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Now read the passage from a psychology textbook. You have 50 seconds to read the passage.
請(qǐng)閱讀這篇選自心理學(xué)課本的文章。你有50秒的時(shí)間閱讀文章。
Now listen to part of a lecture on this topic in a psychology class.
現(xiàn)在請(qǐng)聽心理學(xué)課上關(guān)于這個(gè)話題的部分內(nèi)容。
Let's take an everyday example, an ordinary round plate like you'd find in a kitchen.
我們從日常生活中舉個(gè)例子吧，比如說一個(gè)普通的圓盤子，就是你能在廚房找到的那種。
If you hold the plate directly in front of your face and look at it, what shape do you see?
如果你直接把這個(gè)盤子放在臉前面并看著它，那么你看到的是什么形狀呢？
A perfect circle, right? Suppose you tilt the plate to a different angle,
一個(gè)完美的圓，對(duì)嗎？假設(shè)你把盤子傾斜至另一個(gè)角度，
to a horizontal position, like you're planning to put food on it, still a perfect circle?
一個(gè)水平位置，就像你打算把食物放上去一樣，這時(shí)你看到的還是一個(gè)完美的圓嗎？
No! The circle is now stretched out, flattened into an oval.
不是！這個(gè)圓現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)展開變平，成了一個(gè)橢圓了。
Do you conclude the plate has actually changed shape?
那么，你能說這個(gè)盤子實(shí)際上已經(jīng)變形了嗎？
Or that it's a different object, not the same plate?
或者這是另外一個(gè)東西，不是同一個(gè)盤子了？
Of course not! It looks different, but we perceive it as still being the same.
當(dāng)然不能！它雖然看起來不一樣，但是我們知道這還是同一個(gè)盤子。
Here's a different example. This classroom we're in. It's fairly large, right?
再舉一個(gè)不同的例子。我們現(xiàn)在所在的教室很大，對(duì)吧？
Now, from up close, from the front row,
對(duì)坐在前排的同學(xué)來說，
I appear to be relatively big, bigger than if you're in the last row, right?
我看起來比較大，比坐在最后一排的同學(xué)看見的我要大一些，是不是？
But let's say you're sitting in the front row today but tomorrow you're sitting in the back row.
我們假設(shè)今天你坐在前排，但是明天你坐在后排。
From back there I'm going to look smaller, but you don't think I've actually gotten smaller.
從后面的位置看起來我比較小，但是你不會(huì)覺得我真的變小了。
You don't think you're seeing a different professor, a guy who looks like me except he's smaller.
你不會(huì)覺得你看見的是另一個(gè)教授，一個(gè)長(zhǎng)得和我很像只是比我小一些的教授。
No matter where you are, up close or far away,
無論坐在哪個(gè)位置，前面或者最后，
you understand without even thinking about it, that I'm the same size, the same person.
你不用想都知道我的身材還是一樣，我還是那個(gè)我。
