你并不属于大多数 You Are Not The Majority

2020-05-27

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It's easy to feel that the way we experience life is generally the same for others, but did you realize that the majority of people in this world that don't actually have the internet? About 3.5 billion people — or only 40% of the world has an internet connection today, meaning, this digital reality we experience is actually done so by a minority of people in the world!

我们时常会觉得别人的生活方式是和我们一样的,但你有没有想过,其实世界上还有很大一部分人是没有接触过互联网的?大约有35亿人,或者说世界上只有40%的人可以上网。这意味着这个虚拟现实其实是由少数人创造出来的。

Or how about the fact that the majority of people in the world live in this circle? In fact,  it contains 22 of the world's 37 megacities which each have at least 10 million people.

或者你知道有多少人生活在这个圈内吗?事实上,这个圈内包含了全世界37个特大城市中的22个,每个城市至少有1000万人口。

Only two cities in America fall into this category: New York and Los Angeles. On that note, the majority of the world actually live in"Developing Countries."

美国只有两个城市属于这一类:纽约和洛杉矶。关于这一点,其实世界上大多数人都是生活在发展中国家

In fact, modern language is now advocating to change terms like"Third World Country" to"Majority World Country" to more accurately represent that these countries are, well, the majority of humankind! Even if the G8 countries make decisions that affect the majority of people on this planet.

事实上,现代语言现在提倡将第三世界国家这样的术语改为多数世界国家,以更准确地表示这些国家是更多数人生活的地方!即使八国集团做出的决定会影响到地球上的大多数人。

To that point around 70%-80% percent of people on this planet make less than$ 10 US dollars a day! While even in a wealthy country like America, over 50% percent of people make less than$ 30,000 dollars a year!

到那时,地球上大约70%-80%的人每天挣不到10美元!而即使在像美国这样的富裕国家,也有超过50%的人年收入低于3万美元!

The good news, is that global poverty has fallen by half over the last decade. But we still have a global environment where more people have cellphones than toilets!

好消息是,在过去十年里,世界贫困人口已减少了一半。但是这个世界仍然存在着有手机的人比有厕所的人要多的情况。

And when they're talking on those phone, the vast majority aren't speaking English as a first language. The majority also aren't Christian.

当他们打电话时,绝大多数人的母语都不是英语。而且他们也不是/*/*徒。

As of November 2016, most people are male, with roughly 55 million less females on the planet! And of our population, the majority are under the age of 30!

截至到201611月,男性占世界人口的很大一部分,女性比男性少了大约5500万。而大部分人口都在30岁以下!

In America, once you turn 37, you're officially older than half the country! And the most common age for a person to be worldwide? 0 years old, followed by 1-year-old, 2 years old, 3,4, and then. . .26 years old?

在美国,一旦你到了37岁,你就比半个国家的人都要老了!世界范围内最常见的年龄是多少?0岁,接着是1岁,2岁,3岁,4岁,然后是......26?

The majority of adults in the world weigh around 61 kilograms or 135 pounds. Whereas the vast majority of people in North America are overweight!

大部分成年的体重在61公斤或者135磅。这样说的话,在北美很多人都是超重的。

And while the majority of North Americans drink coffee over tea, 3 cups of tea are drunk for every 1 cup of coffee worldwide, making it a much more popular drink! Speaking of North America, the majority of the Canadian population actually lives south of Seattle!

虽然大多数北美人喜欢喝咖啡而不是茶,但全世界每喝一杯咖啡就有3杯茶被喝掉,这使得茶成为更受欢迎的饮料!说到北美,实际上大部分加拿大人是住在西雅图以南的!

In terms of energy consumption, the vast majority of the world consume more than 2x times less energy per capita than Canadians or Americans. If we take a wide view, it turns out that the majority of the universe is made up of Dark Energy at 68%.

就能源消耗而言,世界上绝大多数国家的人均能源消耗是加拿大或美国的两倍以上。如果我们从宏观上看,宇宙大部分是由暗能量构成的,占68%

Dark matter makes up 27%, and the rest — everything on Earth and everything ever observed with instruments, otherwise called"Normal Matter", only makes up 5% of the universe! And given that atoms are made up of 99.99% empty space, the majority of you is. . . nothing!

暗物质占27%,其余的——地球上所有的东西,所有能用仪器观测到的东西,都可以称为正常物质”——只占宇宙的5% !既然原子是由99.99%的空间组成的,那么你们大部分人……其实什么都不是!

We want to send a special thanks to Bill and Melinda Gates for supporting this episode. Did you know the number of childhood deaths have been cut in half over the last 15 years?

我们想特别感谢盖茨夫妇对这期节目的支持。你知道过去15年儿童死亡人数减少了一半吗?

And that 122 million children's lives have been saved since 1990? Sometimes it may feel like the world is getting worse but global health intervention is changing that.

你知道从1990年起,有1.22亿孩子的生命被救回吗?有时你会觉得世界好像变得越来越糟糕了,但是公共卫生的介入正在改变这一现状。

And in their annual letter, Bill and Melinda Gates highlight this amazing progress. But also the challenges like how 45 percent of child deaths are linked to malnutrition.

在他们的年信中,盖茨夫妇强调了这一惊人的进步。但也一些挑战仍然存在,比如有45%的儿童死亡与营养不良依然与有关。

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