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"The average person has an IQ of one hundred," the voice-over continued.
“普通人的智商是100，”主持人的旁白在繼續著，
"Einstein one fifty. Chris has an IQ of one hundred ninety-five.
“愛因斯坦的是150,克里斯的達到了195。
He's currently wrapping his big brain around a theory of the universe.
現在，他滿腦子都裝滿了宇宙萬物的各種理論。
But will his king-size cranium be enough to take down the mob for one million dollars? Find out right now on One versus One Hundred."
他的特大號的腦殼真的能夠綽綽有余地應對這些挑戰者，獲取百萬美鈔？《以一敵百》馬上就會掲曉答案。
Out strode Langan onto the stage amid wild applause.
在瘋狂的掌聲中，蘭根大步走上舞臺。
"You don't think you need to have a high intellect to do well on One versus One Hundred, do you?" the show's host, Bob Saget, asked him.
“你認為自己并不需要特別高的智商就能在《以一敵百》中取勝，是嗎？ ”
Saget looked at Langan oddly, as if he was some kind of laboratory specimen.
主持人鮑勃.薩吉特問他，表情怪異地看著這位全美國最聰明的人，就像是在看實驗室的一件標本。
"Actually, I think it could be a hindrance," Langan replied. He had a deep, certain voice.
“事實上我認為會存在層層困難，”蘭根回答道，他的聲音深沉而穩健，
"To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts.
“如果你擁有高的智商，似乎就只應該思考深奧的問題，
You avoid trivia.
必須回避繁務瑣亊。
But now that I see these people,"
但是現在我見到了他們
he glanced at the mob, the amusement in his eyes betraying just how ridiculous he found the proceedings.
他的目光轉向那些挑戰者，從他的眼神中，可以看出他認為這個問題滑稽可笑，
"I think I will do okay."
我想我能表現得很好。
Over the past decade, Christ Langan had achieved a strange kind of fame.
過去10來年中，克里斯.蘭根莫名其妙地變得名聲大噪。
He has become the public face of genius in American life, a celebrity outlier.
他進入美國公眾的視野，成為他們眼中的天才和非同尋常的名人。
He gets invited on new shows and profiled magazines, and he has become the subject of a documentary by the filmmaker Errol Morris,
他的名字經常出現在新聞報道里，他的身影也時常出現在雜志里面。
all because of a brain that appears to defy its description.
紀錄片大師埃羅爾.莫里斯還把蘭根載入自己的電影。
The Television new show 20/20 once hired a neuro-psychologist to give Langan an IQ test,
一個名為《20/20》的電視節目聘請了一位神經心理學專家給蘭根做了一個智商（IQ)測試，
and Langan scored with literally off the charts, too high to be accurately measured.
蘭根的IQ得分被精確地制成圖表，他的智商太高了，因此不得不精確測量。
Another time, Langan took an IQ test, specially designed for people too smart for ordinary IQ tests.
還有一次，蘭根接受一個特別的IQ測試，這個測試不同于普通人的IQ測試，是專門為那些聰明人量身定制的。
He got all the questions right except for one.
除了一個問題以外，他答對了其他所有問題。
He was speaking at six months.
他6個月大的時候就學會了講話，
When he was three, he would listen to the radio on Sundays as the announcer read the funny papers aloud,
3歲的時候，他每個星期天都聽著收音機播音員大聲朗讀一些有趣的文章，
and follow along on his own until he had taught himself to read.
他跟著朗讀，直到自己也能讀這些文章，
At five, he began questioning his grandfather about the existence of god,
5歲的時候，他便向祖父質疑上帝是否真的存在
and remembers being disappointed in the answers he got.
他記得當時聽到的回答令自己非常失望。
