Deb Roy: The birth of a word

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翻译人员: Jenny Yang 校对人员: Bear Jin
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Imagine if you could record your life --
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想象一下如果你能记录你的生活--
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everything you said, everything you did,
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你说的一切,做的一切
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available in a perfect memory store at your fingertips,
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就存储在一个完美的你触手可及的记忆库
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so you could go back
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你可以回到过去
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and find memorable moments and relive them,
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找寻那难忘一刻回顾这一切
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or sift through traces of time
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或者追寻时间的轨迹
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and discover patterns in your own life
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发现在属于你自己的生活模式
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that previously had gone undiscovered.
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那种以前没有发现的规律
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Well that's exactly the journey
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而那就是我们全家
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that my family began
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5年半前开始的
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five and a half years ago.
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家庭旅程
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This is my wife and collaborator, Rupal.
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这是我妻子和合作者, 鲁泊尔
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And on this day, at this moment,
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在这一天,从这一刻
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we walked into the house with our first child,
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我们带着我们第一个孩子走进了这个家
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our beautiful baby boy.
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我们美丽的儿子
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And we walked into a house
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我们走进了一个
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with a very special home video recording system.
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安装了特殊的家庭摄像系统的家
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(Video) Man: Okay.
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(录像) 男人:好
01:10
Deb Roy: This moment
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戴·罗伊: 这一刻
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and thousands of other moments special for us
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和其他千万的我们的特殊时刻
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were captured in our home
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在我们家中被捕捉下来
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because in every room in the house,
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因为这个房子的每个屋子
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if you looked up, you'd see a camera and a microphone,
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如果你仰头看,你都可以看见一个摄像机和话筒
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and if you looked down,
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而你望下看
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you'd get this bird's-eye view of the room.
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你可以俯视整个房间
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Here's our living room,
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这是我们的客厅
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the baby bedroom,
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这是婴儿的房间
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kitchen, dining room
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厨房,餐厅
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and the rest of the house.
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这是其余的地方
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And all of these fed into a disc array
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这些都被装进了一排
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that was designed for a continuous capture.
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为持续拍摄设计的光盘中
01:41
So here we are flying through a day in our home
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这里我们飞快地经历一遍我们家庭的一天
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as we move from sunlit morning
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我们从太阳初升的早晨
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through incandescent evening
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到亮起电灯的夜晚
01:49
and, finally, lights out for the day.
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最后, 熄灯就寝
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Over the course of three years,
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历经3年的时间
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we recorded eight to 10 hours a day,
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我们每天记录8到10个小时
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amassing roughly a quarter-million hours
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积累了大约25万小时
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of multi-track audio and video.
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的多轨音频和视频资料
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So you're looking at a piece of what is by far
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所以你现在看到的是有史以来
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the largest home video collection ever made.
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最大的家庭录相集
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(Laughter)
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(笑声)
02:11
And what this data represents
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从个人的角度而言,
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for our family at a personal level,
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这些代表了我们家庭的资料
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the impact has already been immense,
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已经产生了巨大的影响
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and we're still learning its value.
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我们还在继续学习其中的价值
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Countless moments
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无数的时刻
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of unsolicited natural moments, not posed moments,
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无预兆的,不造作的自然时刻
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are captured there,
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都记录在这里
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and we're starting to learn how to discover them and find them.
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我们正开始学习怎样发现和寻找它们
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But there's also a scientific reason that drove this project,
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而促使这个项目还有一个科学的原因
02:35
which was to use this natural longitudinal data
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便是用这些纵向记录的数据
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to understand the process
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去了解一个
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of how a child learns language --
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孩子是怎样学习语言的--
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that child being my son.
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这个孩子是我的儿子
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And so with many privacy provisions put in place
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所以在设置了隐私保护的条件下
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to protect everyone who was recorded in the data,
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每个被记录到的人物都得到保护
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we made elements of the data available
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我们对我们信任的麻省理工研究团队
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to my trusted research team at MIT
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公开了部分数据
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so we could start teasing apart patterns
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因此我们可以从这个巨大的
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in this massive data set,
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数据资料中排除出一些多余的模式
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trying to understand the influence of social environments
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以此来试图理解社会环境
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on language acquisition.
