AEE 2700：你会为一百万美元做什么？

这里是All Ears English播客，第2700期。

This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2700.

如果给你一百万美元，你会做什么？

What would you do for a million dollars?

欢迎收听All Ears English播客，下载量已超过两亿次。

Welcome to the All Ears English Podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times.

你是不是觉得英语学习遇到了瓶颈？

Are you feeling stuck with your English?

我们将向你展示如何变得无所畏惧、流利自如，专注于交流而非完美，由你的美国主持人奥布里·卡特（雅思专家）和林赛·麦克马洪（英语冒险家）共同呈现。

We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS Wiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English Adventurer.

我们来自美国亚利桑那州和科罗拉多州。

Coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA.

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今天，我们来聊聊美国正在发生的一个文化现象——赏金，并学习如何用英语把这个话题变成一场热烈的讨论或对话。

Today, learn about a cultural phenomenon that's happening in the US involving bounties, and learn how to turn this topic into a robust debate or a conversation with your friends in English.

你好，Lindsay。

Hello, Lindsay.

你怎么样？

How are you?

我今天状态很好，Aubrey。

I'm doing great today, Aubrey.

不过，我有个问题想先问你。

I have a question for you, though, I'd like to start with.

说来听听。

Let's hear it.

你愿意剃光头吗，哪怕是为了100万美元？

Would you ever shave your head, even for a million dollars?

如果给你100万美元让你剃光头，你会做吗？

If I were to give you a million dollars to shave your head, would you do it?

当然会。

Absolutely.

毫不犹豫。

In a heartbeat.

我会剃光头，但是——

I would shave my head, but-

我觉得我也会。

I think I would, too

……问题是，你会吗？

... the question is, would you?

你有一头漂亮的头发。

You have this beautiful hair.

我知道。

I know.

谢谢。

Thank you.

你的头发那么好，而我的就一般般。

Yours is like, whereas mine is meh.

没什么值得炫耀的。

Nothing to write home about.

但为了那一百万美元，说实话，我还是会剃的。

But for a million bucks, I think I still would, honestly.

对。

Yes.

然后退休。

Retire.

头发还会长回来的。

Hair grows back.

好吧，那我就剃个光头。

Okay, I'll have a shaved head.

头发会再长出来的。

It grows back.

没关系。

It's fine.

我会拿这笔钱。

I'll take the money.

我同意。

I agree.

我很好奇。

I'm really curious.

大家，你们会怎么回答？

Everyone out there, how would you answer?

这类问题在美国文化中经常被问到。

Questions like these are asked often in American culture.

我想知道这在全世界是不是也很流行——

I wonder if it's popular as well around the world-

比如你会问：“为了百万美元，你愿意做什么？”

... where you'll ask, "What would you do for a million dollars?"

或者类似这样的：“你愿意为了百万美元剃光头吗？”

Or something like this, "Would you shave your head for a million dollars?"

是的。

Yes.

但疯狂的是，这已经越来越不像一个假设了。

But crazily, it's becoming less of a hypothetical.

现在出现了一些新的赏金网站，开始给危险行为标价。

There are these new bounty websites that are starting where prices are put on risky actions.

比如，在额头上纹一个广告。

Like for example, getting a tattoo advertisement on your forehead.

这真的——

Something really-

哦

Ooh

——这真是个艰难的选择。

... it's like that's a tough choice to make.

不了，谢谢。

No, thank you.

就算给我一百万美金，我也不会在额头上纹东西。

Even for a million dollars, I wouldn't tattoo something on my forehead.

对，纹身是半永久的，去掉又贵，还是在脸上，唉，我可不会干。

No. Tattoos are semi-permanent, and it's expensive to get them removed, and on your face, ugh, I wouldn't do it.

不过我也不确定。

But I don't know.

而且可能会留疤，而且特别——

And there could be scarring, and it's extremely-

……疼。

... painful.

那肯定的。

For sure.

所以，这挺有意思的。

So yeah, it's interesting.

我们接下来就深入聊聊这个。

We're going to dive into this.

什么是赏金？

What is a bounty?

