Grey回答随机问题：英语精读讲义

Hello internet,

互联网的各位好，

when's the next Q&A with Grey?

下一次与 Grey 的问答环节是什么时候？

Right now.

就是现在。

What opinion have you held for a time and then changed radically?

有什么观点是你坚持了一段时间后彻底改变的？

Well,

呃，

as mentioned the first time I talked about changing your mind,

就像我第一次谈论改变想法时提到的那样，

this is always hard to discuss

这总是很难讨论，

because the specifics are often quite personal,

因为具体细节往往非常私密，

but the biggest non-personal thing I've changed my opinion on is breakfast.

但我改变的最主要的一个非私密观点，就是关于早餐。

I used to believe breakfast was absolutely vital. 語法

我以前认为早餐绝对至关重要。

Not just believe it,

不仅仅是认为，

I had evidence that skipping, nay even delaying breakfast ruined everything.

我还有证据表明，不吃早餐，甚至推迟吃早餐，都会毁掉一切。

But as I've tried to get healthier slowly and inconsistently,

但是随着我断断续续、缓慢地尝试变得更健康，

I've experimented with various things and the one that shocked me the most is breakfast is bullshit.

我实验了各种事情，最让我震惊的是，所谓早餐极其重要纯属胡扯。

After an admittedly rough adjustment period, 語氣意圖

诚然，在经历了一段艰难的适应期之后，

my body no longer needed breakfast and 語法

我的身体不再需要早餐了，而且

it's hard to describe just how much of a huge quality-of-life improvement this has been, 語法

很难形容这对我的生活质量有多大的提升，

simplifying my normal morning routine and making early travel days easier.

它简化了我常规的早晨日常，让早起的旅行日变得更轻松。

While I'll still eat breakfast sometimes,

虽然我有时还是会吃早餐，

particularly on vacations,

尤其是在度假的时候，

because it's clearly the best of the three seven meals,

因为这显然是一天最好的三餐（七餐）之一，

it's no longer the necessary part of life I thought it was.

但它不再是我原以为的不可或缺的生活组成部分了。

What do you want people to remember you 400 or 500 years from now?

四五百年后，你希望人们记住你什么？

I don't want to be remembered, 表達脈絡

我不想被记住，

I want to be alive.

我想活着。

What is the most frivolous item you own?

你拥有的最无用的东西是什么？

Man,

天哪，

that is a good question that had me looking up exactly what frivolous means. 語法

这个问题问得好，让我特意去查了无用到底是什么意思。

Not having purpose or value.

没有目的或价值。

So a thing I own which has neither purpose nor value?

所以我拥有的一个既没有目的也没有价值的东西？

I'm not really sure anything I own fits that description, 短語搭配

我不太确定我拥有的任何东西符合这个描述，

but I'll keep looking for you.

但我会继续为你留意。

If you have an idea in the shower without phone or notebook present,

如果你在洗澡时有了灵感，但身边没有手机或笔记本，

what do you do?

你会怎么做？

Hey Siri.

嘿 Siri。

Hey Siri.

嘿 Siri。

Make a note.

记一条笔记。

Must not forget million, 表達脈絡

绝不能忘记这个百万美元，

nay billion dollar idea.

不，十亿美元的点子。

Nice weather coming up for Paradise, Nevada, United States.

美国内华达州天堂市即将迎来好天气。

What do you think of jazz?

你觉得爵士乐怎么样？

Jazz is the opposite of everything I like in music.

爵士乐与我在音乐中喜欢的一切截然相反。

I want music to have patterns and repetition,

我希望音乐有模式和重复，

patterns and repetition.

模式和重复。

This is why I also don't like live music.

这就是为什么我也不喜欢现场音乐。

I view music as a brain manipulation tool

我把音乐看作是一种大脑操控工具，

and to that end jazz is anti-useful to me. 表達脈絡

为此，爵士乐对我来说是起反作用的。

Do you speak Dutch?

你会说荷兰语吗？

If you had control of a super-intelligence to which you could only give one command and it would execute it to the best approximation of what you intended,

如果你能控制一个超级智能，而且只能给它下达一个指令，它会尽最大努力去执行你所期望的结果，

what would your one command be?

你的那个指令会是什么？

Min-max happiness and suffering.

将幸福最大化，苦难最小化。

Oh wait.

哦等等。

What's one thing that you're not satisfied with your life right now and

你现在对生活中的哪一件事不满意，并且

how do you plan to solve it?

