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Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors.
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Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print.
请在印刷版引用前检查相应的音频。
Prologue Ira Glass So is that Marc.
序言 艾拉·格拉斯 马克也是如此。
So Scott, you were born without hearing, right?
那么斯科特，你生来就没有听力，对吧？
That's correct.
这是正确的。
Even though my parents didn't know that until I was 18 months old.
尽管我的父母直到我18个月大时才知道这一点。
This is a very strange interview because you can't hear and because I have a terrible cold, I can't speak.
这是一次非常奇怪的采访，因为你听不见，而且因为我得了重感冒，我无法说话。
Marc gets the burden here.
马克在这里承担了负担。
Ira Glass Yeah.
艾拉·格拉斯 是的。
I talked with Scott Krepel through his interpreter, Marc Holmes-- they were in a studio in Washington, DC-- about what happened when Scott was 11 or 12 and the government approved the use of cochlear implants in children.
我通过斯科特·克雷佩尔 (Scott Krepel) 的翻译马克·霍姆斯 (Marc Holmes) 与他交谈——当时他们在华盛顿特区的一间工作室里——谈论了斯科特 11 岁或 12 岁时政府批准在儿童身上使用人工耳蜗时发生的事情。
So Scott got an implant.
于是斯科特接受了植入手术。
He was excited.
他很兴奋。
He thought he'd fit in better at school, have more friends, date girls.
他认为他会更好地融入学校，有更多的朋友，和女孩约会。
And of course, he tried to imagine what it would be like to hear.
当然，他试着想象听到会是什么样子。
To be honest, I didn't know what to expect.
老实说，我不知道会发生什么。
The best analogy I can think of is maybe, I was hoping that it would be like that speech was like telepathy, instant thought transfer.
我能想到的最好的比喻也许是，我希望那次演讲就像心灵感应，即时的思想传递。
So he had the surgery and then he went to the audiologist to configure the device and what they do is that they hook up the implant to a machine.
所以他做了手术，然后他去找听力学家配置设备，他们所做的就是将植入物连接到机器上。
To send different frequencies, pulses, to try and stimulate the different parts in my cochlea.
发送不同的频率、脉冲，尝试刺激我耳蜗的不同部分。
Trying to figure out which one worked.
试图弄清楚哪一个有效。
And so the first sounds that you hear are those pulses?
那么您听到的第一个声音是那些脉冲？
Yes.
是的。
Ira Glass And what do they sound like?
Ira Glass 它们听起来像什么？
The first time I heard something, I can remember very vividly because it wasn't really-- it didn't feel like hearing.
我第一次听到某件事时，我记得非常清楚，因为它并不是真的——感觉不像是在听。
It felt more like a vibration in my whole body.
感觉更像是我整个身体的振动。
I was sitting there and nothing was happening except for like a little thing that was tingling throughout my body.
我坐在那里，什么也没有发生，除了一件小事让我全身刺痛。
But eventually after a while, the vibrations localized to my ears.
但最终过了一段时间，振动就集中在我的耳朵上。
Oh, I see.
我懂了。
The first vibrations, you couldn't even tell that they were coming in through your ears.
最初的振动，你甚至无法察觉它们是通过你的耳朵传入的。
Right.
正确的。
I didn't really know that it was sound itself at first.
一开始我并不知道它本身就是声音。
And eventually I came to realize, wait a minute, this must be it.
最终我意识到，等一下，一定是这样了。
The audiologist just sent me on my way with the cochlear implant on.
听力学家刚刚送我带着人工耳蜗上路。
We can only make an educated guess what this really sounds like.
我们只能做出有根据的猜测，这听起来到底是什么样的。
As best as we understand it from people who could once hear and then later in life got the implants, there's a mechanical edge to the sound that you hear with these devices.
据我们从那些曾经有听力，后来又植入了植入物的人那里了解到，用这些设备听到的声音有一种机械边缘。
Musical notes have to be nearly half an octave apart before you can tell the difference between the notes.
音符必须相距近半个八度才能区分音符之间的差异。
Voices, people say that they sound like a robot Daffy Duck.
声音，人们说它们听起来像机器人达菲鸭。
But for Scott, his brain had never developed the neural pathways to process audio.
但对于斯科特来说，他的大脑从未发育出处理音频的神经通路。
There were two big problems that went beyond all of that.
还有两个大问题超出了所有这些。
One was that I couldn't understand any of the sounds.
一是我听不懂任何声音。
It was just all noise that did not have any ability to distinguish.
只不过是没有任何辨别能力的噪音而已。
Am I understanding you right, if someone was looking right at you and you were seeing their mouth moving, talking directly to you, you actually couldn't tell which of the sounds was the sound of their voice coming out of their mouth?
我的理解对吗，如果有人直视你，你看到他们的嘴在动，直接对你说话，你实际上无法分辨哪些声音是从他们嘴里发出的？
It would depend on the environment.
这取决于环境。
Because if it was an environment where there was other noises, then I wouldn't really be able to pick out the person's voice from that background.
因为如果是有其他噪音的环境的话，我就真的无法从背景中辨别出那个人的声音了。
If a dog barked or a horn honked, he couldn't tell what the sounds were or what caused them.
如果狗叫或喇叭鸣，他无法分辨是什么声音或是什么引起的。
A doctor who does these implants told me about a very young patient of his, a child who got the implant and then would just flush the toilet over and over, kind of amazed to connect the sound that it made with the action of the thing that they were seeing.
一位进行这些植入的医生告诉我，他的一个非常年轻的病人，一个接受了植入的孩子，然后会一遍又一遍地冲马桶，有点惊讶地将它发出的声音与他们所看到的东西的动作联系起来。
I was interested in Scott because although I know lots of deaf people say they have no need to learn to hear and they're fine as they are and they frown on this procedure, Scott is somebody who wanted this to work.
我对斯科特很感兴趣，因为尽管我知道很多聋人说他们不需要学习听力，而且他们本身就很好，而且他们对这个程序皱眉，但斯科特是希望这个方法发挥作用的人。
He imagined what is going to be like.
他想象着会是什么样子。
And our show today, our radio show today is all stories where people are trying to make contact for the first time with something that they have never encountered or experienced.
我们今天的节目，我们今天的广播节目都是人们试图第一次接触他们从未遇到或经历过的事物的故事。
And Scott's situation seemed like a particularly harsh example of that.
斯科特的情况似乎就是一个特别严酷的例子。
The reality was so far from what he had expected.
事实与他的预期相差甚远。
His second big problem with implants was he didn't have the ability to ignore any sounds.
他的植入物的第二个大问题是他没有能力忽略任何声音。
Well if you're sitting in your office and you listen carefully, you might hear things like the computer fan running, or your own movements, or for many different things.
如果您坐在办公室里仔细聆听，您可能会听到电脑风扇运转的声音，或者您自己的动作，或者许多不同的声音。
And most people have trained themselves to ignore those noises.
大多数人都训练自己忽略这些噪音。
I had none of that ability.
我没有那个能力。
So everything ended up overwhelming me without me being able to stop it or ignore it.
所以一切最终都让我不知所措，我无法阻止它或忽视它。
For somebody like Scott getting the implant as his age, his brain can never catch up and learn to process sound.
对于像斯科特这样随着年龄的增长而植入植入物的人来说，他的大脑永远无法跟上并学会处理声音。
After five years with the implant, it was still hard for him to focus if an air conditioner was on in the room.
使用植入物五年后，如果房间里开着空调，他仍然很难集中注意力。
And as for recognizing words, if he was in a quiet room and his speech therapist would say a word to him, he could actually pick out the word from a list of words that were sitting in front of him, and that's about as good as it got.
至于识别单词，如果他在一个安静的房间里，他的语言治疗师会对他说一个单词，他实际上可以从他面前的单词列表中挑选出这个单词，这已经是最好的了。
So at the end of high school, he stopped using the implant.
因此，在高中结束时，他停止使用植入物。
He doesn't miss it.
他不会错过的。
The only time he really liked it he says was that very first day when he had his first contact with sound.
他说，他唯一一次真正喜欢它是在他第一次接触声音的第一天。
I think the first time I heard that was cool, things like, oh I can clink the cookie jar, but it got old very fast.
我想我第一次听到这很酷，比如，哦，我可以敲响饼干罐，但它很快就过时了。
Well today on our show, First Contact, we have three stories of people in that frightening, thrilling, first moment of encounter, that leap into the unknown.
今天，在我们的节目《第一次接触》中，我们讲述了三个故事，讲述了人们在第一次相遇的那一刻，令人恐惧、惊心动魄、跳入未知的时刻。
Mike Birbiglia talks about an achievement that was literally years in the making for him.
迈克·比尔比利亚 (Mike Birbiglia) 谈到了他花了数年时间才取得的成就。
We have somebody also chatting his way into the lives of people very far away in the middle of a war, we have scientists pondering exactly what we should say the very first time we find extraterrestrials to talk to, and what boneheaded things people want to say to them.
我们也有人在战争中深入远方人们的生活，我们有科学家思考我们第一次找到外星人交谈时应该说什么，以及人们想对他们说哪些愚蠢的话。
From WBEZ Chicago it's This American Life distributed by Public Radio International.
芝加哥 WBEZ 的《This American Life》由国际公共广播电台发行。
I'm Ira Glass, still with a little cold this week, but feeling just fine.
我是艾拉·格拉斯 (Ira Glass)，这周仍然有点感冒，但感觉很好。
Stay with us.
留在我们身边。
OK, I don't know why this came to mind, out the blue actually.
好吧，我不知道为什么突然想到这个。
Three weeks ago I was walking down the street, it was nighttime, I was with the dog, and I thought of this.
三周前，我在街上散步，那是晚上，我和狗在一起，我想到了这一点。
And literally loud I said out loud, "Oh god.
我大声地说：“天啊。
Oh God, no, no, no." Here's what I remembered.
天哪，不，不，不。”这是我记得的。
In junior high school, I was really, really young.
初中的时候，我真的很小很小。
I tried to feel up a girl in front of her family.
我试图在一个女孩的家人面前感受她的感受。
Somehow I thought I could get away with this.
不知怎的，我以为我可以摆脱这一切。
We were watching a Jerry Lewis movie on TV in their rec room.
