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PaulStamets_2008-_蘑菇拯救世界的6种方法_
I love a challenge, and saving the Earth is probably a good one. 我喜欢挑战,拯救地球也许就是一项好的挑战。
We all know the Earth is in trouble. 我们都知道现在地球陷入困境,
We have now entered in the 6X -- the sixth major extinction on this planet. 现在我们进入了6X—— 这个星球上的第6次大灭绝。
extinction:n.绝种;
I often wondered if there was a United Organization of Organisms -- otherwise known as "Uh-Oh" -- 我常想知道是不是有一个生物联合组织—— 或者叫做“呃喔”——
United:adj.联合的; v.联合,团结; (unite的过去分词和过去式) Organization:n.组织;机构;体制;团体; Organisms:n.[生物]生物体(organism的复数);[生物]有机体;
(Laughter) -- and every organism had a right to vote, would we be voted on the planet or off the planet? （笑声）——每一个生物都有选举权, 我们是留在地球还是离开地球？
I think that vote is occurring right now. 我想选举现在就正在进行。
occurring:n.事件;事故;事变;
I want to present to you a suite of six mycological solutions, using fungi , and these solutions are based on mycelium . 我要向你们展示6个真菌学方案, 利用真菌,这些方案以菌丝为基础。
suite:n.套房;一套家具;组曲(由三个或更多相关部分组成);套装软件; fungi:n.真菌;菌类;蘑菇(fungus的复数); mycelium:n.菌丝;菌丝体;
The mycelium infuses all landscapes , it holds soils together, it's extremely tenacious . 菌丝深入土地, 把泥土抓在一起,非常牢固,
infuses:vt.灌输;使充满;浸渍;vi.(茶叶,草药等)被泡; landscapes:n.风景; v.从事庭园设计; extremely:adv.非常,极其;极端地; tenacious:adj.顽强的;坚韧的;固执的;紧握的;黏着力强的;
This holds up to 30,000 times its mass . 和他的净重比是30,000倍的力量。
mass:n.块,团; adj.群众的,民众的; v.聚集起来,聚集;
They're the grand molecular disassemblers of nature -- the soil magicians. 它们是天然的大分子拆卸器——土地魔术师。
molecular:adj.[化学]分子的;由分子组成的;
They generate the humus soils across the land masses of Earth. 它们产生腐殖土横跨整个地球的陆地。
generate:v.产生;引起; humus:n.腐殖质;腐植土; masses:n.民众;大量(mass的复数);包块;v.集中;聚集(mass的三单形式);
We have now discovered that there is a multi-directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium -- so the mycelium is the mother 现在我们发现植物之间可以多向输送养分, 由菌丝中介—— 所以菌丝就是母亲,
multi-directional:多方向; transfer:n.转移;调任;调离;[体]转会球员;v.调任;调走;转学;转移; nutrients:营养盐;[食品]营养素; mitigated:v.减轻;缓和;(mitigate的过去分词和过去式)
that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks , cedars and Douglas firs . 向桤树、桦树 到铁杉、雪松和道格拉斯冷杉输送养料。
alder:n.[林]桤木; birch:n.桦木;桦树;桦条;vt.用桦条鞭打; hemlocks:n.铁杉;毒芹;毒胡萝卜;毒胡萝卜精;(hemlock的复数) cedars:n.香柏; firs:n.枞; (fir的复数)
Dusty and I, we like to say, on Sunday this is where we go to church. 这是Dusty和我（在树林里）, 我们常说,这就像周日去教堂。
Dusty:adj.落满灰尘的;
I'm in love with the old-growth forest, and I'm a patriotic American because we have those. 我爱古老的森林, 我是个爱国主义者,因为我们有古老的森林。
old-growth:成熟原始森林,原始树木木材; patriotic:adj.爱国的;
Most of you are familiar with portobello mushrooms. 你们大多数都很熟悉波特比罗蘑菇吧。
familiar:adj.熟悉的;常见的;亲近的;n.常客;密友; portobello:n.波多贝罗(爱丁堡海滩);
And frankly, I face a big obstacle . 坦率地说我面临很大的障碍。
obstacle:n.障碍;障碍物;阻碍;绊脚石;
when I mention mushrooms to somebody, they immediately think portobellos or magic mushrooms, their eyes glaze over, and they think I'm a little crazy. 当我对某些人提及蘑菇时, 他们立即想到波特比罗蘑菇或魔法蘑菇, 他们的目光呆滞,他们认为我有些疯狂。
glaze:vt.装以玻璃;上釉于;vi.变呆滞;变得光滑;n.釉;光滑面;
So I hope to pierce that prejudice forever with this group. 所以我希望和大家一起永远刺破这个偏见。
pierce:v.穿透;扎;刺破;穿过;n.皮尔斯; prejudice:n.偏见;侵害;vt.损害;使有偏见;
We call it mycophobia, the irrational fear of the unknown when it comes to fungi. 当我们提及真菌的时候, 人们有莫名的非理性恐怖,我们把它叫做蘑菇恐惧症。
irrational:adj.不合理的;无理性的;荒谬的;n.[数]无理数;
Mushrooms are very fast in their growth. 蘑菇生长的很快,
Day 21, day 23, day 25. 第21天,23天,25天。
Mushrooms produce strong antibiotics . 蘑菇产生很强的抗生素。
antibiotics:n.抗菌素;抗生素(如青霉素);(antibiotic的复数)
In fact, we're more closely related to fungi than we are to any other kingdom. 实际上,我们与真菌的关系比其它任何部分的自然界更紧密。
A group of 20 eukaryotic microbiologists published a paper two years ago erecting opisthokonta -- a super-kingdom that joins animalia and fungi together. 2年前,20名真核微生物学家 发表了一篇论文,建立了后鞭毛生物—— 一个新的“域”,将动物界和真菌连在一起。
eukaryotic:adj.真核的,真核生物的; microbiologists:n.微生物学家; erecting:v.建筑;竖立;使…直立(erect的ing形式);
