Bono: Action for Africa

翻译人员: Leesiah ng 校对人员: Zachary Lin Zhao

Well, as Alexander Graham Bell famously said

发明家 亚历山大·格来汉姆·贝尔 在

on his first successful telephone call,

打通了第一通电话后说:

"Hello, is that Domino's Pizza?"

"您好，请问这是 达美乐披萨 吗？

(Laughter)

（笑声）

I just really want to thank you very much.

我非常感谢你们。

As another famous man, Jerry Garcia, said,

如另一个名人，杰里·加西亚 说：

"What a strange, long trip."

“多么怪异，漫长的旅程。”

And he should have said,

而他该说的是，

"What a strange, long trip it's about to become."

“这旅程正要变的多么怪异，漫长。”

At this very moment, you are viewing my upper half.

此时此刻，你正看着我的上半身。

My lower half is appearing at a different conference

我的下半身正出席着另一个会议 --

(Laughter)

（笑声）

in a different country.

是在另一个国家的会议。

You can, it turns out, be in two places at once.

原来一个人，可以同时在两个地方出现。

But still, I'm sorry I can't be with you in person.

尽管如此，没能到现场，我很抱歉。

I'll explain at another time.

有机会再向你解释。

And though I'm a rock star,

也想向你保证，虽然我是个摇滚明星，

I just want to assure you that none of my wishes will include a hot tub.

但我的愿望并不包括按摩浴缸。

But what really turns me on about technology

科技让我兴奋之处不只是

is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players.

能在 MP3 播放机里放入更多首歌。

The revolution -- this revolution -- is much bigger than that.

革命 — 这个革命 — 不只如此。

I hope, I believe.

我希望，我相信。

What turns me on about the digital age,

数码时代真正让我兴奋的，

what excites me personally,

让我欣喜若狂的，

is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

是梦想与实践的距离已缩短。

You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song,

以前，若想录制一首歌，

you needed a studio and a producer.

你需要一间录音室，和一位制作人。

Now, you need a laptop.

现在，你需要的仅是一台手提电脑。

If you wanted to make a film, you needed a mass of equipment

如果要制作电影，你需要大量的器材

and a Hollywood budget.

和好莱坞级的资金。

Now, you need a camera that fits in your palm,

现在你只需要一架手掌般大小的摄影机，

and a couple of bucks for a blank DVD.

和购买空白光碟的几块钱。

Imagination has been decoupled from the old constraints.

想象已脱离旧约束。

And that really, really excites me.

那让我特别兴奋。

I'm excited when I glimpse that kind of thinking writ large.

每当我看见那种想法显现，我都无比欣喜。

What I would like to see is idealism decoupled from all constraints.

我更想看到理想主义脱离旧约束。

Political, economic, psychological, whatever.

政治，经济，心理，等等。

The geopolitical world has got a lot to learn from the digital world.

地缘政界有许多该向数码界学习的。

From the ease with which you swept away obstacles

你们轻易地把没人知道能动摇

that no one knew could even be budged.

的障碍扫到一旁去。

And that's actually what I'd like to talk about today.

那就是我今天想提的。

First, though, I should probably explain why, and how,

也许我该解释，我为什么，怎么，

I got to this place.

来到这里。

It's a journey that started 20 years ago.

这是二十年前开始的旅程。

You may remember that song, "We Are the World,"

你也许会记得这首歌，“We Are the World,"

or, "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

或，“Do They Know It's Christmas?"

Band Aid, Live Aid.

援助乐团, 现场援助（演唱会）。

Another very tall, grizzled rock star, my friend Sir Bob Geldof,

非常高大，头发斑白的摇滚巨星，兼我的朋友

issued a challenge to "feed the world."

鲍勃·格尔多夫 爵士，挑战我 来“喂养世界”。

It was a great moment, and it utterly changed my life.

那是很重要的一刻，那一刻彻底地改变我的一生。

That summer, my wife, Ali, and myself went to Ethiopia.

那个夏天，我和我太太，艾丽,去了埃塞俄比亚。

We went on the quiet to see for ourselves what was going on.

