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In the late 1920s, Hollywood producers liked coming here to the fancy Millennium Biltmore Hotel to hold business meetings.
20世纪20年代末，好莱坞制片人们喜欢来这家豪华的千禧碧丽宫酒店举行商务会议。

The story goes that it was here in 1927 that the studio's designer first sketched the outlook of the Oscar Statuette.
据说1927年正是在这里，该工作室的设计师首次画出了奥斯卡小金人的草图。

During the preliminary session of planning the Oscars, there were a couple of people in conversation talking about this event.
在奥斯卡颁奖礼的策划预备会议上，有几个人在交谈中提到了这件事。

And this started to scribble on a napkin and kind of draw a design above what is now the Oscar Statuette.
一开始只是在餐巾纸上涂鸦，大致画出了如今奥斯卡小金人的设计草图。

No one knows where the historical napkin ended up. Director of Marketing at Biltmore Hotel, Ana Segura, believes that was lost nearly hundred years ago.
没人知道那张餐巾纸最后去哪里了。碧丽宫酒店营销总监安娜·塞古拉认为那张餐巾纸早在近百年前就已遗失。

But the Oscar design endured. And in 1929, the first Academy Awards ceremony took place at the Roosevelt Hotel.
但奥斯卡的设计经久不衰。1929年，第一届奥斯卡颁奖典礼在罗斯福酒店举行。

Yet years later, the ceremony moved to where it all began, the Biltmore Hotel.
然而几年后，典礼举办地点转移到了碧丽宫酒店。

This hall hosted the ceremony eight times, though back then, it looked a little different.
这个大厅曾举办过八次典礼，不过当时它的样子和现在有些不同。

This ballroom originally was built to cater to the Oscars with a grand stage.
这个宴会厅最初是为了举办奥斯卡颁奖典礼而建造的，里面有一个宏大的舞台。

And because of the reconstruction, the hotel went through a renovation, and so they had to downsize the ceiling.
由于重建，酒店进行了翻修，因此他们不得不降低天花板的高度。

Pompous receptions, breathtakingly beautiful evening gowns and tuxedos, this was the place to see and be seen in legendary old Hollywood.
奢华的招待会、美轮美奂的晚礼服和燕尾服，这里曾是传奇老好莱坞名利场中争奇斗艳的秀场。

Visitors can still see glimpses of it today on the pictures that adorn the hotel walls.
如今，游客们仍能在装饰酒店墙壁的图片中一窥其昔日风采。

This picture, that's the one with Walt Disney and Shirley Temple. The beauty about this picture is the Oscar. It's the most iconic because of the Seven Dwarfs nomination.
这是华特·迪士尼和秀兰·邓波儿的合影。这张照片的亮点在于那座奥斯卡奖杯。它之所以最具标志性是因为《白雪公主和七个小矮人》的提名。

Obviously he got his award, so you have seven little Oscars and then the big Oscar trophy.
显然他获得了奖项，所以有七个小奥斯卡奖杯，然后还有一个大的奥斯卡奖杯。

But not just Hollywood stars frequented the Biltmore Hotel.
但不仅仅是好莱坞明星经常光顾碧丽宫酒店。

During prohibition, the time between 1920 and 1933 when the sale and manufacture of alcohol was illegal, this place drew very different crowds.
在1920年至1933年禁酒令期间，出售和生产酒是非法的，那时这个地方吸引了许多截然不同的群体。

Everyone from gangsters to politicians came here to meet in a secret bar that was hidden behind this wall.
从黑帮成员到政客，所有人都曾来到这堵墙后隐藏的秘密酒吧会面。

High name profile ranking officials, whether there were government celebrities, it was a combination of just, you know, highly renowned name people .
高知名度的高级官员，不管是不是政府政要，都是一些很有名的人。

And of course, because of the prohibition era and having such a great time at some point, somebody had to get out and get away, right? And so that was the secret passage.
当然，由于禁酒令的存在，人们在某个时刻玩得太过尽兴，总得有人溜出去躲一躲，对吧？于是就有了这条秘密通道。

Even today, actors and producers love coming here. Jaime has been a barman here for over half a century.
即使在今天，演员和制片人也喜欢来到这里。海曼在这里当酒保已经50多年了。

