TED演讲:抬头看一看平时忽视的变化(7)

The experience of looking up and knowing that the sky you're looking at surrounds every known living thing in the universe is very profound¹.

仰望天空，并认识到你正观看的天空包围着宇宙中所有的已知生物，这种感受意义深远。

Think about that for a moment. We are the only planet² we know of that has life on it.

试想一下，我们是唯一已知的存在生命的星球。

The sky that you see is shared by every other living thing that we know of in existence.

你所看到的天空，是与已知世间万物共享的，

One of the things that I really like about my work is that

我真正喜欢自己职业的一点是，

it allows me to step back from my every day and to experience the larger context³,

它让我抛开日常的生活，去体验更丰富的内涵，

this feeling that just as we go out and try to find planets⁴ in the universe that might be like ours,

这种感觉就好像我们遨游宇宙去寻找新的行星，可能和地球一样的星球，

it always reminds me of how precious what we have here is.

这总是提醒我现在的生活有多么珍贵。

Our night sky is like a natural resource, it's as though it's a park that you can visit without ever having to travel there.

我们的夜空就像自然资源，就像一个无须经历旅游劳顿就可以参观的公园。

But like any natural resource,

但是，就像其他的自然资源一样，

if we don't protect it, if we don't preserve it and treasure it, it will slip away from us and be gone.

如果我们不去保护它、保存它和珍惜它，它将会从我们身边消失。

So if you're interested in this, and this is something you want to learn more about,

因此，如果你们对此感兴趣，如果这也是你想多了解的东西，

I encourage you in particular to visit darksky.org

我特别鼓励你们去访问网站“darksky.org”，

and to learn more about the choices you can make that can protect the dark night sky,

去学习更多关于你能做出的选择，来保护夜空，

because it belongs to everyone, it belongs to all of us, and therefore, it's ours to experience as we wish.

因为它属于每个人，属于我们所有人，所以，我们根据自己的愿望去行动。

And it's also ours to lose. Thank you.

成败的责任，都在于我们自己。谢谢！

1 profound   

adj.深奥的，造诣深的；深度的，极度的

参考例句：

• I give you my profound thanks for saving my life.我对您的救命之恩深表谢意。
• He has a profound knowledge of mathematics.他数学知识渊博。

2 planet   

n.行星

参考例句：

• Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun. 海王星是离太阳最远的行星。
• Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet. 然而, 垃圾只是我们这个星球的污染问题的一个方面。

3 context   

n.背景，环境，上下文，语境

参考例句：

• You can always tell the meaning of a word from its context.你常可以从上下文中猜出词义来。
• This sentence does not seem to connect with the context.这个句子似乎与上下文脱节。

4 planets   

行星( planet的名词复数 )； 地球（尤指环境）

参考例句：

• Does life exist on other planets? 其他行星上有生命吗？
• the planets of our solar system 太阳系的行星