Children of Africa: The Story of Us

歌词
【Jacob Bronowski】
Man is a singular creature;
人类是一种独特的生物
He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals
一系列天赋使人类在动物中脱颖而出
So that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape
因而与其他动物相异,人类并非风景中的一个角色
He is the shaper of the landscape
而是风景的创作者
【Alice Roberts】
We are all children of Africa
我们都是非洲之子
They say this is where it all began
他们说那里就是一切的起源
【Bronowski】
In a parched African landscape
在干裂焦枯的非洲土地上
Man first put his foot to the ground
人类第一次踏足土地
【Roberts】
Africa was our only home
在数万年里
for tens of thousands of years
非洲是我们唯一的家
until a small handful of people made their way
直到一小群人终于踏上旅途
out of Africa
走出非洲
【Carolyn Porco】
These beings with soaring imagination
这些有着腾飞的想象力的生物
Eventually flung themselves and their machines
最终带着他们制造的机器
Into interplanetary space
冲出大气层,飞进行星之间
These beings with soaring imagination
这些有着腾飞的想象力的生物
Eventually flung themselves and their machines
最终带着他们制造的机器
Into interplanetary space
冲出大气层,飞进行星之间
【Roberts】
We are all children of africa
我们都是非洲之子
This landscape has been home to humans
二十万年前
Two hundred thousand years
那里的土地曾是人类的家园
【Porco】
We have come so far
我们已走过漫长路途
All of this is cause for great celebration
这一切足以令我们欢庆盛典
We have come so far
我们已走了那么远
This is a story about us
这是属于我们的故事
【Roberts】
Those early Europeans
那些早期的欧洲人
Were people like you and me
是与如今你我相似的人们
But it is humbling
但若你了解到当时他们面对的艰难险阻
When you see the challenges they faced
你会意识到自身的卑微渺小
People like you and me
与你我相似的人们
Overcame the Neaderthals
战胜了尼安德特人
People like you and me
与你我相似的人们
Made it through the ice age
跨越了冰河世纪
【Carolyn Porco】
These beings with soaring imagination
这些有着腾飞的想象力的生物
Eventually flung themselves and their machines
最终带着他们制造的机器
Into interplanetary space
冲出大气层,飞进行星之间
【Jane Goodall】
We are not the only beings
我们并不是唯一一个
With personalities, minds, and feelings
拥有性格、思想、感情的生物
Chimpanzees have very clear personalities
黑猩猩也拥有明确的性格
【Robert Sapolsky】
Take a chimp brain fetally
如果让一个黑猩猩胎儿的大脑
And let it go two or three more rounds of division
再进行两到三次细胞分裂
And out comes symphonies and ideology
它就会理解交响乐与意识形态注
【Neil deGrasse Tyson】
Everything that we are
那些使我们与黑猩猩区分开的
That distinguishes us from chimps
我们所特有的一切
Emerges from that one percent
皆来自于DNA里
Difference in DNA
二者间1%的差异
【Roberts】
People like you and me
与你我相似的人们
Overcame the Neaderthals
战胜了尼安德特人
People like you and me
与你我相似的人们
Made it through the ice age
跨越了冰河世纪
【Carolyn Porco】
These beings with soaring imagination
这些有着腾飞的想象力的生物
Eventually flung themselves and their machines
最终带着他们制造的机器
Into interplanetary space
冲出大气层,飞进行星之间
These beings with soaring imagination
这些有着腾飞的想象力的生物
Eventually flung themselves and their machines
最终带着他们制造的机器
Into interplanetary space
冲出大气层,飞进行星之间
【David Attenborough】
Using his burgeoning intelligence,
随着快速增长的智慧
This most successful of all mammals
这种最为成功的哺乳动物
Has exploited the environment to produce food
为了供养不断增长的人口
For an ever increasing population.
学会了利用环境生产物资
Instead of controlling the environment
在长久以来的利用环境
For the benefit of the population
以此为人类谋利之后
Perhaps it's time we controlled the population
或许,如今我们该开始控制人口
To allow the survival of the environment
给环境留有一丝喘息余地
(此段来自斯坦福教授Robert Sapolsky
在2011年2月California Academy of Sciences的演讲
"Are Humans Just Another Primate?"之后提问环节中的回答
在歌词中被删减了
此处为结合原回答的语境而译。
原句大意:人类大脑的神经元数量是黑猩猩大脑的三倍,
这是因为在胎儿的大脑发育环节中,
人类胎儿比黑猩猩胎儿多了二到三轮细胞分裂。
若黑猩猩胎儿的大脑再进行两到三次细胞分裂,
它将与人类的大脑无异。)
专辑信息
1.Secret of the Stars
2.Monsters of the Cosmos
3.A Wave of Reason
4.Our Biggest Challenge
5.The Face of Creation
6.The Quantum World
7.Our Story (intro)
8.We Are Star Dust
9.The Poetry of Reality
10.Ode to the Brain
11.We Are All Connected
12.A Glorious Dawn
13.The World of the Dinosaurs
14.The Unbroken Thread
15.Onward to the Edge
16.The Case for Mars
17.The Big Beginning
18.Our Place in the Cosmos
19.The Cosmic Dance (Mindwalk Remix)
20.The Greatest Show on Earth
21.Children of Africa: The Story of Us