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I've come here today to talk to you about a problem. 然后填写一个联系人,名字和地址。 想和你们谈一个问题。
It's a very simple yet devastating problem, one that spans the globe and is affecting all of us. 这是个非常简单却又严重的问题, 这个问题遍及全球 并影响着我们所有人。
devastating:adj.毁灭性的; v.毁灭; (devastate的现在分词) spans:n.[建]跨度;一段时间(span的复数);v.跨越;持续;贯穿(span的第三人称单数);
The problem is anonymous companies. 这个问题就是 匿名公司。
anonymous:adj.匿名的,无名的;无个性特征的;
It sounds like a really dry and technical thing, doesn't it? 它听起来非常枯燥且专业性强, 不是吗？
technical:adj.工艺的,科技的;技术上的;专门的;
But anonymous companies are making it difficult and sometimes impossible to find out the actual human beings responsible sometimes for really terrible crimes. 但是匿名公司正在制造一个难题 甚至有时是不可能解决的难题 那就是找出 真正应担负责任的人类 当他们犯了非常可怕的罪行的时候。
responsible:adj.负责的,可靠的;有责任的;
So, why am I here talking to all of you? 那我为什么跟你们说这些呢？
Well, I guess I am a lifelong troublemaker and when my parents taught my twin brother and I to question authority , 我想我终身就是个麻烦制造者 在我父母教育我和我的双胞胎哥哥 要质疑权威的时候,
troublemaker:n.捣乱者,闹事者;惹麻烦的人; authority:n.权威;权力;当局;
I don't think they knew where it might lead. 我猜他们当时并不知道这会带来怎样的后果。
(Laughter) (笑声)
And, they probably really regretted it during my stroppy teenage years when, predictably , 他们可能真的后悔了 你可以猜得到,在我难以被驾驭的青春期,
stroppy:adj.蛮横的,刁蛮的; predictably:adv.可预言地;
I questioned their authority a lot. 我对他们的权威提出了很多的质疑。
And a lot of my school teachers didn't appreciate it much either. 对我的很多老师也一样, 他们并没有很欣赏这点。
appreciate:v.欣赏;感激;感谢;理解;
You see, since the age of about five 从我5岁起
I've always asked the question, but why? 我就总是问为什么？
But why does the Earth go around the sun? 为什么地球绕着太阳转？
But why is blood red? 为什么血是红色的？（演讲背景字幕:可是,为什么？）
But why do I have to go to school? 为什么我必须要上学啊？
But why do I have to respect the teachers and authority? 为什么我必须尊重老师, 和他们的权威？
And little did I realize that this question would become the basis of everything I would do. 我当时并未意识到 这个问题后来成了 我做任何事的出发点。
And so it was in my twenties, a long time ago, that one rainy Sunday afternoon in North London 于是就这样 在我二十几岁的时候,那是很久以前 一个阴雨的礼拜天下午,在伦敦北部
I was sitting with Simon Taylor and Patrick Alley and we were busy stuffing envelopes for a mail out in the office of the campaign group where we worked at the time. 我跟西蒙.泰勒 还有帕特里克.艾力坐在一起 在活动组织办公室 忙着填塞信封准备寄出。 我们当时在那工作。
Alley:n.小巷;小路;小径; stuffing:n.填料;填充物;v.填满;装满;塞满;灌满;把…塞进;(stuff的现在分词) envelopes:n.信封(envelope的复数);
And as usual, we were talking about the world's problems.