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对语言形成的影响
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So we're looking here
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所以我们在这里看到
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at one of the first things we started to do.
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我们所做的第一件事情
03:13
This is my wife and I cooking breakfast in the kitchen,
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这是我的妻子和我在厨房做早餐
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and as we move through space and through time,
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随着时间的流逝地点的变化
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a very everyday pattern of life in the kitchen.
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这是厨房里日常生活的轨迹
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In order to convert
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为了转换
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this opaque, 90,000 hours of video
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这个9万小时的录相
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into something that we could start to see,
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将它变成我们能识辨的东西
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we use motion analysis to pull out,
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我们用行动分析来抽取
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as we move through space and through time,
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我们在时空的移动
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what we call space-time worms.
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我们称之为 时空虫
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And this has become part of our toolkit
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这个成为了我们工具的一部分
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for being able to look and see
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用来观察和辨识
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where the activities are in the data,
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数据中的各种活动
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and with it, trace the pattern of, in particular,
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再利用这个办法,去追踪模型,特别是
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where my son moved throughout the home,
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我儿子在家去过哪些地方
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so that we could focus our transcription efforts,
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使得我们能够聚焦解读
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all of the speech environment around my son --
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我儿子学习语言的语境
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all of the words that he heard from myself, my wife, our nanny,
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他从我,我妻子和保姆那里听到的所有词汇
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and over time, the words he began to produce.
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渐渐的,他开始使用的词汇
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So with that technology and that data
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因此通过技术和数据
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and the ability to, with machine assistance,
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在机器的协助下
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transcribe speech,
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录制下对话
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we've now transcribed
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我们现在已经完成了
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well over seven million words of our home transcripts.
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超过7万字的家庭言谈的记录
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And with that, let me take you now
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现在,让我带你们
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for a first tour into the data.
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进入这些数据的第一个旅行
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So you've all, I'm sure,
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我相信,你们大家都
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seen time-lapse videos
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看过时间推移的影片
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where a flower will blossom as you accelerate time.
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加快时间的推移你可以看见花朵盛开
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I'd like you to now experience
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现在我让你们看看
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the blossoming of a speech form.
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语言的花朵是怎样绽放的
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My son, soon after his first birthday,
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我的儿子,在他的第一个生日后
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would say "gaga" to mean water.
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会说“gaga“来指水
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And over the course of the next half-year,
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在这之后的半年里
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he slowly learned to approximate
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他渐渐地学会了
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the proper adult form, "water."
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成年人说的正确的“水”
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So we're going to cruise through half a year
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我们现在来用40秒时间
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in about 40 seconds.
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快速浏览这半年
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No video here,
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没有影象
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so you can focus on the sound, the acoustics,
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所以你们可以专注听声音,声学上的
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of a new kind of trajectory:
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这种新的轨迹变化
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gaga to water.
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从“Gaga"到"Water"
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(Audio) Baby: Gagagagagaga
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(声音)婴儿:Gagagagagaga
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Gaga gaga gaga
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Gaga gaga gaga
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guga guga guga
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guga guga guga
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wada gaga gaga guga gaga
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wada gaga gaga guga gaga
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wader guga guga
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wader guga guga
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water water water
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water water water
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water water water
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water water water
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water water
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water water
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water.
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water
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DR: He sure nailed it, didn't he.
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戴·罗伊: 他学会了啊,不是吗?
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(Applause)
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(掌声)
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So he didn't just learn water.
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而他并不只是学会了水
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Over the course of the 24 months,
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在24个月里
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the first two years that we really focused on,
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在最初的2年里,这才是我真正关注的
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this is a map of every word he learned in chronological order.
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这里有一张图按照时序列出了他所学到的词汇
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And because we have full transcripts,
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因为我们有全部的记录
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we've identified each of the 503 words
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我们为他到两岁前学会的503个单词
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that he learned to produce by his second birthday.
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都做了辨认和分析
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He was an early talker.
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他算是说话早的
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And so we started to analyze why.
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所以我们开始分析其原因
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Why were certain words born before others?
