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1、www.XiYuS锡育软件Cartoons are basically short stories.卡通实际上也就是短篇小说。00:15I tried to find one that didnt have a whole lot of words.我有试着找一个文字不多的故事。00:18Not all of them have happy endings.但不是所有故事都有快乐的结局。00:24So how did I get started cartooning?我是怎么开始画漫画的呢?00:26I doodled a lot as a kid,and if you spend enoug

2、h timedoodling,sooner or later,something happens:all yourcareer options run out.我小时候常常乱涂乱画,如果你花足够的时间乱画,迟早,有些事会发生:你可以选择的职业逐渐没有了。00:28So you have to make a living cartooning.最后你就只有以画漫画为生了。00:38Actually,I fell in love with the ocean when I was a little boy,when I was about eight or nine.其实,我还是小孩时就爱上了大海

3、。当我在八,九岁左右。00:40And I was particularly fascinated with sharks.我对鲨鱼特别着迷。00:45This is some of my early work.这是我早期的一些作品。00:48Eventually,my mom took the red crayon away,so it wasunclear.终于,我妈妈拿走了红色的蜡笔,那时很.不清楚。00:50But Id like to relay to you a childhood experience of minethat really made me see the ocea

4、n differently,and itsbecome the foundation of my work because,I feel like,if in aday,不过我想给你们讲一个我童年的故事 真的让我重新认识了海洋,而且成为了我工作的基础 因为,我感觉,如果有一天,00:54Cartoons:n.卡通动画;动漫图书(cartoon的复数)/v.画漫画(cartoon的三单形式)doodled:vi.涂鸦;闲混;随意弹奏/n.涂鸦;蠢人/vt.乱涂出;闲混;随意弹奏 doodling:n.乱画之物/v.涂鸦(doodle的ing形式)sooner or later:迟早,早晚 run

5、 out:用完;耗尽;跑出;到期;伸向 make a living:谋生,维持生活 crayon:n.蜡笔,有色粉笔/vt.以蜡笔作画,用颜色粉笔画I can see the ocean differently,then I can evoke that samekind of change in others,especially kids.我能重新认识海洋,我也可以唤起其他人一些同样的改变,尤其是小孩子们。01:04Before that day,this is how I saw the ocean.在这之前,这是我眼里的大海。01:10Its just a big blue surfa

6、ce.只是一个蓝色的大表面。01:12And this is how weve seen the ocean since the beginning oftime.这就是我们自古以来所看到的大海。01:14Its a mystery.它是一个谜。01:17Theres been a lot of folklore developed around the ocean,mostly negative.有过很多民间传说 都围绕着海洋。大多是负面的。01:19And that prompted people to make maps like this,with allkinds of wonder

7、ful detail on the land,but when you get tothe waters edge,the ocean looks like one giant puddle ofblue paint.而这使人们画出了像这样的地图,让陆地上有各种精彩的细节,但是当你到了的水域的边缘,海洋看起来像很一大堆的蓝色油漆。01:25And this is the way I saw the ocean at school-as if to say,All geography and science lessons stop at waters edge.这就是我怎样在学校里看到海洋的-

8、可以说:“所有的地理和科学课程 停在了水的边缘之外。01:35This parts not going to be on the test.这部分不会出现在考试题上。”01:41But that day I flew low over the islands-it was a family tripto the Caribbean,and I flew in a small plane low over theislands.但那天我乘飞机飞过一些岛-那是和家人前往加勒比海度假,我坐小型飞机从低空飞过这些岛。01:43evoke:vt.引起,唤起;博得 folklore:n.民俗学;民间传说;

9、民间风俗 prompted:v.计提示(prompt的过去时,过去分词);引起puddle:n.水坑,泥潭;胶土(由粘土与水和成,不透水)/vt.使泥泞,搅浑;把捣制成胶土;搅炼;用胶土填塞/vi.搅泥浆;在水坑中嬉戏geography:n.地理;地形 stop at:住宿;逗留在;对有所踌躇This is what I saw.I saw hills and valleys.这是我看到的。我看到了山丘和山谷。01:49I saw forests and meadows.我看到了森林和草场。01:53I saw grottoes and secret gardens and places Id

