五件严肃但却成了闹剧的历史事件
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If history were a person, it'd be a stuffy old white guy in an ascot who still says the word "orientals." Or so historians would have you believe. In reality, history is more like a toga-wearing frat boy named Moose who duct-tapes malt liquor bottles to his hands before he gropes you. See, some of the most serious moments in history were total farces behind the scenes. Like how ...
如果历史是一个人，那他一定是一个打着宽领带，嘴里念叨着“东方人的”的老白人，或者是历史学家会让你这么觉得。实际上，历史更像是一个穿着袍子兄弟会男孩，名字叫做穆斯，还会在摸你之前用管子将麦牙酒瓶绑在手上。看，一些最严肃的历史瞬间的背后完全是闹剧。就像...
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The Manhattan Project's Safety Standards Were So Bad That A Guy Once Accidentally Swallowed Plutonium
曼哈顿工程的安全标准非常糟糕，一个家伙竟偶然吞下了钚
One would assume the Manhattan Project had some rigorous safety standards, what with the atomic bombs and all.
One would be wrong.
人们会认为由于事关原子弹和其它原子器，所以曼哈顿工程会有着严格的安全标准。
人们错了。
An example: During one of the project's critical experiments, the only thing keeping the whole shebang from going nuclear was a single screwdriver held by a nearby technician. Naturally, the screwdriver slipped, and the plutonium went critical, killing the technician.
This happened twice.
They nicknamed it the "demon core," because it was easier to blame the deaths on an evil experiment rather than horribly lax safety protocols.
举个例子：在该项目的一次临界测试的实验期间，唯一阻止所有的一切变成原子级的物什就是一把技术员手里的螺丝刀。自然，那个螺丝刀滑落下来，钚变成临界态，杀死了这个技术员。
这种事情发生了两次。
他们昵称其为“恶魔核心”，因为将造成死亡的过错归咎于邪恶的实验比起归咎于松散的安全规章要更为容易。
And then there was the case of scientist Don Mastick, who once picked up a vial of plutonium, unaware that some of the liquid inside had converted into gas. When he tried to uncork it, the vial popped open and sent plutonium spewing into his mouth. He washed his mouth out with sodium citrate and repeatedly pumped his stomach, then handed the contents to a colleague and told him to go separate out the precious plutonium. No point wasting it, right?
Mastick survived without any major health problems, though for days afterward, his breath remained so radioactive that it could affect sensitive lab equipment from across the room. Did he use his powers to briefly fight crime as a superpowered vigilante? History doesn't say, so we're forced to assume that yes, he did, and further that his name was Dr. Meltmouth.
下面就是马斯蒂克先生的案例了，他拿起了一瓶钚，浑然未觉里面有些液体已经转化成了气态。当他试图打开时，小瓶呯地一下就开了，将钚喷进了他的嘴里。他用柠檬酸钠冲洗嘴巴，反复地洗胃，然后把吐出来东西交给了一个同事，让他去把宝贵的钚分离出来。没理由浪费的，对吧？
马斯蒂克幸存了下来，身体也没有大恙，虽然接下来的几天里，他的呼吸仍带有放射性，会从房间对面影响到整个实验室的敏感的设备。
他有用他的暂时的超能力去像一个超能警察那样打击犯罪吗？历史没有说，所以我们只能去假设他这样做了，进一步设想，他的名字叫做曼哈顿博士。
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LBJ Announced The First African American Presidential Secretary By Having Her Stump Contestants On A Game Show
约翰逊宣告了第一任非裔总统秘书，通过让她在一场游戏表演中挑战竞争对手
Geraldine "Gerri" Whittington broke barriers when she became the first African American executive secretary to the president. Since the president in question was Lyndon "Let Me Show You My" Johnson, you can bet that he handled the announcement like only he could.
First, he broke the news to Whittington by cold-calling her at 10 p.m. and asking her to come to the White House. Once she got there, Johnson told her about the promotion, and that he intended to announce it by having her appear on the hit game show What's My Line?, which featured celebrity panelists trying to guess the occupation of mystery guests.
She waited for him to laugh.
He did not.
See, Johnson didn't want to hold a big press conference to announce his new hire, because that would've been the presidential equivalent of boasting about your one black friend. Johnson also knew that What's My Line? would get way bigger ratings than any press conference, though his plans were almost spoiled when Jet broke the news of Whittington's appointment with a full-page profile ...