We share in common the same pathogens . 我们共有病原菌。
pathogens:n.[基医]病原体;病原菌;[基医]致病菌;
Fungi don't like to rot from bacteria , and so our best antibiotics come from fungi. 真菌不趋向于因滋生细菌而引发腐烂, 所以我们最好的抗生素来自真菌。
bacteria:n.[微]细菌;
But here is a mushroom that's past its prime . 但这个蘑菇已经过了它的顶盛期,
prime:adj.主要的; v.极好地; n.初期; v.使准备好;
After they sporulate, they do rot. 在它们形成孢子后就腐烂了。
But I propose to you that the sequence of microbes that occur on rotting mushrooms are essential for the health of the forest. 但是我要告诉你们腐烂蘑菇上的 微生物序列 对于森林的健康是至关重要的。
propose:v.建议;提议;求婚;打算; sequence:n.顺序; v.按顺序排列; microbes:n.细菌,[微]微生物;微生物类(microbe的复数形式); essential:n.要点;要素;实质;必需品;adj.完全必要的;必不可少的;极其重要的;本质的;
They give rise to the trees, they create the debris fields that feed the mycelium. 它们产生树种, 它们产生残片为菌丝提供养料。
give rise to:使发生,引起; debris:n.碎片,残骸;
And so we see a mushroom here sporulating. 我们在这看到蘑菇在长孢子菌,
And the spores are germinating , and the mycelium forms and goes underground. 然后孢子在长芽, 菌丝形成,向地下伸展。
spores:n.[生物]孢子(spore的复数);v.形成芽孢(spore的三单形式); germinating:n.发芽;adj.发芽的;v.使发芽(germinate的ing形式);
In a single cubic inch of soil, there can be more than eight miles of these cells. 每一立方英寸土地,这些细胞可以有8英里。
cubic:adj.立方体的,立方的;
My foot is covering approximately 300 miles of mycelium. 现在我的脚下就大约覆盖着300英里的菌丝。
approximately:adv.大约,近似地;近于;
This is photo-micrographs from Nick Read and Patrick Hickey . Nick Read 和 Patrick Hickey的显微照片。
Hickey:n.器械;唇印;螺纹接合器;弯管器;
And notice that as the mycelium grows, it conquers territory and then it begins the net. 注意当菌丝生长时, 它占据领土,随后开始结网。
conquers:克服;征服; territory:n.领土,领域;范围;地域;版图;
I've been a scanning electron microscopist for many years, 我从事电子扫描显微镜技术多年,
electron:n.电子;
I have thousands of electron micrographs , and when I'm staring at the mycelium 我有数千电子显微照片, 在我盯着菌丝看时,
micrographs:n.显微照片,显微图;微动描记器; staring:adj.凝视的,目不转睛的;显眼的;v.凝视;盯着看;显眼;(stare的现在分词)
I realize that they are microfiltration membranes . 我意识到它们是微孔膜结构。
membranes:n.细胞膜(membrane的复数);薄膜;膜皮;
We exhale carbon dioxide , so does mycelium. 我们呼出二氧化碳,菌丝也是这样。
exhale:v.呼气;发出;发散;使蒸发; carbon dioxide:二氧化碳;
It inhales oxygen, just like we do. 它吸进氧气,就像我们一样。
inhales:vt.吸入;猛吃猛喝;vi.吸气;
But these are essentially externalized stomachs and lungs. 但这些基本上是外在的胃和肺。
essentially:adv.本质上;本来; externalized:vt.给…以外形;使具体化,使客观化;
And I present to you a concept that these are extended neurological membranes. 我向你们显示一种延长神经膜的概念。
extended:adj.延长了的;扩展了的;v.使伸长;扩大;扩展;(extend的过去式和过去分词) neurological:adj.神经病学的,神经学上的;
And in these cavities , these microcavities form, and as they fuse soils, they absorb water. 在这些空腔中,这些微孔形成, 当它们融合土地时,它们吸收水分。
cavities:n.腔(cavity的复数形式);[医]空洞;蛀牙;插线孔; absorb:v.吸收;使并入;吞并;同化;理解;吸收;耗费;承受;
These are little wells. 这些是小孔。
And inside these wells, then microbal communities begin to form. 在这些小孔中,微生物群开始形成。
communities:n.社区;社会;团体;共有(community的复数)
And so the spongy soil not only resists erosion , but sets up a microbial universe that gives rise to a plurality of other organisms. 所以海绵土不仅能抵御侵蚀, 而且可以建立微生物宇宙, 引起其它生物的多样性。
spongy:adj.海绵状的;轻软的;多孔而有弹性的;有吸水性的; resists:v.抵制;阻挡;反抗;回击;n.防腐剂;防染剂; erosion:n.侵蚀,腐蚀; microbial:adj.微生物的;由细菌引起的; plurality:n.多数;复数;兼职;胜出票数;
I first proposed , in the early 1990s, that mycelium is Earth's natural Internet. 90年代早期,我首次提出 菌丝是地球天然互联网。
proposed:adj.建议的;推荐的;v.提议;建议;计划;求婚;(propose的过去分词和过去式)
When you look at the mycelium, they're highly branched. 你仔细看菌丝,它们有很多分支。
highly:adv.高度地;非常;非常赞许地;
And if there's one branch that is broken, then very quickly, because of the nodes of crossing -- 如果一个分支断裂,然后很快 由于交叉接点——
nodes:n.茎节;(根或枝上的)瘤,节,结;节点;(node的复数)
Internet engineers maybe call them hot points -- there's alternative pathways for channeling nutrients and information. 互联网工程师可能把它们叫做热点—— 就会建立旁路途径输送养料和信息。
alternative:adj.供选择的;选择性的;交替的;n.二中择一;供替代的选择; pathways:n.小路;小径(pathway的复数); channeling:n.通道作用;[电子]沟道作用;掏槽;
The mycelium is sentient . 菌丝是有感知力的,
