迷你剧集：美学（夏季）应该是一个词

嗨。

Hey.

你眼前这位皱纹满面、皮肤晒得黝黑的老救生员，就是艾莉·沃德，我正躲在伞下打盹，本该盯着你别淹死了才对。

It's your old wizened leathery lifeguard, Alie Ward, dozing under an umbrella while I should be making sure you're not drowning.

这周呢，我特意为你准备了一小段迷你剧，满足你对《Ologies》的胃口。

And I'm here for a little slice of a minisode for your Ologies appetite this week.

为啥是我？

Why, Ward?

为啥？

Why?

其实呢，这期短节目选在一年中最长的这一天前后，是有几个原因的。

Well, this is a shorty around the longest day of the year for a few reasons.

第一，我正在为下周制作关于火星的两集特别节目，内容绝对让你大开眼界。

Number one, I'm working on a two part Mars episode for next week that's gonna blow your rocket boosters right off.

第二，这事有点疯狂但特别刺激——我正在为一个超酷的电视台拍摄全新的科学节目，每天拍十六个小时。

And number two, this is a little crazy and exciting, but I'm shooting a brand new science show for a very cool network, and I'm shooting, like, sixteen hour days.

我每天五点就起床，冲到片场，晚上八点才回家，倒头就睡。

Like, I wake up at 5AM, rush to set, get home at 8PM, rush to bed.

这两周我都是随便从干净袜子堆里抓一双就穿，根本不管配不配，吃饭也干脆直接喝乳清蛋白粉，根本没时间好好吃。

I have been wearing mismatched socks for two weeks just plucked from my clean, lonely socks bag, and I'm pretty much, like, snorting whey protein instead of having dinner because there's just not time.

所以我赶紧弄了这段小内容，好给自己多腾点时间，专心做下周的那期节目，那期真的超棒。

So I'm putting this together to give myself a little bit more time to work on next week's episode because it's gonna be so good.

而且呢，各位，我真的超爱夏天。

And, also, because y'all, I love summer.

我爱得不行。

I love it so much.

我们刚过了全年白昼最长的一天。

We just had the longest day of the year.

夏天正式来了。

It's officially summer.

就算我是个夏天哥特风，从头到脚一身二手羊毛黑衣。

And even as a summer goth in, like, head to toe black secondhand wool garments.

我十几岁的时候特别喜欢夏天。

As a teen, I loved summer.

真的很喜欢。

I loved it.

晚上九点天空还带着深蓝的暮色，冰茶在门廊上冒着水珠，烧烤的香气飘着，家人团聚，要是能离开加州去看看稀奇的虫子、听听地道的口音，那就更棒了。

Cobalt twilight at 9PM, iced tea sweating on a porch, barbecue smoke, family reunions, and bonus points for getting out of California to see weird bugs and to hear charming accents.

我就是一直特别喜欢。

I just always loved it.

这周的迷你集就聊聊一些冷门的夏日活动。

So this week's minisode is all about some obscure summer disciplines.

如果有哪一项让你感兴趣，欢迎告诉我、在推特上留言，随便怎样都行，说不定我能找来相关领域的专家深入聊聊。

And if there are any that pique your interest, tell me, tweet me, whatever, and maybe I can hunt down an ologist to go further into one of these topics.

你可以把这期节目当成一盒混合口味的麦片，每一种都尝一口。

But think of this episode like a variety sampler pack, like little cereals.

我等着你们的反馈，要是真有人特别喜欢，咱们说不定真能做成一两期。

And I'll await your hollering, and maybe we can make one or two happen if you really love them.

在开始之前，我要特别感谢所有赞助者，是你们让这个节目成为可能。

Now before we dive in, just a really big thanks to all the patrons for making the show possible.

我请了很棒的史蒂文·雷·莫里斯来负责剪辑。

I pay the wonderful Steven Ray Morris to edit it.

没有他，也没有你们，这节目根本做不起来。同时也感谢所有在ologiesmerch.com买周边的朋友。

I couldn't do it without him or you, and thank you to everyone who decks themselves out in ologiesmerch.com.