杰拉格尔丁·“格里”·惠廷顿打破障碍成为了第一个非裔总经行政秘书。因为问题中的总统是林登·让你看看我的·约翰逊，所以你可以打赌他操办了相关新闻发布会，就像只有他能似的。
首先，他冷不丁地在晚上十点给惠廷顿打电话爆料，让她到白宫来。惠廷顿一到，约翰逊告诉了她升职的事，还有打算要通过让她在猜谜游戏明星猜猜看（What's My Line）现身，这个节以让一组名人猜神秘来宾的职业为特色。
她等着他笑。
他没有笑。
看，约翰逊不想通过大型新闻发布会来宣布他的新任命，因为吹嘘一个黑人朋友，这才是配得上总统身份的做法。约翰逊知道明星猜猜看是什么吗？这样会比新闻发布会获得的收视率更高吗，虽然杰特用整版版面爆料了惠廷顿的任命，几乎使得约翰逊的计划破产。
幸运的是，即使是在杂志的时代里，也没人去读杂志。
Luckily, even in the age of magazines, nobody read magazines.
Whittington appeared on the show as planned. Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen eventually guessed that she was a secretary in the White House, and that's how racism was ended forever.
惠廷顿按计划出现在了节目里。记者桃乐茜·基尔加伦最终猜中了她是一名白宫秘书，而种族主义也自此消亡。
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Civil War Soldiers Continually Stopped Fighting ... To Watch Fistfights
内战士兵们逐渐地停止战斗...来观看格斗赛
During the extremely bloody Battle of the Wilderness, one unx and one Confederate soldier ended up hiding together in the same gully. Naturally, they tried to take each other prisoner, which devolved into a bare-knuckle boxing match.
Eventually, the fight spilled into view of the rest of the battle, which promptly came to a halt as both sides stopped firing ... so they could get closer to the fight and cheer for their boy. The Confederate fighter won and took the Yankee prisoner, as was agreed upon before the fight.
在整个怀尔德尼斯的血腥战斗期间，一名联邦士兵和一名同盟士兵都不再躲在沟里。自然地，他们都试图俘虏对方，最终演变成了一场徒手搏击赛。最终这场搏斗加入了战争中的其他人观看，两方士兵都停止了开火，战斗就这么产生了空档，这样他们才能近距离观看格斗，并为已方选手加油。最终同盟军的选手赢了，把北方佬俘虏了，就像赛前约定的那样。
A similar report came out of 1862, in a battle near Fredericksburg, wherein a Wisconsin regiment had gotten into a shootout with the Confederates that somehow became personal for two soldiers. A makeshift truce was called solely so the two soldiers could punch each other in the face in relative peace. A few missing teeth and bruised kidneys later, and the fight was declared a draw, and anyway, that's probably how the Civil War ended.
1862年也有一个相似的报道，弗雷德里克斯堡附近的一场战斗，其中威斯康星州一个兵团同同盟军进行交火，最终也演变成了两个士兵之间的私人战斗。双方暂时停战，让两士兵能够宽心地把拳头往对方脸上招呼。在掉了几颗牙，而且肾脏也受伤后，这场战斗平局收场，不管怎么说，这也可能是内战结束的原因。
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The Soviets Grabbed A Random Peasant Off The Street And Took Him To Negotiate Russia Pulling Out Of World War I
苏联人随时从大街上抓了一个农民，让他去谈关于苏联退出一战的相关事宜
In 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks seized control of Moscow, and decided to try to win the hearts and minds of ordinary Russians with the bold new policy of not making them run straight at German machine guns. To that end, they scheduled a peace conference in Brest-Litovsk to end Russian involvement in the First World War. Although the delegation was led by prominent activists, the Bolsheviks made a point of also bringing a soldier, a sailor, and an urban worker to really hammer home that communism was all about the good of the common people.
But you know how it goes when packing for a trip -- something always gets forgotten. In this case, the politicians were on their way to the train station when they realized they had forgotten to bring a peasant!
在1917年，列宁的布尔什维克党夺取了莫斯科的控制权，为了赢得民心，列宁决定采取一个醒目的政策，即不再让人民去面对德国人的枪口。为此，他们计划在布雷斯特-立托夫斯克来谈让俄国退出一战的事。虽然代表团由一个杰出的政治活动家带队，但是布尔什维克还是决定再带上一个士兵，一个水手和一名城市工人来宣示共产主义完全是为了大众好。
但你知道当准备行装的时候会发生的事——总是会有什么落下。在本例中，政治家已经到了车站了才想起来还差一个农民！
So they cruised around town until they spotted an elderly guy in shitty clothes, lured him into the car with promises of beets or something, and then told him he was coming to negotiate peace with the Germans. That man was Roman Stashkov, and he was only trying to get back to his village when he suddenly found himself sitting across from European royalty. He rolled with it pretty well, although he apparently kept addressing the other delegates as "master," and when asked whether he wanted red or white wine, he inquired, "which one is the strongest?"
他们沿着城镇到处找，直到发现了一个衣着破烂的老人，用甜菜或者其它什么承诺将老人骗上车后才告诉他要去和德国谈和平。这个老人叫做罗曼·斯塔什科夫，这个老人发现坐在对面的人是欧洲皇室的时候，唯一想做的事就是回家。虽然他还是称呼代表团其他成员为“大人”，但他表现得还好，当问起他想要喝红葡萄酒还是白葡萄酒的时候，他问道：“哪种劲儿大？”
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如果历史是一个人，那他一定是一个打着宽领带，嘴里念叨着“东方人的”的老白人，或者是历史学家会让你这么觉得。实际上，历史更像是一个穿着袍子兄弟会男孩，名字叫做穆斯，还会在摸你之前用管子将麦牙酒瓶绑在手上。看，一些最严肃的历史瞬间的背后完全是闹剧。就像...
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The Manhattan Project's Safety Standards Were So Bad That A Guy Once Accidentally Swallowed Plutonium
曼哈顿工程的安全标准非常糟糕，一个家伙竟偶然吞下了钚
One would assume the Manhattan Project had some rigorous safety standards, what with the atomic bombs and all.
One would be wrong.
人们会认为由于事关原子弹和其它原子器，所以曼哈顿工程会有着严格的安全标准。
人们错了。
An example: During one of the project's critical experiments, the only thing keeping the whole shebang from going nuclear was a single screwdriver held by a nearby technician. Naturally, the screwdriver slipped, and the plutonium went critical, killing the technician.
This happened twice.
They nicknamed it the "demon core," because it was easier to blame the deaths on an evil experiment rather than horribly lax safety protocols.
举个例子：在该项目的一次临界测试的实验期间，唯一阻止所有的一切变成原子级的物什就是一把技术员手里的螺丝刀。自然，那个螺丝刀滑落下来，钚变成临界态，杀死了这个技术员。
这种事情发生了两次。
他们昵称其为“恶魔核心”，因为将造成死亡的过错归咎于邪恶的实验比起归咎于松散的安全规章要更为容易。
And then there was the case of scientist Don Mastick, who once picked up a vial of plutonium, unaware that some of the liquid inside had converted into gas. When he tried to uncork it, the vial popped open and sent plutonium spewing into his mouth. He washed his mouth out with sodium citrate and repeatedly pumped his stomach, then handed the contents to a colleague and told him to go separate out the precious plutonium. No point wasting it, right?
Mastick survived without any major health problems, though for days afterward, his breath remained so radioactive that it could affect sensitive lab equipment from across the room. Did he use his powers to briefly fight crime as a superpowered vigilante? History doesn't say, so we're forced to assume that yes, he did, and further that his name was Dr. Meltmouth.
下面就是马斯蒂克先生的案例了，他拿起了一瓶钚，浑然未觉里面有些液体已经转化成了气态。当他试图打开时，小瓶呯地一下就开了，将钚喷进了他的嘴里。他用柠檬酸钠冲洗嘴巴，反复地洗胃，然后把吐出来东西交给了一个同事，让他去把宝贵的钚分离出来。没理由浪费的，对吧？
马斯蒂克幸存了下来，身体也没有大恙，虽然接下来的几天里，他的呼吸仍带有放射性，会从房间对面影响到整个实验室的敏感的设备。
他有用他的暂时的超能力去像一个超能警察那样打击犯罪吗？历史没有说，所以我们只能去假设他这样做了，进一步设想，他的名字叫做曼哈顿博士。
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LBJ Announced The First African American Presidential Secretary By Having Her Stump Contestants On A Game Show
约翰逊宣告了第一任非裔总统秘书，通过让她在一场游戏表演中挑战竞争对手
Geraldine "Gerri" Whittington broke barriers when she became the first African American executive secretary to the president. Since the president in question was Lyndon "Let Me Show You My" Johnson, you can bet that he handled the announcement like only he could.
First, he broke the news to Whittington by cold-calling her at 10 p.m. and asking her to come to the White House. Once she got there, Johnson told her about the promotion, and that he intended to announce it by having her appear on the hit game show What's My Line?, which featured celebrity panelists trying to guess the occupation of mystery guests.
She waited for him to laugh.
He did not.
See, Johnson didn't want to hold a big press conference to announce his new hire, because that would've been the presidential equivalent of boasting about your one black friend. Johnson also knew that What's My Line? would get way bigger ratings than any press conference, though his plans were almost spoiled when Jet broke the news of Whittington's appointment with a full-page profile ...
杰拉格尔丁·“格里”·惠廷顿打破障碍成为了第一个非裔总经行政秘书。因为问题中的总统是林登·让你看看我的·约翰逊，所以你可以打赌他操办了相关新闻发布会，就像只有他能似的。
首先，他冷不丁地在晚上十点给惠廷顿打电话爆料，让她到白宫来。惠廷顿一到，约翰逊告诉了她升职的事，还有打算要通过让她在猜谜游戏明星猜猜看（What's My Line）现身，这个节以让一组名人猜神秘来宾的职业为特色。
她等着他笑。
他没有笑。
看，约翰逊不想通过大型新闻发布会来宣布他的新任命，因为吹嘘一个黑人朋友，这才是配得上总统身份的做法。约翰逊知道明星猜猜看是什么吗？这样会比新闻发布会获得的收视率更高吗，虽然杰特用整版版面爆料了惠廷顿的任命，几乎使得约翰逊的计划破产。
幸运的是，即使是在杂志的时代里，也没人去读杂志。
Luckily, even in the age of magazines, nobody read magazines.
Whittington appeared on the show as planned. Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen eventually guessed that she was a secretary in the White House, and that's how racism was ended forever.
惠廷顿按计划出现在了节目里。记者桃乐茜·基尔加伦最终猜中了她是一名白宫秘书，而种族主义也自此消亡。
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Civil War Soldiers Continually Stopped Fighting ... To Watch Fistfights
内战士兵们逐渐地停止战斗...来观看格斗赛
During the extremely bloody Battle of the Wilderness, one unx and one Confederate soldier ended up hiding together in the same gully. Naturally, they tried to take each other prisoner, which devolved into a bare-knuckle boxing match.
Eventually, the fight spilled into view of the rest of the battle, which promptly came to a halt as both sides stopped firing ... so they could get closer to the fight and cheer for their boy. The Confederate fighter won and took the Yankee prisoner, as was agreed upon before the fight.
在整个怀尔德尼斯的血腥战斗期间，一名联邦士兵和一名同盟士兵都不再躲在沟里。自然地，他们都试图俘虏对方，最终演变成了一场徒手搏击赛。最终这场搏斗加入了战争中的其他人观看，两方士兵都停止了开火，战斗就这么产生了空档，这样他们才能近距离观看格斗，并为已方选手加油。最终同盟军的选手赢了，把北方佬俘虏了，就像赛前约定的那样。
A similar report came out of 1862, in a battle near Fredericksburg, wherein a Wisconsin regiment had gotten into a shootout with the Confederates that somehow became personal for two soldiers. A makeshift truce was called solely so the two soldiers could punch each other in the face in relative peace. A few missing teeth and bruised kidneys later, and the fight was declared a draw, and anyway, that's probably how the Civil War ended.
1862年也有一个相似的报道，弗雷德里克斯堡附近的一场战斗，其中威斯康星州一个兵团同同盟军进行交火，最终也演变成了两个士兵之间的私人战斗。双方暂时停战，让两士兵能够宽心地把拳头往对方脸上招呼。在掉了几颗牙，而且肾脏也受伤后，这场战斗平局收场，不管怎么说，这也可能是内战结束的原因。
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The Soviets Grabbed A Random Peasant Off The Street And Took Him To Negotiate Russia Pulling Out Of World War I
苏联人随时从大街上抓了一个农民，让他去谈关于苏联退出一战的相关事宜
In 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks seized control of Moscow, and decided to try to win the hearts and minds of ordinary Russians with the bold new policy of not making them run straight at German machine guns. To that end, they scheduled a peace conference in Brest-Litovsk to end Russian involvement in the First World War. Although the delegation was led by prominent activists, the Bolsheviks made a point of also bringing a soldier, a sailor, and an urban worker to really hammer home that communism was all about the good of the common people.
But you know how it goes when packing for a trip -- something always gets forgotten. In this case, the politicians were on their way to the train station when they realized they had forgotten to bring a peasant!
在1917年，列宁的布尔什维克党夺取了莫斯科的控制权，为了赢得民心，列宁决定采取一个醒目的政策，即不再让人民去面对德国人的枪口。为此，他们计划在布雷斯特-立托夫斯克来谈让俄国退出一战的事。虽然代表团由一个杰出的政治活动家带队，但是布尔什维克还是决定再带上一个士兵，一个水手和一名城市工人来宣示共产主义完全是为了大众好。
但你知道当准备行装的时候会发生的事——总是会有什么落下。在本例中，政治家已经到了车站了才想起来还差一个农民！
So they cruised around town until they spotted an elderly guy in shitty clothes, lured him into the car with promises of beets or something, and then told him he was coming to negotiate peace with the Germans. That man was Roman Stashkov, and he was only trying to get back to his village when he suddenly found himself sitting across from European royalty. He rolled with it pretty well, although he apparently kept addressing the other delegates as "master," and when asked whether he wanted red or white wine, he inquired, "which one is the strongest?"
他们沿着城镇到处找，直到发现了一个衣着破烂的老人，用甜菜或者其它什么承诺将老人骗上车后才告诉他要去和德国谈和平。这个老人叫做罗曼·斯塔什科夫，这个老人发现坐在对面的人是欧洲皇室的时候，唯一想做的事就是回家。虽然他还是称呼代表团其他成员为“大人”，但他表现得还好，当问起他想要喝红葡萄酒还是白葡萄酒的时候，他问道：“哪种劲儿大？”
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If history were a person, it'd be a stuffy old white guy in an ascot who still says the word "orientals." Or so historians would have you believe. In reality, history is more like a toga-wearing frat boy named Moose who duct-tapes malt liquor bottles to his hands before he gropes you. See, some of the most serious moments in history were total farces behind the scenes. Like how ...
如果历史是一个人，那他一定是一个打着宽领带，嘴里念叨着“东方人的”的老白人，或者是历史学家会让你这么觉得。实际上，历史更像是一个穿着袍子兄弟会男孩，名字叫做穆斯，还会在摸你之前用管子将麦牙酒瓶绑在手上。看，一些最严肃的历史瞬间的背后完全是闹剧。就像...
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The Manhattan Project's Safety Standards Were So Bad That A Guy Once Accidentally Swallowed Plutonium
曼哈顿工程的安全标准非常糟糕，一个家伙竟偶然吞下了钚
One would assume the Manhattan Project had some rigorous safety standards, what with the atomic bombs and all.
One would be wrong.
人们会认为由于事关原子弹和其它原子器，所以曼哈顿工程会有着严格的安全标准。
人们错了。
An example: During one of the project's critical experiments, the only thing keeping the whole shebang from going nuclear was a single screwdriver held by a nearby technician. Naturally, the screwdriver slipped, and the plutonium went critical, killing the technician.
This happened twice.
They nicknamed it the "demon core," because it was easier to blame the deaths on an evil experiment rather than horribly lax safety protocols.
举个例子：在该项目的一次临界测试的实验期间，唯一阻止所有的一切变成原子级的物什就是一把技术员手里的螺丝刀。自然，那个螺丝刀滑落下来，钚变成临界态，杀死了这个技术员。
这种事情发生了两次。
他们昵称其为“恶魔核心”，因为将造成死亡的过错归咎于邪恶的实验比起归咎于松散的安全规章要更为容易。
And then there was the case of scientist Don Mastick, who once picked up a vial of plutonium, unaware that some of the liquid inside had converted into gas. When he tried to uncork it, the vial popped open and sent plutonium spewing into his mouth. He washed his mouth out with sodium citrate and repeatedly pumped his stomach, then handed the contents to a colleague and told him to go separate out the precious plutonium. No point wasting it, right?
Mastick survived without any major health problems, though for days afterward, his breath remained so radioactive that it could affect sensitive lab equipment from across the room. Did he use his powers to briefly fight crime as a superpowered vigilante? History doesn't say, so we're forced to assume that yes, he did, and further that his name was Dr. Meltmouth.
下面就是马斯蒂克先生的案例了，他拿起了一瓶钚，浑然未觉里面有些液体已经转化成了气态。当他试图打开时，小瓶呯地一下就开了，将钚喷进了他的嘴里。他用柠檬酸钠冲洗嘴巴，反复地洗胃，然后把吐出来东西交给了一个同事，让他去把宝贵的钚分离出来。没理由浪费的，对吧？
马斯蒂克幸存了下来，身体也没有大恙，虽然接下来的几天里，他的呼吸仍带有放射性，会从房间对面影响到整个实验室的敏感的设备。
他有用他的暂时的超能力去像一个超能警察那样打击犯罪吗？历史没有说，所以我们只能去假设他这样做了，进一步设想，他的名字叫做曼哈顿博士。
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LBJ Announced The First African American Presidential Secretary By Having Her Stump Contestants On A Game Show
约翰逊宣告了第一任非裔总统秘书，通过让她在一场游戏表演中挑战竞争对手
Geraldine "Gerri" Whittington broke barriers when she became the first African American executive secretary to the president. Since the president in question was Lyndon "Let Me Show You My" Johnson, you can bet that he handled the announcement like only he could.
First, he broke the news to Whittington by cold-calling her at 10 p.m. and asking her to come to the White House. Once she got there, Johnson told her about the promotion, and that he intended to announce it by having her appear on the hit game show What's My Line?, which featured celebrity panelists trying to guess the occupation of mystery guests.
She waited for him to laugh.
He did not.
See, Johnson didn't want to hold a big press conference to announce his new hire, because that would've been the presidential equivalent of boasting about your one black friend. Johnson also knew that What's My Line? would get way bigger ratings than any press conference, though his plans were almost spoiled when Jet broke the news of Whittington's appointment with a full-page profile ...
杰拉格尔丁·“格里”·惠廷顿打破障碍成为了第一个非裔总经行政秘书。因为问题中的总统是林登·让你看看我的·约翰逊，所以你可以打赌他操办了相关新闻发布会，就像只有他能似的。
首先，他冷不丁地在晚上十点给惠廷顿打电话爆料，让她到白宫来。惠廷顿一到，约翰逊告诉了她升职的事，还有打算要通过让她在猜谜游戏明星猜猜看（What's My Line）现身，这个节以让一组名人猜神秘来宾的职业为特色。
她等着他笑。
他没有笑。
看，约翰逊不想通过大型新闻发布会来宣布他的新任命，因为吹嘘一个黑人朋友，这才是配得上总统身份的做法。约翰逊知道明星猜猜看是什么吗？这样会比新闻发布会获得的收视率更高吗，虽然杰特用整版版面爆料了惠廷顿的任命，几乎使得约翰逊的计划破产。
幸运的是，即使是在杂志的时代里，也没人去读杂志。
Luckily, even in the age of magazines, nobody read magazines.
Whittington appeared on the show as planned. Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen eventually guessed that she was a secretary in the White House, and that's how racism was ended forever.
惠廷顿按计划出现在了节目里。记者桃乐茜·基尔加伦最终猜中了她是一名白宫秘书，而种族主义也自此消亡。
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Civil War Soldiers Continually Stopped Fighting ... To Watch Fistfights
内战士兵们逐渐地停止战斗...来观看格斗赛
During the extremely bloody Battle of the Wilderness, one unx and one Confederate soldier ended up hiding together in the same gully. Naturally, they tried to take each other prisoner, which devolved into a bare-knuckle boxing match.
Eventually, the fight spilled into view of the rest of the battle, which promptly came to a halt as both sides stopped firing ... so they could get closer to the fight and cheer for their boy. The Confederate fighter won and took the Yankee prisoner, as was agreed upon before the fight.
在整个怀尔德尼斯的血腥战斗期间，一名联邦士兵和一名同盟士兵都不再躲在沟里。自然地，他们都试图俘虏对方，最终演变成了一场徒手搏击赛。最终这场搏斗加入了战争中的其他人观看，两方士兵都停止了开火，战斗就这么产生了空档，这样他们才能近距离观看格斗，并为已方选手加油。最终同盟军的选手赢了，把北方佬俘虏了，就像赛前约定的那样。
A similar report came out of 1862, in a battle near Fredericksburg, wherein a Wisconsin regiment had gotten into a shootout with the Confederates that somehow became personal for two soldiers. A makeshift truce was called solely so the two soldiers could punch each other in the face in relative peace. A few missing teeth and bruised kidneys later, and the fight was declared a draw, and anyway, that's probably how the Civil War ended.
1862年也有一个相似的报道，弗雷德里克斯堡附近的一场战斗，其中威斯康星州一个兵团同同盟军进行交火，最终也演变成了两个士兵之间的私人战斗。双方暂时停战，让两士兵能够宽心地把拳头往对方脸上招呼。在掉了几颗牙，而且肾脏也受伤后，这场战斗平局收场，不管怎么说，这也可能是内战结束的原因。
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The Soviets Grabbed A Random Peasant Off The Street And Took Him To Negotiate Russia Pulling Out Of World War I
苏联人随时从大街上抓了一个农民，让他去谈关于苏联退出一战的相关事宜
In 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks seized control of Moscow, and decided to try to win the hearts and minds of ordinary Russians with the bold new policy of not making them run straight at German machine guns. To that end, they scheduled a peace conference in Brest-Litovsk to end Russian involvement in the First World War. Although the delegation was led by prominent activists, the Bolsheviks made a point of also bringing a soldier, a sailor, and an urban worker to really hammer home that communism was all about the good of the common people.
But you know how it goes when packing for a trip -- something always gets forgotten. In this case, the politicians were on their way to the train station when they realized they had forgotten to bring a peasant!
在1917年，列宁的布尔什维克党夺取了莫斯科的控制权，为了赢得民心，列宁决定采取一个醒目的政策，即不再让人民去面对德国人的枪口。为此，他们计划在布雷斯特-立托夫斯克来谈让俄国退出一战的事。虽然代表团由一个杰出的政治活动家带队，但是布尔什维克还是决定再带上一个士兵，一个水手和一名城市工人来宣示共产主义完全是为了大众好。
但你知道当准备行装的时候会发生的事——总是会有什么落下。在本例中，政治家已经到了车站了才想起来还差一个农民！
So they cruised around town until they spotted an elderly guy in shitty clothes, lured him into the car with promises of beets or something, and then told him he was coming to negotiate peace with the Germans. That man was Roman Stashkov, and he was only trying to get back to his village when he suddenly found himself sitting across from European royalty. He rolled with it pretty well, although he apparently kept addressing the other delegates as "master," and when asked whether he wanted red or white wine, he inquired, "which one is the strongest?"
他们沿着城镇到处找，直到发现了一个衣着破烂的老人，用甜菜或者其它什么承诺将老人骗上车后才告诉他要去和德国谈和平。这个老人叫做罗曼·斯塔什科夫，这个老人发现坐在对面的人是欧洲皇室的时候，唯一想做的事就是回家。虽然他还是称呼代表团其他成员为“大人”，但他表现得还好，当问起他想要喝红葡萄酒还是白葡萄酒的时候，他问道：“哪种劲儿大？”
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如果历史是一个人，那他一定是一个打着宽领带，嘴里念叨着“东方人的”的老白人，或者是历史学家会让你这么觉得。实际上，历史更像是一个穿着袍子兄弟会男孩，名字叫做穆斯，还会在摸你之前用管子将麦牙酒瓶绑在手上。看，一些最严肃的历史瞬间的背后完全是闹剧。就像...
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The Manhattan Project's Safety Standards Were So Bad That A Guy Once Accidentally Swallowed Plutonium
曼哈顿工程的安全标准非常糟糕，一个家伙竟偶然吞下了钚
One would assume the Manhattan Project had some rigorous safety standards, what with the atomic bombs and all.
One would be wrong.
人们会认为由于事关原子弹和其它原子器，所以曼哈顿工程会有着严格的安全标准。
人们错了。
An example: During one of the project's critical experiments, the only thing keeping the whole shebang from going nuclear was a single screwdriver held by a nearby technician. Naturally, the screwdriver slipped, and the plutonium went critical, killing the technician.
This happened twice.
They nicknamed it the "demon core," because it was easier to blame the deaths on an evil experiment rather than horribly lax safety protocols.
举个例子：在该项目的一次临界测试的实验期间，唯一阻止所有的一切变成原子级的物什就是一把技术员手里的螺丝刀。自然，那个螺丝刀滑落下来，钚变成临界态，杀死了这个技术员。
这种事情发生了两次。
他们昵称其为“恶魔核心”，因为将造成死亡的过错归咎于邪恶的实验比起归咎于松散的安全规章要更为容易。
And then there was the case of scientist Don Mastick, who once picked up a vial of plutonium, unaware that some of the liquid inside had converted into gas. When he tried to uncork it, the vial popped open and sent plutonium spewing into his mouth. He washed his mouth out with sodium citrate and repeatedly pumped his stomach, then handed the contents to a colleague and told him to go separate out the precious plutonium. No point wasting it, right?
Mastick survived without any major health problems, though for days afterward, his breath remained so radioactive that it could affect sensitive lab equipment from across the room. Did he use his powers to briefly fight crime as a superpowered vigilante? History doesn't say, so we're forced to assume that yes, he did, and further that his name was Dr. Meltmouth.
下面就是马斯蒂克先生的案例了，他拿起了一瓶钚，浑然未觉里面有些液体已经转化成了气态。当他试图打开时，小瓶呯地一下就开了，将钚喷进了他的嘴里。他用柠檬酸钠冲洗嘴巴，反复地洗胃，然后把吐出来东西交给了一个同事，让他去把宝贵的钚分离出来。没理由浪费的，对吧？
马斯蒂克幸存了下来，身体也没有大恙，虽然接下来的几天里，他的呼吸仍带有放射性，会从房间对面影响到整个实验室的敏感的设备。
他有用他的暂时的超能力去像一个超能警察那样打击犯罪吗？历史没有说，所以我们只能去假设他这样做了，进一步设想，他的名字叫做曼哈顿博士。
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LBJ Announced The First African American Presidential Secretary By Having Her Stump Contestants On A Game Show
约翰逊宣告了第一任非裔总统秘书，通过让她在一场游戏表演中挑战竞争对手
Geraldine "Gerri" Whittington broke barriers when she became the first African American executive secretary to the president. Since the president in question was Lyndon "Let Me Show You My" Johnson, you can bet that he handled the announcement like only he could.
First, he broke the news to Whittington by cold-calling her at 10 p.m. and asking her to come to the White House. Once she got there, Johnson told her about the promotion, and that he intended to announce it by having her appear on the hit game show What's My Line?, which featured celebrity panelists trying to guess the occupation of mystery guests.
She waited for him to laugh.
He did not.
See, Johnson didn't want to hold a big press conference to announce his new hire, because that would've been the presidential equivalent of boasting about your one black friend. Johnson also knew that What's My Line? would get way bigger ratings than any press conference, though his plans were almost spoiled when Jet broke the news of Whittington's appointment with a full-page profile ...
杰拉格尔丁·“格里”·惠廷顿打破障碍成为了第一个非裔总经行政秘书。因为问题中的总统是林登·让你看看我的·约翰逊，所以你可以打赌他操办了相关新闻发布会，就像只有他能似的。
首先，他冷不丁地在晚上十点给惠廷顿打电话爆料，让她到白宫来。惠廷顿一到，约翰逊告诉了她升职的事，还有打算要通过让她在猜谜游戏明星猜猜看（What's My Line）现身，这个节以让一组名人猜神秘来宾的职业为特色。
她等着他笑。
他没有笑。
看，约翰逊不想通过大型新闻发布会来宣布他的新任命，因为吹嘘一个黑人朋友，这才是配得上总统身份的做法。约翰逊知道明星猜猜看是什么吗？这样会比新闻发布会获得的收视率更高吗，虽然杰特用整版版面爆料了惠廷顿的任命，几乎使得约翰逊的计划破产。
幸运的是，即使是在杂志的时代里，也没人去读杂志。
Luckily, even in the age of magazines, nobody read magazines.
Whittington appeared on the show as planned. Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen eventually guessed that she was a secretary in the White House, and that's how racism was ended forever.
惠廷顿按计划出现在了节目里。记者桃乐茜·基尔加伦最终猜中了她是一名白宫秘书，而种族主义也自此消亡。
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Civil War Soldiers Continually Stopped Fighting ... To Watch Fistfights
内战士兵们逐渐地停止战斗...来观看格斗赛
During the extremely bloody Battle of the Wilderness, one unx and one Confederate soldier ended up hiding together in the same gully. Naturally, they tried to take each other prisoner, which devolved into a bare-knuckle boxing match.
Eventually, the fight spilled into view of the rest of the battle, which promptly came to a halt as both sides stopped firing ... so they could get closer to the fight and cheer for their boy. The Confederate fighter won and took the Yankee prisoner, as was agreed upon before the fight.
在整个怀尔德尼斯的血腥战斗期间，一名联邦士兵和一名同盟士兵都不再躲在沟里。自然地，他们都试图俘虏对方，最终演变成了一场徒手搏击赛。最终这场搏斗加入了战争中的其他人观看，两方士兵都停止了开火，战斗就这么产生了空档，这样他们才能近距离观看格斗，并为已方选手加油。最终同盟军的选手赢了，把北方佬俘虏了，就像赛前约定的那样。
A similar report came out of 1862, in a battle near Fredericksburg, wherein a Wisconsin regiment had gotten into a shootout with the Confederates that somehow became personal for two soldiers. A makeshift truce was called solely so the two soldiers could punch each other in the face in relative peace. A few missing teeth and bruised kidneys later, and the fight was declared a draw, and anyway, that's probably how the Civil War ended.
1862年也有一个相似的报道，弗雷德里克斯堡附近的一场战斗，其中威斯康星州一个兵团同同盟军进行交火，最终也演变成了两个士兵之间的私人战斗。双方暂时停战，让两士兵能够宽心地把拳头往对方脸上招呼。在掉了几颗牙，而且肾脏也受伤后，这场战斗平局收场，不管怎么说，这也可能是内战结束的原因。
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The Soviets Grabbed A Random Peasant Off The Street And Took Him To Negotiate Russia Pulling Out Of World War I
苏联人随时从大街上抓了一个农民，让他去谈关于苏联退出一战的相关事宜
In 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks seized control of Moscow, and decided to try to win the hearts and minds of ordinary Russians with the bold new policy of not making them run straight at German machine guns. To that end, they scheduled a peace conference in Brest-Litovsk to end Russian involvement in the First World War. Although the delegation was led by prominent activists, the Bolsheviks made a point of also bringing a soldier, a sailor, and an urban worker to really hammer home that communism was all about the good of the common people.
But you know how it goes when packing for a trip -- something always gets forgotten. In this case, the politicians were on their way to the train station when they realized they had forgotten to bring a peasant!
在1917年，列宁的布尔什维克党夺取了莫斯科的控制权，为了赢得民心，列宁决定采取一个醒目的政策，即不再让人民去面对德国人的枪口。为此，他们计划在布雷斯特-立托夫斯克来谈让俄国退出一战的事。虽然代表团由一个杰出的政治活动家带队，但是布尔什维克还是决定再带上一个士兵，一个水手和一名城市工人来宣示共产主义完全是为了大众好。
但你知道当准备行装的时候会发生的事——总是会有什么落下。在本例中，政治家已经到了车站了才想起来还差一个农民！
So they cruised around town until they spotted an elderly guy in shitty clothes, lured him into the car with promises of beets or something, and then told him he was coming to negotiate peace with the Germans. That man was Roman Stashkov, and he was only trying to get back to his village when he suddenly found himself sitting across from European royalty. He rolled with it pretty well, although he apparently kept addressing the other delegates as "master," and when asked whether he wanted red or white wine, he inquired, "which one is the strongest?"
他们沿着城镇到处找，直到发现了一个衣着破烂的老人，用甜菜或者其它什么承诺将老人骗上车后才告诉他要去和德国谈和平。这个老人叫做罗曼·斯塔什科夫，这个老人发现坐在对面的人是欧洲皇室的时候，唯一想做的事就是回家。虽然他还是称呼代表团其他成员为“大人”，但他表现得还好，当问起他想要喝红葡萄酒还是白葡萄酒的时候，他问道：“哪种劲儿大？”
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