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Now here, I want to share the stage with someone quite special. Right?
現在，我想與一位有些特別的人共享這舞臺。可以嗎？
She was one of the young people who was involved in this study, and she's now one of the youngest published scientists in the world. Right?
她是參與了那項研究的年輕人之一，而且目前她是世界上有過刊物發表的最年輕科學家之一。對嗎？
She will now, once she comes onto stage, will be the youngest person to ever speak at TED. Right?
現在，一旦她登上了舞臺，她就會成為TED最年輕的演講者了，對嗎？
Now, science and asking questions is about courage.
科學和提問，是關于勇氣的事。
Now she is the personification of courage, because she's going to stand up here and talk to you all. So Amy, would you please come up?
現在，她將成為勇氣的化身，因為她將站在這，向你們娓娓道來。Amy,可以請你上來嗎？
So Amy's going to help me tell the story of what we call the Blackawton Bees Project,
接下來Amy將同我一起為大家講述這個名為 “Blackawton蜜蜂計劃”的故事，
and first she's going to tell you the question that they came up with. So go ahead, Amy.
首先她將告訴大家，他們所想出的問題。接著交給你了，Amy。
Thank you, Beau. We thought that it was easy to see the link between humans and apes in the way that we think, because we look alike.
謝謝您，Beau。我們曾以為看出人類和猿類的關聯是件很簡單的事。我們的思維方式是，因為我們看起來很相像。
But we wondered if there's a possible link with other animals. It'd be amazing if humans and bees thought similar, since they seem so different from us.
但是我們也好奇過有沒有可能我們其實與其他動物也有關聯。“人類與蜜蜂有相似點”這個想法是不是有些驚人，因為他們看起來與我們如此不同。
So we asked if humans and bees might solve complex problems in the same way.
于是我們問，會不會人類與蜜蜂會用相同的方式來解決一個復雜的問題呢？
Really, we wanted to know if bees can also adapt themselves to new situations using previously learned rules and conditions.
說真的，我們很想知道蜜蜂是否能夠用過去習得的經驗來改變自己，以適應新環境。
So what if bees can think like us? Well, it'd be amazing, since we're talking about an insect with only one million brain cells.
所以如果蜜蜂能像我們一樣思考呢？好吧，這的確挺驚人的，因為我們在講的是一個只有一百萬腦細胞的昆蟲。
But it actually makes a lot of sense they should,
不過事實上他們應該擁有這樣的能力，
because bees, like us, can recognize a good flower regardless of the time of day, the light, the weather, or from any angle they approach it from.
因為蜜蜂，無論在一天中的什么時候，無論光線，無論天氣，又或從任意一個角度接觸花朵，都能像我們一樣能夠辨別一朵花的好壞。
So the next step was to design an experiment, which is a game. So the kids went off and they designed this experiment,
所以接下來一步就是設計一個實驗，也就是一個游戲。所以孩子們跑去設計了這個實驗，
and so -- well, game -- and so, Amy, can you tell us what the game was, and the puzzle that you set the bees?
也就是——這個游戲，所以，Amy,你能跟我們講講那個游戲嗎？還有你們給蜜蜂設置了怎樣的難題？
