TED中英官方演讲稿-DennisvanEngelsdorp_2008P为蜜蜂们求情.docxVIP

1.What Id like you to do is, just really quickly, is just, sort of, nod to the person on your right, and then nod to the person on your left. 我想请你们仅仅是，迅速地， 稍微，向你右边的人点个头， 然后再向你左边的人点个头。2.(Laughter) Now, chances are that over the last winter, if you had been a beehive, either you or one of the two people you just nodded at would have died. （笑声） 注意啊！假如一个人是一箱蜂的话，去年冬天，(蜜蜂死亡的)可能性就像， 你或你朝着点头的人中的一个 去世了一样。3.Now, thats an awful lot of bees. 大家知道吗！那可是相当多的蜜蜂。4.And this is the second year in a row we have lost over 30 percent of the colonies, or we estimate weve lost 30 percent of the colonies over the winter. 而且这才是(蜂群开始死亡的)第二年我们就已经损失了超过30%蜂群， 或者我们看成在一个冬天内我们损失了30%的蜂群。5.Now, thats a lot, a lot of bees, and thats really important. 天哪！那是许多，许多蜜蜂，那损失很大。6.And most of those losses are because of things we know. 大部分损失是我们知道的原因造成的。7.We know that there are these varroa mites that have introduced and caused a lot of losses, and we also have this new phenomenon, which I talked about last year, Colony Collapse Disorder. 我们知道这些蜂螨导致 和造成了大量损失，我们还有新的问题 就是去年我介绍过的蜂群崩溃失调症。8.And here we see a picture on top of a hill in Central Valley last December. 我们看一张去年12月中央峡谷的一个小山顶上的照片。9.And below, you can see all these out yards, or temporary yards, where the colonies are brought in until February, and then theyre shipped out to the almonds. 你能看到照片下部这些(房)外庭院， 或者说临时庭院，2月份之前蜂群被运到这里， 后被船送到杏树园中。10.And one documentary writer, who was here and looked at this two months after I was here, described this not as beehives but as a graveyard, with these empty white boxes with no bees left in them. 在我到这儿以后，一位纪实作家来到这儿做了两个月的调查， 他/她笔下这些不是蜂箱 这里是摆满没有蜜蜂的空空的白盒子的(蜜蜂的)墓地。11.Now, Im going to sum up a years worth of work in two sentences to say that we have been trying to figure out what the cause of this is. 现在，我来用两句话总结一下一年来的工作， 告诉大家我们一直在努力寻找 造成这种结果的原因。12.And what we know is that its as if the bees have caught a flu. 就我们所知蜜蜂好像是得了一场流感。13.And this flu has wiped through the population of b