2.24 【双语听力】玩家奇谈：想增寿十年？玩游戏吧！玩出人生上限

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玩家奇谈

游戏创造美好生活，

在游戏中玩出人生上限

Jane McGonigal：

The game that can give you 10 extra years of life

简·麦戈尼格尔：游戏让你增寿10年

Speaker’s biograph

Jane McGonigal asks: Why doesn't the real world work more like an online game? In the best-designed games, our human experience is optimized: We have important work to do, we're surrounded by potential collaborators, and we learn quickly and in a low-risk environment. Her game-world insights can explain--and improve--the way we learn, work, solve problems, and lead our real lives. Several years ago she suffered a serious concussion, and she created a multiplayer game to get through it, opening it up to anyone to play. In “Superbetter,” players set a goal (health or wellness) and invite others to play with them--and to keep them on track.

Jane是全球知名游戏设计人，她是随境游戏和另类实境游戏专家。她非常爱玩，玩的标准也非常之高，对于大众玩家在网游中表现出的集体智慧很感兴趣，于是专长研究游戏机制对于现实的作用，并开发出多款兼附强大社会功能、兼容社会道德等诸多高尚严肃主题的现实类游戏，深受全球玩家追捧。

在一场人生意外之后，她开发出一款新型治愈游戏“非常棒”，玩家们自设一个身心健康的目标并坚持升级通关到底。本篇演讲中，Jane阐释候补现实类游戏如何帮助人们在低风险环境中与潜在合作者快速学习，—并解决现实难题、改善生活质量、或为更重要的社会问题提供解决方案。【周五视听】跟Jane一起进入游戏人的创意新世界。

14点电台直播

当游戏设计者Jane McGonigal

遭遇脑震荡意外卧床不起甚至想自杀之后，

通过创造出有治愈效果的游戏

“ Super bettter(非常棒)” 拯救了自我。

在这个感人的演讲中，McGonigal 解释了

如何在游戏中增强四种生命恢复力，

并且保证能为你的生命增寿。

演讲片段精听

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I'm a gamer. I'm gonna to try to increase the life span of every single person in this room by seven and a half minutes. Your mission is to figure out how you want to spend your extra seven and a half minutes. In my first TED Talk, I did propose that we should spend 21 billion hours a week, as a planet, playing video games. It's so much time, in fact, that the number one unsolicited comment that I have heard from people all over the world since I gave that talk, is this: Jane, games are great and all, but on your deathbed, are you really gonna to wish you spent more time playing Angry Birds?

我是一名游戏玩家。我要去尝试将房间内每个人的寿命延长7.5分钟。你的任务是想一想该如何度过这额外的7.5分钟。在我的TED演讲中，我建议地球上的所有人每周应该玩 210 亿小时的游戏。事实上，自那次演讲之后，我听到了来自全世界的批评，其中质疑最多的是：简，游戏固然很棒，但临终之时你真打算花更多的时间打愤怒的小鸟吗？

Unsolicited

Solicit / Solicited / unsolicited

未经请求的；自发的

not requested;

solicit money, help, support, or an opinion from someone, you ask them for it.

Something that is unsolicited has been given without being asked for and may not have been wanted.

E.g. Unsolicited personal advice may not be appreciated.

Hospice workers, the people who take care of us at the end of our lives, recently issued a report on the most frequently expressed regrets that people say when they are literally on their deathbeds. And that's what I want to share with you today — the top five regrets of the dying. Number one: I wish I hadn't worked so hard. Number two: I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. Number three: I wish I had let myself be happier. Number four: I wish I'd had the courage to express my true self. And number five: I wish I'd lived a life true to my dreams, instead of what others expected of me.

在我们的生命即将结束时会给予我们照料的护工们最近发布了一份关于人们在临终之时最后悔之事的报告。今天我想跟你们聊聊这个话题—将死之人最后悔的五件事。第一：我后悔不该工作这么拼。第二：我后悔未与朋友保持联系。第三：我后悔没让自己更快乐。第四：我后悔没有勇气活出真实的自我。第五：我后悔没有按照自己的梦想去生活，而是按照别人对我的期望而活。

literally

确实地；真正地；不加夸张地

You use literally to emphasize that what you are saying is true, even though it seems exaggerated or surprising.

e.g. That car is so huge and tall that I literally climb onto it.

When I hear these top five regrets of the dying, I can't help but hear five deep human cravings that games actually help us fulfill. For example, I wish I hadn't worked so hard. For many people, this means, I wish I'd spent more time with my family, with my kids when they were growing up. Well, we know that playing games together has tremendous family benefits. A recent study reported that parents who spend more time playing video games with their kids have much stronger real-life relationships with them.

