Sheryl WuDunn: Our century's greatest injustice

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譯者: Adrienne Lin 審譯者: Zhu Jie
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The global challenge that I want to talk to you about today
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今天我想跟各位談的全球挑戰
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rarely makes the front pages.
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很少登上新聞頭條
00:21
It, however, is enormous
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這問題並非不重要,相反的,
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in both scale and importance.
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它在規模上、重要性都要大的多
00:27
Look, you all are very well traveled;
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各位一定經常旅遊
00:30
this is TEDGlobal after all.
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畢竟這是TED全球論壇
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But I do hope to take you to some places
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但我希望帶你們到一些
00:34
you've never been to before.
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你們從未見過的地方
00:36
So, let's start off in China.
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先從中國開始
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This photo was taken two weeks ago.
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這張照片是兩週前拍的
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Actually, one indication is that little boy on my husband's shoulders
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開玩笑的,坐在我丈夫肩上的小男孩
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has just graduated from high school.
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現在已經高中畢業了
00:46
(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
00:48
But this is Tiananmen Square.
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這裡是天安門廣場
00:50
Many of you have been there. It's not the real China.
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很多人可能去過,但這不是真正的中國
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Let me take you to the real China.
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讓我帶各位到真正的中國
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This is in the Dabian Mountains
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這是大巴山
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in the remote part of Hubei province in central China.
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中國湖北省偏遠地區
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Dai Manju is 13 years old at the time the story starts.
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故事從戴滿菊13歲開始
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She lives with her parents,
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她與父母親同住
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her two brothers and her great-aunt.
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家中還有兩個兄弟和姑婆
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They have a hut that has no electricity,
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他們住的小屋沒有電
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no running water,
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沒有自來水
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no wristwatch, no bicycle.
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沒有手錶、沒有腳踏車
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And they share this great splendor
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家裡還有一隻豬
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with a very large pig.
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與他們共賞美景
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Dai Manju was in sixth grade when her parents said,
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戴滿菊六年級的時候,父母告訴她
01:23
"We're going to pull you out of school
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「我們無法讓妳上學了,」
01:25
because the 13-dollar school fees are too much for us.
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「因為13元的學費我們付不起。」
01:28
You're going to be spending the rest of your life in the rice paddies.
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「反正妳長大後也是去稻田工作,」
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Why would we waste this money on you?"
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「那為什麼還要花這筆錢呢?」
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This is what happens to girls in remote areas.
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這就是偏遠地區的女孩子所面臨的
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Turns out that Dai Manju was
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但,戴滿菊是全年級
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the best pupil in her grade.
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成績最好的學生
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She still made the two-hour trek to the schoolhouse
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她每天跋涉兩小時到學校上學
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and tried to catch every little bit of information
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不放過任何學習的機會
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that seeped out of the doors.
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把握她所能擁有的
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We wrote about her in The New York Times.
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我們將她的故事刊上紐約時報
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We got a flood of donations --
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收到了很多捐款
01:52
mostly 13-dollar checks
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大多都是13元捐款
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because New York Times readers are very generous
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因為我們紐約時報的讀者對於這種小額捐款
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in tiny amounts
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非常大方
01:59
(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
02:01
but then, we got a money transfer
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後來,我們收到一筆
02:04
for $10,000 --
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一萬元捐款
02:06
really nice guy.
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很大方
02:08
We turned the money over to that man there, the principal of the school.
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我們將這筆錢交給照片中的男子,也是校長
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He was delighted.
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他開心極了
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He thought, "Oh, I can renovate the school.
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他想:「這筆錢可以整修學校,」
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I can give scholarships to all the girls,
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「可以提供獎學金給女孩子們。」
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you know, if they work hard and stay in school.
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他們在學校都非常用功
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So Dai Manju basically
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戴滿菊後來
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finished out middle school.
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念到中學畢業
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She went to high school.
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上了高中
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She went to vocational school for accounting.
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她到職業學校念會計
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She scouted for jobs down in Guangdong province in the south.
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後來到南部的廣東省找工作
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She found a job, she scouted for jobs
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她找到工作後,還幫她的同學們
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for her classmates and her friends.
