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A major new exhibition in the heart of Washington celebrates the artistic achievements, of Native American women with more than 80 works of art.
华盛顿市中心的一个大型全新展览展出了八十多件艺术品， 以此庆祝美国土著妇女的艺术成就。

Parts of our people, Native women artists is the first exhibit of its kind, says Anya Montiel,curatorof American and Native American Women's Art and Crafts, at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
史密森尼美国艺术博物馆伦威克美术馆的美国和美洲土著妇女艺术与手工艺品策展人安雅·蒙蒂尔说，作为我们民族的一部分，土著女性艺术家是首类参与此类展览的人群。

There have been other exhibitions in the past that have featured only Native women artists. But those exhibitions tended to future contemporary art.
在过去的展览中，只有土著女性艺术家参加。但这些展览倾向于面向未来的当代艺术。

So the curators of this show, they wanted to make sure that this exhibition is comprehensive, in the timespan as well as including many different artistic mediums as possible.
本次展览的策展人希望确保展览内容全面，不仅在时间跨度上，还要尽可能涵盖多种不同的艺术媒介。

Those mediums range from paintings, textiles and sculptures to baskets and even wearable art.
这些媒介涵盖了绘画、纺织品、雕塑、篮子，甚至还有可穿戴艺术。

The exhibit explores three central themes: legacy, relationship and power.
该展览探索了三个中心主题：遗产、关系和权力。

Legacy is really talking about continuum. A lot of these artists have learned these traditions from their ancestors.
遗产实际上讨论的是连续体。这些艺术家中的许多人都是从祖先那里学习到这些传统的。

Adorned with teeth from hunted elk, it took many years to gather enough to decorate a single dress.
这件服饰以猎获的麋鹿牙齿作为装饰，耗费多年才收集到足够数量来点缀一整件衣裳。

So you have this dress that is put together by the women of the family, but with this beautiful decoration, that really shows the legacy of the entire family.
这件衣服是由家庭中的女性共同缝制，但配上这精美的装饰，真正展现了整个家族的传承。

The theme of relationship represents the connection between humans and the earth.
关系的主题代表了人与地球之间的联系。

This one is called Wisdom of the Universe by Christi Belcourt. And it looks like beadwork, but it's actually all painting in acrylic.
这幅作品名为“宇宙的智慧”，作者是克里斯蒂·贝尔考特。它看起来像是珠饰，但实际上都是用丙烯颜料绘制的。

And upon closer inspection, the insects the birds and the plants are actually endangered species, and so it's really presenting to us what are we going to do about this.
仔细观察可以发现，这些昆虫、鸟类和植物实际上都是濒危物种，它真的在向我们提出一个问题：我们该如何应对这一状况。

The theme of power speaks to the authority of Native women within their nations.
权力的主题讲述了土著妇女在她们社会内的权威。

Especially for the Muscogee Creek, they are matrilineal nation. The women were the ones who made the decisions, especially about whether or not they were going to go to war.
尤其是对于马斯科基民族来说，他们是母系氏族。女人们才是做决策的人，尤其是关于是否要参战的决策。

Visitors did the exhibit had an emotional response.
参观者对这些作品有着强烈的感触。

The last piece I was just looking at how to scar from shoulder to her hip, and the trauma of the culture that has been really traumatized by another was extremely impactful.
我看的最后一幅作品展示了从肩膀到臀部的疤痕，以及一种文化受到另一种文化重创所带来的伤痛 ，这极具冲击力。

One over there with the girl and the scar in the back that was really powerful. I don't know. It's just like, I wanted to cry when I saw it.
那边有个女孩，后背有一道伤疤，真的给我很强烈的冲击。不知道为什么，看着这幅作品我就想哭。

And that's the point of this exhibit, expose people to the variety of artwork created by Native American women, who may never have received the credit they deserve.
这就是这次展览的意义所在， 让人们接触到美国土著妇女创作的各种艺术品， 她们可能从未得到应有的赞誉。

This exhibition has so many testaments of these women saying that, despite everything that's happened to Native women, the cultures and the traditions are still so strong.
这场展览汇集了众多女性的证言，她们诉说着尽管原住民女性经历了种种磨难，但文化与传统的生命力依然如此顽强。

