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

譯者: Tiffany Wu 審譯者: Jenny Yang

What if I could fly?

如果我會飛會怎麼樣？

What if I could live forever?

如果我能長生不老會怎麼樣？

What if I could be invisible?

如果我能隱形會怎麼樣？

What if I could lift a tank?

如果我能舉起一輛坦克車會怎麼樣？

For ages, people have craved for answers

長久以來

人們渴求這些問題的答案

to these questions,

and what unbelievably gratifying way

而我們為了滿足自己的幻想

that we have used to express our fantasies

想出了令人難以置信的辦法

is through the invention of superheroes

就是創造超級英雄

and their superpowers.

以及超能力

These days a summer doesn't go by

現在，夏天不會結束

without a comic book hero transforming

如果漫畫裡的英雄沒有變身成巨人

into a giant to defend a girl next door

來保護鄰家女孩

or fly across a screen to protect the human race

或飛越螢幕保護人類

from unspeakable evil.

免於不可告人的惡勢力

While an audience's hearts pump with excitement,

螢幕前觀眾的心興奮未平的同時

some people have found another path

有些人找到了另一條路

to make their dreams last

使他們的幻想

beyond the movie-going experience --

超越電影的感官體驗—

through science!

通過科學！

When the first comic book appeared in 1933,

最早的漫畫出版於1933年

flying was a luxury.

那時候飛行仍是種奢侈

Nowadays, flying is the safest way to travel.

現今，搭飛機是最安全的旅行方式

The world's life expectancy has increased

自1960年以來

by 15 years since 1960

世界平均壽命延長了15年

due to biology and chemistry advancements.

歸功於生物與化學科技的進步

There's been tremendous progress

匿蹤技術發展一日千里

in stealth technology,

trying to make real-life invisible cloaks.

例如科學家正嘗試著

製造出真實的隱形斗篷

The fastest speed ever clocked

噴射推進汽車締造了

by a human being on land

人類陸上最快速度記錄

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

高達每小時760英里

And athletes routinely dead-lift over 1,000 pounds

舉重比賽上，運動員動輒舉起

in Strongman Competitions.

超過1000磅

We're practically breeding real life superheroes!

我們實際上就是現實中的超級英雄！

From bicycles to jet packs,

從腳踏車到噴射背包

from looking up at the stars

從仰望星空

to entering outer space in the shuttle,

到乘著太空船造訪外太空

our capacity to acquire knowledge and imagination

我們為了達成不可能任務

to achieve impossible goals

所獲取的知識與想像力

appears to be limitless.

沒有極限

Exciting developments in the worlds

人類與超級英雄世界

of both humans and superheroes

令人興奮的發展

will always influence each other.

總是相互影響

For as you will see by clicking on any superpower

因此，當你點閱這些超級英雄系列

presented in this series,

你會發現

the rules of superpowers

這些超能力的規則和

and the laws of science

科學定律

don't always agree.

並非完全一致