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留意工作機會
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She sent money back to her family.
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將賺來的錢寄回家裡
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They built a new house,
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他們蓋了新房子
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this time with running water,
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這次有自來水
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electricity, a bicycle,
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有了電、一台腳踏車
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no pig.
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沒有豬了
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What we saw was a natural experiment.
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這是一個自然實驗
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It is rare to get an exogenous investment
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女孩子的教育,能有外界的幫助
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in girls' education.
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是很少見的
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And over the years, as we followed Dai Manju, we were able to see
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這幾年,我們看到的是戴滿菊
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that she was able to move out of a vicious cycle
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脫離惡性循環
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and into a virtuous cycle.
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進入了良性循環
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She not only changed her own dynamic,
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她不只改變了自己
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she changed her household, she changed her family, her village.
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她改變她們全家的生活環境、她的村子
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The village became a real standout.
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後來整個村莊都繁榮起來
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Of course, most of China was flourishing at the time,
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當然,當時中國正繁榮發展
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but they were able to get a road built
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但他們有辦法向外建造道路
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to link them up to the rest of China.
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連結到中國其他地方
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And that brings me to my first major
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這是我的書《她們,和她們的希望故事》中
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of two tenets of "Half the Sky."
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兩大原則之一
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And that is that
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這就是
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the central moral challenge
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本世紀
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of this century
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最大的道德挑戰-
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is gender inequity.
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性別不平等
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In the 19th century, it was slavery.
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19世紀的挑戰是奴隸制度
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In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism.
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21世紀的挑戰是極權主義
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The cause of our time
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我們現今的挑戰
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is the brutality that so many people
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就是世界上這們多人因為性別
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face around the world because of their gender.
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遭受暴力的不平等對待
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So some of you may be thinking,
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各位可能在想
03:43
"Gosh, that's hyperbole.
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「她講的太誇張了吧,」
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She's exaggerating."
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「才沒這麼嚴重。」
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Well, let me ask you this question.
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那麼我先問各位
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How many of you think there are more males or more females in the world?
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現在社會中,男生多還是女生多?
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Let me take a poll. How many of you think there are more males in the world?
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來投票好了,認為男生多的請舉手。
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Hands up, please.
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謝謝
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How many of you think -- a few -- how many of you there are more females in the world?
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看到一些手了,那麼,認為女生多的請舉手。
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Okay, most of you.
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大部分的人
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Well, you know this latter group, you're wrong.
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這些人你們錯了
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There are, true enough,
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事實上,
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in Europe and the West,
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在歐洲、西方
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when women and men
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男人和女人
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have equal access to food and health care,
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擁有一樣的權利、福利
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there are more women, we live longer.
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女生還活的比較久一點
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But in most of the rest of the world, that's not the case.
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但世界其他地方,就不是如此了
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In fact, demographers have shown
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事實上,人口學家統計
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that there are anywhere between 60 million
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世界上約有六千萬
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and 100 million
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到一億的女性
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missing females in the current population.
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是處於失蹤狀態
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And, you know, it happens for several reasons.
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有幾個原因
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For instance, in the last half-century,
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其中一個,是上半世紀
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more girls were discriminated to death
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女性因性別歧視死亡的人數
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than all the people killed on all the battlefields
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加起來比整個20世紀,男性死於戰場的人數
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in the 20th century.
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還要多
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Sometimes it's also because of the sonogram.
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另一個原因,是因為超音波
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Girls get aborted before they're even born
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由於資源不夠,知道懷的是女嬰
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when there are scarce resources.
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父母親就選擇墮胎
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This girl here, for instance,
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照片中這女孩
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is in a feeding center in Ethiopia.
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在衣索比亞的一間餵養中心
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The entire center was filled with girls like her.
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餵養中心裡,多的是像她一樣的女孩子
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What's remarkable is that her brothers, in the same family,
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令人吃驚的是,她的哥哥
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were totally fine.
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卻健康的很
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In India, in the first year of life,
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在印度,嬰兒第一年
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from zero to one,
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0到1歲時,
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boy and girl babies basically survive at the same rate
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男女的生存比率略微相同
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because they depend upon the breast,
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因為他們都喝母乳
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and the breast shows no son preference.