This touring exhibit remains in Washington until May.
该巡回展览将在华盛顿展出到五月。

So far,this thriving and unique coral reef in Red Sea waters off Egypt is a climate change survivor.
到目前为止，埃及红海水域中这片繁茂而独特的珊瑚礁是气候变化的幸存者。

While warmer waters bleach reefs everywhere, the ecosystem in the Gulf of Aqaba stands strong, and may hold the key to receding other reefs if it can survive the crowds of tourists.
虽然水温上升导致全球珊瑚礁白化， 但亚喀巴湾的生态系统仍然很稳健，如果它能在游客潮中生存下来，或许就掌握着拯救其他珊瑚礁的关键。

Obviously we're in a tourist town. So it's very important with this influx of humans to keep awareness high, and you know most of town relies on the dive industry.
毫无疑问，这里是一个旅游小镇。随着大量游客涌入，保持高度警觉至关重要，要知道镇上大部分经济都依赖潜水产业。

Amy Johnson co-founded the citizen science venture project Azraq.
艾米·约翰逊是公民科学风险项目阿兹拉克(Azraq)的共同创办者。

The marine conservation group educates local communities on how to protect coral reef ecosystems.
海洋保护组织会教育当地社区如何保护珊瑚礁生态系统。

Basically we collect data on fish, invertebrates, coral and coral diseases.
我们会收集有关鱼类、无脊椎动物、珊瑚和珊瑚疾病的数据。

All the data we collect gives us an insight into the health of the reef.
我们收集的所有数据都能让我们深入了解珊瑚礁的健康状况。

So that chosen the species, we want to chose some specifically, because that indicates the reef health.
我们会选择一些特定的物种，因为它们能反映珊瑚礁的健康状况。

On this day, the team dives to perform a monthly reef monitoring survey.
在这一天，团队潜水执行每月一次的珊瑚礁监测调查。

To conduct their research, the team places a six-meter-long line, and then logs all nearby inhabitants that indicate a healthy ecosystem.
为了开展研究，研究小组放置了一条六米长的线，然后记录下附近所有能够表明生态系统健康的生物情况。

Project Azraq co-founder Nour El Sawy: One of the things we look for are damselfish.
阿兹拉克项目的联合创始人努尔·艾尔萨维：我们要找的东西之一就是雀鲷。

They are very small and reef associated which means they live in close proximity to the coral reef. They eat the algae. They are farmers.
它们非常小，与珊瑚礁关系密切，生活在离珊瑚礁很近的地方。它们吃藻类，是海洋中的农民。

They make sure corals are cleans canbreatheand are not suffocating from algae growth.
他们确保珊瑚得到清洁、能够呼吸，不会因为藻类的生长而窒息。

Tourism draws divers to this coral reef which forms the backbone of the economy into hub.
旅游业吸引潜水者来到这片珊瑚礁，它构成了当地经济的支柱。

But the industry also adds to the junk piling up on the ocean floor.
但该行业也使堆积在海底的垃圾不断增加。

Team project Azraq has a dive against debris initiative where they collect and sort underwater trash, which they then enter into a database, that tells them which items caused the most damage in their area.
阿兹拉克项目发起了一项清理海洋垃圾的潜水行动，他们收集并分类海底垃圾，然后将这些信息录入数据库，该系统能精准分析出哪些垃圾对当地生态环境造成的破坏最为严重。

In a fantasy world, a celebrity chef like Aaron Sanchez would prepare all of your meals, and use only sustainably sourced organic produce.
在幻想世界里，像亚伦·桑切斯这样的名厨会为你准备所有餐食，并且只使用原料来源可持续的有机农产品。

Reality is everyone has to shop for and prepare our own food at some point.
现实是每个人在某个时刻都得自己去采购和准备食物。

How can you be sure that you're getting the best ingredients?
你怎么能确定你买到的是最好的食材呢？

That those organic vegetables are in fact organic. IBM thinks the solution lies in blockchain technology.
怎么能确定那些有机蔬菜真的是有机的呢？IBM认为解决方案在于区块链技术。

IBM is connecting the world's food supply from farmer to producer, supplier to manufacturer.
IBM正在将全球食品供应链从农民到生产商、从供应商到制造商连接起来。

And so we're connecting it in a secure, shared platform which is blockchain.
我们将其连接到一个安全的共享平台，即区块链。

A blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger, where transactions are recorded, verified and become permanent and immutable.
区块链是一种去中心化的数字账本，会记录并验证每一笔交易，并且将永久留存，不可改变。

With IBM Food Trust, a record of food's journey through the supply chain is created at each step. How exactly does it work?
借助IBM食物信托平台，食品在供应链中的每一步旅程都会被记录。具体是如何运作的呢？

So blockchain uses cryptography and we use hashing. And what that means is the information is connected to each other, and if you try to change the information, it changes the hashing, so that you know it has been compromised.
区块链使用密码学，我们使用散列算法。这意味着信息之间相互关联，如果你试图更改信息，便会更改散列值，这样你就知道信息已被篡改。

And the technology can be used for any number of foods, fresh or packaged.
这项技术可以用于任何数量的食品，无论是新鲜的还是包装的。

So our consumer can scan a package of scallops, and understand that it's coming from a place that sustainably source, and it is fresh and the best-tasting scallops.
我们的消费者可以扫描一包扇贝，了解它来自可持续捕捞的产地，新鲜味美、口感最佳。

For chefs like Sanchez, blockchain technology helps engender trust around the food distribution and handling process.
对于像桑切斯这样的厨师来说，区块链技术有助于在食品分销和处理过程中建立信任。

Before I mean you know the farmer would send it to a middle person, a distributor, and the distributor would send it to us, so it was one entity removed from the actual farmer.
以前农民会把食材交给中间商，也就是分销商，然后分销商再转交给我们，我们和农民之间隔了一个环节。

A foods traceability becomes especially pertinent in the wake of foodborne outbreaks.
食品溯源在食源性疾病暴发后变得尤为重要。

You know, instead of decimating the whole farm because there was one outbreak, now we can isolate to that one little parcel.
以前一旦爆发疫情就得毁掉整个农场，现在我们可以只将隔离范围缩小到那一小块区域。

With blockchain, farm-to-table takes on a new meaning.
借助区块链技术，从农场到餐桌被赋予了全新的含义。

Welsh born designer Lucy Jones says she's been interested in fashion since she was a child, starting when her parents gave her a sewing machine.
威尔士出生的设计师露西·琼斯表示她从小就对时尚感兴趣，这始于父母送给她一台缝纫机的时候。

When I was 19 years old, I was really feisty, fiery, brave. I thought moving all the way to New York from Wales, where there are more sheep than people.
当我十九岁的时候，我真的很活泼、充满热情、非常勇敢。我想从威尔士一路搬到纽约，在威尔士，那里羊的数量甚至比人多。

I wanted to be the next big designer that was gonna have these glamorous runway shows.
我想成为下一个能举办这些迷人时装秀的大设计师。

I was never thinking about disability. I was never thinking about, you know, underserved people. And then something changed.
我从来没有考虑过残疾人群。从来没有考虑过底层人群的需求。但是事情发生了转机。

With most of the fashion industry serving the average healthy person, Jones didn't want to become just one of many. She wanted to be special.
由于大多数时尚业都是为普通健康人服务的，琼斯不想成为众多时尚产业中的一员。她想要与众不同。

I started talking with a family member who has cerebral palsy.
我开始和一位患有脑瘫的家庭成员交流我的想法。

And he said wouldn't it be great if things were more accessible, you know, doing up a pair of shoes independently and things I had never thought about.
他说，如果能让残疾人群的生活变得更加容易就好了， 比如独立系鞋带之类的，这些都是我从未想过的。

So Jones began to think about how a fashion designer can make the lives of disabled people easier and more beautiful.
于是琼斯开始思考，时装设计师如何能够让残疾人的生活变得更轻松、更美丽。

She raised this question with people she knew or found through social media, one of them Brianna Scalesse who models Jones's clothes, recalls the first time she saw the product.
她向认识的人或在社交媒体上找到的人提出了这个问题，其中一位是为琼斯的衣服做模特的布里安娜·斯卡利西，她回忆起第一次看到这款产品时的情景。

We were in a cafe and we were sitting down, and she just like pulled the product out of a bag to show me.
我们在一家咖啡馆里坐下来，她从袋子里拿出这款产品给我看，

And it was emotional for me, because I've been so used to growing up and being a person with a disability, kind of being ignored by the world and by fashion.
我特别激动，因为我已经习惯了作为一个残疾人的生活， 我们经常会被世界和时尚界所忽视。

