I'm sitting here in Stanley Field Hall in the Field Museum of Natural History.

我現在坐在菲爾德自然歷史博物館的史丹利·菲爾德廳

It is one of the largest natural history museums in the United States.

它是美國最大的自然歷史博物館之一

It has twenty-four million artifacts, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand examples of fungi, mammals from one hundred and ninety different countries, twenty-one thousand clutches of bird eggs, one million specimens of rove beetles,

它擁有兩千四百萬件文物、十五萬七千件菌類樣本、從一百九十個國家來的哺乳類動物、兩萬一千窩鳥蛋、一百萬件隱翅甲蟲標本，

representing seven thousand different species, and thirty thousand different fish fossils.

代表七千種不同品種，還有三萬件不同的魚類化石！

Right now I'm going to take you guys on a tour of some of the public exhibits

現在我將帶你們去參觀一些你來菲爾德博物館

that you can see if you come visit the Field Museum.

可以看到的公開的展覽

Let's go!

走吧！

I'm sitting here in the Hall of Mammals, surrounded by dozens of full-mount taxidermy dioramas

我現在坐在哺乳類廳，被幾十個古法製作的動物立體情景模型包圍

of every mammal species you can imagine from every corner of the globe possible.

裡面有所有你能想像的哺乳類品種，從世界的各個角落

The Field Museum has a large collection of invertebrates -- more than 2.4 million specimens,

菲爾德博物館有個巨大的無脊椎動物收藏，超過兩百四十萬件標本

and a large portion of those are insects.

之中大部份屬於昆蟲類

Part of The Brain Scoop's relocation means that we're going to be branching out

The Brain Scoop 搬家到這裡，一部份代表我們要擴展討論的範圍

and talking about all different aspects of natural history,

討論有關自然歷史的各個方面的話題

including things like anthropology.

包含像是人類學

We're going to be talking about Africa!

我們還會討論非洲！

Ancient Americas!

古代美洲！

Ancient Egypt!

古埃及！

Asia!

亞洲！

Botany!

植物學！

Plants of the world!

世界上的各種植物！

All of the plants in this hall are made by hand; they're made out of wax!

在這個展廳裡的所有植物都是手工用蠟做成的！

We've got dinosaurs!

我們有恐龍！

Early hominids!

早期原始人類！

Ice-age mammals!

冰河時期的哺乳動物！

Meteorites!

隕石！

The Grainger Hall of Gems!

格蘭傑寶石廳！

The Elizabeth Hubert Malott Hall of Jades!

伊麗莎白·休伯特·馬洛特玉石廳！

Award-winning bathrooms!

得過獎的廁所！

This is the DNA lab where they analyze the genetic data from thousands of different species!

這裡是DNA實驗室，用來分析上千種不同品種的基因資料！

This is Richard Lariviere.

他是理查·拉里維耶爾

He's the president.

他是博物館館長

Hello.

你好

And that's just a tiny fraction of the things that belong to the Field Museum's immense collection.

而這些只是菲爾德博物館龐大的收藏的一小部分

At any one time they only have less than one percent of all of their artifacts on public display.

在任何時候菲爾德博物館只有少於百分之一的文物公開展出

And I am so thrilled to be able to go behind the scenes

所以我非常興奮能夠走進幕後

and share some of these artifacts with you guys

然後把這些文物介紹給你們

in the coming days, weeks, months...

在接下來幾天、幾週、幾個月

years.

甚至到幾年。

This has been an episode of The Brain Scoop,

這就是這一集 The Brain Scoop 節目，

thanks for watching.

感謝收看。