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母乳並不會偏心
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From one to five,
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1到5歲時,
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girls die at a 50 percent higher mortality rate
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女孩的死亡率,比男孩多了一半
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than boys, in all of India.
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這是全印度的數據
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The second tenet of "Half the Sky"
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《她們,和她們的希望故事》第二原則
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is that, let's put aside the morality of all the right and wrong of it all,
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我們先將道德是非擺一邊
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and just on a purely practical level,
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從實際觀點來看
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we think that
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我們認為
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one of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism
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打擊貧窮、恐怖主義最好的方法
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is to educate girls
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就是教育女孩子
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and to bring women into the formal labor force.
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以及提供女性工作機會
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Poverty, for instance.
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先談貧窮
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There are three reasons why this is the case.
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我提出三個原因
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For one, overpopulation is one of
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第一,人口過剩是
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the persistent causes of poverty.
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持續平窮的原因之一
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And you know, when you educate a boy,
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當你教育男孩子
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his family tends to have fewer kids,
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他的家庭會有較少的子女
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but only slightly.
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但只有少一點
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When you educate a girl,
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當你教育女孩子
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she tends to have significantly fewer kids.
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她減少生育的數量大的多
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The second reason is
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第二個原因
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it has to do with spending.
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與花費有關
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It's kind of like the dirty, little secret of poverty,
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這算是貧窮的一個小祕密
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which is that,
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就是
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not only do poor people
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貧窮的人
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take in very little income,
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不止收入少
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but also, the income that they take in,
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他們的收入
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they don't spend it very wisely,
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還不會好好利用
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and unfortunately, most of that spending is done by men.
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因為,負責花錢的是男性
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So research has shown,
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研究顯示
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if you look at people who live under two dollars a day --
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觀察那些一天花不到2元的人
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one metric of poverty --
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他們的花費都一樣
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two percent of that take-home pay
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收入的2%
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goes to this basket here, in education.
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是教育
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20 percent goes to a basket that is a combination of
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20%的花費是
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alcohol, tobacco, sugary drinks --
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買酒、菸、飲料、
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and prostitution and festivals.
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和妓女
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If you just take four percentage points
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其實這20%裡,
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and put it into this basket,
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只要將4%分到教育
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you would have a transformative effect.
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就能有轉變作用
06:46
The last reason has to do
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最後一個理由就是
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with women being part of the solution, not the problem.
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女人是解決辦法,不是麻煩
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You need to use scarce resources.
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必須學會利用有限資源
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It's a waste of resources if you don't use someone like Dai Manju.
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不用戴滿菊這樣的女孩子,就是浪費資源
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Bill Gates put it very well
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比爾蓋茲說的很好
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when he was traveling through Saudi Arabia.
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他當時到沙烏地阿拉伯旅遊
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He was speaking to an audience much like yourselves.
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當時有場類似現在這樣的演講
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However, two-thirds of the way there was a barrier.
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然而,場地三分之二有個隔閡
07:06
On this side was men,
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這邊坐男人
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and then the barrier, and this side was women.
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另一邊作女人
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And someone from this side of the room got up and said,
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其中一位觀眾問比爾
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"Mr. Gates, we have here as our goal in Saudi Arabia
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「蓋茲先生,我們沙烏地阿拉伯有個目標」
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to be one of the top 10 countries
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「就是想在科技領域」
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when it comes to technology.
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「名列世界前十名」
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Do you think we'll make it?"
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「你覺得我們有能力嗎?」
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So Bill Gates, as he was staring out at the audience, he said,
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比爾蓋茲就掃了一下觀眾,說
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"If you're not fully utilizing half the resources in your country,
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「如果你們不善用國家全部的資源,」
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there is no way you will get anywhere near the top 10."
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「那麼你們的離目標還差的遠。」
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So here is Bill of Arabia.
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這是阿拉伯比爾
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
07:35
So what would some of the specific challenges
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那麼真正的挑戰到底
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look like?
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是什麼?
07:40
I would say, on the top of the agenda
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我認為,最嚴重的就是
07:43
is sex trafficking.
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色情人口販賣
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And I'll just say two things about this.
