搞笑诺贝尔奖

搞笑诺贝尔奖旨在表彰那些“乍看令人发笑，之后发人深省”的科学研究，今年的颁奖典礼在哈佛大学的桑德斯剧场举行。

The venue for this year 's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony honouring science that " makes you laugh , then makes you think " was Harvard 's Sanders Theater .

这项研究获得了“搞笑诺贝尔奖”——这个奖是为了选出那些“无意之中达到搞笑效果”的研究。去年该食品集团宣布他们的理论已变成了现实。

Their research actually won an Ig Nobel Prize - an award handed out to honor achievements organizers consider unintentionally funny - but last year the company announced that their theory had finally become reality .

上周，一年一度的搞笑诺贝尔奖（IgNoble）在哈佛大学（HarvardUniversity）举行颁奖仪式时，组织者马克•亚伯拉罕将给予这些日本研究人员以无声的感谢。

To which , when the annual Ig noble prizes are presented at Harvard today , its organizer Marc Abrahams will give silent thanks .

搞笑诺贝尔奖在1991年首次颁发。

We 've been awarding Ig Nobel Prizes since 1991 .

这就是我们颁发搞笑诺贝尔奖的原因。

That 's why we award Ig Nobel Prizes .

它是搞笑诺贝尔奖。

It is the Ig Nobel Prize .

5.2012年搞笑诺贝尔奖之化学奖

The 2012 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize

英国一名男子在阿尔卑斯山区和一群山羊生活了三天，并凭此获得了今年的搞笑诺贝尔奖。

A British man who lived in the Alps as a goat for three days has won one of this year 's Ig Nobel prizes .

其实格劳伯去年已经荣获诺贝尔物理奖，今年却还坚持为第十六届搞笑诺贝尔奖扫地。

Glauber insisted on retaining his sweeping duties for the16th annual ceremony this year , despite becoming a Nobel physics laureate ( 7 ) last year .

除了搞笑诺贝尔奖，在大多数地方，很多奖项都是为了纪念获奖者做的好事和坏事。

The Ig Nobel Prizes aside , most prizes , in most places , are clearly meant to honor the goodness or badness of the receivers .

搞笑诺贝尔奖的灵感来自于美国科学幽默杂志《不可思议研究年报》，至今已有26个年头了。

The American science humour magazine , the Annals of Improbable Research , is the inspiration behind the Ig Nobels , which are now in their 26th year .

“搞笑诺贝尔奖”并不如真正的诺贝尔奖那么有名，在美国哈佛大学举行年度颁奖典礼上颁发。

The spoof awards , which are not quite as famous as the real Nobels , were handed out during their annual ceremony at Harvard University , US .

此次的“搞笑诺贝尔奖和平奖”授予了瑞士的一个研究小组。该小组通过研究证明了用一瓶啤酒或一只空啤酒瓶打人的脑袋，哪个造成的损害更小些。

The peace prize went to a Swiss research team who determined whether it is better to be hit over the head with a full or empty bottle of beer .

今年的搞笑诺贝尔奖还颁发了现金奖励（这在该奖项创立20年来可是第一次），人们也许会因此怀疑，”搞笑诺贝尔奖“是不是会变成又一个金钱至上的奖项。

And the first cash prizes in the awards '20-year history raised the ugly suspicion that the Ig Nobels will become yet another awards ceremony that 's all about money .

比如，去年，一群神经科学家获得了一项搞笑诺贝尔奖，他们将一条死三文鱼放在脑部扫描仪下，给它看了几张图片，鱼的大脑里竟然产生了一些类似脑电波之类的东西。

Last year , for instance , an Ig Nobel was won by a group of neuroscientists who had put a dead salmon in a brain scanner and showed it some pictures .

专司讽刺的搞笑诺贝尔奖是美国《不可思议研究年报》杂志于1991年开创的，获奖项目包括对可口可乐杀精属性的研究、骂街的止痛效果等等。

The satirical Ig Nobel prize , established in 1991 by an American magazine called the Annals of Improbable Research , has honoured investigations into , among other topics , the spermicidal properties of Coca-Cola and the pain-relieving effects of vigorous swearing .

颁奖仪式在哈佛大学桑德斯剧院举行，主办方科学幽默杂志《不可思议研究年报》颁发了10个滑稽的诺贝尔奖项，这是日本人连续第九年获得搞笑诺贝尔奖。

The award ceremony - which the science humour magazine " Annals of Improbable Research " gives in 10 categories as a parody of the Nobel Prizes - was held at Harvard University 's Sanders Theatre . It was the ninth straight year for an Ig Nobel prize to go to Japanese recipients .

台湾立法院长期以来一直因为争吵和打架出名，以至于台湾的议员会经常出现在诸如“全球六大议会打架事件”的名单上，并在1995年获得了颇具讽刺意味的搞笑诺贝尔和平奖（IgNoblePeacePrize）。

Taiwan has long been known for feisty and combative politics , to the extent that its lawmakers regularly get shout-outs on lists with names like " Six of the best parliamentary brawls from around the world " and even landed the mocking Ig Noble Peace Prize in 1995 .

一名日本科学家研究发现，接吻可以缓解人体的过敏反应，这项研究让他赢得了搞笑诺贝尔医学奖。

A Japanese scientist has won the spoof Ig Nobel medicine prize for a study that revealed kissing could reduce allergic reactions in humans .

雅克·本闻尼斯特（1991年和1998年搞笑化学诺贝尔奖得主）发现水有记忆功能，而且这些记忆信息还可以通过电话线和因特网进行传递。

Jacques Benveniste ( Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize , 1991 and 1998 ) discovered that water molecules remember things and that the memories can be transmitted over telephone lines .

因此，唐·费瑟斯通（1996年搞笑诺贝尔艺术奖得主），塑料粉红色火烈鸟的创造者，严格遵守“不能重复“这一标准。

Thus , Don Featherstone ( Ig Nobel Art Prize , 1996 ) , the creator of the plastic pink flamingo , clearly qualifies under the " cannot be repeated " phrase .

“羊人”汤姆·思韦茨和另一名英国人查尔斯·福斯特一起获得了搞笑诺贝尔生物学奖。查尔斯·福斯特也曾花了一些时间，试图在野外从动物的角度来体验生活。

Goat-man Tom Thwaites actually shares his biology prize with another Briton , Charles Foster , who also has spent time in the wild trying to experience life from an animal 's perspective .

同样，安德斯·Barheim和Hogne·山特维克（1996年搞笑诺贝尔生物学奖的主），他们发现，酸奶油刺激水蛭的食欲，但是大蒜常能杀死癌细胞，显然这也符合“不能重复”这一标准。

Similarly , Anders Barheim and Hogne Sandvik ( Ig Nobel Biology Prize , 1996 ) , who discovered that sour cream stimulates the appetite of leeches , but that garlic often kills them , clearly qualify under the " cannot be repeated " phrase .