現實生活中最令人震驚的能人異士(上)
With so many superhero movies around, such as Spiderman or Hulk, we are used to see people with special abilities in fiction. But people with amazing abilities actually do exist in real life; here's a list of 10 of the most amazing Real-Life Superheroes!
電影中出現過許多超級英雄，比如蜘蛛俠和綠巨人，但我們只在科幻片裏看到過有超能力的人。事實上，在現實生活中也存在有特殊能力的人。現在就要說到10個現實生活中最令人震驚的能人異士。Incredible Brain (Daniel Tammet)
1.超常智力（丹尼爾·譚米特）
Daniel Paul Tammet is a British high-functioning autistic savant gifted with a facility for mathematical calculations, sequence memory, and natural language learning. He was born with congenital childhood epilepsy. Experiencing numbers as colors or sensations is a well-documented form of synesthesia, but the detail and specificity of Tammet's mental imagery of numbers is unique. In his mind, he says, each number up to 10,000 has its own unique shape and feel, that he can "see" results of calculations as landscapes, and that he can "sense" whether a number is prime or composite. He has described his visual image of 289 as particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful. Tammet not only verbally describes these visions, but also creates artwork, particularly watercolor paintings, such as his painting of Pi.
英國丹尼爾·保羅·譚米特是一位具有超常智力的自閉症學者，他可以進行不可思議的數學運算，瞬時記憶和自然語言學習。丹尼爾在出生時即患有先天性癲癇症。感受數字的顏色或輪廓有助於形成豐富的聯覺能力，就其細節和特異性，數字在他腦中的視覺形象就是獨一無二的。他說，每個10000以上的數字都有它獨特的形狀和質地。他能“看到”大規模數字的運算結果，能“感到”一個數字是質數還是合數。他覺得289尤其醜陋，而333特別吸引人，π很漂亮。譚米特不僅僅口頭描述這些視覺形像，還從事藝術創作，其中包括一幅描繪圓周率的水彩畫。
Tammet holds the European record for memorising and recounting pi to 22,514 digits in just over five hours. He also speaks a variety of languages including English, French, Finnish, German, Spanish, Lithuanian, Romanian, Estonian, Icelandic, Welsh and Esperanto. He particularly likes Estonian, because it is rich in vowels. Tammet is creating a new language called Mänti. Tammet is capable of learning new languages very quickly. To prove this for the Channel Five documentary, Tammet was challenged to learn Icelandic in one week. Seven days later he appeared on Icelandic television conversing in Icelandic, with his Icelandic language instructor saying it was "not human."
譚米特保持着圓周率背誦的歐洲紀錄，他在短短五個多小時內將圓周率背誦到小數點後22514位。他還能講各種語言，比如英語、法語、芬蘭語、德語、西班牙語、立陶宛語、羅馬尼亞語、愛沙尼亞語冰島語、威爾士語和世界語。他對愛沙尼亞語情有獨鍾，因爲愛沙尼亞語裏有豐富的元音。譚米特還創造出一種叫做“Mänti”的新語言。他還能迅速學會一門新語言。在第五頻道的紀錄片裏，譚米特接受挑戰，在一週內完成冰島語的學習。七天之後他現身冰島電視談話節目成功接受測試，讓他的語言指導老師稱他爲“非人類”。Boy who can "see" with sound (Ben Underwood)
2.“看”得見聲音的男孩（本·安德伍德）
Ben Underwoodtaught is blind, both of his eyes were removed (cancer) when he was 3. Yet, he plays basketball, rides on a bicycle, and lives a quite normal life. He taught himself to use echo location to navigate around the world. With no guide-dogs, he doesn't even need hands: he uses sound. Ben makes a short click sound that bounces back from objects. Amazingly, his ears pick up the ecos to let him know where the objects are. He's the only person in the world who sees using nothing but eco location, like a sonar or a dolphin.
