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Catherine Mohr: How I became part sea urchin
卡特琳娜 · 摩尔: 海胆是如何成为我的一部分的
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作为一名年轻的科学家，卡特琳娜 · 摩尔正在享受一场梦幻般的水肺潜伏——但突然，她的手被带刺的海胆直接穿透了。那时，一群鲨鱼正在她头顶盘旋。接下来发生了什么？你永远都猜不到。准备好听听这个蕴含着科学知识的精彩绝伦的故事吧！
Catherine Mohr - Roboticist
Catherine Mohr loves what she does -- she's just not ever sure what it will be next. Full bio
Catherine Mohr loves what she does -- she's just not ever sure what it will be next. Full bio
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00:12
My story starts in the northern
Galapagos Islands,
Galapagos Islands,
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我的故事始于北加拉帕戈斯群岛，
00:16
under 50 feet of water
and a big school of sharks.
and a big school of sharks.
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50英尺的水下，还有一大群鲨鱼。
00:20
I'd been scuba diving with a group
of friends for about a week,
of friends for about a week,
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我已经和一群朋友用水肺
潜水了约一周时间，
潜水了约一周时间，
一切都是那么美妙：
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and it had been glorious:
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蝠鲼、鲸鲨、
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manta rays, whale sharks,
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企鹅，当然还有双髻鲨。
00:27
penguins and, of course,
hammerhead sharks.
hammerhead sharks.
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00:30
Today's dive was particularly tricky.
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不过今天的潜水特别不顺。
00:34
The surge was terrible.
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水流太糟糕了。
00:35
You had to have your camera rig tight in
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我不得不把相机抱在一边的腋下，
00:37
and your arm out,
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并且伸出另一只手，
因为当我在拍那些漂亮的照片时，
00:38
because the surge kept
throwing you into the rocks
throwing you into the rocks
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水流一直把我往石头上推。
00:41
while you're scanning up
for that beautiful photograph.
for that beautiful photograph.
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一开始还算顺利，渐渐地……
00:43
It was going OK, until ...
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情况就不那么乐观了。
00:46
not OK.
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糟糕，非常糟糕。
00:47
Something was terribly, terribly wrong.
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00:51
I pulled my hand back,
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我把手缩回来，
00:53
and I had long, black sea urchin spines
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然后看到又长又黑的海胆刺
贯穿了我的防护手套，
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all the way through my gloves,
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也就是说，刺穿了我的手。
00:57
which meant all the way through my hand.
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01:00
Now, this is bad.
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这下糟糕了。
01:02
I mean, obviously when you have something
all the way through your hand,
all the way through your hand,
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不用说，有任何东西刺穿你的手的时候，
都挺糟糕的。
01:05
it's kind of bad anyway,
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01:07
but in this case, sea urchins
have a venom on them that,
have a venom on them that,
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但是现在的问题是，海胆上有一种毒素，
01:11
if you've ever tangled with them,
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如果你与它们有过接触，
你就知道海胆刺会给你带来
可怕、痛苦的炎症。
可怕、痛苦的炎症。
01:12
you know that a sea urchin spine in you
gives you horrible, painful inflammation.
gives you horrible, painful inflammation.
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01:17
But that wasn't even topmost
in my mind at this point.
in my mind at this point.
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但这并不是我此时脑中的头等大事。
这看上去不像是真的。
01:20
This did not look real.
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01:22
I could not believe that this was my hand.
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我不相信这是我的手。
01:25
Now, in a crisis, I tend to disassociate
into, like, little scientists,
into, like, little scientists,
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在遇到危机时，我的大脑通常会
表现得有点像个小小科学家，
表现得有点像个小小科学家，
说起话来分析得头头是道。
01:29
and I start talking very analytically.
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但当时，理性分析的大脑消失了，
而肾上腺素大脑出现了，
而肾上腺素大脑出现了，
01:32
All analysis was gone,
adrenaline brain kicked in,
adrenaline brain kicked in,
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我就直接把海胆刺猛地拔了出来。
01:35
and I just yanked the spines out.
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我甚至不记得我这么做了。
01:38
I don't remember doing it.
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01:41
I just remember thinking, "I can't
get my glove off with these in here."
get my glove off with these in here."
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我只记得当时想着，“我可不能
把这些东西留在我的手套上。”
把这些东西留在我的手套上。”
01:45
I do remember taking the glove off
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我记得当我脱下手套时，
我的眼前出现了一股黑色的物质。
01:47
and a big plume of black
coming up in front of my face.
coming up in front of my face.
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01:51
And biologist brain now shows up
and starts freaking out.
and starts freaking out.
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现在，生物学大脑占了上风，
我突然有一些不知所措。
我突然有一些不知所措。
01:56
"How could all that toxin
have gotten into that wound already?"
have gotten into that wound already?"
