TED中英双语演讲稿The shrimp with a kick!.pdfVIP

The shrimp with a kick! Sheila Patek 2007-04-05 /talks/sheila_patek_the_shrimp_with_a_kick 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。 If youd like to learn how to play the lobster, we have some here. 如果你希望学些如何用龙虾奏乐，我们会给你一些指导。 And thats not a joke, we really do. 这不是开玩笑，事实上我们就是这样做的。 So come up afterwards and Ill show you how to play a lobster. 好的，接下来，我将为大家展示如何用龙虾奏乐。 So, actually, I started working on whats called the mantis shrimp 实际上，我所研究的对象叫做螳螂虾(俗称：皮皮虾) a few years ago because they make sound. 这是在数年前，因为他们可以发声。 This is a recording I made of a mantis shrimp 这是我记录的一段螳螂虾的录音。 thats found off the coast of California. 它录制于加利福尼亚的海面上。 And while thats an absolutely fascinating sound, 这是一段绝对迷人的乐曲。 it actually turns out to be a very difficult project. 录制它的过程确实非常艰辛。 And while I was struggling to figure out how and why mantis shrimp, 我曾非常努力的想知道螳螂虾是如何发音和怎样发音的。 or stomatopods, make sound, I started to think about their appendages. 或者说我想知道口足类动物是如何发声的，我首先考虑到的是它们身体中存在的一些附 肢。 And mantis shrimp are called mantis shrimp after the praying mantises, 要知道是螳螂出现后螳螂虾才被叫做这个名字的。 which also have a fast feeding appendage. And I started to think, 与螳螂一样它也有一个快速猎食的附肢。然后我开始考虑， well, maybe it will be interesting, while listening to their sounds, 或许这会非常有趣，当听到它们发声时， to figure out how these animals generate very fast feeding strikes. 找出这些动物快速猎食时产生响声的原因。 And so today Ill talk about the extreme stomatopod strike, 今天我将讲述这种口足类动物发出的异常声音。 work that Ive done in collaboration with Wyatt Korff and Roy Caldwell. 这项工作是由我和Wyatt Korff、 Roy Caldwell合作完成的。 So, mantis shrimp come in two varieties: 那么，我们研究的螳螂虾有两个品种。 there are spearers and smashers. 有“长矛型”附肢的，还有“球棍型”附肢的。 And this is a spearing mantis shrimp, or stomatopod. 这个就是“长矛型”螳螂虾，或称为口足类。 And he lives in the sand, and he catches things that go by overhead. 它生活在沙子里，它夹取东西时高过头顶。 So, a quick strike like that. And if w