它在文化中还有哪些体现？

How else does it come up in culture?

还要谈谈这其中的伦理问题，因为这是非常有争议的。

And talk about the ethics of this, because it's very controversial.

是的。

Yes.

对，我们有一些关于野生动物等方面的赏金例子。

Yeah, and we have a couple of examples of bounties when it comes to wildlife and that kind of thing.

那么，Aubrey，什么是赏金？

So Aubrey, what is a bounty?

我们就从这里开始吧。

Let's get started there.

好的。

All right.

所以这是由政府、公司或个人提供的金钱奖励。

So this is a monetary reward offered by a government, corporation, or an individual.

在这种情况下，支付的是加密货币。

And in this case, it's cryptocurrency that's being paid.

这还挺有意思的。

So that's kind of interesting as well.

但传统上，赏金已经存在很长时间了。

But traditionally, bounties have existed for a long time.

最新的星球大战电影《曼达洛人与格罗古》讲的就是一个赏金猎人，曼达洛人。

There's the newest Star Wars film, "The Mandalorian & Grogu," is about a bounty hunter, The Mandalorian.

他得到钱去抓一个罪犯。

So he's offered money to bring in a criminal.

好的。

Okay.

这就是你听到“赏金”这个词最常见的方式。

That's how you hear about it the most, the term bounty-

赏金猎人

A bounty hunter

……就是他们在找人的时候，对吧？

... when they're looking for a person, right?

或者像《赏金猎犬》里的那个道格。

Or Dog the Bounty Hunter.

你看过那个节目吗？

Have you ever seen that show?

没有，我没看过。

No, I haven't.

那是个老节目了。

That's an older show.

就是有人专门去找那些弃保潜逃的人——

It's someone who would go and find people who had skipped bail-

哦，对

Oh, yeah

然后他们就能拿到赏金。

... and they would be paid bounty money for that.

有意思。

Interesting.

现在这里还有一些其他的例子。

And now there is some more examples here.

我知道在佛罗里达那边，换个话题说说野生动物，现在缅甸蟒蛇数量过剩。

I know down in Florida, to shift over to wildlife, right now there's an overpopulation of Burmese pythons.

所以几年前，我在电视上看过一个纪录片，看到过这个。

So a few years ago, I saw this on some documentary on TV once.

他们给蟒蛇设了赏金。

They have a bounty on pythons.

所以他们出去，付钱给那些够勇敢、装备够齐全的市民，比如拿着大砍刀或者别的什么需要的——

So they're going out and paying citizens that are just brave enough and have a big enough, I don't know, machete or whatever they need-

不管是什么吧。

Whatever it would be.

去把死掉的蟒蛇带回来。

... to go and bring in recovered, bring in dead pythons.

我记得他们每条蟒蛇给大约一千美元，但这些蛇都特别大。

And I think they're paying around a grand per python, but these are huge snakes.

他们这钱赚得不容易——

They're earning their money-

冒着生命危险去抓那些蛇。

... to put their life at risk to try and catch those snakes.

哦，我在网上看过一些照片。

Oh, I've seen some photos online.

太疯狂了。

It's crazy.

这种悬赏在山地西部地区也有，比如爱达荷州、蒙大拿州，可能还有科罗拉多州。

And that's also existed in the Mountain West, in Idaho, Montana, maybe Colorado.

以前有过针对狼的悬赏，那时候——

There have been bounties on wolves back when-

哇

Wow

……当时狼的数量严重过剩，悬赏大约是一千到一千五百美元，

... there was an extreme overpopulation of wolves, and it was about $1,000, $1,500 for-

好的

Okay

……用来奖励猎杀狼的人，但现在狼被过度捕猎，已经濒危了。

... someone to kill a wolf, but now they've over-hunted them, and they're endangered now.

是的。

Yes.

所以情况可能向任何一边发展。

So it can swing either way.

在科罗拉多州，现在正在重新引入狼群，这是过去几年的一项投票议题，把狼带回来，而且这变得非常政治化，对吧，当你涉及到……

In Colorado, they're repopulating the wolves now, and this was a ballot issue in the last couple of years, bringing the wolves back, and it becomes very political, right, when you get into-

……这些野生动物问题时。

... these wildlife issues.