10、 love to hideas a kid,if I could only breathe underwater.我看到石窟和隐蔽的花园。和一些我作为小孩最爱玩捉迷藏的地方,如果我能在水下呼吸的话。01:55And best of all,I saw the animals.最棒的是,我看到了动物。02:01I saw a manta ray that looked as big as the plane I was flyingin.我看到了一只看起来和我们飞机一样大的蝠鲼。02:03And I flew over a lagoon with a shark in it,and that w

11、as theday that my comic strip about a shark was born.我飞过了一个有鲨鱼的泻湖。然后这就是我的鲨鱼漫画诞生的日子。02:06TED演讲者：Jim Toomey|吉姆.图米演讲标题：Jim Toomey:Learning from Sherman the shark|向鲨鱼谢尔曼学习内容概要：For the past 13 years,Jim Toomey has been writing and drawing the daily comic stripSherman.s Lagoon,about a daffy family of ocea

12、n dwellers.漫画家 Jim Toomey 创造的漫画谢尔曼的泻湖，从一个独特角度看水下生活的主角-会说话的鲨鱼谢尔曼。Toomey在讲台上描画一些自己最喜欢的海洋生物，同时分享了他对海洋热爱和其中的一些故事。So from that day on,I was an ordinary kid walking around ondry land,but my head was down there,underwater.因此从那天起,我还是一个普通的小孩 在陆地上行走,但我脑子里在想别的地方,在水下02:13Up until that day,these were the animals

13、 that were mostcommon in my life.直到那天,这些是在我生活中常见的动物。02:19These were the ones Id like to draw-all variations of fourlegs and fur.这些是我喜欢画的 各种有四肢和毛皮的。02:24But when you got to the ocean,my imagination was nocompetition for nature.但是当你到了大海,才知道我的想象力没法和大自然比。02:34valleys:n.山谷(valley的复数);凹处 meadows:n.畜牧草地;地理

14、草甸(meadow的复数)grottoes:洞穴/岩穴(grotto的复数)underwater:adj.在水中的;水面下的/adv.在水下/n.水下 manta:n.外套;女用披巾 lagoon:n.地理水文泻湖;环礁湖;咸水湖 comic:adj.喜剧的;滑稽的;有趣的/n.连环漫画;喜剧演员;滑稽人物 variations:n.变奏曲,变更;生物变种(variation的复数形式)Every time Id come up with a crazy cartoon character on thedrawing board,Id find a critter in the ocean t

15、hat was evencrazier.每次我在画板上构思出一个疯狂的卡通人物。我可以在海洋里找到一个更疯狂的小家伙。02:38And the differences in scale between this tiny sea dragon andthis enormous humpback whale was like something out of ascience-fiction movie.拿这条小鲈鱼的体积差别来比 和这只巨大的座头鲸 就像是科幻电影里的故事。02:44Whenever I talk to kids,I always like to tell them,the b

16、iggestanimal that ever lived is still alive.每当我跟孩子们聊天,我总是喜欢告诉他们,有史以来最大的动物仍然活着。02:52Its not a dinosaur;its a whale,animals as big as officebuildings still swimming around out there in our ocean.它不是恐龙,而是只鲸鱼。和大楼一样大的动物 仍然在我们的大海里游来游去。02:57Speaking of dinosaurs,sharks are basically the same fish theywere

17、300 million years ago.说到恐龙,鲨鱼基本上 还是和3亿年前同样的鱼。03:03So if you ever fantasize about going back in time and seeingwhat a dinosaur looked like,thats what a dinosaur looks like.所以,如果你曾经幻想回到过去 和看恐龙是什么样的,这就是恐龙的模样。03:08So you have living dinosaurs and space aliens,animals thatevolved in zero gravity in harsh

