TED演讲稿_Rives_2012S重新发明“百科全书游戏”.docxVIP

1.So, last month, the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced that it is going out of print after 244 years, which made me nostalgic, because I remember playing a game with the colossal encyclopedia set in my hometown library 上个月，大英百科全书宣布， 在墨印了244年后， 它即将停止继续印刷。 这让我变得很怀旧， 因为我想起了一个我小时候在我家乡的2.back when I was a kid, maybe 12 years old. 图书馆中用一本巨大的百科全书所玩的游戏， 那时我大概12岁左右吧。3.And I wondered if I could update that game, not just for modern methods, but for the modern me. 而我想我是否可以将那个游戏升级， 不仅用现代化了的方式， 也是为了今天的我。4.So I tried. 所以我尝试了。5.I went to an online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and I entered the term Earth. 我上了一个在线百科全书， 维基百科，然后输入了“地球”。6.You can start anywhere, this time I chose Earth. 你可以从任何地方开始，这次我选了地球。7.And the first rule of the game is pretty simple. 游戏的第一个规则很简单。8.You just have to read the article until you find something you dont know, and preferably something your dad doesnt even know. 你只需要阅读这篇文章， 直到你找到一个你不知道的东西， 最好是连你父亲都不知道的东西。9.And in this case, I quickly found this: The furthest point from the center of the Earth is not the tip of Mount Everest, like I might have thought, 而这次，我很快的找到了这个： 离地球中心最远的点 并不是珠穆朗玛峰的顶端，像我想的那样，10.its the tip of this mountain: Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador. 而是这个山脉的顶端： 厄瓜多尔的钦博拉索山。11.The Earth spins, of course, as it travels around the sun, so the Earth bulges a little bit around the middle, like some Earthlings. 地球会自转，同时也在绕着太阳公转， 所以地球的中线部分有些突出， 像一些的地球人一样。12.And even though Mount Chimborazo isnt the tallest mountain in the Andes, its one degree away from the equator, its riding that bulge, and so the summit of Chimborazo 而虽然钦博拉索山不是安第斯山脉最高的山峰， 它离赤道只有一个度的差距， 它就在那突出的上方，所以钦博拉索山的巅峰13.is the farthest point on Earth from the center of the Earth. 是地球上离地球中心最远的地方。14.And it is really fun to say. 它的名字读起来也很有意思。15.So I immediately decided, this is going to be the name of the game, or my new exclamation. 所以我立刻就决定了， 它将是我的游戏的名字， 或者我新的惊叹词。16.You can use it at TED. 你也可以在TED这里使用。17.Chimborazo, right? 钦博拉索，是吧？18.I