And in particular , we were talking about the civil war in Cambodia . 特别的是,我们当时谈论的 是柬埔寨的内战。
in particular:尤其,特别; civil:adj.公民的;民间的;文职的;有礼貌的;根据民法的; Cambodia:n.柬埔寨(位于亚洲);
And we had talked about that many, many times before. 我们以前已经讨论过这个许多次了。
But then suddenly we stopped and looked at each other and said, but why don't we try and change this? 但突然我们都停了下来 看着对方 然后说:为什么我们不试着去改变它呢？
And from that slightly crazy question, over two decades and many campaigns later, including alerting the world to the problem of blood diamonds funding war, from that crazy question, 从那个有点疯狂的问题开始, 二十多年来 在许多次公众宣传之后, 包括警醒世人 关于血钻战争的问题, 从那个疯狂的问题开始,
slightly:adv.些微地,轻微地;纤细地; alerting:v.向…报警;使警觉;使警惕;使认识到(alert的现在分词) funding:n.基金;资金;提供资金;v.为…提供资金;拨款给;(fund的现在分词)
Global Witness is now an 80-strong team of campaigners , investigators , journalists and lawyers. 环球目击者这个组织,现在已经拥有80个强劲的团队 其中包含了活动家、观察者、记者和律师。
Global:adj.全球的;总体的;球形的; Witness:n.证人;目击者;证据;v.目击;证明;为…作证; campaigners:从军者,出征者,竞选者(campaigner的复数); investigators:n.研究者,调查者(investigator的复数形式); journalists:n.新闻记者(journalist的复数);
And we're all driven by the same belief, that change really is possible. 我们怀着同样的信念, 相信改变是完全可能的。
So, what exactly does Global Witness do? 那环球目击者究竟是做什么的呢？
We investigate , we report, to uncover the people really responsible for funding conflict -- for stealing millions from citizens around the world, also known as state looting , and for destroying the environment. 我们开展调查,我们进行报道, 揭露应该承担责任的罪魁祸首 他们为战争提供资金 从全球民众手中盗取大量财物, 这种行为也叫做国家掠夺, 他们也破坏环境。
investigate:v.调查;研究;审查; uncover:v.揭开盖子;发现;揭露;揭发; conflict:n.冲突;矛盾;争执;抵触;v.抵触; looting:n.抢劫;洗劫,趁乱打劫;v.打劫(loot的现在分词);
And then we campaign hard to change the system itself. 我们为了改变系统本身而很努力得开展活动。
And we're doing this because so many of the countries rich in natural resources like oil or diamonds or timber are home to some of the poorest and most dispossessed people on the planet. 我们之所以这么做是因为太多国家 拥有充沛的自然资源 譬如说石油、钻石或者林木 却是这个星球上一些最贫穷和 最一无所有人们的家园。
resources:n.[计][环境]资源; v.向…提供资金(resource的第三人称单数); timber:n.木材;木料; dispossessed:adj.被逐出的;无依无靠的;失去产业的;
And much of this injustice is made possible by currently accepted business practices. 这种不公平 之所以变为可能 是依靠如今还被允许的商业行为。
injustice:n.不公正;不讲道义; currently:adv.当前;一般地;
And one of these is anonymous companies. 其中一项就是匿名公司。
Now we've come up against anonymous companies in lots of our investigations , like in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where we exposed how secretive deals involving anonymous companies had deprived the citizens of one of the poorest countries on the planet of well over a billion dollars. 我们已经对匿名公司发起了挑战 得助于我们许多的调查, 譬如在刚果民主共和国, 我们揭露了秘密交易 如何通过匿名公司 来剥削公民 这是世界上最贫穷国家之一 而其金额远超过十亿美元。
come up against:v.碰到;遭遇; investigations:n.调查(investigation的复数); Democratic:adj.民主的;民主政治的;大众的; exposed:adj.无遮蔽的; v.暴露; (expose的过去分词和过去式) secretive:adj.秘密的;偷偷摸摸的;促进分泌的; involving:v.包含;需要;牵涉;牵连;影响;(使)参加;(involve的现在分词) deprived:adj.缺少食物的;缺乏足够教育的;
That's twice the country's health and education budget combined. 那是这个国家公共和教育经费总和的两倍。
budget:n.预算,预算费;v.安排,预定;把…编入预算;adj.廉价的;