我们正在他们的娱乐室里看电视上的杰瑞刘易斯电影。
I remember that.
我记得。
I had never touched a girl before, so I don't know why I thought this was going to happen.
我以前从未碰过女孩，所以我不知道为什么会发生这种事。
Anyway, so when this came back to me, it was really just as horrifying.
不管怎样，当我回想起这件事时，我真的感到同样可怕。
I mean, even as I talk about it now.
我的意思是，即使我现在谈论它。
It's just as horrifying as it should have been the day it happened.
这和事情发生的那天一样可怕。
And I bring this all up to say, we are all so clueless as we learn about making out and sex and all that stuff.
我提出这一切是为了说，当我们学习亲热、性以及所有这些东西时，我们都是如此无能。
And we begin our show today with a story from Mike Birbiglia.
我们今天的节目以迈克·比尔比利亚的故事开始。
Nothing explicit happens here at all, but it still might not be right for every young listener.
这里根本没有发生任何明确的事情，但它仍然可能不适合每个年轻的听众。
In seventh grade people started making out with each other, and I remember this very well because I remember thinking people we know are making out with other people we know!
七年级时，人们开始互相亲热，我记得很清楚，因为我记得我们认识的人正在和我们认识的其他人亲热！
But how?
但如何呢？
It just seemed like this alien ritual, where these two aliens kind of attach orifices all of a sudden.
这看起来就像是一个外星人的仪式，这两个外星人突然连接了孔口。
And I was like, I am not doing that.
我当时想，我不会那样做。
And collectively all the girls in my class were like, that is fine.
我班上所有的女孩都说，那很好。
You are not on the list.
你不在名单上。
You are not exactly a first round draft pick for our new activity.
你并不完全是我们新活动的第一轮选秀人选。
It just seemed gross to me, making out.
亲热对我来说太恶心了。
It's like watching a dog eat spaghetti.
这就像看狗吃意大利面条一样。
So I wasn't going to make out with anyone and I was fine with that.
所以我不会和任何人亲热，我对此很满意。
But then it started to sort of create factions in the seventh grade class, sort of the make out club and the non-make out club.
但后来七年级班级里开始产生派别，比如亲热俱乐部和非亲热俱乐部。
I mean these weren't formal organizations, that would be very sad.
我的意思是这些不是正式组织，这将是非常可悲的。
A meeting of the non-make out club.
非亲热俱乐部的一次会议。
I call this meeting to order.
我召集这次会议。
First order of business, Nintendo.
第一件事，任天堂。
The non-make out club, we had a hard time because we were losing good people by the day.
在非亲热俱乐部，我们度过了一段艰难的时期，因为我们每天都在失去优秀的人。
I feared that soon I would be the lone member of the non-make out club.
我担心很快我就会成为非亲热俱乐部中唯一的成员。
So I was, I need to join the make out club.
所以我是，我需要加入亲热俱乐部。
But I didn't have any real prospects.
但我没有任何真正的前景。
I mean I had this one girl who I had a huge crush on who sat in front of me in class named Lisa Bizetti.
我的意思是，我非常迷恋一个女孩，她在课堂上坐在我前面，名叫丽莎·比泽蒂 (Lisa Bizetti)。
And she had to talk to me on the phone every night about homework thanks t alphabetical order.
由于按字母顺序排列，她每天晚上都必须在电话里和我讨论家庭作业。
So one time I said something that made her laugh and I was like, oh, this is great.
有一次我说了一些让她笑的话，我就想，哦，这太棒了。
Like I gotta do that more.
就像我必须做得更多一样。
And then one time she was actually laughing so hard and she said, Mike, you gotta stop.
有一次她真的笑得很厉害，她说，迈克，你得停下来。
I'm going to pee myself.
我自己去尿尿。
I was like, wow.
我当时想，哇。
It was the closest I'd ever come to a vagina.
这是我距离阴道最近的一次。
So I spent the next 15 years trying to get Lisa Bizetti to pee.
所以我花了接下来的 15 年时间试图让丽莎·比泽蒂撒尿。
And that's how I ended up here.
这就是我来到这里的原因。
So one time I built up the courage to ask Lisa to go to a carnival with me.
所以有一次我鼓起勇气邀请丽莎和我一起去参加嘉年华。
And she said, yes.
她说，是的。
And I was so excited about this.
我对此感到非常兴奋。
I had this idea that we would go to the carnival and I would win her a giant stuffed bear.
我有一个想法，我们去参加嘉年华，我会给她赢得一只巨大的毛绒玩具熊。
And we would go on rides, and then we'd make out.
我们会去兜风，然后亲热。
Like really simple, just like the romantic comedy montages.
真的很简单，就像浪漫喜剧蒙太奇一样。
And I took her on a ride called the Scrambler.
我带她乘坐了一个名为 Scrambler 的游乐设施。
And I don't know if you have the Scrambler where you live.
我不知道你住的地方是否有扰频器。
I imagine you do.
我想你会的。
It travels on a truck.
它通过卡车行驶。
The premise is that you sit on the two-person pod with the person you're in love with, and then that pod goes in a circle.
前提是你和你爱的人坐在两人舱上，然后那个舱会转一圈。
Which is part of an even larger circle, which is part of an even grander circle.
这是一个更大的圈子的一部分，这是一个更大的圈子的一部分。
As I understand it, it was originally designed as a medical device for people who have sharp objects stuck in their throat to help them purge the objects.
据我了解，它最初是被设计作为一种医疗设备，供喉咙里有尖锐物体卡住的人帮助他们清除物体。
It was called a Puke Your Facerator.
它被称为“Puke Your Facerator”。
And it was very successful.
而且非常成功。
And then it was co-opted by the carnival workers of America-- CWoA.
然后它被美国的狂欢节工人——CWoA 所吸收。
[LAUGHTER] And they said, we like it, but we feel like the name is something of a turn off.
[笑声]他们说，我们喜欢它，但我们觉得这个名字有点令人讨厌。
And then one guy goes, well, what about the Scrambler?
然后一个人问，那么扰频器呢？
And they're like, nailed it.
他们就像，钉牢了。
But who is going to be in charge of this dangerous piece of equipment?
但谁来负责这个危险的设备呢？
And then one guy goes, well, I have a nephew who's 16-years-old and smokes pot 24 hours a day.
然后一个人说，好吧，我有一个 16 岁的侄子，每天 24 小时都在吸大麻。
I feel like he might be available.
我感觉他可能有空。
And they're like, he sounds amazing.
他们说，他听起来棒极了。
We don't even need to interview him.
我们甚至不需要采访他。
He sounds completely qualified.
听起来他完全合格。
So we sit down on the Scrambler and Lisa's snuggling up next to me.
于是我们坐在扰频器上，丽莎依偎在我身边。
And I was thinking, like, this is it.
我当时想，就是这样了。
This is where it's at all going to happen.
这就是事情发生的地方。
But I think that when you're 12-years-old, you just don't understand certain things about the digestive system.
但我认为当你12岁时，你只是不了解消化系统的某些事情。
You don't know that you shouldn't eat popcorn and peanuts and funnel cake and cotton candy and then go on a machine that scrambles your body.
你不知道你不应该吃爆米花、花生、漏斗蛋糕和棉花糖，然后再坐上一台搅乱你身体的机器。
Cotton candy being the most insane of these items.
棉花糖是这些物品中最疯狂的。
It's basically like saying, we're going to take sugar, which everyone knows is bad.
这基本上就像是在说，我们要吃糖，而每个人都知道糖是不好的。
But then we'll dress it up like insulation.
但接下来我们会把它打扮得像绝缘体一样。
And I'm like, I'm not sure what he selling point is there.
我想，我不确定他的卖点是什么。
Is it the sugar or the insulation?
是糖还是绝缘体？
So I know from the moment they put the bar seat belt down that I am going to throw up for sure.
所以从他们放下酒吧安全带的那一刻起，我就知道我肯定会呕吐。
The bar seat belt is not a very reassuring piece of safety equipment.
酒吧安全带并不是一个让人非常放心的安全设备。
That has never saved anyone's life.
这从来没有拯救过任何人的生命。
I mean, come one.
我的意思是，来一个吧。
I mean I think the only thing it's ever done right is just held someone's esophagus down to the pavement in a Scrambler accident, making sure that they are dead, and that they can not talk about the Scrambler accident
我的意思是，我认为唯一正确的做法就是在 Scrambler 事故中将某人的食道压在人行道上，确保他们已经死亡，并且他们不能谈论 Scrambler 事故
I know when they put the bar seatbelt down I'm going to throw up for sure.
我知道当他们系上安全带时我肯定会呕吐。
And I even say to the Scrambler operator, I'm like, hey, actually-- and then he was gone.
我什至对扰频器操作员说，我想，嘿，实际上 - 然后他就走了。
Apparently he doesn't enjoy the second halves of sentences.
显然他不喜欢后半句话。
And so then I'm scrambling.
然后我就开始争先恐后了。
And I'm scrambling and I'm thinking, I need to come up with a plan of some kind.
我正在手忙脚乱，我在想，我需要想出某种计划。
And my first plan was that I wouldn't look at Lisa and I wouldn't look at any other people.
我的第一个计划是我不会看丽莎，也不会看任何其他人。
So I'm like, don't look at Lisa.
所以我想，别看丽莎。
Don't look at any other people.
不要看任何其他人。
Don't look at Lisa.
别看丽莎。
Don't look at any other people.
不要看任何其他人。
I need a new plan.
我需要一个新计划。
And the new plan was that I needed to tell the Scrambler operator that he needed to stop the ride.
新计划是我需要告诉扰频器操作员他需要停止骑行。
But the mathematics of the Scrambler are such that the window of opportunity in which one can communicate with the Scrambler operator is a very limited window.
但扰码器的数学原理使得与扰码器操作员通信的机会窗口非常有限。
So I'm like, I got to the guy to stop the ride.
所以我想，我去找那个人让我停下来。
I got to tell the guy to stop the ride.
我必须告诉那家伙停止骑行。
I got to tell the guy to stop the ride.
我必须告诉那家伙停止骑行。
Please stop the ride.
请停止骑行。
And then I'm back.
然后我回来了。
20 yards away, 30 yards away, 40 hours away, 20 yards away.
