宇宙时空之旅第1季第2集中英台词整理和单词统计
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| This is a story about you | 这是一个有关你 |
| and me and your dog. | 我还有你的狗的故事 |
| There was a time not long ago... before dogs. | 狗出现的时间并不长 |
| They didn't exist. | 之前它们根本不存在 |
| Now there are big ones, small ones, snugglers, | 现在它们有大有小有宠物犬 |
| guardians, hunters. | 有守卫犬还有猎犬 |
| Every kind of dog you could possibly want. | 任何你想要的犬种 |
| How did that happen? | 这是怎么发生的 |
| It's not just dogs. | 不仅仅是狗 |
| Where did all the different kinds of living creatures come from? | 各种各样的生物都是怎么来的 |
| The answer is a transforming power that sounds like something | 答案就是转化的力量这听上去就像 |
| straight out of a fairy tale or myth, | 来自神话传说中的情节 |
| but it's no such thing. | 但这并不是神话 |
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| Let's go back across 30,000 years to a time before dogs, | 让我们回到三万年前那时狗还未出现 |
| when our ancestors lived in the endless winter | 我们的祖先生活在最后一个冰河时期 |
| of the last ice age. | 无尽的冬天里 |
| Our ancestors were wanderers living in small bands. | 我们的祖先小群聚居四处流浪 |
| They slept beneath the stars. | 他们露宿在星空下 |
| The sky was their storybook, calendar, | 天空就是他们的故事书日历 |
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| an instruction manual for living. | 生活的说明书 |
| It told them when the bitter colds would come, | 天空告诉他们严寒什么时候到来 |
| when the wild grains would ripen, | 野生的粮食什么时候成熟 |
| when the herds of caribou and bison would be on the move. | 成群的驯鹿和野牛什么时候开始迁徙 |
| Their idea of home was Earth itself. | 他们的家就是整个地球 |
| But they lived in fear of other hungry creatures... | 但其他饥饿的生物也让他们提心吊胆 |
| the mountain lions and the bears | 山狮和熊 |
| that competed with them for the same prey | 它们和人为了同样的猎物竞争 |
| and the wolves that threatened to carry off and devour | 而狼则会夺走并捕食 |
| the most vulnerable among them. | 他们中最弱小的人类 |
| All the wolves want to get at the bone, | 所有的狼都想得到骨头 |
| but most of them are too frightened to come close enough. | 但大部分狼都害怕离人太近 |
| Their fear is due to high levels | 它们的恐惧起因于血液中 |
| of stress hormones in their blood. | 高水平的应激激素 |
| It's a matter of survival. | 这是它们存活的关键 |
| Because coming too close to humans can be fatal. | 因为离人太近会致命 |
| But a few wolves-- due to natural variations-- | 但是一些狼由于自然变异 |
| have lower levels of those hormones. | 这类激素的水平相对较低 |
| This makes them less afraid of humans. | 这使得它们不怎么害怕人 |
| This wolf has discovered | 这种狼发现了 |
| what a branch of his ancestors figured out some 15,000 years ago... | 它某一枝祖先在15000年前想出的 |
| an excellent survival strategy; | 极好的生存策略 |
| the domestication of humans. | 人类的驯养 |
| Let the humans do the hunting, don't threaten them, | 让人们去狩猎不要威胁他们 |
| and they'll let you scavenge their garbage. | 他们就会让你打扫他们的残羹冷炙 |
| You'll eat more regularly, you'll leave more offspring, | 这样进食更规律也会留下更多后代 |
| and those offspring will inherit your disposition. | 那些后代会继承你的性格 |
| This selection for tameness | 这种驯服的选择 |
| would be reinforced with each generation | 会一代代逐渐加强 |
| until that line of wild wolves evolves into... | 直到野狼的这一分支进化成为了 |
| dogs. | 狗 |
| You might call this "Survival of the friendliest." | 你可能会称之为友好者的幸存 |
| Then as now, this was a good deal for the humans, too. | 就像现在一样这也对人类有利 |
