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In the late 1920s, Hollywood producers liked coming here to the fancy Millennium Biltmore Hotel to hold business meetings. 20世纪20年代末，好莱坞制片人们喜欢来这家豪华的千禧碧丽宫酒店举行商务会议。 The story goes that it was here in 1927 that the studio's designer first sketched the outlook of the Oscar Statuette. 据说1927年正是在这里，该工作室的设计师首次画出了奥斯卡小金人的草图。 During the preliminary session of planning the Oscars, there were a couple of people in conversation talking about this event. 在奥斯卡颁奖礼的策划预备会议上，有几个人在交谈中提到了这件事。 And this started to scribble on a napkin and kind of draw a design above what is now the Oscar Statuette. 一开始只是在餐巾纸上涂鸦，大致画出了如今奥斯卡小金人的设计草图。 No one knows where the historical napkin ended up. Director of Marketing at Biltmore Hotel, Ana Segura, believes that was lost nearly hundred years ago. 没人知道那张餐巾纸最后去哪里了。碧丽宫酒店营销总监安娜·塞古拉认为那张餐巾纸早在近百年前就已遗失。 But the Oscar design endured. And in 1929, the first Academy Awards ceremony took place at the Roosevelt Hotel. 但奥斯卡的设计经久不衰。1929年，第一届奥斯卡颁奖典礼在罗斯福酒店举行。 Yet years later, the ceremony moved to where it all began, the Biltmore Hotel. 然而几年后，典礼举办地点转移到了碧丽宫酒店。 This hall hosted the ceremony eight times, though back then, it looked a little different. 这个大厅曾举办过八次典礼，不过当时它的样子和现在有些不同。 This ballroom originally was built to cater to the Oscars with a grand stage. 这个宴会厅最初是为了举办奥斯卡颁奖典礼而建造的，里面有一个宏大的舞台。 And because of the reconstruction, the hotel went through a renovation, and so they had to downsize the ceiling. 由于重建，酒店进行了翻修，因此他们不得不降低天花板的高度。 Pompous receptions, breathtakingly beautiful evening gowns and tuxedos, this was the place to see and be seen in legendary old Hollywood. 奢华的招待会、美轮美奂的晚礼服和燕尾服，这里曾是传奇老好莱坞名利场中争奇斗艳的秀场。 Visitors can still see glimpses of it today on the pictures that adorn the hotel walls. 如今，游客们仍能在装饰酒店墙壁的图片中一窥其昔日风采。 This picture, that's the one with Walt Disney and Shirley Temple. The beauty about this picture is the Oscar. It's the most iconic because of the Seven Dwarfs nomination. 这是华特·迪士尼和秀兰·邓波儿的合影。这张照片的亮点在于那座奥斯卡奖杯。它之所以最具标志性是因为《白雪公主和七个小矮人》的提名。 Obviously he got his award, so you have seven little Oscars and then the big Oscar trophy. 显然他获得了奖项，所以有七个小奥斯卡奖杯，然后还有一个大的奥斯卡奖杯。 But not just Hollywood stars frequented the Biltmore Hotel. 但不仅仅是好莱坞明星经常光顾碧丽宫酒店。 During prohibition, the time between 1920 and 1933 when the sale and manufacture of alcohol was illegal, this place drew very different crowds. 在1920年至1933年禁酒令期间，出售和生产酒是非法的，那时这个地方吸引了许多截然不同的群体。 Everyone from gangsters to politicians came here to meet in a secret bar that was hidden behind this wall. 从黑帮成员到政客，所有人都曾来到这堵墙后隐藏的秘密酒吧会面。 High name profile ranking officials, whether there were government celebrities, it was a combination of just, you know, highly renowned name people . 高知名度的高级官员，不管是不是政府政要，都是一些很有名的人。 And of course, because of the prohibition era and having such a great time at some point, somebody had to get out and get away, right? And so that was the secret passage. 当然，由于禁酒令的存在，人们在某个时刻玩得太过尽兴，总得有人溜出去躲一躲，对吧？于是就有了这条秘密通道。 Even today, actors and producers love coming here. Jaime has been a barman here for over half a century. 即使在今天，演员和制片人也喜欢来到这里。海曼在这里当酒保已经50多年了。 All this time, he's been collecting autographs, pictures and incredible stories. 他一直在收集签名、照片，以及许多不可思议的故事。 His favorite is about how he met Al Pacino, who decided to take a stroll around the hotel wearing a black cape. 他最喜欢讲的是他如何遇见阿尔·帕西诺的，当时阿尔·帕西诺披着一件黑色披风在酒店周围散步。 Mr. Pacino, I almost called securities on you. He said why, because look at you. And he said well, I'm rehearsing a play at Aquinas. Oh my god! So later on, I asked him for his autograph. 帕西诺先生，我差点叫保安过来。他问为什么，我说因为看看你那副样子。他说他在阿奎那排练一部戏剧。天哪！后来我向他要了签名。 The Academy Award ceremony hasn't been held here for years. Its venue of choices has long been Hollywood's Dolby Theatre. 奥斯卡颁奖典礼已多年未在此地举办。其首选场地一直是好莱坞的杜比剧院。 But to commemorate the early days of Oscars, every February, a special themed party is held within the walls of the legendary Biltmore Hotel . 但为了纪念奥斯卡的早期岁月，每年二月，传奇的碧丽宫酒店内都会举办一场特别主题派对。