我们悄悄地去了解那边的情况。

We lived in Ethiopia for a month, working at an orphanage.

我们在埃塞俄比亚住了一个月，在一个孤儿院工作。

The children had a name for me.

那里的小孩给我取了个名字。

They called me, "The girl with the beard."

他们叫我，“那个留着胡子的女孩。”

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Don't ask.

别问我为什么。

Anyway, we found Africa to be a magical place.

我们发现非洲充满魔力。

Big skies, big hearts, big, shining continent.

旷阔的天空，宽阔的心胸，光亮的大陆。

Beautiful, royal people.

美丽，高贵的人。

Anybody who ever gave anything to Africa got a lot more back.

任何为非洲付出过的人，都回得到更多的回报。

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind.

埃塞俄比亚不只让我感到震撼，她让我开阔视野。

Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage

我们在孤儿院的最后一天，

a man handed me his baby and said,

有个男人把他的婴儿交给我说，

"Would you take my son with you?"

“你能把我的儿子一起带走吗？”

He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live,

他知道，在爱尔兰，他的儿子就能活下去，

and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

在埃塞俄比亚，他的儿子就会死去。

It was the middle of that awful famine.

当时正处那可怕的饥荒。

Well, I turned him down.

我拒绝了他。

And it was a funny kind of sick feeling, but I turned him down.

那是一个很不舒服的感觉，可是我还是拒绝了他。

And it's a feeling I can't ever quite forget.

并且是我无法忘记的感觉。

And in that moment, I started this journey.

就在那一刻，我开始了这趟旅程。

In that moment, I became the worst thing of all:

就在那一刻，我成了最糟糕的一样东西。

I became a rock star with a cause. (Laughter)

我成了有主张的摇滚明星。

Except this isn't the cause, is it?

只是这不是什么主张，是嘛？

Six-and-a-half thousand Africans dying every single day from AIDS --

每天，六千五百位非洲人死于艾滋病--

a preventable, treatable disease --

一个可以避免，可以治疗的疾病--

for lack of drugs we can get in any pharmacy.

只因为缺乏我们在药房就能买到的药。

That's not a cause. That's an emergency.

这不是什么主张。这是危机。

11 million AIDS orphans in Africa,

非洲有一千一百万个艾滋孤儿，

20 million by the end of the decade.

到了二零一零年估计有二千万个。

That's not a cause. That's an emergency.

这不是什么主张。这是危机。

Today, every day, 9,000 more Africans

今天，每一天，九千位非洲人会

will catch HIV because of stigmatization and lack of education.

感染人类免疫缺陷病毒，因为歧视和缺乏教育。

That's not a cause. That's an emergency.

这不是什么主张。这是危机。

So what we're talking about here is human rights.

所以，我们在讨论的是人权。

The right to live like a human.

像人般活着的权利。

The right to live, period.

活着的权利。

And what we're facing in Africa is

在非洲，人性的尊严，

an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

平等的理念，面对着前所未有的威胁。

The next thing I'd like to be clear about is what this problem is,

接着，我必须清楚地指出问题的本质。

and what this problem isn't.

问题的实质。

Because this is not all about charity.

因为这不完全是慈善。

This is about justice. Really.

这其实有关正义。真的。

This is not about charity. This is about justice.

这不是做慈善，这是伸张正义。

That's right.

正是。

And that's too bad, because we're very good at charity.

但那很可惜，因为我们很会做慈善。

Americans, like Irish people, are good at it.

美国人，像爱尔兰人，都很会做慈善。

Even the poorest neighborhoods give more than they can afford.

就连最平穷的邻里都捐多于自己所能负担的。

We like to give, and we give a lot.

我们爱捐，并且捐很多。

Look at the response to the tsunami -- it's inspiring.

看看大家对海啸的回应，那很振奋人心。

But justice is a tougher standard than charity.

可是正义，比慈善更难拿捏。

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice.

非洲使我们所谓的正义显得可笑。

It makes a farce of our idea of equality.

她使我们的平等主义显得荒唐。

It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern.

我们的虔诚被嘲笑。我们的关心被怀疑。

It questions our commitment.