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为什么有些词他学得早
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This is one of the first results
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这是其中的一个研究结果
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that came out of our study a little over a year ago
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是一年多前出来的
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that really surprised us.
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让我们很吃惊
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The way to interpret this apparently simple graph
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解读这张看似简单的图表的方式
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is, on the vertical is an indication
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是横坐标表示
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of how complex caregiver utterances are
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照顾者的话语复杂程度
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based on the length of utterances.
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基于话语的长度
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And the [horizontal] axis is time.
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纵坐标代表了时间(演讲者口误)
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And all of the data,
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所有的数据
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we aligned based on the following idea:
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我们都用下述的方法排列:
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Every time my son would learn a word,
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每次我们发现儿子学了一个新的词
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we would trace back and look at all of the language he heard
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我们就会回溯他听过的这个词的
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that contained that word.
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所有的语言记录
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And we would plot the relative length of the utterances.
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然后我们绘制这些语言的长度
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And what we found was this curious phenomena,
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我们发现了一个奇特的现象
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that caregiver speech would systematically dip to a minimum,
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照顾者的讲话会系统地将语言简化
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making language as simple as possible,
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简化到最简单的程度
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and then slowly ascend back up in complexity.
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然后渐渐地回升到更复杂的句子
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And the amazing thing was
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而惊奇的事是
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that bounce, that dip,
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这种回升和下降
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lined up almost precisely
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正好精确的
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with when each word was born --
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吻合了每个词的诞生过程--
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word after word, systematically.
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一个词接一个词,很有系统规律
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So it appears that all three primary caregivers --
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似乎三个主要的照顾他的人
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myself, my wife and our nanny --
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我,我妻子,和我们的保姆--
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were systematically and, I would think, subconsciously
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都是有系统的,我想,也是下意识的
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restructuring our language
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重新构建我们的用语
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to meet him at the birth of a word
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去迎合他的新的词汇的诞生
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and bring him gently into more complex language.
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带他渐渐学习更为复杂的语言
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And the implications of this -- there are many,
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这其中蕴含的--有很多意义
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but one I just want to point out,
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但是我想指出的其中的一个
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is that there must be amazing feedback loops.
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就是这个过程中必定包涵了一个惊人的反馈循环
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Of course, my son is learning
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当然,我的儿子是
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from his linguistic environment,
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在他的语言环境中学习
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but the environment is learning from him.
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但是那个环境也在向他学习
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That environment, people, are in these tight feedback loops
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环境,人,都在这个紧密的反馈循环中
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and creating a kind of scaffolding
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并建立了一种类似脚手架的互相支撑关系
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that has not been noticed until now.
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这是之前没有被注意到的
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But that's looking at the speech context.
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这是关注讲话的语境来看
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What about the visual context?
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若是从视觉环境来看呢?
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We're not looking at --
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我们现在看到的是
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think of this as a dollhouse cutaway of our house.
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想象这是用我们家做样板做的洋娃娃屋
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We've taken those circular fish-eye lens cameras,
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我们使用环状鱼眼睛摄像机
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and we've done some optical correction,
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我们还做了些光学修正
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and then we can bring it into three-dimensional life.
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然后我们就可以把它做成三维录像
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So welcome to my home.
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欢迎到我家来
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This is a moment,
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这是其中的一刻
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one moment captured across multiple cameras.
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通过几个录相机拍下的同一时刻
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The reason we did this is to create the ultimate memory machine,
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我们这样做是为了创造出终极的记忆机器
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where you can go back and interactively fly around
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你可以用互动的方式前后快速搜寻
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and then breathe video-life into this system.
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然后用这系统体验录像生活
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What I'm going to do
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我要做的是
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is give you an accelerated view of 30 minutes,
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是给你们看一段压缩了30分钟的速放录像
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again, of just life in the living room.
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这次也是在客厅
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That's me and my son on the floor.
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这是我和我儿子在地上
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And there's video analytics
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这是影片分析
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that are tracking our movements.
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跟踪我们的移动
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My son is leaving red ink. I am leaving green ink.
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我儿子的留下了红色的轨迹,我的是绿色的
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We're now on the couch,
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我们在沙发上
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looking out through the window at cars passing by.