| The scavenging dogs weren't just a sanitation squad. | 这种狗不仅仅能打扫食物 |
| They worked security. | 它们还保证人类的安全 |
| As this interspecies partnership continued over time, | 随着这种物种间的合作不断深入 |
| the dogs' appearance changed also. | 狗的外表也在不断变化 |
| Cuteness became a selective advantage. | 可爱变成了一种选择优势 |
| The more adorable you were, the better chance you had | 你越可爱就越有机会 |
| to live and pass on your genes to another generation. | 生存和传递基因给下一代 |
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| What began as an alliance of convenience | 这种临时的合作 |
| became a friendship that deepened over time. | 变成了日益加深的友谊 |
| To see what happens next, | 看看接下来会发生什么 |
| let's leave our distant ancestors of some 20,000 years ago | 让我们离开20000年前遥远的祖先 |
| to visit the more recent past | 去更近一些的 |
| during an intermission in the Ice Age. | 冰河世纪的间隙看一看 |
| This break in the climate starts a revolution. | 气候发生了变化推动了进化 |
| Instead of wandering, people are settling down. | 人们开始定居下来不再流浪 |
| There's something new in the world... villages. | 世界上出现了一些新的东西聚落 |
| People still hunt and gather, | 人们仍然打猎采集 |
| but now they also produce food and clothing... | 但是现在他们也会生产食物和衣服 |
| agriculture. | 农业出现了 |
| The wolves have traded their freedom | 狼已经用它们的自由 |
| in exchange for a steady meal. | 换取了稳定的食物 |
| They've given up their right to choose a mate. | 它们已经放弃了择偶的权利 |
| Now the humans choose for them. | 现在人类为它们挑选配偶 |
| They consistently kill off the dogs that can't be trained; | 人们会杀死那些不能被驯化的狗 |
| the ones that bite the feeding hand. | 那些咬人的狗 |
| And they breed the dogs that please them. | 繁殖那些讨人喜欢的狗 |
| They nurture those dogs that do their bidding... | 他们养育那些服从他们命令 |
| hunting, herding, guarding, hauling, | 能打猎放牧守卫搬运 |
| and keeping them company. | 能陪伴他们的狗 |
| From every litter, | 狗每一次产仔 |
| the humans select the puppies they like best. | 人们就会选择他们最喜欢的小狗 |
| Over the generations, the dogs evolve. | 一代传一代狗就这样进化了 |
| This kind of evolution is called "Artificial selection" | 这种进化被称之为人工选择 |
| or "Breeding." | 或者育种 |
| Turning wolves into dogs was the first time | 把狼变成狗是我们人类第一次 |
| we humans took evolution into our own hands. | 把进化掌握在自己手中 |
| And we've been doing it ever since | 从那时起我们就一直这样做 |
| to shape all the plants and animals that we depend on. | 以塑造我们赖以生存的植物和动物 |
| In a blink of cosmic time, | 在宇宙的一瞬间 |
| just 15,000 or 20,000 years, | 仅仅过去了15000亦或20000年 |
| we turned gray wolves into all the kinds of dogs | 我们就把灰狼变成了我们现在爱着的 |
| we love today. | 各种各样的狗 |
| Think of it. | 想一想 |
| Every breed of dog you've ever seen | 每一种你所见过的狗 |
| was sculpted by human hands. | 都经过人类的雕琢 |
| Many of our best friends-- the most popular breeds-- | 我们最好的朋友最受欢迎的品种 |
| were created in only the last few centuries. | 都是近几个世纪才被创造出来 |
| The awesome power of evolution | 令人敬畏的进化力量 |
| transformed the ravenous wolf | 把贪婪的狼 |
| into the faithful shepherd... | 变成了忠诚的牧羊犬 |
| ...who protects the herd and drives the wolf away. | 它们保护着羊群把狼赶走 |
| Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd | 人工选择把狼变成了牧羊犬 |
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| and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. | 把野草变成了小麦和玉米 |
| In fact, almost every plant and animal that we eat today | 事实上我们现在吃的每种植物和动物 |