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關於這點,我提兩件事就好
07:47
The slavery at the peak of the slave trade
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奴隸販賣在1780年代
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in the 1780s:
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最為盛行
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there were about 80,000 slaves
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當時約有八萬名奴隸
07:55
transported from Africa to the New World.
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從非洲被賣到美洲
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Now, modern slavery:
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現在的奴隸
08:01
according to State Department rough statistics,
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根據國務院初步統計資料,
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there are about 800,000 -- 10 times the number --
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有80萬人,當時十倍的數量
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that are trafficked across international borders.
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在國際間販賣
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And that does not even include those
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這數字還不包括
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that are trafficked within country borders,
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那些國內販賣人口
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which is a substantial portion.
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也是蠻驚人的數字
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And if you look at
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當你看
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another factor, another contrast,
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其他因素、其他對比
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a slave back then is worth
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以前一個奴隸
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about $40,000
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約值現在的幣值
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in today's money.
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4萬元左右
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Today, you can buy a girl trafficked
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今天,你買一個女生
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for a few hundred dollars,
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只要幾百塊
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which means she's actually more disposable.
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她根本毫無價值可言
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But you know, there is progress being made
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但是,在柬埔寨和泰國
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in places like Cambodia and Thailand.
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已經有些行動了
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We don't have to expect a world
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我們再也不必看到
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where girls are bought and sold or killed.
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女孩子們被買賣、殺害
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The second item on the agenda
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我要談的第二點,
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is maternal mortality.
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就是婦女難產死亡率
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You know, childbirth in this part of the world
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西方世界,孩子的出生
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is a wonderful event.
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是多美妙的一件事
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In Niger, one in seven women
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但在尼日,七個懷孕婦女
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can expect to die during childbirth.
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有一個死於難產
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Around the world,
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全世界,
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one woman dies every minute and a half from childbirth.
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每一分半鐘,一位母親死於難產
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You know, it's not as though
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我們並不是沒有
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we don't have the technological solution,
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實際的解決方法
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but these women have three strikes against them:
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而是這些母親們,被三振出局
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they are poor, they are rural
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她們窮、她們住的偏遠、
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and they are female.
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她們是女性
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You know, for every woman who does die,
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一個死亡的難產婦女
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there are 20 who survive
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就有另外20個
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but end up with an injury.
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嚴重受傷
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And the most devastating injury
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最嚴重的就是
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is obstetric fistula.
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生殖瘻管受傷
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It's a tearing during obstructed labor
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這是阻礙性分娩時,
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that leaves a woman incontinent.
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產生的撕裂傷,導致的大小便失禁
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Let me tell you about Mahabuba.
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分享Mahabuba的故事
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She lives in Ethiopia.
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她住在衣索比亞
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She was married against her will at age 13.
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13歲時被迫結婚
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She got pregnant, ran to the bush to have the baby,
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後來懷孕,孩子是在草叢裡出生的
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but you know, her body was very immature,
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但她的身體尚未成熟
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and she ended up having obstructed labor.
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所以生產時寶寶的頭太大,無法通過產道
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The baby died, and she ended up with a fistula.
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後來嬰兒死了,她的生殖瘻管受傷
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So that meant she was incontinent;
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大小便失禁
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she couldn't control her wastes.
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她無法控制排泄
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In a word, she stank.
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全身發臭
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The villagers thought she was cursed; they didn't know what to do with her.
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村民都以為他被詛咒了,不知如何是好
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So finally, they put her at the edge of the village in a hut.
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後來他們把她丟到村莊外圍的小屋
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They ripped off the door
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把門拆掉
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so that the hyenas would get her at night.
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晚上放鬣狗咬她
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That night, there was a stick in the hut.
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那晚,屋內正好有根棍子
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She fought off the hyenas with that stick.
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她用棍子抵抗
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And the next morning,
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隔天早上
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she knew if she could get to a nearby village where there was a foreign missionary,
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她知道她如果到附近村莊,找外國傳教士
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she would be saved.
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她就能獲救
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Because she had some damage to her nerves,
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因為她有神經損傷
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she crawled all the way -- 30 miles --
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她用爬的,爬了30哩
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to that doorstep, half dead.