我们的承诺被质问。

Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa,

因为，如果我们扪心自问，我们必须承认，

and if we're honest,

现在在非洲所发生的事情，

conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

不可能被允许发生在其他的地方。

As you heard in the film, anywhere else, not here.

就如你在影片里所听到的，其他地方，不在这里。

Not here, not in America, not in Europe.

不在这里，不在美国，不在欧洲。

In fact, a head of state that you're all familiar with

你们熟悉的一位国家首脑

admitted this to me. And it's really true.

向我承认。并且那是事实。

There is no chance this kind of hemorrhaging of human life

这种人命大量的流失不可能

would be accepted anywhere else other than Africa.

在任何一个地方被接受，除了非洲。

Africa is a continent in flames.

非洲正燃烧着。

And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us,

如果我们由衷地相信非洲人与我们是平等的，

we would all do more to put the fire out.

我们会更积极地去灭火。

We're standing around with watering cans,

我们都拿着水桶，

when what we really need is the fire brigade.

但我们真正需要的是救火队。

You see, it's not as dramatic as the tsunami.

这没有海啸那么戏剧化。

It's crazy, really, when you think about it.

如果你仔细想想，这太疯狂了。

Does stuff have to look like an action movie these days

是不是什么都要看起来像动作片，

to exist in the front of our brain?

才不会被我们抛诸脑后？

The slow extinguishing of countless lives

原来无数人命慢慢的被熄灭

is just not dramatic enough, it would appear.

还不够戏剧化。

Catastrophes that we can avert

还能避免的灾难，

are not as interesting as ones we could avert.

不比曾经能避免的灾难有趣。

Funny, that.

那很可笑。

Anyway, I believe that that kind of thinking

我相信这种想法，

offends the intellectual rigor in this room.

会让在场的知识份子很反感。

Six-and-a-half thousand people dying a day in Africa may be Africa's crisis,

非洲一天六千五百万个人死去也许是非洲的危机，

but the fact that it's not on the nightly news,

可是这件事没有每晚出现在晚间新闻，

that we in Europe, or you in America,

欧洲的我们，或在美国的你们，

are not treating it like an emergency --

都没有把这归为当务之急--

I want to argue with you tonight that that's our crisis.

今晚我想指出，因为如此，身处危机的是我们。

I want to argue that though Africa is not the front line in the war against terror,

虽然在反恐战争中，非洲并不被瞩目，

it could be soon.

我认为，也许快要了。

Every week, religious extremists take another African village.

每个星期，都有非洲村庄被宗教极端份子占领。

They're attempting to bring order to chaos.

他们正尝试在混乱中带来次序。

Well, why aren't we?

为什么我们却置之不理？

Poverty breeds despair. We know this.

贫困会带来绝望。我们清楚知道。

Despair breeds violence. We know this.

绝望会衍生暴力。我们清楚知道。

In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter,

在乱世，若能化敌为友，

to make friends out of potential enemies

那不是比未来须要提防他们

than to defend yourself against them later?

更便宜，更聪明吗？

"The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty."

反恐战争和铲除贫困是息息相关的。

And I didn't say that. Colin Powell said that.

那不是我说的。是 克林·鲍威尔 说的。

Now when the military are telling us that this is a war

当军方告诉我们这不是一个

that cannot be won by military might alone,

靠军事力量就能打赢的仗，

maybe we should listen.

也许我们该留意。

There's an opportunity here, and it's real.

机会已到来，并且是真实的。

It's not spin. It's not wishful thinking.

并不是在篇故事。这也不是痴心妄想。

The problems facing the developing world

发展中国家面对的问题

afford us in the developed world

是个让已发展国家

a chance to re-describe ourselves to the world.

重新定义自己的机会。

We will not only transform other people's lives,

我们不只会改变他们的一生，

but we will also transform the way those other lives see us.

也会转变他们如何看我们。

And that might be smart in these nervous, dangerous times.

在这紧张，危险的时代，那也许是明智之举。

Don't you think that on a purely commercial level,

若以纯商业角度来看，你们不觉得

that anti-retroviral drugs are great advertisements

抗逆转录病毒药物（抑制艾滋病的药物）能够很棒地推销

for Western ingenuity and technology?

