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My wish: Build the Encyclopedia of Life E.O. Wilson 2007-04-03 /talks/e_o_wilson_my_wish_build_the_encyclopedia_of_life Pollykann - A powerful video player (App) for learning languages provided technical support for the subtitles. 本字幕由【小鹦看看】- 用了会后悔，不用更后悔的外语学习App，提供技术支持。 I have all my life wondered what mind-boggling meant. 我整整一生都在想，“mind-boggling”（令人难以置信的）到底是指什么 After two days here, I declare myself boggled, and enormously impressed, 在这里呆了两天，我承认，我已经被深深感染 and feel that you are one of the great hopes -- 我感到，你们代表着伟大的希望 not just for American achievement in science and technology, 不仅仅是美国在科学技术上取得进步的希望 but for the whole world. 也是整个世界的希望 Ive come, however, on a special mission on behalf of my constituency, 我今天来到这里，是代表我的选民 which are the 10-to-the-18th-power -- thats a million trillion -- 它们的数量多达10的18次方 insects and other small creatures, and to make a plea for them. 它们是昆虫以及其他的小动物，我是来为它们申张正义的 If we were to wipe out insects alone, just that group alone, on this planet -- 假如我们要把昆虫从地球上消灭掉，就单单是昆虫 which we are trying hard to do -- 实际上我们也在努力这样做…… the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. 那么剩下的生物包括人类也很可能从地球消失 And within a few months. 这只需几个月的时间 Now, how did I come to this particular position of advocacy? 那我是怎么成为这样一个为昆虫辩护的斗士呢？ As a little boy, and through my teenage years, 当我还是小孩子的时候， I became increasingly fascinated by the diversity of life. 我就对生物之多样性感到越来越浓厚的兴趣 I had a butterfly period, a snake period, a bird period, a fish period, a cave period 我曾经对蝴蝶、蛇、小鸟、鱼以及洞穴感兴趣 and finally and definitively, an ant period. 最后，我对蚂蚁产生浓厚而长久的兴趣 By my college years, I was a devoted myrmecologist, 读大学的时候，我对于蚂蚁研究很有热情 a specialist on the biology of ants, 我是一位研究蚂蚁的专家 but my attention and research continued to make journeys 我的关注点以及研究都 across the great variety of life on Earth in general -- 围绕地球上巨大的生物多样性而展开 including all that it means to us as a species, how little we understand it 包括这对我们人类意味着什么，以及为何我们对此所知甚少 and how pressin