A hobbit. Are misfiring neurons in your hippocampus preventing the conversion from short-term to long-term memory?

一个特会把你大脑海马状突起里的神经元击碎以防止你的短时记忆向长时记忆转化，懂吗？

Not to far from Ashville, North Carolina, a hobbit hole home is under construction.

在离北卡罗来纳州阿什维尔不远的地方，一座特洞穴小屋正在建设当中。

And if compliments don't work, be like the hobbit and go on an adventure.

如果赞美不起作用，那就像特一样去冒险。

These early humans became popularly known as " hobbits" .

这些早被普遍称为“特”。

Now a new study suggests ancestors of the " hobbits" were even shorter.

现在一项新研究表，“特”的祖先甚至更矮。

In fact, hobbits are here still a tribe of nomadic creatures called Harfoots.

事实上，特仍然在这里，他们是游牧部落，叫做毛脚族。

What's up with O'Malley's hair? He looks like a hobbit.

O'Malley 的头发是怎么回事？像书里的小矮。

Perhaps there's more burglar Hobbits around these parts. Might be enough for a pie.

或许这附近有更多飞贼特，或许足够烤一个派。

However, hobbits did live over a hundred years, so maybe the definition hasn't changed that much.

不过，哈确实活了一百多年，也许定义并没有发生太大的变化。

People think that because the rest of the band look like hobbits. - No, no, no.

们总这么以为，因为乐队其他都长得跟特似的。-不不不。

See? Right there. You're a grown man, you should be able to pick whichever hobbit you want.

白了? 就是这么回事，你是个成年，你有权利选择自己喜欢的特。

Hobbits are remarkably light on their feet. In fact, they can pass unseen by most, if they choose.

特行动非常敏捷，事实上，想要的话，他们可以来去无踪。

The discoverers of the first hobbit fossils named them after characters in the The Lord of the Rings books.

第一批发现“特”化石的以《指环王》书籍中的物为这些命名。

Some say he came up with " tween" to describe an in-between age for his characters called " hobbits" .

有说，他想出了“tween”一词来描述他笔下角色“特”的中间年龄。

This new understanding of the potential of human variation might make us reconsider just how different the hobbits really are.

这种对变异可能的新理解可能会让我们重新思考特到底有多不同。

But there are no hobbits, dwarves, or Valkyries in this tale.

但这个故事中没有特、矮或女武神。

They work like hobbits, carrying out jobs that are all in close contact with nature.

他们像特一样工作， 从事与大自然密切接触的工作。

" Those are hobbit clothes, " says Gentile.

“那些是特的衣服， ” 外邦说。

And to start with that scene, too, with the four hobbits was really lovely.

从那个场景开始，四个特也非常可爱。

More like a hobbit hole than Moonbase Alpha.

Moonbase Alpha 更像是一个特洞。