Or in Liberia , where an international predatory logging company used front companies as it attempted to grab a really huge chunk of Liberia's unique forests. 比如在利比里亚, 一个国际掠夺性伐木公司 使用幌子公司打掩护 来谋取利比里亚大量独有的森林资源
Liberia:n.利比里亚(西非国家); predatory:adj.掠夺的,掠夺成性的;食肉的;捕食生物的; logging:n.伐木作业;v.把…载入正式记录;记录;采伐;(log的现在分词) attempted:adj.未遂的;v.努力;尝试;试图;(attempt的过去分词和过去式) grab:v.攫取;霸占;将…深深吸引;n.攫取;霸占;夺取之物; chunk:n.大块;矮胖的人或物;
Or political corruption in Sarawak, Malaysia, which has led to the destruction of much of its forests. 又比如在马来西亚的砂拉越, 政治腐败导致很多林木遭到破坏。
corruption:n.贪污,腐败;堕落; destruction:n.破坏,毁灭;摧毁;
Well, that uses anonymous companies too. 当然,在那里也利用了匿名公司。
We secretly filmed some of the family of the former chief minister and a lawyer as they told our undercover investigator exactly how these dubious deals are done using such companies. 我们偷偷拍摄了 一位前任部长的一些家庭成员和一位律师 他们向我们的卧底调查员透露了 可疑交易究竟是如何 通过这样的公司达成的。
minister:n.部长;大臣;牧师;vi.执行牧师职务;辅助或伺候某人; undercover:adj.秘密工作的;暗中做的;私下进行的; dubious:adj.可疑的;暧昧的;无把握的;半信半疑的;
And the awful thing is, there are so many other examples out there from all walks of life. 而且糟糕的是, 有太多这样的例子 存在于各行各界。
This truly is a scandal of epic proportions hidden in plain sight. 这确实是一个非常重要的丑闻, 而且就隐藏于公众眼皮之下。
scandal:n.丑闻;流言蜚语;诽谤;公愤; epic:adj.史诗的,叙事诗的;n.史诗;叙事诗;史诗般的作品; proportions:n.[数]比例;大小(proportion的复数形式);
Whether it's the ruthless Mexican drugs cartel , the Zetas , who use anonymous companies to launder profits while their drugs-related violence is tearing communities apart across the Americas. 不论是不是无情的墨西哥贩毒团伙, 泽塔斯, 他们利用匿名公司来洗钱 与此同时他们的毒品暴力 正使美国各社区分崩离析。
ruthless:adj.无情的,残忍的; cartel:n.卡特尔;企业联合;垄断联盟;俘虏交换条约; Zetas:n.希腊语第六个字母; launder:n.流槽;[矿]槽洗机;v.洗熨(衣物);洗(钱); profits:n.利润; v.获益; (profit的第三人称单数和复数) violence:n.暴力;侵犯;激烈;歪曲; communities:n.社区;社会;团体;共有(community的复数)
Or the anonymous company, which bought up Americans' tax debts , piled on the legal fees and then gave homeowners a choice: 又比如一些匿名公司, 通过收购美国的税收债务, 由此堆积相关的法律费用, 再借此去威胁原有的房屋主人:
debts:n.负债类,债务(debt的复数形式); piled:v.堆放;叠放;放置;装入;拥挤;(pile的过去分词和过去式) legal fees:律师费;法律费用; homeowners:n.私房屋主;自己拥有住房者;
Pay up or lose your home. 把钱都付了,不然你将无家可归。
Imagine being threatened with losing your home sometimes over a debt of just a few hundred dollars, and not being able to find out who you were really up against. 想象一下你被威胁无家可归 有时仅仅只是因为一笔几百美元的债务, 而且你还不知道 你所面对的敌人究竟是谁。
Now anonymous companies are great for sanctions busting too. 如今,匿名公司 也被用来打破国际制裁。
sanctions:n.制裁; v.许可; (sanction的第三人称单数和复数) busting:v.打破;摔碎;突击搜查;(使)降级;(bust的现在分词)
As the Iranian government found out when, through a series of front companies, it owned a building in the very heart of Manhattan, on Fifth Avenue , despite American sanctions. 伊朗政府就曾发现 通过一系列的幌子公司, 他们其实在纽约曼哈顿 第五大道有一栋大楼, 尽管这是美国严加制裁的。
Iranian:adj.伊朗的;伊朗人的;伊朗语的;n.伊朗人;伊朗语; series:n.系列,连续;[电]串联;级数;丛书; Avenue:n.途径;(城镇的)大街;林荫道(尤指通往大住宅者);选择; despite:prep.尽管,不管;n.轻视;憎恨;侮辱;
And Juicy Couture , home of of the velvet track suit, and other companies were the unwitting , unknowing tenants there. 橘滋,这个天鹅绒运动套装的鼻祖, 以及其他一些公司, 都曾是不知情的大楼租用者。