你们可以买件夏日必备的背心，或者二十美元的T恤，颜色任选，再配顶遮阳帽，挡住毒辣的太阳。

You can get yourself a dang tank top for summer or, like, a $20 T shirt in any color, maybe a dad hat to keep the broiling sun off of your face.

买周边不仅支持了播客，还能让你在户外遇到其他‘奥洛吉特’，说不定还能来段夏日恋情呢。

Now it supports the podcast, and, also, it helps you find other hologites in the wild, maybe for a summer romance.

你也可以通过发推特或发Instagram来帮我们宣传，或者给个评分和评论。

You can also spread the word about the podcast just by tweeting or gramming, or you can rate a review.

记得订阅，因为iTunes有时候会莫名其妙地取消你的订阅。

Make sure you're subscribed because sometimes iTunes just will unsubscribe you from things.

我本人就经常遇到这种情况。

It happens to me all the time.

而且，你知道的，我是个特别感性的怪人，特别喜欢读你们那些温暖的评论。

And, also, as you know, I'm a giant sappy creep, and I love reading your very sweet reviews.

我之前根本不知道在Stitcher上也能写评论，直到昨天才刚发现。

And, you know, I didn't know you could review via Stitcher until, like, yesterday.

所以在这期短节目中，我要特别感谢很多位叫Sarah的听众，你们说：‘如果林-曼努埃尔·米兰达的推特是个科学播客，那这个节目就是——它采访了各个领域的专家，为这个对专业知识和智慧略带怀疑的世界带来了一束光。’

So for this minisode, I'm gonna shout out so so so many Sarahsauz who wrote, if Lin Manuel's Twitter feed was a science podcast, this podcast, which features interviews with ologists in a wide variety of fields, is a bright spot in a world that can be a bit cynical about expertise and knowledge.

内容非常有料，是了解各种领域的好资源，也激励我努力工作、持续学习，不怕提出看似傻气的问题。

It's highly informative, a great resource for finding out more about all kinds of fields, and inspires me to work hard, learn more, and not be afraid to start by asking a dumb question.

真的非常感谢。

Thank you so much.

这个比喻太棒了，老兄。

What a comparison, dude.

谢谢你们留下这些评论。

So thank you for leaving those reviews.

我每条都读，尤其是在我累得不想动、头发也没洗的日子——这种日子可真不少，但你们的评论总让我特别开心。

I read them, and they make me so happy on days when I'm tired and I have not washed my hair, which is a lot of the days.

好吧。

Okay.

Aestology。

Aestology.

这是个真词吗？

Is this a real word?

不是。

No.

根本不是。

It's not.

这是我刚编的一个词，源自拉丁语里‘夏天’的意思。

It's an entirely fictitious word I just made up using the Latin meaning summer.

研究夏天的学问。

The study of summer.

这词根本不存在。

It doesn't exist.

所以一上来我就给你灌了一大堆胡说八道，抱歉啊。

So straight out of the gate, I just served you up a big heaping bag of horseshit, and I'm sorry.

我还想过造另一个词，其实根本不存在，我查过，叫‘hydropolemology’。

Another word I considered fabricating that doesn't exist, and I looked it up, is hydropolemology.

这个词用在这期节目里特别合适，意思是研究水战的。

That would be a great word for this episode because it would mean the study of water fighting.

好吧。

Okay.

我本来只是想确认这个词是不是真的，结果一查就陷进去了。

Just in trying to find out if that was a real word, it led me down this rabbit hole.

真有人研究水枪大战吗？

Is there a study of water fights?

求求你告诉我真有这门学问。

Please say there is.

根本没有。

There's not.

但我发现波兰有个传统叫‘湿星期一’，大家会毫不留情地互相泼水。

But I did find out that in Poland, they have a tradition called wet Monday, and it involves soaking each other just mercilessly.

根据维基百科的说法，男孩们会往女孩身上泼水，然后用柳枝轻轻打她们。

Now according to Wikipedia, boys throw water over girls, and then they spank them with pussy willows.

也有人会在黎明时分悄悄溜进女孩家里，趁她们还在床上时把水泼过去。

Or they sneak into girls' homes at daybreak and throw containers of water over them while they're still in bed.

