显然是一次严重故障 It's obviously a major malfunction.
- 他们的总统是一个骗子 - 呃 我不是骗子 - Their President is a crook. - Well, I'm not a crook.
罗伯特·肯尼迪在舞厅被枪杀 Robert Kennedy was shot in that ballroom.
感谢万能的主 我们终于自由了! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
一名刺客向肯尼迪总统开枪 A sniper has fired at President Kennedy.
或 你是否曾经加入共产党? Or have you ever been a member of the Communist party?
嗨 伙计 银色马! Hi-yo, Silver!
--在一九四一年的 - 1941
这耻辱的一天 a date which will live in infamy.
现在我们播送一九三九年度最新麦氏咖啡好消息 We bring you the final edition of our Maxwell House Good News of 1939.
晚上好 北美大陆及所有远航中的女士们 先生们 Good evening, Mr.And Mrs.North America, and all the ships at sea.
我们决不能屈服于恐惧 The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
CQ CQ
这是W-9GFO this is W-9 GFO.
CQ 这是W-9GFO 回话? CQ, this is W-9 GFO here. Come back?
CQ CQ
这是W-9GFO this is W-9 GFO here.
回话? Come back?
CQ CQ 这是W-9GFO 有人吗? CQ, this is W-9 GFO. Is anybody out there?
什么都收不到 Not getting anything.
慢慢来 爱莉 Small moves, Ellie.
慢慢来 Small moves.
CQ 这是W-9GFO 回话 CQ, this is W-9 GFO here. Come back?
明白 W-9GFO Copy, W-9 GFO.
这是K-4WLD K-4 WLD here.
我怎么说? What do I say?
随便 Just be yourself.
你在哪里 K-4WLD?回话 Where are you, K-4 WLD? Come back?
彭萨科拉 完毕 Pensacola. Over.
彭萨科拉?彭萨科拉在哪儿? Pensacola, where's Pensacola?
我先提示你 I'll give you a hint.
橘子汁 Orange juice.
明白 K-4WLD 佛罗里达的天气好吗? Copy that, K-4 WLD. How's the weather down there in Florida?
佛罗里达州的彭萨科拉 Pensacola, Florida.
我得跟你说 火花儿 I have to tell you, Sparks.
一千一百一十六英里呢 1,116 miles.
挺不错 Pretty good.
眼下最远的地方 That's the farthest yet.
我们能听到纽约那么远吗? Can we hear all the way to New York?
当然啦 Sure.
我们能听到加利福尼亚那么远吗? Can we hear all the way to California?
干吗不能呢? I don't see why not.
我们能听到阿拉斯加那么远吗? Can we hear all the way to Alaska?
天气很好就行 On a really clear day.
我们能听到中国那么远吗? Can we hear all the way to China?
那得要一个非常非常好的天气 On a really, really clear day.
我们能呼叫月亮吗? Could we talk to the moon?
如果有一部大电台 干吗不行呢? If it's a big enough radio, I don't see why not.
能呼叫木星吗? Could we talk to Jupiter?
还有 那更外面一个是什么? Or what's the one after that?
别说 Don't tell me.
我给你个提示 I'll give you a hint.
呼拉圈 Hula-Hoops.
是土星!我们能呼叫土星吗? Saturn! Could we talk to Saturn?
爸爸 我们能跟妈妈说话吗? Dad, could we talk to Mom?
恐怕最大的电台都够不着呢 I don't think even the biggest radio could reach that far.
好了 别缠着我了 All right, no more stalling.
彭萨科拉! Pensacola!
噢 爱莉 这可真漂亮! That's a beauty.
现在该睡觉了 Now get some sleep.
哎 爸爸? Hey, Dad?
你觉得 其他的行星上面有人吗? Do you think there's people on other planets?
不知道 火花儿 I don't know, Sparks.
可我觉得 But I guess I'd say
如果光有我们 if it is just us
好像太浪费地方了 it seems like an awful waste of space.
CQ 这是W-9GFO 回话 CQ, this is W-9 GFO.
重复 这是W-9GFO 回话? Repeat. This is W-9 GFO. Come back?
我需要一个更大的天线 I'm going to need a bigger antenna.
你看如何 阿洛维博士 What do you think, Doc Arroway?
很漂亮吧? Isn't she a beauty?
挺好 It'll do.
村庄离这里五英里 The village is five miles away.
酒店里面有家铺子 要什么只管找他们从圣·胡安订购 There's a general store in the cantina. They can order anything from San Juan.
什么时候分给我天线时间? When can I get dish time?
- 克拉克博士说过你等不得 今晚你开始值班 - 好啊 - Dr. Clark said you couldn't wait. - Your first shift is tonight.
退回去 Go back.
呃 退回去一点 那儿有点什么 Try back a little bit. You had something there.
就那儿! There!
- 这里吗? -你听见吗? -是 就这儿 就是它 - Right there? -You hear it? Right there, that's it.
好 1221.46 完全在L波段呢 All right, 1221.46. That's well within the L-band.
检查离轴 Check off-axis.
正查呢 On it.
不在附近 It's not in the neighborhood.
啊 这是它了 目标J-1714 Here it is. J-1741
记录于一九八二年十一月四日 脉冲星 Catalogued November 4, 1982. Pulsar.
天晓得 也许是计时器的干扰把我搞糊涂了 Must've been the glitch in the timing's what threw me.
可能是星震吧 Must've been a starquake.
你这样很好 多数人都不这么做了 I think it's great that you listen. Most don't do that anymore.
老习惯 你知道 感觉真实些 It's just an old habit. It makes it feel more real.
爱莉 Ellie.
肯特·克拉克 Kent Clark.
人家说你曾经 They said you'd been
在欧文谷天文台跟德鲁姆林工作 up at Owen's Valley working under Drumlin.
你觉得他这人如何? How'd you like him?
就这些啊?难怪他跟我讲那些话了 That much? About what I'd expect after what he had to say about you.
都讲些什么? And what was that?
说你聪明 That you are brilliant
干劲十足 driven
特别讨人嫌 a major pain in the ass
还不顾他的职业忠告 热衷于 and obsessed with a field of study he considers tantamount
毫无前途的专业 to professional suicide.
还有吗? Anything else?
那些是最出风头的 Those were the highlights.
- 达维奥·维尔农博士 你好 - 阿洛维博士 - Davio, Dr. Vernon. - Dr. Arroway.
相信你已见过我们勤奋的助手费希尔先生 Believe you've already met our tireless research assistant, Mr. Fisher
还有他的香水 as well as his cologne.
布鲁克在M-87寻找黑洞 Brook's looking at the black hole in M-87.
爱莉研究马卡良星系541 强伽马源 Eli's studying Markarian 541, a major gamma ray source.
阿洛维博士将用她的望远镜时间找 Dr. Arroway will be spending her precious telescope time listening for
找 呃 listening for
太空小绿人 Little green men.
排除一个 One down
还剩几十亿 a couple billion to go.
阿雷西博天文台 对吗? Arecibo, right?
这么明显啊? Does it show?
是的 喜欢饼干吗? Cracker Jack?
不 谢谢 No, thanks.
- 介意我坐下吗? -请随便 Mind if I sit down?
我听本地人管它叫做"雷达" I hear the locals they call it "El Radar."
都相信是军方的神秘项目 Convinced it has some dark military purpose.
我觉得我们不害人的吧 I think we're harmless.
帕尔莫·乔斯 Palmer Joss.
-爱莉·阿洛维 -幸会了 爱莉 - Ellie Arroway. - Nice to meet you, Ellie.
你 呃 你在研究什么? What are you studying up there?
普通的 The usual.
星云 类星体 脉冲星 这一类事情 你在 Nebulae, quasars, pulsars, stuff like that.
你在写什么呢? What are you writing?
一般的 名词 动词 The usual Nouns, adverbs
形容词 到处写 adjective here and there.
我做的是S.E.T.I.计划 I work on a project, SETI.
地外文明搜索? Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence?
非比寻常哟! That is out there!
你是学生还是干什么的? Are you a student or something?
我是个作家 我在写一本书 I'm a writer. I'm writing a book.
我在研究技术是如何影响第三世界文化的 I'm here doing research about how technology affects Third World cultures.
我同时还在找一个人:戴维·德鲁姆林 I'm also looking for this guy, David Drumlin.
国家科学基金会的头头 我想采访他 He's head of the National Science Foundation. I want an interview.
看得出来你认识他? I take it you know him?
可以这么说 You could say that.
S.E.T.I. 乖乖 SETI.
很前卫哟! That's fringe!
我跟他打过交道 他肯定不耐烦那一类事情吧 I've crossed paths with him. Something like that must really chap his ass.
指南针 Compass.
送给你的 That's for you.
收好了 You better keep this.
哪一天说不定救命呢 Might save your life someday.
一起吃晚饭好吗? Have dinner with me tonight?
我可不值得研究 我的话无关紧要 I don't make a good research subject. I'm not quotable.
不是采访 不是采访 以童子军的名誉起誓 No quotes. Scout's honor.
美味佳肴 互相作个伴儿 Good meal, good company.
我得走了 I've got to go.
不过 不过呢 星期二德鲁姆林要来 Drumlin's coming in Tuesday.
总算想起来我为什么坐办公室了 Now I remember why I took that desk job.
德鲁姆林博士 你好 Dr. Drumlin, how are you?
很高兴你能来 戴维 Glad you could make it.
早知道得转三次飞机 我可能就改主意了 If I'd known it took 3 planes, I might've reconsidered.
新办公室怎么样? How is that new office?
还在适应 人家已经盘算着把我的预算分一半给五角大楼 Still settling in. They already want to give half my budget to the Pentagon.
爱莉 还在等外星人的电话哪? Still waiting for E.T. To call?
一样很高兴见到你! Good to see you too!
混帐东西! Asshole!
这个晚上可不好熬哟 Looks like it's going to be a long night.
科学嘛 也要向我们的纳税人东家负责 Science must be accountable to the people paying for it, the taxpayers.
我们不能再把资金浪费于天上掉馅饼的空想 We must stop wasting money on pie-in-the-sky abstractions
花钱要讲求实际 得到实效 and spend it on practical, measurable ways
要让出钱的人看到生活水平的提高 to improve the lives of the people who are paying.
而不是我那种L波段和球状星团的工作 Not unlike my L-band, globular clusters work.
你是说 你要砍掉所有的基础研究? You want to do away with all pure research now?
科学讲求实际有什么不对吗?赚点钱不更好? What's wrong with science being practical? Even profitable?
没什么不对 只要你的动机 Nothing, as long as your motive
是寻求真理 这也正是科学的本来目的 is the search for truth. Which is what the pursuit of science is.
话从这一号人嘴里说出来真有意思 That's an interesting position from a man
比如这位敢于挑战技术的邪恶的 on a crusade against the evils of technology
乔斯神父 Father Joss.
我不反对技术 博士 我只是反对 I'm not against technology, Doctor. I'm against
那些罔顾真理而崇拜技术的人 the men who deify it at the expense of human truth.
肯特 我有话跟你说 请过来 Kent, I need to have a word with you. Over here, please.
看来我的采访要砸锅了 是不是? You think that hurt my chances with that interview?
你是个牧师? You're a priest?
不完全是 Not really.
我得过神学硕士 I got my Masters in Divinity
后来就离开神学院从事世俗的人道主义工作 then left the seminary to do secular humanitarian work
帮助第三世界的教会 coordinating Third World churches.
我过不了独身生活 I couldn't live with the celibacy thing.
你可以 呃 你可以称我为一个僧侣 You could call me a man of the cloth
但从不披袈裟 without the cloth.
想开溜吗? You want to get out of here?
看见那个W形状的星座了?那是仙后座 You see that large W-shaped constellation there? That's Cassiopeia.
仙后座A星放出相当多的射电信号 And Cassiopeia A gives off a whole lot of radio signals.
我一直在听着它们呢 I listen to them a lot.
它是一颗超新星的残骸 It's a remnant of a supernova.
你什么时候开始想当天文学家的? When did you know you wanted to be an astronomer?
大概八岁 When I was about eight years old
看日落的时候 我问爸爸:"那颗亮星星是什么?" watching the sunset, I asked Dad "What's that bright star over there?"
他说 那其实不是恒星 它是 He said that it wasn't a star. It was
一个行星 叫金星 a whole planet called Venus
很快就能看得见了 在 那边升起来 which should be over there soon.
他说 "你知道为什么叫金星吗? He said, "You know why they called it Venus?
因为他们认为它那么美丽 闪闪发光 Because they thought it was so beautiful and glowing.
但他们不知道 But they didn't know
那上面全是 that it's filled with
毒气和硫酸雨 " deadly gases and sulfuric acid rain."
哇 我想啊 "就是这个 我要学!" Wow, I thought, "This is it! I'm hooked!"
那里有四千亿颗恒星 There are four hundred billion stars out there
这还只是在我们的银河系里 just in our galaxy alone.
只要百万分之一的恒星具有行星 If only one out of a million of those had planets
只要其中百万分之一具有生命 if just one out of a million of those had life
再只要其中百万分之一具有智慧生命 and if just one out of a million of those had intelligent life
那就有一百万个文明世界 there would be literally millions of civilizations out there
如果没有的话 If there wasn't
那就太浪费地方啦 it'd be an awful waste of space.
阿门 Amen.
就这样 我躺在那里 凝望天空 So I was lying there, just looking at the sky.
然后我感觉到什么 不晓得 And then I felt something. I don't know.
总之 我知道不再孤独 All I know is that I wasn't alone.
生平第一次 我无所畏惧 For the first time in my life I wasn't scared of nothing
死都不怕 not even dying.
那就是上帝 It was God.
