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and that's spreading. This prosperity preaching is going on in Africa. And my question is, where does that leave suffering?
这种劲头越来越大，这种追求繁荣的论调,甚至在非洲都出现了，我想问的是，在这样的大背景下，受苦还能存在么？
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which is a city in South Eastern Africa, which is a beautiful, beautiful city which everyone should go to.
非洲东南部的一个城市，很美很美，人人都应该去。
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AIDS is a tremendous problem, deaths from HIV infection and AIDS a tremendous problem in Africa and other parts of the world.
艾滋病是一个巨大的问题,在非洲和世界其他地方,艾滋病毒感染和艾滋病带来的死亡,是一个巨大的问题
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And every musical culture around the world-- and I've talked with ethnomusicologists about this particular point-- every musical culture around the world, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Indian, African whatever, they all use this phenomenon of octave duplication in their music-- octave duplication in the music.
世界各地的每一种音乐文化,我曾经和一些民族音乐学家谈论过这一点,世界各地的每一种音乐文化,中国的,日本的,印尼的,印度的,或是非洲的,大家都有这种现象,即在自己的音乐里运用,这种重复八度
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and to be interested and to be inspired in issues, basically beyond England, in places like Africa,
激发他们对这些问题的兴趣，基本上，大多是在英格兰之外的地方，比如非洲，
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We had African chieftains involved, we had the Vice-President of Ghana and the President of Togo and on and on and on.
当时还有非洲酋长参与,还有加纳的副总统和多哥的总统,等等等等
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One of the questions they asked was, what percent of African nations belong to the United Nations?
他们问的一个问题是,非洲国家在联合国所占席位百分比是多少
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Then, there came along the AIDS crisis in South Africa, and the American AIDS drugs were hugely expensive, far more than could be afforded by most Africans.
然而，艾滋危机在南非爆发之后，美国治疗艾滋病的药品却是天价，大多数非洲人根本无力承担。
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So, that's how far east they get and in time the Carthaginians also cross over into Spain and they control some portion of the Spanish coast closest to Africa.
这就是在东部,希腊人所能到达的最远之地,同一时间,迦太基人进入到西班牙,并控制了西班牙,靠近非洲的部分海岸
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Once you get that, once you get the value, "Christmas tree," as opposed to "red lights," "red lights" being perhaps a part of some Christmas trees, then you see that you're back in a semiotic system and a very obvious one, because a Christmas tree is a not-menorah, not-Kwanzaa candles.
一旦认识到这点，红灯，指的其实是圣诞树“,红灯是圣诞树的一部分，那么你会发现你回到了符号学的解释中，圣诞树不用于犹太教或者非洲人的节日。
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Yeah, it's true. It's kind of close to like African colors too, except for the red
是的。它与非洲国家的图案很像，除了红色
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Yeah, a lot of African music like Congolese music and music from Mali.
很多非洲音乐，像刚果乐和马里的音乐。
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I actually didn't grow up in America. I grew up in Africa.
事实上，我并不是在美国长大的，我是在非洲长大的。
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And I'm not only talking about African-American.
我谈论的不仅仅是非洲裔美国人。
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I grew up moving around Africa and Asia.
我是在非洲和亚洲各处搬着家长大的。
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and there are people of African descent
也有非洲人的后裔，
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It was rather like parts of Africa before the 1880s.
有点像17世纪80年代前非洲的部分地区
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And I have a friend who's a Parisian lawyer who works in Africa a lot, and when he was a little boy the Germans came to get his father who was a Greek Jew, and he was taken away and killed, of course.
我有个朋友,是在巴黎的律师总去非洲工作,他小的时候,德国人来抓他父亲因为他是希腊犹太人,他被抓走后遇害
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I'm from an African background
我来自一个有非洲背景的家庭。
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There are some very poor areas in Africa where farmers really run the risk-- if their crop fails it could be really bad; they would be approaching starvation.
在非洲有一些非常贫困的地区,那里的农民真的面临着巨大的风险,一旦庄稼歉收 他们的处境将变得很糟糕,他们将经历饥荒
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I was standing at the World Economic Forum at one of our lunch things and a young woman approached from Swiss Re, which is the Swiss Reinsurance Company, and she said she wanted my ideas on how to sell crop insurance in Africa.
有一次,在世界经济论坛的午餐会上,一位瑞士再保险的年轻女士找到了我,她公司的全称是瑞士再保险公司,她说她想知道我关于,如何在非洲出售农作物保险的意见
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They had a bad break coming from Africa but that's the way it goes. Uh-uh.
知道黑人奴隶自非洲来很不容易,我们对他们的印象就是如此,错
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I was part of a huge conference last summer in West Africa on the end of the slave-trade in Ghana, and we had representatives we had people participating in that conference from 15 or 16 different African countries.
我去年夏天曾参加过西非的一个大型集会,纪念是加纳奴隶交易的结束,会议上有来自各国的代表,有15或16个非洲国家的代表,参与的这次大型会议
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