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看着窗外汽车开过
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And finally, my son playing in a walking toy by himself.
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最后,我儿子自己玩他的学步玩具
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Now we freeze the action, 30 minutes,
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现在定格,30分钟
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we turn time into the vertical axis,
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我们将时间放到垂直轴上
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and we open up for a view
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然后我们打开
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of these interaction traces we've just left behind.
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刚才留下的互动的轨迹
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And we see these amazing structures --
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我们看见令人惊讶的结构
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these little knots of two colors of thread
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这是两种颜色的小结点
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we call "social hot spots."
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我们把它称为社交热点
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The spiral thread
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那些螺旋线
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we call a "solo hot spot."
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我们称为单一热点
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And we think that these affect the way language is learned.
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我们觉得这个影响语言学习
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What we'd like to do
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我们要做的是
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is start understanding
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是开始去了解
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the interaction between these patterns
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这些模式与我儿子接触的
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and the language that my son is exposed to
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语言间的关系
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to see if we can predict
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how the structure of when words are heard
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affects when they're learned --
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so in other words, the relationship
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词汇和他们所表示的世界的关系
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So here's how we're approaching this.
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In this video,
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在这个录像中
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again, my son is being traced out.
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He's leaving red ink behind.
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他留下了红色的轨迹
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And there's our nanny by the door.
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我们的保姆在门边
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(Video) Nanny: You want water? (Baby: Aaaa.)
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(录像)保姆:你要喝水妈? (宝宝:Aaaa)
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Nanny: All right. (Baby: Aaaa.)
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保姆:好。(宝宝:Aaaa)
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DR: She offers water,
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戴·罗伊:她给他水
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and off go the two worms
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over to the kitchen to get water.
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开始移动到厨房拿水
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同时我们所做的就和“水”这个词
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to tag that moment, that bit of activity.
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联系上了,随着一些动作
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and take every time my son
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每次我儿子
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ever heard the word water
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听到水这个字
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and the context he saw it in,
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以及他看见的情景
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and we use it to penetrate through the video
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我们利用这些来分析整个影片
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and find every activity trace
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找到每个跟
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that co-occurred with an instance of water.
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“水”字出现时发生的活动
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这个数据勾勒出了
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is a landscape.
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这么一幅风景
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我们把这个叫做 词景
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This is the wordscape for the word water,
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这是水字的词景
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and you can see most of the action is in the kitchen.
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你可以看见大多数行动是在厨房
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That's where those big peaks are over to the left.
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就是左边的这些高峰
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And just for contrast, we can do this with any word.
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We can take the word "bye"
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as in "good bye."
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”bye"字
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And we're now zoomed in over the entrance to the house.
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我们看到,我们发现,你也会想到
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a contrast in the landscape
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一幅相对的景象
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where the word "bye" occurs much more in a structured way.
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在那儿你看到“bye“高频率出现的结构
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So we're using these structures
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我们用这些结构
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to start predicting
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the order of language acquisition,
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学会语言的顺序
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and that's ongoing work now.
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这是在持续进行的工作
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In my lab, which we're peering into now, at MIT --
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在我麻省理工学院的研究室-就是现在看到
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this is at the media lab.
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那是在媒体实验室里
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This has become my favorite way
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这成了我最喜欢的空间
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of videographing just about any space.
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视频制图方法
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Three of the key people in this project,
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这个项目的关键人物都在
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Philip DeCamp, Rony Kubat and Brandon Roy are pictured here.
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就是图片里的菲利普·迪坎普, 罗尼·库巴特和布兰登·罗伊
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Philip has been a close collaborator
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菲利普是一个密切的合作者
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on all the visualizations you're seeing.
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你们看到的视觉化功能就是他负责的
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And Michael Fleischman
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还有麦克尔·菲莱舍曼
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was another Ph.D. student in my lab
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是我实验室的另一个博士生
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who worked with me on this home video analysis,
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和我一起做了家庭视频的分析
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and he made the following observation:
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是他发表了以下的观点:
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that "just the way that we're analyzing
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“我们分析
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how language connects to events
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语言如何于事件相关
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which provide common ground for language,
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这是语言的共同的基础
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that same idea we can take out of your home, Deb,
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我们可以把同样的思路带出你的家,戴
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and we can apply it to the world of public media."