难道不可能 And there's no chance that
这个体验来自你的某个部分的需要? you had this experience because some part of you needed to have it?
我是个理智的人 只是这一次 I'm a reasonably intelligent guy, but this
我的智力显得如此渺小 My intellect couldn't even touch this.
不是的 No.
我上过几次主日学校 I've been to Sunday school a few times.
接着说 And?
我 我总是问那些讨厌的问题 比如 I kept asking all these really annoying questions like
"凯恩夫人打哪儿来的?" "Where did Mrs. Cain come from?"
不久 他们告诉爸爸 And pretty soon they asked my dad
方便的话 就此把我锁在家里 if he wouldn't mind keeping me home from now on.
你爸爸 Your dad
就是他喽? Is it this guy?
对 Yeah.
你们很亲近 是不是? You're close to him, aren't you?
是的 我九岁上他就死啦 I was. He died when I was nine years old.
我从来不知道母亲什么样 I never got to know my mother.
真令人难过 I'm sorry.
- 不容易吧 - 是 That's got to be tough.
一个人过日子 Being alone.
你看这样如何 What do you say
明天我们上阿雷西博山野炊? we pack a picnic tomorrow and hike up to Mount Arecibo?
怕不行 我得工作 I don't think I can. I've got to work.
明晚一起吃饭吧?我认得一家名馆子 How about dinner tomorrow night? I know a great dive.
不 不行 No, I don't think so.
爱莉 我弄错了吗? Ellie, did I miss something?
噢没有 No.
混蛋 要迟到了! Shit, I'm late!
我跟肯特说过十点半到的 I told Kent that I'd be there at 10:30.
我并不是逼你 I'm not trying to push you.
不 不是那样的 只是我等这个区域好几周了 I've wanted to look at this sector for weeks.
等在这儿 Just hang out
接着睡 冰箱里有一大堆吃的 and sleep in. There's food in the fridge.
我怎么找你? How can I reach you?
留下号码 我打电话给你 Just leave your number. I'll call you.
爸爸! Dad!
开始啦 你要错过的! It's starting, you're going to miss it!
爸爸 又一颗!快啊! Dad, there's another one! Hurry up!
等等 火花儿!我这就得了 In a minute, Sparks! I'm almost done.
又有一颗 快点 爸爸! There's another one. Come on, hurry up, Dad!
我这就拿药去 I'll get the medicine.
我了解这对你来说难于理解 I know it's hard to understand this now
但是我们并非总能够理解一切事情的来由 but we aren't always meant to know why things happen the way they do.
很多时候 我们只能如此接受它 Sometimes, we just have to accept it
就当作上帝的意志 as God's will.
我该在楼下的盥洗室里存些药 I should have kept medicine in the downstairs bathroom.
就能快点拿到了 Then I could've gotten to it sooner.
CQ CQ
这是W-9GFO 收到吗? this is W-9 GFO. Do you copy?
爸爸 这是爱莉 回话 Dad, this is Ellie. Come back.
这是伊琳娜·阿洛维 This is Eleanor Arroway
发射频率十四点二兆赫 transmitting on 14.2 megahertz.
你在吗? Are you there?
回话 Come back.
回话 Are you there?
爸爸 这是爱莉 Dad, this is Ellie.
- 爱莉 - 嗨 肯特 一大早干什么来了? - Hi, Kent. - What are you doing up so early?
我在想 I was thinking
咱们是一支不错的队伍 we'd make a pretty good team.
咱们可以搞一个特别S.E.T.I.计划 We could put together an ad hoc SETI program.
你知道新墨西哥的甚大天线阵吧? You know the Very Large Array in New Mexico?
用来做S.E.T.I.特棒 It's a dynamite place to do SETI work
你说什么哪? What are you talking about?
德鲁姆林拆台了 Drumlin pulled the plug.
我们得滚蛋了 We're homeless.
真的吗 是你拆台的吗?是你吗? It's true, you pulled the plug?
现在你不明白的 可我是为你好 You can't see it now, but I'm doing you a favor.
你这样有前途的科学家不能在蠢事上浪费天才 You're too promising a scientist to waste your gifts on this nonsense.
我可不认为 I don't consider what could be
人类可能的最重大发现是愚蠢! the most important human discovery nonsense!
四千亿颗星星-- 400 billion stars
却只有两种可能 第一 存在智慧生命 And two probabilities. One, there's intelligent life
但是太远了 你一辈子都找不到 but too far away to contact in your lifetime.
- 第二! - 你所作的决定 - And two! - You're making a decision
除了气体和碳化物什么都没有 你在浪费时间! There's nothing but gases and carbon compounds and you're wasting your time!
同时 你没有文章发表 大家不会看重你 In the meantime, you won't be taken seriously.
你的职业生涯就此完蛋! Your career will be over!
那又怎么样? So what?
这是我的生活! It's my life!
哎 肯特 你说得对 Hey, Kent. You were right.
去他的德鲁姆林 我们自己找钱 我们去新墨西哥 Screw Drumlin. We'll raise the money ourselves. We'll go to New Mexico.
芝加哥的事妥了 事情完了告诉我 Chicago's set. Let me know how it goes.
我还为你在东海岸联络了更多的企业 I've got more corporate stops on the East Coast for you.
哎 费希尔 休斯敦的投资人回你话了吗? Did that investor from Houston ever get back to us?
我会去洛杉矶追上他的 I'll hit him up on my way to L.A.
找好莱坞讨点钱! Beg for some of that Hollywood money!
他们赚外星人的钱好几年了 They've been making money off aliens for years.
- 要学会积德行善 - 走着瞧吧 - Begging is good for the soul. - We'll see.
帮帮忙 Just do me a favor.
别太 顶撞人 Try not to be too confrontational.
顶撞?我吗?什么意思? Confrontational? Me? What do you mean?
我瞧瞧忘了什么没 I'll see if I left anything.
这是具有特殊历史意义的时刻 对任何文明这都是独特的 It's a unique time in our history, in the history of any civilization.
这是获得技术的时刻 It's the moment of the acquisition of technology.
此刻接触将成为可能 That's the moment where contact becomes possible.
新墨西哥的甚大天线阵 The Very Large Array in New Mexico
是我们成功机会的关键 is the key to our chances for success.
用这二十七台互联的射电望远镜 With its 27 linked radio telescopes
我们就能够比其他任何机构都更准确地搜索 we can search more accurately than at any other facility.
我们已先期得到政府批准 可以购买望远镜使用时间 We've gotten approval to buy the telescope time from the government.
现在我们需要的只是资金 Now all we really need is the money.
讲演很好 博士 A nice presentation, Doctor.
不过 由于我们基金分部的准则是支持 But while our foundation arm has a mandate to support
实验计划 必须坦白地说 您的提议 experimental programs, your proposal
好像不那么科学 更像是科学幻想 seems less like science, and more like science fiction.
科学幻想 Science fiction.
你说对了 You're right.
这是发疯 It's crazy.
实际上比那更糟 简直是狗屁! In fact, it's even worse than that: Nuts!
想听听真正狗屁的事情吗? Want to hear something nutty?
有两个家伙想造一个东西叫飞机 Two guys wanted to build a thing called an airplane.
人坐进去学鸟飞 荒唐 对吗? People go in it and fly like birds. Ridiculous, right?
突破音障又怎么样 What about breaking the sound barrier
还有登月火箭 还有原子能 还有飞向火星? or rockets to the moon, or atomic energy or a mission to Mars?
科学幻想 对吗? Science fiction, right?
我所恳求你们的 无非是有那么一点点想象力 All I'm asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision.
退后一点 视野更宽阔 To step back and look at the big picture.
冒一次险 这终究会是最强大冲击力 Take a chance on something which could end up the most impactful moment
对于人类 对于历史 for humanity, for the history
成为历史 of history.
对不起 I'm sorry.
我已经花了十三个月 I just spent 13 months
到这样的地方与你们这样的人谈话 coming into rooms and talking to people like you.
你们是我最后的机会 You're my last chance.
抱歉浪费了你们的时间 Sorry I wasted your time.
博士 Doctor.
好的 阁下 Yes, sir.
您拿到钱了 You have your money.
谢谢您 Thank you.
四年后
抛得好钩!咬啊 小鱼! Perfect cast! Come on, fishy!
弗兰克 瞧这狗娘养的 Frank, look at the size
瞧这狗娘养的个头儿! of that son-of-a-bitch!
欢迎归来 瞎博士 Welcome back, Dr. C.
怎么样啊? How'd it go?
旅行如何? How was the trip?
凑合 I've had better.
又是德鲁姆林!这是报私仇吗? Drumlin! Is this a personal vendetta now?
不完全是 来自其他科学家的压力也很大 There's been enormous pressure from other scientists as well.
没关系 哈登会再资助我们两年的 It doesn't matter. Hadden's funding us for 2 more years.
政府可不希望把望远镜继续交给 The government doesn't want their telescopes used by the high priestess
沙漠巫婆 of the desert anymore.
什么? What?
说你总是几个钟头盯着静电图像听着洗衣机噪音 Staring at TV static for hours, listening to washing machines.
这些事情给捅出去了! These stories get out!
我在寻找混沌模式! I was seeking patterns in the chaos!
没用的 人家看笑话呢 It doesn't matter, we're a joke to them.
他们要赶我们走! They want us out!
还有三个月文件就下达 We've got 3 months till the paperwork goes through.
我这就去找其他的经费 I'll start looking for other funding.
正视现实行吗?就这一次?我们输了 Could you face reality? Just this once? We lost.
结束了 It's over.
成啊 Fine.
我不会停的 I'm not stopping.
有必要我就单干 这我以前干过 If I have to, I'll go it alone. I've done it before.
今晚我的嘉宾是作家兼神学家帕尔莫·乔斯 My guest tonight is author and theologian Palmer Joss.
他已成为一位心灵顾问 近来更是白宫的常客 He's become a spiritual counselor, and a recent fixture at the White House.
"上帝的使节" 纽约时报这么评论他 "God's Diplomat," according to The New York Times.
他的新书《失落信念》现居该报评出的 His latest book, "Losing Faith," is currently number one
畅销书榜首 on that publication's bestseller list.
感谢光临 您的经历很不寻常 Thanks for being here. You've had quite a ride
尤其是近几年 the last few years.
是啊 的确是那样 拉里 Yeah, I sure have, Larry.
老费 我在想 Fish, I was thinking.
谁会成为最好的天文学家?想想 Who would make the best astronomers? Think about it.
谁有事业与生活的完美结合? Who has the perfect synthesis of career and lifestyle?
我认输 I give.
吸血鬼! Vampires!
您是否反技术 反科学呢? Are you anti-technology and anti-science?
不 根本不是 No, not at all.
我所询问的是一直这样: The question that I'm asking is this:
我们更幸福吗? Are we happier
就整个人类而言 现实世界是否根本好转 as a human race? Is the world fundamentally a better place
由于科学技术的功劳? because of science and technology?
我们在家购物 我们泡网 We shop at home, we surf the Web
但与此同时 我们觉得更空虚 but at the same time we feel emptier
并且比历史上任何时期更感到相互隔膜 and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history.
我们正在成为一个综合社会 We're becoming a synthesized society
而且迫不及待地 in a hurry to get to the
我们在寻求着意义 We're looking for the meaning.
那是什么意义呢? What is the meaning?
我们工作无聊 度假狂野 We have mindless jobs, take frantic vacations.
借钱到商场抢购 Deficit finance trips to the mall to buy things
自以为能够填补生活的空洞 that we think will fill these holes in our lives.
我们失去方向感又有什么奇怪呢? Any wonder we've lost our sense of direction?
真他妈的! Holy shit!
赤经 Right ascension
十八度三十六分五十六点二秒! 18 hours, 36 minutes, 56.2 seconds!
赤纬 Declination
正三十六度四十六分 + 36 degrees, 46 minutes
五十六点二秒! 56.2 seconds!
要求核实! Confirm!
赤经十八度三十六分 Right ascension, 18 hours, 36 minutes
五十六点二秒! 56.2 seconds!
有人醒着吗?我要你们移动天线阵 Is anybody awake in there? I'm moving the array!
--要求确认! - Confirm!
头儿钓到大鱼啦! Boss has a bogey!
赤经十八度 Right ascension, 18 hours
我们干上了! We're on it!
三十六度 36 hours
四十七分一秒! 47 minutes and 1 second!
极其可能的 Strong possible
脉冲信道现于四号子台阵 pulse chain on sub-array four!
我要求调动其他的子台阵 要求确认坐标! I'm moving the rest. Confirm coordinates!
核对当前阵列状态 Check the status of the array.
她要用全部天线呢 She's doing all the dishes.
系统全部标定 Systems nominal.
哈罗 Hello.
我需要核对所有系统! Full systems check!
坐标已确认 威利正在检查系统 Coordinates confirmed. Willie's checking the system.
密切注意系统分析 Stay on top of the systems diagnostics!
核对参考点偏移量 Check reference point offsets.
我要求你一旦完成核对立刻用二十七号天线获得离轴 And I want you off-axis on 27 the second we get there!
跟威利说拿出大号音箱! And tell Willie to break out the big boy!
明白 Copy that.
好的!接着说 爱莉! Yeah! Go, Ellie!
我在耳机里听到的 我们得核实 I hear it on the headphones. We got to be sure about this.
再次报告当前阵列状态 Give me another array status.
她的那四个已经对准 其他正在跟进 Her four are online, the rest are tracking in.
除了十六号动力失灵 But there's a bad drive on 16.
四个对准 其余正跟进 The four are online, the rest are tracking in.
十六号动力失灵 收到吗? There's a bad drive on 16. Copy that?
信源序列怎么办? What shall I do about the source queue?
暂时放弃 仅保存序列 Forget it and hold the queue.
