隕落星辰 第13期：斯科特先生(2)

I had a class of, uh of older kids,

我給高年級(jí)學(xué)生上了節(jié)課

and I had them brainstorming about the aliens.

讓他們來(lái)了場(chǎng)關(guān)于外星人的自由討論

And they came up with mostly, you know,

他們想出來(lái)的也都是

the stuff that we all talked about

我們之前都討論過(guò)的東西

That the skitters must come from a planet

比如突擊者

similar to ours, and...

來(lái)自一顆與地球相似的行星 而且

that they have a wide range of temperature tolerance.

他們的耐熱性非常強(qiáng)

隕落星辰第一季

Anyway,

這么說(shuō)吧

this one girl came up with something that made me think.

有個(gè)女孩提出了讓我深思的東西

She said, you know, whenever we've dreamed up robots,

她說(shuō) 當(dāng)我們?cè)O(shè)想機(jī)器人的時(shí)候

we've always imagined them to sort of be

我們總會(huì)把他們想象成

basically like ourselves

跟人類本身差不多

A head, two arms, two legs.

一個(gè)腦袋 兩個(gè)胳膊 兩條腿

But the Skitters have six legs.

但突擊者有六條腿

And yet, their robots, the Mechs, are bipedal.

而他們的機(jī)器人 械甲怪 都是兩條腿

Why wouldn't they build robots

他們?yōu)槭裁床话褭C(jī)器人

that look like themselves, you know?

造得和自己一樣呢

Well, chances are

估計(jì)是

they've been studying the earth for a while.

他們研究地球已經(jīng)很久了吧

Maybe they built Mechs that way

也許他們這么造械甲怪

to have a bigger psychological impact on us.

是為了給我們帶來(lái)更大的心理沖擊

Maybe, huh?

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