Couture:n.服装设计(师)或其服装店; velvet:n.天鹅绒,丝绒;天鹅绒似的东西;adj.天鹅绒的; track:n.小道;足迹;车辙;轨道;v.追踪;跟踪; unwitting:adj.不知情的;不知不觉的;v.使精神错乱;使丧失智能;(unwit的现在分词) unknowing:adj.不知道的;没有察觉的; tenants:n.房客;居住者(tenant的复数形式);v.租借(tenant的第三人称单数);
There are just so many examples, the horesemeat scandal in Europe, the Italian mafia , they've used these companies for decades. 有太多这样的例子了, 之前欧洲的马肉丑闻, 在意大利的黑帮, 他们已经使用匿名公司很多年了。
mafia:n.黑手党;(意)秘密政党;
The $100 million American Medicare fraud , the supply of weapons to wars around the world including those in Eastern Europe in the early '90s. 上亿美元的美国医疗保障欺诈案件, 世界各地战乱之地武器的供应, 包括追溯到上世纪90年代 东欧的一些国家(都有匿名公司的出现)。
Medicare:n.(美,加)医疗保险(等于medicare); fraud:n.欺骗;骗子;诡计; Eastern:adj.东方的;向东的;东部的;东方国家的;n.东方人;东正教信徒;
Anonymous companies have even come to light in the recent revolution in the Ukraine . 匿名公司 甚至还出现在 最近的乌克兰骚乱中。
revolution:n.革命;旋转;运行;循环; Ukraine:n.乌克兰(原苏联一加盟共和国,现已独立);
But, for every case that we and others expose there are so many more that will remain hidden away because of the current system. 但是,在每一个我们和其它组织所披露案例的背后, 还有太多的事件仍会被继续隐埋着, 这是因为现今的体制。
And it's just a simple truth that some of the people responsible for outrageous crimes, for stealing from you and me and millions of others, they are remaining faceless and they are escaping accountability and they're doing this with ease, and they're doing it using legal structures . 这是个简单的事实 那些应该为蛮横罪行负责的人, 他们从你和我身上偷掠, 还包括其他很多人, 他们继续隐藏身份, 他们继续逃避责任, 这些对他们来说很容易, 而且是通过合法手段完成的。
outrageous:adj.粗暴的;可恶的;令人吃惊的; accountability:n.有义务;有责任;可说明性; structures:n.结构; v.建造(structure的第三人称单数形式);
And really, that is unfair. 这的确太不公平了。
Well, you might well ask, what exactly is an anonymous company, and can I really set one up, and use it, without anyone knowing who I am? 好了,你可能会问, 匿名公司到底是什么？ 我真的可以创办并使用匿名公司, 而且是在别人不知道我是谁的情况下？
Well, the answer is, yes you can. 答案是:是的,你可以。
But if you're anything like me, you'll want to see some of that for yourself, so let me show you. 但如果你和我一样, 你会想要自己来看看, 那让我来告诉你吧。
Well first you need to work out where you want to set it up. 首先你要决定 在哪里建立公司。
Now, at this point you might be imagining one of those lovely tropical island tax havens but here's the thing, shockingly , my own hometown, London, and indeed the U.K., is one of the best places in the world to set up an anonymous company. 在这个时候,你可能会想像 那些美丽的热带海岛之中的某个避税天堂, 但有一件事, 令人很震惊, 我的故乡,伦敦, 对,也就是英国, 是世界上最容易 建立匿名公司的地方之一。
tropical:adj.热带的;热情的;酷热的; havens:避难所;港口(haven的复数);安置…于港中;庇护; shockingly:adv.怕人地,非常地;不正当地;
And the other, even better, 还有一个更好的地方,
I'm afraid that's America. 很遗憾,那就是美国。
Do you know, in some states across America you need less identification to open up a company than you do to get a library card, like Delaware , which is one of the easiest places in the world to set up an anonymous company. 你知道在美国的一些州 你需要更少的身份资料 来开办一个公司 比申请一个图书馆证还少, 比如说特拉华州, 全球最容易 建立匿名公司的地方之一,
identification:n.鉴定,识别;认同;身份证明; Delaware:n.特拉华州(位于美国东部);
Okay, so let's say it's America, and let's say it's Delaware, and now you can simply go online and find yourself a company service provider . 好,那就让我们拿美国来举例, 谈谈特拉华州, 你现在可以直接上网 给自己找一个公司服务代理。
