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JohnHardy_2010G-_我的绿色环保学校梦_
I grew up in a very small village in Canada, and I'm an undiagnosed dyslexic . 我在加拿大的 一所小村庄长大, 同时我也有未确疹的 阅读障碍症.
undiagnosed:adj.[临床]未确诊的;尚未找出原因的; dyslexic:adj.诵读困难的;n.诵读困难者;
I had a really hard time in school. 所以我在上学时相当的困难。
In fact, my mother told me eventually that I was the little kid in the village who cried all the way to school. 确切地说, 我母亲最后告诉我 我是村里那个 总是一路哭着到学校的小孩儿.
eventually:adv.最后,终于;
I ran away. 我选择了离开.
I left when I was 25 years old to go to Bali. 25岁的时候我去了巴厘岛.
And there I met my incredible wife, Cynthia , and together over 20 years, we built an amazing jewelry business. 在那儿我遇到了我那不可思议的妻子, Cynthia, 并在一起20多年了. 我们创立了一个令人惊羡的珠宝业.
incredible:adj.难以置信的,惊人的; Cynthia:n.月亮;月亮女神;
It was a fairy tale , and then we retired. 就象个童话, 接着我们退休了.
fairy tale:adj.童话的;童话式的;
Then she took me to see a film that I really didn't want to see. 之后她带我去看了部电影 我实际上不想看的.
It ruined my life -- 它毁了我的人生 --
ruined:adj.毁灭的;荒废的;v.毁坏;破坏;糟蹋;(ruin的过去分词和过去式)
(Laughter) (一阵笑声)
'"An Inconvenient Truth" and Mr. Gore. 难以忽视的真相” 还有戈尔先生.
Inconvenient:adj.不便的;打扰的;
I have four kids, and even if part of what he says is true, they're not going to have the life that I had. 我有四个孩子, 即使他所说的只有一部分是真的, 他们也不会拥有我曾经有过的生活.
And I decided at that moment that I would spend the rest of my life doing whatever I could to improve their possibilities. 在那一刻, 我做了决定 我将用我的余生 尽我所能 去增加他们的机会.
improve:v.改进;改善;
So here's the world, and here we are in Bali. 这是全世界, 这里是我们的所在地, 巴厘岛.
It's a tiny, little island -- 60 miles by 90 miles. 它是个极小、极小的小岛 -- 60英里乘90英里.
It has an intact Hindu culture. 岛上的文化是原汁原味的印度教。
intact:adj.完整的;原封不动的;未受损伤的; Hindu:adj.印度的;印度教的;n.印度人;印度教教徒;
Cynthia and I were there. Cynthia 和我曾经住在那儿.
We had had a wonderful life there, and we decided to do something unusual. 在那里我们曾经过着完美的生活, 然后我们决定做点儿与众不同的事情.
We decided to give back locally . 我们决定回馈给 当地的人.
locally:adv.在本地;局部地;在地方上;
And here it is; it's called the Green School. 这就是, 绿色环保学校.
I know it doesn't look like a school, but it is something we decided to do, and it is extremely , extremely green. 我知道它看上去不像个学校, 但这是我们所决定做的, 而且它非常, 非常环保.
extremely:adv.非常,极其;极端地;
The classrooms have no walls. 教室之间没有墙.
The teacher is writing on a bamboo blackboard. 教师在竹制的黑板上教课.
The desks are not square. 书桌不是方的.
At Green School, the children are smiling -- an unusual thing for school, especially for me. 在绿色环保学校里, 孩子们都在笑 -- 这是在学校里一件不寻常的事请, 尤其是对我而言.
especially:adv.尤其;特别;格外;十分;
And we practice holism. 而且我们实践整体论.
And for me it's just the idea that, if this little girl graduates as a whole person, chances are she'll demand a whole world -- a whole world -- to live on. 对我来说这就是个想法, 如果一个小女孩, 发展成一个完整的人, 很有可能 她需要靠整个世界 -- 整个世界 -- 为生.
as a whole:总的来说;
Our children spend 181 days going to school in a box. 我们的孩子们花181天 在这个盒子里上学.
