摘要：Sure. Well, first, thank you so much for having me. It really is an honor to be here.

You may remember Heman Bekele from the evening news or throwing out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals game.

你可能记得赫曼·贝克勒出现在晚间新闻中，或者为华盛顿国民队比赛开出第一球。

But to those of us at Time, he is our 2024 Kid of the Year.

但对我们《时代周刊》来说，他是我们的 2024 年度儿童。

Thank you so much for being here.

非常感谢你来到这里。

A deserved applause. We are so excited and inspired by what you're doing.

当之无愧的掌声！我们对你正在做的事情感到无比兴奋和鼓舞。

I know you have to graduate high school, but I would love to hear a little bit about what you're working on right now.

我知道你还需要完成高中学业，但我很想听听你现在正在做的一些事情。

Sure. Well, first, thank you so much for having me. It really is an honor to be here.

当然。首先，非常感谢你们邀请我。这真的是一种荣幸。

And so to talk a little bit on what I'm working on, I guess the biggest project and the biggest amount of work that I've been doing is this past summer, I was doing research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health.

所以，谈到我正在做的事情，我想最大的项目和我投入最多精力的工作是今年夏天，我在约翰·霍普金斯大学布隆伯格公共卫生学院进行研究。

And pretty much what I was doing was beginning some preclinical trials for skin cancer-treatment soap.

基本上，我正在为一种治疗皮肤癌的肥皂进行一些临床前试验。

And I think the video explained it pretty well, but it's this affordable and accessible alternative to modern-day skin cancer treatment, which can be super pricey.

我想视频已经解释得很清楚了，这是一种现代皮肤癌治疗的经济实惠且易于获取的替代方案，而现代治疗可能非常昂贵。

And so this summer we tested it on mice.

所以这个夏天，我们在小鼠身上进行了测试。

So my lab and I, we injected the mice with a basal cell skin carcinoma cell lines.

于是，我和我的实验室团队向小鼠注射了基底细胞皮肤癌细胞系。

And then after that, we started to test a bar of soap periodically over two times a day for about four weeks.

然后，我们开始每天两次定期测试这种肥皂，持续大约四周。

And we were really happy with the results.

我们对结果感到非常满意。

We found that the tumoral growth decreased over a period of four weeks.

我们发现肿瘤的生长在四周内有所减少。

And that really excited us.

这让我们非常兴奋。

And that's something that, of course, needs so much more research, so much more testing, but made me so happy.

当然，这需要更多的研究和测试，但这让我非常高兴。

And that's what we've been doing for the past summer.

这就是我们整个夏天所做的事情。

That is so inspiring.

这真是太鼓舞人心了。

How can we inspire other kids like you to get involved in health and in science?

我们如何能像你一样激励其他孩子参与健康和科学领域？

That's a great question.

这是个很好的问题。

And that's one I ask myself every day, too.

这也是我每天都会问自己的问题。

I mean, when I'm not doing research, which primarily takes up my summer, I do love inspiring, especially youth, talking with kids my age.

我的意思是，当我不做研究时——研究主要占用了我的暑假时间——我确实喜欢激励他人，特别是与同龄的孩子交流。

And I think the best way to do it is to have the conversations, to give exposure to people who might not have been exposed to STEM and STEAM from a really young age.

我认为最好的方式就是通过对话，为那些可能从小没有接触过 STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）和 STEAM（加上艺术）的孩子提供机会。

I think I'm so fortunate to have had that exposure.

我觉得自己非常幸运，能够从小就接触到这些领域。

The video talks about it, but I love mixing different household chemicals together.

视频中提到过，我喜欢把不同的家用化学品混合在一起。

My parents always worried I would one day burn down the house.

我的父母总是担心我有一天会把房子烧了。

That never ended up happening, but I think that initial curiosity was what grew to the cancer research I'm conducting today.

这从未发生过，但我认为最初的好奇心促成了我今天进行的癌症研究。

And so for any kid, that level of exposure and that level of confidence and having people that believe in them and show them what's right is essential, and that's how we're going to start having more.

因此，对于任何孩子来说，这种程度的接触、这种程度的自信，以及有支持他们、相信他们并为他们指引正确方向的人，是至关重要的。这就是我们如何开始培养更多人才的方法。

Well, thank you so much.

非常感谢你。

Another round of applause.

再来一轮掌声。

来源：英语东