20码远，30码远，40小时远，20码远。
I got to say it louder.
我必须大声说出来。
Please stop the ride!.
请停止骑行！
And I'm back.
我回来了。
20 yards away, 30 yards away, 40 yards away.
20码远，30码远，40码远。
I'm like, I'm not sure he's paying attention.
我想，我不确定他是否在注意。
I think he might be smoking pot right now.
我想他现在可能正在吸大麻。
And the third time I said, please stop the-- and then I started throwing up.
第三次我说，请停止——然后我开始呕吐。
And it was not unlike an oscillating lawn sprinkler.
它与摆动草坪洒水器没有什么不同。
You know, just [SPRINKLER NOISES].
你知道，只是[洒水器的噪音]。
Just popcorn and peanuts and insulation.
只有爆米花、花生和保温材料。
Really insulating the pavement with my homemade carnival salsa.
用我自制的嘉年华莎莎酱确实使人行道绝缘。
And I did not look at Lisa, but I'm pretty sure she was staring at me.
我没有看丽莎，但我很确定她正在盯着我看。
And we did not make out.
而我们并没有弄清楚。
Making out was no longer on the agenda that evening.
那天晚上的议程上已经不再有亲热了。
And so I did not lose my mouth virginity.
所以我并没有失去我的处女之身。
But the next year, it actually got worse.
但第二年，情况实际上变得更糟。
Because I went to an all boys catholic school and I actually couldn't admit to my peers that I hadn't had my first kiss because I knew they would make fun of me mercilessly.
因为我上的是一所男子天主教学校，实际上我无法向同龄人承认我没有初吻，因为我知道他们会无情地取笑我。
And so when they would ask, I would just be like, yeah.
所以当他们问时，我会说，是的。
And I feared that at some point they would ask follow up questions.
我担心他们会在某个时候提出后续问题。
They'd be like, oh yeah, what's it like?
他们会说，哦，是的，那是什么样的？
And I'd be like, it's like licking an ice cream cone.
我想，这就像舔一个蛋卷冰淇淋。
And they'd be like, no it's not.
他们会说，不，不是。
It's like sucking on a rocket pop.
这就像吸火箭弹一样。
And I'd be like, oh, wrong frozen dessert analogy.
我会想，哦，冷冻甜点的类比是错误的。
Because these guys that I went to school with, I mean they were just make out machines.
因为和我一起上学的这些人，我的意思是他们只是模仿机器。
I mean I sat behind this one guy in class named Sam Richiarti and he was like a make out ninja.
我的意思是，我坐在班上一个名叫 Sam Richiarti 的家伙后面，他就像一个亲热忍者。
Like every Monday morning I'd be like, what'd you do over the weekend?
就像每个星期一早上我都会问，你周末做了什么？
And he would just be like, made out with chicks.
他就会像和小鸡们亲热一样。
And I would be like, where?
我会想，在哪里？
And he would be like, the mall, dude.
他会像，商场，伙计。
The mall.
商场。
As though that made sense.
好像这是有道理的。
And I was just trying to imagine this, like the mall.
我只是想想象一下这个，就像商场一样。
What does that mean?
这意味着什么？
He goes to the arcade and kind of like throws quarters around to the ladies.
他去游乐场，就像向女士们扔硬币一样。
And then, invites one over to go to Orange Julius.
然后，邀请一位过来人去奥兰治朱利叶斯。
And then says, hey, want to make out at the phone booth or whatever?
然后说，嘿，想在电话亭亲热什么的吗？
Like I don't even know how that happens.
就像我什至不知道这是怎么发生的。
So I thought my only chance to lose my mouth virginity was going to be at the annual St. John's dance.
所以我想我失去童贞的唯一机会就是参加一年一度的圣约翰舞会。
They had what they called cattle call dances where they invite all the girls from all over the state to the St. John's gymnasium for the sole purpose of making out.
他们举办所谓的“牛叫舞”，邀请全州各地的女孩来到圣约翰体育馆，唯一的目的就是亲热。
I mean this was a gymnasium that was chock full of sweat and Binaca and Led Zeppelin and Drakkar Noir and I was flanked at the dance by my friend Sam.
我的意思是，这是一个充满汗水的体育馆，有 Binaca、Led Zeppelin 和 Drakkar Noir，我的朋友 Sam 在舞会上站在我的两侧。
And we were introduced by our friend, Tom, to this girl, these two girls.
我们的朋友汤姆向我们介绍了这个女孩，这两个女孩。
And Sam said one of those phrases that we've all heard, but is very uncomfortable.
萨姆说了我们都听过的一句话，但他感到非常不舒服。
He said, you get that one.
他说，你明白了。
Which I know is uncomfortable to talk about, but I'm OK talking about it because I know I've been on the negative end of that conversation where some girls says of me like, you get that one.
我知道谈论这一点很不舒服，但我可以谈论它，因为我知道我一直处于谈话的消极一端，有些女孩这样评价我，比如，你明白了。
And then the other girl goes, ew.
然后另一个女孩走了，呃。
Or even worse, you owe me.
或者更糟糕的是，你欠我的。
Which really hurts.
这真的很痛。
You know, thinking about someone incurring debt based on my appearance.
你知道，因为我的外表而想到有人欠债。
I don't want to hurt someone's credit score.
我不想损害某人的信用评分。
So he says, you get that one.
所以他说，你明白了。
And then I'm fast-dancing with this girl, Sandra.
然后我就和桑德拉这个女孩跳快舞。
I'm not great at fast-dancing.
我不擅长快舞。
She's losing interest in me by the second.
她瞬间就对我失去了兴趣。
And I'm saved by a slow song.
一首慢歌拯救了我。
It was "Stairway to Heaven." It's an eight-minute make out anthem.
那是《天国的阶梯》。这是一首八分钟的亲热颂歌。
And we're slow dancing and you can't mess up slow dancing because it's just kind of a slow motion hug.
我们正在慢舞，你不能搞乱慢舞，因为这只是一种慢动作的拥抱。
The only way you could mess it up is if you started fast dancing in the middle of it.
唯一可能搞砸的就是你在中间开始快速跳舞。
And she was like, what are you doing?
她说，你在做什么？
And I'm like, I don't pick up on social cues.
我想，我不会注意到社交暗示。
So we're slow dancing and all I'm focused on is I just don't want to fidget too much.
所以我们慢慢地跳舞，我所关注的只是我不想坐立不安。
Because I'm kind of a fidgety person.
因为我是一个比较烦躁的人。
I fear if I fidget too much I could initiate the tilt too early.
我担心如果我坐立不安太多，我可能会过早地开始倾斜。
That's one of the main ingredients of making out, the tilt.
这是亲热的主要因素之一，即倾斜。
And then the area in between the two mouths, which is a very mysterious area.
然后是两个嘴之间的区域，这是一个非常神秘的区域。
I mean no one has video footage of that area.
我的意思是没有人拥有该地区的视频片段。
It's like the giant squid of making out.
这就像亲吻的巨型乌贼。
No one has seen it alive, they've just seen it washed up on shore.
没有人见过它活着，他们只是看到它被冲上岸。
Which is more specific to the squid side of the analogy.
这对于类比中的鱿鱼来说更具体。
You know what I mean?
你知道我的意思？
And so, with about three minutes left in "Stairway to Heaven" I make the slightest tilt and then Sandra comes in strong.
因此，在“天国的阶梯”还剩大约三分钟时，我做了轻微的倾斜，然后桑德拉强势登场。
And then it was an all out mouth war.
然后这是一场全面的口水战。
And she had artillery because she had braces.
她有大炮，因为她有牙套。
It was like a dog eating spaghetti and the fork.
这就像一只狗吃意大利面和叉子。
And while this oral atrocity is taking place, all I can think is, I'm not alone anymore.
当这种口头暴行发生时，我所能想到的就是，我不再孤单了。
I'm not in the non-make out club.
我不属于非亲热俱乐部。
And it was this real seminal moment for me.
这对我来说是一个真正具有开创性的时刻。
But I couldn't share it with anyone because I walked off the dance floor and I had to play it off like this was something I had done before.
但我无法与任何人分享，因为我走出舞池，我必须像我以前做过的那样演奏它。
My friend Sam was like, how'd it go?
我的朋友萨姆问，进展如何？
And I was just like, it was great, just like always.
我就想，这太棒了，就像往常一样。
So a few days later I call Sandra and I'm thinking, maybe we could have a relationship of some kind.
几天后，我打电话给桑德拉，我在想，也许我们可以建立某种关系。
And she doesn't call me back.
她也没有给我回电话。
And so I go to school one day and I say to my friend Tom who had introduced us, I go, hey, what's going on with Sandra?
所以有一天我去学校，我对介绍我们认识的朋友汤姆说，我说，嘿，桑德拉怎么了？
And he has this kind of knowing grin on his face.
他的脸上挂着一种会意的笑容。
I'm like, what?
我想，什么？
He's like, nothing.
他就像，什么都没有。
I was like, what?
我当时想，什么？
And he's like, nothing.
而他就像什么都没有。
And I was like, what?
我当时想，什么？
And he was like, oh, I talked to Sandra and she said that you're the worst kisser she's ever kissed.
他说，哦，我和桑德拉谈过，她说你是她接吻过的最糟糕的接吻者。
I know.
我知道。
It was devastating.
这是毁灭性的。
Because first of all, because it was probably true.
因为首先，因为这可能是真的。
But more importantly, because I couldn't explain to my friends why it was true.
但更重要的是，因为我无法向我的朋友解释为什么这是真的。
I couldn't do like, well that makes sense because I've never kissed anyone before.
我不能这样做，好吧，这是有道理的，因为我以前从未吻过任何人。
I had no idea what I'm doing.
我不知道自己在做什么。
So instead, I had to just be like, yeah, that sounds about right.
所以相反，我必须说，是的，这听起来不错。
I'm a terrible kisser.
我是一个糟糕的接吻者。
That's kind of my thing.
这就是我的事。
But I was lucky because my friend Sam was right there with me and he's goes, me too, dude.
但我很幸运，因为我的朋友萨姆就在我身边，他走了，我也是，伙计。
Me too.
我也是。
Mike Birbiglia, performing a story from his new one-man show and his new book that is coming out this fall.