被泼湿的女孩常常会被拖到附近的河或池塘里，再淋一次透。

And then the screaming girls would often be dragged to a nearby river or pond for another drenching.

有时候，女孩连人带床一起被抬出去，直接扔进水里。

Sometimes a girl would be carried out still in her bed before bed and girl were thrown into the water.

特别漂亮的女孩，一整天可能要被反复泼水好几次。

Particularly attractive girls could be expected to be soaked repeatedly during the day.

这种有点吓人、但特别湿漉漉的传统，叫作‘smigus dingus’。

This somewhat horrific and very soggy tradition is known as smigus dingus.

幸运的是，这个习俗似乎已经演变成男女孩子互相泼水的欢乐活动了。

And evidently and thankfully, it seems to have evolved into a more omnisexual affair involving little boys and girls soaking each other.

我刷YouTube的时候，不小心掉进了一个视频坑里，全是成年人在街上被别人用桶泼水，小孩们拿着小水枪疯狂互射，场面简直了，看来这事儿真挺火的。

And according to my getting sucked into a YouTube vortex of adults running from other adults sloshing buckets in the street and children armed, like, tiny hydro malicious super soaking the fuck out of each other, it's a pretty popular thing.

我看了一堆波兰人玩水战的视频，突然想起来，要是真有‘水战学家’这职业，我当年采访过这领域最顶尖的大师，结果居然给忘了。

So I was looking at YouTube videos of all these weird Polish water fights, and then it led me to remember if a hydropolemologist was a job, I have interviewed literally the top master of this field, and I totally forgot about it.

所以这一季《创新时代》在CBS播出时，我飞到亚特兰大，去见了一位叫隆尼·约翰逊的人。

So this season on Innovation Nation for CBS, I flew to Atlanta to meet a guy named Lonnie Johnson.

他是一位机械和核工程专家。

He is a mechanical and nuclear engineer.

他曾经在空军和NASA喷气推进实验室工作过。

He worked for the Air Force and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

他参与过木星探测器‘伽利略号’、土星探测器‘卡西尼号’，还有火星观测者项目。

He worked on the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the Saturn Cassini mission, the Mars observer project.

他简直就是个发明狂人，天才中的天才。

He's like a serial inventor, total genius.

从年轻时起就是如此。

He has been since his youth.

但在他所有的发明中，最出名的还是超级水枪。

But among his creations, the super soaker.

他发明了超级水枪。

He invented the super soaker.

八十年代初的一天，他想，不知道我女儿能不能用这玩意儿在邻里水战里把那些孩子彻底打趴下。

So one day in the early eighties, he thought, I wonder if my daughter could just smoke these neighborhood gibberonis in a water fight.

你爸要是个火箭科学家，结果就是一把用PVC管做的水枪，配个空的两升百事可乐瓶当储水罐。

And when your dad is a rocket scientist, what results is a PVC pipe water gun with an empty Pepsi two liter as a fuel tank.

他拿去浴室试了试。

He tried it in his bathroom.

水柱一下就射到了房间另一头，他当时就愣了：这玩意儿不简单啊。

It shot across the room, and he was like, well, dang.

我觉得我这次真发明了个了不起的东西。

I believe I've invented something very legendary.

后来过了几年，申请了几项专利，这家伙光靠这个发明就赚了至少七千三百万美元。

And so a few patents and, like, decades later, the dude has made very minimum $73,000,000 off of this invention.

你有多少项专利？

How many patents do you have?

一百多项吧。

Over a 100 patents.

一百多项啊。

Over a 100.

这还只是其中很小一部分。

So this is just a tiny fraction of them.

把这东西搞出来确实涉及不少工程，但跟航天器比起来，简单多了。

There was some engineering involved in putting this whole thing together, but, you know, compared to a spacecraft, it's pretty simple.

所以

So

如果真有‘水力工程学’这门学科，隆尼·约翰逊早就该再拿个荣誉学位了。

if hydropolemology were a thing, Lonnie Johnson would have another honorary degree.

