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经济作家提姆·哈福德研究复杂的系统，他在成功的事例中发现了意想不到的链接：它们都经历了试验和不断排除错误的过程。 在这个精彩的TEDGlobal 2011 演讲中，他呼吁我们接纳随机性并开始学会犯些有益的错误。
adj. 绝望的，不顾一切的
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- It's the Second World War. A German prison camp.
- 这是二战期间，一个德国集中营。
- And this man, Archie Cochrane, is a prisoner of war and a doctor, and he has a problem.
- 这个人，阿奇·卡克伦，是战俘也是一名医生，他遇到了一个问题。
- The problem is that the men under his care are suffering from an excruciating and debilitating condition that Archie doesn't really understand.
- 这个问题是他看护的人们正在承受病痛和衰弱的煎熬。阿奇不明白是怎么回事。
- The symptoms are this horrible swelling up of fluids under the skin.
- 这种症状是皮肤下面有可怕水肿。
- But he doesn't know whether it's an infection, whether it's to do with malnutrition. He doesn't know how to cure it.
- 他不知道这是一种感染，还是营养不良造成的。他不知道怎样提供治疗。
- And he's operating in a hostile environment.
- 他是在一个充满敌意的环境里工作。
- And people do terrible things in wars. The German camp guards, they've got bored.
- 而人们常常在战争期间做可怕的事情。德国集中营的守卫无聊的时候。
- They've taken to just firing into the prison camp at random for fun.
- 他们会对着集中营随意扫射，来寻开心。
- On one particular occasion, one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory while it was full of prisoners.
- 特别是有一次，一个守卫朝犯人的厕所里扔了枚手榴弹，里面满是犯人。
- He said he heard suspicious laughter.
- 他说他听到了可疑的笑声。
- And Archie Cochrane, as the camp doctor, was one of the first men in to clear up the mess.
- 而阿奇·卡克伦，作为集中营的医生，是第一个进去处理惨状的人。
- And one more thing: Archie was suffering from this illness himself.
- 另外， 阿奇自己也受着这个疾病的困扰，
- So the situation seemed pretty desperate.
- 所以情况是非常危急。
- But Archie Cochrane was a resourceful person.
- 但是阿奇·卡克伦 是一个足智多谋的人。
- He'd already smuggled vitamin C into the camp, and now he managed to get hold of supplies of marmite on the black market.
- 他已经将维生素C带到了集中营，现在他又想办法从黑市上弄到了一些马麦。
- Now some of you will be wondering what marmite is.
- 你们中的一些人也许会问马麦是什么。
- Marmite is a breakfast spread beloved of the British.
- 马麦是英国人热爱的早餐面包酱。
- It looks like crude oil. It tastes ... zesty.
- 它看上去象天然油。味道很浓。
- And importantly, it's a rich source of vitamin B12.
- 更重要的是，它含有丰富的维他命B12。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| desperate | ['despərit] | 联想记忆 | ||
| grenade | [gri'neid] | 联想记忆 | ||
| resourceful | [ri'sɔ:sfəl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| spread | [spred] | |||
| hostile | ['hɔstail] | |||
| suspicious | [səs'piʃəs] | 联想记忆 | ||
| malnutrition | [.mælnju:'triʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| infection | [in'fekʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| prisoner | ['prizənə] | |||
| particular | [pə'tikjulə] | 联想记忆 |
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