准备好一旦校准立即设目标频率为手控 Get ready to set the target frequency to manual the second we're aligned.
收到吗?我要你完成校正之后马上用二十七号天线取得离轴 Do you copy? I want you to go off-axis on 27 the second we're there!
维持本机振荡频率不变! And leave the LO frequency where it is!
别放跑了!万一丢失 扫描该波段! Don't let it get away! If you lose it, scan the band!
扫描所有可能频率 Run every frequency you can think of.
怎么样? How you doing?
说话 伙计们 Talk to me, guys.
偏极化行脉冲 振幅经调制 Partially polarized moving pulses, amplitude modulated.
已锁定 系统正常 全部收到信号 频率是多少? We're locked. Systems are fine. What's the frequency?
四点四六 4.46
二十三千兆赫 23 gigahertz.
氢原子基频乘以π Hydrogen times pi.
早说过! Told you!
还特别强! Strong sucker too!
听见了!听见了!听见了!我接通了! I got it! I'm patched in!
让我听听 Let me hear.
听听这个 Listen to that.
揭穿我 老费 Make me a liar, Fish.
可能是科克兰的预警机传来的干扰吧 It could be AWACS out of Kirkland jamming us.
不过我不信 But I doubt it.
看看跟踪单元探测器的读数如何 See if F.U.D.D.'s reading it too.
威利 接回去 给我离轴 Patch it back and give me the off-axis.
- 在记录吗? - 从没停下 - We recording? - Never stopped.
谢谢 埃尔莫! Thank you, Elmer!
预警机干扰:无 AWACS status is negative.
白沙基地呢? White Sands?
这个频率?没门 On this frequency? No.
我要问问那些侦察卫星 I'll punch up the darks.
你们今晚如何?伙计们 How's spying tonight?
快点!赶紧 Come on!
这个方向上NORAD没有找到任何间谍卫星 NORAD's not tracking any snoops in this vector.
"奋进号"也还在睡觉哪 Shuttle's in sleep mode.
OK 点信号源确认 Okay, point source confirmed.
无论如何 不是地源的 Whatever it is, it ain't local.
方位? Position?
查过干涉仪 天琴座附近 I checked interferometry. Somewhere in Lyra.
- 织女星? - 不可能啊! - Vega? - Can't be!
那只有二十六光年 It's only 26 light years away.
- 峰值强度? - 这就来 - Peak intensity? - Coming up!
织女星 Vega.
织女星 在阿雷西博的时候我就扫过好多次 从没结果 从来没有啊 Vega. I scanned it a bunch of times at Arecibo. It was always negative.
有啦! Got it!
超过一百央 Reading over 100 janskys.
天哪!我都能用 Jesus! I can pick it up on my
不! No!
稳住! Come on!
好了好了 又开始了! It's restarting.
慢着慢着 这是数字 Wait a minute. Those are numbers.
那是三 之前是二 That was 3, before it was 2.
十进制 咱们这就开始跟着计数 Base 10 numbers. Count and see how far we get.
一个 One.
七 Seven.
那都是质数 Those are primes.
二 三 五 七 全都是质数 2, 3, 5, 7 are all prime numbers.
这绝不可能是自然现象! No way that's a natural phenomenon!
冷静下来 把织女星的有关资料找出来 Let's just calm down and pull up the star file on Vega.
没道理嘛 这个星系太年轻了 It doesn't make any sense. The system is too young.
它不可能具备行星系 It can't have a planetary system
更不用说生命或者技术文明 let alone life or a technological civilization.
也许他们本不是那里的 也许只是路过 Maybe they're not from there, they're visiting.
飞船?这个星系到处是碎石 会给砸得稀烂的 Spacecraft? This system's full of debris. It'd get clobbered.
只要他们用激光炮和光子鱼雷不就得啦 Not if they used their laser blasters and photon torpedoes.
- 别开玩笑啊!威利 - 那又该怎么讲嘛! - That's not funny. - How else can we explain it!
威利说得对 要是我们公布之后发现错了 He's right. If we go public with this and we're wrong
就全完了 我们就完蛋了 it's over. We're cooked.
肯特在这儿就好了 I wish Kent was here.
不管信号是什么 我们得干点活 织女星要落下去了 Whatever it is, let's do something. Vega will set.
方位已确认 我们得到的是四点四六二三千兆赫 已确认 Position confirmed. We've got 4.4623 gigahertz, confirmed.
一百一十二央 We've got 112 janskys.
信号源定位呢? Do you have a source location yet?
我看得明明白白 We put it right smack in the middle.
织女星 Vega.
OK 谢谢 伊安 继续跟踪 我们再联络 Thanks. Keep tracking and we'll get back to you.
好的 Right-o.
OK 一百零一 脉冲序列是 101. The pulse sequenced
从二到一百零一间的全部质数 through every prime number between 2 and 101.
现在我们找谁呢? Who do we call now?
所有人 Everybody.
谣言四起 预示着极不寻常的事 The rumors are flying, the implications extraordinary.
探测到一个未经说明的 Detection of an unidentified
外太空射电源 此事官方既不证实也不否认 radio source from space can neither be confirmed nor denied.
军方正在前往 But the military arriving
接近甚大天线阵的消息来源说他们曾与 Sources close to the VLA report they have been contacted
某种形式的文明生命联络 by some form of intelligent being
来自太阳系之外 再次声明 此事尚未证实 living outside our solar system. Again, there is no confirmation.
我要求所有这些人都离开这里 I want all of these people out of here.
那姑娘呢? Where's the girl?
全世界二十二个观测站 22 stations worldwide
均证实该信号 now confirm the signal.
织女星现在地平线以下 Vega's now below our horizon.
你们正听到的信号来自俄国-- You're hearing the signal from the Russian
找解密人员来 Get decryption people here.
鲁纳卡尔斯基正在加州理工访问 Lunacharsky's visiting at Cal Tech.
向我解释此事 Explain this to me.
既然信号源如此复杂 为什么却用扫盲班算术? If the source of the signal is so sophisticated why the remedial math?
为什么不干脆说英语? Why not just speak English?
也许因为这颗行星上百分之七十的人讲其他语言 Maybe because 70% of the planet speaks other languages.
数学是唯一真正通用语言 Mathematics is the only truly universal language.
他们使用质数也不是出于偶然 It's no coincidence that they're using primes.
我不懂 I don't get it.
质数 Prime numbers.
只能被自身和一整除的整数 Integers only divisible by themselves and 1.
呃 我们认为这也许是一种导航讯号 一个公告 We think this may be a beacon, an announcement
提醒我们注意 to get our attention.
如果为了提醒你 你对了 不过只有一样:织女星 If it's attention you want, you got that. One thing: Vega.
多年以来人们都在盯着织女星 毫无结果 People have looked at Vega for years, with no results.
昨天他们开始广播质数了 为什么呢? Yesterday they start broadcasting primes. Why?
并不是昨天 It's hardly yesterday.
信号已经传播了二十六年 The signal's been transmitting for 26 years.
对不起 您是谁? Excuse me, who are you?
麦克尔·克茨 国家安全顾问 Michael Kitz, National Security Advisor.
您的声望-- Your reputation
首先 带家伙的先生们请到外面伺候 First, ask the gentlemen with the guns to wait outside.
这里本来是民用设施 This is a civilian facility.
恕我无礼-- With all due respect
失陪了 Excuse me.
嗨!真高兴你回来! Hi! I'm so glad you're back!
来听听这个 Come hear this.
太振奋了 Is this great?
- 这都是些什么人? - 天晓得 - Who are all these people? - I have no idea.
坐下 我们需要帮忙分析频谱 Sit down. We need help with the spectrum analysis.
- 我这就干 - 耳机 - I'll get on it. - Headsets.
开门见山吧 I'll just come right to the point.
向全世界公布此事大大危害国家安全 Announcing this all over the world may well be a breach of national security.
它又不是私人电话 It's not a person-to-person call.
你以为一个文明会仅为了美国人发送这消息吗? You think a civilization sending this message intends it just for Americans?
我只是认为您或许应向我们请示 You might have consulted us.
- 内容可能非常敏感 - 你想把质数也保密啊? - The contents could be very sensitive. - You want to classify prime numbers?
由于地球自转 每天我们仅能观察织女星数小时 Due to earth's rotation, we're in line with Vega only hours a day.
监测信号唯一的办法是与其他观测站合作 The only way to monitor the signal is to cooperate with other stations.
如果不是阿洛维博士行动迅速 我们可能丢失关键数据的 If Dr. Arroway hadn't acted quickly, we'd have lost key elements.
好吧 他们已经拿到质数了嘛 Fine, they've got the primes.
可是如果收到更重要的讯号-- But if a more significant transmission is to come
我们需要人帮忙接受和解码 We need help to receive and decode.
您明白我的工作是保护 You understand that my job is to protect
- 嘘!听着 - 听见了 - Listen. - I hear it.
听到什么了? Hear what?
谐振波 Harmonic.
对喽!我让威利请拉坦托天文台调谐至八点九二四七千兆赫 Bingo! I had Willie ask Rattan to retune to 8.9247 gigahertz.
这里信号可太多了 There's a lot more here.
- 监测负边带 - 已经开始 - Get on the negative sideband. - I'm already on it.
那是什么? What is it?
又一个信号! Another signal!
倍频处有第二个信号 看上去像 A second signal at double the frequency. Looks like
拿电视机来! Get a TV monitor!
接到图像处理器上 Patch it into the image processor.
接新数据是吧? Want the new data?
是了 我们刚录制的那个 Yeah, the new one we just recorded.
戴维 请向我解释一下吧 David, explain this to me, please.
伴随质数的又一个信号 看上去像电视图像 There's another signal. Looks like a TV transmission.
一切就绪 We're hot.
放下帘子 这儿太晃眼了 Go get the blinds. There is a lot of glare.
已经接通了 You're patched in.
这肯定是一幅图像 设法稳定 It's definitely an image. Let's try and stabilize it.
你推测那是什么 What do you make of that?
这是交错的两幅帧 我校准其中之一 It's two different interlaced frames. I'm framing one.
- 噪音吧 - 试另一帧 - It's just noise. - Trying frame two.
得到偏移载波 我想是音频吧 I've got an offset carrier. I think it's audio.
插上! Plug it in!
这段居中 Center that segment.
向正中调整 Centering.
能清晰一点吗? Can you clean it up?
正这么做呢 I'm working on it.
见什么鬼 ? What the hell?
拉远一点试试 Try zooming out.
停! Freeze!
试反相色 Reverse values.
再拉远一点 Try zooming out again.
顺时针转九十度 Rotate 90 degrees counterclock
上帝! My God!
怎么回事? What's going on?
你不会相信的 You're not going to believe this.
有谁讲德语? Does anybody speak German?
呃 "我宣布 在柏林举行的运动会 "I declare the Games in Berlin
暨庆祝 at the celebration
新时代的第一届奥林匹克运动会 of the first Olympics of the New Era
开幕" as opened."
给我接白宫 Get me the White House.
牺牲两千万人才打垮那个杂种 20 million people died defeating the bastard
他却是我们的第一位外太空大使? and he's our first ambassador to outer space?
三六年奥运会的广播是第一次 The broadcast of the '36 Olympics was the first TV transmission
被送到太空的电视讯号 that went into space.
被记录并发回来 无非是说 "喂 我们听到了 " Sending it back is a way of saying, "Hello, we heard you."
或者说 "Sieg Heil 我们同为高贵种族 " Or, " Sieg Heil, you're our kind of people."
希特勒的政治与此无关 Hitler's politics have nothing to do with this.
他们不大可能看明白的 人们要明白-- It's unlikely they understood it. People must understand
人民自有精明强干者保护 博士 The people are in very good hands, Doctor.
我们就此接管 We'll take it from here.
大伙儿笑一笑 我们出场了 Smile, folks. We're on.
神秘深空传来的消息 A message of unknown origin from deep space
已由美国科学家接到 现在转播白宫实况 was received by American scientists. Now to the White House.
丹娜 我们已被告知 总统将极为简短地 We're told the President will have only a few remarks
评论今天的非常事件 about today's extraordinary events
并且不接受记者提问 and that he won't be taking any questions from the press.
午安 Good afternoon.
我高兴地介绍同时出席的 I'm glad to be joined by my
我的科技顾问 Science and Technology Advisor.
这是最杰出的世界级科学家们 This is the product of years of exploration
多年探索的成果 by some of the world's most distinguished scientists.
如同所有的发现 Like all discoveries
这一次的同样会接受评议 this one will continue to be reviewed
审查 examined
及核实 and scrutinized.
它必须得到其他科学家的证实 It must be confirmed by other scientists.
然而明确的是 But clearly
调查中的事实显示出 the fact that this is being explored is a vindication
老费 那是干吗呢?我以为爱莉该上镜的 Fish, what is the story over here? I thought Ellie was supposed to be on.
不晓得 I don't know.
呃 伙计们 Guys?
记得我们认为的噪音帧吗? Those interlaced frames we thought were noise?
那是结构化的 我听出来了 This has structure. I'm hearing structure.
如果本发现被确认 If this discovery is confirmed
那将是科学迄今所揭示出我们宇宙的 it will be one of the most stunning insights into our universe
最令人震撼的内涵 that science has ever uncovered.
它的寓意将是极其深远的 Its implications are as far-reaching
和鼓舞人心的 and awe-inspiring as can be imagined.
虽然它回答了自古已有一些问题 Even as it promises answers to some of our oldest questions
同时却提出了 it poses still others
更进一步的基本问题 even more fundamental.
我们将继续专注地聆听 We will continue to listen closely
它的发言 to what it has to say
正如我们将继续寻求答案 as we continue the search for answers
寻求知识 and for knowledge
这是人类过去一直所做的 that is as old as humanity itself
且将继续主导我们的未来 but essential to our people's future.