这是《老爸有话说》播客里说的。

So says dad word fond podcast.

好的。

Okay.

那么，关于夏季相关虚构学科的部分就到这里了。

So that concludes the portion on fictitious ologies involving the summer.

接下来聊聊真正的夏季学科。

Onto some actual summer ologies.

就像十月那期讲植物学时提到的，瓜类专家对南瓜了如指掌，对瓜类水果也门儿清。

As discussed in the phlogies episode in October, a cucurbitologist knows all kinds of secret shit about pumpkins, but also about melons.

如果你碰上一位瓜类专家，比如上海顶尖的西瓜专家，你完全可以说：‘瓜类专家，给我说说你挑瓜的秘诀吧。’

Were you to encounter a melon specialist, like perhaps, one of Shanghai's top professional watermelon experts, you could say, cucurbitologist, tell me your melon thumping secrets.

据说，挑西瓜的时候有几件事要注意，我这就来分享几个挑瓜的小窍门。

So, apparently, one thing to look for when you're picking a watermelon I'm gonna I'm gonna dish out some watermelon secrets.

明白吗？

Okay?

准备好了吗？

Are you ready?

好的。

Okay.

你得看西瓜底部的那块斑痕。

You have to look for the patch on the underbelly of the melon.

那是西瓜接触地面的地方形成的印子。

This is the light patch where it's been in contact with the ground.

这块印子应该是奶油黄的颜色。

That patch should be creamy yellow in color.

颜色越浅、越白，说明西瓜还没熟透。

The lighter and whiter it is, it means it's not quite ripe yet.

我之前还真不知道这个。

I didn't know that.

还有，西瓜拿起来要感觉沉甸甸的，跟它的大小相称。

Also, it should feel heavy for its size.

你有没有在超市里拍过西瓜，就为了装个懂行的样子，然后拎着它去结账，心里还纳闷自己干嘛要这么做。

And you know when you thump a melon in the store and you do it just to look cool before you make off with it to the check stand and you're like, I don't know why I did that.

我根本不知道该听什么声音。

I don't even know what I'm listening for.

我都不知道该怎么做。

I don't know what I'm doing.

好吧。

Okay.

根据瓜类专家的说法，应该发出一种沉闷、空洞的声音。

According to cucurbitologists, it should have a dull, really hollow sound.

艾格斯坦，几十年来都没人想要这种瓜。

Eigstaei, and nobody wanted them for decades.

他当时说：

He was like,

我发明了无籽西瓜。

I invented a seedless watermelon.

你们这些家伙就喜欢互相扔瓜子玩？

You ghouls enjoy spitting seeds at each other?

什么？

The fuck?

无籽西瓜才是正经玩意儿，各位。

These seedless melons are where it's at, folks.

傻子。

Idiots.

他一直不停地推销它们。

He kept peddling them and peddling them.

直到八十年代，它们才终于开始流行起来。

And then finally, they began taking off in, like, the nineteen eighties.

根据《芝加哥论坛报》对他九十多岁时的一次采访，他在超市里看到无籽西瓜大卖，心里想：这么多年了，真不容易。

And according to an interview with him in the Chicago Tribune, which was conducted in his nineties, He saw seedless watermelons flourishing in a supermarket, and he said to himself, after all these years, it feels pretty good.

我内心深处特别高兴，因为这位无籽西瓜专家终于亲眼看到自己的发明成功了。

And there's something in my soul that's, like, so happy that the seedless watermelon specialist got to see his invention really take off.

因为他几十年来一直想不通：你怎么可能不想要无籽西瓜呢？

Because it was decades of him being like, how can you not want a seedless watermelon?

你到底怎么了？

What's wrong with you?

我们都想要啊。

We all want them.

还有啊，别把瓜皮扔了。

Also, don't toss those rinds, folks.

根据水melon.org这个网站说，你可以把瓜皮切碎，炒着吃。

According to watermelon.org, which is a website, you can cut them up, and then you can add them to stir fries and eat them.

瓜皮也可以用来腌制。

You can also pickle the rinds.

