TED演讲稿_LeeCronin_2011G让物质具有生命.docxVIP

1.What Im going to try and do in the next 15 minutes or so is tell you about an idea of how were going to make matter come alive. 我在接下来的15分钟准备做的 就是告诉你们一个 关于人们如何让物质具有生命的理念2.Now this may seem a bit ambitious, but when you look at yourself, you look at your hands, you realize that youre alive. 这理念听起来可能有些野心勃勃 可是当你看着自己，看着自己的双手 你意识到你是活着的3.So this is a start. 这便是我们理念的开始4.Now this quest started four billion years ago on planet Earth. 对这种理念的探寻始于四十亿年前的地球上5.Theres been four billion years of organic, biological life. 在过去的四十亿年中 生命是有机的，生物上的概念6.And as an inorganic chemist, my friends and colleagues make this distinction between the organic, living world and the inorganic, dead world. 作为一名无机化学家 我的朋友和同事在 有机的，有生命的世界 和无机的，死得世界间做出了区分。7.And what Im going to try and do is plant some ideas about how we can transform inorganic, dead matter into living matter, into inorganic biology. 我接下来要做的就是播种一些思想 关于我们如何能将无机的、没有生命的物质 转化为有生命的物质、转化为无机生物学。8.So before we do that, I want to kind of put biology in its place. 所以在我们开始之前， 我想要摆正一下生物学的位置。9.And Im absolutely enthralled by biology. 我完全为生物学而着迷。10.I love to do synthetic biology. 我喜欢合成生物学。11.I love things that are alive. 我爱有生命的东西。12.I love manipulating the infrastructure of biology. 我喜欢研究生物学的基础领域。13.But within that infrastructure, we have to remember that the driving force of biology is really coming from evolution. 但是在基础领域里， 我们必须记得， 生物学的驱动力 事实上来自于进化。14.And evolution, although it was established well over 100 years ago by Charles Darwin and a vast number of other people, evolution still is a little bit intangible. 而进化， 尽管它的理论在一百年以前就被查尔斯.达尔文 和许多其他的科学家所建立和完善 进化论依然有一点点抽象。15.And when I talk about Darwinian evolution, I mean one thing and one thing only, and that is survival of the fittest. 当我谈到达尔文的进化论时， 我仅仅指的是一个论点， 即适者生存。16.And so forget about evolution in a kind of metaphysical way. 所以不要用 形而上学的方法来研究进化论。17.Think about evolution in terms of offspring competing, and some winning. 当想到进化时， 要从子孙后