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

一个霍比特大脑海马状突起里的神经元击碎以防止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，一座霍比特洞穴小屋正在建设当中。

A thousand pages of hobbits hasn't been enough for three generations of post-World War II fantasy fans; even when you add in that clumsy, galumphing dirigible of an epilogue, The Silmarillion, it hasn't been enough.

一千页关于霍比特的故事，二战之后的三代魔幻小说爱好者还嫌不够；即便算上那本笨拙突兀的续篇《精灵宝钻》，们尤嫌不足。

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

如果赞美不起作用，那就像霍比特一样去冒险。

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

事实上，霍比特然在这里，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霍比特，或许足够烤一个派。

Moving from sci-fi to fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien used the word tween to describe the period in a hobbit's life between childhood and adulthood, roughly 20 to 33.

从科幻到奇幻，托尔金用 “tween” 一词来形容霍比特从童年到成年的这段时期，大概是20到33岁。

There are the heart wrenching-moments, Sam's monologue at the end of the Two Towers, King Aragorn walking up to the hobbits and telling them " you bow to no one."

影片中有一些令揪心的时刻，比如山姆在《指环王 2：双塔奇兵》结尾的独白，阿拉贡国王走到霍比特面前，对他们说：“们不要向任何。”

And they are affectionately called hobbits from many scientists because they only stood about 3 feet 6 inches tall, or just a little over one meter.

许多科学家都亲切地称他们为霍比特，因为他们身高只三英尺六英寸，也就是一米多一点。

Scientists need more study, and more fossils, to learn the hobbits' place in human evolution, said Matt Tocheri of Canada's Lakehead University.

加拿大湖首大学的马特·托切里表示，科学家需要更多的研究和更多的化石来了解“霍比特”在类进化中的地位。

Researchers say the diminutive human species Homo floresiensis, dubbed 'the hobbit', is much older than first thought. Jonathan Amos has the story.

研究员称，被称作霍比特的身材矮小种弗洛瑞斯存在的年份比之前料想的要早得多，乔纳森·阿莫斯报道。

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“霍比特”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.

这种对类变异可能的新理解可能让我们重新思考霍比特到底有多不同。

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

明白了? 就是这么回事，是个成年，有权利选择自己喜欢的霍比特。

The writers of these books are creating the hobbits they still love and pine for; they are trying to bring Frodo and Sam back from the Grey Havens because Tolkien is no longer around to do it for them.

这些书的作者都在创造他们然热爱并且渴求的霍比特；他们试图弗罗多和山姆①①《魔成》三部曲的两位主公，都是·比特，一个虚构的矮族。从格雷黑文找回来，因为托尔金已不在，无法替他们做到。

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霍比特似的。-不不不。

Scientists do not yet know whether the hobbits shrank from an earlier, taller human species called Homo erectus that lived in the area, or from an even more primitive human ancestor.

科学家们还不知道“霍比特”是从生活在该地区的更早期、更高的类物种——直立进化而来，还是来自更原始的类祖先。

It might also have some implications for another set of bones found in the region, those of the tiny human that researchers dubbed " the hobbit" .

这可能还对该地区发现的另一组骨骼产生一些影响，这些微小类的骨骼，研究员认为它们属于“霍比特”。

In the 13 years since its discovery, scientists have continued their investigations and they re-dated the cave settlements in which the hobbit was buried.

在这种种被发现的13年后，科学家继续进行研究，并重新确定了这种种被埋葬墓穴的时期。