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Imagine a world in which you see numbers and letters as colored even though they're printed in black, in which music or voices trigger a swirl of moving, colored shapes, in which words and names fill your mouth with unusual flavors.
想像這樣一個世界，你從中看到的數字和字母是彩色的，盡管它們是用黑色寫下的，這里的音樂或聲響會激起由移動彩色色塊組成的漩渦，在這里，詞語和名字會用不尋常的味道填滿你的嘴巴。
Jail tastes like cold, hard bacon while Derek tastes like earwax.
“Jail”嘗起來像冰冷堅硬的培根，而“Derek”吃著像耳屎。
Welcome to synesthesia, the neurological phenomenon that couples two or more senses in 4% of the population.
歡迎來到聯覺的世界，聯覺是一種神經學現象，它將4%的人的兩種或兩種以上的感覺連接在了一起。
A synesthete might not only hear my voice, but also see it, taste it, or feel it as a physical touch.
一個聯覺者可能不僅會聽到我的聲音，還會看到、嘗到或者以物理接觸的方式感知到我。
Sharing the same root with anesthesia, meaning no sensation, synesthesia means joined sensation.
聯覺和感覺缺失的詞根相同，感覺缺失是指沒有感覺，而聯覺是指感覺被聯通。
Having one type, such as colored hearing, gives you a 50% chance of having a second, third, or fourth type.
擁有一種聯覺，例如“色-聽”聯覺，你便有50%的可能擁有第二種、第三種甚至第四種聯覺。
One in 90 among us experience graphemes, the written elements of language, like letters, numerals, and punctuation marks, as saturated with color.
90個人中便有一個會感覺字素，即構成語言的書面成分，例如字母、數字還有標點符號都是五彩繽紛的。
Some even have gender or personality.
有些甚至有性別或性格。
For Gail, 3 is athletic and sporty, 9 is a vain, elitist girl.
對蓋爾來說，3充滿運動氣息，9則是一個自負的精英女孩。
By contrast, the sound units of language, or phonemes, trigger synestetic tastes.
與之相對，語言單位或者說音素會聯發味覺。
For James, college tastes like sausage, as does message and similar words with the -age ending.
對詹姆斯來說，"college"嘗起來像香腸，"message"和其他類似的以"age"結尾的詞也一樣。
Synesthesia is a trait, like having blue eyes, rather than a disorder because there's nothing wrong.
聯覺是人的一種特征，就像藍眼睛一樣，它不是一種紊亂，因為它并不代表什么毛病。
In fact, all the extra hooks endow synesthetes with superior memories.
事實上，所有這些額外的關聯賦予了聯覺者超凡的記憶力。
For example, a girl runs into someone she met long ago.
舉個例子，一個女孩遇見了一個她很久以前認識的人。
"Let's see, she had a green name. D's are green: Debra, Darby, Dorothy, Denise. Yes! Her name is Denise!"
“讓我看看，她有個綠色的名字。D開頭的是綠色的：Debra，Darby，Dorothy，Denise. 沒錯！她叫Denise！”