ECHO was instituted in 1975, and it originally stood for "Every Citizen Has Opportunities". ECHO成立于1975年，全称是"Every Citizen Has Opportunities"。 And we provide skill-building, job placement, day support, and transportation to individuals with disabilities. 我们还为残疾人提供技能培训、就业安置、日间支持和交通服务。 Our mission is to empower each individual to achieve their optimal level of personal, social and economic success. 我们的使命是助力每个人在个人、社交及经济层面实现最佳成就。 Today, we are working here at MAC Aerospace. We're working on their inventory, which is one of the jobs that we have here for our participants. 如今我们在MAC Aerospace工作。我们正在清点他们的库存， 这是我们为参与者准备的工作之一。 And we count the inventory, we label it, and if it needs to be re-boxed, we can re-box it as well. 我们清点存货，贴上标签，如果需要的话，我们也可以重新装箱。 Today, we're counting screws. Everybody has a process. Everybody does it differently. 今天，我们要数螺丝钉。每个人都有自己的一套流程。每个人的工作方式都不同。 So I have to come in and learn the process, and then I teach the process to the participants. 我必须来学习这个过程，然后再把这个过程传授给参与者。 They're capable of anything. They can do anything as long as they trained properly. And that's my job. 他们什么都能做。只要训练得当，他们就能做任何事。而训练他们就是我的工作。 Becky, how's it going? Are you finding every piece? Yeah? So make sure some of the smaller pieces tend to fall at the very bottom. 贝基，怎么样了？每个都找到了吗？要确认一些较小的，它们通常会落在最底部。 So if you need to, you can take things out and move them around, but I promise you every piece is in there,okay? 如果你需要的话，可以把东西拿出来重新摆放，但我保证每一样东西都在里面，好吗？ I was in Phoenix, Arizona with my parents until my parents passed away. I moved here in October, last October. 在我父母去世之前，我一直和他们待在亚利桑那州的凤凰城。我是去年十月搬到这里的。 We currently serve around 207 individuals with disabilities. The assessment center helps determine different aptitudes and interests. 我们目前为大约207名残疾人提供服务。评估中心帮助确定人们不同的能力和兴趣。 It has a number of different modules, for which we put people through in various industries. 它有很多不同的模块， 我们让不同行业的人去体验这些模块。 And as you saw, Amy was very good at that. She's quite skilled at rolling napkins, silverware into napkins. 如你所见，艾米很擅长这个。她非常熟练于将餐具卷进餐巾里。 So for instance, she might be a good fit for our hospitality, our dish washing and restaurant services. 因此她可能非常适合接待、洗碗和餐厅服务工作。 What is something that's not appropriate to wear to work? A bathing suit or a swim suit not appropriate. 什么东西不适合穿去上班？泳衣不适合。 Finding a job is a desire and a goal of theirs, not everyone. So a lot of the participants that we work with here in the Academy have expressed a desire to get a job. 找工作是他们的愿望和目标，虽然不是每个人都是这样想。我们学院合作的许多参与者都表达了找工作的意愿。 So we kind of work on a lot of the soft skills that is required when one gets a job.  我们主要培养一些求职时所需的软技能。

This is a slime mold. Cat Chang is an urban designer. But in her spare time, she likes to examine other life-forms. 这是一种黏菌。张凯特是城市设计师。但在业余时间，她喜欢研究其他生命形式。 Ever since I was a little girl, I've been interested in the natural world. We're native Hawaiian. 从小我就对自然界充满兴趣，我们是夏威夷原住民。 Our family and my grandmother would take me around her yard. She would show us all the plants and how you use them. 家人和祖母会带我参观她的院子。她会向我们展示所有的植物以及它们的用途。 And later when I was interested in learning about fungi, I didn't have anybody to help me with it. Someone suggested iNaturalist to me, and it's on your cell phone. 后来我对真菌产生了兴趣，却没有人能在这方面帮助我。有人向我推荐了iNaturist，可以装在手机上。 iNaturalist is a joint initiative of National Geographic and the California Academy of Sciences. iNaturalist是美国国家地理学会与加利福尼亚科学院联合发起的项目。 Essentially people can take a photo of anything living, plants, animal, fungus, slime mold, put it on the website and other people identify it. 本质上，人们可以给任何有生命的东西拍照，比如植物、动物、真菌、黏菌，然后把照片上传到网站上，然后由其他人来识别。 The app compares the image with those already in the database to begin the identification process. But ultimately, human experts weigh in. 该应用将图像与数据库中已有的图像进行比较以启动识别过程，但最终仍需由人类专家进行判断。 The best part of it is there's a community of people that can also participate. 最棒的是，还有一个可以参与其中的群体。 It's used by scientists to collect data, and actually write papers, as well as just amateur people who are really interested in getting more involved, and caring more about nature. 科学家用它来收集数据并撰写论文，同样也有纯粹出于兴趣想更深入参与、更关心自然的业余爱好者使用它。 This time of year, I'm particularly looking for salamanders. And I always like to see mammals, they're one of my favorites, and birds of course. I have almost 55,000 observations. It's a lot. 每年的这个时候，我特别想找到蝾螈。我一直很喜欢观察哺乳动物，它们是我最喜欢的动物之一，当然还有鸟类。我已经有近55000次观察记录了，这可不少。 iNaturalist has observations from every country in the world. Right now, I believe we have over 26 million observations and about 700,000 active users. iNaturalist拥有来自世界各国的观察记录。目前，我认为我们有超过2600万条观测数据和约70万活跃用户。 This collaboration across continents led recently to a surprising discovery in California: 这种跨大洲的合作最近在加利福尼亚州有了一项惊人的发现： the type of giant sunfish whose normal habitat is thousands of miles to the south, an indication perhaps of a rapidly changing world. 一种通常栖息地在数千英里以南的巨型翻车鱼出现在这里，这或许预示着世界正在迅速变化。