但这就是赏金的一种应用方式。

But that's one way that bounty is applied.

奥布里，我们还需要了解什么？

What else do we need to know here, Aubrey?

嗯，这对所有在Netflix上看《黑镜》的人来说都挺有意思的。

Well, this is interesting for anyone out there who watches the show "Black Mirror" on Netflix.

我自己就是超级粉丝，但在最新一季，第七季第一集里，这种赏金制度在剧里是虚构的，就是有人为冒险行为设赏金。

I am a huge fan myself, but in the most recent season, season seven, episode one, this, what has sort of come to life here, is fictional in that show, where there are these bounties for risky actions.

然后有人会在网上认领，并得到报酬去做那件事。

And someone would claim it online and be paid to do that.

现在，看到这真的可能在现实中发生，真是太疯狂了。

And now, this is really crazy that you're seeing that this could actually happen in real life.

所以我们看到了一篇CNN的文章，标题是《加密货币推广者花钱让人把广告纹在身上的网站》。

So there was a CNN article we saw called "The website where crypto promoters pay people to tattoo ads on themselves."

哇。

Wow.

这是T.M. Brown在2026年6月写的，我们看了一下，想跟大家分享一下。

This was by T.M. Brown in June of 2026, and we kind of looked in this and sort of wanted to share about it.

这有可能变得流行，也可能出现更多类似的网站，或者它可能会消失。

There's a chance that this could become popular, and there could be more sites, or maybe it'll go away.

我希望它消失。

That's my hope.

我其实不太支持这个。

I'm not really in support of this.

我也希望它消失。

I hope it goes away.

这看起来——

It seems-

不

No

——像是个糟糕的主意。

... like a terrible idea.

对，确实有点，怎么说呢，像是电影里才会出现的情节。

Yeah, it does seem kind of, I don't know, like it belongs in a movie or something.

说实话，是的。

Honestly, yeah.

就让它留在《黑镜》里吧——

Let's keep it in "Black Mirror"-

……别出现在现实生活中，拜托了。

... and not in real life, please.

当然。

For sure.

就像《黑镜》里的所有科技一样，最好只出现在电视剧里，而不是真的存在。

Along with all of the technology in "Black Mirror," it's better to have it be in a TV show and not actually real.

我还没看过《黑镜》呢。

I still haven't seen "Black Mirror."

我得去看看那部剧了。

I'm going to have to see that show.

天哪。

Oh my gosh.

每一集都是——

It's every episode-

我正在找新剧看，所以——

I'm looking for a new show, so

不同的科技，以及它如何影响——

... is different technology, and how it affects-

好。

Okay

人、社会和人际关系。

... people and society and relationships.

哦，不。

Oh, no.

但通常到最后，你会觉得，这种科技就不该存在。

But usually by the end, you're like, "This technology should never exist."

好的。

Okay.

知道了。

Good to know.

有没有什么引用的观点？

Do we have any quotes?

学术界对这件事怎么看？

What do academics think about this?

对，这挺有意思的。

Yeah, this is interesting.

那篇文章里，他们采访了几个人，其中一位是威廉·卡瓦诺。

So in that article, they had interviewed a couple of different people, and one of them was William Cavanaugh.

他是一位神学家，也是教授——

So he's a theologian and a professor-

在芝加哥德保罗大学教天主教研究。

... of Catholic studies at DePaul University in Chicago.

他说了什么，Lindsay？

What did he say, Lindsay?

嗯，他说：“这是一个明显的例子，人们被工具化、被非人化，只是为了个人利益。”

Well, he said, "This is a clear case where people are being instrumentalized and dehumanized for the sake of personal profit."

差不多就是这样，对吧？

Pretty much, right?

我真的很同意，关键就是这种非人化，对吧？

I really agree that it's the dehumanization, right?

你把一个人当成产品，当成棋子。

You're treating someone like a product, like a pawn.

即使他们需要这笔钱，你还是在剥夺他们的——

And even if it's for money they need, it's still you're taking their-

唉

Ugh

——他们的尊严——

... dignity from them-

唉

Ugh

……为了那笔报酬。

... for that payment.