迈克·比尔比利亚 (Mike Birbiglia) 正在表演他的新独角戏和今年秋天即将出版的新书中的故事。
The book is Sleepwalk with Me and Other Painfully True Stories.
这本书是《与我一起梦游和其他痛苦的真实故事》。
Coming up, mistakes we've made with space aliens.
接下来是我们在外星人身上犯过的错误。
Already, we don't even know them and we've made mistakes.
我们已经不认识他们了，而且还犯了错误。
That's in a minute.
就在一分钟之内。
From WBEZ Chicago and Public Radio International, when our program continues.
当我们的节目继续进行时，来自芝加哥 WBEZ 和国际公共广播电台。
This American Life , I'm Ira Glass.
这个美国生活，我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Each week on our show of course, we choose a theme, bring you different kinds of stories on that theme.
当然，我们的节目每周都会选择一个主题，为您带来有关该主题的不同类型的故事。
Today's show, First Contact, stories about people reaching outside what they know, outside their comfort zone, making contact with something they have only heard about.
今天的节目《第一次接触》讲述了人们走出他们所知道的、走出他们的舒适区、接触他们只听说过的事物的故事。
We've arrived at act 2 of our show.
我们已经到了节目的第二幕了。
Act two: brothers from another planet.
第二幕：来自另一个星球的兄弟。
What's amazing about this next story is that this couple befriends these strangers.
接下来的故事令人惊奇的是这对夫妇与这些陌生人成为了朋友。
Mostly the guy, but also the woman.
大部分是男人，但也有女人。
And really, they get to know them and what their lives are really like at this level that is so intimate.
事实上，他们在这个如此亲密的层面上了解了他们以及他们的生活到底是什么样的。
It takes them into this world that most of us really don't feel like we have any access to at all.
它将他们带入了这个我们大多数人都感觉根本无法进入的世界。
Here's Sara Blaisdell, who tells the story.
请听莎拉·布莱斯德尔讲述这个故事。
Here's what I know about Yemal from the pictures.
以下是我从照片中对 Yemal 的了解。
When it's cold, which isn't often, he wears grey and red stripe sweaters.
天冷时（这种情况并不常见），他会穿灰色和红色条纹毛衣。
He can do a cartwheel.
他可以做侧手翻。
He likes to hold babies, stand next to camels, and sit on saggy couches conversing with handsome young men.
他喜欢抱着婴儿，站在骆驼旁边，坐在松垮的沙发上与英俊的年轻人交谈。
He himself, is handsome.
他本人，也很帅。
His big brown eyes, thick dark hair, a mischeivous-looking moustache, a three-days beard, and a tiny gap between his front teeth.
他有一双棕色的大眼睛，浓密的黑发，一脸淘气的小胡子，留了三天的胡须，门牙之间有一个小小的缝隙。
He's the kind of guy who wholeheartedly smiles in photos, rather than trying to look like a bad-ass.
他是那种在照片中全心全意微笑的人，而不是试图让自己看起来像个坏蛋。
Yemal lives near Sadr City, a poor section in Northeast Baghdad.
耶马尔住在萨德尔城附近，这是巴格达东北部的一个贫困地区。
He's the oldest of three Iraqi brothers and he's aged from 17 to 23 since the war started in 2003.
他是伊拉克三兄弟中年龄最大的一个，自 2003 年战争爆发以来，他的年龄从 17 岁到 23 岁不等。
The same year he and my husband, Sam Taylor, started their Sunday phone ritual.
同年，他和我的丈夫萨姆·泰勒开始了周日打电话的仪式。
When Yemal looks back at what's happened during this time he says, there haven't been any positive things because of the war.
当耶马尔回顾这段时间发生的事情时，他说，由于战争，并没有发生任何积极的事情。
But there have been many positive things happening during the war.
但战争期间发生了许多积极的事情。
You know, I got married.
你知道，我结婚了。
I got my children.
我有我的孩子了。
I met Sam.
我遇见了萨姆。
On a recent Saturday night, Sam was up late playing Call of Duty on Xbox Live with friends, and then watching sci-fi films and eating chicken wings with me.
最近的一个周六晚上，Sam 和朋友们在 Xbox Live 上玩《使命召唤》到很晚，然后和我一起看科幻电影、吃鸡翅。
But he knows he will piss off at least three Iraqis if he's not up by 7:50 Sunday morning.
但他知道，如果周日早上 7 点 50 分他还没有起床，他将会惹怒至少三名伊拉克人。
So he sets the alarm.
所以他设置了闹钟。
Then clicks it off when it beeps just five hours later.
五小时后，当它发出蜂鸣声时，将其关闭。
Gets his headset ready, starts the coffee.
准备好耳机，开始煮咖啡。
Then the phone rings, like it has almost every week since 2003.
然后电话就响了，自 2003 年以来几乎每周都会这样。
Sam's been talking to the boys as we call them, Yemal, Sadeem and Mahmood for at least four hours every Sunday for almost seven years.
近七年来，萨姆每周日都会与这些男孩（我们称之为耶马尔、萨迪姆和马哈茂德）至少交谈四个小时。
But on this Sunday, March 28, 2010, when Sam answers the phone, Yemal is unusually quite, not really engaged.
但在 2010 年 3 月 28 日这个星期日，当 Sam 接电话时，Yemal 异常安静，并没有真正投入。
This is about the time Yemal's wife, Temara , is supposed to be having her baby.
这大约是耶马尔的妻子特马拉 (Temara) 的预产期。
So Sam worries something's gone wrong.
所以山姆担心出了什么问题。
I'm not sure how to say this, Yemal says, then he gets quite again.
“我不知道该怎么说，”耶马尔说，然后他又平静下来。
Are you there, Sam asks?
萨姆问，你在吗？
I'm trying to think of what to say.
我正在努力思考该说些什么。
I'm trying to get the strength to say this.
我正在努力鼓起勇气说出这句话。
This whole time Sam's thinking, the new baby has died, Temara has died, or both.
山姆一直在想，新生儿死了，特马拉死了，或者两者兼而有之。
He thinks for sure that's what it is and he doesn't know how he's going to respond.
他认为事情就是这样，但他不知道自己会如何回应。
What do you mean?
你是什么意思？
You said that if enough people voted, al-Maliki would be gone and Allawi would win.
你说如果有足够多的人投票，马利基就会下台，阿拉维就会获胜。
A few hours later, Sam and I are making a rare Sunday lunch together because the boys hung up earlier than usual.
几个小时后，萨姆和我罕见地一起做一顿周日午餐，因为孩子们比平时更早挂断电话。
Maybe because of their sour moods.
也许是因为他们的心情不好。
Did you tell them Allawi would win?, I ask.
我问，你告诉他们阿拉维会赢吗？
Kind of, Sam says.
有点像，萨姆说。
Well, not exactly.
嗯，不完全是。
Sam had told them that if people didn't like al-Maliki and enough people voted, they might get him out.
萨姆告诉他们，如果人们不喜欢马利基并且有足够多的人投票，他们可能会把他赶出去。
He could be gone.
他可能已经走了。
He hadn't meant for it to be a stump speech about the power of democracy.
他并不想让它成为一场关于民主力量的政治演讲。
He hadn't meant it as a property either.
他也没有把它当作财产。
And now it's all over the news, Nouri al-Maliki saying something to the effect of as Yemal puts it, I am in power.
现在，这件事充斥着新闻，努里·马利基说了一些话，正如耶马尔所说，“我掌权了”。
I will always be in power.
我将永远掌权。
After Yemal accused Sam of being a liar, they talked through it.
在耶马尔指责萨姆撒谎后，他们进行了交谈。
They always managed to talk through it after one or the other unwittingly offends, or after they've delved too deep into dark topics.
在其中一个人无意中冒犯了对方，或者在他们对黑暗话题研究得太深之后，他们总是能设法把它讲清楚。
They usually warm up again by talking about light stuff or joking about stereotypes of East and West.
他们通常会通过谈论一些轻松的话题或开玩笑来谈论东西方的刻板印象来重新热身。
Sam will be talking about Jews, for example, and Yemal will say, Jews?
例如，萨姆会谈论犹太人，而耶马尔会说，犹太人？
But he'll say it like Jews.
但他会像犹太人那样说。
And Sam will say, that's so cliche.
山姆会说，这太陈词滥调了。
The Middle Easterner's got to hate the Jews.
中东人一定恨犹太人。
Or Yemal jokes about how sinful Sam is.
或者耶马尔开玩笑说山姆有多么罪恶。
He'll give him a hard time because he had sex before marriage, or he'll ask, were you drinking last night?
他会因为他婚前发生性行为而难为他，或者他会问，你昨晚喝酒了吗？
The boys are also really interested in finding videos on YouTube of world leaders crying, world leaders doing something embarrassing.
男孩们还非常有兴趣在 YouTube 上查找世界领导人哭泣、世界领导人做一些令人尴尬的事情的视频。
Especially Arab leaders, but others too.
尤其是阿拉伯领导人，但其他人也是如此。
They tell Sam, oh, there's this new Ahmadinejad rap you have to hear.
他们告诉山姆，哦，你必须听听内贾德的新说唱。
It's so funny.
太搞笑了。
The boys usually lead the conversation and Sam usually follows.
男孩们通常主导谈话，山姆通常跟随。
They'll talk about political news, family news, works news.
他们会谈论政治新闻、家庭新闻、工作新闻。
Since Yemal was conscripted into the army, cleaning up after suicide bombings is a regular part of his life.
自从耶马尔应征入伍以来，清理自杀式爆炸事件就成了他生活的一部分。
When they talked about the violent, Sam used to say stuff like, maybe this'll be over soon, or things are going to get better.
当他们谈论暴力时，萨姆常常说这样的话，也许这一切很快就会结束，或者事情会变得更好。
But he stopped saying that.
但他不再这么说了。
Now mostly he'll just listen and won't try to explain it away.
现在他大多只会听，不会试图解释。
A lot of times they're looking for answers to questions like, how would you feel if this was happening to you?
很多时候他们都在寻找问题的答案，比如，如果这件事发生在你身上，你会有什么感觉？
Let's say your wife got killed.
假设你的妻子被杀了。
So Sam will say I don't know how I would feel.
