TED演讲稿_JohnHodgman_2012设计，及其解释.docxVIP

1.Today Im going to unpack for you three examples of iconic design, and it makes perfect sense that I should be the one to do it because I have a Bachelors degree in Literature. 今天我将给你们解析 来解释这些 2.(Laughter) But Im also a famous minor television personality and an avid collector of Design Within Reach catalogs, so I pretty much know 所以我很清楚3.everything there is. 4.Now, Im sure you recognize this object; many of you probably saw it as you were landing your private zeppelins at Los Angeles International Airport 现在，我很确定你们 可以认出这个东西； 你们当中的很多人很有可能见过它 当你们的私人飞艇 在过去的几天里5.over the past couple of days. 降落在洛杉矶国际机场时。6.This is known as the Theme Building; that is its name for reasons that are still very murky. 至今不明。7.And it is perhaps the best example we have in Los Angeles of ancient extraterrestrial architecture. 并且这也许是我们 在洛杉矶有 远古外星人建筑的最好实例。8.It was first excavated in 1961 as they were building LAX, although scientists believe that it dates back to the year 2000 Before Common Era, 它始建于1961年 尽管科学家们相信 它可以追溯到 9.when it was used as a busy transdimensional space port by the ancient astronauts who first colonized this planet and raised our species 一个繁忙的跨维空间港口， 那些远古宇航员们 他们首先开拓了这个殖民星球 让我们这些种族10.from savagery by giving us the gift of written language and technology and the gift of revolving restaurants. 并且教会了我们语言 和科技 还有送给我们这个空中餐厅作为礼物。11.It is thought to have been a replacement for the older space ports located, of course, at Stonehenge and considered to be quite an improvement 它被认为是 并且它被认为是 一个经过改进的12.due to the uncluttered design, the lack of druids hanging around all the time and obviously, the much better access to parking. 干净的设计， 没有了周围德鲁伊教挂像， 并且显而易见的是，它有很方便进出的 停车场。13.When it was uncovered, it ushered in a new era of streamlined, archaically futuristic design called Googie, which came to be synonymous with 也叫做“古吉（Googie 音译）”派， 14.the Jet Age, a misnomer. 是个错误的说法。15.After all, the ancient astronauts who used it did