service provider:n.服务供应商(尤指互联网服务供应商);
These are the companies that can set your one up for you, and remember, it's all legal, routine business practice. 有这样的公司可以为你成立公司。 记住,这可都是合法的,常规的商业行为。
So, here's one, but there are plenty of others to choose from. 那么,这有一个选择, 还有很多的其他类似的公司任你选择。
And having made your choice, you then pick what type of company you want and then fill in a contact , name and address. 等你做好了决定, 你就选择你想要的公司形式 然后填写一个联系人,名字和地址。
contact:n.接触,联系;v.使接触,联系;
But don't worry, it doesn't have to be your name. 不用担心, 你不一定要写自己的名字。
It can be your lawyer's or your service provider's, and it's not for the public record anyway. 你可以写你的律师的, 或者你的服务代理商的, 反正这不是为了公共记录。
And then you add the owner of the company. 然后你要加上公司的所有者。
Now this is the key part, and again it doesn't have to be you, because you can get creative , because there is a whole universe out there of nominees to choose from. 这是关键的一部分, 同样的,这不需要是你, 因为你可以发挥想象, 因为可选的人比比皆是 供你选择。
creative:adj.创造性的; nominees:n.被提名者,被指定人;
And nominees are the people that you can legally pay to be your company's owner. 这些人是你可以用合法的方式 支付费用从而充当你公司拥有人的。
And if you don't want to involve anyone else, it doesn't even have to be an actual human being. 如果你不想把其他人搅进来, 它甚至不需要是个真正的人,
involve:v.包含;需要;牵涉;牵连;影响;(使)参加;
It could be another company. 它可以是另一个公司,
And then finally , give your company a name add a few more details and make your payment . 最后, 给你的公司取个名字 加上一些具体信息,然后付费,
finally:adv.终于;最终;(用于列举)最后;彻底地; payment:n.付款;支付;收款;款项;报答;
And then the service provider will take a few hours or more to process it. 服务代理商会花上几个小时 或更长的时间来做处理。
process:v.处理;加工;列队行进;n.过程,进行;方法,adj.经过特殊加工(或处理)的;
But there you are, in 10 minutes of online shopping you can create yourself an anonymous company. 然而你就这么做到了, 在这个10分钟的网上购物过程中 你可以给自己开办一个匿名公司。
And not only is it easy, really, really easy and cheap, it's totally legal too. 这不仅简单, 非常简单和廉价, 也是完全是合法的。
But the fun doesn't have to end there, maybe you want to be even more anonymous. 但这个乐趣还没有完, 可能你想更加隐秘。
Well, that's no problem either. 这也没问题。
You can simply keep adding layers , companies owned by companies. 你可以简单地一直制造幌子, 公司所拥有的公司,
layers:n.层;表层;层次;阶层;v.把…分层堆放;(layer的第三人称单数和复数)
You can have hundreds of layers with hundreds of companies spread across lots of different countries, like a giant web, each layer adds anonymity . 你可以有一百层的幌子 几百个公司 跨越很多不同的国家, 好像一个庞大的网络, 每一层幌子添加一层保密。
giant:n.巨人;伟人;巨兽;adj.巨大的;特大的 anonymity:n.匿名;匿名者;无名之辈;
Each layer makes it more difficult for law enforcement and others to find out who the real owner is. 每一层都是一个难题 这令法规执行者和其他人 找出真正的所有者的任务更加困难。
enforcement:n.执行,实施;强制;
But whose interests is this all serving? 可是这一切都在为谁服务呢？
It might be in the interests of the company or a particular individual , but what about all of us, the public? 这可能对一个公司 或者某个人有利, 可是对于我们大家,公众来说呢？
individual:n.个人;有个性的人;adj.单独的;个别的;
There hasn't even been a global conversation yet about whether it's okay to misuse companies in this way. 目前还没有一个全球性对话 来讨论是否可以接受 这种滥用公司的行为。
misuse:vt.滥用;误用;虐待;n.滥用;误用;虐待;
And what does it all mean for us? 这对我们来说又意味着什么呢?
