"Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here," wrote the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle.
维多利亚时代的圣人托马斯·卡莱尔写道：“通史，即人类在这个世界上取得的成就的历史，本质上就是在此努力过的伟人的历史。”
But because this is the most dynamic economic region in the world, what we do will have an impact on everywhere else.
但是，由于这里是世界上经济最有活力的地区，我们的做法对任何其他地区都将产生重要影响。
Again, this is just a very brief introduction to the causes of Third World poverty, but it serves as an illustration for what we in the First World can do to help.
重申一下，这里只是很简短地介绍一下第三世界贫困的缘由，不过可以据此说明我们第一世界的人可以做些什么来向他们提供帮助。
The primary goal of this center is to educate leaders into tech-positions in what is an increasingly technological world.
这个中心的主要目标是，为这个日益科技化的世界，培养能处于科技领导地位的人才。
If the Board is to decide to remove you, what would be your assessment of this episode in your tenure at the World Bank?
如果董事会决定将您撤职，您将如何评价您在世界银行任职期间发生的这一事件？
This typically results in what is called an over-fitted system, perhaps performing well in artificial tests, but not in the real world.
这常常导致 “过分合身的”系统，这些系统在人工测试中表现得很好，但在真实环境中就不行了。
So I'd like to just say that what the world needs now is a sense of being able to look at ourselves in this much larger condition now and a much larger sense of what home is.
所以我只想说，那就是世界现在需要一个在这样大得多的状态下能够看到我们自己和一个如此的大得多的家园的感觉。
Thus, as we are thinking about what it might mean to live in a world where mobile phone advertising is accepted, we must also concern ourselves with the implications of this.
因此，我们要思考生活在这样一个手机广告都被认可的世界意味着什么，这也是我们要关心的关乎切身利益的问题。
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
世界上只有两种悲剧，一种是一个人没有得到他想要的，另一种是他得到了。
The world is not blanketed in Wi-Fi yet, so what can this web-based OS do without the web?
现在这个世界无线网络尚未遍及各地，所以这个基于网络的操作系统没有了网络该如何？
What is it then that keeps him in this room, except the certainty that it’s still the best thing to do, the feeling that the whole absurd simplicity of the world has sought refuge here.
那又是什么让他留在这个房间里呢，不就是心中的一种确信，认为这样更好？ 不就是一种感觉，认为这世界简单到荒谬 的一面全都遁迹此间？
This may be because superstitions allow us the illusion of control in what is a scary, random world.
这可能是因为迷信给我们一种感觉——可以在这个危机四伏，变化莫测的世界里掌控好自己。
Now that the dust has settled a little and we dig in to the trenches it gives me a chance to actually look around what this hullaballoo is all about -- the Guinness World Records 2012 book.
现在尘埃稍稍落定，名花也各自有主，我终于有时间四下回顾，想想这所有的喧嚣都是为了什么——2012年吉尼斯世界纪录出炉了。
Gates says the world is "distracted from what counts on this issue in a big way," and that short-sighted goals are less important than looking further ahead.
盖茨表示，世界“在碳排放上这一议题的相关方面上，被拉离了很远”，而那些短视的目标没有长远的目标重要。
Send them on,this is what you do in the ancient world, you give a messenger--there's no post office you know.
送他们继续上路，在古时候就是这样，你派出一个信使，那时是没有邮局的。
And this, among other things, is what American parents - with the best intentions in the world - have achieved for the American male.
而这，以及其他一些东西，都是怀着最美好心愿的美国父母给美国男人造成的。
This means that fans in South Asia, Australia and New Zealand were left to obtain visas from what is reputedly not one of the speediest bureaucracies in the world.
这意味着，南亚、澳大利亚和新西兰的球迷，将需要向加勒比海的这九个国家申请特别签证，而据说，这些国家的相关机构并不是全球最高效的官僚系统之一。
This serves to illustrate the wider problem for the EU.It does not know quite what part to play in a world in which the West is declining and "the rest" are rising.
对于欧盟来说，这是一个比较大的问题，在全球的定位还不明确，而此时西方大国开始衰退，其余国家正在崛起。
This serves to illustrate the wider problem for the EU. It does not know quite what part to play in a world in which the West is declining and "the rest" are rising.
对于欧盟来说，这是一个比较大的问题，在全球的定位还不明确，而此时西方大国开始衰退，其余国家正在崛起。
The group is still exploring both the technical and practical sides of this, so it's uncertain what it will lead to in the commercial world.
该小组仍在探索交叉现实的技术和现实应用，所以能给商业世界带来什么还不能确定。
Being able to see the world as it is, and tell others about our interpretation in terms of what we see, this is what we thrive on.
能够看到真实的世界，把我们对见闻的诠释告知他人，我们才能茁壮成长。
And what this means is we can use — take any arbitrary idea in the world, the idea of a chair or a story or a country, and make a sound or a sign to connect to it.
符号任意性是指，我们可以拿来世间任何想法，比如椅子，故事，或是国家，再发明一种声音或符号来与之相联系。
But what drives them to voluntarily isolate themselves from the civilized world? What drives them to spend their whole lives on this peninsula of land that is merely 150 square miles in size?
然而，他们为什么心甘情愿地同文明世界隔绝，在这个仅有150平方英里的半岛上打发时光呢？
Demos is mentioned in the Pastoral Epistles as someone for forsook Paul, "being in love with the present world," is what it says,so this writer is talking--using the same name.
迪莫斯在教牧书信中提到,他抛弃了保罗，“爱恋现世世界“,原文是这样的，这位作者使用相同的名字。
Germany, host of this year's G8 summit, is trying to get the world to agree on what to do when the Kyoto protocol on curbing greenhouse gases runs out in 2012.
本年度G 8锋会举办方德国力图使世界各国在2012年《京都议定书》失效前就削减温室气体排放达成共识。
This is what happens when a superpower, the U.S., suffers from terrible unemployment and gets worried that it is losing influence in the world.
目前美国这个超级大国正遭受可怕的失业危机，担心失去在世界的影响力。
This is what happens when a superpower, the U.S., suffers from terrible unemployment and gets worried that it is losing influence in the world.
目前美国这个超级大国正遭受可怕的失业危机，担心失去在世界的影响力。
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