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发表于 2009-1-1 05:51:08
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引用第9楼skysword401于2009-01-01 05:25发表的 :
搜了下确实是，不过达尔文进化奖是哪里颁的……
资料来自wiki。
A Darwin Award is a tongue-in-cheek "honor" named after evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin. Awards have been given for people who "do a service to Humanity by removing themselves from the Gene pool", i.e., lose the ability to reproduce either by death or sterilization in a stupid fashion. According to Wendy Northcutt, author of the Darwin Award books: "The Awards honor people who ensure the long-term survival of the human race by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion." The Darwin Award books state that an attempt is made to disallow urban legends from the awards, but some older "winners" have been 'grandfathered' to keep their awards.[1]
我随便翻一下：达尔文奖是一个以进化论学者查尔斯·达尔文命名的，玩笑性质的“荣誉”。这个奖项颁给那些“以将他们自己从（人类）基因库中移除来服务人类”的人们。比如，以某种愚蠢的方式使他们自己丧失留下后代的能力（无论是由于死亡还是绝育）。对W.N.，《达尔文奖》丛书的作者来说：“这个奖表彰那些人，他们以某种愚蠢但高尚的方式把自己从人类基因库中消除，从而加强了人类长远的种族存活能力。”《达尔文奖》丛书声明他们尽量不给一些都市传说颁奖，但一些老的“胜利者”不在此列而可以留着他们的奖。
起源：The Awards have circulated since 1985 as emails and Usenet group discussions; the Google Usenet archive records two early mentions of Darwin Awards, 7 August 1985 Vending Machine Tipover[2] and 7 December 1990 JATO Rocket Car[3] urban legend. The JATO legend was widely distributed via emails from 1995–97. Several anonymously authored email lists titled (for example) 1999 Darwin Awards have appeared annually since 1991.[2] There are several websites that record "Darwin Awards"[1] — a well-known one started in 1994 is darwinawards.com, run by Wendy Northcutt, who has also written several books on the Darwin Awards.
大意：自1985年起在一些新闻组中就传播着“达尔文奖”这种说法。后来有几个网站都在搞这个奖。其中一个很有名的就是上面提到的W.N.这哥们搞的，他还出版了好几本关于达尔文奖的书。 |
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