Well, an example that really haunts me is one I came across recently . 有一个案例一直困扰着我, 是我最近接触到的一个案例。
haunts:v.出没; n.常去的场所; (haunt的第三人称单数和复数) recently:adv.最近;新近;
And it's that of a horrific fire in a nightclub in Buenos Aires about a decade ago. 那是一场可怕的火灾 发生在布宜諾斯艾利斯的一个夜店（注:阿根廷首都） 大约在十年前。
horrific:adj.可怕的;令人毛骨悚然的; nightclub:n.夜总会;vi.去夜总会;
It was the night before New Year's Eve. 那是在新年夜前一天的晚上。
Three thousand very happy revelers , many of them teenagers, were crammed into a space meant for 1,000. 三千多名非常开心的狂欢者们, 大多数是青少年, 挤在一个仅能容纳一千人的地方。
revelers:n.欢宴者,狂欢者;饮酒狂欢者;摆设酒宴者; crammed:adj.塞满的;挤满的;v.把…塞进;挤满;塞满;(cram的过去分词和过去式)
And then tragedy struck, a fire broke out plastic decorations were melting from the ceiling and toxic smoke filled the club. 然后悲剧降临了, 火灾发生了 天花板上的塑料装潢开始融化 毒气充满了整个夜店。
tragedy:n.悲惨的事;不幸;灾难;悲剧作品; decorations:n.装饰品;装饰图案;装饰风格;(decoration的复数) melting:adj.感人的;v.(使)熔化,融化;(melt的现在分词) toxic:adj.有毒的;中毒的;
So people tried to escape only to find that some of the fire doors had been chained shut. 然后人们开始逃命 却发现一些防火门 被锁了起来。
Over 200 people died. 两百多人失去了生命。
Seven hundred were injured trying to get out. 七百多人在逃命的过程中受伤。
injured:adj.受伤的:委屈的: v.伤害,使受伤: n.伤员;
And as the victims' families and the city and the country reeled in shock, investigators tried to find out who was responsible. 受害人的家人,整个城市,整个国家 被震惊了, 调查人员试图找出该负责的人。
reeled:卷筒;
And as they looked for the owners of the club, they found instead anonymous companies, and confusion surrounded the identities of those involved with the companies. 当他们寻找这个夜店的拥有人时, 他们却找到了一些匿名公司, 和有关人员的身份谜团所带来的困惑 这些人有参与这些匿名公司。
confusion:n.困惑;混淆;混同;困窘; identities:n.身份;本身;本体;特征;同一性;相同;(identity的复数) involved:adj.有关的; v.涉及; (involve的过去式和过去分词)
Now ultimately , a range of people were charged and some went to jail . 最终,一群人被定了罪 其中一些进了监狱,
ultimately:adv.最终;最后;归根结底;终究; jail:n.监狱;监牢;拘留所;v.监禁;下狱;
But this was an awful tragedy, and it shouldn't have been so difficult just to try and find out who was responsible for those deaths. 这是多么可怕的一个悲剧啊, 而且不应该这么困难吧 仅仅是想要弄清谁应该承担负责 为死难者们负责。
Because in an age when there is so much information out there in the open , why should this crucial information about company ownership stay hidden away? 因为在这样一个时代 有太多信息 公布于众, 为什么这样关键的信息 关系到公司的所有权 要保持隐藏呢？
in the open:在户外;在野外; crucial:adj.重要的;决定性的;定局的;决断的;
Why should tax evaders , corrupt government officials, arms traders and more, be able to hide their identities from us, the public? 为什么逃税者,政府贪官, 军火商,等等 能够避开我们大众,隐藏他们的身份呢？
evaders:n.逃避者; traders:n.交易员;贸易商(trader的复数形式);
Why should this secrecy be such an accepted business practice? 为什么这个秘密是被允许的商业行为？
secrecy:n.保密;秘密;隐蔽;