sentient:adj.有感情的;有感觉力的;意识到的;n.有知觉的人;
It knows that you are there. 它知道你在那里。
When you walk across landscapes, it leaps up in the aftermath of your footsteps trying to grab debris. 当你穿过土地时, 它在你的脚步之后跳起来,努力抓住残片。
leaps:n.跳跃,剧增,急变(leap的复数);v.跳跃;急速进步(leap的三单形式); aftermath:n.后果;余波; footsteps:n.脚步(footstep的复数形式);步距; grab:v.攫取;霸占;将…深深吸引;n.攫取;霸占;夺取之物;
So I believe the invention of the computer Internet is an inevitable consequence of a previously proven biologically successful model. 所以我相信计算机互联网的发明 是一个以前证明过的 生物学成功模式的必然结果。
inevitable:adj.必然的,不可避免的; consequence:n.结果;重要性;推论; previously:adv.先前;以前; biologically:adv.生物学上,生物学地;
The Earth invented the computer Internet for its own benefit, and we now, being the top organism on this planet, are trying to allocate resources in order to protect the biosphere . 地球为自己的利益发明了计算机互联网, 我们作为地球上的高等生物, 则努力合理分配资源以保护生物圈。
allocate:vt.分配;拨出;使坐落于;vi.分配;指定; resources:n.[计][环境]资源; v.向…提供资金(resource的第三人称单数); biosphere:n.生物圈;
Going way out, dark matter conforms to the same mycelial archetype . 暗物质符合同一菌丝体原型,
dark matter:n.暗物质(根据一些理论,指太空中不反射光的物质); conforms:v.顺从,顺应;遵守;相符合;相吻合(conform的第三人称单数) mycelial:adj.菌丝的; archetype:n.原型;
I believe matter begets life, life becomes single cells, single cells become strings , strings become chains, chains network. 我相信物质产生生命, 生命变为单细胞,单细胞变成串, 串变成链,链变成网。
begets:vt.产生;招致;引起;当…的父亲; strings:一串,悬挂(string的第三人称单数和复数)
And this is the paradigm that we see throughout the universe. 这就是我们在整个宇宙中看到的变化。
paradigm:n.范例;词形变化表; throughout:adv.自始至终,到处;全部;prep.贯穿,遍及;
Most of you may not know that fungi were the first organisms to come to land. 你们大多数可能不知道真菌是出现在大地上的第一个生物。
They came to land 1.3 billion years ago, and plants followed several hundred million years later. 它们是13亿年前出现的, 数亿年之后才有了植物。
How is that possible? 这怎么可能？
It's possible because the mycelium produces oxalic acids and many other acids and enzymes , pockmarking rock and grabbing calcium and other minerals and forming calcium oxalates. 它是可能的,因为菌丝产生草酸 和许多其它的酸和酶, 风化岩石和攫取钙和其它矿物质 形成草酸钙。
oxalic:adj.草酸的;酢浆草的;采自酢浆草的; enzymes:n.[生化]酶(enzyme的复数);酶类,酵素; pockmarking:n.麻子;凹坑;vt.使留下痘疤;使有凹坑; grabbing:v.抓住;夺得;利用,抓住(机会)(grab的现在分词) calcium:n.[化学]钙; minerals:n.矿物;矿产,矿产品(mineral的复数);矿物质;
Makes the rocks crumble , and the first step in the generation of soil. 使岩石崩裂,这是产生土壤的第一步。
crumble:v.崩溃;破碎,粉碎;n.面包屑;
Oxalic acid is two carbon dioxide molecules joined together. 草酸是两个二氧化碳分子结合在一起,
molecules:n.[化学]分子,微粒;[化学]摩尔(molecule的复数);
So fungi and mycelium sequester carbon dioxide in the form of calcium oxalates. 所以真菌和菌丝 以草酸钙的形式隔离二氧化碳。
sequester:v.隔离(避免陪审团与公众接触);
And all sorts of other oxalates are also sequestering carbon dioxide through the minerals that are being formed and taken out of the rock matrix . 所有其它草酸 也通过形成的矿物质 和从岩石基体中得到的矿物质隔离二氧化碳。
sequestering:vt.使隔绝;使隐退;没收,扣押; matrix:n.[数]矩阵;模型;[生物][地质]基质;母体;子宫;[地质]脉石;
This was first discovered in 1859. 这最初是在1859年发现的。
This is a photograph by Franz Hueber. 这是Franz Hueber拍摄的照片。
This photograph's taken 1950s in Saudi Arabia . 这张照片50年代拍摄于沙特阿拉伯。
Saudi:adj.沙乌地阿拉伯(人或语)的;n.沙乌地阿拉伯人; Arabia:n.阿拉伯半岛(亚洲西南部,等于ArabianPeninsula);
420 million years ago, this organism existed. 4亿2千万年前,这个生物就存在了,
It was called Prototaxites. 叫做原杉藻属。
Prototaxites, laying down, was about three feet tall. 原杉藻属, 放倒了也有3英尺高。
The tallest plants on Earth at that time were less than two feet. 在那个时候地球上最高的植物低于2英尺。
Dr. Boyce, at the University of Chicago, published an article in the Journal of Geology this past year determining that Prototaxites was a giant fungus , a giant mushroom. 芝加哥大学的Boyce博士 去年在地质学杂志上发表了一篇文章 确定原杉藻属是一种巨大的真菌, 巨大的蘑菇。
Journal:n.杂志;日记;日志;(用于报纸名)…报; Geology:n.地质学;地质情况; determining:v.查明;测定;准确算出;决定;支配;裁决;(determine的现在分词) giant:n.巨人;伟人;巨兽;adj.巨大的;特大的 fungus:n.真菌,霉菌;菌类;
Across the landscapes of Earth were dotted these giant mushrooms. 当时地球上都布满了这种巨大的蘑菇
