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Except, of course, what's interesting about this is that we can't be sure how that idea was conveyed,
当然，有趣的是，我们无法确认这样的观点是如何传播的，
because the Homo erectus that made these objects did not have language.
因为制作这些物品的直立人没有语言。
It's hard to grasp, but it's an incredible fact.
这很难理解，但这也是难以置信的事实。
This object was made by a hominid ancestor, Homo erectus or Homo ergaster, between 50,000 and 100,000 years before language.
这一物品是在语言出现之前的5万年前至10万年前由原始人类祖先--直立人或匠人--制作出来的。
Stretching over a million years, the hand axe tradition is the longest artistic tradition in human and proto-human history.
延绵超过一百万年，手斧传统是人类和原始人历史上最长时间的艺术传统。
By the end of the hand axe epic, Homo sapiens -- as they were then called, finally
在手斧世代结束的时候，智人--最终以此来称呼他们，
were doubtless finding new ways to amuse and amaze each other by, who knows,
毫无疑问的找到了相互娱乐的新方法，谁知道呢，
telling jokes, storytelling, dancing, or hairstyling.
通过讲笑话，讲故事、跳舞或美发。

Yes, hairstyling -- I insist on that.
是的，美发--我坚持这点。
For us moderns, virtuoso technique is used to create imaginary worlds in fiction and in movies,
对我们现代人来说，精湛的技术用于在小说和电影中创造想象中的世界，
to express intense emotions with music, painting and dance.
用音乐、绘画和舞蹈来表达强烈的情感。
But still, one fundamental trait of the ancestral personality persists in our aesthetic cravings:
但尽管如此，这种古人的基本品质保留在我们的审美渴望中：
the beauty we find in skilled performances.
我们在技巧性表现中发现的美。
From Lascaux to the Louvre to Carnegie Hall, human beings have a permanent innate taste for virtuoso displays in the arts.
从拉斯科洞窟到罗浮宫，再到卡耐基音乐厅，人类对艺术中的精湛技巧有种自发的永恒的欣赏。
We find beauty in something done well.
我们在绝世制作的事物中发现美。

演讲介绍

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