Name: TED】ライヴス。ライブス：百科事典ゲームの再発明 (【TED】Rives: Reinventing the encyclopedia game (Rives: Reinventing the encyclopedia game))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:27:39.000Z
Duration: 10 min 47 s

Translator: Morton Bast Reviewer: Thu-Huong Ha

翻訳: TSUKAWAKI KAZU 塚脇 和 校正: Yasushi Aoki

So, last month, the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced

after 244 years, which made me nostalgic,

244年の歴史に幕を閉じると聞き

because I remember playing a game with the colossal encyclopedia set in my hometown library

図書館で 百科事典を使って遊んだ ある “ゲーム” を懐かしく

And I wondered if I could update that game,

Wikipedia, and I entered the term "Earth."

ウィキペディアで “地球” と入力します

You can start anywhere, this time I chose Earth.

今回は地球ですが 何でもいいですよ

And the first rule of the game is pretty simple.

知らなかった事を発見するまで読む

and preferably something your dad doesn't even know.

できれば お父さんでも知らない事柄にします

The furthest point from the center of the Earth

地球の中心から最も遠い地点が

is not the tip of Mount Everest, like I might have thought,

it's the tip of this mountain: Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador.

エクアドルのチンボラーゾ山の頂上だ という事

The Earth spins, of course, as it travels around the sun,

地球は回転しながら 太陽をまわるので

so the Earth bulges a little bit around the middle,

And even though Mount Chimborazo isn't the tallest mountain in the Andes,

アンデス山脈の中でさえ 最高峰ではないですが

it's riding that bulge, and so the summit of Chimborazo

地球の膨らみの上にある チンボラーゾは

is the farthest point on Earth from the center of the Earth.

this is going to be the name of the game,

It's like "eureka" and "bingo" had a baby.

“ユリイカ” と “ビンゴ” の子供です

So the next rule of the game is also pretty simple.

You just have to find another term and look that up.

他の言葉を見つけ 調べるだけです

Now in the old days, that meant getting out a volume

昔ならば 百科事典の別の巻にいって

Nowadays there are hundreds of links to choose from.

I can go literally anywhere in the world,

“エクアドル” は見たことがあるので

I just decided to click on the word "tropical."

That took me to this wet and warm band of the tropics

地球を囲む 暑くて湿気った気候帯の

Now that's the Tropic of Cancer in the north

and the Tropic of Capricorn in the south,

but I was surprised to learn this little fact:

知らなかった私が  驚いたのは

like latitude or the borders between nations,

国境といった 製図上の線でなくて

they are astronomical phenomena caused by the Earth's tilt,

In fact, for years, the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn

have been steadily drifting towards the equator

So to keep the game going, I just have to find another term and look that one up.

続けましょう 新しい言葉を探します

Since I'm already in the tropics, I chose "Tropical rainforest."

今 “熱帯” を見ているので “熱帯雨林” を選びましょう

Famous for its diversity, human diversity.

多様性 特に人種的多様性で知られています

There are still dozens and dozens of uncontacted tribes living on this planet.

まだ多数の未接触部族が 地球上にいて

They're all over the globe, but virtually all of them live in tropical rainforests.

This is the only place you can go nowadays and not get "friended."

今や “友達申請” されずに済む 地上で唯一の場所ですね

The link that I clicked on here was exotic in the beginning and then absolutely mysterious at the very end.

この項目は エキゾチックに始まり 神秘的に終わります

It mentioned leopards and ring-tailed coatis and poison dart frogs and boa constrictors and then

ヒョウやアカハナグマ ヤドクガエル アカオボア そして

私とは違って 間違ってここに来た人には

but if I'd somehow gotten here by mistake,

it does remind me, for the band, see "The Beatles,"

車は “ワーゲンのビートル” へ

私は “甲虫類のビートル” を見に来ました

This is the most successful order on the planet by far.

この種は地球上で 圧倒的に数が多く

Something between 20 and 25 percent of all life forms on the planet,

植物を含めた 地球の全生物の20〜25％は

That means the next time you are in the grocery store,

つまり 今度 食料でも買いに行って

take a look at the four people ahead of you in line.

統計的には その内の１人は甲虫類です

And if it is you, you are astonishingly well adapted.

もしそれが あなたなら 驚くほどよく適応していますね

There are scavenger beetles that pick the skin and flesh off of bones in museums.

骨格標本作りに使われる 腐肉食のカツオブシムシや

There are predator beetles, that attack other insects

他の虫を攻撃して 捕食する種類もいますが

まだまだ かわいらしく見えます

There are beetles that roll little balls of dung

幼虫のために動物のフンを転がして

great distances across the desert floor to feed to their hatchlings.

This reminded the ancient Egyptians of their god Khepri,

このフンコロガシは 古代エジプトでは

who renews the ball of the sun every morning,

ケプリ神という 太陽をころがして

became that sacred scarab on the breastplate of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

ツタンカーメンの胸当てにも 彫刻されています

Beetles, I was reminded, have the most romantic flirtation in the animal kingdom.

甲虫類には 最もロマンチックに 愛を語る種類もいる

Fireflies are not flies, fireflies are beetles.

ホタルです  甲虫類で 鞘翅目です

Fireflies are coleoptera, and coleoptera communicate in other ways as well.

鞘翅目には他にも コミュニケーション方法があって

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