文本

Wind turbines 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

人物简介和演讲视频

人物简介
比尔·奈是美国著名科普专家，曾负责美国迪士尼公司制作的著名科教节目《比尔教科学》，并因此蜚声国内外。本视频是比尔·奈于2014年在马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校毕业典礼上的演讲，重点谈到了气候变化、探索宇宙等科学问题，勉励学生加入到科学世界的探索中来，并以此改变世界。