当我听到将死者说出他们最后悔的这五件事时，我不由得听到人类发自内心的五个渴望，只有游戏才能帮助我们满足这些渴望。比如，我后悔不该工作这么拼。对于许多人来说，这意味着，我真希望能多花点时间与家人及成长中的孩子待在一起。那么，我们知道，一家人在一起打游戏其实有巨大的好处。一项最新的研究发现，花较多时间与子女一起打电子游戏的父母与子女之间有更浓厚的真实情感关系。

Craving

渴望;热望

If you crave something, you want to have it very much.

Craving: an intense desire for some particular thing

e.g. I have a craving for chocolate whenever I feel upset.

Recently I did spend three months in bed, wanting to die. Suicidal ideation is quite common with traumatic brain injuries. So I created a role-playing recovery game called Jane the Concussion Slayer. Now the game was that simple: Adopt a secret identity, recruit your allies, battle the bad guys, activate the power-ups. But even with a game so simple, within just a couple days of starting to play, that fog of depression and anxiety went away, even while I was still in pain, I stopped suffering. And soon, I started hearing from people all over the world, they were getting "super better," facing challenges like cancer and chronic pain, depression and Crohn's disease.

最近，我在病床上呆了三个月，真想一死了之。对外伤性脑损伤患者来说，有自杀的意念是很正常的。因此，我设计了一款角色扮演类的康复游戏，取名为“脑震荡终结者—简”。其实，这款游戏很简单：选择一个神秘身份、招募队友、与坏人作战并激活能量。然而，尽管游戏很简单，仅仅在几天之内，忧郁、焦虑的阴霾便消失了，即使依然有疼痛感，但是我并不感到痛苦。不久以后，我开始从世界各地得到反馈，听说有人用“SupperBetter”这款游戏来对抗癌症、慢性疼痛、忧郁及克罗恩氏病等困难。

Traumatic

Trauma / traumatic

造成创伤的;惊骇的;痛苦的

A traumatic experience is very shocking and upsetting, and may cause psychological damage./ causing physical or especially psychological injury;

精神创伤;惊骇(或痛苦)经历

Trauma is a very severe shock or very upsetting experience, which may cause psychological damage.

e.g. Few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child.

recruit

招收；招募；征召

If you recruit people for an organization, you select them and persuade them to join it or work for it.

e.g. Newly recruited staffs need to be trained.

Some people get stronger and happier after a traumatic event. The game was helping us experience what scientists call post-traumatic growth. Here are the top five things that people with post-traumatic growth say: "My priorities have changed." "I'm not afraid to do what makes me happy." "I feel closer to my friends and family." "I understand myself better. I know who I really am now." "I have a new sense of meaning and purpose in my life." "I'm better able to focus on my goals and dreams." The top five traits of post-traumatic growth are essentially the direct opposite of the top five regrets of the dying.

一部分人经历了创伤之后变得更强、更快乐。这款游戏正在帮助我们体验科学家称之为创伤后成长的一种感受。下面是具有创伤后成长感受的人们所提到的最多的五件事：“我调整了手头事务的轻重缓急。” “我敢做所有能令我快乐的事。” “我感觉与朋友和家人更亲近了。” “我更了解我自己了。我现在确实知道我究竟是谁了。” “我对自己生活的意义和目的有了新的理解。” “我更能专注于自己的目标和梦想了。”创伤后成长的五方面最主要的特质在本质上正好与将死者的五件最后悔的事相反。

post-traumatic growth

创伤后成长

priority

优先考虑

Is there a way to get all the benefits of post-traumatic growth without having to hit your head in the first place? There are four kinds of strength, or resilience that contribute to post-traumatic growth. +1 physical resilience, the number one thing you can do to boost your physical resilience is to not sit still. +1 mental resilience, willpower actually works like a muscle. It gets stronger the more you exercise it. +1 emotional resilience, which means you have the ability to provoke powerful, positive emotions like curiosity or love. +1 social resilience, a great way to boost social resilience is gratitude. Touch is even better.

有什么办法可使你在不需要经历头部创伤的情况下得到创伤后成长的所有好处呢？有四种力量或恢复力有助于创伤后成长。+1 身体恢复力：促进身体恢复力首先要做的事是别坐着不动。+1 精神恢复力：实际上，意志力的工作原理如肌肉一样。你越锻炼它，它就变得越强大。+1 情绪恢复力：意味着你有能力激起强大、正面的情感，如好奇心和爱心。+1 社交恢复力：提高社交恢复力的一条有效途径是怀有感激之心。接触有更好的效果。

Boost

使增长；推动；改进；使兴旺

If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful./ he act of giving hope or support to someone

e.g. What’s the ideal way to boost team

willpower

意志力;毅力

Willpower is a very strong determination to do something./ the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior

Strong/amazing/ tremendous/great willpower

e.g. Weight loss is a rough and rugged road that takes tremendous willpower to accomplish.