你打算怎么解决它？

I've gotten into time tracking pretty deeply. 短語動詞

我非常深入地研究了时间追踪。

I used to just track my work hours,

我以前只记录我的工作时间，

but I began to record how every hour of every day is spent and

但我开始记录每一天的每一个小时是怎么度过的，并且

let me tell you, 語氣意圖

让我告诉你，

no matter how well you think you spend your time 語法

不管你认为自己的时间花得有多好，

and no matter how well you do spend your time,

也不管你实际上把时间花得有多好，

tracking all your time is an unflinching look into a mirror eternally uncomfortable. 習語

追踪你所有的时间就像是一面毫不留情地照出你永远不适的镜子。

So I'm not thrilled with the way my pie chart for last year looks. 語氣意圖

所以我对去年的饼图看起来的样子并不满意。

It was a year of chaos,

那是混乱的一年，

but it's not possible to improve without knowing where you're starting

但是如果不了解你的起点在哪里，就不可能有所进步，

and one of the ways I'm working to make this better is simply to have the data about how I spend my time more visible in more places.

我正在努力改善这个问题的方法之一，就是让我花时间的数据在更多地方更直观可见。

I've just begun in the most baby steps way possible, 習語

我才刚刚迈出了最微小的第一步，

but so far making life more visible seems like a good feedback loop. 用詞

但到目前为止，让生活变得更可见似乎是一个很好的反馈循环。

How are you doing?

你最近好吗？

Good, thanks.

很好，谢谢。

You?

你呢？

If you had to enroll at a university tomorrow and had to choose one field of study,

如果你明天必须在一所大学注册并选择一个专业领域，

which would you choose?

你会选哪个？

I'd like to say I'd take a programming course, 語氣意圖

我很想说我会去上编程课，

but I'm pretty sure I couldn't pass at the university level.

但我很确定我在大学阶段无法及格。

Constants and functions and loops oh my are fun and clear,

常量、函数和循环天哪，它们有趣又清晰，

but once it gets to pointers, 短語搭配

但一旦涉及到指针，

it's a level too far. 習語

难度就太大了。

So if I needed to pass,

所以如果我需要及格的话，

I'd probably sign up for economics. 短語動詞

我可能会报名学经济学。

I dropped out of that master's course as mentioned in a previous Q&A because it wasn't the right fit in my life at that time, 講解

如我在之前的问答中提到的，我从那个硕士课程退学了，因为它不适合我当时的生活，

but I'd be happy to give it a go again. 習語

但我很乐意再尝试一次。

Of all the classes you've ever taken at uni,

在你大学上过的所有课程中，

what was your hardest?

哪一门最难？

What did you hate the most?

你最讨厌哪一门？

Why?

为什么？

Well,

呃，

the physics classes in my later years were the hardest and were probably the hardest intellectual thing I've ever done or will do,

我大学后期的物理课是最难的，也可能是我做过或将要做的最困难的智力活动，

but that's the boringer question.

但那是比较无聊的问题。

More interesting question is which class I hated the most.

更有趣的问题是我最讨厌哪门课。

That was a required humanities reading class.

那是一门必修的人文阅读课。

It was one of those classes where the professor had free rein to just select a bunch of books they liked and force students to read them and write essays agreeing with the professor or disagreeing in a way the professor agreed with. 習語

它是那种教授有绝对自由去挑选一堆他们喜欢的书，强迫学生阅读，并写论文以教授同意的方式来赞同或反对教授的课。

God,

天哪，

did I hate it. 語法

我真讨厌它。

I really think it's the kind of class that professors make mandatory because they like to teach it and it makes them look smart and it's easy and not because it's remotely good for the students involved. 用詞

我真的认为教授把这种课程设为必修是因为他们喜欢教，而且这让他们看起来很聪明，教起来很容易，根本不是因为这对涉及的学生有一星半点的好处。

Anyway,

无论如何，

it had to be done and I had a pretty good idea in advance I would hate it. 語法

这是必修的，而我提前就很清楚我会讨厌它。

So at my college there was an option to compress an entire academic year of these classes into one intense summer. 短語搭配

幸好在我的大学，有一种选择可以将一整学年的这些课程压缩到一个紧张的夏天。

So I stayed at college over what was vacation for most people to finish this class as fast as possible.

