演讲文本

Skyrocketed to over 50 cents a liter 2 dollars a gallon, everybody

猛涨到50多美分一升2美元一加仑 大伙

Now we're the last country

我们是最后一个国家

I'm hoping someday we'll get leaders in gasoline as well as other things

我希望有一天我们能够有汽油及其它东西的领袖

Back then we were still in the throes of the disco era

当时 我们还处在迪斯科年代

We had leisure suits the Chevy Vega the Ford Pinto

我们有休闲套装雪佛兰织女星福特平托

I mean everybody these were things that no designer, no engineer and especially no lawyer could be proud of

我想跟大家说的是这些绝对不是设计师 工程师 特别是律师会感到自豪的

Now we're in the depth of the most serious environmental crisis in human history

现在我们正处在人类历史上最严重的环境危机之中

in that I include the most recently Ice Age because things are happening faster than ever before

这包括最近的一次冰期因为一切都比任何时候发生得更迅猛

but I believe you all can help us avoid disaster but I'm also hoping you can help us avoid another disco era

不过我相信你们所有人能够帮助我们避免灾难我也相信 你们能够帮助我们避免另一次迪斯科年代

When my great-grandmother refused to let my grandmother go for a ride on the Wright Brothers' new flying machine in College Park Maryland

当我的曾祖母拒绝让我祖母在马里兰大学帕克分校登上莱特兄弟新发明的飞行机器时

there were about one and three quarters of a billion people in the world

世界总人口大约只有17.5亿

During World War II while my father worked a shovel in the Japanese Prisoner of War camp

在二战时期我父亲在日本战俘营做劳工

and my mother was a Navy lieutenant and a cryptographer working to decipher the German enigma code

而我母亲则是一位海军上尉她的工作是破解德军密码

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。