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- Today I am going to teach you how to play my favorite game:
- 今天我要教你们怎么玩我最爱的游戏:
- massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling.
- 超级多人拇指摔跤
- It's the only game in the world that I know of
- 这是我所知的唯一一个
- that allows you, the player,
- 可以让你,也就是玩家
- the opportunity to experience 10 positive emotions in 60 seconds or less.
- 得以在六十秒内体验十种正面心情的游戏
- This is true, so if you play this game with me today
- 这是真的,因此如果你今天和我玩这个游戏
- for just one single minute,
- 只需要一分钟
- you will get to feel joy, relief, love, surprise,
- 你将会感受到喜悦、解脱、爱、惊喜
- pride, curiosity, excitement, awe and wonder, contentment, and creativity,
- 骄傲、好奇、兴奋、敬畏与惊奇、满足,以及创造力
- all in the span of one minute.
- 这都将在一分钟内发生
- So this sounds pretty good, right? Now you're willing to play.
- 听起来很不错吧?你现在会愿意玩这个游戏了
- In order to teach you this game,
- 为了教你们这个游戏
- I'm going to need some volunteers to come up onstage really quickly,
- 我需要一些自愿者很快地到台上来
- and we're going to do a little hands-on demo.
- 然后我们将会亲身示范
- While they're coming up, I should let you know,
- 在等他们上来的同时,我该让你们知道
- this game was invented 10 years ago by an artists' collective in Austria named Monochrom.
- 这个游戏是在十年前,由一位奥地利艺术收藏家Monochrom发明的
- So thank you, Monochrom.
- 谢谢你,Monochrom
- Okay, so most people are familiar with traditional, two-person thumb-wrestling.
- 好的,大部分的人都对传统的两人拇指摔跤很熟悉
- Sunni, let's just remind them.
- Sunni,我们帮他们复习一下吧
- One, two, three, four,I declare a thumb war, and we wrestle,
- 一,二,三,四,当我说拇指比赛,然后我们就开始
- and of course Sunni beats me because she's the best.
- 当然Sunni会打败我,因为她是最厉害的
- Now the first thing about massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling, we're the gamer generation.
- 玩多人拇指摔跤,(要知道)的第一件事情就是我们身处玩家的世代
- There are a billion gamers on the planet now,
- 现在全世界有十数亿个玩家
- so we need more of a challenge.
- 所以我们面临大挑战
- So the first thing we need is more thumbs.
- 首先,我们需要更多的拇指
- So Eric, come on over.
- 所以,来吧,Eric
- So we could get three thumbs together, and Peter could join us.
- 我们把三个拇指凑在一起,然后Peter可以加入我们
- We could even have four thumbs together,
- 我们甚至可以把四个拇指凑在一起
- and the way you win is you're the first person to pin someone else's thumb.
- 如果你是第一个把别人的拇指按住的人,你就赢了
- This is really important.
- 这很重要
- You can't, like, wait while they fight it out and then swoop in at the last minute.
- 你不能在一旁观战,然后再最终才突然压下来
- That is not how you win.
- 这样子赢了不算
- Ah, who did that? Eric you did that.
- 噢,是谁?是Eric
- So Eric would have won. He was the first person to pin my thumb.
- 这样Eric就赢了,他是第一个把我的拇指压住的
- Okay, so that's the first rule,
- 好,这就是第一条规则
- and we can see that three or four is kind of the typical number of thumbs in a node,
- 三个或四个拇指是在一个节点中常见的拇指数量
- but if you feel ambitious,you don't have to hold back.
- 但是如果你很有野心的话,别憋在心里
- We can really go for it.
- 我们真的可以争取更多
- So you can see up here.
- 你可以看到
- Now the only other rule you need to remember is,
- 你要记住的另外一条规则就是
- gamer generation, we like a challenge.
- 身为玩家世代的一员,我们喜欢挑战
- I happen to notice you all have some thumbs you're not using.
- 让我提醒你们,你们都有一些你现在没在用的拇指
- So I think we should kind of get some more involved.
- 所以我觉得我们应该试点其他的
- And if we had just four people,
- 如果我们只有四个人
- we would do it just like this,
- 我们可以这样做
- and we would try and wrestle both thumbs at the same time.
- 同时用两双拇指摔跤
- Now, if we had more people in the room,
- 好,如果这房间里有更多人
- instead of just wrestling in a closed node,
- 我们可以往外延伸,让更多人参与我们
- we might reach out and try and grab some other people.
- 而不是只在一个封闭的节点里玩摔跤
- And in fact, that's what we're going to do right now.
- 事实上,这就是我们现在要做的
- We're going to try and get all, something like,
- 我们要试着把这房间里所有的
- I don't know, 1,500 thumbs in this room connected in a single node.
- 我不确定,大概1500个拇指在一个节点里面连接起来
- And we have to connect both levels,
- 我们得连结两层楼
- so if you're up there, you're going to be reaching down and reaching up.
- 所以如果你在楼上的话,你就要同时连接楼上和楼下
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演讲简介:
当你让所有听众站起来,每个人手拉手时会发生什么?混乱,是的。至少,当Jane McGonigal试着教TED听众玩她最喜欢的游戏是,就是这样的。接下来,当这个游戏是“大型多人拇指摔跤”时,你预计还会发生什么呢?
来源:可可英语 http://www.kekenet.com/Article/201512/417387.shtml
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challenge
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declare
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单词declare 联想记忆: de加强语义,clare=clear使…清晰明了-宣布
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pride
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collective
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ambitious
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单词ambitious 联想记忆: amb大+it+ion→走大步→雄心,志向+ious→有雄心的
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typical
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