对。

Yes.

没错。

Yep.

还有——

And also-

他们还采访了，是的，纽约州州长凯西·霍赫尔。

And they also interviewed, yeah, New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

所以她之前在X平台上公开发布过这个内容。

So she had publicly written on X this.

好的。

Okay.

她写道：“对第一个提出禁止这种反乌托邦噩梦法案的人，悬赏。”

She wrote, "Offering a bounty on the first bill introduced to ban this dystopian nightmare."

我很喜欢这句话。

I loved this phrase.

唉。

Ugh.

所以她显然非常不赞成。

So she clearly really doesn't approve.

她愿意为此付钱……是的。

That she'll pay for... Yeah.

然后——

And then-

她在这里有点开玩笑，但用“悬赏”这个词来调侃，对吧？

She's making kind of a joke here, but she's using the term bounty to make a joke of it, right?

有意思。

Funny.

对。

Exactly.

她在开玩笑，说谁要是能把这个东西关掉，她就给谁赏金。

She's joking and saying she'll give a bounty to anyone who can shut this down.

然后她办公室的发言人说了这么一句：“任何以奖励人们去针对、骚扰或危害他人为模式的商业模式，都应该让所有人感到警惕。”

And then a spokesperson for her office said, "Any business model that rewards people for targeting, harassing, or endangering others should alarm everyone."

我真的很喜欢这句话，因为事情就是这样。

And I really loved that statement, because that's the thing.

就算你是花钱让别人自己伤害自己，那也还是在危害——

Even if you're paying someone to do it to themselves, you're still endangering-

……别人，对吧？

... people, right?

让别人去伤害别人，或者伤害自己，还有——

Getting someone to harm someone else, themselves, and-

……这真的应该让我们所有人都感到警惕。

... that really should alarm us all.

确实应该这样。

That really should.

你在提出这个建议。

You're making the suggestion.

你在把想法灌输到他们脑子里。

You're putting the idea in their head.

天哪。

Oh my gosh.

所以休息回来后，我们要聊聊这对我们的听众来说意味着什么，作为一个联系话题，一个对话话题。

So when we come back from our break, we're going to talk about what does this mean for our listeners in terms of a connection topic, of a conversation topic.

我很容易想象这会在和朋友聊天时出现，尤其是和母语为英语的朋友。

I could very easily see this coming up in a conversation with a friend, with a native-speaking friend.

这件事正在发生。

The fact that this is happening.

我已经跟人聊过这个了。

I've already spoken to people about this.

好的。

Okay.

我一看到那篇文章，我就想，"哦，这真是——"

As soon as I saw that article, I'm like, "Oh, this is-

……有意思。"

... interesting."

我不知道这会有多具争议性，但肯定会有一些人——

And I don't know how controversial it'll be, but there will be some people-

……会同意人们如果选择收费的话，应该被允许做这类事情。

... who agree that people should be free to do things like this if they choose for a payment.

所以你可能会惊讶，甚至你的一些朋友也会有这样的想法。

So you might be surprised even what some of your friends think.

对，没错。

Yeah, exactly.

人们对这件事会有不同的看法。

People would have different opinions on it.

那我们稍微休息一下，

So we're going to take a quick break-

然后回来，我们会聊聊怎么提问来讨论这个话题，好吗？

... and come back, and we'll get into how do you form questions to talk about this, okay?

好的。

Yes.

好。

Good.

好了，Aubrey，我们休息回来了。

All right, Aubrey, we're back from break.

那如果我们想跟朋友聊这件事，看看他们怎么想，有哪些开场白可以用呢？

So what would be some conversation starters if we do want to tell our friends about this and have a conversation to see what they think?

我们之前也提过这个实用小技巧，就是既然你听了这期节目，你可以说：“我听说这个了，我听了播客。”这真的是一个很好的切入点。

So we have offered this sort of pro tip in the past, that now that you've heard this episode, you can say, "I heard about this, I listened to a podcast," and that's such a great entry point.