所以山姆会说我不知道我会有什么感觉。
Because he doesn't.
因为他不这样做。
Sam first met Yemal in 2003.
Sam 第一次见到 Yemal 是在 2003 年。
At the time, Sam was a philosophy undergrad living in Pleasant Grove Utah.
当时，萨姆是一名住在犹他州普莱森特格罗夫的哲学本科生。
He was kind of bored with the politics website he was arguing on, so he started playing around with this chat program and met an Israeli there.
他对自己争论的政治网站有点厌倦，所以他开始玩这个聊天程序，并在那里遇到了一个以色列人。
Acrosstheuniverse was his user name.
Acrosstheuniverse 是他的用户名。
On Sam's campus there are wide screen TVs all over the food court blasting the war news.
在山姆的校园里，美食广场上到处都是宽屏电视，播放着战争新闻。
One day Sam distinctly remembers there was coverage of the explosions, bombs hitting Iraq.
有一天，萨姆清楚地记得有关于爆炸、炸弹袭击伊拉克的报道。
It was like they were watching a football game Sam says.
萨姆说，这就像他们在看一场足球比赛。
It seemed wrong to him.
对他来说这似乎是错误的。
So he asked his Israeli chat buddy, Acrosstheuniverse, what he thought about the war.
于是他问他的以色列聊天好友 Acrosstheuniverse，他对这场战争有何看法。
What did he think was going to come of it.
他认为这会带来什么结果？
Acrosstheuniverse replied, I just met an Iraqi.
宇宙回复道，我刚刚遇到了一个伊拉克人。
Want to meet him?
想见见他吗？
Sure, Sam said.
当然，萨姆说。
So that's when he got a message from Yemal, a real live Iraqi.
就在那时，他收到了来自真实的伊拉克人耶马尔的消息。
So he started asking him about the war, about what was going on outside his window.
于是他开始向他询问战争的情况，询问窗外发生的事情。
Yemal wrote back about the pro-democracy propaganda flyers written in English.
耶马尔回信提及用英文写的民主宣传传单。
They were floating down onto the streets.
他们飘落到街道上。
Within a couple of weeks, they were writing each other about more personal stuff.
几周之内，他们就互相写信谈论更多私人的事情。
Half a year went by and Yemal bought a calling card and asked Sam for his phone number.
半年过去了，耶马尔买了一张电话卡，并向萨姆要了他的电话号码。
Then early one morning the phone rang and all of a sudden Sam was speaking to someone whose voice he couldn't quite place, with an accent crisp and formal, like none he'd ever heard.
一天一早，电话响了，萨姆突然在跟一个他无法辨认其声音的人说话，他的口音清脆而正式，是他从未听过的。
The calls started coming in a little bit more when Sam met Yemal's younger brothers, Sadeem and Mahmood.
当萨姆遇到耶马尔的弟弟萨迪姆和马哈茂德时，电话开始增多。
Talking was a way to pass the time when it was too dangerous to go out on the streets.
当上街太危险时，聊天是一种打发时间的方式。
Sometimes when Yemal and Sadeem and their parents had to leave the house, Yemal would ask Sam to babysit Mahmood over the phone.
有时，当耶马尔和萨迪姆以及他们的父母不得不离开家时，耶马尔会通过电话要求山姆照顾马哈茂德。
Just talk to him and keep him company in case he got scared.
只要和他说话并陪伴他，以防他害怕。
Sadeem's the middle kid.
萨迪姆是中间的孩子。
Three years younger than Yemal and three years older than Mahmood.
比耶马尔小三岁，比马哈茂德大三岁。
Sam remembers a few days he and Sadeem just talked all day.
萨姆记得有几天他和萨迪姆整天都在说话。
From early in the morning till the evening when it started getting dark.
从清晨一直到傍晚天色开始暗下来。
In their early phone calls, Sadeem read Sam [UNINTELLIGIBLE] and several Iraqi poets.
在他们早期的电话中，萨迪姆读了萨姆[无法辨认]和几位伊拉克诗人的作品。
I was working at a teen clinic for girls at the time and as Sadeem reached 15, he would send the girls poems he'd written about life in Iraq.
当时我在一家针对女孩的青少年诊所工作，当萨迪姆 15 岁的时候，他会把他写的有关伊拉克生活的诗寄给女孩们。
They'd respond by writing meth poems and heroin poems.
他们会通过写冰毒诗和海洛因诗来回应。
And send Sadeem little construction paper cards that said, thank you for your service.
并寄给萨迪姆一些小卡片，上面写着“谢谢你的服务”。
Sadeem told me, make sure you show those girls my picture so they know how cute I am.
萨迪姆告诉我，一定要给那些女孩看我的照片，这样她们就知道我有多可爱。
And he was cute.
他很可爱。
Red soccer jerseys, curly dark hair, big eyes with long lashes.
红色球衣，卷曲的黑发，大眼睛和长睫毛。
When things got bad though, after Sadeem and Mahmood were injured for the first time by a suicide bombing in 2005, Sadeem started asking me questions like, where do those girls you work with cut on their arms?
然而，当事情变得糟糕时，萨迪姆和马哈茂德在 2005 年的自杀式爆炸事件中首次受伤后，萨迪姆开始问我这样的问题：那些与你一起工作的女孩手臂上有伤口在哪里？
And how do you fix PTSD?
如何修复创伤后应激障碍？
He'd say he was going to hurt himself, and then he'd hang up on us.
他会说他要伤害自己，然后就挂断了我们的电话。
Then call back a few minutes later and apologize.
然后几分钟后回电并道歉。
March 8, 2010 when I answer the phone, Yemal says, it was a horrible day yesterday.
2010 年 3 月 8 日，当我接电话时，耶马尔说，昨天是可怕的一天。
The media will tell you the elections were a [BLEEP] damn success.
媒体会告诉你选举非常成功。
But there's no success when people die.
但人死了就没有成功。
He's on the bus home coming from just west of the green zone, where his brother, Mahmood, lives with their parents.
他正坐在从绿区西边回家的巴士上，他的兄弟马哈茂德和父母住在那里。
Yesterday, Mahmood had been walking down the street and there was a bomb explosion.
昨天，马哈茂德正在街上行走，发生了炸弹爆炸。
He came home with a hand just hanging and said that hurt, Yemal says.
耶马尔说，他回到家时一只手悬在空中，并说很疼。
And I said, I understand why because it's broken.
我说，我明白为什么，因为它坏了。
So he had to go to the hospital.
所以他必须去医院。
But he's home now.
但他现在回家了。
Can you hold on a minute?
你能等一下吗？
I'm getting off the bus.
我要下车了
Sure, I say.
当然，我说。
It's a Monday.
今天是星期一。
I talked to the boys sometimes by phone and e-mail, but didn't ask to talk yesterday because I didn't want to mess Mahmood's Sunday's scheduling.
我有时通过电话和电子邮件与孩子们交谈，但昨天没有要求交谈，因为我不想打乱马哈茂德周日的日程安排。
Mahmood is 16 and it's his self-proclaimed duty to make sure everyone gets equal time with Sam.
Mahmood 16 岁，他自称有责任确保每个人都有平等的时间与 Sam 相处。
He even sets an alarm that goes off when one person's turn is finished, so the next one can start.
他甚至设置了一个闹钟，当一个人的回合结束时，该闹钟就会响起，以便下一个人可以开始。
When I ask how Mahmood is doing other than the broken arm, Yemal says, as you know, this year he got a girlfriend and got engaged.
当我问马哈茂德除了断臂之外还好吗时，耶马尔说，如你所知，今年他有了女朋友并订婚了。
And then she got killed in a suicide bombing.
然后她在自杀式爆炸中丧生。
It goes up and down with him.
它随着他的上升和下降。
He still has lots of nightmare.
他还有很多噩梦。
Yemal believes that of the three boys, Mahmood's most affected by the war.
耶马尔认为，在这三个男孩中，马哈茂德受战争影响最大。
He doesn't remember the Iran-Iraq War or the Kuwait War, and he was too little to remember the deaths caused by the oil for food program the way Yemal does.
他不记得两伊战争或科威特战争，而且他还太小，无法像耶马尔那样记得石油换食品计划造成的死亡。
So when Mahmood was nine in 2003 and the war started, he'd never really been around bombs.
因此，当 2003 年战争爆发时，马哈茂德九岁，他还从未真正接触过炸弹。
So, Yemal says, he's the most scared.
所以，耶马尔说，他是最害怕的。
Mahmood is the one Sam talks with most on days other than the scheduled Sundays.
马哈茂德是山姆在除预定周日以外的日子里交谈最多的人。
We'll be in the line at the grocery store and Mahmood will text, I'm scared, Yam.
我们会在杂货店排队，马哈茂德会发短信说，我很害怕，Yam。
I can't sleep.
我睡不着。
He's got this little Elmo voice.
他的声音有点像埃尔莫。
It's matured slightly over the years, but you can almost here that tiny Elmo sound when you read his text messages.
这些年来它已经稍微成熟了，但当你阅读他的短信时，你几乎可以听到埃尔莫的微小声音。
Sometimes he'll just write, Yam?
有时他会写信，Yam？
Yam?
薯？
He's been calling Sam that since they first started talking and the name just stuck.
自从他们第一次交谈以来，他就一直这么称呼Sam，而且这个名字就一直沿用至今。
Yemal's off the bus now, walking in Sadr City.
耶马尔现在下了车，正在萨德尔城散步。
He tells me to wait a second, a bomb just went off.
他让我等一下，炸弹刚刚爆炸了。
I just want to see where it is, he says, hold on.
我只是想看看它在哪里，他说，等等。
I hear a man's voice very close speaking in Arabic and an ambulance gets loud, then moves away.
我听到一个男人的声音非常接近，用阿拉伯语说话，一辆救护车声音响起，然后开走了。
They're not driving to the part of the city where Mahmood lives, so I don't have to be so nervous, Yemal says.
耶马尔说，他们不会开车去马哈茂德居住的城市地区，所以我不必那么紧张。
It's a half hour bus ride from Mahmood's house to Yemal's.
从 Mahmood 家到 Yemal 家需要半个小时的巴士车程。
He says where Mahmood lives, there are about eight or nine explosions every day.
