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Seneca-over 2000 years ago, the Greek philosopher: "Our forefathers lived every jot as well as we,
塞內加 兩千年前的希臘哲學家說 “我們的祖先和我們過著一樣的生活
when they provided and dressed their own meat with their own hands;
他們靠自己的雙手來獲得食物
lodged upon the ground, and were not as yet come to the vanity of gold and gems."
駐扎在大地上 還未受到黃金與寶石的誘惑”
This is Seneca, a very thoughtful philosopher, talking about the lack of physical exercise that existed in his time.
這是塞內加 一個很有思想的哲學家說的 講到他那個時代存在的缺乏鍛煉的現象
How much more is it today? When today we are living in our age,
現在這種現象嚴重了多少呢 今天在我們這個時代
the way that not even royalty lived just 100 or 200 years ago,
一兩百年前連皇家都過不上的生活
the easy life, the luxurious life, and it's the under-privilege of the privilege.
方便的 奢侈的生活 這是特權中的非特權
We are paying the price for it. Let's see what our psychologist has to say about this.
我們要為此付出代價 讓我們來看看心理學家是怎么說的
Ellen DeGeneres on the state of affairs.
艾倫·德杰尼勒斯 針砭時事
We're lazy. We have buttons doing everything. There is no physical activity attached to anything anymore.
我們很懶 做什么事都一個按鈕搞定 做什么事都不用體力了
Even the garage door opening-we used to get out of the car and open up the garage door.
即使是開車庫門 我們曾經要下車 打開車庫門
Now there is a button you push, you know. And the car window. This became too much!
現在就只用按一個按鈕 還有車窗 這太過分了
I don't want to turn buttons I just wanna fresh air!
我不想按按鈕 我只想呼吸新鮮空氣
We still use that gesture if we want someone to roll their window down in traffic.
我們現在還在用這個手勢 如果想讓某人把車窗搖下來的話
We still use that. Even now nobody's got it. Because we'd look like idiots if we did this.
我們還在用 雖然已經沒人知道是什么意思 因為如果我們這樣做就會像個傻子
We're lazy. We used to have breath mints. Now we have breath strips.
我們很懶 我們以前有薄荷糖 現在有洗牙糖
They just dissolve all on our tongue for us. How lazy.. Can we not suck anymore?
它們幫我們把舌頭上的東西都溶掉 真是懶啊 我們不能吸吮了嗎
Aa.. put it on…I'm tired! Aaa…I had a hard day!
放上來吧 我累了 我今天好辛苦
