Grey回答隨機問題：英語精讀講義

Hello internet,

網路上的各位好，

when's the next Q&A with Grey?

下一次與 Grey 的問答環節是什麼時候？

Right now.

就是現在。

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

有什麼觀點是你堅持了一段時間後徹底改變的？

Well,

嗯，

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

就像我第一次談論改變想法時提到的那樣，

this is always hard to discuss

這總是很難討論，

because the specifics are often quite personal,

因為具體細節往往非常私密，

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

但我改變的最主要的一個非私密觀點，就是關於早餐。

I used to believe breakfast was absolutely vital. 文法

我以前認為早餐絕對至關重要。

Not just believe it,

不僅僅是認為，

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

我還有證據表明，不吃早餐，甚至推遲吃早餐，都會毀掉一切。

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

但是隨著我斷斷續續、緩慢地嘗試變得更健康，

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

我實驗了各種事情，最讓我震驚的是，所謂早餐極其重要純屬騙人的。

After an admittedly rough adjustment period, 語氣意圖

誠然，在經歷了一段艱難的適應期之後，

my body no longer needed breakfast and 文法

我的身體不再需要早餐了，而且

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

很難形容這對我的生活品質有多大的提升，

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

它簡化了我常規的早晨日常，讓早起的旅行日變得更輕鬆。

While I'll still eat breakfast sometimes,

雖然我有時還是會吃早餐，

particularly on vacations,

尤其是在度假的時候，

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

因為這顯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.

但它不再是我原以為的不可或缺的生活組成部分了。

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

四五百年後，你希望人們記住你什麼？

I don't want to be remembered, 表達脈絡

我不想被記住，

I want to be alive.

我想活著。

What is the most frivolous item you own?

你擁有的最無用的東西是什麼？

Man,

天哪，

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

這個問題問得好，讓我特意去查了輕浮（frivolous）到底是什麼意思。

Not having purpose or value.

沒有目的或價值。

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

所以我擁有的一個既沒有目的也沒有價值的東西？

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

我不太確定我擁有的任何東西符合這個描述，

but I'll keep looking for you.

但我會繼續為你留意。

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

如果你在洗澡時有了靈感，但身邊沒有手機或筆記本，

what do you do?

你會怎麼做？

Hey Siri.

嘿 Siri。

Hey Siri.

嘿 Siri。

Make a note.

記一條筆記。

Must not forget million, 表達脈絡

絕不能忘記這個百萬美元，

nay billion dollar idea.

不，十億美元的點子。

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

美國內華達州天堂市即將迎來好天氣。

What do you think of jazz?

你覺得爵士樂怎麼樣？

Jazz is the opposite of everything I like in music.

爵士樂與我在音樂中喜歡的一切截然相反。

I want music to have patterns and repetition,

我希望音樂有模式和重複，

patterns and repetition.

模式和重複。

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

這就是為什麼我也不喜歡現場音樂。

I view music as a brain manipulation tool

我把音樂看作是一種大腦操控工具，

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

為此，爵士樂對我來說是起反作用的。

Do you speak Dutch?

你會說荷蘭語嗎？

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,

如果你能控制一個超級智慧，而且只能給它下達一個指令，它會盡最大努力去執行你所期望的結果，

what would your one command be?

你的那個指令會是什麼？

Min-max happiness and suffering.

將幸福最大化，苦難最小化。

Oh wait.

喔等等。

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

你現在對生活中的哪一件事不滿意，並且

how do you plan to solve it?

你打算怎麼解決它？

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

我非常深入地研究了時間追蹤。

I used to just track my work hours,

我以前只記錄我的工作時間，

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

但我開始記錄每一天的每一個小時是怎麼度過的，並且

let me tell you, 語氣意圖

讓我告訴你，

no matter how well you think you spend your time 文法

不管你認為自己的時間花得有多好，

and no matter how well you do spend your time,

也不管你實際上把時間花得有多好，

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

追蹤你所有的時間就像是一面毫不留情地照出你永遠不適的鏡子。

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

所以我對去年的圓餅圖看起來的樣子並不滿意。

It was a year of chaos,

那是混亂的一年，

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

但是如果不了解你的起點在哪裡，就不可能有所進步，

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.

我正在努力改善這個問題的方法之一，就是讓我花時間的數據在更多地方更直觀可見。

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

我才剛剛邁出了最微小的第一步，

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

但到目前為止，讓生活變得更可見似乎是一個很好的回饋循環。

How are you doing?

你最近好嗎？

Good, thanks.

很好，謝謝。

You?

你呢？

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

如果你明天必須在一所大學註冊並選擇一個專業領域，

which would you choose?