西方的创造性和科技吗？

Doesn't compassion look well on us?

怜悯之心会让我们显得更好？

And let's cut the crap for a second.

让我们进入正题。

In certain quarters of the world, brand EU, brand USA,

在世界某些地域，欧联和美国，

is not at its shiniest.

并不是最让人悦目的品牌。

The neon sign is fizzing and cracking.

霓虹灯正发出嘶嘶与噼啪声。

Someone's put a brick through the window.

有人用砖头在窗口砸了一个洞。

The regional branch managers are getting nervous.

区域经理已有些不安。

Never before have we in the west been so scrutinized.

我们西方不曾如此被注视过。

Our values: do we have any?

我们所重视的价值，还在吗？

Our credibility?

我们的信用呢？

These things are under attack around the world.

这些东西在世界各地受到抨击。

Brand USA could use some polishing.

USA 品牌需要磨光。

And I say that as a fan, you know?

我是以一个粉丝的身份说。

As a person who buys the products.

以一个产品的拥护者的身份。

But think about it.

可是想想看。

More anti-retrovirals make sense.

更多的抗逆转录病毒药物会更好。

But that's just the easy part, or ought to be.

那是最简单的部分，或应该是的。

But equality for Africa --

可是平等对待非洲，

that's a big, expensive idea.

那是一个昂贵的主意。

You see, the scale of the suffering numbs us into a kind of indifference.

大规模的痛苦已让我们麻痹，不再在乎。

What on earth can we all do about this?

我们到底还能做些什么？

Well, much more than we think.

其实，比我们想象的多。

We can't fix every problem, but the ones we can,

我们不能解决所有的问题，可是我们能解决的，

I want to argue, we must.

我认为，我们一定要。

And because we can, we must.

因为我们能，所以我们一定要。

This is the straight truth, the righteous truth.

这是最直接，最正义的事实。

It is not a theory.

这不是个理论。

The fact is that ours is the first generation

事实是，我们是有史以来第一代，

that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye,

能直视疾病和极度的贫困，

look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it:

直视着非洲所发生的，并且认真地说。

we do not have to stand for this.

我们没有必要忍受这一切。

A whole continent written off -- we do not have to stand for this.

整个大陆被抹杀 -- 我们没有必要忍受。

(Applause)

（掌声）

And let me say this without a trace of irony --

让我不带任何讽刺地说--

before I back it up to a bunch of ex-hippies.

在我让你想起嬉皮士前。

Forget the '60s. We can change the world.

忘了六十年代。我们能改变世界。

I can't; you can't, as individuals; but we can change the world.

我不能，你不能，可是我们能。

I really believe that, the people in this room.

我真的相信这个房里的人能。

Look at the Gates Foundation.

看看 盖茨基金会。

They've done incredible stuff, unbelievable stuff.

他们做了一些不思议，难以置信的事。

But working together, we can actually change the world.

我们的合作，真的可以改变这个世界。

We can turn the inevitable outcomes,

我们能逆转原本不能避免的，

and transform the quality of life for millions of lives

转换上百万个样貌和感觉

who look and feel rather like us, when you're up close.

和我们一样的人的生活质地。

I'm sorry to laugh here, but you do look so different

很抱歉，我想笑，因为你们的确和

than you did in Haight-Ashbury in the '60s.

六十年代，海特--阿舍伯里 时很不一样。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

But I want to argue that this is the moment that you are designed for.

你们是为了这一刻而设计的。

It is the flowering of the seeds you planted

这是你们年少轻狂时所种下的种子

in earlier, headier days.

开花结果。

Ideas that you gestated in your youth.

是你们年轻时孕育的理想。

This is what excites me.

这让我兴奋。

This room was born for this moment,

这房间是为了这一刻而诞生的。

is really what I want to say to you tonight.

这正是我今晚想要说的。

Most of you started out wanting to change the world, didn't you?

你们不是一直都想改变世界吗？

Most of you did, the digital world.