比如，你可以说：“我听说有个新网站，让人们可以为危险行为提供赏金。”

So for example, you could say, "I heard a new website allows people to offer a bounty for risky actions.

你觉得怎么样？

What do you think about that?"

然后如果他们没听说过——

And then if they haven't-

他们可能会说：“什么？

... heard anything, they might just say, "What?

我没听说过这个，”然后你可以补充一些细节。

I haven't heard about that," and you could provide a little more detail.

或者如果他们听说过，那就能展开一场很有意思的讨论了。

Or if they have, then that's the beginning of a really interesting discussion.

下一个就是，如果你是在播客上听到的。

And the next one is if you heard it on a podcast.

你是在这里听到的。

You heard about it here.

这种情况非常常见。

And this is incredibly common.

关于你在播客上听到的内容，有几种表达方式。

A couple of constructions around something you heard on a podcast.

第一种是，“我听了一个播客，讲的是一个网站，人们用加密货币换纹身。”

First one is, "I listened to a podcast about a website where people pay cryptocurrency for tattoos.

你听说过这个吗？”

Have you heard about that?"

但是Aubrey，我也听人们说，“我在听播客，然后巴拉巴拉。”

But Aubrey, I also hear people saying, "I was listening to a podcast, and blah, blah, blah."

“某某某。”

"X, Y, Z."

是的。

Yes.

我听到很多人——

I hear a lot of people-

我也很喜欢这个。

I love that, too

……用那种表达方式。

... use that construction.

“我在听播客，然后听到了这个，”或者——

"I was listening to a podcast, and I heard this," or-

……“我学到了这个，”或者——

... "I learned this," or-

“我在听播客，他们聊到了这个新网站——”

"I was listening to a podcast, and they talked about this new website-"

太常见了。

So common

……“提供赏金。”

... "offering bounties."

确实。

Absolutely.

对。

Yes.

对。

Yes.

而且我有很多朋友就是这样开始对话的。

And I have a lot of friends who that is how they start their conversation.

对。

Yes.

对。

Yes.

要么说“我读了一篇文章”，要么说“我在听播客”，然后——

Either, "I read an article," or, "I was listening to a podcast," and-

这太常见了。

It's so common

……通常这是提起某件事的最好方式……

... often it's the best way to bring up something that...

而且你不必马上表态，也不用急着站队。

And you don't have to share your opinion right away or commit either way.

你只是问问他们知道什么，他们怎么想。

You're just asking what they know about it, what they think.

对。

Yes.

所以这是开启这个话题的一个很自然的方式。

So that's a really natural way to start this topic.

还有什么，Aubrey？

What else, Aubrey?

但我们还有另一个有趣的点。

But we have this other interesting thing.

所以，关于你为了钱可能会做的极端事情的问题，也是很有趣的对话开场白。

So questions about extreme things you might do for money are also fun conversation starters.

我们在美式英语中经常这样做，对吧？

We do this a lot in American English, right?

所以我们要分享几个比较温和、无害的问题，你可以问别人，这些问题总能引出有趣的对话。

So we're going to share a few that are pretty benign, pretty harmless that you could potentially ask someone, and these always lead to interesting conversations.

那我就先问个问题吧。

I'll just start it off with a question.

奥布里，你愿意为了每条一千美元去抓蟒蛇吗？

Aubrey, would you hunt for pythons for $1,000 each?

你会去做吗？

Would you do that?

不会，就算给我一百万我也不干。

No. I wouldn't even do that for a million.

我觉得我肯定会……大概会没命吧。

I think I would definitely- ... probably lose my life.

哦。

Oh.

我又不是专家。

I'm not an expert.

我很可能直接就被淹死了。

I would very likely just be drowned.

被蟒蛇弄死。

Death by python.

被蟒蛇弄死。

Death by python.

我觉得如果我是个壮汉，而且有野外生存技能的话——

I think if I were a large man, and I had skills, like outdoorsman skills-

那你就会去干这个了。

Then you'd be into it

……

...

我可能会去。

I might do it.

也许吧。

Maybe.

也许吧。

Maybe.

我不知道。

I don't know.