你會選哪個？

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

我很想說我會去上程式設計課，

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

但我很確定我在大學階段無法及格。

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

常數、函式和迴圈天哪，它們有趣又清晰，

but once it gets to pointers, 片語搭配

但一旦涉及到指標，

it's a level too far. 慣用語

難度就太大了。

So if I needed to pass,

所以如果我需要及格的話，

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

我可能會報名學經濟學。

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

如我在之前的問答中提到的，我從那個碩士課程退學了，因為它不適合我當時的生活，

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

但我很樂意再嘗試一次。

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

在你大學上過的所有課程中，

what was your hardest?

哪一門最難？

What did you hate the most?

你最討厭哪一門？

Why?

為什麼？

Well,

嗯，

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

我大學後期的物理課是最難的，也可能是我做過或將要做的最困難的智力活動，

but that's the boringer question.

但那是比較無聊的問題。

More interesting question is which class I hated the most.

更有趣的問題是我最討厭哪門課。

That was a required humanities reading class.

那是一門必修的人文閱讀課。

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. 慣用語

它是那種教授有絕對自由去挑選一堆他們喜歡的書，強迫學生閱讀，並寫論文以教授同意的方式來贊同或反對教授的課。

God,

天哪，

did I hate it. 文法

我真討厭它。

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

我真的認為教授把這種課程設為必修是因為他們喜歡教，而且這讓他們看起來很聰明，教起來很容易，根本不是因為這對涉及的學生有一星半點的好處。

Anyway,

無論如何，

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

這是必修的，而我提前就很清楚我會討厭它。

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

幸好在我的大學，有一種選擇可以將一整學年的這些課程壓縮到一個緊張的夏天。

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

所以我留在學校，在大多數人放假的時候盡可能快地完成這門課。

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. 片語搭配

當我需要的時候，我一直很擅長利用走走停停的作息時間閱讀大量書籍，這在這裡幫了大忙。

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

我覺得那個夏天我讀了大概 30 本愚蠢的、無聊的、華而不實的或浮誇的書。

Anyway,

無論如何，

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

這招太管用了，後來成了我每個夏天的策略，

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

把盡可能多的愚蠢必修課壓縮到盡可能短的時間內。

If your school gives that as an option,

如果你的學校提供這樣的選擇，

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

我強烈建議你這麼做，這樣你就可以在一年中剩餘的時間裡專注於更重要的事情。

Raisins in chocolate chip cookies?

巧克力豆餅乾裡加葡萄乾？

Gross.

噁心。

What noise do you wake up to?

你是被什麼聲音叫醒的？

None.

沒有。

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

我以前用音樂來叫醒自己，因為這是世界上最令人不快的聲音（鬧鐘）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

但這樣做會讓你訓練自己去討厭你使用的任何歌曲，並在不同場合聽到它時隨機讓你產生一種窒息的焦慮感。

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. 文法

在我教書那幾年，我曾用 Sigur Rós 的一首歌作為叫醒鈴聲，十年後的今天，我聽到開頭幾秒鐘仍會感到窒息。

Of course,

當然，

the sound may be none,

這個聲音可能是沒有，

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. 片語動詞

但我現在用 Apple Watch 的震動來叫醒我，並且我知道如果我在它震動前自然醒來，我就處在良好的作息中。

If you could have one superpower,

如果你能擁有一種超能力，

excluding the power to have all powers,

排除擁有所有超能力的能力，

what would it be?

你會選什麼？

Invulnerability with an exit option.

刀槍不入，但帶有退出選項。

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

在影片剩下的部分，你能戴上可笑的領帶嗎？

No.

不能。

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

我花了好幾年時間出謀劃策，想方設法逃離領帶的世界。

I will not go back to it now.

我現在絕不會再回去了。

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

如果給你一個機會，永久且不可逆轉地改變一條基本物理定律。

What would it be and why?

會是什麼，為什麼？

On the panel of fundamental laws and constants,

在基本定律和常數的控制面板上，

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

我會掛上一個非常大的「請勿觸摸」標誌。

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

我該如何克服嚴重的 Factorio 遊戲成癮？

You tell me, 語氣意圖

你告訴我，

man.

兄弟。

I'm over a thousand hours deep. 慣用語

我已經深陷一千多個小時了。

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

你覺得《Humans Need Not Apply》需要更新嗎？

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

自製作以來，有什麼變化會改變你傳達的訊息嗎？

Not really anything I would change.

真的沒有什麼我想改變的。

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

我很欣賞圍繞自動駕駛的爭論已經從「永遠不會實現」轉變為「為什麼它們現在還沒普及？」。

Which is an interesting question.

這是一個有趣的問題。

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

至少在這一刻，自動駕駛汽車的進展似乎有點像 S 曲線。

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

所以也許我對商用自動駕駛汽車的快速普及過於樂觀了，

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,

但我仍然認為它們正在路上，如果我在那段影片發布後的 10 年內無法購買或租用自動駕駛汽車，

I'll be surprised and disappointed.

我會感到驚訝和失望。

What is love? 文化背景

什麼是愛？

What is love?

什麼是愛？

Baby don't hurt me.

寶貝別傷害我。

Don't hurt me.

別傷害我。

No more.

再也不會。