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汉斯·罗素林曾在印度学习，那时，他意料到亚洲可以重夺其经济霸主地位。在TED印度，他用他神奇的泡泡图表来预测中印两国何时会赶超美国。
n. 海港，避难所
vt. 庇护，心怀，窝藏<
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- Those are nice words. But I got sort of curious of what he meant with liberty, and liberty for whom.
- 这句话很动听。可是，我很好奇，他说的是何种自由，以及是何人的自由。
- And we will think about that when we look at the wider picture of the world in 1858. Because 1858 was also watershed year in the history of Asia.
- 这势必让我们回想起，在1858年时，世界各地都发生了什么。因为1858年同时也是亚洲历史的分水岭。
- 1858 was the year when the courageous uprising against the foreign occupation of India was defeated by the British forces.
- 1858年，印度所爆发的民族大起义被英军镇压了。
- And India was up to 89 years more of foreign domination.
- 印度因此继续忍受了89年的外人统治。
- 1858 in China was the victory in the Opium War by the British forces.
- 中国在1858年再一次在鸦片战争中输给了英国。
- And that meant that foreigners, as it said in the treaty, were allowed to trade freely in China. It meant paying with opium for Chinese goods.
- 因此在签订的（不平等）条约中，说明外国人在中国可自由通商。这意味着用鸦片换取中国商品。
- And 1858 in Japan was the year when Japan had to sign the Harris Treaty and accept trade on favorable condition for the U.S.
- 日本在1858年，被迫签订安政条约，以及承认美日贸易优先权。
- And they were threatened by those black ships there, that had been in Tokyo harbor over the last year.
- 因为他们在这几年，被东京港里的黑船威胁。
- But, Japan, in contrast to India and China, maintained its national sovereignty.
- 但日本仍拥有国家主权，不像印度和中国那样。
- And let's see how much difference that can make. And I will do that by bringing these bubbles back to a Gapminder graph here, where you can see each bubble is a country.
- 让我们来看看这将带来多大的差异。我将带着这些泡泡，回到Gapminder软件上，在这里，每个泡泡都代表着一个国家。
- The size of the bubble here is the population. On this axis, as I used to have income per person in comparable dollar.
- 人口是由泡泡的大小所代表。一般横轴都代表人均收入。
- And on that axis I have life expectancy, the health of people. And I also bring an innovation here.
- 竖轴则代表人均寿命。今天，我又一次带来了一件发明。
- I have transformed the laser beam into an ecological, recyclable version here, in green India.
- 为了绿色印度，我将激光束转换成，一根生态友好型木棒。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| harbor | ['hɑ:bə] | |||
| ecological | [.ekə'lɔdʒikəl] | |||
| beam | [bi:m] | |||
| sovereignty | ['sɔvrənti] | 联想记忆 | ||
| occupation | [.ɔkju'peiʃən] | |||
| population | [.pɔpju'leiʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| graph | [grɑ:f] | |||
| curious | ['kjuəriəs] | 联想记忆 | ||
| innovation | [.inəu'veiʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| opium | ['əupjəm] |
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