Visitors come to the U.S. Botanic Garden to enjoy the variety of plants and the peace and serenity of nature. This woman works nearby. 游客们来到美国国家植物园，欣赏种类繁多的植物，感受大自然的宁静与祥和。这位女士在附近工作。 Feels like a forest in a city, so I can be thinking about something else that worked for even for 5 minutes, which is sometimes very nice. 仿佛置身于城市中的一片森林，让我能短暂地思考其他事情，哪怕只有五分钟，这种感觉有时真的很美妙。 Located on the National Mall, the Botanic Garden is made up of 65,000 indoor and outdoor plants, some more than 165 years old. 植物园位于国家广场，共有65000株室内和室外植物，其中一些已有超过165年的历史。 Inside the conservatory, the greenhouse, there are rooms with plants that thrive in different environments, like this tropical room. 在温室里，有适应不同环境的植物生长的房间，比如这个热带植物室。 Since its beginning, visitors have been educated about the value of plants. 从建园开始，植物园就一直向参观者们展示植物的价值。 We still have a very important role to play in educating people about the importance of plants, 在向人们普及植物重要性方面，我们仍能发挥非常重要的作用， particularly in urban audiences where people may not have a direct connection to a farm, may not understand where food in particular comes from. 尤其是面向城市受众，他们可能没有亲身接触农田，可能不了解食物具体来源。 One of the garden's main attractions are the 4,000 orchid plants that come from around the world. 植物园的主要景点之一是来自世界各地的4000株兰花。 During the annual spring orchid show, a sea of flowers bloom, including some that are endangered. 在一年一度的春季兰花展期间，花海绽放，其中不乏一些濒危品种。 During the Christmas season, a very popular exhibit showcases toy trains chugging through plants and structures made from plant-based materials. 圣诞季期间，一个极受欢迎的展览会展示玩具火车穿梭于由植物材料制成的植物与建筑模型之间。 As part of the bicentennial, the newest exhibit "Deeply Rooted, Branching Outward" highlights the scientific exploration of plants, which the garden hopes will give visitors. 作为建园二百周年庆典的一部分，最新展览“深深扎根，向外延伸”着重展示了对植物的科学探索，而这正是植物园希望能带给游客的独特体验。 So just a greater appreciation for plants, for plant discovery, for plant exploration. 我们可以更好地观赏植物，了解植物发现，以及植物探索。 The U.S. Botanic Garden is free and open every day, with more than 1 million visitors a year. 美国国家植物园每天都免费开放， 每年有100多万游客。 It has enlightened its guests for two centuries and will continue to for generations to come.  两个世纪以来，它一直启迪着到访的宾客，并且在未来的世代里还将继续如此。

Researchers with NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, catch a leatherback sea turtle off the coast of California. 美国国家海洋和大气管理局(NOAA)的研究人员在加利福尼亚海岸捕获了一只棱皮龟。 The tens of millions of years old species is in serious decline, says ecologist Scott Benson. 生态学家斯科特·本森说，这个已存在数千万年的物种正在急剧减少。 Estimates are that the population now is about 1400 adult females remaining. 据估计，目前成年雌性个体仅剩下约1400只。 That's down from literally tens of thousands several decades, a few decades ago. 这与几十年前动辄数以万计的数量相比已经减少了。 Benson co-authored a new study that says the foraging area used by the leatherback sea turtle saw a population drop of about 80 percent in the past 30 years. 本森参与合著的一项新研究指出，过去30年间，棱皮龟觅食区域内的种群数量下降了约80%。 He says this is amazing given the species adaptability. The leatherback turtle is an ancient mariner. 他说，考虑到该物种的适应能力，这十分令人惊讶。棱皮龟是古老的航海者。 They've been around for almost as long as 80 million years in their present form, date back to the time of the dinosaurs. 它们以现在的形态存在了近8000万年，其历史可以追溯到恐龙时代。 It's not a poorly adapted species. They've been through all kinds of things, meteor strikes, climate changes, you name it. 它们并非适应能力差的物种，经历过陨石撞击、气候变化等各种磨难。 He says the smaller numbers make the species more vulnerable to outside factors, like international fishing and egg harvesting. 他表示数量减少使该物种更容易受到国际捕捞和采集龟蛋等外部因素的影响。 Benson's team puts transmitters on turtles so their fishing fleets can avoid them. 本森的团队给海龟装上发射器，这样他们的渔船就能避开这些海龟。 He says his team is doing what it can to boost the rapidly dwindling numbers. 他说他的团队正在尽其所能来使迅速减少的数量回弹。 We're down to the remnants right now so any little thing now could potentially disrupt it. So we have just very little time to turn around. 剩下的数量不多了，所以现在任何小事都有可能破坏局面。我们能够扭转局面的时间不多了。 All seven species of the leatherback are in trouble, but the new study focuses on the western pacific variety, 所有七种棱皮龟都面临困境，但这项新研究主要关注西太平洋种群， which migrates more than 11,000 kilometers from Indonesia and the Solomon Islands to the US west coast to feast on jellyfish. 它们会从印度尼西亚和所罗门群岛迁徙超过1.1万公里，前往美国西海岸享用水母。 NOAA recently released a new action plan calling for greater international cooperation. NOAA最近发布了一项新的行动计划，呼吁加强国际合作。

Research published Monday shows a strong correlation between rising sea surface temperatures and a roughly 50 percent drop worldwide in the total number of open water species in just 40 years. 周一发表的研究显示，海洋表层水温上升与全球开放水域物种总量在短短40年内骤减约50%存在显著关联。 In geological history this is a blink, so it's just a wink of an eye. 在地质史上，这只是一瞬间，不过是一眨眼的工夫。 And to see such rapid changes or such changes over occurring so rapidly is something that's astonishing I would say. 看到如此迅速的变化，我真的觉得非常震惊。 Researcher and ecologist Sebastian Ferse says coral reefs have begun moving north and south toward the poles, a sign they're adapting to warmer waters. 研究员兼生态学家锡巴斯琴·费尔斯表示，珊瑚礁已开始向南北两极方向迁移，这一迹象表明它们正在适应变暖的水域。 But he questions if the shift can happen fast enough to adjust to the changing climate. 