本·安德伍德三歲時因癌症手術摘除了雙眼而變成了盲人。然而，他卻能像其他正常人一樣，打球，騎車。他學會使用回聲定位技術來辨析周圍世界的一切事物。沒有導盲犬，不用手去摸索，只用聲音探索這個世界。本先發出簡短的聲音，然後用耳朵聽這些聲音碰到物體後發回的回聲。令人震驚的是，他通過耳朵感知的回聲讓他準確地知道物體在哪兒。本是這世上唯一一個像聲吶或海豚那樣具有回聲定位能力的人。Rubberboy (Daniel Browning Smith)
3.橡皮人（丹尼爾·布朗寧·史密斯）
Five time Guiness Record holder, The Rubberboy is the most flexible man alive and the most famous contortionist. He has been in many professional basketball or baseball games and on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ESPN's Sports Center, Oprah Winfrey, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Cirque du Soleil, Best Damn Sports Show Period, The Discovery Channel, Men in Black 2, HBO's Carnivale, and CSI: NY and American got a talent. He dislocates his arms to crawl through an unstrung tennis racquet. He performs contortion handstands and unique acrobatics.
五次吉尼斯世界記錄的創造者丹尼爾·布朗寧·史密斯是世人當中最靈活的，以及傑出的柔術表演者。他多次參加職業籃球和棒球比賽，還參與錄製《傑·雷諾今夜秀》、《ESPN體育中心》、《奧普拉·溫弗裏秀》、《雷普利：信不信由你》、《太陽馬戲團》、《每天體育評論》、《探索頻道》、《黑衣人2》、《嘉年華》、《犯罪現場調查》。他可以扭曲胳膊穿過網球拍，還進行扭曲倒立和獨特的雜技表演。er Eat-it-All (Michel Lotito)
4.大胃王（米歇爾·洛蒂）
Michel Lotito (born 1950) is a French entertainer, famous as the consumer of undigestables, and is known as Monsieur Mangetout (Mister Eat-it-all). Lotito's performances are the consumption of metal, glass, rubber and so on in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150, and smaller items which are disassembled, cut-up and swallowed. The aircraft took roughly two years to be 'eaten' from 1978 to 1980. He began eating unusual material while a child and has been performing publicly since 1966. Lotito does not often suffer from ill-effects due to his diet, even after the consumption of materials usually considered poisonous. When performing he consumes around a kilogram of material daily, preceding it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water during the 'meal'. He apparently possesses a stomach and intestine with walls of twice the expected thickness, and his digestive acids are, allegedly, unusually powerful, allowing him to digest a certain portion of his metallic meals.
米歇爾·洛蒂（1950年出生）是一名法國明星，而他的聞名得益於他可以吞下一切的胃，因此有人稱其爲“大胃王”。他能吞下金屬，玻璃，橡膠等物品，比如自行車，電視，甚至是一架塞斯納150飛機，還有一些拆卸下的小物件。從1978年到1980年，他花費了兩年時間才吃完這架飛機。米歇爾·洛蒂從小就開始吃不尋常的東西，1966年，他開始公開表演自己的這種特殊能力。他的胃承受能力很強，即使吃了有毒的東西也不會出現什麼強烈的疼痛反應。表演的時候，他大概每天吃掉1千克的物質，在這之前吃礦油並且在每一頓“用餐”中喝掉大量的水。顯然，他擁有一個超級強大的胃腸，他的胃腸壁厚度是普通人的兩倍，以及他超常強大的消化系統，能夠允許他消化掉金屬大餐。Tooth (Rathakrishnan Velu)
5.超級牙齒（拉莎克里斯南·維魯）
On August 30, 2007, the eve of Malaysia's 50th Independence Day, Rathakrishnan Velu (or Raja Gigi, as he is known locally) broke his own world record for pulling train with his teeth, this time with 6 coaches attached weighing 297.1 tons over a distance of 2.8 metres at the Old Kuala Lumpur Railway Station. Raja Gigi, from Tampin in Malaysia learned a technique of concentrating his powers to any part of his body from an Indian guru at a young age of 14.
2007年8月30日，也就是馬來西亞50週年獨立日前夕，拉莎克里斯南·維魯（當地名字拉賈·吉吉）在舊吉隆坡火車站，用牙齒拖動共6節車廂，重達297.1噸的火車向前行2.8米，打破了自己先前創造的世界記錄。在14歲時，來自馬來西亞淡邊村的拉賈·吉吉向一位印度大師學會了神奇的能力，能將自身的力量都集中於身體的一個部位。翻譯:夏久梅 來源：前十網
