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Thank you Oxford, and thank you Oxford Union.
感谢牛津大学，感谢牛津大学联合会。
It is truly an honor and a privilege to be here today and that you have afforded me this opportunity to speak to you.
今天有机会到此为各位做演讲，我感到无比荣幸。
I must confess, I am somewhat mystified as to why you are here. Because there won't be any singing, any hip-shaking. What so ever.
坦白地说，对于大家的到来我感到有些困惑，因为今天在此，我既不唱歌，而且这里也没有热舞。
So, how do I, a girl from Barranquilla, Colombia come to occupy the same stage as Newton and Churchill. Lord knows I'm no Mother Teresa, but here I am, nonetheless.
那么，我，一个来自哥伦比亚巴兰基利亚小城的女孩儿，怎么会站到了牛顿和丘吉尔曾经站过的讲台上？众所周知，我不是特蕾莎修女，但是不管怎样，我今天站在了这里。
I realize that one point of view from which I can depart is that of an artist. After all, it is who I am. We artists depend on our imaginations.
我知道我可以从艺人的视角来进行演讲，毕竟我就是一个艺人。我们这些艺人靠的是想象力。
When I first learned I was coming, I thought about the past and I imagined the future. From your minds, ideas will sprout that will give new shape to the world. I cannot help but fast-forward to what the world will be like in 50 years. What will be happening? Who will we be? What challenges can we overcome? How will we live?
在我刚刚得知自己要来这里的时候，我追忆过去，畅想未来。你们的脑海中将迸出思想的火花，这些火花将给世界带来新的变化。我不禁立刻想到半个世纪后这个世界的样子。半个世纪后，会发生什么事情呢？我们会是谁呢？我们会战胜哪些挑战呢？我们怎么生活呢？
I have a fantasy about this future that I want to share with you today.
在此我想和在座的各位一起分享我对未来的幻想。
Let me put it this way, if civilization were a car, we would have been cruising at 20 miles per hour for millions of years only to hit light speed in the last hundred.
让我这么说吧，如果把文明比作一辆汽车，那么数百万年以来我们一直在以每小时20英里的速度平稳行驶，但却在最近的几百年里达到了光速。
So I wonder what make us accelerate so quickly recently and how can we continue this pace? There is only one explanation to me, and that's the democratization of education.
是什么让我们的文明在最近这些年迅猛发展，我们又该如何保持这个速度呢？在我看来答案只有一个：教育的民主化。
