以万丈豪情带回空空行囊

举报 2018-08-21

It was in 1989

1989 年

 near the completion of what we now know

旅行者 2 号即将完成 

was just the first phase of the VoyagerII mission

我们现今所知的初期飞行任务

 Voyager II

旅行者 2 号

the incredibly persistent precisespacecraft

这艘无比精密耐用的太空飞船

whose 12-year-mission

肩负着一个历时 12 年的任务

would take it past Jupiter in 1979

它将于 1979 年经过木星

and Saturn in 1981

于 1981 年临近火星

and finally on to Neptune in 1989

最终于 1989 年飞往海王星

where traveling at 10 kilometers persecond

在那里它将以 10 千米每秒的速度飞行

Newton was right

牛顿说对了

something starts in motion stays inmotion

原本运动的物体在不受外力作用时将保持运动状态

Traveling in muscle car turns at 42000miles per hour

这辆大马力跑车将以 42000 英里每小时的速度拐弯

It will pass within 3000 miles with thenorth pole of Neptune

而后在距离海王星北极不到 3000 英里的地方与之擦肩

and just before it was meant to leaveour solar system

就在它决心离开太阳系之前

 just before it was meant to

就在它打算

 retire to a pleasant life in the cosmos

退居于茫茫宇宙

studying ultraviolet sources among thestars

享受一段穿梭星体间观测紫外光源的和乐人生之前

just as it was about to do that

在那之前 

the people of NASA couldn't resist

太空总署的人却情不自禁地

they sent a signal to Voyager II

向旅行者 2 号发送了一个指令

and they turn the camera completelyaround

掉转了它的摄像头

so that Voyager II was travelingforwards

让探索前行的旅行者 2 号

 

looking backwards over shoulder andlooking back

在那一刻转头回望

they took a picture of Earth

他们拍了一张地球的照片

 a small blue dot

一个蓝色小圆点

a single beam of sunlight

浸在一束阳光中

and that

而那

should anyone never ask you

有朝一日若有人问起

 is the definition of art

即是艺术之义

 

and at the time nobody ask

彼时,没人问过

why they turn the camera around

为什么他们要掉转摄像头

but should anyone never ask you

但有朝一日若有人问起

they turn the camera around not forscience

他们掉转摄像头,其实并非为了科学事业

but for the same reason

而是正如

 when your parents drop you off on your firstday of school

你开学第一天,父母开车,把你在校门前放下

 you wanted to be brave

你鼓足勇气

 and start off on a new adventure

向新的未知迈出第一步

but you couldn't resist

但你情不自禁

you look back

你转头 

over your shoulder

回望

 and you took a picture of that moment

你定格了那个瞬间 

that's why the people of NASA

这就是太空总署的那群人

 turn the camera around

掉转摄像头的原因

 they couldn't resist

他们情不自禁

 

they had to see what home look like

他们想要看清家的模样

so far away from home

远远地,远远地

and that

而那

should any one never ask

有朝一日若有人问起

is what defines us

正定义着我们

agency:FCB芝加哥

client:克拉克桥写作学校( Clark bridge a school of writing )

视频:https://www.adsoftheworld.com/media/digital/clark_street_bridge_looking_back


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