TED演讲:编织我的梦(4)

（单词翻译）

And I wrote a book about her and I illustrated¹ it and the things Ruby² taught me go like this.

我为她写了一本书，并加以说明Ruby教会了我的东西。

Ruby taught me that you're not supposed to be afraid of the bugs³ under your bed.

Ruby教会了我不要害怕床下的那些虫子。

And even the biggest of the problems are a group of tiny problems stuck together.

还有，即使再大的问题，也是由众多小问题构成的罢了。

And Ruby also introduced me to her friends, the colorful side of the Internet culture.

Ruby还向我引荐了她的朋友们，也就是网络文化多彩的一面。

She has friends like the Snow Leopard⁴, who is beautiful but doesn't want to play with the other kids.

比如雪豹，它很漂亮，但不喜欢和别的小朋友玩。

And she has friends like the green robots that are really friendly but super messy.

还有绿色机器人，也是Ruby的朋友，十分友好，却很散乱。

And she has friends like Linux the penguin⁵ who's really ruthlessly efficient, but somewhat hard to understand.

她还有朋友，比如Linux企鹅，十分冷酷高效，却有些难搞。

And idealistic foxes, and so on.

还有理想主义的狐狸等等。

In Ruby's world, you learn technology through play.

在Ruby的世界，你通过玩来学习科技。

And, for instance, computers are really good at repeating stuff, so the way Ruby would teach loops goes like this.

比如，电脑十分擅长做重复工作，因此Ruby会教我这样用循环。

This is Ruby's favorite dance move, it goes, "Clap, clap, stomp⁶, stomp clap, clap and jump."

这是Ruby最喜欢的舞蹈动作，像这样：“拍，拍，踏，踏，拍，拍，跳”。

And you learn counter loops by repeating that four times.

这样重复了四遍，你就学会了counter循环。

And you learn while loops by repeating that sequence while I'm standing⁷ on one leg.

同样，当我一只脚站立，重复这个排列时，你又学会了while循环。

And you learn until loops by repeating that sequence until mom gets really mad.

而当你一直重复这个排列，直到惹怒了老妈，你就知道什么是until循环了。

And most of all, you learn that there are no ready answers.

最主要的是，你明白了，没有现成答案。