是的，你们的确改变了数码世界。

Well, now, actually because of you,

现在，因为你们，

it is possible to change the physical world.

我们能改变物质世界。

It's a fact.

这是事实。

Economists confirm it, and they know much more than I do.

经济学家证实过，而且他们懂得比我多。

So why, then, are we not pumping our fists into the air?

那么为什么我们没有确实行动呢？

Probably because when we admit we can do something about it,

可能当我们承认有什么我们能做时，

we've got to do something about it.

我们就得有所行动。

It is a pain in the arse.

那让人很困扰。

This equality business is actually a pain in the arse.

这平等的主义让人很困扰。

But for the first time in history, we have the technology;

可是，有史以来，我们第一次有科技，

we have the know-how; we have the cash;

有技术，有资金，

we have the life-saving drugs.

有能改变生命的药。

Do we have the will?

可我们有意志力吗?

I hope this is obvious, but I'm not a hippie.

我希望答案很明显，但我不是个嬉皮士。

And I'm not really one for the warm, fuzzy feeling.

我并不特别喜欢那模糊温暖的感觉。

I do not have flowers in my hair.

我头上也没插花。

Actually, I come from punk rock.

其实，我来至庞克摇滚。

The Clash wore big army boots, not sandals.

克莱什乐团 穿的是大军靴，不是拖鞋。

But I know toughness when I see it.

可是我看得到韧性。

And for all the talk of peace and love on the West Coast,

西岸所提的爱与和平，

there was muscle to the movement that started out here.

都有确实的行动。

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream.

理想脱离行动只是一个梦。

But idealism allied with pragmatism,

可是理想加上实用，

with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit,

卷起袖子，让世界稍稍屈服，

is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

非常振奋人心。那很真实，很有力。

And it's very present in a crowd like you.

那对你们来说是很真实地存在。

Last year at DATA, this organization I helped set up,

去年，在我帮忙成立的组织，DATA,

we launched a campaign to summon this spirit

我们推出了一项呼吁对抗艾滋病和

in the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty.

极度贫困的精神。

We're calling it the ONE Campaign.

我们叫它 一运动。

It's based on our belief that the action of one person

因为我们深信一个人的行动

can change a lot,

能改变很多。

but the actions of many coming together as one

可是很多人的行动联合成一

can change the world.

足以改变世界。

Well, we feel that now is the time to prove we're right.

是时候验证那想法了。

There are moments in history when civilization redefines itself.

历史总有些让文明世界重新定义自己的时机。

We believe this is one.

我们相信现在正是。

We believe that this could be the time when the world finally decides

我们相信，可能就在这一刻，世界终于决定

that the wanton loss of life in Africa is just no longer acceptable.

不再忍受对非洲的肆虐。

This could be the time that we finally get serious

这一刻可能是我们决定认真地

about changing the future for most people who live on planet Earth.

去改变多数地球人的未来。

Momentum has been building.

动力在增加。

Lurching a little, but it's building.

有些不稳健，但在增加。

This year is a test for us all,

今年是考验的一年，

especially the leaders of the G8 nations,

尤其八大工业国的领袖，

who really are on the line here,

在这关键性的一刻，

with all the world in history watching.

世界的焦点都在他们的身上。

I have been, of late, disappointed with the Bush Administration.

最近，我对布什的行政感到失望。

They started out with such promise on Africa.

他们对非洲做出承诺。

They made some really great promises,

他们做出非常棒的承诺，

and actually have fulfilled a lot of them.

其实也履行了不少。

But some of them they haven't.

可是却没履行一些。

They don't feel the push from the ground, is the truth.

事实是，基层没有让他们感受到压力。

But my disappointment has much more perspective

可是我的失望变得客观

when I talk to American people,

当我和美国人谈话，

and I hear their worries about the deficit,

我听见他们对赤字的担心，

and the fiscal well being of their country.

对国家经济的担忧，

I understand that.

我明白。

But there's much more push from the ground than you'd think,

可是基层的压力比你想象的还多，

if we got organized.