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到傳教士門前時,都半死了
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The foreign missionary opened the door,
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傳教士一開門
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knew exactly what had happened,
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就知道發生了什麼事
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took her to a nearby fistula hospital in Addis Ababa,
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帶她到首都的一間診所
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and she was repaired
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接受手術
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with a 350-dollar operation.
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一個350元的手術
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The doctors and nurses there noticed
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那裡的醫生護士發現
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that she was not only a survivor,
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她不止是個生存者
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she was really clever, and they made her a nurse.
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她還很聰明,他們讓她當護士
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So now, Mahabuba,
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所以Mahabuba現在
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she is saving the lives
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也幫助拯救
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of hundreds, thousands, of women.
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成千上萬女人們的生命
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She has become part of the solution, not the problem.
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她變成解決方式,而非問題
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She's moved out of a vicious cycle
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她脫離了惡性循環
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and into a virtuous cycle.
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進入良性循環
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I've talked about some of the challenges,
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我剛剛都講挑戰
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let me talk about some of the solutions,
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現在來談解決方式
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and there are predictable solutions.
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其實很明顯
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I've hinted at them: education
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我剛剛有提示了,就是教育
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and also economic opportunity.
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和經濟機會
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So of course, when you educate a girl,
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當你教育一個女孩子
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she tends to get married later on in life,
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她後來結婚
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she tends to have kids later on in life, she tends to have fewer kids,
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然後生子,生育數量會減少
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and those kids that she does have,
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生下來的那些孩子們
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she educates them in a more enlightened fashion.
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她會以開明的方式教導他們
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With economic opportunity,
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有了經濟機會
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it can be transformative.
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就能有很大的轉變
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Let me tell you about Saima.
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我想分享Saima的故事
11:37
She lives in a small village outside Lahore, Pakistan.
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她住在拉合爾(巴基斯坦城市)的一個小村莊
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And at the time, she was miserable.
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她當時過的很慘
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She was beaten every single day
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每天都被她那
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by her husband, who was unemployed.
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失業的丈夫毆打
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He was kind of a gambler type -- and unemployable, therefore --
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他會賭博、又沒工作
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and took his frustrations out on her.
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所以將氣都出在她身上
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Well, when she had her second daughter,
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當她生下第二個女兒
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her mother in-law told her son,
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她岳母告訴她丈夫
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"I think you'd better get a second wife.
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「你再取個妻子吧,」
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Saima's not going to produce you a son."
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「Saima不能替你生兒子。」
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This is when she had her second daughter.
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她那時候剛產下第二個女兒
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At the time, there was
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當時有一個
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a microlending group in the village
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專做小額貸款的組織到村裡
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that gave her a 65-dollar loan.
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讓她貸款了65美元
12:12
Saima took that money,
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她利用這筆錢
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and she started an embroidery business.
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開始了刺繡生意
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The merchants liked her embroidery; it sold very well,
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商人都很喜歡她的作品,賣的很好
12:20
and they kept asking for more.
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他們希望她多做點來賣
12:22
And when she couldn't produce enough,
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所以她人手不夠
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she hired other women in the village.
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雇用了村莊其他婦女
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Pretty soon she had 30 women in the village
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不久,村子裡有30名婦女
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working for her embroidery business.
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都變成她的員工
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And then,
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後來
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when she had to transport all of the embroidery goods
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她還得將刺繡品運到
12:36
from the village to the marketplace,
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附近村莊的市場賣
12:38
she needed someone to help her do the transport,
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她需要人手幫她運貨
12:40
so she hired her husband.
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所以她雇了她丈夫
12:42
So now they're in it together.
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這對夫妻便一起工作
12:44
He does the transportation and distribution,
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他負責運送、分裝
12:46
and she does the production and sourcing.
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她則負責製作、外包
12:48
And now they have a third daughter,
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後來生了第三個女兒
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and the daughters, all of them, are being tutored in education
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三個女兒都接受良好教育
12:54
because Saima knows what's really important.
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因為Saima知道教育很重要
12:57
Which brings me to the final element, which is education.