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“毒素怎么可能已经进入到了伤口中？”
然后物理学大脑出现了，
非常冷静的解释道，
非常冷静的解释道，
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Well, physicist brain then shows up
and very calmly explains,
and very calmly explains,
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02:03
"No, no, no, we're at 50 feet,
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“不，不，不，
我们现在在水下50英尺，
我们现在在水下50英尺，
红光波长被削弱了。
02:05
red wavelengths are attenuated.
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那是血——不是黑的。
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That's blood -- not black.
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02:10
And sharks.
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头顶上还有鲨鱼。
02:12
So what are you gonna do?"
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你现在打算怎么办？”
02:14
Well, I cranked my cummerbund
down really hard over my hand,
down really hard over my hand,
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于是，我把腹带紧紧的缠在了手上，
然后就游开了。
02:19
and I simply swam away.
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02:23
"Let's let that big old cloud of blood
dissipate a bit before we have to surface
dissipate a bit before we have to surface
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“在上浮并游向鲨鱼成群的水面之前，
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through all of these sharks."
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得先让那一大团血消散一些。”
当我开始上浮时，
02:30
So when I did surface,
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我那温血哺乳动物的大脑
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my warm-blooded-mammal brain
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已经慌乱到了极点：
02:33
was in an absolute gibbering panic:
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“它们成群而游时不进食。
它们成群而游时不进食。
它们成群而游时不进食。
02:35
"They don't feed when they're schooling.
They don't feed when they're schooling.
They don't feed when they're schooling.
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只管向上游吧。”
02:39
All the way up."
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它们的确没有进食。
02:41
And they didn't.
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显然，鲨鱼和我读过一样的书。
02:42
So apparently, they have read
the same books that I have.
the same books that I have.
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（笑声）
02:45
(Laughter)
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事实是，
02:47
Now, it turns out,
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如果你被海胆刺扎了，
02:48
when you've been stabbed
with sea urchin spines,
with sea urchin spines,
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而且两天之内无法得到任何医疗救助，
02:50
and you're two days away
from any medical help,
from any medical help,
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很不幸，你能做的事情只有烫敷。
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the thing that you've got to do
is, unfortunately, cook your hand.
is, unfortunately, cook your hand.
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02:58
So you put it in water
as hot as you can stand,
as hot as you can stand,
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所以我把手放在所能承受的最烫的水里，
03:01
and you keep adding boiling water
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然后不断地加开水，
直到我觉得自己已经完全疯了。
03:02
until you think you will go
absolutely insane.
absolutely insane.
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不过这个做法起效了——
03:06
Now, it worked --
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03:08
the hand itself did not work so well
for several weeks after that,
for several weeks after that,
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在那后的前几周，手还不太灵活，
03:12
but eventually,
fine motor skills returned.
fine motor skills returned.
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但最终，我那灵敏的手又回来了。
但有一处地方，
即使其他功能都逐渐恢复了，
即使其他功能都逐渐恢复了，
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All except for one spot, that stayed
stiff and painful for weeks
stiff and painful for weeks
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这里却仍然持续僵硬并疼痛了数周时间。
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after the other things had gotten better.
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后来我发现，我把一小段海胆刺
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So it turned out, I'd broken off
a tip of the urchin spine
a tip of the urchin spine
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03:26
in the joint itself,
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留在了关节里，
这就是那一处没有好转的原因。
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and that's why it wasn't getting better.
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骨科医生说，“我们得把它取出来。
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So the orthopedist says,
"You know, we should get this out.
"You know, we should get this out.
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03:33
Nothing too urgent, not an emergency."
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不是很紧急，算不上很要紧的事。”
所以我们定下在几周后的
周一做个小手术。
周一做个小手术。
03:36
So we scheduled a small surgery
for a few weeks out on a Monday.
for a few weeks out on a Monday.
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03:40
And on the Friday before,
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然而在约定日期的前一个周五，
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I broke my pelvis
in a horseback riding accident.
in a horseback riding accident.
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我在骑马时发生了事故，摔坏了骨盆。
（笑声）
03:46
(Laughter)
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就是这么个尴尬的时间。
03:47
Yeah.
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所以我们不得不推迟了那个手术。
03:49
So we kind of postponed that surgery.
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03:52
My broken pelvis and I were now
facing six weeks on the couch,
facing six weeks on the couch,
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我不得不带着破碎的骨盆
在沙发上躺上六周的时间，
在沙发上躺上六周的时间，
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and I would have gone absolutely insane
if it hadn't been for my friends.
if it hadn't been for my friends.
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如果没有朋友们的陪伴，
我肯定早就疯了。
我肯定早就疯了。
04:02
Spontaneous parties broke out
at my house every night for weeks.
at my house every night for weeks.
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我的住处总在举办派对，
周周如此，夜夜如此。
周周如此，夜夜如此。
我吃饱喝足，尽情享乐。
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I was fed. I was entertained.
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简直太棒了。
04:07
It was great.