但他质疑这种转变是否能足够迅速地适应气候变化。 The species that can easily move have largely done so, says researcher Chhaya Chaudhary. 研究员恰雅·乔杜里表示，那些容易迁移的物种大部分已经完成了迁徙。 We found that almost all the marine species are moving away from the equator. 我们发现几乎所有的海洋生物都在离开赤道区域。 And they are accumulating in the subtropics and that's where we have higher peak in the species diversity. 它们正在亚热带地区积聚，而那里正是物种多样性达到高峰的地方。 Conservation scientist Stuart Pimm says the study by the National Academy of Sciences shows broad trends that demand attention. 保护科学家斯图亚特·皮姆表示，美国国家科学院的研究揭示了需要引起广泛关注的总体趋势。 What we're doing to the planet is causing an enormous amount of disruption in all sorts of ways. And I think we have to get a handle on that. 我们对地球的所作所为正在以各种方式造成巨大的破坏。我认为我们必须解决这个问题。 Pimm says scientists need more data and details to study growing concerns about the food chain. 皮姆说，科学家需要更多的数据和细节来研究人们对食物链日益增长的担忧。 Experts say biodiversity is an essential component to nutritional food. 专家表示，生物多样性是营养食品的重要组成部分。 The World Wildlife Fund says approximately three billion people worldwide rely on proteins, fished, farmed or caught in the water. 世界野生动物基金会表示，全球约有30亿人依赖从水中捕捞、养殖或捕获的蛋白质。

How do you fancy being up a mountain at a height of around 3,000 metres with the temperature below zero, snow underfoot, variable weather, racing up and downhill? This is how some athletes will be competing in this year's winter Olympics. 爬上海拔3000米左右的高山，零下零下的气温，脚下积雪，天气多变，上坡下坡，你感觉如何？ 这就是一些运动员参加今年冬季奥运会的方式。 Skimo, short for ski mountaineering, is the newest winter Olympic sport and will debut at the 2026 games in Milan-Cortina. It combines Alpine skiing with mountaineering and is a race against time where athletes are required to ascend and descend mountainous terrain using skis and other specialised equipment. Skimo 是滑雪登山运动的缩写，是最新的冬季奥运会运动项目，并将在 2026 年米兰-科尔蒂纳奥运会上首次亮相。 它结合了高山滑雪和登山运动，是一场与时间的竞赛，要求运动员使用滑雪板和其他专用装备上下山地。 At the Olympics, there will be a relay event, and also asprintcompetition which lasts just a few minutes. Athletes start in a steep uphill section usingclimbingskins. These are detachablegrippystrips you attach to skis to prevent sliding. The athletes then rapidlytransitiontobootpackingwhere skis are carried on a backpack as they run up an incline as fast as possible. There is then atechnicaldownhillcourse full of tight turns andobstacles. Because of all the transitions, races can be won or lost in seconds depending on how smoothly the athletes can switch betweenmodes. 奥运会上会有接力赛，还有短跑赛，持续时间只有几分钟。 运动员们使用攀岩皮从陡峭的上坡路段出发。 这些是可拆卸的防滑条，您可以将其固定在滑雪板上以防止滑动。 然后，运动员们迅速过渡到打包靴子，将滑雪板装在背包上，同时尽可能快地跑上斜坡。 然后是充满急转弯和障碍的技术下坡路线。 由于所有的转换，比赛可能会在几秒钟内获胜或失败，这取决于运动员在模式之间切换的顺利程度。 One hopeful British qualifier, and a member of the GB Skimo squad, is Iain Innes. Despite the sport being included in the Olympics, which he says is great news, he doesn't think the events accurately represent ski mountaineering. "There is no element of mountaineering whatsoever, as the World Cups and Olympics are held on man-made slopes with berms and jumps and perfectly cut steps on the climbs", he told the British Mountaineering Council. 伊恩·英尼斯 (Iain Innes) 是英国 Skimo 队的一员，也是一位充满希望的英国预选赛选手。 尽管这项运动被纳入奥运会，他说这是个好消息，但他认为这些项目并不能准确地代表滑雪登山运动。 他告诉英国登山委员会，“这里没有任何登山元素，因为世界杯和奥运会是在人造斜坡上举行的，这些斜坡上有护堤和跳跃，而且攀登时的台阶也完美切割”。 However, inclusion in the Olympics is a positive reflection of the sport's global growth and development. The International Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF) oversees the regulation and promotion of the sport and has established a World Cup circuit, as well as continental and World Championships, all of which have helped elevate the sport's standing. So, look out for this extreme sport this year and feel that adrenaline rush. 然而，纳入奥运会是这项运动在全球增长和发展的积极反映。 国际滑雪登山联合会（ISMF）负责监督这项运动的监管和推广，并设立了世界杯巡回赛、洲际锦标赛和世界锦标赛，所有这些都有助于提升这项运动的地位。 所以，今年请留意这项极限运动，感受肾上腺素激增的感觉。

Since 2012, the village of Padangtegal in Bali, Indonesia has instructed its residents to sort out their garbage before disposal. Wati does this every day. 自2012年以来，印度尼西亚巴厘岛Padangtegal村指导居民在扔垃圾前先进行分类。瓦蒂每天都这么做。 When I was little, trees were everywhere. We used to burn our garbage but no longer. Now we live in modern era. 小时候，树木随处可见。我们过去常焚烧垃圾，但现在已经不这么做了。如今我们生活在现代社会。 We are advised to sort out our garbage based on organic and non-organic category. 我们被建议根据有机和无机类别对垃圾进行分类。 Padangtegal village is situated at the heart of the popular tourist destination of Ubud, with only 607 families living there. Padangtegal村坐落于热门旅游胜地乌布的中心位置，只有607户人家居住在那里。 The village may be small but it produces a great amount of waste. So local authorities built this 4,000 square meter compost house owned by the village. 