《中英對照讀新聞》Pentagon plans for telepathic troops within five years 五角大廈計劃5年內成立心電感應部隊

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The U.S. Army is dedicating millions of research dollars into discovering building helmets to allow soldiers to telepathically communicate with one another on the battlefield.

美國陸軍正投入數百萬美元研究經費，研製能讓士兵在戰場上透過心電感應進行交流的頭盔。

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The technology, which seems like something out of a science fiction novel, would use electrodes to pick up code words that soldiers were thinking. Those codewords would then be transmitted back to a computer where the soldier’s position and message--telling, for instance, that it is safe to progress towards a target--which would be transmitted to their peers in the field.

這種技術看似源自科幻小說，將使用電極來收集士兵思考時的腦電波代碼。這些代碼隨後傳輸回一部電腦，電腦將士兵的位置和訊息，例如，朝某個目標行進是安全的等指令，傳送給戰場上的同袍。

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency（DARPA）was established in 1958 and was dedicated to expanding the Department of Defense’ technology usage, some of which included state-of-the-art, and top secret, research into the mind.

國防先進研究計畫局（DARPA）成立於1958年，致力於推廣國防部的科技應用，其中包括最先進的、最機密的心智研究。

Based largely out of University of California-Irvine, in conjunction with labs in Philadelphia and Maryland, scientists are trying to improve so-called ’synthetic telepathy’ so that it could be used in a battlefield.

這項研究工作主要由加州大學爾灣分校負責，費城和馬里蘭州的一些實驗室也參與其中。科學家試圖改進所謂的「綜合讀心術」，這樣就能應用在戰場。

So far, 45 percent of the commands that are transmitted from one volunteer to another--like ’call in helicopter’ or ’enemy ahead’--are correct. That statistic is expected to improve.

目前，從一個志願受試者傳遞給另一個受試者的指令中，有45%是正確的，比如「呼叫直升機」或者「前方有敵人」等。這一統計數值預計會改善。

新聞辭典

telepathic：形容詞，心電感應的。名詞為telepathy，指在沒有任何線索的情況下，不通過語言或行為的交流而洞悉他人思想的功能，此能力能將某些訊息透過普通感官之外的途徑，傳到另一人的心中，又稱「心靈感應」或「他心通」。

state-of-the-art：形容詞，（科技、機電等產品）最先進的、最高級的。用法如state-of-the-art technology（尖端科技）。

in conjunction with：片語，與…共同；連用。例句：He runs a store in conjunction with his relative.（他與親戚共同經營一家商店。）