如果我们能组织起来。

What I try to communicate, and you can help me if you agree,

我想传达的是，如果你同意，你可以协助我，

is that aid for Africa is just great value for money

援助非洲非常划算，

at a time when America really needs it.

正当美国最需要时。

Putting it in the crassest possible terms,

以最粗俗的方法说，

the investment reaps huge returns.

这是一项利润丰厚的投资。

Not only in lives saved, but in goodwill, stability

不只能救人，还能得到信誉，稳定

and security that we'll gain.

和保障。

So this is what I hope that you will do, if I could be so bold,

所以我希望，恕我冒昧的要求，

and not have it deducted from my number of wishes.

而且不从我三个愿望里扣除。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

What I hope is that beyond individual merciful acts,

我希望除了个人的善为，

that you will tell the politicians to do right by Africa,

你能告诉你的政治家，不要对不起非洲，

by America and by the world.

不要对不起美国，不要对不起世界。

Give them permission, if you like,

如果你愿意，允许他们，

to spend their political capital and your financial capital,

让他们用他们的政治经费，你的资金，

your national purse on saving the lives of millions of people.

你的国库来救百万人的性命。

That's really what I would like you to do.

那是我希望你能做的。

Because we also need your intellectual capital:

因为我们需要你的智力资本：

your ideas, your skills, your ingenuity.

你的主意，你的技能，你的创造力。

And you, at this conference, are in a unique position.

在场的各位，你们占有很特别的位置。

Some of the technologies we've been talking about, you invented them,

我们讨论的一些科技，是你们发明的，

or at least revolutionized the way that they're used.

或改革了它们的用法。

Together you have changed the zeitgeist from analog to digital,

你们把这时代的精神从模拟改成数码，

and pushed the boundaries.

推进了极限。

And we'd like you to give us that energy.

我们希望你们给予我们能量。

Give us that kind of dreaming, that kind of doing.

给予我们梦想，实践。

As I say, there're two things on the line here.

如我所说，我们须考虑的事有两件。

There's the continent Africa.

非洲，

But there's also our sense of ourselves.

和自我观。

People are starting to figure this out.

许多人开始了解这点。

Movements are springing up.

很多运动崛起。

Artists, politicians, pop stars, priests, CEOs,

艺人，政治家，偶像，神父，总裁，

NGOs, mothers' unions, student unions.

非政府组织，母亲联盟，学生联盟。

A lot of people are getting together, and working

很多人正聚集在我先前提到的庞大机构，

under this umbrella I told you about earlier, the ONE Campaign.

一运动。

I think they just have one idea in their mind,

我认为他们脑子里只有一个想法，

which is, where you live in the world

就是，你在世界的哪里出生，

should not determine whether you live in the world.

不该决定你在世界是否生存。

(Applause)

（掌声）

History, like God, is watching what we do.

历史，像上帝，正在看着我们的一举一动。

When the history books get written,

当他们在记载历史时

I think our age will be remembered for three things.

我认为我们的时代会因为三件事而留名。

Really, it's just three things this whole age will be remembered for.

这整个时代，就三件事。

The digital revolution, yes.

数码革命，是的。

The war against terror, yes.

反恐战争，是的。

And what we did or did not do to put out the fires in Africa.

和当我们面对着非洲的危机，所做或没做的。

Some say we can't afford to. I say we can't afford not to.

有人说我们没办法帮忙。我说我们没办法不帮忙。

Thank you, thank you very much.

谢谢，非常感谢你们。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Okay, my three wishes.

好的，我的三个愿望。

The ones that TED has offered to grant.

TED 答应实现的愿望。

You see, if this is true, and I believe it is,

如果这是真的，而我相信是的，

that the digital world you all created has uncoupled

你们所创造的数码世界已让

the creative imagination from the physical constraints of matter,

创意想象脱离物质界的约束。

this should be a piece of piss.

那这应该是易如反掌。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

I should add that this started out as a much longer list of wishes.

必须让你们知道，我的愿望清单原本长许多。

Most of them impossible, some of them impractical

大多数的愿望不可能实现，有些不实际

and one or two of them certainly immoral.