谢谢大家 Thank you.
请问是否打算重新评价安全威胁? Is there a renewed assessment of security threat?
我先更正几点再回答你们的问题 I'll answer your questions after a few corrections.
该消息于上周五收到 The message was received Friday
时间是山区标准时上午六点三十一分 at 6:31 a.m. Mountain Standard Time.
基本以数学语言 It was largely mathematical
与此前的报道不同 and in spite of reports to the contrary
它表面上完全是善意的 appears to be completely benign in nature.
我重申 该消息绝无敌意 Let me say that again. The message is completely benign.
总统已与各国领导人沟通 The President has contacted the world's heads of state
并已采取一切可能的防范措施 and every security measure is being taken.
为了更好地介绍过去四十八小时发生的事件 To better explain the events of the last 48 hours
特请领导此次重大科学发现的 is the leader of the scientific team that made this remarkable discovery
德鲁姆林博士 总统特别科技顾问 Dr. David Drumlin, special Science Advisor to the President.
谢谢 雷切尔 Thank you, Rachel.
大家好 Hello.
一九三六年 人们曾以微弱的电视讯号 In 1936 a very faint television signal
转播了奥运会开幕式 transmitted the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games as a show
以显示德国的卓越技术 of German superior technology.
该讯号以光速离开地球 二十六年后 That signal left Earth at the speed of light and 26 years later
到达我们所称的织女星附近 arrived in the vicinity of the star we call Vega.
该讯号经高度放大之后回传给我们 That signal has been sent back to us hugely amplified
无可争议的智慧标志 an unmistakable sign of intelligence.
我已联机 肯特 说吧 Kent, go ahead.
那个阿道夫录像片用的是每秒二十五帧 可我们收到的是五十帧 The Adolf transmission used 25 frames per second but we're receiving 50.
我们就在另外二十五帧应用了各种搜索算法 So we put the other 25 through search algorithms.
结果每一帧的顶部都发现有系列标记 We found a series of markers on the top of each frame.
- 准备好了吗? - 是 继续! - Are you ready? - Yeah, go ahead!
传过去 威利 Send it, Willie.
好 接着 Here it comes.
它是数字化的 It's digital
大批数据 延伸到更高倍频 massive amounts of data which extend right to the higher harmonics.
中奖喽! Jackpot!
好 正如各位所见到 All right, as you'll see
与原希特勒图像交错的帧 interlaced with the frames of the original Hitler image
我们就发现了这些段落 we found these sections.
原以为是噪音 其实是数据 We thought they were noise, but they're actually data
极为庞大的数据 huge amounts of it.
与取自原来信号的数据综合 When we combine this with the data from the original signal
我们得到这些加密的文本 we get these encrypted pages of text.
每一页互不相同 已找出超过一万页 No two are alike and we've uncovered over 10,000 already.
那是什么意思呢 博士? What does it mean, Doctor?
不知道 什么都可能 We have no idea. It could be anything.
也许是《银河百科全书》第一卷 Volume 1 of an Encyclopedia Galactica.
他们殖民步骤的说明 Instructions for us on their colonization procedures.
摩西几十亿诫 Moses with a few billion new commandments.
解码要用多久? How long will it take to decode it?
可能根本解不开 我们需要密钥 It could take forever. We really need a primer
我们需要最好的解密专家 We need to get the best decryption people we have.
我计划使用甚大天线阵作为总指挥部 I intend to use the VLA as my command post.
与此同时 我的部门已拟就初步预算 In the meantime, my office has made out a preliminary budget.
等一等 Wait a minute.
这是私人赞助项目 This is a privately-funded operation.
我们从政府租借到天线时间 We lease dish time from the government
博士 我认为在此国家利益高于一切 This is a clear-cut case of eminent domain.
我将向总统建议此项目立即实现军事化 I'm recommending to the President we militarize this project.
什么?!这是我的项目! What?! This is my project!
谁都不比我知道得多 戴维 跟他们说 Nobody knows more about this than I do. David, tell them
对不起!能否请诸位冷静? Excuse me! Could we calm down here?
我建议德鲁姆林博士协调解码工作 I'm going to recommend that Dr. Drumlin coordinate the decryption effort.
而鉴于阿洛维博士这方面的长期经验 But in light of Dr. Arroway's long experience in these matters
目前 暂由她负责甚大天线阵的工作 for the time being, she will direct operations at the VLA
同时您必须保证未来一切发现将严格保密 understanding that future discoveries will be kept in strict confidence
以待总统 until such time as the President
决定最合适的行动 清楚了? can decide the most suitable course of action. Understood?
是的 Yes.
CNN现在报道突发新闻 This is CNN Breaking News.
总统称来自织女星的消息是 The President called the message from Vega
"令人震惊的宇宙内幕" " a stunning insight into our universe"
几天来 宗教活动的参加人数大大地上升了百分之三十九 Attendance at religious services has risen a dramatic 39% in recent days.
同时警方与新纳粹示威者发生冲突 as police clashed with neo-Nazi protesters.
好啊 原来其他行星上还有的生命 So, there's life on other planets.
乖乖 这可真要改变"宇宙小姐"的竞选喽 是不是? Boy, this will really change the Miss Universe contest.
各国卫生官员担心织女星消息 Health officials worldwide are concerned that the message from Vega
可能促发集体自杀 might trigger a rash of mass suicides
与近期圣地亚哥邪教死亡事件未必不同 not unlike recent cult deaths near San Diego
即使科学家也必须承认 Even a scientist must admit
它具有相当大的宗教寓意 there are some pretty serious religious overtones to all this.
让我们来听听来自某人 Here's someone whose organization
人们指出他的机构在近几天私下进行研究 is accused of conducting its own inquisition:
理查德·兰克 保守联盟领导人 Richard Rank, head of the Conservative Coalition.
谢谢 Thank you.
这是迄今又一实例 科学正在侵犯人们的信仰 This is yet another example of science intruding into matters of faith.
这就是说 他们一直在看电视 This means they have been reacting to TV signals
从三十年代就开始了 只不过刚才受到节目讯号 from the 1930's. They're just getting them.
如果他们是小牛队球迷该有多失望 Imagine how disappointed they'll be if they're Cubs fans.
我们现在转到杰里米·罗斯 他从 We now go to Jeremy Roth, who is reporting
位于新墨西哥索克罗附近的甚大天线阵报道 from the Very Large Array near Socorro, New Mexico.
好比是晴天霹雳 Like a bolt from the blue it came.
"织女星消息"已经使得 "The Message from Vega" has caused
成千上万教徒和非教徒 thousands of believers and non-believers
集合到新墨西哥沙漠里这个甚大天线阵来 to descend upon the VLA facility here in the desert of New Mexico.
很多人来示威 也有很多人来祈祷 Many have come to protest, many to pray
而大多数人是来 来凑热闹的 but most have come to participate in what's become the best show in town.
啊 我见它来自天外 Well, I saw the thing coming out of the sky
独角长长 怪眼大大 It had one long horn and one big eye
我浑身发抖只会哦哦咦咦 I commenced to shaking and said Oo-ee
好像来者专吃紫人 Looks like a Purple People Eater to me
欢呼织女 欢呼织女 Hail to Vega Hail to Vega
科学家们有过机会 但是他们失败了 But they have failed!
正是这样的人 一次又一次地 It's the same people who, again and again
把我们带到灭绝的边缘! have brought us to the brink of destruction!
污染了空气 污染了水! Who've polluted our air, who've poisoned our water!
而今 这些科学家们 Now these scientists
又找到机会了 have had their chance.
是否这些人就是 Are these the kind of people
为你们向上帝申述的呢? that you want talking to your God for you?
工作昼夜不停 Efforts continue around the clock.
然而 消息收到几乎两个星期以来 But for now, almost 2 full weeks after the message's arrival
甚大天线阵的科学家们仍然没有答案 scientists here at the VLA still have no answers
只有更多的问题 only more questions.
CNN的杰里米·罗斯从新墨西哥索克罗报道 Jeremy Roth, CNN, Socorro, New Mexico.
稍后将报道更多寻求消息明确含义的工作 More on the quest for the message's meaning, after this.
它们总得排列起来才对 They have to line up somehow.
这样也对不上 This one doesn't fit, either.
试过上百万排列 We've tried over a million permutations.
只能够拼上这三个角 Always, I can only get three corners to fit.
我不懂这是什么意义 I don't understand their significance.
有人闯进 Somebody broke in
喂? Hello?
听着 我不管你是谁 你闯进数据库 Whoever you are, you broke into the database
什么?现在吗? What? Now?
什么地方? Where?
我会到的 I'll be there.
您应该觉得幸运 You should feel fortunate.
他很少降落 He hardly lands for anyone.
阿洛维博士 Dr. Arroway.
恕我冒昧 I presume?
哈登先生 Mr. Hadden.
我注意你很久了 博士 I've had my eye on you a long time, Doctor.
我把你看作最有价值的长线投资 I consider you one of my most valuable long-term investments.
事关投资之时 And when it comes to my investments
我一向要做研究的 I always do my homework.
艾琳娜·安·阿洛维 Eleanor Ann Arroway
生于一九六四年八月二十五日 born 25th August, 1964
威斯康星州 德皮埃尔市 De Pere, Wisconsin.
母亲乔安娜 死于产后综合症 Mother, Joanna, died from complications during childbirth.
早期测验显示 Early testing indicated high predisposition
理科及数学的极高天赋 towards science and mathematics.
父亲 西奥多 Father, Theodore
接受建议 有意着重这些方面的培养 advised to provide enrichment activities in these areas
直至去世 did so conscientiously until his death
他死于心肌梗塞 时间:一九七四年十一月十日 from myocardial infarction, November 10, 1974.
你在一九七九年高中毕业 You graduated from high school in 1979
几乎提前两年 almost two full years early.
获得麻省理工学院全额奖学金 Awarded full scholarship, M.I. T
并以优异成绩毕业 graduated magna cum laude.
在加州理工学院攻读博士 Doctoral work, Cal Tech
研究镧掺杂红宝石量子放大器 where you worked on the lanthanide-doped ruby maser
极大提高了射电望远镜的灵敏度 dramatically increasing the sensitivity of radio telescopes.
随后得到哈佛大学的教职 Subsequently offered a teaching position at Harvard University
你谢绝之后来到波多黎各的阿雷西博天文台 which you turned down to pursue SETI work
从事S.E.T.I.工作 at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
由于国家科学基金会的政策改变 Changes in N.S.F. Policy
导致一定的经费问题 gave rise to certain funding problems
就在此时 at which point
你引起我的注意 you came to my attention.
你违反了我们的安全条例 You compromised our security codes.
从前哪 Once upon a time
我是个了不起的工程师 I was a hell of an engineer.
请坐 博士 Please, sit, Doctor.
我很少待客 请你务必随意 I have guests so rarely, it's important they feel welcome in my home.
你住在这儿? You live here?
方便罢了 为的是保持兴趣 I find it convenient to keep my interests
多变 mobile.
总之 地面上的日子我已经过够了 Anyway, I've had my fill of life on the ground.
我猜 I guess I should
我猜我应该感谢你多次解我燃眉之急 I guess I should thank you for having bailed me out all that time.
我下注一贯正确 I know a good bet when I see one.
伯爵红茶 不加糖和牛奶 我没猜错吧 Earl Grey. No sugar, no milk, I believe.
我来这里究竟做什么? What am I doing here?
权贵们日益繁忙 The powers that be have been very busy lately
抢占有利位置 positioning themselves
以参加千禧年的竞技 for the game of the millennium.
也许我能帮你重返比赛 Maybe I can help deal you back in.
我并没有觉得被淘汰了 I didn't realize that I was out.
不 也许尚未被淘汰 No. Maybe not out
却一定得到明示要开路了 but certainly being handed your hat.
长期以来我树敌太多 博士 I've had a long time to make enemies, Doctor.
许多政府 There are many governments
商界 business interests
甚至宗教领导人期盼我归西 even religious leaders that would like to see me depart this earth.
很快 我就满足他们的愿望 And I'll grant them their wish soon enough.
在那以前 我还有一个小小的贡献 But before I do, I wish to make a small contribution.
这最后一次良好祝愿是为了这个星球的人们 他们曾经给与 A final gesture of goodwill to the people of this planet who have given
从他们那里我攫取甚多 from whom I have taken so much.
你找到了密钥 You found the primer.
聪明姑娘! Clever girl!
关灯 Lights.
一页又一页的数据 Pages and pages of data.
一共超过六万三千页 Over 63,000 in all.
每一页的外沿 And on the perimeter of each
匹配符号 定位标记 可无法排列 Alignment symbols, registration marks, but they don't line up.
能排列的 They do
要像织女星人那样思维 if you think like a Vegan.
一个更为先进的外星文明 An alien intelligence has got be more advanced
标志着高效的运行 不只是多层次的 and that means efficiency functioning on multiple levels
而且是 and in multiple
多维度的 dimensions.
是了 当然了! Yes, of course!
密钥呢? Where's the primer?
就会看到的 You'll see.
每个三维页面含有密钥的一部分 Every three-dimensional page contains a piece of the primer.
它一直在那里 就在你的面前 There it was all the time, staring you in the face.
信息本身就隐含了解密钥 Buried within the message itself is the key to decoding it.
在间架层次之间 我们得到如下基本方程式: Within the layering of the matrix, we have these basic equations:
依靠这些基础 他们给与我们一种 So with this very elementary foundation, they have given us a kind of
通用科学词汇表 general scientific vocabulary.