All across most land masses. 大部分土地上都有。
And these existed for tens of millions of years. 它们存在了数千万年。
Now we've had several extinction events, and as we march forward -- 65 million years ago -- most of you know about it -- we had an asteroid impact . 那时我们已经有几次灭绝性事件。后来—— 6千5百万年前——你们大多数人都知道—— 我们有过一次小行星的撞击。
asteroid:n.[天]小行星;[无脊椎]海盘车;小游星;adj.星状的; impact:n.影响;效果;碰撞;冲击力;v.挤入,压紧;撞击;对…产生影响;
The earth was struck by an asteroid, a huge amount of debris was jettisoned into the atmosphere . 地球被小行星撞击, 大量碎片抛入大气层。
jettisoned:n.投弃;投弃货物;vt.投弃(船舶遇难时投弃货物以为减轻负载); atmosphere:n.大气;气氛;气压;风格;
Sunlight was cut off, and fungi inherited the Earth. 阳光被阻断,真菌遗留在地球上。
Sunlight:n.日光; inherited:v.继承(金钱、财产等);接替(责任等);继任;(inherit的过去式和过去分词)
Those organisms that paired with fungi were rewarded , because fungi do not need light. 以真菌为伍的那些生物得到了好处, 因为真菌不需要光。
rewarded:v.奖励;奖赏;给以报酬;(reward的过去分词和过去式)
More recently , at Einstein University, they just determined that fungi use radiation as a source of energy, much like plants use light. 最近在爱因斯坦大学 刚刚确定真菌利用辐射作为能量来源, 很像植物利用光。
recently:adv.最近;新近; determined:adj.决定了的:v.决定;(determine的过去分词和过去式) radiation:n.辐射;放射线;放射疗法;
So the prospect of fungi existing on other planets elsewhere , 所以我认为真菌还存在于其它某些星球的展望
prospect:n.展望;前景;希望;前途;v.勘探;探矿; elsewhere:adv.在别处;到别处;
I think, is a foregone conclusion , at least in my own mind. 是一个必然的定局, 至少在我的脑海中。
foregone conclusion:注定的结果,不可避免的结果;
The largest organism in the world is in Eastern Oregon. 世界上最大的生物体是在东俄勒冈地区。
Eastern:adj.东方的;向东的;东部的;东方国家的;n.东方人;东正教信徒;
I couldn't miss it. It was 2,200 acres in size. 我不能错过它。它的面积是2,200英亩,
2,200 acres in size, 2,000 years old. 2,200英亩,有2,000年的历史。
The largest organism on the planet is a mycelial mat, one cell wall thick. 星球上最大的生物是菌丝团,有一个细胞壁厚。
How is it that this organism can be so large, and yet be one cell wall thick, whereas we have five or six skin layers that protect us? 一个生物体为何能如此之大, 能有一个细胞壁厚, 而我们有5-6个皮肤层保护我们？
whereas:conj.然而;鉴于;反之; layers:n.层;表层;层次;阶层;v.把…分层堆放;(layer的第三人称单数和复数)
The mycelium, in the right conditions, produces a mushroom -- it bursts through with such ferocity that it can break asphalt . 菌丝在适当条件下产生蘑菇—— 它以巨大的力量冲出,这股力量能够冲破柏油。
bursts:[天]爆发;破裂(burst的第三人称单数); ferocity:n.凶猛;残忍;暴行; asphalt:n.沥青;柏油;v.以沥青铺;adj.用柏油铺成的;
We were involved with several experiments. 我们参与了几项实验。
involved:adj.有关的; v.涉及; (involve的过去式和过去分词)
I'm going to show you six, if I can, solutions for helping to save the world. 我可以向你展示 拯球地球的6种方法。
Battelle Laboratories and I joined up in Bellingham, Washington, there were four piles saturated with diesel and other petroleum waste. 巴特尔实验室和我一起在华盛顿贝灵汉, 我们有四堆用柴油和其它石油废液浸透的绒布。
Laboratories:n.实验室;(laboratory的复数) piles:n.痔疮;痔; saturated:adj.饱和的;渗透的;深颜色的;v.使渗透,使饱和(saturate的过去式); diesel:n.柴油机;柴油;柴油车;内燃机车 petroleum:n.石油;
One was a control pile, one pile was treated with enzymes, one pile was treated with bacteria and our pile we inoculated with mushroom mycelium. 一堆作为对照,一堆用酶处理, 一堆用细菌处理, 我们这一堆用蘑菇菌丝注射。
treated:v.以…态度对待;把…看作;(treat的过去分词和过去式) inoculated:adj.接种过的; v.给…做注射预防针;
The mycelium absorbs the oil. 菌丝吸收油。
absorbs:v.吸收;吸引…的注意(absorb的第三人称单数形式);
The mycelium is producing enzymes -- peroxydases -- that break carbon-hydrogen bonds. 菌丝产生酶—— 过氧化物酶——其打破碳-氢键。
These are the same bonds that hold hydrocarbons together. 碳-氢键将碳氢化合物结合在一起。
hydrocarbons:n.烃类(hydrocarbon的复数);[有化]碳氢化合物;
So the mycelium becomes saturated with the oil, and then, when we returned six weeks later, all the tarps were removed, all the other piles were dead, dark, and stinky . 菌丝被油浸透了, 6周后我们回来 所用的油布都被挪动了, 所有其它的绒布都死了,变黑而且很臭。
tarps:abbr.战术空中侦察吊舱系统; stinky:adj.发恶臭的;n.全景雷达;环视雷达站;
We came back to our pile, it was covered with hundreds of pounds of oyster mushrooms -- and the color changed to a light form. 我们的绒布上覆盖了 数百磅的牡蛎蘑菇—— 颜色变浅。
oyster:n.牡蛎,[无脊椎]蚝;沉默寡言的人;
The enzymes re-manufactured the hydrocarbons into carbohydrates -- fungal sugars. 是酶重新将碳氢化合物 变为碳水化合物——真菌糖。
