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Working languages: English to Chinese
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| liliyoung
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More Less | | PRO-level points: 1, Questions answered: 1 | Sample translations submitted: 1 | English to Chinese: Time Travel in the Brain | Source text - English
What are you doing when you aren't doing anything at all?If you said "nothing," then you have just passed a test in logic and flunked a test in neuroscience. When people perform mental tasks--adding numbers, comparing shapes, identifying faces--different areas of their brains become active, and brain scans show these active areas as brightly colored squares on an otherwise dull gray background. But researchers have recently discovered that when these areas of our brains light up, other areas go dark. When we appear to be doing nothing, we are clearly doing something.
The human body moves forward in time at the rate of one second per second whether we like it or not. But the human mind can move through time in any direction and at any speed it chooses. Our ability to close our eyes and imagine the pleasures of Super Bowl Sunday or remember the excesses of New Year's Eve is a fairly recent evolutionary development, and our talent for doing this is unparalleled in the animal kingdom. We are a race of time travelers, unfettered by chronology and capable of visiting the future or revisiting the past whenever we wish. If our neural time machines are damaged by illness, age or accident, we may become trapped in the present. | Translation - Chinese
当你什么也不做的时候你在做什么？如果回答“什么也不做”，你只是通过了逻辑测试，但却没有通过神经学测试。人们在进行脑力工作时——比如做加法、比较物体的形状或辨认面孔时，脑部的不同区域会活跃起来，脑部扫描显示活跃的区域为高亮区，其它则为阴影区。最新研究发现，这些区域发亮时，其它区域就会变暗。表面上看起来我们什么也没做，实际上却并非如此。
无论你是否愿意，时间在一分一秒地流逝，人的身体也随之变化。但人的思想却可以突破时间的束缚，随心所欲地驰骋。闭上眼睛，我们可以想像周日橄榄球决赛的盛况，回忆超级星期天(Super Bowl)的欢乐，这种能力是进化的成果，也是整个动物界无法比拟的。我们是时间的旅行者，用思想穿越古今未来，无所拘束。然而如果我们的时间机器——神经系统由于疾病、年龄或事故而受到损坏，我们的思想就可能会停留到现在。 |
More Less | | Bachelor's degree - Beijing International Studies University | | Years of translation experience: 4. Registered at ProZ.com: Oct 2007. | | N/A | English to Chinese (Science and Technology Translators' Association of the Chinese Academy)
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I have a BA degree in English from Beijing International Studies University (BISU) and 5+ year experience working as an in-house translator. I'm good at IT, telecom and business translation, and can ensure the highest quality within the given time. Certificate of China Aptitude Test for Translators and Interpreters (CATTI) obtained.
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