TED演讲稿_MikedeGruy_2010Z我的章鱼情结.docxVIP

1.I first became fascinated with octopus at an early age. 我第一次着迷于章鱼是在我童年的时候。2.I grew up in Mobile, Alabama -- somebodys got to be from Mobile, right? -- and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. 我在阿拉巴马州的莫比尔县长大。 我想在座的各位中也有人去过那里，是吗？ 莫比尔县位于五条河流的交汇处， 这就形成了这个美丽的三角洲。3.And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor. 短吻鳄在这个三角洲里 鱼儿丰富的河流中游荡 蛇从柏树的枝头垂下， 各种各样的鸟儿在枝头歌唱。4.Its an absolute magical wonderland to live in -- if youre a kid interested in animals, to grow up in. 这里绝对是一个充满魔力的仙境 如果你是一个喜爱野生动物的孩子的话。5.And this delta water flows to Mobile Bay, and finally into the Gulf of Mexico. 这个三角洲的水流进莫比尔湾，最终汇入墨西哥湾。6.And I remember my first real contact with octopus was probably at age five or six. 我记得当我第一次接触章鱼 大约是在我五，六岁的时候。7.I was in the gulf, and I was swimming around and saw a little octopus on the bottom. 那时我正在海湾里游泳，看海底发现了一只小章鱼。8.And I reached down and picked him up, and immediately became fascinated and impressed by its speed and its strength and agility. 我于是潜到海底捉住了它，刹那间 我就被它的速度，力量以及敏捷性所迷住了。9.It was prying my fingers apart and moving to the back of my hand. 它在我的指尖小心窥探，还爬到了我的手背上。10.It was all I could do to hold onto this amazing creature. 当时我完全被这个神奇的生物所镇住了。11.Then it sort of calmed down in the palms of my hands and started flashing colors, just pulsing all of these colors. 接着，它在我的掌心稍稍放松了一些 开始闪烁出不同的颜色， 就像是自身会发光一样，12.And as I looked at it, it kind of tucked its arms under it, raised into a spherical shape and turned chocolate brown with two white stripes. 当我注视着它的时候，它将触角收缩到身体下面， 整个身体形成一个球形， 呈巧克力色，上面还有两条白色的花纹。13.Im going, My gosh! I had never seen anything like this in my life! 我在心里想：“天哪！”，我还从未见过如此有意思的东西！14.So I marveled for a moment, and then decided it was time to release him, so I put him down. 惊叹之余，我决定是时候将其放生了， 于是我将它放回水中。15.The octopus left my hands and then did the damnedest thing: It landed on the botto