更有一两个是不道德的。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

This business, it gets to be addictive, you know what I mean,

这玩意儿，很容易上瘾，

when somebody else is picking up the tab.

当有人为你结帐时。

Anyway, here's number one.

这是我的第一个愿望。

I wish for you to help build a social movement

我希望你们能帮非洲建立一个

of more than one million American activists for Africa.

多过一百万美国社会运动家的社会运动。

That is my first wish.

那是我的第一个愿望。

I believe it's possible.

我想那有可能。

A few minutes ago, I talked about all the citizens' campaigns that are springing up.

几分钟前，我谈到到处崛起的民启运动。

You know, there's lots out there.

真的有好多。

And with this one campaign as our umbrella,

在 一运动 的涵盖下，

my organization, DATA, and other groups,

我的机构，DATA， 和其他的组织，

have been tapping into the energy and the enthusiasm

已在利用从好莱坞至

that's out there from Hollywood into the heartland of America.

美国邻里的能量与热忱。

We know there's more than enough energy to power this movement.

我们知道有足够的能量发起这项运动。

We just need your help in making it happen.

我们只差你们的协助。

We want all of you here, church America, corporate America,

我们要在场的所有的人，教堂美国，商业美国，

Microsoft America, Apple America, Coke America,

微软美国，苹果美国，可乐美国，

Pepsi America, nerd America, noisy America.

百事美国，书呆的美国，吵闹的美国。

We can't afford to be cool and sit this one out.

我们不能坐在一旁装酷。

I do believe if we build a movement that's one million Americans strong,

我相信如果我们能建起一个以百万美国人的运动，

we're not going to be denied.

我们不会被拒绝。

We will have the ear of Congress.

我们会让国会聆听。

We'll be the first page in Condi Rice's briefing book,

我们会在 康迪·赖斯 笔记本的第一页，

and right into the Oval Office.

直到 椭圆形办公室 .

If there's one million Americans -- and I really know this --

有一百万美国人-- 我知道有--

who are ready to make phone calls,

准备拨电话，

who are ready to be on email,

准备收到电邮。

I am absolutely sure that we can actually change

确定我们能改写

the course of history, literally, for the continent of Africa.

历史，改写非洲的历史。

Anyway, so I'd like your help in getting that signed up.

我需要你们帮忙联系他们。

I know John Gage and Sun Microsystems are already on board for this,

我知道 约翰·盖奇 与 太阳计算机系统公司 已决定参与，

but there's lots of you we'd like to talk to.

可是我们还想跟更多的人沟通。

Right, my second wish, number two.

我的第二个愿望。

I would like one media hit for every person on the planet

我希望能为地球上所有每天用少过一美元

who is living on less than one dollar a day.

生存的人换来一个媒体点击。

That's one billion media hits.

那是一亿个媒体点击。

Could be on Google, could be on AOL.

可以是谷歌，可以是 AOL.

Steve Case, Larry, Sergey -- they've done a lot already.

斯蒂芬·凯斯, 拉里, 谢尔盖 -- 已经做了很多。

It could be NBC. It could be ABC.

可以是 NBC. 可以是 ABC.

Actually we're talking to ABC today about the Oscars.

其实今天，我们正和 ABC 讨论 奥斯卡.

We have a film, produced by Jon Kamen at Radical Media.

我们有个影片，由 激进媒体 的 乔恩·卡门 制作。

But you know, we want, we need some airtime for our ideas.

可是我们需要一些播放时间。

We need to get the math; we need to get the statistics out to the American people.

我们需要把统计的数字播放给美国人。

I really believe that old Truman line,

我相信 杜魯門 说过的，

that if you give the American people the facts,

如果你提供美国人事实，

they'll do the right thing.

他们就会做正确的事。

And, the other thing that's important is that this is not Sally Struthers.

另一件重要的事，这不是 莎丽·斯特拉瑟斯.

This has to be described as an adventure, not a burden.

这必须被形容为一趟冒险旅程，不是个负担。

(Video): One by one they step forward,

（影视）：一个接着一个，他们向前迈进一步，

a nurse, a teacher, a homemaker,

一个护士，一个教师，一个家庭主妇，

and lives are saved.

