互联网上的第一张照片……以及其他趣事！：英语精读讲义

Hey, Vsauce, Michael here and this week I am in San Francisco.

嘿，Vsauce，我是 Michael，这周我在旧金山。

I just flew in a couple of days ago, 短語動詞

我几天前刚坐飞机来到这里，

so I've been busy traveling, 短語搭配

所以一直忙着四处奔波，

but new episodes of regular shows like IMG and DONG are coming soon.

不过 IMG 和 DONG 这类常规节目的新一期很快就会推出。

But in the meantime, 表達脈絡

不过在这段时间里，

rather than post nothing, 語法

与其什么都不发，

I figured I would share things that have been on my mind. 講解

我想不如跟大家分享一些最近一直在我脑海里打转的事。

For instance,

比如，

go back to the Golden Gate Bridge footage. 短語動詞

回头看看金门大桥的那段画面。

There, her.

看那儿，就是她。

That's the girl I sat next to on the flight.

她就是我坐飞机时邻座的那个女孩。

Turns out, 表達脈絡

后来我才知道，

she's an immunology researcher at a university in Italy.

她是意大利一所大学的免疫学研究员。

She's studying these parasitic worms in Africa that infect people,

她正在研究非洲一种会感染人类的寄生虫，

but then leave those people immune to things like diabetes and allergies. 講解

但这种虫子随后会让感染者对糖尿病和过敏等疾病产生免疫力。

In fact,

事实上，

if you cure these people of the worm infection, 短語搭配

如果治好了这些人的寄生虫感染，

they once again become susceptible to things like diabetes and allergies. 短語搭配

他们就会再次变得容易患上糖尿病、过敏等疾病。

It's really incredible,

这真的太不可思议了，

so I guess good luck,

所以我想说，祝你好运，

girl on the plane to solving that,

飞机上的姑娘，希望你能解决这个问题，

because it sounds awesome.

因为这听起来太酷了。

On the flight,

在飞机上，

I also did a bunch of reading. 短語搭配

我还读了不少东西。

I read this entire book,

我把这整本书都读完了——

The History of Britain

《英国史》，

in really tiny little bite-sized chunks. 習語

每次只读一点点，就像一口一口吃掉似的。

Now,

说到这里，

the thing that really blew my mind was about Ireland 習語

真正让我震惊的是爱尔兰

and the potato famine in the 1840s.

以及 19 世纪 40 年代的马铃薯饥荒。

So many people died or left the country because of that famine 語法

那场饥荒导致太多人死亡或离开爱尔兰，

that to this day the population of Ireland 短語搭配

以至于直到今天，爱尔兰的人口

is still lower than it was 150 years ago 語法

仍然比 150 年前

before the famine.

饥荒发生之前还少。

Speaking of things like people and birth rates, 表達脈絡

说到人口和出生率之类的话题，

BreathingEarth is an amazing website.

BreathingEarth 是一个很棒的网站。

You can just sit there

你只要坐在那里，

and let the site visually show you 語法

就能让这个网站用可视化的方式告诉你，

based on recent statistics 短語搭配

依据最新的统计数据，

where people are being born and dying 語法

世界各地哪里有人出生、哪里有人死亡，

and how frequently.

以及发生的频率。

A blue sun represents a birth and a black dot represents a death.

蓝色的太阳代表一次出生，黑点则代表一次死亡。

This is a picture of Anne Hathaway.

这是一张安妮·海瑟薇的照片。

So is this. 語法

这张也是。

Except this Anne Hathaway is much, much older, 表達脈絡

只不过这位安妮·海瑟薇的年纪大得多得多，

and she's also quite famous.

而且她也相当有名。

This Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare.

这位安妮·海瑟薇是威廉·莎士比亚的妻子。

Now, we don't have a photograph of her

当然，我们并没有她的照片，

because photography as we know it today wasn't even invented 講解

因为我们今天所熟知的摄影术当时甚至还没有发明，

until 200 years after that Anne Hathaway died.

直到这位安妮·海瑟薇去世 200 年后才出现。

This is the first permanent photograph ever taken by mankind.

这是人类拍摄的第一张永久保存下来的照片。

It's a view from a window in France taken in 1836.

这是 1836 年在法国拍下的窗外景色。

2 years later in 1838,

两年后，也就是 1838 年，

this photograph was taken.

这张照片诞生了。

And what's significant about it is that 語法

它的重要之处在于，

it's the first photograph ever taken 語法

它是有史以来第一张

that had people in it.

拍到人物的照片。

If you look down here, for instance, 表達脈絡

比如，看看下方，

you can see a man at a water pump.

你能看到一个站在水泵旁的男人。

Modern colorizations of the image

在这张照片的现代上色版本中，

have also claimed to have discovered 語法

据称还发现了

other people in the picture.

画面里的其他人。

Now, none of them are very clear,

不过，他们都非常模糊，

which is why we should talk about Robert Cornelius. 語法

所以我们该聊聊罗伯特·科尼利厄斯了。

I actually hid this portrait

其实，我把这张肖像照藏在了

in the beginning of the most recent IMG.

最新一期 IMG 的开头。

And the reason it's significant is that this picture is the first portrait ever taken. 語法

它之所以重要，是因为这是有史以来拍摄的第一张肖像照。

It's the first capturing of light

这是人类第一次捕捉到

reflected off a human's face. 短語動詞

从人脸上反射回来的光。

Think of it this way. 表達脈絡

可以这样想。

There is no other photograph of anybody older than this. 語法

没有任何人的照片比这张更早。

This is the oldest human 語法

这是最早一位

we have a photographic record of.

留下摄影记录的人。

Finally,

最后，

here's a picture that IMG would be proud of, 短語搭配

来看一张足以让 IMG 引以为豪的照片，

a photo of a musical parody group called The Horrible CERN Girls,

照片里是一支名为 The Horrible CERN Girls 的音乐恶搞组合，

formed out of employees at CERN.

成员都是 CERN 的员工。

The initials of their name in French are C.E.R.N.

她们名称的法语首字母缩写是 C.E.R.N。

But why should we care about this picture? 表達脈絡

不过，我们为什么要在意这张照片？

Well,

事情是这样的，

in 1992, Tim Berners-Lee uploaded this photo to a website, 講解

1992 年，蒂姆·伯纳斯-李把这张照片上传到了一个网站，

making this image 語法

这让它成为

the very first photographic image ever

有史以来第一张

on the internet.

出现在互联网上的照片。

But here is something that has never happened. 表達脈絡

但有一件事至今从未发生过。

Along the border of China and Bhutan is a mountain called Gangkhar Puensum. 語法

在中国与不丹的边境线上，有一座名叫冈嘎本孙峰的山。

At 24,800 ft high, 短語搭配

它高达 24,800 英尺，

it is the tallest mountain in the world

是世界上最高的

that mankind has yet to reach the top of. 語法

人类尚未登顶的山峰。

The local government prohibits mountaineering in the region, 用詞

当地政府禁止在该地区登山，

which means it might be left unconquered for quite some time, 講解

这意味着它可能还会有很长一段时间无人征服，

making it one of just many things on Earth

也因此成为地球上众多

that we have yet to explore.

我们尚未探索的事物之一。

In a couple of days,

再过几天，

we'll have a new episode of DONG,

DONG 的新一期节目就会上线，

so be sure to subscribe to Vsauce.

所以一定要订阅 Vsauce。

And as always, thanks for watching.

还是那句话，感谢观看。