TED演讲:信息就是食物(1)

I love my food. And I love information.

我热爱食品，我也热爱信息。

My children usually tell me that one of those passions is a little more apparent¹ than the other.

我的孩子们常常对我说我看起来显然更像个吃货。

But what I want to do in the next eight minutes or so is to take you through how those passions developed,

不过在接下来的八分钟里我会向大家介绍这两个爱好是如何发展的，

the point in my life when the two passions merged², the journey of learning that took place from that point.

它们合二为一的时刻，以及此后我的学习旅程。

And one idea I want to leave you with today is what would would happen differently in your life if you saw information the way you saw food?

今天我想把下面这个问题留给你们：如果像看待食物那样看待信息你的生活会有什么样的改变？

I was born in Calcutta -- a family where my father and his father before him were journalists,

我出生在加尔各答（印度城市）我的父亲和祖父都是记者，

and they wrote magazines in the English language. That was the family business.

他们用英语为杂志写文章。这就是我家的家族产业。

And as a result of that, I grew up with books everywhere around the house. And I mean books everywhere around the house.

因此，我小时候家里全是书。真的是堆满了，就像这样。

And that's actually a shop in Calcutta, but it's a place where we like our books.

这其实是加尔各答的一家商店，不过光顾那里的都是爱书人。

In fact, I've got 38,000 of them now and no Kindle³ in sight.

事实上，我现在一共有三万八千本书而且没有Kindle（亚马逊出品的电子书）。

But growing up as a child with the books around everywhere, with people to talk to about those books,

我成长的时候身边全是书和喜欢讨论书的人，

this wasn't a sort of slightly learned thing. By the time I was 18, I had a deep passion for books.

这对我的影响很大。我十八岁的时候就对书籍有着深深的依恋。

It wasn't the only passion I had. I was a South Indian brought up in Bengal.

读书不是我唯一的爱好。我来自印度南部在孟加拉长大。

1 apparent   

adj.表面上的，貌似真实的，显然的，明明白白的

参考例句：

• The apparent truth was really a lie.表面上看似实话，实际上是个谎言。
• His guilt is apparent to all.他的罪恶尽人皆知。

2 merged   

（使）混合( merge的过去式和过去分词 )； 相融； 融入； 渐渐消失在某物中

参考例句：

• Turf wars are inevitable when two departments are merged. 两个部门合并时总免不了争争权限。
• The small shops were merged into a large market. 那些小商店合并成为一个大商场。

3 kindle   

v.点燃，着火

参考例句：

• This wood is too wet to kindle.这木柴太湿点不着。
• A small spark was enough to kindle Lily's imagination.一星光花足以点燃莉丽的全部想象力。