This pump, which Mr Dennett calls a cascade of homunculi, was inspired by the field of artificial intelligence. (AI)

丹内特把这种泵称之为级联侏儒，其灵感自于人工智能领域（AI）。

They were influenced by the idea of the homunculus, which is Latin for little man.

他受到 homunculus 概念的影响，homunculus 拉丁语中小人的意思。

But it's not as if there's a homunculus in there who's in charge.

但这并非意味着里面有小矮人掌控切。

I'm like, yeah, there's some little, it's not a homunculus.

说，的，虽然有些小，但那不小人。

Is there a homunculus down in there?

里面有小人吗？

Even the addition of a second Normal size human being wouldn't cause a structural failure, Much less a homunculus such as yourself.

就算多承正常体型的人类也不会引致其床架松动的更别提像你这样的小雏形人了。

People could get their own babies painted, and they wanted them to look like cute chubby babies, not homunculi.

人可以给自己的婴儿上色，他希望他看起来像可爱的胖的婴儿， 而不矮人。

If I close my eyes and look for him, I won't find some homunculus of Dan between my ears.

如果闭上眼睛寻找他，找不到耳朵之间某丹的侏儒。

He had explained at length to somebody that magical receipts existed for the manufacture of homunculi.

他向某人详细解释了制造侏儒的魔法收据。

So what the homunculus is, is it's a representation of how our brain has allocated resources to help us be successful.

所以，所谓“小人”，实际上大脑如何分配资源以助取得成功的体现。

These homunculi were seen by historical persons, by Count Max Lemberg, by Count Franz-Josef von Thun, and by many others.

这些人造人曾被历史人物 Max Lemberg 伯爵、Franz-Josef von Thun 伯爵和许多其他人看到过。

There were ten homunculi—James Kammerer calls them prophesying spirits—kept in strong bottles, such as are used to preserve fruit, and these were filled with water.

有十小矮人——詹姆斯·卡默勒称它为预言之灵——装在结实的瓶子里， 比如用来保存水果的， 瓶子里装满了水。

When you look at that homunculus, one of the things I always will ask people to think about is, you know, what's wrong with this image?

当你看到那“小人”时，总会让人思考问题：这张图有什么不对劲的地方？

The homunculus within died after a few painful respirations in spite of all efforts to save him, and the body was buried in the garden.

尽管尽了切努力抢救，但体内的人造人在痛苦地呼吸了几下后还死了，尸体被埋在了花园里。

Crucially, at each level down in the cascade the virtual homunculi become a bit less clever, to a point where all it needs to do is, say, pick the larger of two numbers.

这过程的关键在于，在这串联在起的每较低层次的子系统中，那虚拟侏儒会渐渐地变得不再那么聪明，直至到达这样点为止。在这点上，需要那侏儒来做的全部事情就在两数字中选出较大的那。

The time-honoured idea that the mind is essentially a little man, or homunculus, who sits in the brain doing clever things soon becomes problematic: who does all the clever things in the little man's brain?

传统的观点认为，从本质上说，心灵住在人类大脑里从事智力活动小人，或者侏儒。不过，在丹尼特看来这种观点站不住脚的：既然如此，那么，住在这侏儒的大脑中，从事智力活动的人又谁呢？

The change had to be made rapidly, because while the homunculi were exposed to the air they closed their eyes and seemed to grow weak and unconscious, as though they were about to die.

变化必须迅速进行，因为人造人在暴露在空气中的同时，他闭上了眼睛，似变得虚弱无力，失去了知觉，就好像他即将死去样。

James Gronovius of Leyden —" homunculus eruditione mediocri, ingenio nullo" , as Bentley called him — attacked Bentley for ten years because Bentley had succeeded in correcting a fragment of Callimachus where he had failed.

莱顿的詹姆斯·格罗诺维乌斯（本特利称他为“博学的侏儒，无知的人”）对本特利进行了十年的攻击，因为本特利成功地纠正了他失败的卡利马科斯的片段。

When the bottles were removed, it was found that the spirits had grown to about a span and a half each; the male homunculi were come into possession of heavy beards, and the nails of the fingers had grown.

当瓶子被移走时，发现烈酒已经长到大约跨半；男性侏儒开始留着浓密的胡须，手指上的指甲也长出来了。