carbohydrates:n.碳水化合物;糖类;(carbohydrate的复数) fungal:adj.真菌的(等于fungous);
Some of these mushrooms are very happy mushrooms. 有些蘑菇很幸福,
They're very large. 很大。
They're showing how much nutrition that they could've obtained . 它们显示了它们能够获得多少养料。
nutrition:n.营养,营养学;营养品; obtained:v.获得(obtain的过去分词);
But something else happened, which was an epiphany in my life. 但是也发生了某种事情,这是我一生中对事物真谛的顿悟。
epiphany:对事物真谛的顿悟;
They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae . 它们形成孢子,孢子吸引昆虫, 昆虫产卵,卵变成幼虫。
larvae:n.幼虫;幼体(larva的复数形式);
Birds then came, bringing in seeds, and our pile became an oasis of life. 然后鸟飞来了,带来了种子, 我们的绒布变成了生命的绿洲。
oasis:n.绿洲;舒适的地方;令人宽慰的事物;
Whereas the other three piles were dead, dark and stinky, and the PAH's -- the aromatic hydrocarbons -- went from 10,000 parts per million to less than 200 in eight weeks. 而其它三堆绒布死了,变黑变臭了, PAH——芳香族碳氢化合物—— 在8周的时间里从每百万10,000份减少至每百万200份。
aromatic:adj.芳香的,芬芳的;芳香族的;n.芳香植物;芳香剂;
The last image we don't have -- the entire pile was a green berm of life. 最后我们没有想到—— 整个绒布是生命的绿色护堤。
berm:n.崖径;城墙与外濠间的狭道;
These are gateway species . 这些是入关物种,
species:n.[生物]物种;种类;
Vanguard species that open the door for other biological communities. 为其它生物群体打开大门的先锋物种。
Vanguard:先锋盾;n.前锋科学卫星;
So I invented burlap sacks -- bunker spawn -- and putting the mycelium -- using storm blown debris you can take these burlap sacks and put them downstream 所以我发明了用粗麻布——沙坑产卵—— 放入菌丝——用风暴吹来的碎片, 你把这些粗麻布放到农场的下游,
burlap:n.粗麻布;麻袋; sacks:n.麻布袋; v.解雇; (sack的第三人称单数和复数) bunker:n.沙坑;煤仓;燃料库;vt.使陷入困境;把球击入沙坑; spawn:n.卵;菌丝;产物;vt.产卵;酿成,造成;大量生产;vi.产卵;大量生产; downstream:adv.下游地;顺流而下;adj.下游的;顺流的;
from a farm that's producing E. coli , or other wastes, or a factory with chemical toxins , and it leads to habitat restoration . 那里产生大肠杆菌,或其它的废物, 或放到有化学毒性的工厂, 它导致生态修复。
coli:n.大肠杆菌; chemical:n.化学制品,化学药品;adj.化学的; toxins:n.[毒物]毒素,毒质;毒素类(toxin的复数); habitat:n.[生态]栖息地,产地; restoration:n.恢复;复位;王政复辟;归还;
So we set up a site in Mason County , Washington, and we've seen a dramatic decrease in the amount of coliforms . 我们在华盛顿梅森县设了一个点, 我们看到大肠菌数量明显减少。
site:n.地点;位置;场所;v.设置;为…选址; Mason:n.泥瓦匠;共济会会员(等于freemason);vt.用砖瓦砌成; County:n.郡,县; dramatic:adj.突然的;巨大的;令人吃惊的;激动人心的; decrease:v.降低;减少;缩小;减弱;n.减少;减小量;所减少的总量;减缩位置; coliforms:n.大肠杆菌群(coliform的复数形式);
And I'll show you a graph here. 我在这给你们看一张图表。
This is a logarithmic scale , 10 to the eighth power. 这是一个对数标度,10的8次方。
logarithmic:adj.对数的; scale:n.规模;比例;鳞;刻度;天平;数值范围;v.衡量;攀登;剥落;生水垢;
There's more than a 100 million colonies per gram, and 10 to the third power is around 1,000. 每克有1亿以上的菌落, 10的3次方是1000。
In 48 hours to 72 hours, these three mushroom species reduced the amount of coliform bacteria 10,000 times. 在48-72小时内,这3个蘑菇物种 使大肠杆菌的数量减少了10000倍。
Think of the implications . 想一想它的影响。
implications:n.蕴涵式;暗指,暗示;含蓄,含意;卷入(implication的复数);
This is a space-conservative method that uses storm debris -- and we can be guaranteed that we will have storms every year. 这是一个空间保守的方法,用风暴垃圾—— 我们可以保证每年都有风暴。
guaranteed:adj.必然的; v.保证;
So this one mushroom, in particular , has drawn our interest over time. 随着时间的推移,这个蘑菇引起我们的特别兴趣。
in particular:尤其,特别;
This is my wife Dusty with a mushroom called Fomitopsis officinalis -- Agaricon. 这是我妻子Dusty 和一个叫做拟层孔菌属天门冬属的蘑菇——Agaricon。
It's a mushroom exclusive to the old-growth forest, that Dioscorides first described in 65 A.D. 它不是古老森林中的蘑菇, 第奥斯科理德在公元65世纪首次描述
exclusive:adj.独有的;排外的;专一的;n.独家新闻;独家经营的项目;排外者; described:v.描述;形容;把…称为;做…运动;(describe的过去分词和过去式)
as a treatment against consumption . 它用于治疗肺结核。
treatment:n.治疗;疗法;对待;处理;讨论; consumption:n.消费;消耗;肺痨;
This mushroom grows in Washington state, Oregon, 这种蘑菇生长于华盛顿州、俄勒冈、
Northern California, British Columbia, now thought to be extinct in Europe. 加州北部、英国哥伦比亚,现在认为欧洲已经灭绝了。
May not seem that large -- let's get closer. 可能看起来没那么大, 让我们走近一些。
This is extremely rare fungus. 这是非常罕见的真菌。