The release of her first collection in 2015, coincided with the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
其产品的第一个系列于2015年发布， 恰逢美国残疾人法案颁布二十五周年。

And her work was noticed. Jones started with accessories that she presented at a special event.
其产品引起了人们的关注。琼斯从她在一场特别活动中展示的配饰开始做起。

A challenge many wheelchair-bound people face is, there is nowhere to put a hot drink as they wheel. So she designed a special cup holder and a purse holder.
许多坐轮椅的人面临的一个挑战是，他们在推动轮椅时无处放置热饮。。所以她设计了一个特殊的杯架和一个皮包架。

Just regular purses, you know, like trying to like just throw it over your shoulder, and every time I'm rolling, it's just falling down,like into my chair.
如果是普通的皮包，我们一般会这样搭在肩膀上，可每次我滑动轮椅，它就会掉到轮椅上。

And after that event, a number of people from the audience, ambassadors just said, I want to invest. Her products quickly became a huge success.
在那次活动之后， 许多观众和代表都纷纷表示想要投资。她的产品很快就大获成功。

A nine-to-five office job isn't for these women.
朝九晚五的办公室工作不适合这些女性。

Instead, they work construction and they do it for the same reasons the men do, because they find construction work more fulfilling.
相反，她们从事建筑工作，她们从事该行业的原因和男人一样，因为她们觉得建筑工作更有成就感。

Being able to see the bigger picture, being a part of something bigger, so driving by the building be like,
建筑行业能够让我看到更宏大的愿景，成为更伟大事业的一部分，有时路过某栋建筑，我就会想，

I built that building to your family, or to your kids in the future, that's kind of why I did it, just to be a part of something bigger.
这是我为你们的家人、为你们未来的孩子所建造的， 这就是我从事这一行业的原因，它让我能够成为某种宏大愿景的一部分。

Before they start working,these women taken mandatory training course at a special center.
在开始工作之前，这些女性在一个特殊的中心参加了强制性的培训课程。

And many of them say it teaches them not just to construct buildings, but also build a harmonious relationship with themselves.
许多人表示，这不仅教会了她们如何建造建筑， 还教会了她们与自己建立和谐的关系。

I think it's for me, personally, it's a constant battle on gaining confidence, but this job has definitely helped it.
我想对我个人来说，这是一场获取信心的持续斗争， 这份工作确实对我有所帮助。

I don't think I would be as confident as I am now working in another field.
如果我现在从事的是另一个行业，我觉得我可能不会像现在这样自信。

Today women make up about 10 percent of all construction workers in the country.
如今，女性约占全国建筑工人总数的百分之十。

All the workers need are a few tools, a helmet, special protective glasses, training,and self-confidence.
建筑工人只需要几样工具，一顶安全帽，专用护目镜，并且要接受培训、建立自信。

Kelly Kupcak has been working in construction for over two decades.
凯利·卡普丘克已经在建筑业工作了二十多年。

For the last three years, she has been head of the Tradeswomen organization, a company that has been helping women in Portland Oregon, to master construction work for free.
在过去的三年里，她一直是Tradeswomen组织的负责人， 这家公司一直在免费帮助俄勒冈州波特兰妇女掌握建筑工作技能。

Kupcak also helps them find a job, something a lot of them need because it's harder for women to break into the business.
卡普丘克还帮助她们找到工作，这是许多人需要的，因为女性更难进入这一行业。

I also saw some really hard things, and I experienced some really hard things as a woman, in an industry that still dominated by men, and an industry which I think is changing.
作为一名女性，我目睹并且亲身经历了一些非常艰难的事情，因为我所处的行业仍然由男性主导，但我认为这个行业正在发生变化。

But back then, it was still largely this very macho like, why are you here, why are you here taking my job,
但在当时，这一行业很大程度上仍然是属于男人的，人们会质问：你为什么要来这里？为什么要抢走我的工作？

why are you here taking a job from another man who has to feed his family, and I was like, I have to feed my family too.
为什么要夺走另一个需要养家糊口的男人的饭碗？而我的回应是：我也需要养家啊。

So that was a big eye-opening experience for me firsthand.
对我来说，这是一次让我大开眼界的亲身经历。