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所以最後一點,就是教育
13:01
Larry Summers, when he was chief economist at the World Bank,
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Larry Summers還在世界銀行的時候
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once said that, "It may well be
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曾說:「投資開發中國家」
13:07
that the highest return on investment
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「女孩子的教育,」
13:09
in the developing world
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「所能獲得的報酬」
13:11
is in girls' education."
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「是最高的。」
13:14
Let me tell you about Beatrice Biira.
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讓我告訴你們Beatrice Biira的故事
13:16
Beatrice was living in Uganda
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Beatrice住在烏干達和
13:19
near the Congo border,
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剛果邊境的地方
13:21
and like Dai Manju, she didn't go to school.
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和戴滿菊一樣,
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Actually, she had never been to school,
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她從沒有上過學
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not to a lick, one day.
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連一天都沒有過
13:28
Her parents, again, said,
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她父母,一樣的認為
13:30
"Why should we spend the money on her?
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「為什麼錢要花在她身上?」
13:32
She's going to spend most of her life lugging water back and forth."
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「反正她長大也是一輩子挑水。」
13:35
Well, it just so happens, at that time,
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很巧的是,當時
13:38
there was a group in Connecticut
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康乃狄克有個機構
13:41
called the Niantic Community Church Group in Connecticut.
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Niantic社區教堂組織
13:44
They made a donation to an organization
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他們捐款給阿肯色州
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based in Arkansas
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的一個機構
13:48
called Heifer International.
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海菲國際組織
13:50
Heifer sent two goats to Africa.
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這組織送了兩隻羊到非洲
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One of them ended up with Beatrice's parents,
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其中一隻分到了Beatrice家
13:56
and that goat had twins.
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那隻羊生了雙胞胎
13:58
The twins started producing milk.
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然後還是產羊奶
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They sold the milk for cash.
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他們買羊奶賺了點錢
14:02
The cash started accumulating,
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錢開始累積
14:04
and pretty soon the parents said,
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不久後她父母就說:
14:06
"You know, we've got enough money. Let's send Beatrice to school."
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「我們有足夠的錢,讓Beatrice念書」
14:09
So at nine years of age,
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所以九歲的她
14:11
Beatrice started in first grade --
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開始念一年級
14:13
after all, she'd never been to a lick of school --
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因為她從沒上過學
14:15
with a six year-old.
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所以和六歲的孩子同班
14:17
No matter, she was just delighted to be in school.
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但她不在意,非常珍惜這個機會
14:19
She rocketed to the top of her class.
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她一下衝到第一名
14:21
She stayed at the top of her class
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並保持好成績
14:24
through elementary school, middle school,
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一直到小學畢業、中學、
14:26
and then in high school,
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高中畢業後,
14:28
she scored brilliantly on the national examinations
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因為優秀的全國測驗成績
14:31
so that she became the first person in her village,
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她變成她村裡第一位
14:34
ever, to come to the United States
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拿獎學金到美國
14:36
on scholarship.
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唸書的人
14:38
Two years ago,
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兩年前
14:40
she graduated from Connecticut College.
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她從康乃狄克學院畢業
14:43
On the day of her graduation,
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畢業那天,她說:
14:45
she said, "I am the luckiest girl alive
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「我是這世界上,只因為一隻羊」
14:48
because of a goat."
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「而出運的女孩。」
14:50
(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
14:52
And that goat was $120.
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那隻羊只要120美元
14:54
So you see how transformative
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所以你看到一點小忙
14:57
little bits of help can be.
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有多大的轉變力
14:59
But I want to give you a reality check.
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但我也必須讓各位認清事實
15:02
Look: U.S. aid, helping people is not easy,
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美國援助並不簡單
15:05
and there have been books that have criticized U.S. aid.
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有些書也公開批評美國援助
15:08
There's Bill Easterly's book.
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像是比爾伊斯特的
15:10
There's a book called "Dead Aid."
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《致命援助》這本書
15:12
You know, the criticism is fair;
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這些批評是公平的
15:14
it isn't easy.
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援助並不簡單
15:16
You know, people say how
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他們說那些水井計劃
15:18
half of all water well projects, a year later, are failed.