Our team -- and we have a team of experts that go out -- we went out 20 times in the old-growth forest last year. 我们的团队——我们有一个专家组 去年去了古老森林20次。
We found one sample to be able to get into culture. 我们发现一例可以进行培养。
Preserving the genome of these fungi in the old growth forest 我认为保留古老森林里真菌的基因组
Preserving:n.保留,保存; genome:n.基因组;染色体组;
I think is absolutely critical for human health. 对于人类的健康非常重要。
absolutely:adv.绝对地;完全地; critical:adj.鉴定的;[核]临界的;批评的,爱挑剔的;危险的;决定性的;评论的;
I've been involved with the U.S. Defense Department BioShield program. 我参与了美国国防部的生物防护工程。
We submitted over 300 samples of mushrooms that were boiled in hot water , and mycelium harvesting these extracellular metabolites . 我们呈递了300多种蘑菇样本,我们在热水中把它们煮了, 菌丝收获了细胞外代谢物。
submitted:v.提交;顺从;投降;表示;认为;建议;(submit的过去分词和过去式) in hot water:有麻烦;陷于困境; extracellular:adj.(位于或发生于)[生物]细胞外的(副词extracellularly); metabolites:n.[生化]代谢物;代谢分子(metabolite的复数形式);
And a few years ago, we received these results. 几年前 我们得到了这些结果。
We have three different strains of Agaricon mushrooms that were highly active against pox viruses. 我们有3种不同的Agaricon蘑菇株, 它们抗疹病毒活性非常活跃。
strains:n.[微]菌株(strain复数); v.[力]拉紧; pox:n.痘;疹;发疹的疾病;瘟疫;
Dr. Earl Kern , who's a smallpox expert of the U.S. Defense Department, states that any compounds that have a selectivity index of two or more are active. Earl Kern博士是 美国国防部的天花专家,他说 任何选择性指数在2或2以上的化合物都是活跃的,
Kern:vi.使铅字上下突出;将…做平;n.仁,核;颗粒;(铅字面之)上下的突出部分; smallpox:n.[内科]天花; compounds:n.混合物,化合物;大院(compound的复数形式); selectivity:n.选择性;分离性;选择度; index:n.指标;指数;索引;指针;v.做索引;指出;编入索引中;
10 or greater are considered to be very active. 10以上是非常活跃。
Our mushroom strains were in the highly active range. 我们的蘑菇系属于非常活跃。
There's a vetted press release that you can read -- it's vetted by DOD, if you Google "Stamets" and "smallpox." 你们可以读一读一篇经过审核的新闻发布稿—— 经美国国防部审核的, 你可以搜索谷歌的“羊肚菌栽培”和“天花”,
vetted:v.审查;仔细检查,审查(内容、质量等);(vet的过去分词和过去式) press release:n.(向媒体发布的)新闻稿; Google:谷歌;谷歌搜索引擎;
Or you can go to NPR.org and listen to a live interview . 或者你可以上NPR.org听现场访谈。
interview:n.接见,采访;面试,面谈;v.采访;接见;对…进行面谈;
So, encouraged by this, naturally we went to flu viruses. 受到这点的鼓励,我们转向流感病毒。
naturally:adv.自然地;自然而然地;轻而易举;天生地;大方地;
And so for the first time I am showing this. 这是我第一次展示。
We have three different strains of Agaricon mushrooms highly active against flu viruses. 我们有3个不同的Agaricon蘑菇株 抗流感病毒活性非常高。
Here's the selectivity index numbers -- against pox, you saw 10s and 20s -- now against flu viruses, compared to the ribavirin controls, we have an extraordinarily high activity. 这是选择性指数数量—— 你看到10-20——抗流感病毒, 与三唑核苷对照相比, 我们的有极高的活性。
compared:adj.比较的,对照的; v.相比; (compare的过去式和过去分词) ribavirin:n.病毒唑;三唑核苷; extraordinarily:adv.非常;格外地;非凡地;
And we're using a natural extract within the same dosage window as a pure pharmaceutical . 我们使用天然提取物, 其剂量与纯药物剂量相同。
extract:v.提取;取出;摘录;榨取;n.汁;摘录;榨出物;选粹; dosage:n.剂量,用量; pharmaceutical:adj.制药(学)的;n.药物;
We tried it against flu A viruses -- H1N1, H3N2 -- as well as flu B viruses. 我们试图让它抗流感病毒A——H1N1,H3N2—— 以及流感病毒B。
as well as:也;和…一样;不但…而且;
So then we tried a blend , and in a blend combination we tried it against H5N1, and we got greater than 1,000 selectivity index. 然后我们试着混合, 在混合液中,我们想让它抗H5N1, 我们得到了1000以上的选择性指数。
blend:v.混合;融合;加入;相称;n.混合;混合物;混合种;混合色; combination:n.结合;组合;联合;[化学]化合;
(Applause) （鼓掌）
I then think that we can make the argument that we should save the old-growth forest as a matter of national defense. 然后我想我们可以展开讨论 我们是否应将拯救古老森林 作为国家国防事务。
(Applause) （鼓掌）
I became interested in entomopathogenic fungi -- fungi that kill insects. 我变得对昆虫病原真菌有兴趣—— 真菌杀死昆虫。
Our house was being destroyed by carpenter ants. 我们的房屋被木蚁毁了。
carpenter:n.木匠,木工;vi.当木匠,制作;
So I went to the EPA homepage , and they were recommending studies with metarhizium species of a group of fungi that kill carpenter ants, as well as termites . 我上EPA主页,他们推荐他们的研究成果, 一组杀死木蚁和白蚁的 真菌绿僵菌属。
