BBC Horizon ： Do You Know What Time It Is？《BBC 地平线系列：时空谜团（2008）》完整中英文对照剧本.docxVIP

我们生活中有一个方面是我们大家都不假思索的Theres an aspect of our lives that we all take for granted.它太熟悉不过了 你通常是不会予以重新考虑的Its something so familiar, you usually dont give it a second thought.作为人类的一个关键要素就是我们看得懂时间One of the key elements of being a human being is that we can tell the time.它让我们明白世界 -It allows us to make sense of the world -过去 现在和将来past, present and the future.然而它绝非你想象的那样简单But its nowhere near as straightforward as you might think.我是布赖恩·考克斯教授 我要来揭示时间的秘密Im Professor Brian Cox and I want to find out what makes time tick.我们具备了测量时间推移的手段We have ways to measure the passing of time但是我们无法知道时间推移时会发生什么事情but we dont know what happens when time passes.我甚至此刻都无法告诉你 此刻究竟是指什么I cant even tell you at the moment what at the moment means.就是眼下Even momentarily.了解事件谈何容易Knowing the time is not easy.我非常肯定所谓时间的推移最终是个假象I damned sure that flow of time is ultimately an illusion.空中没有什么大钟在滴答作响Theres no big clock in the sky which ticks away at the same rate对人们来说 无论他们在哪里或在干什么for everybody, no matter where they are or what theyre doing.时间有起点吗？Did time have a beginning?为什么时间在走呢？Why does time tick?我们的未来早已存在了吗？And does our future already exist?我将尝试回答你可能会提出的一个最简单的问题 -Im going to try and answer one of the simplest questions you could ask -“时间是什么？”What time is it?你了解时间吗BBC - Horizon 2008 - Do You Know What Time It Is现在几点钟？　5:58So, what time is it now? Its 5:58.我们几时到那里？What time have we got to be there?日出是6:11The sun rises at 6:11.所以我们还有13分钟So weve got about 13 minutes.“时间是什么”这个问题 人类已经思索了数千年What time is it? is a question that humanity has asked for millennia.我们许多古文明已经不遗余力地Many of our ancient civilisations went to great lengths试图回答这个简单的问题to try and answer this simple question.没有人比得上玛雅人的None more so than the Maya.我来到了墨西哥尤卡坦半岛 来考察奇琴伊察的古代玛雅神庙Ive come to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico to see the ancient Mayan temples at Chichen Itza.你通常是不允许做这个的Youre not usually allowed to do this.但是因为现在是早晨6点钟 这里没有什么人But because its 6am and theres nobody here,我们获准登上金字塔wev