The people that built my school also built the prison and the insane asylum out of the same materials. 建造我学校的人 同时也用同样的材料 建造了监狱和疯人院。
insane:adj.疯狂的;精神病的;极愚蠢的; asylum:n.庇护;收容所,救济院;
So if this gentleman had have had a holistic education, would he be sitting there? 所以, 如果这位先生 接受过全人教育, 他还会坐在这儿吗?
holistic:adj.整体的;全盘的;
Would he have had more possibilities in his life? 他会有更多的机遇吗?
The classrooms have natural light. 教室采用自然光。
They're beautiful. They're bamboo. 它们很美. 它们是竹子.
The breeze passes through them. 微风从中穿过.
breeze:n.微风;和风;轻而易举的事;v.轻盈而自信地走;
And when the natural breeze isn't enough, the kids deploy bubbles , but not the kind of bubbles you know. 当天然的微风不够时, 孩子们就会放泡泡, 不过不是你所想的那种泡泡.
deploy:v.部署;利用;[军事]展开;(使)张开; bubbles:n.泡; v.起泡; (bubble的第三人称单数和复数)
These bubbles are made from natural cotton and rubber from the rubber tree. 这些气泡是由天然棉花和 来自橡胶树的橡胶做成的.
rubber:n.橡胶;橡皮;v.涂橡胶于…;
So we basically turned the box into a bubble. 所以我们基本上把这个盒子变成了 一个泡泡.
basically:adv.主要地,基本上;
And these kids know that painless climate control may not be part of their future. 而且这些孩子们懂得 不费力的气候控制 可能不是 他们未来的一部分.
painless:adj.无痛的;不痛的;
We pay the bill at the end of the month, but the people that are really going to pay the bill are our grandchildren. 我们每个月底付账单, 但是真正付账单的人 是我们的子孙.
We have to teach the kids that the world is not indestructible . 我们要教给孩子们 世界不是不可毁灭的.
indestructible:adj.不可毁灭的,不能破坏的;
These kids did a little graffiti on their desks, and then they signed up for two extra courses. 这几个孩子在书桌上画了些涂鸦, 那他们得多上两门课.
graffiti:n.墙上乱写乱画的东西(graffito的复数形式); extra:adj.额外的:n.额外的事物:adv.额外:另外:
The first one was called sanding, and the second one was called re-waxing. 第一门叫砂纸打磨. 第二门叫再次上蜡.
But since that happened, they own those desks. 但自从那件事, 他们拥有了那些书桌.
They know they can control their world. 他们知道他们可以掌控他们的世界.
We're on the grid; we're not proud of it. 我们用电网; 我们不引以为荣.
but an amazing alternative energy company in Paris is taking us off the grid with solar. 但一个了不起的巴黎能源替代公司 将帮我们用太阳能替代了电网.
alternative:adj.供选择的;选择性的;交替的;n.二中择一;供替代的选择; grid:n.网格;格子,栅格;输电网;
And this thing is the second vortex to be built in the world, in a two and a half meter drop on a river. 还有这个东西, 是世界上即将建造的第二个涡轮发电机, 在高达2.5米落差的一条河中.
vortex:n.[航][流]涡流;漩涡;(动乱,争论等的)中心;旋风;
When the turbine drops in, it will produce 8,000 watts of electricity , day and night. 当涡轮机降入时, 它会产8,000瓦的电力, 不分昼夜。
turbine:n.汽轮机;涡轮机; watts:n.瓦特(功率单位); electricity:n.电力;电流;强烈的紧张情绪;
And you know what these are. 你们知道这些是什么.
There's nowhere to flush . 这里没地方冲厕所.
nowhere:v.无处; n.无处; adj.不存在的; flush:n.激动,洋溢; v.使齐平; adj.大量的;
And as long as we're taking our waste and mixing it with a huge amount of water -- you're all really smart, just do the math . 但是只要我们把废料 和大量的水混在一起 -- 你们都很聪明, 算算吧.
as long as:conj.只要;长达;如果;既然; mixing:n.混合;混频;录音;v.混合,掺和,融合;调配;配制;相容;(mix的现在分词) do the math:盘算一下;
How many people times how much water. 多少个人乘以多少水.
