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Like millions of others
像其他几百万人一样
I'd heard Zima announce the unveiling of his final work of art
我听说了齐马宣布要公开他最后一件艺术品
Over the years I'd asked many times for interviews and was always rejected
这么多年来 我请求过很多次采访 但都被拒绝了
Now for whatever reason
现在 不知出于何种原因
Zima Blue had requested to speak with me
齐马·蓝竟然主动提出要和我见面
I couldn't decide whether the blue was a closer match to the sky or to the sea
我无法分辨 这种蓝到底更接近天空还是海洋
Neither really
其实 两个都不接近
Zima Blue it was a precise thing
齐马蓝 是一种精确的颜色
Little is known about Zima's history
人们对齐马的过去了解甚少
It was said that he started his art career in portraiture
据说他是从肖像画开始他的艺术生涯的
but for Zima the human form was too small a subject
但对于齐马来说 人类的轮廓实在太过于渺小
The search for deeper meaning caused him to look further
对更深层意义的寻求使他的目光越来越长远...
to the cosmos itself
最终直抵宇宙本身
That's how the mural work started
所以他开始创作壁画
They were undeniably brilliant
不可否认 它们乃绝佳之作
One day Zima unveiled a mural that had something different about it
有一天 齐马公开了一幅有点与众不同的壁画
In the middle of the canvas was a tiny blue square
在画布中央 有一个蓝色的小矩形
The square was just the beginning
那个矩形只是开始
Over the next several decades
接下来的几十年
the abstract shapes changed and became more dominant
画中的抽象形状变了又变 而且面积越来越大
But always the shade of blue was the same
但用的一直都是同一种蓝色
It was Zima Blue
就是齐马蓝
Before very long Zima unveiled the first of his entirely blue murals
很久很久之前 齐马公开了他第一幅全蓝壁画
It was considered by many to be as far as Zima could take things
人们都以为这是齐马最大的本事了
They couldn't have been more wrong
但他们都错了
When most people speak about his Blue Period
当大多数人谈及他的蓝色时代时
they mean the era of the truly huge murals
他们说的是他创作巨大壁画的时期...
but Zima was just getting started
但对于齐马来说 那仅仅是个开始
It was a certain level of spectacle that made Zima truly famous
接下来横空出世的奇观巨画使齐马真正地扬名立万
even to those with no interest in art
就连那些对艺术毫无兴趣的人 都知晓他的名字
But fame was never the point
但名声从来都不是重点
In spite of all his success Zima was still dissatisfied
尽管取得了如此巨大的成功 齐马仍不满足
and what he did next was for many too extreme a sacrifice to make for art
而他接下来做的事情 对于很多人来说 是一种对艺术的极致献身
Glad you could make it Claire
很高兴你来了 克莱尔
How was the flight
旅程还顺利吗
Relax Claire
别紧张 克莱尔
Hi
你好
Some people find me intimidating but they quickly get over it
有些人觉得我令人生畏 但他们很快就不这么想了
It's been over 100 years since I've spoken to the press
我已经有100多年没和媒体交流过了
I've invited you here because I want you to help me tell my story
我邀请你至此 是因为我想让你替我向世界讲述我的故事
Shall we take a little walk
我们散个步可好
He was a handsome man even after all his transformations
即使他改造后 也是个帅气的男人
There was a planet called Kharkov Eight
有一个星球叫做哈尔科夫八号
It specialized in illicit cybernetic modifications
专门从事非法的神经机械改装
He underwent radical biological procedures
他进行了彻底的生物学手术
that enabled him to tolerate extreme environments
使得自己可以不用穿保护服
without the burden of a protective suit
就能忍受极端环境
His eyes could see in any known spectrum
他的眼睛可以看透任何已知光谱
He no longer breathed oxygen
他不再呼吸氧气
His skin was replaced with pressurized polymer
他的皮肤被加压聚合物替代
and so he ventured forth to commune with the cosmos
所以他冒险探索 与宇宙交谈
But what Zima eventually realized
但齐马最终意识到
is that the cosmos was already speaking its own truth
宇宙已经在讲述自己的真理
far better than he ever could
而且远比齐马展示的深刻
My search for truth has led me here
我对真理的追求使我到达此处
to what will be my final piece
这也是我最终的归宿
At last I understand the thing I sought through my art
最后 我通过艺术理解了我所寻求的东西
And what does this swimming pool have to do with that
这个游泳池和你说的有什么关系吗
It's not just any swimming pool
这不是个普通的泳池
Long ago it belonged to a talented young woman
很久以前 它属于一位有天赋的年轻女性
with a keen interest in practical robotics
她对实用机器人尤为感兴趣
She created dozens of robots to do odd jobs around her house
她创造了许多机器人来帮她干家里的杂活儿
but she was especially fond of the one she'd created to clean her swimming pool
但她最喜欢那个专门清理泳池的机器人
The little machine toiled endlessly scrubbing the ceramic sides of the pool
那个小机器人不停歇地擦洗着泳池的瓷砖内壁
But the young woman wasn't satisfied with the job it did
但女人并不满足于它的工作能力
So she gave it a full color vision system
所以她给它装载了整套色彩视觉系统
and a brain large enough to process the visual data
和足够聪明的大脑 使它能用周遭环境的模型
into a model of its surroundings
来处理视觉信息
She gave it the ability to make its own decisions
她赋予了它做决定的能力
to design different strategies for cleaning the pool
让它可以自己设计清理泳池的不同策略
She continued to use the machine as a test bed for new hardware and software
女人继续将这个机器人用作新硬件和软件的测试载体
And by stages it became more aware
经过数代的更新升级 它变得能加智能
Eventually the woman died
最后 女人去世了
The little machine was passed
那个小机器人经手了
from one owner to the next
一代又一代主人
They added things made modifications here and there
他们对它进行不断的改造
and with every iteration it became more alive
历经更迭 它变得愈加有生命力
Became more
变得更加...
me
像我
This is that same pool
这就是当初那个泳池
I had it dug up Moved here
我让人将它挖出 移到了这里
But you're a man with machine parts not a machine that thinks it's a man
但你是个有器械部件的人类 而不是自认为是人类的机器
Sometimes it's difficult even for me to understand what I've become
有时候 我也难以理解自己现在的身份
And harder still to remember what I once was
更难记得自己曾经是什么
The blue of the tiles
这些瓷砖的蓝色...
Zima Blue the manufacturer called it
是齐马蓝 制造商给起的名字
The first thing I ever saw
我生来第一眼见到的就是它
This was where I began
这也是我生命开始之处
A crude little machine with barely enough intelligence to steer itself
一个仅仅可以控制自己行动的简陋小机器
But it was my world
但这就是我的整个世界
It was all I knew all I needed to know
是我所知道的一切 是我需要知道的一切
And now
那现在呢
I will immerse myself
我将浸没于此
And as I do I will slowly shut down my higher brain functions
并缓慢地关闭自己高级的大脑功能...
un making myself
自我分解...
leaving just enough to appreciate my surroundings
只留下能识辨环境的部分...
to extract some simple pleasure from the execution of a task well done
来获取顺利执行任务的简单快乐
My search for truth is finished at last
我对真理的寻求终于结束了
I'm going home
我要回家了