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我们可以把它用到公共媒体上”
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And so our effort took an unexpected turn.
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所以我们的研究有了个意想不到的转折
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Think of mass media
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as providing common ground
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提供共同的基础
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and you have the recipe
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你就可以把我们的方法
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for taking this idea to a whole new place.
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运用到一个崭新的地方
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We've started analyzing television content
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我们开始分析电视内容
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using the same principles --
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用同样的原则--
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analyzing event structure of a TV signal --
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分析一个电视信号的事件结构--
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episodes of shows,
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电视剧集
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commercials,
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广告
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all of the components that make up the event structure.
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所有的组成事件结构的成分
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And we're now, with satellite dishes, pulling and analyzing
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我们现在, 通过卫星电视,抽出分析了
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a good part of all the TV being watched in the United States.
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在美国高收视率的电视节目
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And you don't have to now go and instrument living rooms with microphones
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你不再需要把麦克风装在起居室里来
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to get people's conversations,
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记录人们的对话
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you just tune into publicly available social media feeds.
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你只要去听公开的社交媒体讯息就可以了
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So we're pulling in
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我们每个月抽出
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about three billion comments a month,
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大概30亿个评论
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and then the magic happens.
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奇迹发生了
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You have the event structure,
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这中间可以找到事件结构
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the common ground that the words are about,
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这些词汇的共同基础
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coming out of the television feeds;
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那些从这次电视讯息里透露出的反馈
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you've got the conversations
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你得到有关这些
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that are about those topics;
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话题的对话
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and through semantic analysis --
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通过语意分析
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and this is actually real data you're looking at
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你们看到的这个是根据我们的数据处理过后
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from our data processing --
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的真实的数据结果--
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each yellow line is showing a link being made
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每条黄线显示一个链接
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between a comment in the wild
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连接着外界的评论
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and a piece of event structure coming out of the television signal.
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和电视信号发出的事件结构间的关系
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And the same idea now
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这都是用同样的思路
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can be built up.
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构建起来的
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And we get this wordscape,
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我们得到了这个词汇背景
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except now words are not assembled in my living room.
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不过现在词汇不是从我的客厅里来的
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Instead, the context, the common ground activities,
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取而代之的情境,共同基础活动
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are the content on television that's driving the conversations.
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是电视内容带动的对话
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And what we're seeing here, these skyscrapers now,
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我们现在看到的这些高耸的结构
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are commentary
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都是电视评论
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that are linked to content on television.
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它们跟电视上播放的内容联系着
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Same concept,
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同样的概念
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but looking at communication dynamics
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但是你们看见的是它在不同的领域
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in a very different sphere.
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展现的交流动态
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And so fundamentally, rather than, for example,
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从根本上,而不是,比如
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measuring content based on how many people are watching,
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根据收视率衡量内容
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this gives us the basic data
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这个给了我们观察这些
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for looking at engagement properties of content.
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内容参与性的最基本的资料
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And just like we can look at feedback cycles
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就跟我们可以看见家里的
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and dynamics in a family,
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反馈循环和互动一样
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we can now open up the same concepts
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我们现在可以利用同样的构想
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and look at much larger groups of people.
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来观察更大的群体
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This is a subset of data from our database --
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这是我们资料库里的一个子集
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just 50,000 out of several million --
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只是几百万信息中的5万条
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and the social graph that connects them
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社交图是和公开资缘
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through publicly available sources.
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来自于对大众公开的来源
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And if you put them on one plain,
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如果你把它们放到平面上
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a second plain is where the content lives.
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第二个平面是内容活跃的地方
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So we have the programs
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于是我们有了节目
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and the sporting events
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体育活动
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and the commercials,
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广告
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and all of the link structures that tie them together
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所有的链接结构将它们连在一起
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make a content graph.
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形成了内容图表
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And then the important third dimension.
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然后是重要的第三个面向
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Each of the links that you're seeing rendered here
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大家在这里看到的每个连接
14:21
is an actual connection made
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是一段内容和有些人评论
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between something someone said
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和有些人评论
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and a piece of content.
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间构成的真实联系
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And there are, again, now tens of millions of these links
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这里的几千万条链
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that give us the connective tissue of social graphs
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让我们看见了社交图表中的关联组织
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and how they relate to content.
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和它们跟内容的关系
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And we can now start to probe the structure
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于是我们可以用有趣的办法来
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in interesting ways.
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探索这个结构
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So if we, for example, trace the path
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所以,比如,我们跟踪
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of one piece of content
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某个内容的发展途经
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that drives someone to comment on it,
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这促使有人对此发表评论
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and then we follow where that comment goes,
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然后我们跟踪这些评论的去向
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and then look at the entire social graph that becomes activated
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然后观察整个活跃的社交图
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and then trace back to see the relationship
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然后又回头追踪查看那个社交图
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between that social graph and content,
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和内容之间的关系
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a very interesting structure becomes visible.
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于是显现出一个非常有趣的结构
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We call this a co-viewing clique,
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我们称之为 共视团体
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a virtual living room if you will.
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你可以把它当成一个虚拟的客厅
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And there are fascinating dynamics at play.
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这里头上演着引人注目的戏剧
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It's not one way.
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它不是单向的
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A piece of content, an event, causes someone to talk.
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一个内容,一个事件促使某人发表了意见
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They talk to other people.
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他们和其他人对话
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That drives tune-in behavior back into mass media,
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就驱动了大众传媒的收视行为
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and you have these cycles
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于是出现了这样的循环
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that drive the overall behavior.
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驱动了整体的收视行为
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Another example -- very different --
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另一个例子--情况很不同--
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another actual person in our database --
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我们的资料库里有一位人士--
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and we're finding at least hundreds, if not thousands, of these.
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其实我们可以找到成千上百个例子
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We've given this person a name.
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我们给这个人一个名字
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This is a pro-amateur, or pro-am media critic
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这是一个专业的媒体评论员
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who has this high fan-out rate.
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有很多粉丝
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So a lot of people are following this person -- very influential --
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很多人都追随他 -- 很有影响力--
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and they have a propensity to talk about what's on TV.
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他们很喜欢讨论电视上在播的东西
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So this person is a key link
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于是这个人就是一个关键的链接
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in connecting mass media and social media together.
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将大众媒体和社交媒体联系在了一起
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One last example from this data:
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这份资料的最后一个例子是:
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Sometimes it's actually a piece of content that is special.
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有时确实是一件特别的内容
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So if we go and look at this piece of content,
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如果我们回顾这个内容
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President Obama's State of the Union address
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几个星期前的欧巴马总统
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from just a few weeks ago,
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国情咨文演讲
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and look at what we find in this same data set,
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再来看看我们在这组资料中发现些什么
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at the same scale,
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用同样的尺度来衡量
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the engagement properties of this piece of content
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这个内容的可参与属性
16:12
are truly remarkable.
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真的是很神奇的
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A nation exploding in conversation
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整个国家顿时同步
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in real time
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爆发了谈话
16:18
in response to what's on the broadcast.
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是针对广播的东西
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And of course, through all of these lines
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当然,通过这些线路
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are flowing unstructured language.
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涌现出了结构的语言
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We can X-ray
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我们可以在 社交点 上
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and get a real-time pulse of a nation,
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感受一下这个国家即时的动脉
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real-time sense
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即时的感受
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of the social reactions in the different circuits in the social graph
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不同的社会圈的社会反应被内容所激活
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being activated by content.
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都展示在社会图表上
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So, to summarize, the idea is this:
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所以, 总结来说,观点是:
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As our world becomes increasingly instrumented
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当我们的世界变得越来越工具化
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and we have the capabilities
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我们有能力
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to collect and connect the dots
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between what people are saying
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将人们的话语
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and the context they're saying it in,
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和他们说这些话时所处得环境联系起来
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what's emerging is an ability
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那么呈现的将是洞悉
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to see new social structures and dynamics
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社会结构和社交动态的新视野
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that have previously not been seen.