There isn't enough water. 根本没有足够的水.
These are compost toilets. 这些是堆肥厕所.
compost:n.堆肥;混合物;vt.堆肥;施堆肥;
And nobody at the school wanted to know about them, especially the principal . 学校里没人想知道它们. 特别是校长.
principal:adj.主要的;资本的;n.首长;校长;资本;当事人;
And they work; people use them. People are okay. 但是它们管用; 大家会使用它们, 而且大家都没问题.
It's something you should think about doing. 你们也应该考虑一下这么做.
Not many things didn't work. 没有很多东西不管用.
The beautiful canvas and rubber skylights got eaten by the sun in six months. 漂亮的的帆布和橡胶天窗 在六个月内就被太阳毁掉了.
canvas:n.帆布;(帆布)画布;油画;vt.用帆布覆盖; skylights:n.[建]天窗(skylight的复数);v.使用天窗采光(skylight的三单形式);
We had to replace them with recyclable plastic. 我们只得换上可循环再用的塑料.
recyclable:adj.可回收利用的;可再循环的;
The teachers dragged giant PVC whiteboards into the classrooms, so we had some good ideas. 教师们拖着巨大的聚氯乙烯白板 进入教室, 我们有些好点子.
giant:n.巨人;伟人;巨兽;adj.巨大的;特大的 whiteboards:n.白色书写板;
We took old automobile windshields , put paper behind them and created the first alternative to the whiteboard. 我们找来些旧的挡风玻璃, 把纸铁在背后 就做成了白板的 第一个替代品.
automobile:n.汽车;v.开汽车;坐汽车;adj.自动的; windshields:n.[车辆]挡风玻璃(windshield的复数形式);
Green School sits in south-central Bali, and it's on 20 acres of rolling garden. 绿色环保学校位于巴厘岛中南方, 在一个有20英亩那么大的 延绵起伏的花园里.
There's an amazing river traveling through it, and you can see there how we manage to get across the river. 还有一条壮丽的河流穿过, 你们可以从这儿看到 我们是怎么过河的.
I met a father the other day , he looked a little crazed . 有一天我接待了一位父亲, 他看起来有点疯狂.
the other day:不久前某一天;几天以前; crazed:adj.疯狂的;发狂的;
I said, "Welcome to Green School." 我说, 欢迎来到绿色学校.
He said, "I've been on an airplane for 24 hours." 他说, 我在飞机上待了24个小时.
airplane:n.飞机;
I asked him, "Why?" 我问他, 为什么?
He said, "I had a dream once about a green school, and I saw a picture of this green school, 他说, 我曾有过一个关于绿色学校的梦, 然后我看到一张这所绿色学校的照片,
I got on an airplane. 我就上飞机了.
In August I'm bringing my sons." 八月份我将带我的儿子们来.
This was a great thing. 这是个了不起的事情.
But more than that, people are building green houses around Green School, so their kids can walk to school on the paths. 但更重要的是, 大家在绿色学校周围建起绿色房屋, 这样一来他们的孩子们可以走路上学.
And people are bringing their green industries, hopefully their green restaurants, to the Green School. 人们还带上了他们的绿色工业, 希望还有他们的绿色餐饮业, 到绿色学校来.
It's becoming a community . 这里变成了一个社区.
community:n.社区;[生态]群落;共同体;团体;
It's becoming a green model. 变成了一个绿色环保的模范社区.
We had to look at everything. 我们得注意每一件事.
No petrochemicals in the pavement . 铺过的路面不能有石油化学产品.
petrochemicals:adj.石油化学的;岩石化学的;n.石油化学产品;(petrochemical的复数) pavement:n.路面;人行道;石板铺的地面;
No pavement. 没有铺过的路.
These are volcanic stones laid by hand. 这些是用手铺的火山石。
volcanic:adj.火山的;猛烈的;易突然发作的;n.火山岩;
There are no sidewalks . 没有人行道.
sidewalks:n.人行道;
The sidewalks are gravel , they flood when it rains, but they're green. 人行道全是碎石路, 下雨时会淹. 但它们绿色环保.
gravel:n.碎石;砂砾;vt.用碎石铺;使船搁浅在沙滩上;使困惑;
This is the school buffalo . 这是学校的水牛.
buffalo:n.[畜牧][脊椎]水牛;[脊椎]野牛(产于北美);水陆两用坦克;
He's planning to eat that fence for dinner. 它正计划把那栅栏当晚餐.