下次烧烤时，拿个空枕套到处转，把别人嚼过的瓜皮都收起来，然后说：真香。

So at your next barbecue, just walk around with an empty pillowcase and start loading up on everyone's chewed up casticides and be like, yummers.

我要腌上一批，几个月后慢慢享用。

I'm gonna brine this up and dine on it in several months.

我批准你这么干。

You have my blessings.

说到烧烤，咱们聊聊烟火技术吧。

Speaking of barbecues, let's talk pyrotechnology.

等等。

Wait.

是烟火。

Pyrotechnics.

烟火不就是放烟花吗？

Isn't that is that fireworks?

天啊。

God.

但愿是这样。

I hope so.

我刚开始研究这期节目时，就想：要是请一位烟火专家来聊聊国庆节、棒球赛上那些炸开的烟花和天空中的巨响，该多好。

When I started researching this episode, I was like, what if I had a pyrotechnologist on to talk about the bombs bursting in air in the fourth of July displays and baseball games and sky booms and such?

但我发现，搞烟花的行内人其实叫烟火技师，而不是烟火学家。

But I found out that fireworks people are technically pyrotechnicians, not pyrotechnologists.

所以关于烟花的事，就只能听艾莉叔叔说一句：今年夏天别把你的手炸飞了。

So firework talk will be limited to uncle Alie telling you, don't blow your goddamn hands off this summer.

明白吗？

Okay?

小心点就行。

Just be careful.

如果你喝醉了，就让别人去点烟花。

And if you're drunk, let someone else explode stuff.

你只管坐着看就行。

Just sit back and watch.

别说我从来没帮过你。

Don't say I never helped you.

其实所谓的烟火专家，是人类学家，研究的是用火烤肉、烧烤这些事。

Pyrotechnologists are actually anthropologists who study chilling and grilling barbecues, cooking with fire.

等等。

But wait.

烧烤到底是什么？为什么我老是拼不对？

What is a barbecue, and why can't I spell it right?

其实这个词来自西班牙语的'barbacoa'，源自加勒比地区的一个词，意思是用木棍搭成的架子。

Well, it comes from the Spanish for barbacoa, which is derived from a Caribbean word meaning a rack made of sticks.

那种架子要么当床一样睡觉用，要么用来在火上熏肉或鱼。

Those were used for either sleeping on like a cot or for smoking meat or fish above a fire.

明白了吧。

There you go.

我觉得美国人后来加了'q u'，两种拼法都可以。

I think Americans added the q u at the end, and you can spell it either way.

但说实话。

But let's be honest.

全大写写成'BBQ'，最省事。

All caps, b b q, it's easiest.

没人想纠结到底有没有'c'，还有'q'在里头。

No one wants to fuck around with the is there a c and also a q in it.

直接拼成 B B Q 就行了。

Just spell it b b q.

我根本不介意。

I don't care.

而且，关于烧烤这个词的词源，还有一场激烈的争论。

Also, is a heated fiery debate on the etymology of barbecue.

它最早在英语中被记录下来是在1661年，由一位名叫埃德蒙·希克林吉尔的英国教士写下，此人背景颇为可疑，当时他在描述牙买加的食人行为。

The first time it was recorded in English was 1661 by Edmund Hickeringgill, who was a British churchman with a shady history, who was describing cannibalism in Jamaica.

他写道：‘有些人被杀，他们的肉被烤了吃。’

He wrote, some are slain and their flesh for with barbecued and eat.

但烧烤历史学家——没错，这真是一种职业——安德鲁·沃恩斯写过一本关于这个词殖民主义和种族主义根源的书，他说希克林吉尔满嘴胡话，纯属编造。

But barbecue historian, and, yes, that is a job, Andrew Warnes wrote a whole book on the colonialist and racist origins of the word and says that hickering gill was full of shit, and he was making up tales.

而烧烤，是美国最古老也最受喜爱的传统之一。

And the barbecue is one of America's oldest and most beloved traditions.

所以，回溯到更早以前，人类最早开始掌握用火可能是在一百七十万年前，但真正熟练起来，大概是在十二万五千年前。

So going back in time a bit, humans first started to learn about fire control maybe as far back as 1,700,000 years ago, but they were really getting good at it about a 125,000 years ago.