村子虽小，产生的垃圾却不少。于是当地政府建造了这个占地4000平方米、归村集体所有的堆肥站。 The compost center only manages waste in Padangtegal village. Only families with their waste sorted out into organic and unorganic groups get collected. 堆肥中心只处理Padangtegal村的垃圾。只有将垃圾分类为有机和无机的家庭才能获得垃圾回收服务。 Then we process the organic waste in the compost. It's not the law everywhere and it is a bit of a chore. 然后我们在堆肥中心处理有机废物。并非每个地方都有这样的规定，而且这有点麻烦。 Villages not only spend time and energy sorting out their waste but they also pay a six-dollar fee each month for garbage collection. 村民们不仅要花时间和精力进行垃圾分类，每月还要支付六美元的垃圾清运费。 So why do they participate? Well, simply because the village chief tells them to. 他们为什么要参加呢？仅仅是因为村长让他们参加。 My name is I Made Gandra, the chief of Padangtegal village. In Bali, Bundesa or the village chief is the highest ranked leader in the village elected democratically by its people. 我叫I Made Gandra，是Padangtegal的村长。在巴厘岛，村长是村里最高级别的领导人，由人民民主选举产生。 Whatever decided by the chief is a decision that the people must comply to. This is the eminence of our custom. 村长的任何决定，村民都必须遵守。这是我们习俗的显赫之处。 Balinese generally reside in traditional villages which have their very own regulations known locally as Pararem and Awig-awig. 巴厘岛人通常居住在传统村落里，这些村落拥有当地称为Pararem和Awig-awig的特有规定。 Whatever the village chief says is the law of land. If they don't sort the waste out, their garbage won't be picked up. 无论村长说什么，那就是当地的规矩。如果他们不把垃圾分类，他们的垃圾就不会被收走。 Local officials say that well over half of all the garbage the island produces is organic. So most of it can be composted. 当地官员表示，岛上产生的垃圾中远超过半数为有机垃圾，因此大部分垃圾可进行堆肥处理。 Practically that means that every day, this village transforms organic waste into one cubic meter of compost. The compost is then sold to local farmers and businesses. 实际上这意味着这个村庄每天将有机废物转化成一立方米的堆肥。这些堆肥随后被出售给当地的农民和企业。

This is Yemoga, a winning model for this year's Future City Competition. 这是Yemoga，今年未来城市设计大赛的获胜模型。 The concept was engineered by a team of middle school students from the Midwest state of Indiana. 这一概念是由来自美国中西部印第安纳州的一群中学生提出的。 The competition's theme this year-Clean Water: Tap Into Tomorrow-has asked students to focus on creating reliable supplies of clean drinking water. 今年比赛的主题是“清洁水源，共创未来”，要求学生专注于创造可靠的清洁饮用水供应。 The program ever all pushes students to imagine and build the cities of the future. 这个项目一直都在推动学生去想象和构建未来的城市。 A judge for the Future City Contest says it taps into the creativity and imagination of students. 未来城市设计大赛的一名评委表示，该比赛激发了学生的创造力和想象力。 They can talk about how the future should be as they see it right in their mind, and tackling a problem which they know is going to affect the greater population in the future, 他们可以畅谈自己心中所设想的未来图景，着手解决必将影响大众的议题， and then being able to use limited resources that they have, and also innovate in terms of technology to creatively solve those problems. 运用有限的资源，通过科技创新来创造性地解决这些问题。 The international program in its 28th year had 45,000 middle school students, who participated from 1500 schools from more than 40 US regions. 这个已有28年历史的国际项目吸引了来自美国40多个地区1500所学校的45000名中学生参与。 It's a project that involves a lot of engineering and a lot of different skills, and so there's four different parts to it. 这是一个涉及大量工程和多种不同技能的项目，因此它分为四个不同的部分。 There's a theme city which is designing a virtual city; there is an essay of 15,000 word essay that you have to write; there's a model that you have to build; 设计虚拟主题城市；写一篇15000字论文；制作一个模型； and then there's a presentation which you present at the competition and you answer questions. 然后你要在比赛中做一个演讲，并且回答问题。 Well over here, we had to ship it here and a lot of the parts fell off when we were here, so we had to work a lot on getting this back on. 我们得把它运到这里来，而且很多零件在运输途中都脱落了，所以我们不得不花很大功夫才把它重新装好。 The other top five teams include those from the Great Plains, which covers Kansas and the Kansas City metropolitan area, North Carolina, Albany which is the capital of New York, and Idaho. 其他排名前五的团队分别来自覆盖堪萨斯州和堪萨斯城的北美大平原地区、北卡罗来纳州、纽约州首府奥尔巴尼以及爱达荷州。 Indiana, as the grand prize winner, received $7,500 for its school STEM program and a trip to the US Space Camp.  大奖得主印第安纳州获得了7500美元奖金，用于学校的STEM项目和美国太空营之旅。

