TED中英官方演讲稿-JamesBalog_2009G定时拍摄记录极度快速流失的冰层.docxVIP

1.Most of the time, art and science stare at each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. 很多时候，艺术和科学 隔着一条不可逾越的鸿沟注视着对方。2.There is great confusion when the two look at each other. 当它俩互视时彼此存在着巨大的困惑。3.Art, of course, looks at the world through the psyche, the emotions -- even the unconscious at times -- and of course the aesthetic. 艺术，当然，通过心灵、情感 --甚至有时侯潜意识--还有审美观来观察世界。4.Science tends to look at the world through the rational, the quantitative -- things that can be measured and described -- but it gives art a terrific context for [knowledge and] understanding. 科学趋向于通过理智、数量-- 可以测量和描述的事物--来观察世界， 但是它提供给艺术一个很棒的（知识和）认知环境。5.In the Extreme Ice Survey, were dedicated to bringing those two parts of human understanding together, merging art and science to the end of helping us understand nature 在“极端冰层调查”中， 我们致力于把人类认知的这两部分结合在一起， 把艺术和科学融合 最后来帮助我们更好地了解自然6.and humanitys relationship with nature better. 和人类的关系。7.Specifically, as a person whos been a professional nature photographer my whole adult life, I am firmly of the belief that photography, video and film 特别作为一个 当了大半辈子专业自然摄影师的人， 我坚信照片，视频和电影8.have tremendous power to help us understand, and shape the way we think about nature and about ourselves in relationship to nature. 有着很强大的力量来帮助我们了解， 并塑造大家对自然的思考 以及自身与自然关系。9.In this project, were specifically interested, of course, in ice. 在这个项目中，我们特别感兴趣的，当然，是冰层。10.Im fascinated by the beauty of it, the mutability of it, the malleability of it, and the fabulous shapes in which it can carve itself. 我着迷于它的美丽，它的变化无常， 它的柔韧， 以及它可以自我雕刻出来的绝妙形态。11.These first images are from Greenland. 第一批影像来自于格陵兰岛。12.But ice has another meaning. 但是冰层有另一层意义。13.Ice is the canary in the global coal mine. 冰层是全球气候的预兆（“煤矿上的金丝雀”意思是未来的预兆，到二十世纪采矿公司还常利用金丝雀异常反应来探测矿内煤气的浓度）。14.Its the place where we can see and touch and hear and feel climate change in action. 在这里我们可以看到、摸到、听到并确切感受到正在发生的气候变化。15.Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world. 在世界大多数地方气