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那是以前我们没有看见过的
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It's like building a microscope or telescope
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这好像是造一个显微镜或者望远镜
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and revealing new structures
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展示了我们交流和行为间
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about our own behavior around communication.
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的新结构
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And I think the implications here are profound,
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我觉得其意义是深远的
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whether it's for science,
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无论是对科学而言
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for commerce, for government,
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还是对商业,政府而言
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or perhaps most of all,
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或许更重要的是
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for us as individuals.
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对我们每个人而言
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And so just to return to my son,
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所以我们把话题回到我的儿子
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when I was preparing this talk, he was looking over my shoulder,
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当我在准备这个演讲时,他在我身后看着
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and I showed him the clips I was going to show to you today,
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我给他看了这段我今天将要给你们看的录相
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and I asked him for permission -- granted.
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我征求他的同意,他同意了
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And then I went on to reflect,
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然后我想
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"Isn't it amazing,
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“这真是神奇的事情
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this entire database, all these recordings,
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整个数据库, 所有这些录相
17:36
I'm going to hand off to you and to your sister" --
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我会给交给你和你的妹妹”
17:38
who arrived two years later --
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妹妹是两年后出生的
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"and you guys are going to be able to go back and re-experience moments
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“你们两个将能够回顾重温
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that you could never, with your biological memory,
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你们生物记忆无法
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possibly remember the way you can now?"
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记得的这些时刻。”
17:49
And he was quiet for a moment.
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那一刻他很安静
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And I thought, "What am I thinking?
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我想:”我在想什么啊?
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He's five years old. He's not going to understand this."
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他才5岁, 他不会理解这些。 “
17:55
And just as I was having that thought, he looked up at me and said,
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而正当我怎么想着,他抬头对我说:
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"So that when I grow up,
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“那等我长大了,
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I can show this to my kids?"
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我可以给我的孩子们看,是吗?”
18:02
And I thought, "Wow, this is powerful stuff."
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我想:“哇, 这玩意儿真是太强大了。”
18:05
So I want to leave you
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所以,我要给各位
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with one last memorable moment
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留下最后一个值得回忆的
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from our family.
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家庭记忆
18:12
This is the first time our son
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这是我儿子第一次
18:14
took more than two steps at once --
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走了迈出两步的情形
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captured on film.
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拍摄在录像中
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And I really want you to focus on something
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我希望你们看的时候
18:21
as I take you through.
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注意到其中的一点
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It's a cluttered environment; it's natural life.
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周围有点闹,这是自然的环境
18:25
My mother's in the kitchen, cooking,
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我妈在厨房做饭
18:27
and, of all places, in the hallway,
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就在过道里
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I realize he's about to do it, about to take more than two steps.
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我意识到他就要迈步了,大概一两步的样子
18:32
And so you hear me encouraging him,
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因此各位可以听到我在鼓励他
18:34
realizing what's happening,
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我感到有事要发生
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and then the magic happens.
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然后妙事发生了
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Listen very carefully.
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请仔细听
18:40
About three steps in,
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大概在走了三步后
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he realizes something magic is happening,
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他感到了美妙的事情发生了
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and the most amazing feedback loop of all kicks in,
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令人惊讶的反应循环作用全部启动
18:47
and he takes a breath in,
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他松了一口气
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and he whispers "wow"
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轻轻地说了声:“哇”
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and instinctively I echo back the same.
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我也凭着直觉说了同样的话
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And so let's fly back in time
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我们现在回到那一刻
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to that memorable moment.
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回到那个令人难忘的一刻
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(Video) DR: Hey.
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(录像) 戴·罗伊:嗨
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Come here.
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过来
19:09
Can you do it?
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你行吗?
19:13
Oh, boy.
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哇,宝贝
19:15
Can you do it?
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你行吗?
19:18
Baby: Yeah.
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宝宝:好
19:20
DR: Ma, he's walking.
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戴1罗伊:妈,他走路了
19:24
(Laughter)
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(笑声)
19:26
(Applause)
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(掌声)
19:28
DR: Thank you.
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戴·罗伊:谢谢大家
19:30
(Applause)
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(掌声)

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