Name: 【TED】加文·普瑞特平尼: 多雲偶爾跟快樂在一起 (Gavin Pretor-Pinney: Cloudy with a chance of joy)
Uploaded: 2013-09-03T12:32:32.000Z
Duration: 10 min 55 s

Have you ever noticed how much people moan about them?

有沒有注意到，
人們對雲朵有多少的抱怨嗎？

If you think about it, the English language

has written into it negative associations towards the clouds.

負面概念的詞彙和雲朵連繫起來。

就是地平線上出現烏雲 （意譯：大難臨頭）。

It was about problems with computer processing

"A cloud over the cloud," was the headline.

標題是：「烏雲下的雲端運算。」

But I think they're beautiful, don't you?

但我認為雲朵是很美麗的，你們呢？

我不知是否因為雲朵隨處可見，

They don't notice the beauty, but they don't even notice the clouds

人們沒發現它們的美，
甚至察覺不到它們的存在，

They think of them as the annoying, frustrating obstructions,

他們認為雲朵是討厭的、
令人沮喪的阻礙物，

and then they rush off and do some blue-sky thinking.

忙得不可開交後，又再天馬行空了。

But most people, when you stop to ask them,

will admit to harboring a strange sort of fondness for clouds.

大多數人會承認對雲朵懷有
一種奇怪的情愫，

看著雲朵並尋找其中不同的形狀？

You know, when you were masters of daydreaming?

你知道嗎，當你還是做白日夢的能手？

Aristophanes, the ancient Greek playwright,

古希臘劇作家阿里斯托芬 (Aristophanes)，

he described the clouds as the patron godesses

在二千五百年前，他形容雲朵為

It's just that these days, us adults seem reluctant

這些日子，我們成年人似乎無法

to drift along in the breeze, and I think that's a pity.

在微風中翩翩起舞，
我覺得真是可惜。

I think we should perhaps do a bit more of it.

我認為我們或許應多做些這樣的事。

I think we should be a bit more willing, perhaps,

我認為我們或許應該願意多看看一點

to look at the beautiful sight of the sunlight bursting out

從雲朵後面鑽出來的美麗陽光，

from behind the clouds and go, "Wait a minute,

Or seeing the big, white, puffy one up there

the Abominable Snowman going to rob a bank.

傳說中的喜馬拉雅山雪人
正要搶劫銀行。

They're like nature's version of those inkblot images,

它們就像那些墨蹟圖片
的大自然版本，

you know, that shrinks used to show their patients

你知道，就是 60 年代那些精神科醫師

and I think if you consider the shapes you see in the clouds,

我認為如果你在雲朵中看到
不同的圖案形狀，

you'll save money on psychoanalysis bills.

你就能省下精神分析治療的錢。

然後你抬頭向上看，看到的是什麼？

and everywhere you look, it's kissing couples.

你到處看到的，都是情侶們在接吻。

Perhaps you're having a moment of existential angst.

或者你剛好有短暫的存在焦慮，

You know, you're thinking about your own mortality.

你知道，你正思考自己的死亡，

And there, on the horizon, it's the Grim Reaper.

然後在地平線上，死神就在那裡。

或者你看到一位袒胸的日光浴者。

The bad press that clouds get is totally unfair.

大家對雲朵的壞印象是完全不公平的。

我認為我們應該挺身為雲朵發聲，

I started the Cloud Appreciation Society.

我創辦「雲彩鑒賞協會」的原因。

in almost 100 countries around the world.

會員遍佈於全球約一百個國家。

And all these photographs that I'm showing,

And the society exists to remind people of this:

the most diverse, evocative, poetic aspect of nature.

大自然最多樣化的、令人回味的
和詩意的那面。

I think, if you live with your head in the clouds

我認為，如果你常常埋首於雲堆中，

every now and then, it helps you keep your feet on the ground.

And I want to show you why, with the help of

我要借用一些我最喜歡的雲朵類型

Let's start with this one. It's the cirrus cloud,

讓我們從這個開始。這是卷雲，

named after the Latin for a lock of hair.

這是來自拉丁文的命名，
意思是一束頭髮，

cascading from the upper reaches of the troposphere,

they pass through different layers with different winds

giving the cloud these brush-stroked appearances,

讓雲朵看起來像畫筆刷過似的景象，

these brush-stroke forms known as fall streaks.

And these winds up there can be very, very fierce.