18、 conditions.所以你有活着的恐龙 和外星人,动物在零引力和恶劣的条件中进化过来。03:14Its just incredible;no Hollywood designer could come upwith something more interesting than that.这简直令人难以置信,没有哪个好莱坞设计师 能创造出比这更有趣的东西了。03:21come up with:提出;想出;赶上 critter:n.人;家畜;马;牛 humpback:n.驼背;座头鲸 fantasize:vt.幻想;想像/vi.幻想 harsh:adj.严厉的；严酷的；刺耳的；粗糙的；刺目的

19、/Or this fangtooth.The particles in the water make it look likeits floating in outer space.或这个尖牙鱼。在水中的很多微粒 使它看起来像在太空中漂浮。03:27Could you image if we looked through the Hubble Telescopeand we saw that?你能想象如果我们通过哈勃望远镜 看到了这些？03:31It would start a whole new space race.这将启动一个全新的太空竞赛。03:37But instead,we sti

20、ck a camera in the deep ocean,and we seea fish,and it doesnt capture our imagination as a society.但是相反,我们把相机放入深海里,我们看到一条鱼,而它没能捕获到我们的想象力 作为一个社会。03:39We say to ourselves,Maybe we can make fish sticks with itor something.我们对自己说,“也许我们能用它做些炸鱼片或什么的。”03:47So,what Id like to do now is try a little drawing.因

21、此,我现在想做的 是试着画一下。03:52So,Im going to try to draw this fangtooth here.所以,我先试着在这里画这只尖牙鱼。03:58I love to draw the deep sea fish,because they are so ugly,butbeautiful in their own way.我爱画这些深海鱼,因为他们是如此的丑,但又有自己的一种美。04:03Maybe we can give him a little bioluminescence here-givehim a headlight,maybe a brake li

22、ght,turn signals.也许我们可以在这里给他一个的小生物发光源-给他一个大灯,也许一个刹车灯,转向灯。04:21But its easy to see why these animals make such greatcartoon characters,their shapes and sizes.但很容易看到这些动物为什么 能作这么合适的卡通人物,它们的形状和大小。04:32So some of them actually seem to have powers likesuperheroes in a comic book.所以其中一些看起来真的有些能力 像漫画里的超级英雄。

23、04:41sticks:n.棍;树枝;麻骨(stick复数形式)/v.用杆支撑;刺死;插入(stick的第三人称单数)bioluminescence:n.生物体之发光headlight:n.汽车等的前灯;船上的桅灯;矿工和医生用的帽灯 superheroes:超级英雄(superhero的名词复数)www.XiYuS锡育软件For instance,take these sea turtles.举例来说,就拿这些海龟。04:45They kind of have a sixth sense like Supermans x-ray vision.他们似乎有第六感 像超人的x光视觉。04:49T

24、hey can sense the magnetic fields of the earth.他们可以感觉到地球的磁场。04:53And they can use that sense to navigate hundreds of miles ofopen ocean.而且他们可以用这个感应 在数百英里的广阔海样里导航。04:56I kind of give my turtle hands just to make them an easiercartoon character to work with.我给他个海龟手掌 只是为了这些卡通人物在漫画过程中更人性化。05:03Or take t

25、his sea cucumber.或这个海参。05:19Its not an animal we draw cartoons of or draw at all.这不是我们在漫画里画的动物。或拿来画的。05:21Hes like an underwater Spiderman.他就像一个水下蜘蛛侠。05:26He shoots out these sticky webs to entangle his enemy.他射出这些黏的网 来粘住他的敌人。05:28Of course,sea cucumbers shoot them out their rears,which,in my opinio