New York Times best-selling author Rahaf Harfoush is hosting a discussion on a new social media platform called Clubhouse. 《纽约时报》畅销书作家拉哈夫·哈弗什在一个名为Clubhouse的新社交媒体平台上主持一场讨论。 She spends at least two to three hours a day there, hosting three weekly shows, co-hosting others and listening to others still. 她每天至少在那里待两到三个小时，每周主持三档节目，与他人共同主持其他节目，还会收听其他节目。 There are chefs and movie producers and entrepreneurs and artists and writers and athletes. 有厨师、电影制片人、企业家、艺术家、作家和运动员。 And everybody is like finding their own group, and everyone is thinking about how they can contribute. 每个人都在寻找自己的圈子，每个人都在思考如何做出贡献。 Harfoush says the most interesting discussions happen in close groups. But even in open rooms, there's plenty to listen to. 哈弗什说，最有趣的讨论发生在小圈子里。但即使是在开放的房间里，也有很多东西可以听。 Shows hosted by people like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg or Jared Leto. 节目主持人包括埃隆·马斯克、马克·扎克伯格或杰瑞德·莱托。 Thanks for inviting me up. It's good to hang with all of you. All right, Vlad, what really happened? Give us the inside scoop. 谢谢你邀请我来。和你们大家在一起真好。弗拉德，到底发生了什么？给我们透露点内幕消息。 The network is invite only and for now is only available on iPhones. 该网络仅限邀请使用，目前仅支持iPhone设备。 The platform doesn't allow recorded discussions, unless the speaker gives a special permission to have the talk recorded. However, the users violate the rule way too often. 该平台不允许录音讨论，除非发言者特别许可将谈话内容录制下来。然而，用户经常违反规则。 In recent weeks, the number of Clubhouse users skyrocketed from 600,000 to eight million, pushing the company's value to one billion dollars. 最近几周，Clubhouse用户数量从60万飙升至800万，公司市值也随之攀升至10亿美元。 This really enables people to have a real-time audio experience, much like a group chat like over voice. 这确实能让人们获得实时音频体验，就像语音群聊一样， But you might be connecting with people you don't know yet, or you might be connecting with existing friends. 但你可能是与尚未相识的人建立联系，也可能是与已有的朋友加深交流。 Owyang has so far counted almost 30 similar Clubhouse competitors, and by the end of the year, he expects there to be more than a hundred. 欧阳迄今为止已统计出近30个类似的Clubhouse竞品，他预计到今年年底数量将超过一百个。 One big downside is privacy issues. Users should always assume they're being recorded, but that's not all. 一大缺点是隐私问题。用户应始终假设自己正被录音，但这还不是全部。 For example, online bullying or misinformation or other nefarious acts, or people just committing scams that could possibly lead people astray, 例如，网络欺凌或虚假信息等恶劣行为，又或者是人们实施诈骗，这些都可能会误导他人， let alone false information being spread even by foreign state actors, and from every potential location on the globe. 更不用说还有来自全球各地潜在的外国政府行为者散布的虚假信息。 For now, Clubhouse is free, but experts say in future the company might consider premium accounts, paid subscriptions and advertising.  Clubhouse目前是免费的，但专家表示未来该公司可能会考虑推出付费账户、付费订阅和广告服务。

Driving: do we love it because it's quick and convenient, or is it just that we don't have a choice? Either way, commuting by car is becoming more common across the world. While this could mean that people are getting more mobility and freedom, could it have a cost? 驾驶：我们喜欢它是因为它快捷方便，还是只是因为我们别无选择？ 无论哪种方式，开车通勤在世界各地都变得越来越普遍。 虽然这可能意味着人们获得了更多的流动性和自由，但这会带来成本吗？ As the number of cars on the road increases, so does congestion. As more people travel by car, more road space is used up. According to the OECD's International Transport Forum, the average person travelling in a car takes up five times as much road space as someone on a bus. This is made worse by the fact that, on average, today's cars are larger than those of the past. Tailbacks and other traffic jams in the UK could be costing £7.5 billion each year in wasted time. 随着道路上汽车数量的增加，交通拥堵也随之增加。 随着越来越多的人开车出行，更多的道路空间被占用。 根据经合组织国际交通论坛的数据，乘汽车出行的人平均占用的道路空间是乘坐公共汽车的人的五倍。 平均而言，今天的汽车比过去的汽车更大，这一事实使情况变得更糟。 英国每年因尾随和其他交通拥堵而浪费的时间可能造成 75 亿英镑的损失。 It's not just gridlock and wasted time that's the problem. Car dependency has significant health impacts. Air pollution from diesel and petrol cars can cause health problems such as asthma and other respiratory illnesses. Road traffic accidents lead to injuries and fatalities. Additional to this are the long-term problems caused by sedentary lifestyles, leading to poor fitness and obesity. Road-building developments can also split communities, leading people to feel cut off. Where road transport dominates an area, people without access to a car can feel isolated. 问题不仅仅是堵塞和浪费时间。 汽车依赖对健康有重大影响。 柴油和汽油汽车造成的空气污染会导致哮喘和其他呼吸道疾病等健康问题。 道路交通事故会导致受伤和死亡。 除此之外，久坐的生活方式也会造成长期问题，导致健康状况不佳和肥胖。 道路建设也会分裂社区，导致人们感到被孤立。 在道路交通占主导地位的地区，无法使用汽车的人们会感到孤立。 Cities and countries are sometimes tempted to build new roads to reduce the potential for snarl-ups. However, some experts say that this can cause induced demand where increased road capacity leads to more people driving, and congestion is soon back to its previous level. The other side of this theory is that when road space allocation is taken away from private cars, often congestion won't get any worse. Authorities in some cities, such as Seoul and Utrecht, have demolished motorways, leaving natural features such as streams and rivers in their place. Making drivers pay more is an approach used in cities like London, or Singapore, where ten-year car ownership licenses can cost over £60,000. The increased costs can help reduce the number of cars on the road and make traffic flow faster. 城市和国家有时会试图修建新道路以减少出现交通拥堵的可能性。 然而，一些专家表示，这可能会引发需求增加，道路容量增加导致更多人开车，拥堵很快就会恢复到以前的水平。 这一理论的另一面是，当私家车的道路空间分配被取消时，拥堵通常不会变得更糟。 首尔和乌得勒支等一些城市的当局拆除了高速公路，保留了溪流和河流等自然景观。 让司机支付更多费用是伦敦或新加坡等城市采用的一种方法，在这些城市，十年期汽车拥有许可证的费用可能超过 60,000 英镑。 增加的成本可以帮助减少道路上的汽车数量并提高交通流量。

