memes

When our ancestors began to imitate they let loose a new evolutionary process based not on genes but on a second replicator, memes.

当我们的祖先开始模仿时他们就开启了一个新的进化过程，这个进化过程并非基于基因而是基于第二种复制因子（replicator），媒母（Meme）。

Some hotels exploit the opportunity to put even more memes with a little sticker .

一些酒店利用机会增加更多的迷因附上小标签。

So let me just point out : Memes are like viruses. That 's what Richard said, back in ' 93.

我想说的是：模因就像病毒这是理查德在93年说的你可能在想：这怎么可能？。

Memes are a new kind of information behaviours rather than DNA copied by a new kind of machinery brains rather than chemicals inside cells.

模因是一种新型信息。它是行为而不是DNA。其复制借助的是大脑这种新型装置，而不是细胞内部的化学物质。

Our peers are the selection pressure as we struggle to pass our memes on to the next generation.

当我们努力将自己的基因传给下一代的时候，我们的同类就是这个“选择”的压力。

Reports of official corruption or abuses of power are regularly seized upon, creating memes that echo around the web.

对官员腐败以及权力滥用的报道经常出现，并在网络空间中引起一阵阵反响。

because our ancestors created memes, turning Earth into a "two replicator" , or R2, planet, rich in language and culture.

这样的问题，是因为祖先创造了各种模因，使地球成为一个有着丰富的语言和文化的“双复制因子”（或称R2）星球。

And he's not responsible for what I say about memes. I'm responsible for what I say about memes.

尽管他创造了它现在，它属于所有人他不为我说的负责我负责

The memes took a gene machine and turned it into a meme machine.

迷因将一个基因机器变成一个迷因机器。

Identify "internal" possibilities (e. g. , personal greatness, higher purpose) and "external" possibilities (e. g. , resources, memes).

识别出“内部”的可能性（如个人的卓越性、更高的意图等）和“外部”的可能性（如资源、文化基因等）。

SB: Sink, toilet, yes, these are all memes, they're all memes, but they're sort of useful ones, and then there's this one.

苏珊：面盆，马桶，对，这些都是迷因，它们全是迷因，但是它们算是有用的迷因。

The memes are all trying to get copied, trying, in inverted commas, i. e. , that's the shorthand for, if they can get copied they will.

这些迷因都试着被复制，试着，直白地讲，例如，就是竭尽全力地被复制。

Small brains are much more efficient if you don't have to copy anything, but once memes are around you cannot survive unless you do.

如果不需要仿效任何事物的话，那么小一点的大脑会更有效率。然而一旦有了模因，要想存活下去就非得如此不行。

In the CNYM lines, language memes replicate by a way of memetic genotype and memetic phenotype.

在贺岁片中，语言模因通过模因基因型及模因表现型复制。

The same memes of "individualistic" and "psychologically vulnerable" came up.

同样，“个人主义”和“心理脆弱”也在他的话中出现了。

So memes began to proliferate.

模因于是开始繁衍。

Both genes and memes depend on a network of replicating machines -- cells or brains or computer terminals.

基因和“模因”，都是依赖一个复制机器组成的网络——细胞、大脑或者电脑终端。

Well, now how are we going to tell the good memes from the bad memes?

可是我们怎么去鉴别哪些是好的模因，哪些是坏的模因呢？

There are thousands of memes that come out of the site.

这个网站创造了许多“谜米”。

All the stories that we're telling , well of course , TED is a great memefest, masses of memes .

我们讲的所有的店，当然，TED是一个非常棒的迷因节，很多很多的迷因。