v. 围裹,抑制,发低沉的声音
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- Is it simply the byproduct of a crude mechanical action?
- 它仅仅是一个粗糙机械制作的副产品?
- Or is it an imitation of one half the set of sounds we make to express disappointment?
- 或者对我们抒发不满的一种声音的一半所进行的模仿?
- The often dental consonant of no Indo-European language.
- 我们不满的时候经常用它在印欧语系中可找不到词源。
- Or is it the amplified sound of a synapse firing in the brain of a cockroach?
- 还是,那其实是蟑螂大脑中触突闪现火花那一刹那所产生的声响的放大?
- In the 1950s they tried their best to muffle this sound with mercury switches and silent knob controls.
- 在二十世纪五十年代,科学家们曾尽力用汞制的开关和静音的按钮来消除这声响。
- But today these improvements seem somehow inauthentic.
- 但在今天开来,这些改进倒显得不地道。
- The click is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life,announcing our entry into every lightless room.
- 这“咯嗒”声 其实是现代社会胜利的号角。让我们的生活向前迈进,宣告我们向每一个无光的暗房进军。
- The sound made flicking a wall switch off is of a completely different nature.
- 而我们把墙上开关关上的那一声响内涵就完全不同了。
- It has a deep melancholy ring. Children don't like it. It's why they leave lights on around the house.
- 它蕴含着深深地抑郁声调。孩子们不喜欢它。所以总爱让房间亮着。
- Adults find it comforting. But wouldn't it be an easy matter to wire a wall switch?
- 大人们却能聊以慰藉。但把墙上的开关接通电源不是很容易的事儿吗?
- so that it triggers the muted horn of a steam ship?
- 这样就能够启动蒸汽船静默的汽笛?
- Or the recorded crowing of a rooster? Or the distant peel of thunder?
- 或唤醒公鸡清晨的报晓?还是爆破远方的一声惊雷?
- Thomas Edison went through thousands of unlikely substances before he came upon the right one for the filament of his electric light bulb.
- 爱迪生也是在尝试过,成千上万不同的物质之后才找到了真正适合做灯丝的物质,从而完成了他的电灯发明。
- Why have we settled so quickly for the sound of its switch?
- 为什么我们要如此迅速地屈就于那开关不完美的“咯嗒”声响呢?

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这则动人演讲选自TED锦集,是漫画家Ben Katchor从他的连环漫画中选出来朗读的。这些独具风韵的超现实小故事,在电灯开关、标记牌这些小物件上找到了历史(和现代纽约)残留其中的殷切希望和种种瑕疵。

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