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Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita (Ig Nobel Psychology Prize, 1995) made their achievement in training pigeons to distinguish between the paintings of Picasso and those of Monet...
受渡·邊茂，坂本純子和伊藤·千尋（1995年諾貝爾物理學獎獲得者）成就地訓練鴿子區分出畢加索和莫奈的畫。
I raise this matter of good or bad, because the world in general seems to enjoy classifying things as being either one or the other.
我想說說搞笑諾貝爾獎的好壞，因為全世界都習慣把事情分成好與壞。
The Ig Nobel Prizes aside, most prizes, in most places, are clearly meant to honor the goodness or badness of the receivers.
除了搞笑諾貝爾獎，在大多數地方，很多獎項都是為了紀念獲獎者做的好事和壞事。
Olympic medals go to very good athletes. Worst-dressed prizes go to badly dressed celebrities. Nobel Prizes go to scientists, writers, and others who excel.
奧運獎牌頒發給優秀的運動員。最差穿著獎頒發給穿著最難看的名人。
These prizes, and most others, are meant to honor the extremes of humanity—those whose achievements should be seen as very good or very bad.
諾貝爾獎頒發給科學家，作家和其他領域杰出人物。這些獎項，還有很多其他的獎，都是為了紀念人類的極端——這些成就可以看成非常好或者很不好。
The Ig Nobel Prize isn't like that. The Ig honors the great confusion in which most of us exist much of the time. Life is confusing. Good and bad get all mixed up. Yin can be hard to distinguish from yang.
搞笑諾貝爾獎和上述的不太相同，它是為了紀念那些生活中讓人感到困惑的事情。生活是令人困惑的，好壞參差，陰陽難辨。
Most people go through life without ever being awarded a great prize to acknowledge that, yes, they have done something. That's why we award Ig Nobel Prizes.
生活中的大多數人沒有被授予什么獎項，但是不得不承認他們是做了一些事情的，是的，他們確實做過。這就是我們頒發搞笑諾貝爾獎的原因。
If you win one, it means that you have done something. What that thing is may be hard to explain.
如果你獲得一次，那么意味著你是有所作為的。很難說你做了什么。
Whether your achievement is for the public good or had may be difficult or even painful to explain. But the fact is, you did it, and have been recognized for doing it.
不論你的成就是為了公眾還是有難度的，甚至是難以解釋，但是事實就是，你做到了，并且已經開始意識到你在做事。