All this time, he's been collecting autographs, pictures and incredible stories.
他一直在收集签名、照片，以及许多不可思议的故事。

His favorite is about how he met Al Pacino, who decided to take a stroll around the hotel wearing a black cape.
他最喜欢讲的是他如何遇见阿尔·帕西诺的，当时阿尔·帕西诺披着一件黑色披风在酒店周围散步。

Mr. Pacino, I almost called securities on you. He said why, because look at you. And he said well, I'm rehearsing a play at Aquinas. Oh my god! So later on, I asked him for his autograph.
帕西诺先生，我差点叫保安过来。他问为什么，我说因为看看你那副样子。他说他在阿奎那排练一部戏剧。天哪！后来我向他要了签名。

The Academy Award ceremony hasn't been held here for years. Its venue of choices has long been Hollywood's Dolby Theatre.
奥斯卡颁奖典礼已多年未在此地举办。其首选场地一直是好莱坞的杜比剧院。

But to commemorate the early days of Oscars, every February, a special themed party is held within the walls of the legendary Biltmore Hotel .
但为了纪念奥斯卡的早期岁月，每年二月，传奇的碧丽宫酒店内都会举办一场特别主题派对。

ECHO was instituted in 1975, and it originally stood for "Every Citizen Has Opportunities".
ECHO成立于1975年，全称是"Every Citizen Has Opportunities"。

And we provide skill-building, job placement, day support, and transportation to individuals with disabilities.
我们还为残疾人提供技能培训、就业安置、日间支持和交通服务。

Our mission is to empower each individual to achieve their optimal level of personal, social and economic success.
我们的使命是助力每个人在个人、社交及经济层面实现最佳成就。

Today, we are working here at MAC Aerospace. We're working on their inventory, which is one of the jobs that we have here for our participants.
如今我们在MAC Aerospace工作。我们正在清点他们的库存， 这是我们为参与者准备的工作之一。

And we count the inventory, we label it, and if it needs to be re-boxed, we can re-box it as well.
我们清点存货，贴上标签，如果需要的话，我们也可以重新装箱。

Today, we're counting screws. Everybody has a process. Everybody does it differently.
今天，我们要数螺丝钉。每个人都有自己的一套流程。每个人的工作方式都不同。

So I have to come in and learn the process, and then I teach the process to the participants.
我必须来学习这个过程，然后再把这个过程传授给参与者。

They're capable of anything. They can do anything as long as they trained properly. And that's my job.
他们什么都能做。只要训练得当，他们就能做任何事。而训练他们就是我的工作。

Becky, how's it going? Are you finding every piece? Yeah? So make sure some of the smaller pieces tend to fall at the very bottom.
贝基，怎么样了？每个都找到了吗？要确认一些较小的，它们通常会落在最底部。

So if you need to, you can take things out and move them around, but I promise you every piece is in there,okay?
如果你需要的话，可以把东西拿出来重新摆放，但我保证每一样东西都在里面，好吗？

I was in Phoenix, Arizona with my parents until my parents passed away. I moved here in October, last October.
在我父母去世之前，我一直和他们待在亚利桑那州的凤凰城。我是去年十月搬到这里的。

We currently serve around 207 individuals with disabilities. The assessment center helps determine different aptitudes and interests.
我们目前为大约207名残疾人提供服务。评估中心帮助确定人们不同的能力和兴趣。

It has a number of different modules, for which we put people through in various industries.
它有很多不同的模块， 我们让不同行业的人去体验这些模块。

And as you saw, Amy was very good at that. She's quite skilled at rolling napkins, silverware into napkins.
如你所见，艾米很擅长这个。她非常熟练于将餐具卷进餐巾里。

So for instance, she might be a good fit for our hospitality, our dish washing and restaurant services.
因此她可能非常适合接待、洗碗和餐厅服务工作。

What is something that's not appropriate to wear to work? A bathing suit or a swim suit not appropriate.
什么东西不适合穿去上班？泳衣不适合。

Finding a job is a desire and a goal of theirs, not everyone. So a lot of the participants that we work with here in the Academy have expressed a desire to get a job.
找工作是他们的愿望和目标，虽然不是每个人都是这样想。我们学院合作的许多参与者都表达了找工作的意愿。