生命获救了。

The problem is enormous.

问题很庞大。

Every three seconds one person dies.

每三秒有一个人死去。

Another three seconds, one more.

过了三秒，又多一个。

The situation is so desperate in parts of Africa,

非洲，亚洲，甚至美国某些区域

Asia, even America,

的状况已危急至

that aid groups, just as they did for the tsunami,

援助组织，就像海啸时那样

are uniting as one, acting as one.

联合为一，行动一致。

We can beat extreme poverty, starvation, AIDS.

我们可以击败极度平困，饥饿，艾滋病。

But we need your help.

可是我们需要您的帮忙。

One more person, letter, voice

多一个人，一封信，一把声音

will mean the difference between life and death

能为百万人

for millions of people.

改变生死。

Please join us by working together.

请加入我们。

Americans have an unprecedented opportunity.

美国人有个前所未有的机会。

We can make history.

我们能改写历史。

We can start to make poverty history.

我们能让贫困成为历史。

One, by one, by one.

一个，接着一个，接着一个。

Please visit ONE at this address.

请到此网址探访 一。

We're not asking for your money. We're asking for your voice.

我们要的不是你的钱，我们要的是你的声音。

Bono: All right. I wish for TED to truly show the power of information,

好的，我希望 TED 能展现资讯的威力。

its power to rewrite the rules and transform lives,

改写条规，转变生命的威力，

by connecting every hospital, health clinic and school

把一个非洲国家里的所有的医院，诊所，和学校

in one African country.

联系起来。

And I would like it to be Ethiopia.

我希望那个国家是埃塞俄比亚。

I believe we can connect every school in Ethiopia,

我相信我们能把埃塞俄比亚的每一所学校，

every health clinic, every hospital --

每一间诊所，每一家医院联系起来。

we can connect to the Internet.

我们可以联上互联网。

That is my wish, my third wish.

那是我的心愿，第三个心愿。

I think it's possible.

我认为有可能的。

I think we have the money and brains in the room to do that.

我认为现场有足够的资金和智力来完成这件事。

And that would be a mind-blowing wish to come true.

若那能实现，那会很振奋人心。

I've been to Ethiopia, as I said earlier.

如我先前说的，我到过埃塞俄比亚。

It's actually where it all started for me.

我的旅程正是那从里开始的。

The idea that the Internet, which changed all of our lives,

已改变我们所有人的生命的互联网

can transform a country -- and a continent

能够彻底改变一个国家，一个大洲

that has hardly made it to analog, let alone digital -- blows my mind.

一个还没到模拟，更别说数码的大洲，那让我很兴奋。

But it didn't start out that way.

可是不是一开始就这样的。

The first long-distance line from Boston to New York

第一通从波士顿到纽约的长途电话

was used in 1885 on the phone.

是在一八八五年通上的。

It was just nine years later that Addis Ababa

就在九年后，便能从 阿迪斯阿貝巴

was connected by phone to Harare, which is 500 kilometers away.

播电到五百公里外的 哈拉雷.

Since then, not that much has changed.

从那时便没什么进展。

The average waiting time to get a landline in Ethiopia

在埃塞俄比亚，申请电话线的平均等候时间

is actually about seven or eight years.

是七至八年。

But wireless technology wasn't dreamt up then.

可是当时没有无线科技。

Anyway, I'm Irish, and as you can see,

如你所见，我是爱尔兰人，

I know how important talking is.

我知道说话的重要性。

Communication is very important for Ethiopia -- will transform the country.

沟通对埃塞俄比亚很重要 -- 能转换整个国家。

Nurses getting better training,

护士能得到更好的训练，

pharmacists being able to order supplies,

药剂师能订购药物，

doctors sharing their expertise in all aspects of medicine.

医生能分享医疗资讯。

It's a very, very good idea to get them wired.

把他们都联系起来是个很好很好的主意。

And that is my third and final wish for you at the TED conference.

那是我的第三个愿望，也是我在 TED 会议最后的一个愿望。

Thank you very much once again.

再次谢谢你们。

(Applause)

（掌声）