All the fences at Green School are green. 所有绿色学校的栅栏都是绿色环保的.
And when the kindergarten kids recently moved their gate, they found out the fence was made out of tapioca . 最近当学前班的孩子们 搬动了他们的大门 他们发现栅栏是用木薯做的.
kindergarten:n.幼儿园; recently:adv.最近;新近; tapioca:n.树薯粉,[食品]木薯淀粉;
They took the tapioca roots up to the kitchen, sliced them thinly and made delicious chips . 他们把木薯根带回厨房, 切成薄片然后做成美味的木薯片.
sliced:adj.(食物)已切成薄片的;v.切成薄片;分配(slice的过去式和过去分词); thinly:adv.薄;稀疏地;细;瘦; chips:炸土豆条(chip的复数)
Landscaping . 景观美化
Landscaping:v.对…做景观美化;美化…的环境;(landscape的现在分词)
We manage to keep the garden that was there running right up to the edge of each of the classrooms. 我们想办法保留住在每个教室周围已经存在的 花园。
We dropped them gently in. 我们轻轻的把它们放进来.
gently:adv.轻轻地;温柔地;温和地;
We made space for these guys who are Bali's last black pigs. 我们为这些家伙创造了空间 这些巴厘岛上最后的黑猪.
And the school cow is trying to figure out how to replace the lawnmower on the playing field . 还有学校的母牛 也想方设法地 要代替运动场上的 锄草机。
lawnmower:n.[建]剪草机; playing field:n.运动场;操场;
These young ladies are living in a rice culture, but they know something that few people know in a rice culture. 这些年轻的女孩子 生在一个以水稻为生的文化中, 但她们知道一些鲜为人知的关于水稻的知识.
They know how to plant organic rice, they know how to look after it, they know how to harvest and they know how to cook it. 她们懂得怎么栽种有机米, 她们懂得怎么照顾它, 她们懂得怎么收割和煮饭
organic:adj.有机的;不使用化肥的;绿色的;有机物的;n.分子有机体;
They're part of the rice cycle. 她们成为水稻周期的一部分.
and these skills will be valuable for them in their future. 而且这将是她们在未来的 宝贵技能。
valuable:adj.有价值的;贵重的;可估价的;n.贵重物品;
This young man is picking organic vegetables. 这个年轻人正在采摘一些有机蔬菜.
We feed 400 people lunch every day. 我们每天为400人供应午餐.
And it's not a normal lunch; there's no gas. 这可不是普通的午餐; 不靠煤气.
Local Balinese women cook the food on sawdust burners using secrets that only their grandmothers know. 巴厘岛上当地的妇女们 靠烧锯末来烹调食物 利用只有她们祖母才知道的秘密.
Balinese:adj.巴厘岛的;巴里岛人的;巴厘语的;n.巴厘人;巴厘语; sawdust:n.[木]锯屑;adj.撒木屑的;无实质的;vt.在…上撒木屑;用木屑填塞; burners:n.[热]燃烧器;烧嘴;炉子(burner的复数);
The food is incredible. 做出来的食物非常的好吃.
Green School is a place of pioneers, local and global . 绿色学校是个先行者的所在地, 在地方上和全球上.
global:adj.全球的;总体的;球形的;
And it's a kind of microcosm of the globalized world. 它也是一种全球化世界 的缩影.
microcosm:n.微观世界;小宇宙;作为宇宙缩影的人类;缩图(等于microcosmos); globalized:vt.使全球化;
The kids are from 25 countries. 这些孩子们来自25个国家.
When I see them together, 当我看他们在一起的时候,
I know that they're working out how to live in the future. 我知道他们正努力学习 在未来怎么生活.
Green School is going into its third year with 160 children. 绿色学校即将步入它的第三年 有160个孩子.
