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A time for even grimmer stuff than that, like in last April's New Yorker magazine.
那個時辰里還有更嚴酷的事情發生過，比如去年4月紐約人雜志中
This short fiction piece by Martin Amis starts out,
Martin Amis的短篇小說是這樣開始的：
"On September 11, 2001, he opened his eyes at 4 a.m. in Portland, Maine, and Mohamed Atta's last day began."
“2001年9月11日，他睜開眼睛，凌晨4點，緬因州，波特蘭市，Mohamed Atta的最后一天開始了。”
For a time that I find to be the most placid and uneventful hour of the day,
在這個我覺得是最溫和、最平靜的時刻，
four in the morning sure gets an awful lot of bad press
凌晨4點真的為我們帶來了很多惡劣的壞消息
across a lot of different media from a lot of big names. And it made me suspicious.
很多大媒體都傳遞著這樣的信息，這讓我感到懷疑。
I figured, surely some of the most creative artistic minds in the world, really,
我想，當然，這個世界上那么多富有創造力的藝術家,
aren't all defaulting back to this one easy trope like they invented it, right?
并不都會像默認設置般地選用這個簡單的隱喻，好像他們自己發明這個隱喻似的？是嗎？
Could it be there is something more going on here?
是不是其中還有什么奧妙？
Something deliberate, something secret, and who got the four in the morning bad rap ball rolling anyway?
刻意的，神秘的，那是誰讓這個凌晨4點的厄運之球滾動開來的呢？
I say this guy -- Alberto Giacometti, shown here with some of his sculptures on the Swiss 100 franc note.
我說，是這個家伙：阿爾貝托·賈科梅蒂。他的一些作品印在100瑞士法郎上。
He did it with this famous piece from the New York Museum of Modern Art.
他的這個著名的作品展覽在紐約現代藝術館里，
Its title -- "The Palace at Four in the Morning -- 1932.
題目就叫：凌晨4點的宮殿，1932年。
Not just the earliest cryptic reference to four in the morning I can find.
這不僅是我可以找到的最早的凌晨4點的神秘參考。
I believe that this so-called first surrealist sculpture may provide an incredible key to virtually
我認為，這個所謂的第一個超現實主義雕塑可能提供了一個令人難以置信的基點
every artistic depiction of four in the morning to follow it.
幾乎被每一個描述過凌晨4點的藝術作品所遵循。
I call this The Giacometti Code, a TED exclusive.
我把它叫做賈科梅蒂密碼，一個TED的專稱。
No, feel free to follow along on your Blackberries or your iPhones if you've got them.
不，不，你們盡管用你們的黑莓手機或iPhone手機上網搜索，如果你們帶著的話。