Medical care in the US costs more than it does in any other developed country. 美国的医疗费用比任何其他发达国家都要高。 That means surviving cancer can empty a patient's bank account. 这意味着要想治好癌症可能会掏空患者的银行账户。 When Tori Geib got her cancer diagnosis, she thought she would be okay financially. 托里·盖布确诊癌症时，她以为自己经济上不会有问题。 I just went on what they said to do. And at the time, I had really great private insurance. 我只是按照他们说的去做。当时我有非常丰厚的私人保险。 Three weeks later, her great private insurance stopped covering her medication. 三周后，她丰厚的私人保险不再承保她的药物。 I said well, how much will this be just to get through for the month. And they said for the one-month supply it's 11,000 dollars. 我说每个月要花多少钱。他们说每个月的药物要花费11000美元。 That's about average for new cancer therapy in the US. But to make the situation even worse, it was only one of thirteen drugs Geib needed. 这大约是美国新癌症疗法的平均费用水平。但更糟的是，盖布需要十三种药物，而这只是其中一种需要的花销。 The astronomical cost of cancer treatment causes many patients in the US to try to save money at the expense of their health. 癌症治疗的高昂费用使得许多美国患者以牺牲健康为代价来省钱。 One in four cancer patients actually report engaging in some risky behavior to try to save on cost, so either skipping refills of medications or even splitting doses. 四分之一的癌症患者报告称为了节省费用而采取了一些冒险行为，比如不按处方买药续服，甚至掰分药剂量服用。 A financial counsellor at the Cancer Center helped Geib find a way to pay for her treatment. 癌症中心的一名财务顾问帮助盖布找到了支付治疗费用的方法。 We've helped over 30,000 patients gain access to grant funding or manufacture assistance program with a total value of over 500 million dollars. 我们已帮助超过3万名患者获得补助资金或生产援助计划，总价值超过5亿美元。 The hospital also introduced a new program that keeps these expensive medications from going to waste. Patients can now return pills they don't need. 医院还推出了一个新项目，防止这些昂贵药物被浪费。患者现在可以退回他们不需要的药片。 We put that medication into essentially a repository, where we wait for the next patient that has a financial need, so that we can re-dispense that medication to another cancer patient. 我们将这些药物存入一个专门的储存库，等待下一位有经济需求的患者出现，以便再次配药给其他癌症患者。 The program helps patients focus on getting well, and not stressing about their finances. 该计划帮助患者专注于康复治疗，而不用为财务状况担忧。 There's so much stress that goes along with this diagnosis. And you really want to try to minimize that stress along with the cancer. 确诊癌症带来了巨大的压力。你真的要努力在对抗癌症的同时将压力降到最低。 And this is one thing that has been given to me that I'm so thankful and grateful for. 我能够受到这样的帮助，对此我满怀感恩。 Kennerly Shah says the goal is to start out small and then to expand the program to cover medications for other diseases. 肯纳利·沙阿表示目标是从小规模开始，然后将该计划扩展至覆盖其他疾病的药物。 Another goal is to provide a model that other institutions can copy. So more patients can afford their treatments.  另一个目标是提供一个可供其他机构复制的模式，这样更多患者就能负担得起治疗费用。

The clock starts ticking when a mountain sheds its snowy skin. An avalanche covers all in its path. 当雪从山坡脱落下来时，时钟便开始倒数计时。雪崩掩埋了沿途的一切。 And for those trapped underneath, survival rates drastically drop after three to five minutes. 对于那些被困在下面的人来说，三到五分钟后存活率会急剧下降。 Rescuers quickly deploy alongside highly trained dogs that prepare their whole lives for this moment. 救援人员和训练有素的搜救犬迅速部署，这些搜救犬毕生都在为这一刻做准备。 Well, listen, we trained them from a young age. They have a toy they play with. We start hiding it in snow. The dog has its smell. 我们从小就训练它们。它们有自己的玩具。我们把玩具藏在雪里。搜救犬能闻到它的味道。 We make it harder and harder for the dog to find the toy by closing the air holes above it. It's a game for him. 我们通过堵住玩具上方的气孔，让狗狗越来越难找到玩具。这对它来说是个游戏。 Ski Patrol say if you're caught in an avalanche, the worst thing to do is panic. 滑雪救护队说，如果遭遇雪崩，最糟糕的事情就是惊慌。 Stay calm, don't move, try and make the cavity to breathe, but mainly stay calm, so you don't run out of breath, using all the oxygen around your mouth. 保持冷静，不要移动，试着让自己有空间呼吸，但关键是要保持冷静， 这样你才不会喘不过气，耗尽嘴边周围的所有氧气。 Another tips, get any snow out of your mouth. Following these steps gives rescue dogs like six-year-old Nitro a chance to find you and pull you to safety. 另一个建议，把嘴里的雪清理干净。遵循这些步骤能让像六岁的尼特罗这样的搜救犬有机会找到你并将你拖到安全地带。 Trainers here stress that a mountain is not an amusement park. They have to think about that we are not in a world Disney, in the Disney park. 训练员强调说，山并不是游乐场。搜救犬必须明白，我们不是在迪士尼乐园里。 We have to be really careful and just ask to snow patrol, ask everyone about the condition and go with someone who knows the mountains and knows the resorts. It's really, you have to do this. 我们必须非常小心，向雪地巡逻队了解情况，并与熟悉山脉和滑雪场的人同行。必须得这样做。 Dogs travel by snowmobile or even between skis, but a helicopter makes staging possible in five to ten minutes. If the search is a success, next comes the rescue. 搜救犬乘坐雪地摩托甚至是滑雪板行动， 但直升机可以在五到十分钟之内完成部署。如果搜索成功，下一步就是营救。 So as soon as we get the victim out, we administer first aid. At the same time, another ski patroller or civilian goes back into the hole with a toy reward for the dog. 我们一救出受害者就立即施救。与此同时，另一名滑雪巡逻员或平民会回到山洞中，给狗狗玩具作为奖励。 This ski patrol unit carries out 1,500 training exercises each year. 这支滑雪救护队每年进行1500次训练演习。 The team annually responds to about 10 real-life avalanche emergencies. Most canine rescuers retire at around 10 years old.  该团队每年应对约10次真实发生的雪崩紧急情况。大多数搜救犬会在十岁左右退休。

