TED演讲： 凌晨4点(1)

 　　This is a recent comic strip from the Los Angeles Times. The punch line?  这是最近洛杉矶时报的一幅漫画。笑点是？

　　"On the other hand, I don't have to get up at four every single morning to milk my Labrador." “另一方面，我不用每天凌晨4点起来，给我的拉布拉多猎犬喂奶。”

　　This is a recent cover of New York Magazine.  这是纽约杂志最近的封面。

　　Best hospitals where doctors say they would go for cancer treatment, births, strokes, heart disease, hip¹ replacements², 4 a.m. emergencies. 这是最好的医院，医生说他们会去那里去治疗癌症，生育，中风，心脏病，换臀以及凌晨4点的急救。

　　And this is a song medley³ I put together --  这是一首我混合的歌--

　　Did you ever notice that four in the morning has become some sort of meme or shorthand? 你发现凌晨4点成了什么？仿佛迷因或者缩略符号?

　　It means something like you are awake at the worst possible hour.  它意味着你在最糟糕的时辰醒来。

　　A time for inconveniences, mishaps⁴, yearnings.  那是一个不便，意外，渴望的时间，

　　A time for plotting to whack⁵ the chief of police, like in this classic scene from "The Godfather." 一个暗算攻击警察局长的时间，就像《教父》中的经典镜头。

　　Coppola's script describes these guys as, "exhausted⁶ in shirt sleeves. It is four in the morning." Coppola的剧本将这些人描述成：“那些人穿着短袖，筋疲力竭，现在是凌晨4点”

　　A time for even grimmer stuff than that, like autopsies⁷ and embalmings in Isabel Allende's "The House of the Spirits." 还有比那个更冷酷的，像伊丽莎白·阿连德《精灵之屋》里的剖尸防腐。

　　After the breathtaking green-haired Rosa is murdered, the doctors preserve her with unguents and morticians' paste. 当惊艳的绿发女郎Rosa被害以后，医生用油膏和处置尸体的防腐剂来保存她。

　　They worked until four o'clock in the morning.  他们一直工作到4点

1 hip   

n.臀部，髋；屋脊

参考例句：

• The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
• The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。

2 replacements   

n.代替( replacement的名词复数 )；替换的人[物]；替代品；归还

参考例句：

• They infiltrated behind the lines so as to annoy the emery replacements. 他们渗透敌后以便骚扰敌军的调度。 来自辞典例句
• For oil replacements, cheap suddenly looks less of a problem. 对于石油的替代品来说，价格变得无足轻重了。 来自互联网

3 medley   

n.混合

参考例句：

• Today's sports meeting doesn't seem to include medley relay swimming.现在的运动会好象还没有混合接力泳这个比赛项目。
• China won the Men's 200 metres Individual Medley.中国赢得了男子200米个人混合泳比赛。

4 mishaps   

n.轻微的事故，小的意外( mishap的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a series of mishaps 一连串的倒霉事
• In spite of one or two minor mishaps everything was going swimmingly. 尽管遇到了一两件小小的不幸，一切都进行得很顺利。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 whack   

v.敲击，重打，瓜分；n.重击，重打，尝试，一份

参考例句：

• After years of dieting,Carol's metabolism was completely out of whack.经过数年的节食，卡罗尔的新陈代谢完全紊乱了。
• He gave me a whack on the back to wake me up.他为把我弄醒，在我背上猛拍一下。

6 exhausted   

adj.极其疲惫的，精疲力尽的

参考例句：

• It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长，到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
• Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。

7 autopsies   

n.尸体解剖( autopsy的名词复数 )；验尸；现场验证；实地观察

参考例句：

• Autopsies cannot be performed and thus no recent histological examinations have been reported. 不能进行尸体解剖，因此没有新近的组织学检查的报道。 来自辞典例句
• I told you to supervise autopsies, not to set up a lot of fancy rules. 我叫你监督解剖室，不是去制定一些空想的规定。 来自辞典例句