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04:10
But that kind of enthusiasm is sort of
hard to sustain over the long term,
hard to sustain over the long term,
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但是那种热情很难长期维持，
04:13
and eventually it petered down
to just one friend,
to just one friend,
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最后只剩下了一个朋友，
04:17
who would send me jokes during the day
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他白天会给我发笑话，
晚上会来陪伴我——
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and come and keep me company
in the evenings --
in the evenings --
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04:21
someone I got to know a whole lot better
during this period of convalescence.
during this period of convalescence.
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在康复期间，我更深入地了解了这个人。
04:26
And when I was finally
pronounced well enough
pronounced well enough
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当我被通知已经康复
并可以做负重活动时，
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to do weight-bearing activities,
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04:30
we loaded a telescope in the car
and drove up into the mountains
and drove up into the mountains
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我们在车里装了一个望远镜，开上了山，
一起仰望海尔-博普彗星。
04:33
to look at the Hale–Bopp comet.
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04:35
Yes, we are geeks.
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是的，我们蛮酷炫的。
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And got caught in a landslide.
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然后遇上了滑坡。
（笑声）
04:39
(Laughter)
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我知道你们在想——这也太悲催了吧？
04:41
I know -- like, really?
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04:44
No. Just kidding.
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其实这只是个玩笑。
04:45
(Laughter)
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（笑声）
04:46
No more disasters. No.
Just the opposite, in fact.
Just the opposite, in fact.
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不要再有灾难了，我受够了。
事实上恰恰相反。
事实上恰恰相反。
04:49
That was 21 years ago,
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那是在21年前，
之后的19年里，
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and for 19 of those years,
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04:53
I have been married
to that marvelous introvert
to that marvelous introvert
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我嫁给了那个无与伦比的内向的他，
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who never in a million years
would have approached me
would have approached me
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那个在其他任何情况下，
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under other circumstances.
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永远不可能主动接近我的人。
我们有了一个超级棒的14岁女儿，
05:01
We have a wonderful 14-year-old daughter,
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05:03
who did all my illustrations.
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她画了所有这些插图。
05:04
(Cheers and applause)
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（欢呼和掌声）
是的。
05:06
Yeah.
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05:07
So, pro tip:
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那么，给大家一些建议：
显然，没有比在第一次约会时
就需要一个助步车
就需要一个助步车
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apparently, nothing makes you sexier
than needing a walker
than needing a walker
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更让你显得性感的事了。
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on your first date.
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05:13
So this isn't a story about piercings
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所以这不是一个关于穿刺或是鲨鱼
05:16
or sharks or boilings or breakings.
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或是煮东西或是骨折的故事。
这是一个爱情故事。
05:18
It's a love story.
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05:20
It's a love story with
a funny little epilogue.
a funny little epilogue.
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这个爱情故事还有个有趣的尾声。
05:24
Now I was weight-bearing again,
I could reschedule that surgery,
I could reschedule that surgery,
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现在我又可以负重了，
我可以重新安排那个手术，
我可以重新安排那个手术，
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get the spine out.
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把刺取出来。
但是我不再需要这个手术了。
05:30
But I didn't need it anymore.
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05:32
Turns out, when you break a bone,
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事实上，当你骨折时，
05:34
your body scavenges calcium
from all the bones in your body --
from all the bones in your body --
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你的身体会从你身上的
所有骨头汲取钙质——
所有骨头汲取钙质——
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and from the little sea urchin spine
that you happen to have lodged
that you happen to have lodged
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也会从那个手指关节中
05:41
in the joint of your finger.
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不小心被刺入的海胆刺中汲取。
是的，
05:44
So yes,
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my pelvis is now part sea urchin.
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现在我的骨盆有一部分是海胆了。
05:49
(Laughter)
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（笑声）
除了生物学大脑，物理学大脑，
05:51
So to biology brain, physicist brain,
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肾上腺素大脑，温血哺乳动物大脑，
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adrenaline brain,
warm-blooded-mammal brain,
warm-blooded-mammal brain,
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我还要加一个“海胆大脑，”
05:56
I get to add "urchin brain,"
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用来表示它所赋予我的所有超能力。
05:58
with all of the superpowers
that that confers.
that that confers.
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06:02
You don't need to worry, though:
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但你们不必担心：
虽然我并不完全是个人类，
06:03
that I am not fully human
is one of the things
is one of the things
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that my family loves the most about me.
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但我的家人最爱我的正是这一点。
06:08
(Laughter)
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（笑声）
非常感谢。
06:09
Thank you very much.
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（掌声）
06:10
(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Catherine Mohr - RoboticistCatherine Mohr loves what she does -- she's just not ever sure what it will be next.
Why you should listen
An engineer turned surgeon turned strategist, Catherine Mohr is always on the lookout for new technologies to help improve patient outcomes while trying to stay in her sweet spot -- the steep part of the learning curve.
As VP of Strategy for Intuitive Surgical in Silicon Valley, faculty at Singularity University and advisor to med-tech startups in the UK, the US and her native New Zealand, Mohr follows her self-admittedly geeky passions wherever they lead her, as she designs, makes, writes, tinkers, plays and travels all over the world.
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