If superpowers were real, which would you choose? - Joy Lin

翻译人员: Catherine Gu 校对人员: Bighead Ge

What if I could fly?

如果我能飞会怎样？

What if I could live forever?

如果我能长生不老会怎样？

What if I could be invisible?

如果我能隐形会怎样？

What if I could lift a tank?

如果我能举起一辆坦克会怎样？

For ages, people have craved for answers

长久以来人们渴望答案

to these questions,

来回答这些问题，

and what unbelievably gratifying way

我们用来表达幻想的

that we have used to express our fantasies

令人难以置信的喜人方式

is through the invention of superheroes

是通过发明超级英雄

and their superpowers.

和发挥他们的超级能力。

These days a summer doesn't go by

现今，夏天不会结束，

without a comic book hero transforming

如果漫画书中的英雄没有转变成一个巨人

into a giant to defend a girl next door

来保护邻家女孩

or fly across a screen to protect the human race

或飞越屏幕保护人类

from unspeakable evil.

免受不可告人的邪恶的威胁。

While an audience's hearts pump with excitement,

虽然观众的心还在兴奋地跳动着，

some people have found another path

但有些人已找到另一条路

to make their dreams last

使他们的梦想

beyond the movie-going experience --

超越了电影观赏体验 --

through science!

通过科学！

When the first comic book appeared in 1933,

当第一本漫画书于1933 年出现的时候，

flying was a luxury.

飞行是一种奢侈。

Nowadays, flying is the safest way to travel.

当今，飞行是旅游最安全的方式。

The world's life expectancy has increased

自从1960年以来，

by 15 years since 1960

世界上寿命已延长了15年，

due to biology and chemistry advancements.

多亏了生物和化学方面的进步。

There's been tremendous progress

隐身技术方面一直在

in stealth technology,

取得巨大的进步，

trying to make real-life invisible cloaks.

设法制造出现实生活中的隐形斗篷。

The fastest speed ever clocked

喷气推进汽车

by a human being on land

在人类有史以来陆地上的最快速度

is 760 miles per hour in a jet-propelled car.

是每小时760公里。

And athletes routinely dead-lift over 1,000 pounds

运动员在大力士选拔赛中

in Strongman Competitions.

通常举起1000多英磅。

We're practically breeding real life superheroes!

我们实际是在繁殖现实生活中的超级英雄！

From bicycles to jet packs,

从自行车到喷气包

from looking up at the stars

从仰望群星

to entering outer space in the shuttle,

到乘宇宙飞船进入外层空间，

our capacity to acquire knowledge and imagination

我们获取知识的能力和

to achieve impossible goals

实现不可能的目标的想象力

appears to be limitless.

似乎是无限的。

Exciting developments in the worlds

人类和超级英雄领域

of both humans and superheroes

令人兴奋的发展

will always influence each other.

总是会相互影响。

For as you will see by clicking on any superpower

通过点击这个系列中展示的超能力

presented in this series,

你会看到

the rules of superpowers

这些超能力的规则

and the laws of science

和科学定律

don't always agree.

并不总是一至的。