还有一个备受热议的烹饪假说。

There's the hotly talked about cooking hypothesis.

这个假说认为，把原本没法吃的淀粉类食物烤焦，正是人类大脑得以发育得这么大的关键。

Now this is a hypothesis that credits charring otherwise inedible starchy food with humans' ability to grow these bigger glucose hogs known as our brains.

你上一次吃生土豆，还能跟朋友玩文字游戏是什么时候？

I mean, when was the last time you ate a raw potato and slayed at word with friends?

根本没这回事，别想了。

Like, never think about it.

在等瓜皮腌制的时候，你有没有想过，为什么历史上总让女人做饭，却让男人负责户外烧烤？

Now another thing to mull over while waiting for your melon rinds to pickle is why historically have women been expected to cook, but men handle the outdoor grilling?

这到底是什么道理？

What the fuck?

我试着找答案，结果发现有一位文化人类学家叫理查德·斯瓦德，他写过一本关于世界各地各种心理与社会谜题的书。

I tried to look for an answer, and I found that a cultural anthropologist, Richard Swader, has written such a book about many psychological, societal mysteries on different continents.

这本书的名字恰如其分，就叫《为什么男人要烧烤？》

This book is aptly titled, why do men barbecue?

我是在网上搜了‘为什么男人烤肉’这个短语后找到这本书的。

I found this after googling the phrase, why do men barbecue?

如果我真读了这本书，一定回来跟你们分享。

And if I ever read that book, I'll report back.

不过网上普遍的说法是，户外烧烤其实就是站着装忙，而别人在屋里忙着摆弄果冻、通心粉沙拉和冰镇水果拼盘。

But the consensus on the web, and I did look it up, is because much of outdoor grilling just involves standing around looking busy while other people are inside fussing over Jell O and macaroni salad and icing down fruit platters.

而且一年里你也就得干这么一季。

And, also, you only have to do it for one season out of the year.

所以你就想，行吧。

So you're like, sure.

那我就当个烧烤大师吧。

I'll be a grill master.

如果你去问耶鲁的研究人员关于火的技术，考古学家们不光会跟你聊烹饪遗迹，还会提到我们开始专门为娱乐放烟花的那些时期。

If you were to ask Yale researchers about pyrotechnology, not only would the archaeologists talk about cooking relics, but they would also point you to periods of time when we really started to make firework for us.

那时候我们开始给器物上釉。

We were glazing vessels.

我们还在锻造武器。

We were hardening weaponry.

我们那时候搞金属加工。

We were doing metallurgy things.

所以火的技术，能延伸出太多方向。

So pyrotechnology, so many directions to go.

夏天你在外头对着篝火发呆的时候，想想吧，有人正待在屋里写书，研究你那些毛茸茸的祖先们对着篝火出神的样子。

So when you're outside the summer gazing into a campfire, just think, there are people who have been indoors writing books about your hairy scared relatives gazing into a campfire.

最后再聊一个跟夏夜篝火有关的‘学’——萤火虫学。

One last ology on the topic of fiery summer evenings, Lampyridology.

这玩意儿是啥啊，沃德？

What the hell is that, Ward?

就是研究萤火虫的学问，其实它们根本不是苍蝇。

It's the study of fireflies, which are not flies at all.

它们是屁股会发光的甲虫。

They're rather beetles with super magic butts.

你管它们叫萤火虫还是电光虫？

Do you call them fireflies or lightning bugs?

你大概在地铁上、跑步时，或者织毛衣时，都小声嘀咕过这些词吧。

You probably just all muttered aloud on the subway or a jogging path or into your knitting.

电光虫。

Lightning fires.

电光虫。

Lightning bugs.

皮尼沃利。

Peeny wallies.

哦，是吗。

Okay.

什么？

What?

有一位叫伯特·沃克斯的研究者，是剑桥大学的语言学教授，他调查了一万名美国人，发现大约有40%的人会混着用这两个词。

One researcher, Bert Vox, who's a linguistics professor at the University of Cambridge, polled 10,000 Americans and found that around 40% say both words interchangeably.

