英语演讲稿：乌鸦的智商到底有多高(中英文对照).docxVIP

英语演讲稿：乌鸦的智商到底有多高 (中英文 对照 ) How many of you have seen the Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds? Any of you get really freaked out by that? You might want to leave now.So this is a vending machine for crows.Over the past few days, many of you have been asking, How did you come tothis? How did you get started doing this? It started, as with many great ideas, or many ideas you cant get rid of, anyway, at a cocktail party. 这里有多少人看 过希区柯克的 电影《鸟》 ?是不是认为那片子太 过离奇了 ?要是那 样的话，你现在可以走了。 ( 笑声 ) 大家看到的是一台 专门为乌鸦设计 的自动售货机。 过去几天，人们都在问我同样的问题： “你怎么开始搞 这玩意的 ?有什么吸引你的地方 吗?”说实话 ，这玩意就像很多 伟大的想法， 或者一些你无法在 脑中驱散的想法一 样， 是从一次 鸡尾酒派 对产生的。 About 10 years ago, I was at a cocktail party with a friend of mine. We were sitting there, and he was complaining about the crows that were all over his yard and making a big mess. And he was telling me we ought to eradicate these things,kill them, because theyre making a mess. I said that was stupid, maybe we should just train them to do something useful. And he said that was impossible. 大概十年前，我与一个朋友在一个 鸡尾酒派 对上， 我们坐在那，他一直在抱怨 乌鸦， 乌鸦们 把他的院子搞得一 团糟。 他那时很认真的跟我 说，我们得想办法消灭这些鬼东西，否则我们就不会有好日子 过。 我跟他 说，那才是坏主意呢， 咱们为何不训练它们，让乌鸦帮我们人类做一点有意 义的事情 ? 他丢给我一句 “那不可能 ”。 And Im sure Im in good company in finding that tremendously annoying, when someone tells you its impossible. So I spent the next 10 years reading about crows in my spare time. 我相信绝对不只我一人 觉得这极度恼人—— 当有人告 诉你“那不可能 ”时。于是决定用 年的时间在我的业余时间专门 研究乌鸦。 And after 10 years of this, my wife said,Youve got to do this thing youve been talking about, and build the vending machine. So I did. But part of the reason I found this interesting is, I started noticing that were very aware of all the species that are going extinct on the planet as a result of human habitation expansion,and no one seems to be paying attention to all the species that are actually living;theyre surviving. And Im talking specifically about synanthropic species,which have adapted specifically for human ecologies, species like rats and cockroaches and crows. 现在 10 年过去了，我妻子 说，“好