Anonymous companies might be the norm right now but it wasn't always this way. 匿名公司 或许现在是很平常的事, 但它不是一直都是这样的。
norm:n.规范;标准;定额;常态;v.规范;规定;
Companies were created to give people a chance to innovate and not have to put everything on the line . 我们建立公司 是为了给人们创新的机会 而不需要承担失败的全部风险。
innovate:vi.创新;改革;革新;vt.改变;创立;创始;引人; on the line:处于危险中;模棱两可;在电话线上;
Companies were created to limit financial risk, they were never intended to be used as a moral shield . 我们建立公司是为了限制财务风险, 它们从来就不是用来作为道德盾牌的。
financial:adj.金融的;财政的,财务的; intended:adj.预定的;计划的;v.打算;计划;想要;(intend的过去分词和过去式) moral:n.寓意;品行;教益;adj.道德的;道义上的;道德上的;品行端正的; shield:n.盾;防护物;保护者;v.遮蔽;包庇;避开;保卫;
Companies were never intended to be anonymous, and they don't have to be. 我们从来就没有期望公司是匿名的, 而且它们没有必要是匿名的。
And so I come to my wish. 所以我的愿望
My wish is for us to know who owns and controls companies so that they can no longer be used anonymously against the public good. 就是让大家知道 谁拥有和控制公司 这样公司从此不再能以匿名使用 而违反公共利益。
anonymously:adv.不具名地;化名地;
Together let's ignite world opinion, change the law, and launch a new era of openness in business. 让我们一起来点亮全球观点, 改变法律, 开启商业公开化的新时代。
ignite:vt.点燃;使燃烧;使激动;vi.点火;燃烧; launch:v.发射(导弹,火箭等); n.发射; era:n.新时期;纪元;年代;新时代; openness:n.公开;宽阔;率真;
So what might this look like? 但这个新时代可能会是怎样的呢？
Well, imagine if you could go online and look up the real owner of a company. 好,我们想象如果你可以上网 查看一个公司的真正拥有者。
Imagine if this data were open and free, accessible across borders for citizens and businesses and law enforcement alike. 想象这个信息是公开和免费的, 超越国度, 公民和企业 还有法律执行者等都可以查阅。
accessible:adj.易接近的;可进入的;可理解的;
Imagine what a game changer that would be. 想象这所带来的变化会有多大。
changer:n.转换开关装置;改变者(change的名词形式);
So how are we going to do this? 那我们接下来应该怎么做呢？
Well, there is only one way. 这只有一条路。
Together, we have to change the law globally to create public registries which list the true owners of companies and can be accessed by all with no loopholes . 齐心协力,我们可以在世界各地推动法律改革 建立公共名册, 明细公司的真正拥有者 供所有人查阅 没有任何漏洞。
registries:登记;注册; loopholes:n.漏洞;枪眼(loophole的复数);
And yes, this is ambitious , but there is momentum on this issue , and over the years I have seen the sheer power of momentum, and it's just starting on this issue. 是的,这是个雄心勃勃的计划, 但在这个问题上我们有推动力, 这些年来我见识过 推动力的绝对威力, 而且在这个问题上刚起步,
ambitious:adj.野心勃勃的;有雄心的;热望的;炫耀的; momentum:n.势头;[物]动量;动力;冲力; issue:n.重要议题;争论的问题;v.宣布;公布;发出;发行; sheer:adj.纯; v.十足地; n.透明薄纱; v.[航海](使)偏航; (使)转向;
There is such an opportunity right now. 现在是个绝佳机会。
And the TED community of creative and innovative thinkers and doers across all of society could make the crucial difference. 而且TED社区 创意与革新的思想家们和行动者们 分布于社会各个角落, 你们能够做出关键的贡献。