所以我留在学校，在大多数人放假的时候尽可能快地完成这门课。

I've always been pretty good at reading a lot using an on-off schedule when I need to and it's served me well here. 短語搭配

当我需要的时候，我一直很擅长利用走走停停的作息时间阅读大量书籍，这在这里帮了大忙。

I think I read something like 30 stupid or boring or flowery or pompous books over that summer. 用詞

我觉得那个夏天我读了大概 30 本愚蠢的、无聊的、华而不实的或浮夸的书。

Anyway,

无论如何，

it worked so well it was a strategy I used every summer,

这招太管用了，后来成了我每个夏天的策略，

compressing as many dumb mandatory classes into as short a time as possible. 語法

把尽可能多的愚蠢必修课压缩到尽可能短的时间内。

If your school gives that as an option,

如果你的学校提供这样的选择，

I highly recommend it so you have more time during the rest of the year to focus on more important things. 短語搭配

我强烈建议你这么做，这样你就可以在一年中剩余的时间里专注于更重要的事情。

Raisins in chocolate chip cookies?

巧克力豆饼干里加葡萄干？

Gross.

恶心。

What noise do you wake up to?

你是被什么声音叫醒的？

None.

没有。

I used to use music to wake up to because this is the world's most unpleasant sound,

我以前用音乐来叫醒自己，因为这是世界上最令人不快的声音（闹钟）的替代，

but doing so trains yourself to dislike whatever song you use and have it randomly cause you a sense of drowning anxiety when you hear it in a different context. 講解

但这样做会让你训练自己去讨厌你使用的任何歌曲，并在不同场合听到它时随机让你产生一种窒息的焦虑感。

I used to use a Sigur Rós song during my teaching years to wake me up and I still can't hear the opening few seconds without feeling like I'm drowning a decade later. 語法

在我教书那几年，我曾用 Sigur Rós 的一首歌作为叫醒铃声，十年后的今天，我听到开头几秒钟仍会感到窒息。

Of course,

当然，

the sound may be none,

这个声音可能是没有，

but I currently use my Apple Watch to wake me up with a vibration and I know I'm in a good routine when I wake up naturally before it goes off. 短語動詞

但我现在用 Apple Watch 的震动来叫醒我，并且我知道如果我在它震动前自然醒来，我就处在良好的作息中。

If you could have one superpower,

如果你能拥有一种超能力，

excluding the power to have all powers,

排除拥有所有超能力的能力，

what would it be?

你会选什么？

Invulnerability with an exit option.

刀枪不入，但带有退出选项。

Can you wear silly ties for the rest of the video?

在视频剩下的部分，你能戴上可笑的领带吗？

No.

不能。

I spent years plotting and scheming how to escape the world of ties. 短語搭配

我花了好几年时间出谋划策，想方设法逃离领带的世界。

I will not go back to it now.

我现在绝不会再回去了。

You are given the opportunity to permanently and irreversibly change one fundamental law of physics.

如果给你一个机会，永久且不可逆转地改变一条基本物理定律。

What would it be and why?

会是什么，为什么？

On the panel of fundamental laws and constants,

在基本定律和常数的控制面板上，

I'd drape a very big do not touch sign.

我会挂上一个非常大的“请勿触摸”标志。

How do I get over a crippling Factorio addiction? 短語動詞

我该如何克服严重的 Factorio 瘾？

You tell me, 語氣意圖

你告诉我，

man.

兄弟。

I'm over a thousand hours deep. 習語

我已经深陷一千多个小时了。

Do you feel that humans need not apply needs updating? 語法

你觉得《Humans Need Not Apply》需要更新吗？

Has anything changed since its creation that would change your message?

自制作以来，有什么变化会改变你传达的信息吗？

Not really anything I would change.

真的没有什么我想改变的。

I do enjoy that the debate around autos has switched from they'll never happen to why aren't they here now? 短語搭配

我很欣赏围绕自动驾驶的争论已经从“永远不会实现”转变为“为什么它们现在还没普及？”。

Which is an interesting question.

这是一个有趣的问题。

At least in this moment it feels like progress in self-driving cars is a bit of an S curve. 文化背景

至少在这一刻，自动驾驶汽车的进展似乎有点像 S 曲线。

So maybe I was over-optimistic about the rapid approach of commercially available autos, 講解

所以也许我对商用自动驾驶汽车的快速普及过于乐观了，

but I still think they're coming and if I can't buy or rent an auto within 10 years of the publication of that video,

但我仍然认为它们正在路上，如果我在那段视频发布后的 10 年内无法购买或租用自动驾驶汽车，

I'll be surprised and disappointed.

我会感到惊讶和失望。

What is love? 文化背景

什么是爱？

What is love?

什么是爱？

Baby don't hurt me.

宝贝别伤害我。

Don't hurt me.

别伤害我。

No more.

再也不会。