It's a school where you do learn reading -- one of my favorites -- writing -- I was bad at it -- arithmetic . 它是个你可以学习阅读 -- 我的最爱之一 -- 写作 -- 虽然我很不擅长 -- 算术.
arithmetic:n.算术,算法;
But you also learn other things. 但你也能学到其他的东西.
You learn bamboo building. 你会学会用竹子建造.
You practice ancient Balinese arts. 你会练习 古老的巴厘艺术.
This is called mud wrestling in the rice fields. 这叫做水稻田里的泥巴摔跤.
wrestling:n.摔跤运动;v.摔跤;奋力对付;全力解决;(wrestle的现在分词)
The kids love it. 孩子们爱死它了.
The mothers aren't quite convinced . 虽然他们的母亲们尚未被说服.
convinced:adj.坚信; v.使确信; (convince的过去分词和过去式)
(Laughter) (一阵笑声)
We've done a lot of outrageous things in our lives, and we said, okay, local. What does local mean? 我们一生中做过很多令人惊讶的事情, 接着我们说, 好吧, 当地. 当地是什么意思?
outrageous:adj.粗暴的;可恶的;令人吃惊的;
Local means that 20 percent of the population of the school has to be Balinese. 当地的意思是 学校里20%的人 必须是巴厘岛人.
And this was a really big commitment . 这是个很大的承诺.
commitment:n.承诺;投入;保证;许诺;
And we were right. 但我们是正确的.
And people are coming forward from all over the world to support the Balinese Scholarship Fund , because these kids will be Bali's next green leaders. 大家都从世界各地 纷纷前来 援助巴厘岛人奖学金, 因为这些孩子将成为巴厘岛下一代的绿色环保带头人.
Scholarship:n.奖学金;学问;学识;学术成就; Fund:n.基金;资金;存款;v.投资;资助;
The teachers are as diverse as the student body . 教师们也是同样的多元化, 和学生一样.
diverse:adj.不同的;多种多样的;变化多的; student body:全体学生;学生的总称;
And the amazing thing is that volunteers are popping up. 激动人心的事是 志愿者不断的涌现出来.
volunteers:n.志愿者; v.自愿做; (volunteer的第三人称单数和复数)
A man came from Java with a new kind of organic agriculture. 一名来自爪哇的男子 带来一种新的有机农艺.
A woman came from Africa with music. 一位来自非洲的女子带来了音乐.
And together these volunteers and the teachers are deeply committed to creating a new generation of global, green leaders. 这些教师和志愿者们 有着坚定的信念 要创造新一代的 全球性的, 绿色环保的领袖人物.
committed:adj.坚信的; v.做出错事; (commit的过去分词和过去式)
The Green School effect -- we don't know what it is. 绿色学校效应 -- 我们不知道具体是什么.
We need someone to come and study it. 我们需要有人来研究它.
But what's happening, our learning-different kids -- dyslexic -- we've renamed them prolexic -- are doing well in these beautiful, beautiful classrooms. 但事实上, 学习方式不同的孩子们 -- 阅读困难症 -- 我们重新给他们起名为强化阅读 -- 在这些非常美丽的课堂里学得很棒.
renamed:v.重新命名;给…改名;(rename的过去分词和过去式)
And all the kids are thriving . 所有的孩子们都在茁壮成长.
thriving:v.兴旺发达;繁荣;旺盛;茁壮成长;(thrive的现在分词)
And how did we do all this? 我们是怎么做到的呢?
On giant grass. 利用巨大的草.
It's bamboo. 那就是竹子.
It comes out of the ground like a train. 它就像火车一样从地里冲出来.
It grows as high as a coconut tree in two months. 它能在两个月内长得和椰子树一样高.
coconut:n.椰子;椰子肉;
And three years later it can be harvested to build buildings like this. 而且三年后就可以采割 用来造这样的建筑.
It's as strong and dense as teak . 它和柚木一样结实, 密集.
dense:adj.稠密的;浓厚的;愚钝的; teak:n.柚木;
And it will hold up any roof. 可以支撑起任何屋顶.