30%的人直接叫萤火虫，将近30%的人叫闪电虫。

30% just say firefly, and almost 30% say lightning bug.

而有百分之零点二的人用别的叫法。

Meanwhile, point o 2%.

在一万个人的调查里，这仅仅对应两个人。

This is only two people in a whole study of 10,000.

把这些夏夜发光的小可爱叫做佩尼·沃利。

Call these glowing summer cuties, painie wallies.

我压根不知道还有这种叫法。

I did not know that was a term.

但下次我再看到它们，我一定正儿八经地喊它们：‘大人，佩尼·沃利上尉。’

But next time I see one, I do know that it will be formally addressed as your honor, captain Peony Wally.

我小时候在加州长大，二十多岁去东海岸才第一次听说佩尼·沃利这个词，当时吓了一跳。

Now growing up in California, I didn't encounter a Peenie Wally until I visited the East Coast in my twenties, and I freaked out.

我在草坪上跳来跳去。

I jumped around a lawn.

我追着它们跑，就像个四岁小孩一样。

I was chasing them like I was four.

看来西海岸，还有奇怪的是马萨诸塞州，都叫它们萤火虫。

So, apparently, the West Coast and oddly just Massachusetts says firefly.

南方人则叫它们电光虫。

The South says lightning bugs.

我想找到那支‘Peeny Walley’阵营，看看那两个人是不是认识。

But I wanna find team peeny walley and see if those two people know each other.

他们肯定认识。

They must.

对吧？

Right?

再分享几个关于萤火虫的有趣冷知识。

So a few fun lemperidology tidbits.

萤火虫的幼虫特别爱吃蜗牛。

Firefly larvae love to eat snails.

特别喜欢。

Love them.

挺奇怪的。

It's weird.

这是法语的说法。

It's French.

那它们是怎么让屁股发光的呢？

So how do they make their butts glow?

它们下半身有个发光器官。

Well, they have a light organ in their lower half.

你可以想象成一个会发光的胯部。

Think of it like a glow crotch.

氧气和钙、ATP（为细胞供能的物质）结合，再加上一种发光化学物质。

And oxygen combines with calcium and ATP, which carries energy to cells, plus this luminescent chemical.

这种物质叫荧光素。

It's called luciferin.

而且，‘萤光素’这名字听起来简直邪门得要命，字面意思就是这样。

Also, luciferin sounds evil as hell, literally.

因为它的本意是‘带来光明者’，圣经里的路西法就是这么得名的。

And that's because it means light bringer, which the biblical Lucifer was named for.

我想，路西法在圣经里变成撒旦，可能是因为希伯来语里表示‘嚎叫’的词被误译了。

And I guess how Lucifer became Satan biblically may have been because of a translation error with the Hebrew word meaning howl.

但说实话，我花了整整十五分钟查了无数网站，就为了搞清楚这事。

But, honestly, I just spent fifteen minutes on so many websites trying to figure this out.

所以，研究圣经的学者们，要是我哪里说错了，请指正。

So biblical scholars, correct me on this.

我不清楚撒旦为啥叫路西法，但萤光素本身可不邪乎。

I don't know why Satan is called Lucifer, but Luciferin, it's not evil.

它就是一只发情的甲虫，屁股上装了个迪斯科灯，亮着灯跟人打招呼：嘿。

It's just a raver crotch on a horny beetle flashing it to say, hey.

你是我的同类吗？

Are you my species?

咱们干脆直接上吧，生一堆吃蜗牛的小孩。

Because let's get it on and make snail eating babies.

不过说起来有点邪门，有些雌性萤火虫会模仿其他物种的求偶闪光，引诱雄性萤火虫过来，然后把它们吃掉。

But I guess in a kind of evil fact, some female fireflies mimic the mating flashes of another species, and then they lure brandy beetle dudes and they eat them.

天哪，真的假的。

They're like, oh my god.

咱们真该凑一块儿。

We should totally get together.

我超想跟你约会。

I would love to date you.

然后直接连皮带肉一口吞了。

And then they just eat them with their faces.

