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Ig Nobel Prize
搞笑的諾貝爾獎
Some people covet it, others flee from it. Some laugh with it, others laugh at it. Many praise it, a few criticize it, others are just confused.
有些人企圖得到它，有些人對它避之不及。有些人和它一起笑，有些人嘲笑它。很多人贊揚它，很少人批評它，還有些人感到困惑。
And many people are madly in love with it. It is the Ig Nobel Prize.
很多人瘋狂地愛上了它。它是搞笑諾貝爾獎。
We've been awarding Ig Nobel Prizes since 1991. Each year, ten Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded. The selection criterion is simple.
搞笑諾貝爾獎在1991年首次頒發。每年，都有頒發10個諾貝爾獎項。
The prizes are for "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced." Examine that phrase carefully.
獲獎標準并不復雜。獲獎者所取得成就應該是無法復制的。審核這個標準的過程很仔細。
It covers a lot of ground. It says nothing about whether a thing is good or bad.
這個獎的覆蓋面很大，可能是好的事物也可能是不好的。
After something has been discovered or created, no one can later become the first to have made that discovery or creation.
一旦有東西被發現或者被創造出來，就不存在發現或創造該事物的第一人了。
The "firstness" cannot be repeated.
第一性是不能被重復的。
Thus, Don Featherstone (Ig Nobel Art Prize, 1996), the creator of the plastic pink flamingo, clearly qualifies under the "cannot be repeated" phrase.
因此，唐·費瑟斯通（1996年搞笑諾貝爾藝術獎得主），塑料粉紅色火烈鳥的創造者，嚴格遵守“不能重復“這一標準。
Similarly, Anders Barheim and Hogne Sandvik (Ig Nobel Biology Prize, 1996), who discovered that sour cream stimulates the appetite of leeches, but that garlic often kills them, clearly qualify under the "cannot be repeated" phrase.
同樣，安德斯·Barheim和Hogne·山特維克（1996年搞笑諾貝爾生物學獎的主），他們發現，酸奶油刺激水蛭的食欲，但是大蒜常能殺死癌細胞，顯然這也符合“不能重復”這一標準。
Jacques Benveniste (Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1991 and 1998) discovered that water molecules remember things and that the memories can be transmitted over telephone lines.
雅克·本聞尼斯特（1991年和1998年搞笑化學諾貝爾獎得主）發現水有記憶功能，而且這些記憶信息還可以通過電話線和因特網進行傳遞。
