And where better to start than the most tectonically active place on the planet?

还有比地球上构造活动最活地方更好起点吗？

This is because tectonic plates on our planet repeatedly recycle the surface, burying evidence from before the time life formed.

这是因为地球上构造块在地球表面反复循环，掩埋了生命形成之前证据。

This type of rock forms in abundance on Earth only thanks to our planet's liquid water and active plate tectonics; the moon lacks both.

这种岩石在地球上大量存在，完全得益于们星球上液态水和活块构造；而月球上则缺乏这两样东西。

And my mind keeps flitting back to this parallel construction of these circuits were built in infancy and childhood and adolescence.

而思绪不断回这样一个平行构造上：这些电路是在婴儿期、童年期和青春期建立起来。

We think plate tectonics may have been really important for life on Earth, for the evolution of complex life on Earth.

们认为块构造可能对地球上生命，特别是复杂生命进化起了非常重要作用。

And we read on here, that's valuable considering that within the park are Southeast Asia's oldest mountain formations and one of the world's oldest rainforests.

们继续读这里，公园内拥有东南亚最古老山脉构造和世界上最古老雨林之一，这一点显得尤为珍贵。

Luckily for me, I recently teamed up with my friends from Howtown on an episode for their channel all about plate tectonics.

幸运是，最近与Howtown朋友们合作，在他们专注于块构造频道上共同制作了一集节目。

And that on some early geological formation that was later erased by time, they migrated first into Asia and then finally into Europe.

在某些早期地质构造上，这些生物首先迁移了亚洲， 随后最终迁徙至欧洲， 然而这些痕迹随着时间推移已被抹去。

Iceland sits on a tectonic plate boundary that continually splits apart, pushing North America and Eurasia away from each other along the line of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

冰岛位于不断分裂构造块边界上，沿着大西洋中脊线将北美和欧亚大陆分开。

Now, Iceland sits on a tectonic plate boundary between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, and that plate continually splits farther apart, pushing North America and Europe farther apart.

现在，冰岛位于北大西洋和北冰洋之间构造块边界上，该块不断分裂，将北美和欧洲推得越来越远。

With the end finished product there's no difference between a human construction and a robotic construction except the robotic construction is overall a little more accurate.

对于最终成品，人工构造和机器人构造之间没有区别，只是机器人构造总体上更准确一些。

On this orange, I've split the peel into different pieces, each of which can move independently, just as the tectonic plates are arranged on the Earth.

在这个橘子上，把果皮分成不同部分，每个部分都可以独立移动，就像地球上构造块一样。

On the placid, plateless moon there is no such mechanism and it has been easy to assume that basalt is for the most part all the planet has to offer.

在平静且没有块构造月球上，不存在这样机制，因此很容易认为玄武岩就是这颗星球所能提供全部。

Don't let us hamper ourselves by despising those brains comparable in volume, as well as in construction, to wrens' eggs, but let us at once enter fully into the object of our conference.

不要让们轻视那些在体积和构造上与鹪鹩蛋相当大脑而束缚自己，而是让们立即完全进入们会议目标。

Instead, their brains might be the limiting factor after all – even though the physical pieces are mostly in place, their neural circuitry just doesn’t give them the fine level of control they need to mimic human language.

相反，他们大脑可能是真正限制因素——尽管身体上构造基本位，但他们神经回路并没有提供足够精细控制， 使它们能够模仿人类语言。