这样我们就得到表示"是""否"的符号 We now have the symbols for true and false
这就是关键 This was the key
使得我们能够破译他们的语言 that allowed us to decipher their language
包括物理 几何与化学 下一幅 爱莉 for physics, geometry, chemistry. Next frame, Ellie.
是的 我们同样地处理余下信息 Yes, and when we apply this to the rest of the message
我们找到这个 we find this.
那看上去是工程图表 简直就是蓝图 Those look like engineering schematics, almost like blueprints.
正是如此 Yes.
我们相信 该消息包含的说明是 It is our belief that the message contains instructions
用来建造某个东西 某种机器 for building something, some kind of machine.
机器?干什么用的 博士? A machine? That does what, Doctor?
我们不知道 也许是某种 We don't know. It might be some type
高级通讯设备 或者一种教学仪器 of advanced communication device, or a teaching machine of some kind.
或者是 Or it might be
某种交通工具 some kind of a transport.
- 交通工具? - 尚无证据 - Transport? - There's no proof of that.
其实 您不知道那是什么 那就什么都又可能 The fact is you don't know what it does. It could be anything.
木马 建成以后冲出织女星大军 A Trojan Horse. We build it and out pours the entire Vegan army.
为什么冒人员损失的风险?可能是一件武器 Why risk the personnel? It could be a weapon.
对了 某种末日机器 Right. Some kind of a Doomsday Machine.
每次他们探测到一个新的文明 Every time they detect a new civilization
就从太空传真图纸 they fax construction plans from space.
我们这些土包子制造出来 然后把自己炸回极乐世界 We poor saps build this thing and blow ourselves to kingdom come.
毫无理由相信这些具有敌意嘛 There's no reason to believe their intentions are hostile.
为什么总迂腐地认为外星人是坏蛋呢? Why is it the egghead position that aliens are always benign?
我们对他们不构成威胁 We pose no threat to them.
好比我们兴师动众去东非 It'd be like us going out of our way
消灭蚂蚁山上的微生物 to destroy microbes on an anthill.
有趣的类比 Interesting analogy.
而我们果真消灭蚂蚁山上的几个微生物 你会觉得内疚吗? How guilty would we feel if we destroyed a few microbes on an anthill?
我希望你是正确的 I hope you're right.
真的 I really do.
但是 我有责任消除美国人民的任何威胁 But my job is to protect American lives from any threat
因此我必定要做最坏的打算 so I am obligated to assume the worst.
是的 我不能不同意 Yes, and I am forced to agree with you.
我的问题是这样: My problem is this:
该消息的内容在道德上最大程度也是模糊的 The content of that message is morally ambiguous at best.
我们内部研究结果显示此事的支持力相当软弱 Our internal numbers show support for this is incredibly soft.
假如总统继续如此 If the President stays this course
他的支持率就会跌到令人绝望 his numbers will be going south like ducks in winter.
真是荒唐! This is nuts!
请原谅 Excuse me
小姐 Miss.
我们根本不了解这些生物的价值观 We know nothing of these creatures' values.
我们甚至不知道他们是否信仰上帝 We don't even know whether they believe in God.
胡说八道 如果 This doesn't make any sense. If
请原谅 阿洛维博士 Excuse me, Dr. Arroway.
我们今天在此不会压制任何意见 We won't be suppressing any opinions here today.
不 当然不了 我明白 No, of course not. I understand.
我本来是说 What I meant to say
该消息是用科学语言写成的 is the message was written in the language of science.
如果它本身具有宗教性 那就应该采取必要的形式 If it was religious in nature, it should have taken the form
燃烧的山林或者天空的声音 of a burning bush or a voice from the sky.
然而 天空之声 But a voice from the sky
正是你所找到的 阿洛维博士 is exactly what you found, Doctor Arroway.
抱歉迟到了 夫人 I'm sorry I'm late, ma'am.
我同意兰克先生 不可避免地 I agree with Mr. Rank that there are unavoidable
宗教寓意是需要权衡的 religious implications at stake.
但不意味着必须杞人忧天 But that doesn't justify being an alarmist.
我希望我们能找到一个共同立场 I hope that we can find a common ground
打破相互间的隔阂 break through obstacles that may have kept us apart.
听着 我需要特别声明一点 Listen, I need to make one thing very clear.
我们决不会坐视这种奢靡的新时代的喧嚣而不理 Our organization will not be placated with flowery New Age rhetoric
总统先生! Mr. President!
总统会晤了他的高级顾问 The President met with top advisors
讨论消息解码的最新结果 regarding the latest efforts to decode the message.
取得进展的同时 政府立场依旧谨慎 While there has been some progress, the official line remains cautious.
如果您问什么时候我们 If you're asking when we'll find out
将发现机器的真实目的 what the purpose of that Machine is
也许明天 也许明年 也许永远不会 maybe tomorrow, maybe next year, maybe never.
瞧啊 掌握民族心灵脉搏的人 There he is. The man with his finger on the nation's spiritual pulse.
见到你太好了 It's so good to see you.
也高兴见到你 You too.
你的发现 包括一切 肯定是一个见证 Your discovery, all of this. It must be a real vindication.
我真为你高兴 I'm really happy for you.
是吗? Are you?
乔斯先生 总统在等您 Mr. Joss, the President's waiting.
总统等着哪 The President's waiting.
爱莉 那么招待会再见了? See you at the reception?
- 是啊 我不会错过的 - 太好了 Yeah, I wouldn't miss it.
康斯坦丝小姐 能同您说句话吗? Miss Constantine, may I speak to you?
当然可以 Certainly.
我有个大麻烦 I have a big problem.
您知道上哪儿能买到漂亮衣服吗? Do you know where I can find a really great dress?
上帝依他的形象而造人 决不是猴子的模样! God created man in the form of Himself, not in the form of monkeys!
人人务正业!不许浪费税钱! Get a job! Don't waste my tax dollars!
你很漂亮啊 爱莉 You look beautiful, Ellie.
- 你也很帅 - 我说的是大实话 - So do you. - You really do.
我读过你的书 I read your book.
又来了 Here we go.
想不想听听? You want me to quote you?
"滑稽的是 "Ironically
人们真正渴求的-- the thing people are most hungry for
--我想想-- - meaning
--是科学一直无法提供的 " - is the one thing science hasn't been able to give them."
哦 Yeah.
你听上去就像是 It's like you're saying that
科学弑神 science killed God.
要是科学揭示出 What if science simply revealed
上帝根本就不存在怎么办? that He never existed in the first place?
我们到外面去吧 I think we need to get some air.
再来几杯 And a few more of these.
谢谢 Thank you.
外面可有点冷 A little chilly out here.
啊 多美啊 Yeah, this is nice.
我想到一个绝的 I got one for you.
奥卡姆剃刀 听说过吧 Occam's Razor. Ever heard of it?
霍卡姆刀片 听起来像恐怖片 Hoccam's Razor. Sounds like some slasher movie.
不是 奥卡姆剃刀是一个基本科学原则 No, Occam's Razor is a basic scientific principle which says:
同等情况下 最简单的解释更为正确 Things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be right.
有道理 Makes sense to me.
那么哪一个更有道理呢? So what's more likely?
谢谢 Thank you.
全能的上帝创造宇宙 An all-powerful God created the universe
而不提供他存在的证据? then decided not to give any proof of His existence?
或者 Or
根本没有神 是我们创造了神 that He doesn't exist at all and that we created Him
这样我们才不觉得渺小和孤独 so we wouldn't feel so small and alone.
不知道 I don't know.
无法设想 没有神的世界我该怎么生活 I couldn't imagine living in a world where God didn't exist.
我也不想活在那样的地方 I wouldn't want to.
你怎么知道那不是自身的幻觉? How do you know you're not deluding yourself?
我是说 对我而言 I mean, for me
我需要证明 I'd need proof.
证明? Proof?
你爱你父亲吧? Did you love your father?
你爸爸 你爱他吗? Your dad, did you love him?
是啊 非常爱 Yes. Very much.
证明呢? Prove it.
肯特 Kent.
白宫 The White House.
不许开脱 我要知道谁干的 就活劈了他 No excuses. Whoever's responsible, I want their head on a platter.
出什么事了? What happened?
还是你说的对 You were right all along.
甚大天线阵的研究人员昼夜工作 The team at the VLA has worked around the clock
功夫不负有心人 and the hard work has finally paid off.
他们今晚发现了这个关键部分 CNN独家报道 This key section uncovered tonight, and obtained exclusively by CNN
显示出一个人形图像 shows an illustration of a human figure
置于某种几何结构正中 inside a geometric structure of some kind.
加上其他线索 This and other contextual clues
使科学家们相信 该信息的确是 now lead scientists to believe the message is, in fact
- 总统将召开紧急会议 - 料到了 - President called an emergency meeting. - I imagined he would.
设计成让一名人类成员进入太空 designed to take a single human occupant into space
估计前往织女星 presumably to the star Vega.
快说说 Tell me.
要开工啦 They will build it.
谁去呢? Who goes?
总统已联络国际社会分摊风险和开支-- The President's gone international to spread the risk and cost
到底谁去呀? Who goes?
那倒有点复杂 Well, it's complicated.
有一组候选人 来自各国 They have formed a group of international candidates.
是的 它是你的发现 Now, it's your discovery.
他们明白 你在极少候选人中名列前茅 They understand that. You're at the top of a very short list.
但是 他们同时成立一个提名委员会 But they're also forming a selection committee.
学者组成的 神学家 科学家 哲学家-- It's made of scholars, theologians, scientists, philosophers
你在其中喽 You're on it.
他们要我上 是的 I've been asked, yes.
那么我猜 I guess that means
由你挑选 我等着被挑剔 我们不能 that you're a selector, I'm a selectee and we can't
对 Yeah.
你不明白 爱莉 那是-- What you don't understand, Ellie, is
我懂 I understand.
爱莉 我得跟你说 不管事情如何 我这方面 I want you to know, whatever happens, as far as I'm concerned
祝你走运 Good luck.
随你怎么干 千万别让他大权独揽 Whatever you do, make sure he doesn't monopolize the committee.
他不在委员会之内 爱莉 He is not on the committee, Ellie.
他刚刚辞职 他想去 He just resigned. He wants to be the one to go.
总统已经开始觉察财政吃紧 The President is already feeling the financial pinch.
有消息说 计划总开支飞升至 Sources say the cost of the project is spiralling
三千多亿美元 to more than a third of a trillion dollars
成为人类有史以来 making this perhaps the most expensive single project
最浩大的单项工程 in all of human history.
数月来的争执终于结束了 Months of debate finally reached
上周 国际机器协会挑选了十名候选人 a conclusion last week as 10 candidates were selected by the I.M. C
代表着各种政治和宗教观点 representing a cross section of political and religious views.
很多人已经加入 Many are the same experts who have consulted
机器的设计施工 on the Machine's design and function.
他们将积极地参与现场工程 They will actively participate on-site, during the construction process.
围绕这十名候选人争议不绝 The choice of these 10 candidates has been controversial.
三分之一是美国人 One-third of the candidates are American.
很多国际观察家感到不解 And many international observers ask why.
美国政府承担了一大笔开支-- The U.S. Is shouldering a large part of the cost
是否承包商 比如哈登工业集团 Isn't it true that contractors, like Hadden Industries
以参与工程来换取技术呢? are making contributions in exchange for technology rights?
各国以多样的形式获得补偿 Different nations are being compensated in different ways.
头条新闻 日本放弃自己的候选人资格 Japan made headlines by opting to forego candidate representation
以换取系统总装合同 in exchange for the systems integration subcontract.
您选择的基础是什么 On what basis do you choose
怎样用一个人来代表整个人类? a human being to represent humanity?
问得好 拉里 Good question, Larry.
别的不说 If nothing else
这个人应该熟悉消息本身的特别语言 it should be somebody fluent in the language the message was given in.
这就是科学 Science, in this case.
阿洛维博士 尽管您如此积极 Despite your obvious enthusiasm
很多批评认为 there's been a lot of criticism
这种努力其实相当危险 that this endeavor is simply too dangerous.
一些批评来自科学家 Some of that criticism from scientists.
一位诺贝尔奖获得者评论道 下面是原话: One Nobel Prize winner noted, his words:
"各种迹象表明 "There is every indication
这超出我们的能力 如果工程失败 that this is beyond our capabilities, that this endeavor will fail
机器的乘员需以生命为代价 " and that the Machine's occupant will pay for it with his life."
您怎样回答呢? How do you respond?
发送该信息的文明也许 This message is from a civilization that may be anywhere
远远超越我们几百万乃至几十亿年 from hundreds to millions and millions of years ahead of us.
我相信如此先进的文明 I have to believe that an intelligence that advanced
是明白事理的 knows what they're doing.
那么要求我们的只是 Now all it requires on our part is
信仰吗? Faith?
我想说的是 一种冒险精神 I was going to say, a sense of adventure.
最新消息 And in breaking news
宇航员约翰·罗素 astronaut John Russell
一名领先的美国候选乘员 considered to be the leading American candidate for the Machine seat
刚退出竞争 has dropped out of the running.
罗素今天在休斯敦家中接待了记者 Russell met with reporters today at his Houston home.
我和爸爸说 我 I told my dad I didn't want him
不要他走 to go.
爸 不要走 Daddy, don't go.
没有什么能比 Nothing would give me more pride
代表我的祖国 than to
更令我骄傲 represent my country.
我又该怎么说呢? But what can I say to this?
协会负责人不愿评论 但据知情人士说 Consortium officials had no comment, but inside sources
阿洛维博士 have disclosed that Dr. Arroway
现在成为热门人选 appears to now be the front-runner for the Machine seat.
"中午见 要事相商" "Meet me at noon. Must talk."
真没想到你留那样的话 I didn't expect a message like this from you.
谢谢你应约 Thanks for coming.