他说，在马哈茂德居住的地方，每天大约会发生八、九次爆炸。
And where he lives it's more like two or three.
而他住的地方，大概只有两三个。
And how are you, Yemal asks.
“你怎么样，”耶马尔问道。
It's the question I find the most insinuating, the most difficult to answer.
这是我觉得最含沙射影、最难回答的问题。
Pretty good, just going to school and working at the dog daycare.
很好，只是去上学并在狗日托中心工作。
Yemal tells me how weird it is I work with dogs.
耶马尔告诉我，与狗一起工作是多么奇怪。
He seems annoyed every time Sam or I coo on the phone about something cute our dogs are doing.
每当我或萨姆在电话里咕咕地说我们的狗正在做的一些可爱的事情时，他似乎都很生气。
Here dogs are hated, Yemal says.
耶马尔说，在这里狗是令人讨厌的。
If you come near them, they growl.
如果你靠近它们，它们就会咆哮。
When you're putting together a body after an explosion, the dogs come and try to eat it all.
当你在爆炸后拼凑尸体时，狗会过来尝试把尸体全部吃掉。
You have to kill them.
你必须杀掉他们。
I kill a lot of dogs.
我杀了很多狗。
I remember when Mahmood was in a coma once and bleeding, and the dog came nibbling on him and I killed him.
我记得有一次马哈茂德昏迷并流血，那只狗咬了他，我杀了他。
Basically, people have a goat or a camel or a donkey or a horse.
基本上，人们有山羊、骆驼、驴或马。
Once we had a hamster named Benjamin.
从前我们有一只仓鼠，名叫本杰明。
Sam probably talks to the boys more than he talks to anybody.
萨姆与男孩们交谈的次数可能比与任何人交谈的次数都多。
He always wanted brothers when he was a kid.
他小时候一直想要兄弟。
Someone to play hide and seek with, to play guns with, or go somewhere dangerous.
有人一起玩捉迷藏，一起玩枪，或者去危险的地方。
Sam says his relationship with the boys is like having brothers, but in a different way than he imagined back then.
山姆说他和男孩们的关系就像兄弟一样，但方式与他当时想象的不同。
More intimate.
更加亲密。
When Sadeem and Mahmood hit teenhood, they turn to Sam for advice.
当萨迪姆和马哈茂德进入青少年时期时，他们向山姆寻求建议。
They translated the rush of hormones they were feeling into the English word, "drifts." So they'd ask Sam stuff like, how did you handle your drifts?
他们将自己感受到的荷尔蒙激增翻译成英语单词“漂移”。所以他们会问 Sam 诸如此类的问题：你是如何应对自己的漂移的？
And when will the drifts stop?
漂移何时会停止？
He said something like, the drifts won't stop, you just learn how to deal with them and it gets easier after a while.
他说，漂移不会停止，你只要学会如何应对它们，过了一段时间就会变得更容易。
Their friendship happened so gradually.
他们的友谊就是这样慢慢发生的。
Sam knows it's unusual, but it really only hits him how strange it is that he's so close with three people in the middle of a war when the boys tell them something especially disturbing about what they've seen, or when Sam tries to explain the phone calls to anyone here.
萨姆知道这很不寻常，但当男孩们告诉他们一些他们所看到的特别令人不安的事情，或者当萨姆试图向这里的任何人解释电话时，他在战争中与三个人如此亲密，这真的让他感到多么奇怪。
He doesn't do that very often.
他不经常这样做。
Because when he's tried it's always seemed to backfire.
因为当他尝试时，似乎总是适得其反。
When he told his parents he knew Iraqis, they seemed skeptical.
当他告诉父母他认识伊拉克人时，他们似乎持怀疑态度。
And when it comes up with friends, some are interested, but others think it's weird and treat it like a joke.
当谈到朋友时，有些人感兴趣，但另一些人则认为这很奇怪，并把它当作一个笑话。
One night Sam was at the Twilight Lounge with a bunch of friends and Sadeem called.
一天晚上，萨姆和一群朋友在暮光休息室，萨迪姆打来电话。
Sam's friend, Ana, asked who he was talking to that was so important.
山姆的朋友安娜问他正在和谁说话，这太重要了。
When he said it was one of his Iraqi friends, Ana said she wanted to talk to him.
当他说这是他的一位伊拉克朋友时，安娜说她想和他谈谈。
Sam had thought it was all in good fun, so he was like, all right, go ahead and say hi.
Sam 觉得这一切都很有趣，所以他说，好吧，去打个招呼吧。
And she said to Sadeem, say something dirty in Arabic to me.
她对萨迪姆说，用阿拉伯语对我说一些脏话。
Sadeem was so angry.
萨迪姆非常生气。
He said to Sam, why do you spend time with people like that?
他对萨姆说，你为什么花时间和这样的人在一起？
Why are there people like that?
为什么会有这样的人呢？
On January 31, 2009, a year and a half ago, provincial elections held in 14 Iraqi provinces were celebrated in headlines as peaceful and almost violence free.
一年半前的 2009 年 1 月 31 日，伊拉克 14 个省份举行的省级选举成为头条新闻，庆祝和平且几乎没有暴力。
But that morning, 17-year-old Sadeem told his friends and family in Baghdad, this is not a country.
但那天早上，17岁的萨迪姆告诉他在巴格达的朋友和家人，这不是一个国家。
It's not a democracy.
这不是民主国家。
It's not peace here, nor is it more peaceful.
这里并不平静，也没有更平静。
There's no future here.
这里没有未来。
He and his 16-year-old wife Rasheeda , who is pregnant with twins, pulled their adopted daughter, Yolena , out of preschool, quit their jobs, and signed on with a truck driver who said he would take them out of the country.
他和怀有双胞胎的 16 岁妻子拉希达 (Rasheeda) 将养女约莱娜 (Yolena) 从幼儿园退学，辞去了工作，并与一名卡车司机签约，后者表示将带他们出国。
Sadeem told me he left because he didn't want to raise his family in a city so violent.
萨迪姆告诉我，他离开是因为他不想在一个如此暴力的城市养育家人。
He and Rasheeda have now lost four of their six children.
他和拉希达现在失去了六个孩子中的四个。
Although for reasons arguably unrelated to the war.
尽管其原因可以说与战争无关。
Irina died in the womb.
伊琳娜死于腹中。
Ahmed , one of the twins, was premature and died 12 days after his birth.
双胞胎之一艾哈迈德早产，出生后 12 天就去世了。
Their first adopted child, Abdul, passed away in 2008 due to a breathing problem.
他们的第一个收养的孩子阿卜杜勒 (Abdul) 于 2008 年因呼吸问题去世。
And their second adopted child, Yolena, who was deaf, partially blind, couldn't walk, and was expected to live only until the age of three, passed away from pneumonia two weeks ago at the age of six.
他们收养的第二个孩子约莱娜（Yolena）聋哑，部分失明，无法行走，预计只能活到三岁，两周前因肺炎去世，享年六岁。
The two other children are Yuwad who's one, and Saleem , who's almost two.
另外两个孩子是一岁的尤瓦德（Yuwad）和快两岁的萨利姆（Saleem）。
Saleem's also adopted.
萨利姆也被收养了。
He was found on the steps of the child home and the workers called Sadeem and Rasheeda to see if they would take him.
他被发现在儿童之家的台阶上，工作人员打电话给萨迪姆和拉希达，看他们是否愿意带走他。
At first we said no because we already had Yolena and Yuwad Sadeem says.
起初我们拒绝了，因为我们已经有了 Yolena，Yuwad Sadeem 说。
But then of course, they sent a damn photo of him.
但当然，他们发了一张他的照片。
So a year ago, Sadeem and Rasheeda were saying goodbye to Baghdad.
一年前，萨迪姆和拉希达告别了巴格达。
Sadeem can't say how long they spent in the hot, dark back of that truck with no bathroom, worrying over Yolena who was prone to seizures.
萨迪姆记不清他们在那辆又热又黑、没有卫生间的卡车后座里呆了多久，担心容易癫痫发作的约莱娜。
But after a couple of days when the driver finally pushed them out, they realized they weren't in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia.
但几天后，当司机终于把他们推出去时，他们意识到自己并不在科威特或沙特阿拉伯。
There are still in Iraq, right near the western border.
仍然有一些人在伊拉克，就在西部边境附近。
After spending a few days in a refugee camp, they walked an hour to a village and decided to stay.
在难民营待了几天后，他们步行一个小时到达一个村庄，并决定留下来。
They'd hoped to be counted among the 201 million Iraqi refugees who made it to Syria, or Jordan, or some other country.
他们原本希望能被算作抵达叙利亚、约旦或其他国家的 2.01 亿伊拉克难民之一。
But instead, they're counted among the 2.8 million who have been displaced inside Iraq by the war.
但相反，他们被算作因战争而在伊拉克境内流离失所的 280 万人中的一员。
Sadeem found a job almost right away teaching three- to five-year-olds at a mosque.
萨迪姆几乎立刻就找到了一份工作，在清真寺教三到五岁的孩子。
They have to learn how to read the Quran in a specific way, to recite it like singing.
他们必须学习如何以特定的方式阅读《古兰经》，像唱歌一样背诵它。
He says the students are very, very behaved.
他说学生们非常非常守规矩。
Sadeem says his new village is so calm.
萨迪姆说他的新村庄非常平静。
There are no soldiers, there's not much traffic.
没有士兵，也没有太多交通。
And he says, people aren't constantly worried about bombings.
他说，人们并不总是担心爆炸事件。
If you're at the grocery market and you stand in line with 15 people, it doesn't really matter because people take it easy, he says.
他说，如果你在杂货市场，有 15 个人在排队，这并不重要，因为人们都很轻松。
It's not like in Baghdad where if there are two people in front of you, you're like, ah, there's two people in front of me.
这不像在巴格达，如果你面前有两个人，你会说，啊，我面前有两个人。
I'm going to die.
我要死了。
Back in Baghdad in early April, about three weeks after the elections Yemal was so upset about, he sent Sam a series of short text messages.
四月初回到巴格达，大约三周后，耶马尔对选举感到非常不安，他给萨姆发了一系列短信。
He though he was in danger.
他认为自己正处于危险之中。
There were people coming around his neighborhood.