维基百科上说这种萤火虫被称为‘致命女郎’，听起来是有点夸张，但我认了。

Now according to Wikipedia, the species is referred to as the femme fatale of fireflies, which seems a little overly dramatic, but I'll take it.

所以，用不着一个专门研究肌肉和组织的心理学家来告诉你：先穿上紧身裤，发动一场水力战争，然后吃点瓜类零食冷静一下，最后再享用一场烟火般的美食。

So with that, it doesn't take a psychologist who is a person who studies the muscular and fleshy parts of the body to tell you to go put on some spandex underpants and engage in hydropolemological warfare, then maybe cool off with a cucurbitological snack before you feast on pyrotechnologically prepared cuisine.

现在是夏天了。

It's summer.

你值得好好犒劳自己。

You deserve it.

如果你还想听更多关于这些话题的内容，随时告诉我。

So let me know if you wanna hear more about any of these topics.

我看看能不能联系上谁。

I'll see who I can track down.

感谢你花时间听完这期有点稀奇古怪的节目，下周我会带来一大堆火星八卦。

And thank you for having a mini listen to this eeny, peeny walley of an episode, and I'll be back next week with tons of Martian gossip.

特别感谢史蒂文·雷·莫里斯在节目上线前几小时紧急整理素材，感谢艾琳·塔尔伯特和汉娜·利波担任出色的运营，也感谢Ologies播客Facebook群组里那群充满好奇心的朋友们。

Thank you, Steven Ray Morris, for tossing this together just hours before it goes up, to Erin Talbert and Hannah Lippo for being incredible admins, to the jolly group of very curious folks on the Ologies podcast Facebook group.

想买点夏日装备的话，去 ologiesmerch.com 看看吧。

Get yourself some summer gear if you want at ologiesmerch.com.

发社交媒体时记得加上 #OlogiesMerch，这样我就能在每周一的周边分享里转发你了。

Tag it OlogiesMerch in your online posts so I can repost you on merch Mondays.

感谢香农·费尔蒂斯和邦妮·达奇运营这个周边网站。

And thank you, Shannon Feltis and Bonnie Dutch for running that merch site.

一如既往，感谢热爱夏天、留着胡子的史蒂文·雷·莫里斯负责剪辑。

Thank you as always to the beloved summer mustachioed Steven Ray Morris for editing.

主题曲由乐队Islands的尼克·索伯恩创作并演唱，那可是个名字一听就想去度假的乐队。

The theme song was written and performed by Nick Thorburn of the very vacationy named band Islands.

记得多向各种聪明人提各种看似傻气的问题，他们其实超爱回答的。

And please remember to ask all kinds of smart people, all kinds of seemingly stupid questions because they secretly love it.

要是你跟人一起烧烤，不妨聊聊甲虫的屁股。

If you were to barbecue with someone, talk to them about beetle butts.

说到秘密，我可以自豪地说——这算是个小炫耀吧——我从来没在泳池里尿过尿。

Also, speaking of secrets, I can proudly say, this is like a little bit of a humble brag, that I've never peed in a pool.

我简直震惊了。

I was utterly shocked.

我私下问了几个朋友，发现大多数人其实都会在泳池甚至热水池里尿尿。

I did an informal poll among friends, and most people seem to pee in pools, even hot tubs.

我当时就想，真的假的？

I was like, really?

你也是这么想的吗？

I really?

你们呢？

You guys?

我爱你们，但咱们能不能别在水里撒尿？

I love you, but I can we not pee in them?

我不确定。

I don't know.

听说对身体也没那么大害处，但现在大家都不容易，你们懂的。

Apparently, it's not that bad for you, but also, like, times are tough out there, guys.

咱们彼此体谅一点吧。

Let's be kind to each other.

除非双方同意，否则别在别人可能喝到的水里撒尿。

Let's not pee in the water that goes in each other's mouths unless it's consensual.

好吧？

Okay?

不管怎样

Either way

我非常爱你。

I love you lots.

去问聪明人问题。

Ask smart people the questions.

再见。

Bye bye.

再见。

Bye bye.