26、n,makes them much more interesting asuperhero.当然,海参从后面射出来,这在我看来,使它们成为更有趣的超级英雄。05:34(Laughter)He cant spin a web anytime;hes got to pull hispants down first.（笑声）他不能随时撒网,他必须先把他的裤子脱下来。05:39navigate:vt.驾驶,操纵;使通过;航行于/vi.航行,航空 cucumber:n.黄瓜;胡瓜 Spiderman:n.高空作业的建筑工人 sticky:adj.粘的；粘性的 entangle:vt.使纠缠;卷入;使混乱

27、 cucumbers:n.园艺黄瓜(cucumber的复数)rears:n.排档;后面;公共厕所;后轮(rear的复数)/v.竖起;培养;发火(rear的三单形式)superhero:n.超级英雄(Laughter)Or the blowfish.（笑声）还有这个河豚。05:44The blowfish is like the Incredible Hulk.河豚就像是神奇绿巨人。05:48It can change its body into a big,intimidating fish in amatter of seconds.它可以改变自己的身体 成为一个很大,可怕的鱼 就在几秒钟内

28、。05:50Im going to draw this blowfish uninflated.我先画这个还没充气的河豚。05:56And then Im going to attempt onscreen animation here.然后我要尝试 在屏幕上做动画。06:04Lets see.我们来看看。06:09Try and inflate it.尝试给它充气。06:11(Laughter)You talkin to me?See,he can inflate himselfwhen he wants to be intimidating.（笑声）“你在跟我讲话？”看,他可以给自己充气

29、当他想变得可怕时。06:21Or take this swordfish.或看来这只剑鱼。06:28Could you imagine being born with a tool for a nose?你能想像自己的鼻子生下来就是个工具吗？06:33Do you think he wakes up in the morning,looks in the mirrorand says,Somebodys getting stabbed today.你认为他每天早上醒来,对着镜子说:“今天又有人要被刺伤。”06:36Or this lionfish for instance.或例如这条狮子鱼。0

30、6:43blowfish:n.河豚;黄麻鲈 Hulk:n.废船;笨重的船;船体/vi.庞然大物般出现;赫然显现 intimidating:adj.吓人的 onscreen:adj.银幕上的/adv.银幕上 animation:n.活泼,生气;激励;卡通片绘制 inflate:vt.使充气;使通货膨胀/vi.膨胀;充气 swordfish:n.箭鱼 lionfish:n.狮子鱼Imagine trying to make friends covered with razor-sharppoisonous barbs.试着想想怎么去交朋友 当自己身上全是锋利的毒刺。06:46Its not som

31、ething you want to put on your Facebook page,right?这不是你想要的Facebook头像,对吧？06:51My characters are-my lead characters a shark namedSherman.我的人物是-我的主角是叫谢尔曼的鲨鱼。07:04Hes a great white shark.他是一只大白鲨。07:08And I kind of broke the mold with Sherman.对于谢尔曼我打破了平常的模具。07:10I didnt want to go with this ruthless pred

32、ator image.我不想用这个无情的 捕食者形象。07:12Hes kind of just out there making a living.他也只是在那儿谋生。07:17Hes sort of a Homer Simpson with fins.他像是带了鱼鳍的霍默辛普森。07:19And then his sidekick is a sea turtle,as I mentioned before,named Filmore.然后他的助手 是只海龟,正如我前面提到的,名叫费尔莫尔。07:21He uses his wonderful skills at navigation to

33、wander theoceans,looking for a mate.他用他精彩的导航本领 在海洋中飘荡,寻找伴侣。07:26And he does manage to find them,but great navigationskills,lousy pick-up lines.而且他有找到她们,虽然有伟大的航海本领,搭话却很糟糕。07:34razor-sharp:adj.锋利的;犀利的 barbs:n.昆倒刺;冷嘲热讽(barb的复数形式)mold:vt.塑造;使发霉;用模子制作/vi.发霉/n.霉菌;模子 ruthless:adj.无情的,残忍的 predator:n.动捕食者;动食