为了那一百万，是的。

For a million, yes.

但你会——

But would you-

也许为了那一百万。

Maybe for a million.

为了那一百万，我可能会试试。

I would maybe try for a million.

哦，有意思。

Oh, interesting.

那眉毛呢？

What about eyebrows?

这又回到头发的话题了。

This comes back to the hair thing.

哦。

Oh.

给你一百万美元，你会把眉毛剃掉吗？

Would you shave your eyebrows for a million dollars?

会，还是会。

Yes, again.

我知道这——

I know it-

对，我也会。

Yeah, I would too

……真的……

... really...

这又不是世界末日，而且现在越来越多——

It's not the end of the world, and more and more these days-

这又不是世界末日。

It's not the end of the world

……是的，眉毛还会长回来的。

... yes, eyebrows grow back.

你可以画眉毛。

You can draw on eyebrows.

完全可以画上去。

You can totally draw them on.

没错。

Absolutely.

我可能一百美元就愿意干。

I'd probably do that for $100.

一百美元？我觉得一百美元我不会干。

$100, I don't think I'd do it for $100.

也许一千美元吧。

Maybe 1,000.

对，每个人都有自己的底线，但我可能一百万或一千美元就愿意干。

Yeah, everyone has their own threshold here, but I would probably do it for a million or 1,000.

可能一千块吧——

Maybe 1,000-

然后休个假，这样我就不用上镜了，对吧？

... and then take some time off, so I wouldn't have to be on camera, right?

对，没错。

Yes, exactly.

而且我们也把这些留得更开放一些。

And we also leave these more open-ended.

你可以说类似这样的话：“他们得付你多少钱，你才愿意一年每天都穿同一套衣服？”

You could say something like, "What would they have to pay you to wear the same outfit every day for a year?"

或者类似这样的问题。

Or something like that.

是的。

Yes.

而且这更多是假设性的。

And it's just more hypothetical.

然后我和朋友们会玩一个有趣的游戏，就是有人会抛出一个数字，然后另一个人会说：“哦，这个价钱我就干。”

And then my friends and I do this fun thing where someone will throw out a number, and then someone else will say, "Oh, I'd do it for this much."

你往下压价——

You go down-

对

Yes

直到压到你愿意接受的最低价格。

... until you get as low as you're willing.

这样就能看出每个人的底线，对吧？

You start to understand people's standards, right?

他们能忍受什么。

What they'll tolerate.

有人说一百万，另一个人就说：“一千块我就干。”

Someone says a million, and someone else says, "I'd do that for 1,000."

确实。

For sure.

奥布里，你现在对咖啡有多痴迷？

Well, how into coffee are you these days, Aubrey?

给你一百万美元，你愿意放弃咖啡吗？

Would you give up coffee for a million dollars?

哦，永远吗？

Ooh, forever?

我超爱咖啡。

I love coffee.

那会很难，但也许为了那一百万，我可以改喝茶。

That would be hard, but maybe for a million dollars, I could be a tea drinker.

一个月呢？

For a month?

一年呢？

For a year?

当然愿意。

Absolutely.

哦，对。

Oh, yeah.

一个月或一年的话，我可能会愿意。

Month or year, I probably would.

我可能会改喝抹茶或者绿茶什么的，

I would probably just get into matcha or green tea or something-

就这样算了。

... and just call it a day.

没关系。

Just it's fine.

找个东西替代它。

Find something to replace it with.

没错。

Exactly.

我已经无所谓了。

I'm over it.

我们来做个角色扮演吧，展示这在完整对话中会是什么样子。

Let's do a role play here, where we're showing how this might look in a full conversation.

其实，你和我现在就在这里见面喝咖啡。

You and I are meeting for coffee here, actually.

哦，那正好。

Oh, well, there you go.

那这样的话，我们就不能放弃咖啡了，对吧？

We can't give up coffee in that case, right?

好吧。

All right.

我听说有个新网站，让人们可以为冒险行为提供赏金。

I heard a new website allows people to offer a bounty for risky actions.

你觉得怎么样？

What do you think about that?

哦，天哪。

Oh, man.