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一年後都失敗了
15:20
When I was in Zimbabwe,
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當我在辛巴威時
15:22
we were touring a place with the village chief --
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村長帶著我們參觀一個地方
15:24
he wanted to raise money for a secondary school --
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他募款,在這地方蓋所中學
15:27
and there was some construction a few yards away,
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那邊已經有蓋一些東西了
15:29
and I said, "What's that?"
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我就問:「那是什麼?」
15:31
He sort of mumbled.
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他就低聲說了一些話
15:33
Turns out that it's a failed irrigation project.
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原來是失敗的灌溉計畫
15:35
A few yards away was a failed chicken coop.
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幾碼外還有失敗的雞舍
15:38
One year, all the chickens died, and no one wanted to put the chickens in there.
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因為有一年,裡面的雞全死了,沒人敢在那養雞
15:41
It's true, but we think that you don't through the baby out with the bathwater;
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但是,我們都了解,別因為失敗就將一切放棄
15:44
you actually improve.
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這樣才能進步
15:46
You learn from your mistakes, and you continuously improve.
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從錯誤中學習,變成持續進步
15:49
We also think that individuals
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我們也知道
15:51
can make a difference, and they should,
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每個人都盡一己之力,
15:54
because individuals, together,
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是可以做出改變的
15:56
we can all help create a movement.
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我們可以創造一股運動
15:59
And a movement of men and women
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男人與女人的運動
16:01
is what's needed to bring about social change,
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這是社會改變的開始
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change that will address
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有了這個開始
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this great moral challenge.
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我們更能面對道德挑戰
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So then, I ask,
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問題是,
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what's in it for you?
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這麼做有什麼好處?
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You're probably asking that. Why should you care?
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你可能會問,為什麼要關心他們?
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I will just leave you with two things.
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我提兩件事讓各位想想
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One is that research shows
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第一,研究顯示,
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that once you have
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當你已經擁有
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all of your material needs taken care of --
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一切生活所需-
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which most of us, all of us, here in this room do --
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就像這裡的每個人
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research shows that
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研究顯示,
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there are very few things in life
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你生命中已經沒有
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that can actually elevate your level of happiness.
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其他東西能提昇你的快樂指數
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One of those things
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唯有
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is contributing to a cause larger than yourself.
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奉獻給比你還要龐大的事物
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And the second thing,
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第二件事
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it's an anecdote that I'll leave you with.
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是一個小故事
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And that is the story
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故事是關於
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of an aid worker in Darfur.
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達佛(蘇丹)的一個援助人員
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Here was a woman
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這位女子
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who had worked in Darfur,
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在達佛工作期間
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seeing things that no human being should see.
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看遍所有不人道的事情
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Throughout her time there,
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她在達佛的時候
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she was strong, she was steadfast.
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堅強、堅定
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She never broke down.
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從未崩潰
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And then she came back to the United States
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後來她回到美國
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and was on break, Christmas break.
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在耶誕假期間
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She was in her grandmother's backyard,
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她在她祖母的後院
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and she saw something that made her break down in tears.
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她看到某個東西,讓她當場潰堤
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What that was
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她看到的是
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was a bird feeder.
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野鳥餵食器
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And she realized that she had the great fortune
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他感到非常幸運
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to be born in a country
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能出生在這個
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where we take security for granted,
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我們將一切視為理所當然的國家
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where we not only can feed, clothe
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我們不但吃的飽、穿的暖、
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and house ourselves,
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住的好、
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but also provide for wild birds
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還有辦法照顧野生鳥兒
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so they don't go hungry in the winter.
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讓它們冬天不會餓死
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And she realized that with that great fortune
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她立刻明白,人越幸運
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comes great responsibility.
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越多責任
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And so, like her,
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像她一樣,
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you, me,
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你、我
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we have all won the lottery of life.
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我們都非常幸運
17:58
And so the question becomes:
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那問題就是
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how do we discharge that responsibility?
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那我們要負什麼責任呢?
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So, here's the cause.
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我給了大家理由
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Join the movement.
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加入這行列
18:07
Feel happier and help save the world.
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快樂的同時,也拯救世界
18:10
Thank you very much.
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謝謝大家
18:12
(Applause)
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