34、肉动物;掠夺者 Homer:n.荷马(公元前9世纪前后的希腊盲诗人);本垒打 fins:n.鳍片,散热翅片;五元纸币(fin的复数形式)/v.切除鳍;装上翅(fin的第三人称单数)sidekick:n.伙伴,老朋友;插袋 sea turtle:脊椎海龟 pick-up:n.提取;搭便车He never seems to settle on any particular girl.他似乎永远不会 停下来 在任何一个女孩身边。07:39I have a hermit crab named Hawthorne,who doesnt get alot of respect as a hermit cr

35、ab,so he kind of wishes he were agreat white shark.我有一只叫霍桑的寄居蟹,他作为寄居蟹不怎么受到尊重,所以他有希望 他原本是一只大白鲨。07:47And then Ill introduce you to one more character,this guy,Ernest,who is basically a juvenile delinquent in a fish body.然后我再多给你们介绍一个人物,这个家伙,欧内斯特,基本上是个少年犯 在鱼的身体里。08:05So with characters,you can make stor

36、ies.所以用这些人物,可以编很多故事。08:16Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting twocharacters in a room and seeing what happens.有时侯编故事简单到 把两个人物在一个房间里 看会发生什么事。08:19So,imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in thesame bathroom.所以,想象一个白大鲨和大乌贼在同一间厕所里。08:26(Laughter)Or,sometimes I take them to places that

37、 peoplehave never heard of because theyre underwater.（笑声）或者,有时我带他们去一些地方 人们从来没有听说过,因为是在水下。08:29For instance,I took them skiing in the Mid-Atlantic Range,which is this range of mountains in the middle of the Atlantic.比如,我带他们去大西洋中部山脉滑雪,这是在大西洋中部的山脉群。08:35Ive taken them to the Sea of Japan,where they met

38、 giantjellyfish.我有带他们到日本海,他们在那里遇见了巨大的水母。08:40settle on:选定;授与;停在 hermit crab:n.寄生蟹 juvenile:adj.青少年的;幼稚的/n.青少年;少年读物 delinquent:adj.有过失的;怠忽的;拖欠债务的/n.流氓;行为不良的人;失职者 squid:n.鱿鱼;乌贼;枪乌贼 skiing:n.滑雪运动;滑雪术/v.滑雪(ski的ing形式)jellyfish:n.水母;无脊椎海蜇;软弱无能的人Ive taken them camping in the kelp forests of California.我带他们

39、去了加州的海带森林露营。08:44This next one here,I did a story on the census of marine life.下面这个,我写了海洋生物人口普查的故事。08:47And that was a lot of fun because,as most of you know,its areal project weve heard about.那非常有趣,因为你们大多数人都知道,它是一个真正我们听说过的项目。08:51But it was a chance for me to introduce readers to a lot ofcrazy unde

40、rsea characters.但对我来说是一个机会给读者介绍 很多疯狂的海底人物。08:57So we start off the story with Ernest,who volunteers as acensus taker.因此,故事从欧内斯特开始,作为人口普查志愿者。09:02He goes down and he meets this famous anglerfish.他去碰到这只出名的华脐鱼。09:06Then he meets the yeti crab,the famous vampire squid-elusive,hard to find-and the Dumbo

41、octopus,which looksso much like a cartoon in real life that really didnt have tochange a thing when I drew it.然后,他遇见了这个雪人蟹,著名的吸血鬼乌贼-难以捉摸的,很难找到的-和这个婴儿椅章鱼,它看起来太像一个在现实生活中的漫画 我画的他的时候真的没有什么需要改的。09:10camping:n.露营;野营/v.露营;扎营;临时安顿(camp的ing形式)kelp:n.植巨藻,海藻;海草灰/vi.烧制海草灰 census:vt.实施统计调查/n.人口普查，人口调查 undersea:a

