Name: 【TED】Joshua Foer： 每個人都能表演的記憶壯舉 (Feats of memory anyone can do | Joshua Foer)
Uploaded: 2013-08-12T11:07:47.000Z
Duration: 20 min 31 s

I'd like to invite you to close your eyes.

I'd like you to notice the color of the door,

Now visualize a pack of overweight nudists on bicycles.

They are competing in a naked bicycle race,

and they are headed straight for your front door.

They are pedaling really hard, they're sweaty,

他們都在奮力地踩腳踏板 汗流浹背

And they crash straight into the front door of your home.

Bicycles fly everywhere, wheels roll past you,

自行車四下飛散 車輪從你身旁滾過

into your foyer, your hallway, whatever's on the other side,

進到門廳 走廊 和門裏的其他地方

The light is shining down on Cookie Monster.

光線灑在餅乾怪獸(芝麻街人物)身上

You can practically feel his blue fur tickling your nose.

你可以感覺到怪物的藍色鬃毛讓你鼻子發癢

You can smell the oatmeal raisin cookie that he's about to shovel into his mouth.

你可以聞到他正要扔進嘴裏的葡萄燕麥曲奇的香氣

Walk past him. Walk past him into your living room.

In your living room, in full imaginative broadband,

站在客廳裏 把你的想象力調到最大檔

She is scantily clad, she's dancing on your coffee table,

and she's singing "Hit Me Baby One More Time."

In your kitchen, the floor has been paved over with a yellow brick road

and out of your oven are coming towards you

依次鉆出你的烤箱向你走來的是

《綠野仙蹤》裏的多蘿西 鐵皮人

the Scarecrow and the Lion from "The Wizard of Oz,"

hand-in-hand skipping straight towards you.

他們手挽著手 蹦蹦跳跳地向你走來

I want to tell you about a very bizarre contest

我要給你們講一個每年春天在紐約

that is held every spring in New York City.

It's called the United States Memory Championship.

And I had gone to cover this contest a few years back

expecting, I guess, that this was going to be

This was a bunch of guys and a few ladies,

參加比賽的是一群男人 以及少數女人

widely varying in both age and hygienic upkeep.

橫跨相當大的年齡層且衛生習慣上大不相同

They were memorizing hundreds of random numbers,

They were memorizing the names of dozens and dozens and dozens of strangers.

They were memorizing entire poems in just a few minutes.

They were competing to see who could memorize

the order of a shuffled pack of playing cards the fastest.

And I started talking to a few of the competitors.

where he had one of the best trained memories.

在那裏他是記憶力最好的人之一

And I said to him, "Ed, when did you realize

will tell you that they have just an average memory.

都會告訴你他們的記憶力很普通

to perform these utterly miraculous feats of memory

來完成這種幾乎不可思議的任務

techniques invented 2,500 years ago in Greece,

that medieval scholars had used to memorize entire books."

And I was like, "Whoa. How come I never heard of this before?"

我問 喔 我怎麽從來沒聽說過？

And we were standing outside the competition hall,

says to me, "Josh, you're an American journalist.

告訴我 約什 你是一個美國記者

你認識小甜甜布蘭妮（歌手）嗎？

"Because I really want to teach Britney Spears

因爲我真的想教會小甜甜布蘭妮

how to memorize the order of a shuffled pack of playing cards

It will prove to the world that anybody can do this."

I was like, "Well I'm not Britney Spears,

I mean, you've got to start somewhere, right?"

And that was the beginning of a very strange journey for me.

這對于我來說是一段奇異的旅行

I ended up spending the better part of the next year

在最後 我花了第二年的很長時間

I met a host of really interesting people.

that he didn't even remember he had a memory problem,

甚至於他不記得他有記憶的問題

And he was this incredibly tragic figure,

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