homepage:n.主页; recommending:v.推荐,举荐;介绍;劝告;建议;使受欢迎;(recommend的现在分词) termites:n.白蚁;(termite的复数)
I did something that nobody else had done. 我做了别人没做过的事。
I actually chased the mycelium when it stopped producing spores. 实际上在菌丝停止产生孢子时,我寻找菌丝。
These are spores -- this is in their spores. 这些是孢子——这是在孢子里。
I was able to morph the culture into a non-sporulating form. 我可以把菌丝培养为 非孢子形式。
morph:n.词态;语素;变体;vt.在屏幕上变换图像;改变;
And so the industry has spent over 100 million dollars specifically on bait stations to prevent termites from eating your house. 这家农药企业在诱饵上投入1亿美元, 防止白蚁吞噬房子。
specifically:adv.特别地;明确地; bait:v.引诱;在…中放诱饵;折磨;n.饵;诱饵;vi.中途休息;
But the insects aren't stupid, and they would avoid the spores when they came close, and so I morphed the cultures into a non-sporulating form. 但昆虫并不傻, 它们可以在接近孢子的时候避开它, 所以我把菌丝培养为非孢子形式。
morphed:在屏幕上变换图像(morph的过去式和过去分词);
And I got my daughter's Barbie doll dish, 我用我女儿的芭比娃娃盘,
Barbie doll:n.芭比娃娃;芭比女郎(尤指愚蠢或俗气的性感女子);
I put it right where a bunch of carpenter ants were making debris fields, every day, in my house, and the ants were attracted to the mycelium, because there's no spores. 我把它放在白蚁群 每天出没的地方。 蚂蚁被菌丝吸引, 因为那没有孢子。
a bunch of:一群;一束;一堆;
They gave it to the queen. 它们再把它带给蚁后,
One week later, I had no sawdust piles whatsoever . 一周后我的房子再也没有出现过木屑。
sawdust:n.[木]锯屑;adj.撒木屑的;无实质的;vt.在…上撒木屑;用木屑填塞; whatsoever:pron.无论什么;
And then -- a delicate dance between dinner and death -- the mycelium is consumed by the ants, they become mummified and, boing , a mushroom pops out of their head. 然后——晚餐和死亡之间微妙的舞蹈—— 菌丝被蚂蚁消耗, 变成木乃伊,发出声响,蘑菇从它们的头部突然冒出。
delicate:adj.精致的,微妙的,脆弱的,熟练的,柔和的; consumed:adj.沉迷…的; v.消耗,耗费; (consume的过去分词和过去式) mummified:adj.木乃伊化的;v.木乃伊化(mummify的过去式); boing:int.啵嘤(弹簧突然弹开或振动时所发出的声音);
(Laughter) （笑声）
Now after sporulation, the spores repel . 在孢子形成之后,孢子相斥。
repel:v.击退;抵制;使厌恶;使不愉快;
So the house is no longer suitable for invasion . 所以房子就不再适合蚁群入侵了。
suitable:adj.合适的;适宜的;适当的;适用的; invasion:n.武装入侵;侵略;侵犯;涌入;干预;
So you have a near-permanent solution for re-invasion of termites. 这样你有一个比较永久的办法对付白蚁的再次入侵。
solution:n.解决方案;溶液;溶解;解答;
And so my house came down, I received my first patent against carpenter ants, termites and fire ants. 我的房子毁了,但我收到 对付木蚁、白蚁和火蚁的第一个专利。
patent:vt.授予专利; adj.专利的; n.专利权;
Then we tried extracts , and lo and behold , we can steer insects to different directions. 随后我们想提炼,你瞧, 我们可以控制昆虫向不同的方向。
extracts:n.提取物,[化学]萃取物(extract复数形式); v.[图情]摘录(extract的第三人称单数形式); behold:v.看;注视;把...视为;int.瞧;看呀; steer:v.引导;控制;操纵;驾驶(船、汽车等);n.建议;劝告;忠告;阉公牛;
This has huge implications. 这有很大的作用。
I then received my second patent -- and this is a big one. 然后我得到了我的第二个专利——这是个大专利,
It's been called an Alexander Graham Bell patent -- 叫做亚历山大格雷厄姆贝尔专利——
It covers over 200,000 species. 它涵盖20多万物种。
This is the most disruptive technology , 杀虫剂制造业的主管告诉我,
disruptive:adj.破坏的;分裂性的;制造混乱的; technology:n.技术;工艺;术语;
I've been told by executives of the pesticide industry, that they have ever witnessed . 这是他们见过的 最具破坏性的技术。
executives:n.经理,主管领导,管理人员;领导层;行政部门(executive的复数) pesticide:n.杀虫剂; witnessed:v.当场看到,目击;见证;作证;(witness的过去式和过去分词)
This could totally revamp the pesticide industries throughout the world. 它可能完全改变全球的杀虫剂制造业。
revamp:vt.修补;翻新;修改;n.改进;换新鞋面;
You could fly 100 Ph.D. students under the umbrella of this concept, because my supposition is that entomopathogenic fungi, prior to sporulation, attract the very insects that are otherwise repelled by those spores. 在这个概念伞下可以飞出100个博士生, 因为我推测是昆虫病原真菌 在芽孢形成前,吸引不同的昆虫, 否则它们会被那些孢子排斥。
supposition:n.假定;推测;想像;见解; prior:adj.先前的; n.(小隐修院)院长; v.居先; repelled:v.击退;驱逐;赶走;使恐惧;使厌恶(repel的过去分词和过去式)
And so I came up with a Life Box because I needed a delivery system. 所以我准备了一个生命盒,因为我需要一个供料系统。
delivery:n.[贸易]交付;分娩;递送;
The Life Box -- you're gonna be getting a DVD of the TED conference -- you add soil, you add water, you have mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi as well as spores, like of the Agaricon mushroom. 生命盒——你会从TED得到一份DVD—— 你往里加土,加水, 你除了有孢子还有菌根真菌和植物内生真菌, 就像是Agaricon蘑菇。