他家附近有人来访。
He didn't have many details and asked Sam to see what he could find out from news reports.
他没有透露太多细节，让萨姆看看他能从新闻报道中找到什么。
Sam found articles online about gunmen dressed at soldiers going door-to-door in neighborhoods near where Yemal's family lived, shooting and slitting the throats of Sunnis.
萨姆在网上发现了一些文章，称枪手身穿士兵服装，在耶马尔家人居住的附近社区挨家挨户开枪射杀逊尼派人士并割断他们的喉咙。
Yemal is Sunni and Yemal's wife was just about to have her baby.
耶马尔是逊尼派，耶马尔的妻子正要生孩子。
She was in the hospital.
她在医院里。
So Yemal took his four-year-old daughter, Malika , and texted Sam that they were going to stay away from home for a while.
于是，耶马尔带着他四岁的女儿马莉卡，给山姆发短信说他们要离开家一段时间。
Neither Sam nor Sadeem heard from Yemal or Mahmood for a few weeks after that.
此后几周，萨姆和萨迪姆都没有收到耶马尔或马哈茂德的消息。
Finally they got word that little Malika was spotted by a neighbor wandering near some storefronts.
最后他们得到消息，小玛莉卡在一些店面附近闲逛时被邻居发现。
She was taken to an uncle's house.
她被带到了一个叔叔家。
Malika said she'd been with her father when there was a bomb and he told her to run.
马莉卡说，发生炸弹袭击时她和父亲在一起，父亲让她逃跑。
So Sadeem took the 12 hour bus ride up to Baghdad to help in the search for his brothers.
因此，萨迪姆乘坐 12 小时的巴士前往巴格达，帮助寻找他的兄弟。
He wrote on his blog, where are you, Yemal?
他在博客上写道，你在哪里，耶马尔？
Where are you, Mahmood?
马哈茂德，你在哪里？
After he had returned to his village with no success, we heard from Sadeem's friends in Baghdad.
在他无功而返后，我们收到了萨迪姆在巴格达的朋友的来信。
Yemal's wife, Temara , had had her baby, a little girl, and was doing fine.
耶马尔的妻子特马拉 (Temara) 生下了她的孩子，一个小女孩，一切都很好。
Yemal and Mahmood had been found in a hospital.
耶马尔和马哈茂德被发现在一家医院。
Mahmood injured but OK, recovering from an infection.
马哈茂德受伤了，但还好，正在从感染中恢复。
Yemal in a deep coma with very little brain activity.
耶马尔处于深度昏迷状态，大脑活动很少。
Months before all that, Yemal had chosen Sam to be an [UNINTELLIGIBLE] to his baby.
几个月前，耶马尔选择山姆作为他孩子的[无法理解]。
Which is sort of like a godfather.
这有点像教父。
Since Yemal is still in a coma and the baby's getting on a month and a half old, the responsibility falls on Sam, Sadeem and Mahmood to help Temara name her.
由于 Yemal 仍处于昏迷状态，而孩子已经有一个半月大了，Sam、Sadeem 和 Mahmood 就有责任帮助 Temara 给她命名。
So in early June Sadeem calls.
于是六月初萨迪姆打来电话。
He runs name ideas by Sam.
他负责管理 Sam 的名字创意。
What do you think about the name Leila.
你觉得莱拉这个名字怎么样？
Leila?
莱拉？
There's a very similar name in English and an Eric Clapton song.
英文中有一个非常相似的名字，还有一首埃里克·克莱普顿 (Eric Clapton) 的歌曲。
Oh, Sadeem says.
哦，萨迪姆说。
Is that Temara is thinking about?
特马拉在想这个吗？
I don't know.
我不知道。
That or otherwise I was thinking about the name Emina.
不管怎样，我正在考虑艾米娜这个名字。
But then I remembered you have a damn cat named that, says Sadeem.
但后来我想起你有一只该死的猫，就叫这个名字，萨迪姆说。
Hefiza.
海菲扎。
What does hafiz mean again?
哈菲兹又是什么意思？
Love?
爱？
I'd be a pretty big fan of that name, Sam says.
“我会非常喜欢这个名字，”萨姆说。
Well, I don't know.
嗯，我不知道。
I'll give Temara a few names and then she'll see which one she want to name her.
我会给特玛拉几个名字，然后她会看看她想给她起哪个名字。
But she's such a good little fluffy baby.
但她真是一个毛茸茸的小宝贝。
How's the mom doing?
妈妈怎么样了？
She's OK.
她没事。
As good as she can be, I guess.
我想，她能有多好就有多好。
From the hospital In Baghdad, a friend puts the phone up to Yemal so Sam can speak to him.
一位朋友在巴格达的医院给 Yemal 打电话，以便 Sam 可以与他通话。
There's hope that even though Yemal's in a coma, he might hear and understand the voices of his friends.
人们希望，即使耶马尔处于昏迷状态，他也能听到并理解朋友的声音。
Sam tells Yemal that he loves him.
山姆告诉耶马尔他爱他。
As Sam talks he hears the machines that keeps his friend breathing.
当山姆说话时，他听到了维持他朋友呼吸的机器的声音。
Yemal slept through his 23th birthday, May 29, His friends have been writing on his Facebook wall and I've been looking at the pictures.
5 月 29 日，Yemal 睡过了他的 23 岁生日，他的朋友们一直在他的 Facebook 墙上留言，我一直在看照片。
The last thing Yemal posted was a cover the Aerosmith song, "Don't Want to Miss a Thing." A song I always thought was cheesy, so I never opened the link.
Yemal 发布的最后一件事是翻唱 Aerosmith 的歌曲“Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”。我一直觉得这首歌很俗气，所以我从来没有打开过链接。
So Yemal can't speak and Sadeem can only call when he visits Baghdad or Basra.
所以耶马尔不能说话，萨迪姆只能在访问巴格达或巴士拉时打电话。
Sam misses them, but he's still on the phone every week to Iraq for four hours.
萨姆很想念他们，但他仍然每周都会给伊拉克打电话四个小时。
He's got a new schedule.
他有一个新的日程安排。
Some Saturdays he talks to Mahmood.
有些星期六他会和马哈茂德交谈。
And on Sundays, he talks to their friends in Najaf.
周日，他会和纳杰夫的朋友聊天。
They tell him whatever news they have about the boys.
他们告诉他有关男孩们的任何消息。
Now they've become Sam's friends too.
现在他们也成为了山姆的朋友。
First contact to science fiction fans means just one thing, first contact with extraterrestrials.
与科幻小说迷的第一次接触意味着一件事，那就是与外星人的第一次接触。
And SETI, that's the Search for Extraterrestrials Intelligence, where scientists use radio telescopes to look for signs of intelligent life elsewhere, actually has a task force, the Post-Detection Task Force, devoted to the question, what happens if they find intelligent life elsewhere.
SETI，也就是寻找外星智慧生命，科学家们使用射电望远镜在其他地方寻找智慧生命的迹象，实际上有一个特别工作组，即“探测后特别工作组”，致力于解决这个问题：如果他们在其他地方发现智慧生命，会发生什么。
And one of the responsibilities of this task force is actually to consider this question, what kind of message should we send as our first communication with an alien civilization.
这个工作组的职责之一实际上就是考虑这个问题，作为我们与外星文明的第一次交流，我们应该发送什么样的信息。
So supposing we find that there is a radio source, or at least evidence for alien technology at some particular location in the galaxy--
因此，假设我们发现在银河系的某个特定位置存在无线电源，或者至少存在外星技术的证据——
This is Professor Paul Davies, author of a book about all this, The Eerie Silence and chair of this task force.
我是保罗·戴维斯教授，他是一本关于这一切的书《令人毛骨悚然的沉默》的作者，也是该工作组的主席。
The the task group feels that in the first instance, we should not disclose the coordinates in the sky of this source, simply because we don't want any random crackpot setting themselves up as a self-appointed spokesperson of mankind and commandeering a radio telescope and sending their own homespun wisdom.
工作组认为，首先，我们不应该透露这个源头在天空中的坐标，只是因为我们不希望任何胡言乱语的人自封为人类的代言人，霸占射电望远镜并发送他们自己的朴素智慧。
Because if we're going to respond to some sort of contact like this, we have to think very carefully about what we want to say.
因为如果我们要回应这样的某种联系，我们必须非常仔细地考虑我们想说的话。
In your book you write, "A message concocted by a committee would be a recipe for the lowest common denominator, and is likely to consist of banalities.
您在书中写道：“委员会炮制的信息将是最低公分母的秘诀，并且可能包含陈词滥调。
Statements solely by a politician or religious leaders to horrible to contemplate." What do you think should be in the first message?
仅由政治家或宗教领袖发表的言论就令人难以想象。”您认为第一条消息中应该包含什么内容？
I err on the side of comprehension.
我在理解方面犯了错误。
That is to say that I think we should pick a message which is certain to be understood by them and that we might pick one of the fundamental numbers that come out of atomic and quantum physics and send that as an indication of our level of understanding of basic science and mathematics.
也就是说，我认为我们应该选择一条他们肯定能理解的信息，并且我们可以选择来自原子和量子物理学的基本数字之一，并将其作为我们对基础科学和数学理解水平的指示。
Now if we attempted for example, to send details of the US Constitution or something of that sort, of course it would be completely incomprehensible.
现在，如果我们尝试发送美国宪法或类似内容的详细信息，那当然是完全无法理解的。
Some people think that music is the finest achievement of the human intellect, but music appreciation is so tied to the human cognitive system, it may just be completely meaningless to an alien brain an alien mind.
有些人认为音乐是人类智力的最优秀成就，但音乐欣赏与人类认知系统如此紧密地联系在一起，对于外星人的大脑和外星人的心灵来说，它可能完全没有意义。
Send that stuff later, Davies says, once they're getting to know us.
戴维斯说，等他们了解我们后，再发送这些东西。
First message, be simple and comprehensible.
第一条消息要简单易懂。
Numbers.
数字。
Sent in binary code, zero's and one's.
以二进制代码（零和一）发送。
But apparently not everybody on our planet has gotten this memo.
但显然并不是地球上的每个人都收到了这份备忘录。
Hi, my name is Venetia and I'm part of a groundbreaking new project that lets Bebo users make their mark on history.