42、dj.水下的;海面下的 start off:出发,开始 taker:n.接受者;接受打赌的人;捕获者anglerfish:n.华脐鱼;鱼琵琶鱼 yeti:n.雪人(等于AbominableSnowman)vampire:n.吸血鬼;脊椎吸血蝙蝠 elusive:adj.难懂的;易忘的;逃避的;难捉摸的 Dumbo:n.(美口)救护(搜索)飞机;(口)傻瓜 octopus:n.章鱼/章鱼肉I did another story on marine debris.我写了另一个关于海洋废弃物的故事。09:21I was speaking to a lot of my friends in the c

43、onservationbusiness,and they-I asked them,So whats one issue youwould like everyone to know more about?我和很多朋友聊过 做环境维护工作的,然后他们-我问他们,“那么,你们有没有一个想让大家了解更多的问题？”09:24And they said-this one friend of mine said,Ive got oneword for you:plastic.他们说-这是我的一个朋友说的,“我有一个词给你:塑料。”09:33And I told him,Well,I need somet

44、hing a little sexier thanthat.然后我告诉他,“恩,我需要比这个更性感些的话题。09:39Plastic just is not going to do it.仅仅塑料不够。”09:42We sort of worked things out.我们大概解决了这个问题。09:44He wanted me to use words like polyvinyl chloride,whichdoesnt really work in voice balloons very well.他想我用像聚氯乙烯的词语,但在漫画的对话气球里会很不自然。09:46I couldnt f

45、it them in.我没法把它们放进来。09:50So what I did was I made an adventure strip.所以我写了一个冒险故事。09:52Basically,this bottle travels a long way.基本上,这个瓶子经历了很长的旅行。09:54What Im trying to tell readers is that plastic doesnt really goaway;it just continues to wash downstream.我想告诉读者们 就是塑料并没有真正的消失;它只是继续流到下游。09:56debris:n.

46、碎片,残骸 conservation:n.保存，保持；保护 polyvinyl:n.聚乙烯化合物/adj.乙烯聚合物的 chloride:n.氯化物balloons:n.汽球(balloon的复数形式);轻气球/v.乘气球上升;如气球般膨胀(balloon的三单形式)downstream:adv.下游地;顺流而下/adj.下游的;顺流的And a lot of it ends up washing into the ocean,which is agreat story if you attach a couple characters to it,especially ifthey cant

47、 stand each other,like these two.而其中很多最终流入了海洋,这是个很有趣的故事,如果你搭配一些人物在里面,尤其是如果他们不能相互忍受对方,像这两个。10:02So,I sent them to Boise,Idaho,where they dropped a plasticbottle into the Boise sewer system.所以,我带他们到博伊西,爱达荷州,在那里他们扔了一个塑料瓶 到博伊西的下水道系统。10:12And it ended up in the Boise River and then on to theColumbia Rive

48、r and then to the mouth of the Columbia andto the Pacific Ocean and then on to this place called theGreat Pacific Garbage Patch-它后来到了博伊西河 然后到哥伦比亚河 然后到哥伦比亚海口 再到了太平洋 然后这个叫大太平洋垃圾带的地方-10:20which is this giant Pacific gyre in the North Pacific,where alot of this plastic ends up floating around-and then b

49、ackonto the lagoon.就是这个在北太平洋巨大的太平洋环流带,很多这种塑料最终漂浮在这里-然后返回到泻湖。10:32So that was basically a buddy story with a plastic bottle所以这基本上是个好朋友的故事 多了一个塑料瓶跟着。10:41So that was basically a buddy story with a plastic bottlefollowing along.跟着。10:41So a lot of people remember the plastic bottle anyway,butwe really

50、talked about marine debris and plastic in thecourse of that one.所以很多人还是记得这个塑料瓶,但我们真谈论的是海洋废弃物和塑料 在那个故事里。10:46The third storyline I did about a year and a half ago wasprobably my most difficult.第三个故事我大约在一年半前写的 可能是我最难的。10:54sewer:n.下水道;阴沟;裁缝师/vt.为铺设污水管道;用下水道排除的污水/vi.清洗污水管 gyre:n.回转;旋回;旋转/vi.旋回buddy:n.伙