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

一个霍比特人会把你大脑海马状突起里的神经元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，一座霍比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，那就像霍比特人一样去冒险。

These early humans became popularly known as " hobbits" .

这些早期人类被普遍称为“霍比特人”。

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

现在一项新研表明，“霍比特人”的祖先甚至更矮。

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

事实上，霍比特人仍然在这里，他们是游牧部落，叫做毛脚族。

They are taking the Hobbits to lsengard.

他们要将哈比人带到艾辛格。

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

O'Malley 的头发是怎么回事？像书里的小矮人。

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人，或许足够烤一个派。

Hobbits and elves have been drawing tourists to New Zealand.

《指环王》中的矮人和精灵吸引了大量的游客来到新西兰。

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

不过，哈比人确实活了一百多，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.

人们总这么为，因为乐队其他人都长得跟霍比特人似的。-不不不。

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，你是个成人，你有权利选择自己喜欢的霍比特人。

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

霍比特人行动非常敏捷，事实上，想要的话，他们可来去无踪。

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

第一批发现“霍比特人”化石的人《指环王》书籍中的人物为这些命名。

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

有人说，他想出了“tween”一词来描述他笔下角色“霍比特人”的中间龄。

Denisovans and real-life Hobbits, Homo floresiensis didn't leave much behind to know them by, but Neanderthals are a different story.

丹尼索瓦人和现实生活中的霍比特人，弗洛雷斯人并没有留下太多可了解他们的信息，但尼安德特人不一样。

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

这种对人类变异可能的新理解可能会让我们重新思考霍比特人到底有多不同。

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

但这个故事中没有霍比特人、矮人或女武神。

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

他们像霍比特人一样工作， 从事与大自然密切接触的工作。