When the architects came, they brought us these things, and you've probably seen things like this. 当建筑师来后, 他们带来了这些东西, 你们可能见过类似的东西.
architects:n.建筑师;设计师;创造者;(architect的复数);
The yellow box was called the administration complex . 这个黄色的盒子叫行政办公区.
complex:adj.复杂的;合成的;n.复合体;综合设施;
(Laughter) (一阵笑声)
We squashed it, we rethought it, but mainly we renamed it -- the heart of school. 我们把它压扁了, 重新考虑了一下, 但主要是我们给它改名 -- 学校之心.
squashed:adj.压扁的;压碎的;v.压扁(squash的过去式); rethought:重新考虑;再想(rethink的过去式和过去分词); mainly:adv.大多;大部分;主要地;首要地;
And that changed everything forever. 这永远地改变了一切。
It's a double helix . 它是个双螺旋体.
double helix:双螺旋;
It has administrators in it and many, many other things. 里面有行政机关 还有许多其它东西.
administrators:n.[管理]管理员;完全程序(administrator的复数形式);
And the problem of building it -- when the Balinese workers saw long reams of plans, they looked at them and said, "What's this?" 建造它的难处在于 -- 当巴厘岛工人们 看到长幅的设计图, 他们看着设计图说, 这是什么?
reams:n.大量的文字(或写作);v.不公平地对待;欺骗;(ream的第三人称单数和复数)
So we built big models. 所以我们造了大型的模型.
We had them engineered by the engineers. 由工程师来策划和建造.
And Balinese carpenters like this measured them with their bamboo rulers, selected the bamboo and built the buildings using age-old techniques , mostly by hand. 巴厘岛的木工喜欢这个方法 用竹尺子来衡量, 挑竹子来造建筑 利用古老的技术, 大部分用手工。
carpenters:n.木匠(carpenter的复数);v.做木工活(carpenter的单三形式); measured:adj.缓慢谨慎的; v.测量; (measure的过去分词和过去式) age-old:adj.古老的;由来已久的; techniques:n.技巧;技艺;工艺;技术;(technique的复数)
It was chaos . 那真是一片乱.
chaos:n.混沌,混乱;
And the Balinese carpenters want to be as modern as we do, so they use metal scaffolding to build the bamboo building. 巴厘岛的木工想和我们一样现代化, 所以他们用金属棚架来 造竹制建筑.
scaffolding:n.脚手架;搭脚手架的材料;
And when the scaffolding came down, we realized that we had a cathedral , a cathedral to green, and a cathedral green education. 当浮架撤掉后, 我们发现我们建了个天主教堂, 一个绿色环保的天主教堂, 一个绿色环保教育的天主教堂。
cathedral:n.大教堂;
The heart of school has seven kilometers of bamboo in it. 学校之心共用了七千米的 的竹子.
From the time the foundations were finished, in three months it had roofs and floors. 从地基完成时算起, 三个月内就建成了地板和屋顶.
foundations:n.基础;地基;基金会;粉底;(foundations是foundation的复数)
It may not be the biggest bamboo building in the world, but many people believe that it's the most beautiful. 它可能不是世界上最大的竹制建筑, 但很多人相信 它是最美的.
Is this doable in your community? 这在你的社区里可行吗?
doable:adj.可做的;
We believe it is. 我们相信是可以的.
Green School is a model we built for the world. 绿色学校是我们为全世界建的模型.
It's a model we built for Bali. 是我们为巴厘岛造的模型.
And you just have to follow these simple, simple rules: be local, let the environment lead and think about how your grandchildren might build. 你们仅仅需要照搬这些简单的方案: 从当地情况出发, 让环境带头 再想想 你的孙辈会怎样建造.
So, Mr. Gore, thank you. 所以, 戈尔先生, 谢谢你.
You ruined my life, but you gave me an incredible future. 你毁了我的生活, 但你给予了我一个美丽的未来.
And if you're interested in being involved in finishing Green School and building the next 50 around the world, please come and see us. 如果你感兴趣, 想参与 完成建造绿色学校 以及在世界范围内接着建造50个, 请来我们这里参观.
involved:adj.有关的; v.涉及; (involve的过去式和过去分词)
Thank you. 谢谢.
(Applause) (鼓掌)