大家好，我叫 Venetia，我是一个开创性新项目的一部分，该项目让 Bebo 用户在历史上留下自己的印记。
When you look into the night sky, there's a star 20 and 1/2 light years away.
当你仰望夜空时，你会发现一颗恒星距离我们 20 又 1/2 光年。
This was on a social networking site called Bebo a little while back.
这是不久前在一个名为 Bebo 的社交网站上发布的。
There's a planet 20 light years away that this website says, theoretically could hold life.
该网站称，距离我们 20 光年有一颗行星，理论上可以存在生命。
Maybe.
或许。
We want you to create a message that we'll beam out of solar system and across the galaxy.
我们希望您创建一条信息，我们会将其发送到太阳系之外并穿过银河系。
In just over 20 years when the message arrives at our target planet, the photos, drawings, and words submitted by Bebo users could be the first things that another world ever learns about mankind.
在短短 20 多年的时间里，当信息到达我们的目标星球时，Bebo 用户提交的照片、图画和文字可能是另一个世界对人类的第一批了解。
Well, we got a hold of some of these messages from Bebo users that were actually sent by a radio telescope to this distant alien civilization that they hope anyway, is there.
好吧，我们从 Bebo 用户那里得到了一些信息，这些信息实际上是通过射电望远镜发送到这个遥远的外星文明的，无论如何他们都希望这个文明就在那里。
Presumably, super advanced if the can hear and understand us.
如果他们能听到并理解我们的话，想必是超级先进的。
One of the messages here, "I don't believe in aliens.
这里的信息之一是：“我不相信外星人。
But I suppose if you're getting this now, I was epically wrong.
但我想如果你现在明白了这一点，我就大错特错了。
P.S.
附：
We invented the George Foreman grill, therefore we're better than you."
我们发明了乔治·福尔曼烤架，因此我们比你更好。”
Another, "George Sampson is amazing-- and then there's a smiley emoticon.
另一个是，“乔治·桑普森太棒了——然后还有一个笑脸表情。
He's so talented, lovely, and gorgeous.
他是如此的才华横溢，可爱又美丽。
He's such an inspiration-- I'm reading it this way because there are exclamation marks by the way.
他真是一个鼓舞人心的人——我这样读是因为顺便说一句，里面有感叹号。
He's such an inspiration to other dancers, plus deserves everything he's gotten.
他是其他舞者的灵感来源，他所得到的一切都是他应得的。
Congrats on everything, George, and good luck for the future.
祝贺一切，乔治，祝未来好运。
I love you, XX."
我爱你，XX。”
Another, "I love someone very much, but they got someone else."
另一个，“我很爱一个人，但他们已经有了别人。”
Another, "Anybody for a cup Of tea?"
另一个，“有人要喝杯茶吗？”
Another, "You're lucky to live over 20 light years from Earth.
另一个是，“你很幸运生活在距离地球超过 20 光年的地方。
By the time you read this, I will be getting my state pension and my country's capital, London, will be under water due to global warming melting our ice caps.
当你读到这篇文章时，我将领取国家养老金，而我国的首都伦敦将因全球变暖冰盖融化而被淹没。
The white bits that you see at the top and bottom of our planet.
你在地球顶部和底部看到的白色碎片。
P.S.
附：
Don't invent/use fossil fuel based engines."
不要发明/使用基于化石燃料的发动机。”
And this one, my favorite.
还有这个，我最喜欢的。
"Hi aliens.
“嗨，外星人。
If you get this and you get coordinates and stuff from Earth, please don't come and kill us because that's not nice.
如果你得到了这个并且你得到了来自地球的坐标和东西，请不要来杀我们，因为那不好。
Thanks.
谢谢。
Unless you kill us, then no thanks.
除非你杀了我们，否则不用谢。
From Morgan Nagle."
来自摩根·内格尔。”
People also sent pictures of themselves, of their guitars and drum sets.
人们还发送了自己的照片、吉他和架子鼓的照片。
There's several stick figure drawings.
有几张简笔画。
There are lots of logos from sports teams.
有很多运动队的标志。
And a surprising number of photos of Heath Ledger as the joker.
还有数量惊人的希斯·莱杰扮演小丑的照片。
In the cause of these exercises where messages have been invited using social networking sites--
在这些练习中，我们通过社交网站邀请了消息——
Again, Professor Paul Davies.
又是保罗·戴维斯教授。
Paul Davies --it's alarming and a bit depressing to see the sort of messages people send it.
保罗·戴维斯（Paul Davies）——看到人们发送的信息令人震惊，也有点令人沮丧。
Mostly they're at the level of sentiments about their boyfriends or girlfriends or something of that sort.
大多数情况下，他们对自己的男朋友或女朋友或类似的事物有感情。
I have to say that I, myself, don't have any great misgivings because I think the chances of these transmitted signals ever being picked up by an alien civilization are very small.
我不得不说，我自己并没有什么太大的疑虑，因为我认为这些传输的信号被外星文明接收到的机会非常小。
Also, he says, the aliens won't understand a word of it in all likelihood.
他还说，外星人很可能一个字也听不懂。
He also takes a dim view of the space probes that NASA has sent out with messages for other civilizations.
他还对美国宇航局向其他文明发出信息的太空探测器持悲观态度。
The Voyager spacecraft had an actual phonograph record with sounds from Earth.
航行者号宇宙飞船有一张真实的留声机唱片，里面有来自地球的声音。
We've sent the Beatles song "Across the Universe " into space.
我们已将披头士乐队的歌曲“Across the Universe”送入太空。
The Pioneer spacecraft had a plague on it with drawings of a naked man and woman.
先锋号宇宙飞船上有一幅瘟疫，上面画着裸体的男人和女人。
The man's hand raised in greeting.
男人举起手来打招呼。
Davies was written about this in his book.
戴维斯在他的书中谈到了这一点。
The picture is dominated by the human shapes.
画面以人物造型为主。
Yet our physical form is probably the least significant thing we can say.
然而，我们的身体形态可能是我们能说的最不重要的事情。
It's almost completely irrelevant, both scientifically and culturally.
无论是在科学上还是在文化上，这几乎完全无关。
To put it bluntly, who gives a damn what we look like?
说白了，谁在乎我们长什么样呢？
The raised hand is the height of absurdity.
举起的手是荒谬的高度。
Such a culturally specific mannerism would be utterly incomprehensible to another species.
这种文化上特有的举止对于其他物种来说是完全无法理解的。
Especially one that might not have limbs.
尤其是一个可能没有四肢的人。
This half-hearted attempt to put our stamp on the cosmic community is distinctive in its narrow-mindedness and preoccupation with 20th century science and human affairs.
这种半心半意地试图在宇宙共同体上留下我们的印记，其独特之处在于其狭隘的思想和对 20 世纪科学和人类事务的关注。
For now though, since it seems that anybody can borrow one of these radio telescopes to beam out a message, what we're sending into space includes stuff like this from that Bebo project.
但就目前而言，由于似乎任何人都可以借用其中一台射电望远镜来发射信息，因此我们发送到太空的内容包括来自 Bebo 项目的此类内容。
"We have pointless sports such as golf.
“我们有一些毫无意义的运动，比如高尔夫。
You hit a ball with a stick and aim for a hole.
你用棍子击球并瞄准一个洞。
Also a game for the rich.
也是有钱人的游戏。
Now we have fun games like rugby.
现在我们有橄榄球等有趣的游戏。
We hurt each other for a ball to gain points.
我们为了一个球互相伤害来获得分数。
Football is a boring game to some and not to other, but if you think of it, all sports are pointless.
足球对某些人来说是一项无聊的运动，但对其他人来说则不然，但如果你仔细想想，所有的运动都是毫无意义的。
Just something to keep us happy." [MUSIC- "FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME" BY FOREIGNER]
只是让我们开心的事情。” [音乐-外国人的“感觉就像第一次”]
Well our program was produced today by Lisa Pollak and me, with Alex Blumberg, Ben Calhoun, Jane Feltes, Sarah Koenig, Brian Reed, Robyn Semien, Alissa Shipp and Nancy Updike.
今天我们的节目是由 Lisa Pollak 和我以及 Alex Blumberg、Ben Calhoun、Jane Feltes、Sarah Koenig、Brian Reed、Robyn Semien、Alissa Shipp 和 Nancy Updike 制作的。
Our senior producer Julie Snyder.
我们的高级制片人朱莉·斯奈德。
Seth Lind who is our production manager.
塞思·林德（Seth Lind）是我们的生产经理。
Emily Condon's our office manager.
艾米丽·康登是我们的办公室经理。
Music help from Jessica Hopper.
杰西卡·霍珀的音乐帮助。
Jonathan Mitchell created our audio simulation of the sound that Scott heard with his cochlear implant in the open of today's show.
乔纳森·米切尔 (Jonathan Mitchell) 创建了我们对斯科特在今天的演出开场时通过人工耳蜗听到的声音的音频模拟。
[ACKKNOWLEDGEMENTS] Our website, thisamericanlife.org, where right now you can see more of the messages that Bebo users beamed up into space if you aren't already in space and seeing them already from space.
[致谢] 我们的网站 thisamericanlife.org，如果您尚未进入太空并且已经从太空中看到了 Bebo 用户发送到太空的更多消息，您现在可以在该网站上看到这些消息。
Though, how likely is that really?
不过，这真的有多大可能呢？
This American Life is distributed by Public Radio International.
《美国生活》由国际公共广播电台发行。
WBEZ management oversight for our program by our boss, Mr. Torey Malatia, who's ready to let the truth be known.
我们的老板 Torey Malatia 先生对 WBEZ 项目进行了管理监督，他已准备好让真相为人所知。
I'm a terrible kisser.
我是一个糟糕的接吻者。
That's kind of my thing.
这就是我的事。
I'm Ira Glass, be back next week with more stories of this American life.
我是艾拉·格拉斯，下周回来，带来更多关于美国生活的故事。
Me too, dude.
我也是，伙计。
Me too.
我也是。
[MUSIC- "FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME" BY FOREIGNER]
[音乐-外国人的“感觉就像第一次”]
This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange.
《This American Life》与 WBEZ Chicago 合作制作，并由 PRX 公共广播电台传送到各电台。