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Right now, somewhere out there,

翻译人员: Evelyn Liu 校对人员: Cissy Yun

就在此时世界的某一个角落，

an educator is delivering a mind-altering lesson to their class.

有一位教育工作者正在传播着一节改变人们思想的讲座

I want to engage your brains in this.

我希望你们可以跟我一起开动脑筋

Chris Anderson: I tried to get my head around how vast our Earth is.

我尝试着去思考我们的地球到底有多宽广辽阔

Logan Smalley: The lesson only reaches the students in that room.

但是能听到这节课的，也只是当时坐在那件教室里的学生而已

What would happen if we captured it?

如果我们能够将这堂课永久的捕捉下来呢？

It's a toothed wheel.

这是一个齿轮

LS: What if pro animators and visualization artists

如果专业的动画制作人员和视觉艺术家们

could bring that lesson to life?

可以让这堂课永恒的传播下去？

CA: It's a common object that literally fits one million Earths.

正是这些我们每天所能见到的东西，构成了这神奇的大千宇宙

It's got a bunch of notches and a bunch of teeth.

齿轮由齿槽和轮齿相互交错构成...

This was Fizeau's solution --

这就是著名的斐索实验（测量了光在不同情况下的速度）

LS: When that lesson lands, curiosity is ignited.

上课铃打响的时候，人们的好奇心随之迸发

CA: It seems impossibly big.

它看上去宽广无际......

AS: Something interesting happens.

接着一件有趣的事情发生了

CA: In the great scheme of things, it's a pinprick.

在一个宏大的计划里，这只是像针尖一样不起眼的一小步

AS: A door closes on the light beam that's coming back to his eye.

当光线返回他的眼睛时，一扇门恰好关上了

LS: Then that group of students is one thought closer

接着，这些学生就离每个老师都期盼的理想学生的形象

to being what every teacher hopes their students will become:

更近了一步：

a lifelong learner.

一个终生的知识汲取者

AS: Based on the distance between the two stations --

根据这两部分之间的距离

CA: The quest for knowledge and understanding never gets dull.

探索知识和理解世界的过程永远不会变得无趣

AS: He calculates the speed of light to within two percent of its actual value.

他得出了和实际光速的误差不超过百分之二的数据

CA: The more you know, the more amazing the world seems.

你对世界的理解越深，你就会越来越为这个世界而着迷

That's the central mission of TED-Ed:

这就是TED演讲的首要任务：

to capture and to amplify

去捕捉和去传播

the voice of the world's greatest teachers.

这世界上最理智的、最先进的思考者的声音

He does this in 1849.

他在1849年完成了这个实验

CA: It's the crazy possibilities, the unanswered questions,

敦促、鼓励我们人类前进的

that pull us forward.

正是这些看似疯狂的可能和种种未解之谜

So stay curious.

所以，请保持一颗好奇心

[TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing]