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[00:00.06]If you thought erasable ink was cool, wait until you hear about today’s topic on A Moment of Science: electronic ink.
如果你觉得可擦墨水很酷的话，那就等你听完今天所讲的这个话题---电子墨水后再下结论吧。
[00:07.54]To begin with a slightly technical explanation, electronic ink consists of three parts: millions of tiny, microscopic capsules, an oily liquid filling the capsules, 
理论上来讲，电子墨水主要由三部分组成：数以百万的细小微型胶囊，
[00:22.03]and negatively charged colored chips or spheres floating inside the capsules. 
填充胶囊的油状液体以及浮在胶囊里的带有负电荷的彩色芯片（或球体）。
[00:28.11]Electrical charges cause the colored chips or spheres to arrange themselves into letters, numbers, and other characters when the ink is spread on a surface.
当墨水洒在物体表面时，彩色芯片在电荷的作用下就会形成字母、数字或文字。
[00:41.32]If that description is slightly confusing, try imagining electronic ink as consisting of millions of clear beach balls. 
如果我这么讲你有点难以理解的话，那就把电子墨水想象成是由数以百万的沙滩球组成。
[00:48.22]Each ball contains hundreds of white Ping-Pong balls floating in blue dye. The Ping-Pong balls make the top of the beach ball appear white, while the bottom appears blue.
每个沙滩球球内都含有数百个白色的乒乓球浮在蓝色液体中。乒乓球会让沙滩球顶部呈现白色，而底部呈现出蓝色。
[00:58.10]Now imagine that you’ve spread millions of these beach balls on a wide, flat surface and gone up in a helicopter for a bird’s-eye view. You see an all-white field. 
现在想象一下你将这些沙滩球放在一个宽而平的表面上，然后乘上直升机从上面俯瞰。你会看到一片白色。
[01:04.53]Using a device to control the movement of the Ping-Pong balls, you cause some of them to sink, revealing the blue dye. 
然后，你用设备来控制乒乓球的运动，让某些球下沉，呈现出蓝色。
[01:11.53]With precise control, you could use the resulting patterns of light and dark to create characters.
通过准确的控制颜色的深浅，你就可以写出字了。
[01:17.12]In a nutshell, that’s how electronic ink works. So what’s it good for? Electronic books, for one. 
简单来说，这就是电子墨水的工作原理。那么电子墨水有什么好处呢？
[01:24.52]In the near future we may leaf through a volume written with electronic ink that contain hundreds of different texts. 
就拿电子书来举个例子，在不远的将来，我们可能会阅读用电子墨水写成的书卷，这些书卷包含着数百种书籍。
[01:32.43]With the push of a button, Shakespeare may morph into Dr. Seuss. Another push and the ink re-arranges itself into Crime and Punishment. 
只要轻轻一摁，莎士比亚就会变成瑟斯博士，再摁一下，就会变成罪与罚。
[01:43.33]No matter how it’s used, electronic ink is sure to jolt our understanding of the printed page.
电子墨水无论怎么样被使用，它终将颠覆我们对于印刷页面的理解。