TED中英官方演讲稿-GuyHoffman_2013X有“灵魂”的机器人.docxVIP

1.My job is to design, build and study robots that communicate with people. 我的工作是设计、构造和研究 那些能够与人交流的机器人。2.But this story doesnt start with robotics at all, it starts with animation. 不过这个故事不是从机器人说起， 而是要从动画说起。3.When I first saw Pixars Luxo Jr., 当我第一次看到皮克斯的《顽皮跳跳灯》电影时，4.I was amazed by how much emotion they could put into something as trivial as a desk lamp. 我惊呆了， 一个如此微不足道的台灯 竟能表现如此多的感情。5.I mean, look at them -- at the end of this movie, you actually feel something for two pieces of furniture. 你看他们啊！电影结尾的时候， 你真的开始喜欢上这两件小小的家具了。6.(Laughter) And I said, I have to learn how to do this. （笑声） 我对自己说，我要学会做这样的东西。7.So I made a really bad career decision. 所以我做了一个很坏的职业决策，8.And thats what my mom was like when I did it. 我做出这个决定的时候，我妈妈就是这样的。9.(Laughter) I left a very cozy tech job in Israel at a nice software company and I moved to New York to study animation. （笑声） 我辞去了在以色列一个软件公司的 一份非常舒服的技术工作， 我搬到了纽约 去学习动画。10.And there I lived in a collapsing apartment building in Harlem with roommates. 在那，我和我的室友住在 哈莱姆一栋即将坍塌的公寓楼里。11.Im not using this phrase metaphorically, the ceiling actually collapsed one day in our living room. 我没有夸张， 有一天天花板真的塌下来了 就塌在了我们的客厅里。12.Whenever they did those news stories about building violations in New York, they would put the report in front of our building. 每次报到纽约的违章建筑时， 他们都会跑到们的大楼下进行采访。13.As kind of like a backdrop to show how bad things are. 就好像让你看看现场有多糟糕一样。14.Anyway, during the day I went to school and at night I would sit and draw frame by frame of pencil animation. 言归正传，我上学的日日夜夜， 我不停地一幅又一幅地用铅笔画着画。15.And I learned two surprising lessons -- one of them was that when you want to arouse emotions, it doesnt matter so much how something looks, 我学到了两个让我惊讶的东西—— 其中一个是： 当你想要唤起某些情感时， 外观并不算太重要，16.its all in the motion -- its in the timing of how the thing moves. 关键是动作——物体运动时，对时间的把握。 关键是动作——物体运动时，对时间的把握。17.And the second, was something one of our teachers told us. 第二个是我们的一个老师告诉我们的。18.He actually did the wea