TED英語演講：拯救生命的溫暖擁抱

每年全球出生的20xx萬早產兒中，接近400萬活不過第一個月就死去了，特別是在那些貧窮地區。他們中的大部分因失去體溫而死，因爲當地沒有2萬美元的昂貴保暖箱，爲此她和她的團隊用7年時間研發了一款嬰兒保溫袋，拯救了數十萬早產兒。下面是小編爲大家收集關於TED英語演講：拯救生命的溫暖擁抱，歡迎借鑑參考。

演說題目：拯救生命的溫暖擁抱!

演說者：JaneChen

Please close your eyes, and open your hands. Now imagine what you could place in your hands: an apple, maybe your wallet. Now open your eyes. What about a life?

請閉上眼睛，打開雙手，想象下,你們的手中可以放些什麼? 一隻蘋果?或者錢包? 請睜開眼睛. 你曾否想過一個生命?

What you see here is a premature baby. He looks like he's resting peacefully, but in fact he's struggling to stay alive because he can't regulate his own body temperature. This baby is so tiny he doesn't have enough fat on his body to stay warm. Sadly, 20 million babies like this are born every year around the world. Four million of these babies die annually.

這是一個早產兒。 看起來，他似乎在安睡，但實際上，他正與死神作鬥爭。 因爲他無法調節自己的體溫。 這個嬰兒實在太小了， 他沒有足夠的脂肪來維持體溫。 很悲哀...每年都有兩千萬這樣的嬰兒 誕生在世界上。 其中的四百萬無法存活。

But the bigger problem is that the ones who do survive grow up with severe, long-term health problems. The reason is because in the first month of a baby's life, its only job is to grow. If it's battling hypothermia, its organs can't develop normally, resulting in a range of health problems from diabetes, to heart disease, to low I.Q. Imagine: Many of these problems could be prevented if these babies were just kept warm.

但更嚴重的問題是，如果他們僥倖存活 一些慢性病將伴隨他們一生。 因爲在嬰兒誕生的第一個月 他們唯一要做的就是成長。 如果體溫不穩定，器官不能正常發育 隨之而來的，就是一連串健康問題 如糖尿病，心臟病， 或弱智。想象下，這些問題本可避免 只要能讓嬰兒保暖。

That is the primary function of an incubator. But traditional incubators require electricity and cost up to 20 thousand dollars. So, you're not going to find them in rural areas of developing countries. As a result, parents resort to local solutions like tying hot water bottles around their babies' bodies, or placing them under light bulbs like the ones you see here -- methods that are both ineffective and unsafe. I've seen this firsthand over and over again.

給嬰兒保暖是恆溫箱的主要功能。 但傳統的恆溫箱需要電源 且售價高達2萬美元。 在發展中國家的偏遠地區，恆溫箱根本不存在。 因此，父母們只能就地取材，如在早產兒身體周圍綁上熱水壺 或如你們所看的這張圖，將早產兒放在燈泡下-- 這些方法效果差，且不安全。我多次親眼目睹這些慘劇。

On one of my first trips to India, I met this young woman, Sevitha, who had just given birth to a tiny premature baby, Rani. She took her baby to the nearest village clinic, and the doctor advised her to take Rani to a city hospital so she could be placed in an incubator. But that hospital was over four hours away, and Sevitha didn't have the means to get there, so her baby died.

頭幾次去印度時，我遇到了這樣一位年輕的女性，Sevitha，她剛剛誕下了一個瘦小的早產兒，Rani。 她帶着孩子去了村子裏最近的診所， 醫生建議她帶Rani去市區的醫院 把Rani放在恆溫箱裏。 但去醫院要花四個多小時。 Sevitha沒辦法去， 於是，她的寶貝走了。

Inspired by this story, and dozens of other similar stories like this, my team and I realized what was needed was a local solution, something that could work without electricity, that was simple enough for a mother or a midwife to use, given that the majority of births still take place in the home. We needed something that was portable, something that could be sterilized and reused across multiple babies and something ultra-low-cost, compared to the 20,000 dollars that an incubator in the U.S. costs.

由這個故事，及其他類似的故事中受到啓發， 我和我的團隊意識到，必須要有一個能夠就地取材的辦法， 一個可不插電的工具， 簡單易用，不會難倒母親和產婆， 因爲大多數的嬰兒仍然是在家中被接生的。 這個工具需方便攜帶， 能夠被消毒，並給不同的嬰兒重複使用， 價格得極其便宜， 遠低於兩萬美元， 這就是我們要設計的恆溫箱。

So, this is what we came up with. What you see here looks nothing like an incubator. It looks like a small sleeping bag for a baby. You can open it up completely. It's waterproof. There's no seams inside so you can sterilize it very easily. But the magic is in this pouch of wax. This is a phase-change material. It's a wax-like substance with a melting point of human body temperature, 37 degrees Celsius. You can melt this simply using hot water and then when it melts it's able to maintain one constant temperature for four to six hours at a time, after which you simply reheat the pouch. So, you then place it into this little pocket back here, and it creates a warm micro-environment for the baby.

這就是我們的成果。它看起來一點也不像個恆溫箱。反似嬰兒用的睡袋。你可以把它完全打開。它是防水的。無縫設計，便於消毒。但神奇的地方就在這一包蠟裏。這是一種漸變性材料。 形似蠟，融點爲人體體溫 37攝氏度。用熱水就可以把它融化 當它融化時，它將保持恆定的溫度 每次維持4到6小時，之後，你可以對包囊再加熱。 將它放在背後的小口袋裏，它會爲嬰兒營造 一個溫暖的小環境。

Looks simple, but we've reiterated this dozens of times by going into the field to talk to doctors, moms and clinicians to ensure that this really meets the needs of the local communities. We plan to launch this product in India in 20xx, and the target price point will be 25 dollars, less than 0.1 percent of the cost of a traditional incubator.

看似簡單，但我們爲此多次造訪當地的醫生，母親，診所 以確保它能滿足當地的要求。我們計劃於20xx年在印度投放該產品。目標價格定爲每隻25美元，不到傳統恆溫箱 價格的0.1%。

Over the next five years we hope to save the lives of almost a million babies. But the longer-term social impact is a reduction in population growth. This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies are going to die. We hope that the Embrace infant warmer and other simple innovations like this represent a new trend for the future of technology: simple, localized, affordable solutions that have the potential to make huge social impact.

在接下來的五年，我們希望能夠救助一百萬名嬰兒。但它長期的社會影響是降低人口增長。聽起來似乎有違常理，但只要嬰兒的死亡率降低，人口也將減少，因爲父母們不用擔心孩子會過早夭折而生更多的孩子。我們希望這款"溫暖的擁抱" 以及其他類似的小創新 能代表未來科技的趨勢：簡約化，本土化，經濟化，這將對社會產生巨大影響力。

In designing this we followed a few basic principles. We really tried to understand the end user, in this case, people like Sevitha. We tried to understand the root of the problem rather than being biased by what already exists. And then we thought of the most simple solution we could to address this problem. In doing this, I believe we can truly bring technology to the masses. And we can save millions of lives through the simple warmth of an Embrace.

在設計中，我們遵循了一些基本的法則。我們急用戶之所急，想用戶之所想，瞭解Sevitha他們的需求。我們努力挖掘問題的根源 不受表面現象的影響。我們希望尋找最簡單的方法來解決問題。這樣一來，我相信科技必將造福於大衆。通過簡單的"溫暖的擁抱"，我們可以拯救許多生命。