陨落星辰第一季 第13期:斯科特先生(2)

 　　I had a class of, uh of older kids,

　　我给高年级学生上了节课

　　and I had them brainstorming¹ about the aliens.

　　让他们来了场关于外星人的自由讨论

　　And they came up with mostly, you know,

　　他们想出来的也都是

　　the stuff that we all talked about

　　我们之前都讨论过的东西

　　That the skitters must come from a planet

　　比如突击者

　　similar to ours, and...

　　来自一颗与地球相似的行星 而且

　　that they have a wide range of temperature tolerance².

　　他们的耐热性非常强

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　　Anyway,

　　这么说吧

　　this one girl came up with something that made me think.

　　有个女孩提出了让我深思的东西

　　She said, you know, whenever we've dreamed up robots,

　　她说 当我们设想机器人的时候

　　we've always imagined them to sort of be

　　我们总会把他们想象成

　　basically like ourselves

　　跟人类本身差不多

　　A head, two arms, two legs.

　　一个脑袋 两个胳膊 两条腿

　　But the Skitters have six legs.

　　但突击者有六条腿

　　And yet, their robots, the Mechs, are bipedal.

　　而他们的机器人 械甲怪 都是两条腿

　　Why wouldn't they build robots

　　他们为什么不把机器人

　　that look like themselves, you know?

　　造得和自己一样呢

　　Well, chances are

　　估计是

　　they've been studying the earth for a while.

　　他们研究地球已经很久了吧

　　Maybe they built Mechs that way

　　也许他们这么造械甲怪

　　to have a bigger psychological impact on us.

　　是为了给我们带来更大的心理冲击

　　Maybe, huh?

　　没准儿

1 brainstorming   

献计献策,合力攻关

参考例句：

• With Brainstorming, treat the view on how to solve the problem rightly. 利用脑激励法(Brainstorming)，正确对待学生实验中的问题解决观。
• We are going to do some brainstorming soon. 我们很快就要做些脑力激荡。

2 tolerance   

n.宽容；容忍，忍受；耐药力；公差

参考例句：

• Tolerance is one of his strengths.宽容是他的一个优点。
• Human beings have limited tolerance of noise.人类对噪音的忍耐力有限。