TED演讲：单词的诞生(1)

 　　Imagine if you could record your life -- everything you said, everything you did, 想象一下如果你能记录你的生活--你说的一切，做的一切

　　available in a perfect memory store at your fingertips, 就存储在一个完美的你触手可及的记忆库

　　so you could go back and find memorable¹ moments and relive them, 你可以回到过去，找寻那难忘一刻回顾这一切

　　or sift² through traces of time and discover patterns in your own life that previously³ had gone undiscovered. 或者追寻时间的轨迹，发现在属于你自己的生活模式，那种以前没有发现的规律

　　Well that's exactly the journey that my family began five and a half years ago. 而那就是我们全家5年半前开始的家庭旅程

　　This is my wife and collaborator⁴, Rupal. 这是我妻子和合作者，鲁泊尔

　　And on this day, at this moment, we walked into the house with our first child, our beautiful baby boy. 在这一天，从这一刻，我们带着我们第一个孩子走进了这个家，我们美丽的儿子

　　And we walked into a house with a very special home video recording⁵ system. 我们走进了一个安装了特殊的家庭摄像系统的家

　　Okay. This moment and thousands of other moments special for us were captured in our home 好。这一刻和其他千万的我们的特殊时刻，在我们家中被捕捉下来

　　because in every room in the house, if you looked up, you'd see a camera and a microphone, 因为这个房子的每个屋子，如果你仰头看，你都可以看见一个摄像机和话筒

　　and if you looked down, you'd get this bird's-eye view of the room. 而你望下看，你可以俯视整个房间。

　　Here's our living room, the baby bedroom, kitchen, dining room and the rest of the house. 这是我们的客厅，这是婴儿的房间，厨房，餐厅，这是其余的地方

　　And all of these fed into a disc array that was designed for a continuous capture. 这些都被装进了一排为持续拍摄设计的光盘中

　　So here we are flying through a day in our home 这里我们飞快地经历一遍我们家庭的一天

　　as we move from sunlit morning through incandescent⁶ evening and, finally, lights out for the day. 我们从太阳初升的早晨，到亮起电灯的夜晚，最后，熄灯就寝。

1 memorable   

adj.值得回忆的，难忘的，特别的，显著的

参考例句：

• This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
• The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。

2 sift   

v.筛撒，纷落，详察

参考例句：

• Sift out the wheat from the chaff.把小麦的壳筛出来。
• Sift sugar on top of the cake.在蛋糕上面撒上糖。

3 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

4 collaborator   

n.合作者，协作者

参考例句：

• I need a collaborator to help me. 我需要个人跟我合作，帮我的忙。
• His collaborator, Hooke, was of a different opinion. 他的合作者霍克持有不同的看法。

5 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

6 incandescent   

adj.遇热发光的， 白炽的，感情强烈的

参考例句：

• The incandescent lamp we use in daily life was invented by Edison.我们日常生活中用的白炽灯，是爱迪生发明的。
• The incandescent quality of his words illuminated the courage of his countrymen.他炽热的语言点燃了他本国同胞的勇气。