| was bred from a wild, less-edible ancestor. | 几乎都是由其不太适合食用的野生祖先繁殖而来 |
| If artificial selection can work such profound changes | 如果人工选择能在10000年 |
| in only 10,000 or 15,000 years, | 或15000年里造成如此深远的变化 |
| what can natural selection do | 自然选择又能在几十亿年里 |
| operating over billions of years? | 做些什么呢 |
| The answer is all the beauty and diversity of life. | 答案就是美丽多样的生命 |
| How does it work? | 它是怎样起作用的呢 |
| Our Ship of the Imagination can take us anywhere in space | 我们的想象号飞船能带我们去任何空间 |
| and time, even to the hidden microcosmos, | 任何时间甚至隐秘的微观世界 |
| where one kind of life can be transformed into another. | 在那里一种生命能被转化成另一种 |
| Come with me. | 跟我来 |
| May not seem like it, | 看起来也许不像 |
| but we've been living in an ice age | 但我们在过去的二百万年里 |
| for the last two million years. | 一直都生活在冰河世纪 |
| This just happens to be one of the long intermissions. | 现在仅仅是其中一个较长的间隔 |
| For most of those two million years, | 这二百万年中的大部分时间 |
| the climate has been cold and dry. | 气候都是又干又冷 |
| The North Polar ice cap extended much farther south | 北极的冰冠跟现在相比 |
| than it does today. | 向南延伸得更远 |
| In one of those long, cold glacial periods | 在某个又长又冷的冰河时期 |
| when the winter sea ice stretched from the North Pole | 冬天海上的浮冰从北极 |
| all the way down to what is now Los Angeles, | 一直延伸到现在的洛杉矶 |
| great bears roamed the frozen wastes of Ireland. | 大熊在爱尔兰的冰原上流浪 |
| This might look like an ordinary bear, | 这可能看上去就像普通的熊 |
| but something extraordinary is happening inside her. | 但是它的身体内部正在发生非凡的变化 |
| Something that will give rise to a new species. | 这种变化会形成新的品种 |
| In order to see it, | 为了看到它 |
| we'll need to descend down to a much smaller scale, | 我们必须深入到一个更小的尺度 |
| to the cellular level, | 去到细胞层次 |
| so that we can explore the bear's reproductive system. | 探索这头熊的生殖系统 |
| We'll take the subclavian artery through the heart. | 我们将从锁骨下动脉穿过心脏 |
| Almost there. | 快到了 |
| Those are some of her eggs. | 那是它的一些卵子 |
| To see what's going on in one of them, | 为了明白这其中的奥秘 |
| we'll have to get even smaller. | 我们要变得更小一些才行 |
| We'll have to shrink down to the molecular level. | 我们得缩小到分子水平 |
| Our Ship of the Imagination is now so small, | 我们的想象号飞船现已缩到很小 |
| you could fit a million of them into a grain of sand. | 一粒沙就可以装下数百万艘 |
| See those guys over there strutting along those girders? | 看到那些在梁上大摇大摆走着的家伙了吗 |
| They are proteins called kinesin. | 它们是一种叫做驱动蛋白的蛋白质 |
| These kinesin are part of the transport crew | 这些驱动蛋白是运输队的一份子 |
| that's busy moving cargo around the cell. | 忙于在细胞之间传送货物 |
| How alien they seem. | 它们长得可真古怪 |
| And yet these tiny creatures-- and beings like them-- | 然而这些小生物和其他类似的存在 |
| are a part of every living cell, | 是每个活着的细胞的一部分 |
| including the ones inside you. | 也存在于你的体内 |
| If life has a sanctuary, | 如果生命也有圣殿 |
| it's here in the nucleus which contains our DNA... | 那必然是细胞核其中有我们DNA |
| the ancient scripture of our genetic code. | 记录着我们遗传密码的古老经文 |
| And it's written in a language that all life can read. | 由所有生命都可阅读的语言谱写 |
| DNA is a molecule shaped like a long twisted ladder | DNA分子形似一条扭曲长梯 |
| or double helix. | 或双螺旋形 |
| The rungs of the ladder are made | 这个长梯的阶梯由 |
| of four different kinds of smaller molecules. | 四种更小的分子组成 |
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