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The real joy for me is that I can take things that are already familiar to you
对我来说真正的快乐是我可以将你们已经熟悉的东西作为例证，
and by sharing the story of how I've learned to look at them you can see those things you've been seeing a little differently.
通过分享我如何学会看待它们的故事，你可以看到与那些你一直以来看到的东西略有不同。
So I talk about curiosity driven research as questions that we try to answer.
所以我将以好奇心为驱动的研究作为我们试图回答的问题。
Why is that tree growing successfully in that place, but never in that place? That's a curiosity question.
为什么那棵树在那个地方长得很成功，而在那个地方却长不好？这是一个好奇型的问题。
It's the kind of question a little kid could come up with. Why don't we have those trees at our house?
这是小孩子能想到的问题。为什么我们家里不种些树呢？
Now, buried in the answer might be something that could give us better fruit someday that we can sell in the marketplace and feed hungry people with.
现在，答案中隐藏的东西也许有一天能为我们提供更优质的水果，我们可以在市场上出售，并用这些水果来喂饱饥饿的人们。
But that result, that application to growing food for people is buried several steps below that answer.
但是这一结果，为人们种植食物的应用则隐藏在那个答案之下的好几个步骤。
My part of that is to look at that first answer. What is that tree? What does it do? Why is it there?
我认为得看第一个问题的答案。那是什么树？它能做什么？为什么会在那里？
And we call that the curiosity driven piece
我们称之为好奇心驱动的问题，
because that answer will be basically turned over to other experts who know how that might play out into something that is important for the marketplace.
因为答案基本上会转交给其他专家，他们知道如何发展成为对市场很重要的东西。
But there's no substitute for that first step, for that little kid question.
但没有什么能代替第一步，代替那个小孩的问题。