So we kind of work on a lot of the soft skills that is required when one gets a job.
我们主要培养一些求职时所需的软技能。

This is a slime mold. Cat Chang is an urban designer. But in her spare time, she likes to examine other life-forms.
这是一种黏菌。张凯特是城市设计师。但在业余时间，她喜欢研究其他生命形式。

Ever since I was a little girl, I've been interested in the natural world. We're native Hawaiian.
从小我就对自然界充满兴趣，我们是夏威夷原住民。

Our family and my grandmother would take me around her yard. She would show us all the plants and how you use them.
家人和祖母会带我参观她的院子。她会向我们展示所有的植物以及它们的用途。

And later when I was interested in learning about fungi, I didn't have anybody to help me with it. Someone suggested iNaturalist to me, and it's on your cell phone.
后来我对真菌产生了兴趣，却没有人能在这方面帮助我。有人向我推荐了iNaturist，可以装在手机上。

iNaturalist is a joint initiative of National Geographic and the California Academy of Sciences.
iNaturalist是美国国家地理学会与加利福尼亚科学院联合发起的项目。

Essentially people can take a photo of anything living, plants, animal, fungus, slime mold, put it on the website and other people identify it.
本质上，人们可以给任何有生命的东西拍照，比如植物、动物、真菌、黏菌，然后把照片上传到网站上，然后由其他人来识别。

The app compares the image with those already in the database to begin the identification process. But ultimately, human experts weigh in.
该应用将图像与数据库中已有的图像进行比较以启动识别过程，但最终仍需由人类专家进行判断。

The best part of it is there's a community of people that can also participate.
最棒的是，还有一个可以参与其中的群体。

It's used by scientists to collect data, and actually write papers, as well as just amateur people who are really interested in getting more involved, and caring more about nature.
科学家用它来收集数据并撰写论文，同样也有纯粹出于兴趣想更深入参与、更关心自然的业余爱好者使用它。

This time of year, I'm particularly looking for salamanders. And I always like to see mammals, they're one of my favorites, and birds of course. I have almost 55,000 observations. It's a lot.
每年的这个时候，我特别想找到蝾螈。我一直很喜欢观察哺乳动物，它们是我最喜欢的动物之一，当然还有鸟类。我已经有近55000次观察记录了，这可不少。

iNaturalist has observations from every country in the world. Right now, I believe we have over 26 million observations and about 700,000 active users.
iNaturalist拥有来自世界各国的观察记录。目前，我认为我们有超过2600万条观测数据和约70万活跃用户。

This collaboration across continents led recently to a surprising discovery in California:
这种跨大洲的合作最近在加利福尼亚州有了一项惊人的发现：

the type of giant sunfish whose normal habitat is thousands of miles to the south, an indication perhaps of a rapidly changing world.
一种通常栖息地在数千英里以南的巨型翻车鱼出现在这里，这或许预示着世界正在迅速变化。

Visitors come to the U.S. Botanic Garden to enjoy the variety of plants and the peace and serenity of nature. This woman works nearby.
游客们来到美国国家植物园，欣赏种类繁多的植物，感受大自然的宁静与祥和。这位女士在附近工作。

Feels like a forest in a city, so I can be thinking about something else that worked for even for 5 minutes, which is sometimes very nice.
仿佛置身于城市中的一片森林，让我能短暂地思考其他事情，哪怕只有五分钟，这种感觉有时真的很美妙。

Located on the National Mall, the Botanic Garden is made up of 65,000 indoor and outdoor plants, some more than 165 years old.
植物园位于国家广场，共有65000株室内和室外植物，其中一些已有超过165年的历史。

Inside the conservatory, the greenhouse, there are rooms with plants that thrive in different environments, like this tropical room.
在温室里，有适应不同环境的植物生长的房间，比如这个热带植物室。

Since its beginning, visitors have been educated about the value of plants.
从建园开始，植物园就一直向参观者们展示植物的价值。

