TED演讲:火星现在是什么时间(9)

So we would get off work, and we didn't want to go home and bother our families,

所以我们下班后，并不想回家去打扰家人，

and we were hungry, so instead of going locally to eat something, we'd go,

饿的时候，往往就近找些吃的。我们会说：

"Wait, there's this great all-night deli in Long Beach, and we can get there in 10 minutes!"

“等等，长滩有一家通宵营业的熟食店，我们到那只要10分钟！”

So we would drive down -- it was like the 60s, no traffic.

然后我们就开了过去，畅通无阻，就像是60秒。

We would drive down there, and the restaurant owners would go,

当我们到那时，餐馆老板会说，

"Who are you people? And why are you at my restaurant at 3:00 in the morning?"

“你们是什么人？为什么凌晨3点来我的餐馆？”

So they came to realize that there were these packs of Martians,

然后他们慢慢知道有一群火星人

roaming¹ the LA freeways, in the middle of the night -- in the middle of the Earth night.

在午夜的洛杉矶游荡，地球的午夜。

And we did actually start calling ourselves Martians.

我们确实开始管自己叫火星人。

So those of us who were on Mars² time would refer to ourselves as Martians, and everyone else as Earthlings.

我们之中按火星时间工作的喜欢称自己为火星人，其他人叫地球同胞。

And that's because when you're moving a time-zone every day, you start to really feel separated³ from everyone else.

这是因为当你每天都在改你自己的时区，你就会开始觉得和其他人疏远了。

You're literally⁴ in your own world. So I have this button on that says, "I survived Mars time. Sol 0-90."

准确的说你活在自己的世界中。所以我有这个胸牌，“我在火星生存的时间：0--90天”。

And there's a picture of it up on the screen.

屏幕上显示的就是这个胸牌。

So the reason we got these buttons is because we work on Mars time

我们带这个胸牌是为了表明我们依据火星时间工作，

in order to be as efficient as possible with the rover on Mars, to make the best use of our time.

为了尽可能方便的和火星的漫游者工作，来合理利用我们的时间。

But we don't stay on Mars time for more than three to four months.

但是我们从不在火星时间下工作超过3-4个月。

1 roaming   

随便走( roam的现在分词 )； 漫步； 眼睛或手 （缓慢地）扫遍； 摸遍

参考例句：

• After roaming around nearly half his life,he finally settled down in Canada. 他过了半辈子的流浪生活，最后在加拿大定居了下来。
• After roaming around nearly half his life,he finally settled down in Quebec. 他过了半辈子的流浪生活，最后在魁北克定居了下来。

2 Mars   

n.火星，战争

参考例句：

• As of now we don't know much about Mars.目前我们对火星还知之甚少。
• He contended that there must be life on Mars.他坚信火星上面一定有生物。

3 separated   

adj.分开的v.分开(separate的过去式和过去分词)

参考例句：

• Her parents are separated but not divorced. 她父母分居但没离婚。
• No child should ever be separated from his mother by force. 绝不能强行使任何一个孩子与母亲分开。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。