演讲文本

In these past three years, Meu Rio grew
在过去的三年里，“我的里约”已经成长为
to a network of 160,000 citizens of Rio.
一个覆盖十六万里约市民的网络。
About 40 percent of those members are young people
这些人中有40%是
aged 20 to 29.
20到29岁的年轻人，
That is one in every 15 young people
每15个年轻人中就有一个是“我的里约”的成员。
of that age in Rio today.
也就是今天的里约这个年龄段的
Amongst our members is this adorable little girl,
这个可爱的小姑娘也是我们的成员之一，
Bia, to your right,
她叫比亚，在你的右边，
and Bia was just 11 years old
她当时只有11岁，
when she started a campaign using one of our tools
比亚使用我们的一个工具发起了一场
to save her model public school from demolition.
保卫她的学校免被拆除的运动。
Her school actually ranks among the best
事实上她的学校跻身于
public schools in the country,
这个国家最好的公立学校之列，
and it was going to be demolished
然而
by the Rio de Janeiro state government
里约热内卢州政府打算把它拆了
to build, I kid you not,
去建——我不跟你开玩笑——
a parking lot for the World Cup
去建一个为世界杯服务的停车场，
right before the event happened.
就在这场盛事开始前。
Bia started a campaign, and we even watched
比亚发起了一场运动，我们甚至通过
her school 24/7 through webcam monitoring,
网络摄像监控24小时不间断观察她的学校，
and many months afterwards,
几个月后，
the government changed their minds.
政府改变了主意。
Bia's school stayed in place.
比亚的学校得以保全。
There's also Jovita.
还有约维塔的故事。
She's an amazing woman whose daughter
她是一个了不起的女人，她女儿
went missing about 10 years ago,
10年前走丢了，
and since then, she has been looking
从那以后，她就一直在寻找她的女儿。
for her daughter.
在这个过程中，
In that process, she found out 她第一次发现
that first, she was not alone.
她并不是唯一的一个。
In the last year alone, 2013,
仅去年，也就是2013年，
6,000 people disappeared
里约州就有
in the state of Rio.
6000人失踪。
But she also found out that in spite of that,
但她也发现尽管如此，
Rio had no centralized intelligence system
里约却没有一个处理失踪案件的
for solving missing persons cases.
集中的情报系统。
In other Brazilian cities, those systems
在其它的巴西城市，这样的系统
have helped solve up to 80 percent
已经帮助处理了高达80%的
of missing persons cases.
失踪案件。
She started a campaign,
她发起了一场运动，
and after the secretary of security got 16,000 emails
在安全部长收到了16000封
from people asking him to do this,
要求他建立这样的系统的邮件后，
he responded, and started to build a police unit
他做出了回应，并开始建造一支
specializing in those cases.
专门处理这些案件的警察队伍。
It was open to the public at the end of last month,
上个月底它已经对公众开放了，
and Jovita was there
约维塔也在场
giving interviews and being very fancy.
并且很高兴地接受了采访。
And then, there is Leandro.
接下来，我要说说莱安德罗的故事。
Leandro is an amazing guy
莱安德罗是一个
in a slum in Rio,
居住在里约一个贫民窟的了不起的家伙，
and he created a recycling project in the slum.
他在那个贫民窟创建了一个资源回收项目。
At the end of last year, December 16,
去年年底，12月16日，
he received an eviction order
他收到了
by the Rio de Janeiro state government 里约热内卢州政府的驱逐令
giving him two weeks to leave the space
他们给了他两周的时间搬离
that he had been using for two years.
他已经使用了两年的地方。
The plan was to hand it over to a developer,
他们的计划是这块地交给一个开发商，
who planned to turn it into a construction site.
这个开发商则打算将它变成一个建筑工地。
Leandro started a campaign using one of our tools,
莱安德罗发起了一场运动，他使用了我们的一个工具，
the Pressure Cooker,
叫做“高压锅”，
the same one that Bia and Jovita used,
这也是比亚和约维塔曾经使用过的，
and the state government changed their minds
然后州政府
before Christmas Eve.
在圣诞前夕改变了主意。
These stories make me happy,
这些故事让我很开心，
but not just because they have happy endings.
但不仅仅是因为它们有一个美满的结局。
They make me happy because they are
它们让我开心是因为它们
happy beginnings.
是一个愉快的开始。
The teacher and parent community at Bia's school
比亚学校里的老师和学生家长
is looking for other ways they could improve
正在寻找其他能进一步
that space even further.
改善这个空间的方法。
Leandro has ambitious plans
莱安德罗有着雄心勃勃的计划，
to take his model to other low-income communities in Rio,
他计划将他的模式带到里约的其它低收入社区，
and Jovita is volunteering at the police unit
而约维塔正在她帮助创建的
that she helped created.
那个警队做义工。
Bia, Jovita and Leandro
比亚、约维塔和莱安德罗
are living examples of something
是这样的活生生的例子，
that citizens and city governments around the world
这是全世界的公民和城市政府都
need to know:
需要知道的，也就是：
We are ready.
我们准备好了。
As citizens, we are ready
作为公民，我们准备好了
to decide on our common destinies,
去决定我们共同的命运，
because we know that the way we distribute power
因为我们知道我们分配权力的方式
says a lot about how we actually value everyone,
说明我们是如何真正重视每一个人的，
and because we know
因为我们知道
that enabling and participating in local politics
支持和参与当地政治
is a sign that we truly care
是我们真正关心
about our relations to one another,
我们彼此的关系的一个标志，
and we are ready to do this
并且我们已经准备好了
in cities around the world right now.
现在就开始在全世界的城市里行动起来。
With the Our Cities network,
通过“我们的城市”网络，
the Meu Rio team
“我的里约”团队
hopes to share what we have learned
希望跟其他想要
with other people who want to create
在他们自己的城市
similar initiatives in their own cities.
创建类似项目的人分享我们学到的东西。
We have already started doing it in Sao Paulo
我们已经开始在圣保罗这样做了，
with incredible results,
并且取得了令人难以置信的成果，
and want to take it to cities around the world
我们想要将它带到世界各地的城市——
through a network of citizen-centric,
通过一个以公民为中心的、
citizen-led organizations
公民主导的组织的网络，
that can inspire us,
而这些组织可以激励我们、
challenge us, and remind us to demand
挑战我们并提醒我们去
real participation in our city lives.
真正参与到我们城市生活中来。
It is up to us
最终的决定权在我们手里，
to decide whether we want schools
我们是想要学校
or parking lots,
还是停车场，
community-driven recycling projects
社区回收项目
or construction sites,
还是建筑工地，
loneliness or solidarity, cars or buses,
孤独或团结，汽车或公交，
and it is our responsibility to do that now,
现在我们有责任去做这些，
for ourselves, for our families,
为我们自己，为我们的家人，
for the people who make our lives worth living,
也为那些让我们值得生活下去的人们，
and for the incredible creativity,
以及为那惊人的创造力、美丽和奇迹——
beauty, and wonder that make our cities,
那些使得我们的城市成为——
in spite of all of their problems,
尽管它们有着各种各样的问题——
the greatest invention of our time.
我们这个时代最伟大的发明的东西。
Obrigado. Thank you.
谢谢，感谢你们。

