TED中英双语演讲稿The surprising science of happiness.pdfVIP

The surprising science of happiness Dan Gilbert 2006-09-26 /talks/dan_gilbert_the_surprising_science_of_happiness 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。 When you have 21 minutes to speak, 相对二十一分钟的演讲来说， two million years seems like a really long time. 两百万年显得非常漫长。 But evolutionarily, two million years is nothing. 但是从进化的角度来看， 两百万年只是一瞬间。 And yet, in two million years, the human brain has nearly tripled in mass, 在两百万年中， going from the one-and-a-quarter-pound brain of our ancestor here, Habilis, 大脑脑容量从我们祖先能人的1.25磅， to the almost three-pound meatloaf everybody here has between their ears. 增大了近三倍成了现在的3磅。 What is it about a big brain that nature was so eager for every one of us to have one? 自然给予我们的大脑有什么特别之处呢？ Well, it turns out when brains triple in size, 当我们的脑量扩大三倍的时候， they dont just get three times bigger; they gain new structures. 大脑不仅仅在体积上有了改变， 它在结构上也发生了变化。 And one of the main reasons our brain got so big is because it got a new part, 我们大脑变大的最大原因就是 它有了新的一部分，叫做 called the frontal lobe, particularly, a part called the prefrontal cortex. 额叶。其中尤为重要的是前额叶外皮。 What does a prefrontal cortex do for you 是什么让前额叶外皮成 that should justify the entire architectural overhaul of the human skull 人脑中如此重要的一部分？ in the blink of evolutionary time? Well, it turns out the prefrontal cortex does lots of things, 脑前额叶外皮有很多功能， but one of the most important things it does is its an experience simulator. 其中最重要的是它拥有一种创造模拟经验的功能。 Pilots practice in flight simulators 飞行员利用在飞行模拟器中的训练 so that they dont make real mistakes in planes. 来防止在真实飞行中产生失误。 Human beings have this marvelous adaptation 人类有惊人的适应性， that they can actually have experiences in their heads 他们可以在大脑中体验 before they try them out in real life. This is a trick that none of our ancestors could do, 未曾真实经历的东西。这个技巧是我们的祖先们都不会的， and that no other animal can do quite like we can. 也没有任何动物会。 这种适应性