As a girl Damon Sanatha dreamed of playing rugby professionally, but didn't have the money or access to training. 达蒙·萨纳塔小时候梦想成为职业橄榄球运动员，但既没钱也没机会接受训练。 Determined that no other girl should be kept from the game, four years ago, she began coaching Sebroco, a women's team in Bingerville. 四年前，为了让所有女孩都能参加这项运动，她开始执教班热维尔的一支女子球队Sabroco。 Sanatha brought the team to play at the National Institute for Youth and Sports in Marcory, a college in suburban of Abidjan. 萨纳塔带领球队前往位于阿比让郊区的马克里国家青年与体育学院进行比赛。 I was a former player. I stayed on staff to supervise the girls. I would like the sisters to go as far as possible, ensure that there is a place for girls in this sport. 我曾是一名运动员，后来留在队里指导这些女孩。我希望这些女孩能走得更远，确保她们在这项运动中有一席之地。 Rugby can be a rough contact sport. But fifteen-year-old Berthe Assista who has a different coach is fine with that. 橄榄球是一项激烈的对抗性运动，但15岁的贝尔特·阿西斯塔对此并不介意，她有一位与众不同的教练。 I started rugby thanks to my friend. She invited me to come and watch how it is played. On the second day I'd put on athletic clothes to train a little. Since that day I have loved rugby. 我开始打橄榄球是因为我的朋友。她邀请我去看橄榄球比赛。第二天，我就穿上运动服进行一些训练。从那天开始，我就爱上了橄榄球。 Isabelle Yeboua, secretary of the Ivorian Rugby Federation's women's commission, says it's about time women players are getting recognized. 科特迪瓦橄榄球联合会女子委员会秘书伊莎贝尔·耶布瓦表示，现在是时候让女性球员得到认可了。 Girls have been training with clubs for a very long time. The rugby federation organizes an annual tournament among clubs. 女孩们在俱乐部训练已经很长时间了。橄榄球联合会组织各俱乐部参加年度锦标赛。 It's also a showcase to find promising players who can go on to play for the national team. 这也是一个发掘有潜力球员的平台，他们未来有望为国家队效力。 So we are doing a championship to select the good female players, let them form a team and also participate in international competitions. 我们正在举办锦标赛，选拔优秀的女运动员，让她们组成一支队伍，并参加国际比赛。 What's clear is that many girls who want to play rugby now can get the chance. 很明显，现在很多想打橄榄球的女孩都能得到这个机会。 Of 21 official clubs in Ivory Coast, more than half are for females.  在科特迪瓦的21家官方俱乐部中，超过半数面向女性。

This kitchen changes the lives of poor kids in Kenya. 这个厨房改变了肯尼亚贫困儿童的生活。 Here at Feeding the Future, cooks make some of the food that today will feed as many as ten thousand hungry kids. Feeding the Future的厨师们今天制作的食物，将供多达一万名饥饿的孩子食用。 Millions of children in Africa go to school on an empty stomach. 数百万非洲儿童饿着肚子上学。 A lot of times they make the decision whether to go to school or look for food elsewhere. 很多时候，他们需要决定是去学校还是去别的地方找食物。 Food for Education strives to solve this problem by providing low-cost nutritious meals so that children are able to stay in school and learn. Food for Education致力于通过提供低成本的营养餐来解决这一问题，从而帮助孩子们能够留在学校继续学习。 And here's where lunch goes high-tech with a bright orange bracelet called Tap2Eat, says group founder Wawira Njiru. 团队创始人瓦维拉·恩吉鲁表示，在这里午餐实现了高科技化，凭借一款名为“Tap2Eat”的亮橙色手环就能搞定。 Tap2Eat is a technology developed by Food for Education that enables parents to contribute fifteen shillings, fifteen cents for every meal. Tap-to-Eat是Food for Education开发的技术，它使得父母只需花费十五先令、十五美分就可以为孩子们购买一份午餐。 We use it through mobile money which is quite prevalent in Kenya. 我们通过在肯尼亚相当普遍的移动支付使用它。 And through that, parents are able to top up easily the fifteen shillings for kids to get lunch with. 这样一来，家长们只需充值十五先令就可以让孩子们吃上一顿午餐。 And the children once they come to school, just Tap2Eat and get lunch under five seconds. 孩子们一到学校，只需要点击一下就可以在五秒内吃上午餐。 The school's principal says attendance is up and so too our median test scores. 学校校长表示，学生出勤率提高了，考试成绩中位数也提高了。 A parent named Lucy says the program changed her family's life. 一位名叫露西的家长说，这个项目改变了她家人的生活。 When Tap2Eat wasn't available, we suffered a lot. Sometimes your child carries cold food. Sometimes you lack the money and your child has no lunch. 以前没有Tap2Eat的时候，我们吃了不少苦头。有时候孩子们只能带冰冷的食物去上学。有时候囊中羞涩，孩子就没有午餐。 Food for Education says it uses smart logistics to ensure they produce food sustainable while ensuring local farmers receive a reliable source of income.  Food for Education表示，它采用智能物流来确保食品实现可持续生产，同时保证当地农民有稳定的收入来源。