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Except, of course, what's interesting about this is that we can't be sure how that idea was conveyed,
當然，有趣的是，我們無法確認這樣的觀點是如何傳播的，
because the Homo erectus that made these objects did not have language.
因為制作這些物品的直立人沒有語言。
It's hard to grasp, but it's an incredible fact.
這很難理解，但這也是難以置信的事實。
This object was made by a hominid ancestor, Homo erectus or Homo ergaster, between 50,000 and 100,000 years before language.
這一物品是在語言出現(xiàn)之前的5萬年前至10萬年前由原始人類祖先--直立人或匠人--制作出來的。
Stretching over a million years, the hand axe tradition is the longest artistic tradition in human and proto-human history.
延綿超過一百萬年，手斧傳統(tǒng)是人類和原始人歷史上最長時間的藝術傳統(tǒng)。
By the end of the hand axe epic, Homo sapiens -- as they were then called, finally
在手斧世代結束的時候，智人--最終以此來稱呼他們，
were doubtless finding new ways to amuse and amaze each other by, who knows,
毫無疑問的找到了相互娛樂的新方法，誰知道呢，
telling jokes, storytelling, dancing, or hairstyling.
通過講笑話，講故事、跳舞或美發(fā)。
Yes, hairstyling -- I insist on that.
是的，美發(fā)--我堅持這點。
For us moderns, virtuoso technique is used to create imaginary worlds in fiction and in movies,
對我們現(xiàn)代人來說，精湛的技術用于在小說和電影中創(chuàng)造想象中的世界，
to express intense emotions with music, painting and dance.
用音樂、繪畫和舞蹈來表達強烈的情感。
But still, one fundamental trait of the ancestral personality persists in our aesthetic cravings:
但盡管如此，這種古人的基本品質保留在我們的審美渴望中：
the beauty we find in skilled performances.
我們在技巧性表現(xiàn)中發(fā)現(xiàn)的美。
From Lascaux to the Louvre to Carnegie Hall, human beings have a permanent innate taste for virtuoso displays in the arts.
從拉斯科洞窟到羅浮宮，再到卡耐基音樂廳，人類對藝術中的精湛技巧有種自發(fā)的永恒的欣賞。
We find beauty in something done well.
我們在絕世制作的事物中發(fā)現(xiàn)美。