conference:n.会议;研讨会;商讨会;体育协会(或联合会) mycorrhizal:菌根;
The seeds then are mothered by this mycelium. 种子由菌丝照料。
And then you put tree seeds in here, and then you end up growing -- potentially -- an old growth forest from a cardboard box. 你把树种放在这里, 然后你完成了——潜在的—— 古老森林在一个纸板盒内的生长。
potentially:adv.可能地,潜在地; cardboard:n.[纸]硬纸板;纸板箱;卡纸板;adj.不真实的;硬纸板制的;
I want to re-invent the delivery system, and the use of cardboard around the world, so they become ecological footprints . 我想在全球重建这个供料系统 及使用纸板盒, 让它们变成生态足迹。
ecological:adj.生态的,生态学的; footprints:n.脚印;足迹;空间量,面积;(通信卫星)覆盖区;(footprint的复数)
If there's a YouTube like site that you could put up, you could make it interactive , zip code-specific -- where people could join together, and through satellite imaging systems, through Virtual Earth or Google Earth, 如果能建个像YouTube的网站, 你就能使它互动,有特殊的区域码—— 人们可以联合起来, 通过卫星成像系统、 通过虚拟地球或谷歌地球,
interactive:adj.合作的;相互影响的;互相配合的;交互式的;n.交互式视频设备; imaging:n.[物]成像;造像;v.反映;想像;作…的像;象征;(image的现在分词形式) Virtual:adj.[计]虚拟的;实质上的,事实上的(但未在名义上或正式获承认);
you could confirm carbon credits are being sequestered by the trees that are coming through Life Boxes. 你可以确认碳排放信号 被生命盒里的树木隔离了。
sequestered:adj.僻静的;隐蔽的;与外界隔绝的;v.隔离;(sequester的过去分词和过去式)
You could take a cardboard box delivering shoes, you could add water -- I developed this for the refugee community -- corns, beans, and squash , and onions. 你可以用装鞋的纸板盒, 你可以加水——我为社区难民开发了这个 —— 玉米、大豆、南瓜和洋葱。
refugee:n.难民;避难者;逃亡者;v.避难;adj.避难的; community:n.社区;[生态]群落;共同体;团体; squash:v.镇压;使沉默;受挤压;挤入;n.壁球;挤压;咯吱声;南瓜属植物;(英)果汁饮料;
I took several containers -- my wife said if I could do this, anybody could -- and I ended up growing a seed garden. 我拿了几个盒子——我妻子说如果我能做,任何人都可以做—— 我完成了一个种子园。
Then you harvest the seeds -- and thank you, Eric Rasmussen, for your help on this -- and then you're harvesting the seed garden. 然后你收获籽粒—— 谢谢你,Eric Rasmussen,谢谢你的帮助—— 然后你在这个种子园获得了丰收。
Then you can harvest the kernels , and then you just need a few kernels -- 你还可以收获籽粒,然后你仅需要几粒籽粒——
kernels:n.核心程序,核心(kernel的复数形式);
I add mycelium to it, and then I inoculate the corn cobs . 我给它加上菌丝,然后我给玉米接种。
cobs:n.钟形失真;雄天鹅;结实的短腿马;领导人(cob的复数);
Now, three corn cobs, no other grain -- lots of mushrooms begin to form. 3个玉米,没有其它的谷物—— 许多蘑菇开始形成。
grain:n.粮食; v.把…作成细粒;
Too many withdrawals from the carbon bank, and so this population will be shut down. 碳供不应求, 这个特定产物就停止了。
withdrawals:n.[金融]提款,[法]撤回(withdrawal的复数形式);退股;
But watch what happens here. 但看看这里发生了什么,
The mushrooms then are harvested, but very importantly, the mycelium has converted the cellulose into fungal sugars. 收获了蘑菇, 但非常重要的是 菌丝将纤维素转变成真菌糖。
converted:adj.修改的;改变信仰的;v.转变;改变信仰(convert的过去式和过去分词形式); cellulose:n.纤维素;(植物的)细胞膜质;
And so I thought, how could we address the energy crisis in this country? 所以我想,我们如何应对我们国家的能源危机？
crisis:n.危机;危险期;决定性时刻;adj.危机的;用于处理危机的;
And we came up with Econol. 我们发现了Econol。
Generating ethanol from cellulose using mycelium as an intermediary -- and you gain all the benefits that I've described to you already. 纤维素利用菌丝作为介质产生乙醇—— 你得到了我向你们描述过的所有好处。
Generating:v.产生;引起;(generate的现在分词) ethanol:n.[有化]乙醇,[有化]酒精; intermediary:adj.中间的;媒介的;中途的;n.中间人;仲裁者;调解者;媒介物;
But to go from cellulose to ethanol is ecologically unintelligent , and I think that we need to be econologically intelligent about the generation of fuels. 但从纤维素到乙醇从生态学看是愚昧的, 我认为我们需要生态智能 产生燃料。
ecologically:adv.从生态学的观点看; unintelligent:adj.无知的;缺乏才智的;
So we build the carbon banks on the planet, renew the soils -- these are a species that we need to join with. 所以我们在地球上建立了碳银行,更新土地 有新的物种我们需要合作。
renew:v.重新开始;中止后继续;重复强调;延长;
I think engaging mycelium can help save the world. 我认为菌丝可有助于拯救世界。
engaging:adj.有趣的; v.吸引住(注意力、兴趣); (engage的现在分词)
Thank you very much. 非常感谢。
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