通敌 这是纪律不允许的吧? Is this kosher? Fraternizing with the enemy?
选举委员与候选人互通曲款? Selectors and selectees mingling around?
谈谈爱因斯坦吧 Can we talk about Einstein?
好啊 Yeah, sure.
按照狭义相对论 这个机器 Special relativity. This Machine
如果运行正常 你将以光速前往织女星 if it works, you travel to Vega at the speed of light.
- 当你回来 - 如果能回来 - When you come back - lf you come back.
如果你回来 If you come back
你比现在大四岁 但是地球上已经过了五十多年 you'll be 4 years older, but over 50 years will have passed here on Earth.
基本上吧 Basically.
你关心的每一个人 And everybody that you care about
都不在了 死了 埋了 will be gone, dead and buried.
如果你能回来 如果你能活下来 If you came back, if you survived at all
瞧 帕尔莫 没人说这不危险哪 Look, Palmer, nobody's saying this isn't dangerous.
其他候选人连同我自己 都理解所带来的危险 The rest of the candidates and myself understand the risks we're taking.
为什么呢? Why?
这是个历史性的时刻 世界需要-- It's a historic opportunity. The world needs
你 爱莉 你自己!想想你自己 You, Ellie. You! You personally.
这样做 你愿意献出生命 By doing this, you're willing to give your life.
为这个死了都愿意 You're willing to die for it.
为什么呢? Why?
我记得 我一直在寻找 From as long as I can remember, I've been searching for
某种 something
某种我们存在的原因 我们为什么存在?我们是谁? some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
如果有机会找到哪怕是不完整的回答 If this is a chance to find out even a part of that answer
不知道 但我觉得付出生命是值得的 I don't know, I think it's worth a human life.
不是吗? Don't you?
你是个勇敢无比的女人 爱莉 You're an incredibly brave woman, Ellie.
或者说 疯子一个 Or incredibly nuts.
帕尔莫 我真的糊涂了 I'm really confused.
我也是 So am I.
我想我可以代表大家谢谢你的耐心 I think I speak for us all when I thank you for your patience.
就我自己 还有最后一个问题 阿洛维博士 Myself, I have one final question, Dr. Arroway.
如果你遇到了织女星人 If you should meet these Vegans
假设只允许问他们一个问题 and were permitted only one question to ask of them
将问什么? what would it be?
我想 那就是: I suppose it would be:
"你们怎么做的? "How did you do it?
你们怎么进化的?怎样度过技术文明的青春期 How did you evolve? How did you survive technological adolescence
而没有自我毁灭?" without destroying yourself?"
这就是我个人最希望得到回答的问题 That more than any other question is one I personally would like answered.
不错嘛 麦克 Not too bad, Mike.
与博格隆博士一样 我也 I join Dr. Bergeron
在此表达对您的耐心的谢意 阿洛维博士 in expressing thanks for your patience, Dr. Arroway.
您的坦诚和坚韧给我们 We're all impressed with your candor
留下深刻印象 and your stamina.
我想我们准备听取您的总结发言 I think we're ready to move on to your final statement.
尊敬的主席 我还有一个问题 I have one more question.
请讲 乔斯先生 Yes, Mr. Joss.
您是否认为自己 Would you consider yourself
是一个高尚的人? a spiritual person?
我不明白问题的意义? I don't understand the point of the question.
我认为自己是有道德感的 I consider myself a moral person.
那个自然了 不过 实际上乔斯先生问的是-- We're sure that's the case, but what Mr. Joss is in fact asking
您信仰上帝吗?阿洛维博士 Do you believe in God?
作为一名科学家 As a scientist
我依赖于经验证据 就此事而言 I rely on empirical evidence, and in this matter
我相信尚未有证据证实或否定 I don't believe that there's data either way.
那么 您的回答实际上就是:您不相信上帝 So your answer would in fact be that you don't believe in God.
我是不理解问题本身究竟有什么意义 I don't understand the relevance of the question.
阿洛维博士 世界上百分之九十五的人 95% of the world's population
相信某种形式的超然存在 believes in a Supreme Being in one form or another.
因此我觉得这个问题比什么都更有意义 I believe that makes the question more than relevant.
我相信 I believe
我相信我已经回答了这个问题 I believe I've already answered that question.
作为这个物种 也作为一个文明的一员 I'm proud of what we've achieved as a species
我为我们的成就而自豪 and as a civilization.
我会痛恨我们在最后一刻 I would hate to see everything we stand for
背叛千百世代以来为之奋斗的 all that we have fought for for a thousand generations
上帝所赐予我们的 all that God has blessed us with
一切 betrayed
仅仅因为我们挑选的代表不能够 in the final hour because we sent a representative who did not put our
把我们所珍惜的信仰置于优先 most cherished beliefs first.
谢谢大家 Thank you.
你为什么那么干? Why'd you do it?
我们的工作是使选出的人可以代表全体 Our job was to select someone to speak for everybody.
良心使我不能把票投给 I couldn't in good conscience vote for a person
不相信上帝的人 who doesn't believe in God.
而且这个人 Someone who
认真地相信我们当中百分之九十五 honestly thinks the other 95% of us
受到某种集体幻觉的折磨 suffer from some form of mass delusion.
我讲的是事实 I told the truth up there.
而德鲁姆林专挑你们爱听的说 Drumlin told you exactly what you wanted to hear.
我诚惶诚恐并且感激不尽地 With full humility and utmost gratitude
在此接受这一巨大荣誉 I accept this great honor
我起誓 全心全意服务祖国 and I promise I will do my best to represent my nation
为了这个星球和上帝 my planet and my God on this historic
开始这一历史性的征途 journey.
我表示由衷的感激 I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
坎纳维拉尔角洋溢着狂欢节气氛 There's a carnival atmosphere at Cape Canaveral
国际机器协会 as the International Machine Consortium
戴维·德鲁姆林博士担任现场负责人 David Drumlin is supervising the on-site portion of the test.
今天早些时候我们采访了他本人 We spoke with him earlier today.
使用机器人 我们就能够监测张力和其他效应 We'll be able to monitor the stresses and effects using the robot passenger
我们亲切地叫它埃尔莫 who we lovingly call Elmer.
记者要问您一些问题 The press wants to ask you a few questions
紧接德鲁姆林博士之后 as soon as they're done with Dr. Drumlin.
一旦座舱被释放 预期将有大量能量释放出来 When we release the pod, a substantial amount of energy will be generated.
使用机器人 我们就能够监测张力和其他效应 We'll be able to monitor the stresses and effects
我们亲切地叫它 using our robot passenger, who we
埃尔莫 Iovingly call Elmer.
谢谢您 Thank you.
很荣幸 You're welcome.
那边已经准备好了 They're ready for you out at the site.
好 稍等一下 Yeah, just a minute.
- 祝贺您了 - 真高兴你能来 - Congratulations. - Glad you could come.
有点意外呢 Didn't expect to see you here.
噢 我只不过 Well, I'm still
在控制中心充当总调度员 Crew Ops at the Control Center.
既然消息本来是我找到的 也许 他们认为我尚有一些公关价值吧 I suppose the fact that I discovered the message means I have PR value.
当然喽 Of course.
我明白 你觉得这特别不公道 I know you must think this is all very unfair.
也许我过于轻描淡写 And maybe that's an understatement.
你不会懂 我同意你的看法的 What you don't know is, I agree.
我也指望这个世道讲求公平 I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line
那样呢 你在听证会上显示的理想主义可以得到回报 where the idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded
而不是被利用 not taken advantage of.
不幸哪 我们都生活在现实当中 Unfortunately, we don't live in that world.
有意思 Funny
我原本相信现实是人创造的 I always believed the world is what we make of it.
抱歉!德鲁姆林博士? Excuse me!
祝你一帆风顺 Good luck on the test.
谢谢 Thank you.
测试总指挥 Test director
一切正常 准备启动 everything looks good. Ready to go.
我要求一切都要检查再三 I want things double and triple checked here.
我们只能干一次 要弄得漂亮 We only get one shot at this. Let's get it right.
女士们先生们 准备启动了 Ladies and gentlemen,we are ready for start-up.
全体注意 试验即将启动 向我报告是或否 All controllers, I need a go-no-go for test initiation.
- 机械? - 是! - Mechanical? - Go.
电气? Electrical?
动力? Dynamics?
通讯? Communications?
座舱系统? Pod systems?
保安? Safety?
总调度员 请核对所有试验预前程序是否完成 Crew Ops, verify all pre-test procedures are complete.
是的 已核实 本部门批准 Yes, verified. I'm go.
发射台长 一切正常吗? Pad Leader, is everything okay with you?
听到 发射台预备 Roger. The pad is a go.
试验启动 听我号令 Test initiation, on my mark.
五 5
四 4
三 3
二 2
一 1.
启动 Mark.
- 试验开始 - 转环解锁 - Test start. - Rings are unlocked.
动力级进度显示良好 Power levels show a good start.
试验已经开始了 We've begun the test of
这是地球上第一次尝试来自太空近邻的知识 earth's first system built by sharing knowledge with a neighbor in space.
所有动力源接入核心线圈 All power sources on core induction bus.
人员运送舱动力传输 IPV power transfer.
转环状态检测 幺 两 三 Ring motion detect. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie.
- 杰里 情况如何? - 不错 挺顺利 - Gerry, how are we looking? - Looks good. We're underway.
看起来这个起头搞得不错 Looks like a normal start-up.
听到 戴维 这里一切正常 Roger, David. It's looking good here.
我们即将开始座舱释放程序 We are moments away from the initiation of the drop sequence.
全体系统正常 All systems are go.
- 机械 还好吗? - 收到 - Mechanical, you still happy? - Roger.
太令人激动了 It's very exciting
站这儿瞧过去 from up here.
我们的读数是百分之四 We've got 4%.
百分之四 确认 We're confirming 4%.
频率九点八五 Frequency 9.85.
谐波正常 Harmonics in the green.
加速度一点一 G-level 1.1.
- 百分之五 - 是的 我们的读数百分之五 - 5%. - Confirmed. We are at 5%.
戴维 你看事情如何? David, how's it looking to you?
行啊 我这就转一圈让你们都看看 Okay. I'm going to take a look and show you what we got.
设备运行良好 Instrumentation looks good.
德鲁姆林博士的随身摄像机送来清晰图像 We have a good picture from Dr. Drumlin's PRD.
希望你们大家都能看见 Hope you guys are seeing what I'm seeing.
全部系统正常 All systems are go.
真了不起! This is really something!
为了试验 For purposes of this test
德鲁姆林博士将站在机器上方龙门吊车的起重臂上 Dr. Drumlin will be on top of the Gantry crane that's over the Machine.
我们这里有一个动画演示 We've got some video animation
该机器 在我们看来 应该如何运转 to show just how this Machine it is thought will work.
乘员座舱首先释放 The passenger pod will release.
它将通过各转环的中心掉入机器的内核部分 It will come down through the center of the rings and into the Machine's core.
大家都在问一个问题 The question everyone here is asking is
然后那会怎么样呢? what happens then?
一些人相信 转环的作用是某种加速器或类似的东西 Some believe the rings function as some sort of an accelerator or something
向座舱传送能量 sending its energy into the pod
使它以近光速飞出去 making it rocket away at near light speed.
也有人认为它可能打开一个通向其他维度空间的通道 Others believe it might open up a doorway to some other dimension.
谁说得对呢? Who's right?
这就是今天的试验要解决的 That's what today's test is all about.
- 百分之三十五 - 各系统如何? - 35%. - Subsystems ready?
百分之四十匀加速 40% normal acceleration.
确认百分之四十 Confirm 40%.
各控制员注意了 准备启动释放程序 Controllers stand by to initiate drop sequence
听我号令 on my mark.
全部系统预备 All systems ready for drop sequence.
百分之四十五 45%.
读数百分之四十五核实 We're in 45%.
检查座舱密封 Verify closure.
百分之四十六 46.
全体控制员预备启动乘员座舱释放程序 听我号令 All controllers stand by to initiate IPV drop sequence. On my mark.
百分之四十八 48%.
总指挥 我感觉到一点奇怪的振动 I'm feeling a very strange vibration.
- 你们下面能感觉到吗? - 杰里 你能核实吗? - Are you feeling it down there? - Gerry, can you confirm?
看上去挺正常的 Everything looks good.
总调度员? Crew Ops?
没什么不对的地方 Nothing wrong.
我们没有发现异常 We see nothing abnormal here.
不行 程序暂停 我要亲自检查 No good. Hold sequence. I'll take a direct reading.
他都说些什么呀? What's he talking about?
忘记"出风头"这个词了? Can anyone say grandstanding?
他当然知道自己正上电视嘛! He sure knows he's on TV!
我们家乡有个说法:得意忘形 Back home that's what we call an overcooked ham.
我的读数是十千赫! I'm reading 10 kilohertz!
你的一级和二级加速度值是多少? What do you read on the first and second order G-levels?
加速度正常! G-levels are right on!
我们已确认德鲁姆林博士的数据 程序继续 We confirm Drumlin's readings. All normal. We're go.
我想什么事也没有 不过 还是让他自己来了账吧 I think we're okay, but we'll let him finish.
- 机械 情况还好吗? - 收到 再好没有了 - Mechanical, you still okay? - Roger. Right on the money.
保安出问题了! Security problem!
爱莉 肯定吗? Ellie, are you sure?
他不应该在场 我认得他 He shouldn't be there. I know him.
杰里 执行快速终止程序 Gerry, execute the rapid shutdown sequence.
保安 出动应急部队赶到现场 Security, move emergency response team into position.
给德鲁姆林接上保密回路 Get Drumlin on a secure loop.
行了 You got him.
- 听得见吗? - 是的 听见了 - Can you hear me? - Yes, I hear.