视频及简介

演讲简介：

很多时候，人们觉得自己的城市的水平是很难变化的。但城市活动家亚历山德拉奥罗菲诺认为可以改变的——通过高科技和古板的人连接的组合。她分享了一个她的家乡里约热内卢例子，她说：“这是由我们来决定我们是否需要要学校或停车场，回收项目或建筑工地，汽车或公交车，孤独或者团结。

重点讲解

重点讲解：
1.since then 从那时起；自从那以后；自从那时起

例句：Since then, music has always been accompanied by his young time, become an important part of his life.
自那以后，音乐一直伴随着他年轻的时光，成为他生命中重要的部分。

2.in spite of 尽管；不管；虽然

例句：But if he attend to these scene , in spite of how affliction in his heart, he never behaved in out.
可是如果他注意到了这些，不管他内心多么痛苦，从不表现出来。

3.open to the public 向公众开放；对外开放；对公众开放

例句：The Long Now Museum and Store, at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, is free and open to the public.
现在，博物馆长和存储在梅森堡中心在旧金山，是免费向公众开放。

4.hand it over 把它上交；交过来

例句：Just hand it over, Larson. This has nothing to do with you.
把它交出来，拉森。这和你没关系。

5.remind sb to do 提醒某人做某事

例句：It was just a joke to remind you to send me a mail.
提醒你寄给我一个邮件只是一个笑话。