It turns out that people who regularly boost these four types of resilience live 10 years longer than everyone else. And when you get there, more than likely, you will not have any of those top five regrets, because you will have built up the strength and resilience to lead a life truer to your dreams. And with 10 extra years, you might even have enough time to play a few more games.

事实证明，定期对这四种恢复力进行增强的人可比正常人多活10年。当你到了这一步，你肯定不会产生上述五种悔恨感，因为到那时你已经增强了这种力量与恢复力，从而可以按照自己的梦想去生活。有了额外的10年，你甚至会有足够的时间去打更多的游戏。

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Jane McGonigal:游戏创造美好生活

姓名：Jane McGonigal

出生日期：1977年10月21日

出生地：美国费城

职业：游戏设计、研究专家

著名未来学家，世界顶级未来趋势智库“未来学会”游戏研发总监，美国著名交互式娱乐服务公司42 Entertainment首席设计师，全球产值达604亿美元的视频游戏行业大使。

TED大会新锐演讲者，受关注度超过比尔?盖茨，位居第16位； “纽约客大会”（New Yorker Conference）特邀演讲人，游戏开发者大会主讲人

被《商业周刊》誉为“十大最重要创新人士之一”，被世界顶级媒体《快公司》评为“全球百位创意商业人士之一”，被脱口秀女王奥普拉誉为“全球最令人惊叹的20位女性之一”，她的观点被《哈佛商业评论》誉为“最具突破性的观念”

她的作品经常发表在《经济学人》、《连线》、《纽约时报》、MTV、CNN及NPR等权威媒体上。

2004年至2006年，Jane McGonigal和一家候补现实游戏的机构42娱乐（42 Entertainment）合作研发了一系列游戏，其中包括我爱蜜蜂（2004年）、最后一轮叫牌（2005年）。此外，她还为惠特尼美国艺术博物馆和洛杉矶现代艺术博物馆设计游戏。

2006年：Jane在获得了加利福尼亚大学表演学专业的博士学位。此后她在旧金山艺术学院和加利福尼亚大学教授游戏设计和游戏理论。同时还担任未来研究所游戏研发总裁。

2006年：Jane McGonigal被全球权威杂志《科技评论》（Technology Review）评为最具创新力的年轻人，当时年仅28岁。

2008年：Jane McGonigal被评为“游戏产业最重要的20位女性”之一。她参与设计的游戏“无油的世界”也获得了“西南以南互动传媒节”动画效果奖。

代表作品：

我爱蜜蜂（2004年）：投币电话响起来了。电话中，你得知：26世纪，一个年轻女孩的性格特征被植入一个名叫梅丽莎的智能机器人。她登上了一艘飞船。这艘飞船从未来时空被带到2004年。船上所有的成员都遇难了——除了梅丽莎，当然，此时的她受到了重创，一个加利福尼亚的养蜂人将奄奄一息的梅丽莎放在英特网的服务器上，你在这个养蜂人的网站查到了这个不明电话的来历。于是你拨通了那个电话，你拿起话筒，耳边传来了梅丽莎的声音……

无油的世界（2007年）：石油危机的时代将很快来临。未来的无油世界里，人们如何生活？“无油的世界”向你展示了未来无油的世界该如何生活！汽车该如何发动？飞机还能不能飞行？什么可以作为新的能源？种种难题袭来，如果不团结起来，就会像掉进陷阱的困兽一样，永远没有办法重见天日。

超级威胁（2008年）：“超级威胁”（Superstruct）的剧情设置在2019年。游戏系统每天会向你实时播报2019年正在发生的5种“超级威胁”——能源价格疯涨，粮食危机、一场可怕的流行病REDS蔓延全球，2.5亿气候难民无家可归，互联网变成一个庞大的信息垃圾场……你可以用Blog、照片、漫画、Podcast或者视频，讲述你在剧情中遭遇的各种可怕的难题并和其它玩家一起运用集体智慧，探讨难题如何解决。如果这一切“超级威胁”得不到妥善解决，那么23年以后，即2042年，就是世界末日。

迷失的指环（2008年）：这款游戏是麦当劳为了08年奥运宣传而和Jane以及AKQA合作开发的一款游戏。这款游戏运用了7种语言、横跨6大洲并持续了6个月。

游戏剧情：两千年前，6名参加奥林匹克运动会的运动员离奇失踪，公元2008年，这6名运动员分别在世界的角落苏醒。他们失去了记忆、双眼被蒙、身上画着奇特的符号，恍若置身迷宫。他们通过博客、Flickr等在线手段寻找彼此，并和玩家一起研究他们失忆的原因是什么？他们每个人的左臂上都画着奇特的符号，并用不同国家的语言写道：“Trovu la ringon perditan——找到迷失的指环”。