出现保安漏洞 We've got a security breach here.
在你身后 Behind you.
就是那高个子 The tall guy.
那个技术员 The technician.
看见他了? See him?
他不应该在场 He shouldn't be there.
他手里有东西! Something's in his hand!
就是他!抓住他!安全警报! Him! Take him! Security breach!
炸弹! A bomb!
我要求应急部队马上到达塔吊顶部 I want that emergency response team up on the gantry. Now!
一级戒备! Stage One Alert!
消防 救援人员进入临战状态 Move all fire and rescue personnel into position one.
好了 返回各自岗位 All right, back to your stations.
我要求你们表现出专业素质 镇静! I need you to be professional. Settle down!
发射台长 收到回话? Pad Leader, do you copy?
这是今天早些时候的图像 当时德鲁姆林博士 The scene earlier today, when David Drumlin
两任总统的顾问 advisor to two Presidents
科学院终身成就奖获得者 and winner of the National Academy of Sciences lifetime award
被安葬于阿林顿国家公墓 was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
相关报道里 In a related story
什么事? Can I help you?
我有一些你的邮件 I've got some mail for you.
这可能是恐怖分子留下的遗书 现在相信 the apparent suicide note of the terrorist now believed responsible
他是本周早些时候佛罗里达爆炸事件的肇事者 for the explosion in Florida this week.
我们怎么 What we do
才能为全人类谋福利 we do for the goodness of all mankind.
这个不会被理解的 现在不行 This won't be understood, not now
然而将来的启示录 but the Apocalypse to come
会验证我们的信仰 will vindicate our faith.
欢迎回家 Welcome home.
阿洛维同志 Comrade Arroway
我们一直在等待您的电话 请稍等 we have been expecting your call. One moment, please.
哈登先生? Mr. Hadden?
博士! Doctor!
接到电话倍感荣幸 How kind of you to call.
哈登先生 您在哪儿? Mr. Hadden, where are you?
俄国政府慷慨地为我提供了"和平号"上面的一个舱位 The Russian government was kind enough to give me accommodations on Mir.
您住在太空站里? You're living on a space station?
简单得很 真的 It's quite simple, really.
低氧 零重力环境 The low oxygen, zero gravity environment
才使我不致死于癌症 is the only thing keeping the cancer from eating me alive.
实际上呢 这地方挺好的 Actually, I quite like it up here.
从我的小房间看出去 风景别致呀 My little room has one hell of a view.
我给你看一样东西 I want to show you something.
北海道岛 Hokkaido Island.
系统总装场 The systems integration site.
看仔细一点 Look closer.
政府开销的第一原则: First rule in government spending:
既然可以要双份工钱 为什么只干一份活呢? Why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
唯独 这一个可以保密 Only, this one can be kept secret.
美国人控制 Controlled by Americans
日本人分包承建 built by Japanese subcontractors
而承包商碰巧 who also happen to be
刚被收购 recently acquired
成为全资分公司 wholly-owned subsidiaries
被哈登工业集团收购 of Hadden Industries.
他们仍然希望一名美国人前往呢 博士 They still want an American to go, Doctor.
想不想跑一趟? Want to take a ride?
我们在安全带和 Augmenting our restraint and
通讯控制台子系统之外 communications console subsystem
加装了你的个人摄像器 is your personal recording unit.
普通 红外和紫外镜头 Normal, infrared and ultraviolet lenses.
数字芯片可存储数千小时 Digital microchip good for thousands of hours of recording.
好吧 瞧 我理解 Okay, look, I understand
全程录像和记录的理由 the reason for recording and documenting the mission.
但我要再次正式声明 But I just want to go on record one more time.
收到的数据里丝毫没有提到椅子 The transmitted specs never said anything about any chair
或者任何固定装置 or a restraining harness
也没有救生设备 or survival gear.
我们为什么不能信任原始 Why can't we just trust the original
博士 国际机器协会执委会连同科学调查组研究了有关材料 Doctor, both the IMC Board and the SI team reviewed the material
得出结论 该设计产生的影响可以忽略 and concluded that the design impact is negligible.
最基本的原则是 Bottom line is
任何人都不能进入机器里面 we're not putting anyone aboard this Machine
除非存在某种最低限度的保护措施 unless there is some sort of minimal protection.
不容争议 End of story.
自空间计划开始 我们就给宇航员这玩意儿 We've given these to the astronauts since the start of the space program.
当然了 从未公开 It's never been made public, of course.
快速 无痛苦 It's fast and it's painless.
我跑二十六光年去自杀吗? I'm going to travel 26 light years to commit suicide?
也许会出岔子 Something may go wrong.
也许是不可预见的机械故障 There may be an unforeseen mechanical failure.
你可能被滞留 无法返回 You could be marooned, unable to return.
我们有成千个理由让你带上这个 There are 1,000 reasons we can think of to have this
但主要是对付那些我们无法想象的原因 but mostly it's for the reasons we can't think of.
进来 Come in.
阿洛维博士 时间到了 Dr. Arroway, time to get ready.
谢谢 Thank you.
我理解时间紧迫 I know there's not much time.
我一知道这事就打电话给总统 As soon as I found out about it, I called the President.
我跟克茨一起来的 I came with Kitz.
我想再见你一面 I had to see you one more time.
哦 天哪 我要道歉 Oh, God, I'm sorry.
不 你能来我很高兴 No, I'm glad you came.
我有话和你说 There's something I got to say to you.
尽管我投票反对你的理由充分 但那不是真正的理由 The reason I didn't vote for you was a good one, but not the real one.
我反对你前去 I didn't vote for you to go
是因为我不想失去你 because I don't want to lose you.
记着回家的路 好吗? Now you find your way home, all right?
二十三小时以前 整个世界 23 hours ago, the world
震惊地获悉第二部机器的存在 was stunned by the announcement of the existence of another Machine
并且 乘员将是伊琳娜·安·阿洛维 and its passenger, Eleanor Ann Arroway.
现在 Now
每个人都在寻思: the question that's on everyone's mind:
历史会重演吗? Will history repeat itself?
如此复杂的工程制品 With a piece of engineering this complex
如此多的未知数 会发生不测吗? with so many unknowns, could the unthinkable occur?
北海道的保安极为严密 The security in Hokkaido has been incredibly tight.
迄今尚无记者获准接近现场 No reporters whatsoever have been allowed near the site.
安全带固定 生命维持系统正常 Restraint secure. Life support functions normal.
明白 Roger.
这是指挥部 听到了吗? This is Control. Do you copy?
非常清楚 Reading you five-by-five.
给我接爱莉的随身摄影机 Give me Ellie's PRD.
开始记录 传送图像 Video unit recording and transmitting.
- 看得到吗? - 完全正常 - Are you reading me? - That's affirmative.
图像清晰 Video looks good.
明白 指挥部 Copy, Control.
爱莉 我们要将你封闭了 Ellie, we're going to proceed to button you up.
等候指令 I'm ready.
核实跳板回收 Confirming walkway retraction.
- 通讯? - 预备 - Communications? - Go.
- 生命维持? - 预备 - Life support? - Go.
爱莉 开始密封了 We are go for closure.
我已预备 I'm go here.
机械 启动成员舱密封程序 Mechanical, initiate IPV closure sequence.
这里有把椅子 Let me get you a chair.
- 克茨先生 很愉快再次闻到您同样荣幸 - It's nice to smell you again, Mr. Kitz. - You too.
就没指望他能用Polo香水 Wouldn't peg him as a Polo man.
我可以看见门了 I got a visual on the door.
门正常关闭 The door is looking good.
门檐密合正常 Door alignment looks good.
所有系统正常 We're green across the board.
收到 指挥部 乘员舱正常 Copy that, Control. IPV is secure.
当前读数百分之三十 We are at 30%.
收到 百分之三十 Copy that, 30%.
情况如何? How you doing in there?
肯特? Kent?
是你吗? Is that you?
完完全全正确 That's a big affirmative.
谁带你进来的? Who let you in there?
高规格干预 A higher power intervened.
真高兴你来这儿 I'm glad you came.
百分之三十五 35%.
收到 百分之三十五 Copy that, 35%.
- 机械? - 正常 - Mechanical? - We're good.
百分之四十 40%.
感觉到轻微振动 I'm picking up a moderate vibration.
动力 你们能否核实振动? Dynamics, can you confirm vibration?
看上去正常 It looks good here.
她也感觉到了 和坎纳维拉尔那次一样 She's feeling the same thing they felt at the Cape.
振动是正常的 Vibration's normal.
读数百分之五十 全部系统运行合格 We are at 50%. All systems nominal.
收到 百分之五十 Copy that, 50%.
振动加强了 Vibration's a little stronger now.
可以检测到一点低频噪音 We're picking up some low frequency noise.
机械 请核对 Mechanical, confirm?
没问题 It looks fine to me.
明白 杰里 你怎么看? Roger. Jerry, what do you think?
可以继续 I'm still go.
各位 按计划进行 People, we are still go.
新的现象出现了 Something's happening.
你们看到光线了吗? You see that light?
我看到-- I'm seeing
无法辨别是否阳光 I can't tell if it's daylight.
又看到了 来自下方 There it is again. It's coming from the bottom.
你们瞧着 看得见吗? Let me show you. See that?
不能 你的信号受到干扰 Negative. You're breaking up.
- 能够增益吗? - 已经是最大值了 - Can we boost signal? - It's at maximum.
百分之六十五 65%.
物质正在改变 The material is changing.
边沿半透明 系统完整 It's bordering on translucence. The system's intact.
可能是 It has to be
某种电磁场 some kind of electromagnetic field.
你们看得到吗? Do you read this?
只有干扰信号 We see only interference.
正在变得半透明 It's becoming translucent.
无法描述 更无法解释! I can't describe it. I can't even explain it!
百分之七十 70%.
注意了 通讯受阻 但是维持原方案! We have intermittent comm, but we are go!
启动次级推进系统 Initiate secondary drive systems.
助推器程序启动 Initiating auxiliary booster sequence.
准备点火 We're go for ignition.
助推器点火 We have auxiliary ignition.
生命维持 她的状况如何? Life support, how is she?
心跳和呼吸剧烈 但处于安全范围 Heart and respiration are high but within limits.
爱莉 收到吗? Ellie, do you copy?
如果收到 If you hear
我完成准备 I am okay to go.
百分之八十 80%.
振动和加速度都在正常值 All vibration and G-levels are in the green.
指挥部 如果收到 Control, if you're reading me
我完成准备! I am okay to go! Okay to go!
百分之八十五 85%.
全部指示值符合原计划 All tips are on the profile.
百分之九十 检测到结构失稳 90%. We're detecting some structural instability.
- 顶得住吗? - 勉强保持在安全限度 - Is she holding? - We're within limits, barely.
我完成准备! I'm okay to go!
老天爷! My God!
完成准备! Okay to go!
预备! I'm okay!
达到百分之百预定速度值 100% target velocity.
史蒂夫 机器周围电磁干扰极强!现场指示值全部超出量程 Tremendous EMI levels around Machine! Field measurements are off-scale.
就要达到试验中止极限了 We're approaching our abort limits.
完成准备 Okay to go.
听到啦! I hear her!
我听到了 很弱 但的确是她 I hear her. Barely, but she's there.
完成准备 Okay to go.
她说她完成准备 Says she's okay to go.
史蒂夫 很玄哪 Steve, we're real close.
- 机器内部情况如何? - 内部环境正常 - Your core reading? - Internal environment looks normal.
机器内部天气晴朗 Inside the core, the weather's beautiful.
我完成准备 I'm okay to go.
启动释放程序 Initiate drop sequence.
听我号令 On my mark.
十 10
九 9
八 8
七 7
六 6
五 5
四 4
三 3
二 2
我完成准备 I'm okay to go.
噢 天哪! Oh, God!
爱莉呼叫指挥部 Ellie to Control.
爱莉呼叫指挥部 听得见吗! Ellie to Control, do you read me!
我将尽力 I'll try
记录! to keep recording!
我正在通过 I'm going through
某种隧道! some kind of a tunnel!
前方出现光源! There's a light source ahead!
是明亮的 Brilliant
蓝白色 blue-white.
是残余辐射吗? Residual radiation?
那是颗星星 It's a star.
我一定是 I must have
经过了一个蛀洞 gone through a wormhole.
那是织女星! It's Vega!
再次进入一个蛀洞! I'm in another wormhole now!
我不懂! I had no idea!
一个接一个! A series of them!
他们是有生命的 They're alive.
这好像 It's like
是一种运输系统 some kind of a transit system.
地铁! A subway!
噢 天哪! Oh, God!
我得继续说话 I have to keep talking.
那是一个三重 It's a triple
不 是一个四重星系 no, a quadruple system.
多美丽啊! Beautiful!
他们都是有生命的! They're alive!
又一个蛀洞! Another wormhole!
这一次剧烈得多! This one's much more violent!
种种 Some
仙境奇观 celestial event
没有! No!
没有语言! No words!
没有语言 No words
可以形容! to describe it!
只有诗歌! Poetry!
也许应该 They should have sent
让一位诗人来到这里 a poet.
如此的壮丽! It's so beautiful!
壮丽! Beautiful!
如此壮丽 So beautiful.
我不能解释 I had no idea.
嗨 火花儿 Hi, Sparks.
爸爸? Dad?
我想你 I missed you.
你不是--? Aren't you?
抱歉我不能在你身边 宝贝 I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you, sweetheart.
你不是真实的 You're not real.
这些都不是真实的! None of this is real!
这才是我的科学家 That's my scientist.
我失去知觉的时候 你们下载了我的思维和记忆 When I was unconscious, you downloaded my thoughts, my memories.
彭萨科拉! Pensacola!