community:n.社区;[生态]群落;共同体;团体; innovative:adj.革新的,创新的; doers:n.实行家(doer的复数);
You really can make this change happen. 你们真的可以做到。
Now, a simple starting point is the address behind me for a Facebook page that you can join now to support the campaign and spread the word. 现在,一个简单的出发点 就是我身后的这个地址 你可以加入一个脸书网页 来支持这个活动,广而告之。
starting point:n.出发点;基础;
It's going to be a springboard for our global campaigning. 这将是我们在全球 开展活动的一个跳板。
springboard:n.跳板;出发点;vi.利用跳板跃进;
And the techies among you, you could really help us create a prototype public registry to demonstrate what a powerful tool this could be. 你们身边的科技人士, 可以帮助我们建立一个 公共注册的样板 来展示这个工具有多大的威力。
techies:n.哥布林工程师(全称为GoblinTechies,游戏"魔兽"中的角色); prototype:n.原型;雏形;最初形态; registry:n.注册;登记处;挂号处;船舶的国籍; demonstrate:vt.证明;展示;论证;vi.示威;
Campaign groups from around the world have come together to work on this issue. 全球的活动团队 聚到一起,为解决这个问题而共同努力。
The U.K. government is already on board; it supports these public registries. 英国政府已经加入其中; 支持公共名册。
And just last week, the European Parliament came on board with a vote 600 to 30 in favor of public registries. 就在上周, 欧洲议会也加入进来 以六百对三十的压倒性投票数支持公共名册。
European Parliament:n.欧洲议会(由欧盟各国选举产生,负责法律的制定和修改);
That is momentum. 这就是推动力。
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But it's early days . 然而这只是个开端。
early days:初期;为时尚早;前期;
America still needs to come on board, as do so many other countries. 美国也应该加入进来, 还有很多其他的国家也一样。
And to succeed we will all together need to help and push our politicians , because without that, real far-reaching , world-shifting change just isn't going to happen. 为了成功,我们必须 齐心协力帮助和推动我们的政治家们, 因为如果没有这个, 真正长期的,颠覆世界的改变 是不会发生的。
politicians:n.政治家;(蔑)政客;(美)政治贩;(politician的复数) far-reaching:adj.深远的;广泛的;伸至远处的;
Because this isn't just about changing the law, this is about starting a conversation about what it's okay for companies to do, and in what ways is it acceptable to use company structures. 因为这不仅仅是改变法律, 这是开始一个对话, 关系到公司可以做什么, 并以何种方式来运用公司结构是可以接受的,
acceptable:adj.认同的;可接受的;令人满意的;
This isn't just a dry policy issue. 这不是一个简单枯燥的政策问题,
policy:n.政策,方针;保险单;
This is a human issue which affects us all. 这是一个关系到我们所有人的 人类问题。
This is about being on the right side of history. 这关系到我们是否站在历史正确的一边。
Global citizens, innovators , business leaders, individuals , we need you. 全球公民们,创新者们,商业领袖们,人们, 我们需要你们。
innovators:n.创新者;发明家签证;革新消费者(innovator的复数形式); individuals:n.[经]个人;[生物]个体(individual的复数);
Together, let's kickstart this global movement. 让我们一起开动这个全球活动。
kickstart:脚踏起动;脚踏起动器;
Let's just do it, let's end anonymous companies. 让我们即刻去行动吧, 让我们结束匿名公司。
Thank you. 谢谢你。
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