We still have a very important role to play in educating people about the importance of plants,
在向人们普及植物重要性方面，我们仍能发挥非常重要的作用，

particularly in urban audiences where people may not have a direct connection to a farm, may not understand where food in particular comes from.
尤其是面向城市受众，他们可能没有亲身接触农田，可能不了解食物具体来源。

One of the garden's main attractions are the 4,000 orchid plants that come from around the world.
植物园的主要景点之一是来自世界各地的4000株兰花。

During the annual spring orchid show, a sea of flowers bloom, including some that are endangered.
在一年一度的春季兰花展期间，花海绽放，其中不乏一些濒危品种。

During the Christmas season, a very popular exhibit showcases toy trains chugging through plants and structures made from plant-based materials.
圣诞季期间，一个极受欢迎的展览会展示玩具火车穿梭于由植物材料制成的植物与建筑模型之间。

As part of the bicentennial, the newest exhibit "Deeply Rooted, Branching Outward" highlights the scientific exploration of plants, which the garden hopes will give visitors.
作为建园二百周年庆典的一部分，最新展览“深深扎根，向外延伸”着重展示了对植物的科学探索，而这正是植物园希望能带给游客的独特体验。

So just a greater appreciation for plants, for plant discovery, for plant exploration.
我们可以更好地观赏植物，了解植物发现，以及植物探索。

The U.S. Botanic Garden is free and open every day, with more than 1 million visitors a year.
美国国家植物园每天都免费开放， 每年有100多万游客。

It has enlightened its guests for two centuries and will continue to for generations to come.
两个世纪以来，它一直启迪着到访的宾客，并且在未来的世代里还将继续如此。

Researchers with NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, catch a leatherback sea turtle off the coast of California.
美国国家海洋和大气管理局(NOAA)的研究人员在加利福尼亚海岸捕获了一只棱皮龟。

The tens of millions of years old species is in serious decline, says ecologist Scott Benson.
生态学家斯科特·本森说，这个已存在数千万年的物种正在急剧减少。

Estimates are that the population now is about 1400 adult females remaining.
据估计，目前成年雌性个体仅剩下约1400只。

That's down from literally tens of thousands several decades, a few decades ago.
这与几十年前动辄数以万计的数量相比已经减少了。

Benson co-authored a new study that says the foraging area used by the leatherback sea turtle saw a population drop of about 80 percent in the past 30 years.
本森参与合著的一项新研究指出，过去30年间，棱皮龟觅食区域内的种群数量下降了约80%。

He says this is amazing given the species adaptability. The leatherback turtle is an ancient mariner.
他说，考虑到该物种的适应能力，这十分令人惊讶。棱皮龟是古老的航海者。

They've been around for almost as long as 80 million years in their present form, date back to the time of the dinosaurs.
它们以现在的形态存在了近8000万年，其历史可以追溯到恐龙时代。

It's not a poorly adapted species. They've been through all kinds of things, meteor strikes, climate changes, you name it.
它们并非适应能力差的物种，经历过陨石撞击、气候变化等各种磨难。

He says the smaller numbers make the species more vulnerable to outside factors, like international fishing and egg harvesting.
他表示数量减少使该物种更容易受到国际捕捞和采集龟蛋等外部因素的影响。

Benson's team puts transmitters on turtles so their fishing fleets can avoid them.
本森的团队给海龟装上发射器，这样他们的渔船就能避开这些海龟。

He says his team is doing what it can to boost the rapidly dwindling numbers.
他说他的团队正在尽其所能来使迅速减少的数量回弹。

We're down to the remnants right now so any little thing now could potentially disrupt it. So we have just very little time to turn around.
剩下的数量不多了，所以现在任何小事都有可能破坏局面。我们能够扭转局面的时间不多了。

All seven species of the leatherback are in trouble, but the new study focuses on the western pacific variety,
所有七种棱皮龟都面临困境，但这项新研究主要关注西太平洋种群，

which migrates more than 11,000 kilometers from Indonesia and the Solomon Islands to the US west coast to feast on jellyfish.
它们会从印度尼西亚和所罗门群岛迁徙超过1.1万公里，前往美国西海岸享用水母。

NOAA recently released a new action plan calling for greater international cooperation.
NOAA最近发布了一项新的行动计划，呼吁加强国际合作。