我们原以为这样安排会让你轻松一些 We thought it might make things easier for you.
你们为什么联络我们? Why did you contact us?
是你们联络我们的 You contacted us.
我们只不过聆听而已 We were just listening.
还有其他的? There are others?
许许多多 Many others.
它们都 They all
通过那个你们建造的运输系统来到这里? travel here through that transit system you built?
不是我们建造的 We didn't build it.
我们不知道谁建造的 We don't know who did.
早在我们来到以前 他们就离开了 They were gone long before we ever got here.
也许有一天他们会回来的 Maybe someday they'll come back.
你们发现的所有文明都会来到这里吗? All the civilizations you find come here?
并非所有的 Not all.
- 这是某种测验吗? - 不 不是测验 - Is this some test? - No, no test.
你的手和你妈妈的一模一样 You have your mother's hands.
你们这个物种很有意思 You're an interesting species
一个有意思的复合体 an interesting mix.
你们有如此美丽的幻想 You're capable of such beautiful dreams
和那样恐怖的噩梦 and such horrible nightmares.
你们感到如此迷茫 You feel so lost
如此隔绝 如此孤独 so cut off, so alone.
其实并不是的 Only you're not.
所有的探索中 In all our searching
我们发现 要忍受这种空虚 all we've found that makes the emptiness bearable
只有相互依靠 is each other.
现在该怎么办? What happens now?
现在吗? Now?
你回家去 You go home.
回家? Home?
可是 But
我有那么多问题 I have so many questions.
我们能回来吗? Do we get to come back?
这只是第一步 This was just a first step.
将来 你们会再迈出一步 In time, you'll take another.
可是其他人也需要看到我看到的这一切-- But other people need to see what I've seen
亿万年以来 事情就是如此的 This is the way it's been done for billions of years.
慢慢来 爱莉 Small moves, Ellie.
慢慢来 Small moves.
我们得到爱莉的图像了! We've got video on Ellie!
她掉下去了!她在安全网里面 She's through! She is in the net.
她活着 马上接通总统电话! She's alive. Get the President on the phone!
事情怎么样?她怎么样? What's going on? How is she?
爱莉 这是指挥部 你收到吗? Ellie, this is Control. You copy?
- 出什么事了? - 不知道 - What's going on? - I don't know.
- 她还活着 - 把她接到广播上面 - She's alive. - Put her on P.A.
爱莉 耐心等候 Ellie, hold on tight.
我们仍然在检查失控的原因 We're still trying to determine the nature of the malfunction
重要的是 你没出事 but the important thing is you're okay.
什么? What?
不必担心 It's all right.
重要的是你目前很安全 The important thing is you're safe.
什么失控? What malfunction?
出什么事了? What happened?
今天是哪一天? What day is this?
抱歉 I'm sorry.
你是问哪一天吗? Did you say what day?
我离开多久了? How long was I gone?
乘员舱直接穿过机器 The IPV dropped straight through the Machine.
你哪儿都没去 You didn't go anywhere.
可我的确 But I did.
我的确去过的 I did go.
我一直就这么跟大家说的 That's what I've tried to tell everyone.
但是什么图像都没有记录下来? But the headset didn't record a single image?
只有这个 Just this.
静电噪音 Static.
谢谢 Thank you.
我再让你看看我们所看到的 Let me show you what we saw.
四十三部独立遥控摄像机的记录完全相同 43 separate remote cameras show exactly the same event.
乘员舱直接就掉了下来 每个人看到的 The IPV dropped straight through. Everyone saw exactly
都完全相同 the same thing.
什么事都没有发生 Nothing happened.
你怎么解释呢 博士? How do you explain this, Doctor?
我不能解释 I can't.
我要敦促你们 I'd encourage you
不要渲染具体事件 not to inflame this situation
以至失实 beyond the facts.
让我们就事论事 Let us deal with this on the facts.
我们一直在监视实际发生的事情 We are monitoring what has actually happened.
我们采取的是我们认为 We are taking what we believe are factually
切合实际的步骤 appropriate steps.
混乱的指责与反指责局面已经 Amid a flurry of accusations and counter-accusations
使参与机器协会的各国都卷入其中 by the nations representing the Machine Consortium
总统下令对此展开特别调查 the President has ordered a special inquiry.
但是 业已辞去国家安全顾问的麦克尔·克茨 But the appointment to the committee of Michael Kitz
被任命为调查委员之一 who has resigned as National Security Advisor
此事引起国会的质疑 has raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill.
我尚未决定竞选国会议席 也未宣布计划参选 I have made no decision to run for Congress, announced no candidacy.
我辞去国家安全顾问的职务 I resigned as National Security Advisor
是为了全身心地投入调查工作 in order to devote all of my energy to this inquiry.
世界人民有权了解事实真相 The people of the world have a right to know what really happened.
然而 所有科学设备都证实 Yet every scientific instrument confirms
乘员舱失去联络的时间不到一秒钟 the IPV was out of contact for only a fraction of a second.
不是吗 博士? Isn't that correct, Doctor?
不到地球时间的一秒钟 是这样 A fraction of a second Earth time, yes.
地球时间? Earth time?
参议员 我相信该机器当时造成了一个蛀洞 Senator, I believe that the Machine opened up a wormhole
一个穿越时空的隧道 那也叫做"爱因斯坦-罗森"桥 a tunnel through space-time, also known as an Einstein-Rossen Bridge.
根据广义相对论效应 我所经历的十八个小时 Due to the effect of general relativity,what I experienced as 18 hours
在地球上只不过是一瞬间 passed instantaneously on Earth.
蛀洞无非是理论推测 不是吗? Isn't it true these wormholes are merely theoretical predictions?
且毫无证据表明它们的存在? There is no evidence they actually exist?
尚无直接证据 对的 There is no direct evidence, no.
请告诉我 Tell me
这些外星人找这么多麻烦干吗? why would these aliens go to all this trouble?
带你穿越数千光年 然后让你空着手回家 Bring you thousands of light years, then send you home without proof?
他们说 亿万年来事情就是如此 They said it's how it's been done for billions of years.
你没有证据 因为他们不希望这样 You have no proof because they didn't want you to have any.
心理学界定义了一个现象:自强化妄想症 A phenomenon known in psychiatric circles as a self-reinforcing delusion.
你说我有妄想症? You think I was delusional?
我的确认为你可能患有某种症状 是的 I do think you may have suffered some kind of an episode. Yes, I do.
我打算提出另一个假说 I'd like to propose an alternate hypothesis
并且希望你能够科学地加以分析 and I'd like you to bring your scientific expertise to bear on it.
若要伪造来自织女星的信号 To fake a signal from Vega
你需要些什么? what would you need?
需要一颗卫星来传送信号 不过那不可能-- You'd need a satellite to transmit it, but it would be impossible to
需要的是一颗卫星及发射能力将其送入轨道 You'd need a satellite and launch capabilities to orbit it.
至于信息本身 为了编造这些 And the message itself. To put something like this together
这样复杂 要求跨学科的 so complex, drawing on many disciplines
不可能吗? Would be impossible.
不可能吗? Impossible?
就没人能够达到这个要求吗? Is there anyone who might have been up to the challenge?
比如某人 具备高超技术知识 Someone with extraordinary technical expertise
巨大的经济实力 enormous financial resources
兼性格乖僻 足以构思这样的主意 someone perverse enough, eccentric enough to come up with the idea?
哈登? Hadden?
S·R·哈登 S. R. Hadden.
你是说这是 You're implying that this was
是一个骗局? 是他编造的? some kind of a hoax? That he engineered this?
S·R·哈登 S. R. Hadden
一个传奇般的政治掮客 为自我不朽所下的最后赌注 a legendary power broker in perhaps his final bid for immortality.
也许是为了开发新技术 Maybe he wanted to exploit new technologies
却让各国政府掏腰包 having world governments pick up the tab.
也许是最后的利他主义姿态 Perhaps this was his final altruistic gesture
以联合全世界追求一个共同目标 也许 上述全部 to unite the world in some common goal. Maybe all of the above.
S·R·哈登 是杰出的 S. R. Hadden, a brilliant
也是复杂的一个人 and complicated man.
博士 你是否熟悉这样一个概念 Doctor, are you familiar with the scientific precept
所谓的"奥卡姆剃刀"? known as Occam's Razor?
了解的 Yes.
那是说最简单的解释往往是正确的 It means the simplest explanation generally tends to be the right one.
正是如此 Exactly.
请告诉我 对此 哪一个更正确呢? You tell me. What is more likely here?
来自外星人的消息造就一台魔术机器 A message from aliens results in a magical machine
把你带到银河系的中央 that whisks you to the center of the galaxy
和父亲一起兜风 眨眼之间 to windsurf with Dad and a split second later
送你回到地球 却没有丝毫证据? returns you home without a single shred of proof?
或者 你的经历不过是 Or that your experience is the result of being
作为一名天真的演员 参加S·R·哈登的 the unwitting star in the farewell performance of one
告别演出? S.R. Hadden?
这样一个人 既有能力也有动机来捉弄你以及我们大家 A man with the means and motive to play you and all of us
成为有史以来最为高明 最为昂贵的骗局的牺牲品 as pawns in the most elaborate, most expensive hoax of all time?
你没有给我们带来证据 也没有录像 You come to us with no evidence, no records
更没有人工制品 no artifacts
只有一个 宽容地说 可信度很成问题的故事 only a story that, to put it mildly, strains credibility.
开支超过五千亿美元 Over half a trillion dollars were spent.
数十人丧命 Dozens of lives were lost.
你就坐那儿跟我们说 Are you going to sit there and tell us we should just take this all
为一个信仰接受这一切? on faith?
请回答问题 博士 Please answer the question, Doctor.
是不是可能那根本没有发生过? Is it possible that it didn't happen?
是的 Yes.
作为科学家我必须承认 必须自愿承认这一点 As a scientist I must concede that. I must volunteer that.
让我直说了吧 Let me get this straight.
你承认 你没有客观证据支持你的说法? You admit you have no physical evidence to back up your story?
我承认 Yes.
你承认这一切都是你的幻觉喽? You admit you may have hallucinated this whole thing?
你承认 假设你居于我们的地位 You admit if you were in our position
也同样对此表示怀疑? you would be as incredulous and skeptical as we?
那么 为什么你不干脆撤回证词 并承认 Then why don't you simply withdraw your testimony and concede
前往银河系中心的旅行根本就不曾发生过? that this journey to the center of the galaxy never took place?
因为我不能 Because I can't.
我有这样的经历 I had an experience.
我无法证实它 也无法解释 I can't prove it. I can't even explain it.
但是作为人类的一员 我全身心感觉到的 But everything I know as a human being, everything I am
都告诉我那是真实的 tells me it was real.
我被赐予这样美妙的东西 它将改变我的一切 I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever.
一个预见 A vision
关于宇宙的预见 of the universe
肯定地告诉我们 that tells us undeniably
我们是何等地渺小和微不足道 how tiny and insignificant
然而我们又是何等地稀罕和珍贵 and how rare and precious we all are.
一个预见 我们属于这样的事物 A vision that tells us that we belong to something
它比我们自身更伟大 它使无人再感到孤单 that is greater than ourselves, that none of us are alone.
我希望我能与人分享 I wish I could share that.
我希望 I wish
每个人 即使短暂 that everyone, if even for one
一瞬 moment
可以感觉到 could feel
那畏惧 卑微以及希望 that awe and humility and hope.
这 将一直是我的愿望 That continues to be my wish.
阿洛维博士 拍张照行吗? Dr. Arroway, can I get a picture, please.
乔斯神父! Reverend Joss!
您相信的是什么?! What do you believe?!
作为具有信仰的人 我所奉行的与阿洛维博士不同 As a person of faith, I'm bound by a different covenant than Dr. Arroway.
但是我们拥有一个共同的目标 But our goal is one and the same.
寻求真理 The pursuit of truth.
我 是相信她的 I, for one, believe her.
现在怎么办呢?授给她勋章吗? So what happens now? We give her a medal?
我觉得 至少要给一大笔经费吧 I'd say at least a healthy grant.
你看过调查委员会的秘密报告吧? You read the confidential report from the investigating committee?
翻过一遍 I flipped through it.
有关阿洛维博士的摄像机那一节 令我非常感兴趣 I was very interested in the section on Arroway's video unit.
记录下静电噪音的那一个 The one that recorded the static.
说下去 Continue.
我感兴趣的倒不是它记录了静电噪音这一事实 The fact that it recorded static isn't what interests me.
说下去 Continue.
令我感兴趣的 What interests me
是它记录了大约十八个小时的静电噪音 is that it recorded approximately 18 hours of it.
真有意思 不是吗? That is interesting, isn't it?
大家看到了 那边正在建造四十五台全新的天线 And you can see over there, we're building 45 brand new dishes.
就是说 把它们与世界上 That means when you put them together with all the radio telescopes
各式各样的射电望远镜组合起来 all over the world
我们将能够听到太空深处前所未闻的声音 we'll hear farther into space than anyone has ever heard before.
宇宙里还有其他的人吗? Are there other people out there in the universe?
问得好 That's a good question.
你怎么想呢? What do you think?
我不知道 I don't know.
回答正确 That's a good answer.
怀疑论者 是吧? Skeptic, huh?
重要的是 大家都要自己寻找答案 The important thing is that you all keep searching for your own answers.
不过 关于宇宙倒有一样 One thing about the universe, though.
宇宙 The universe
是相当大的 is a pretty big place.
大过任何东西 It's bigger than anything
任何人都想不出那有多大 anyone has ever dreamed of before.
那么 假如里面只有我们 So if it's just us
那就太浪费地方了 it seems like an awful waste of space.
对吗? Right?