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“雨人” 原型Kim Peek本月去世 (双语)
Kim Peek may have been the world's most famous savant. Dustin Hoffman portrayed a character based on Peek in the 1988 film Rain Man, which triggered hundreds of news stories and documentaries about the man with "islands of remarkable abilities in a sea of disabilities," as scientists described him.Kim Peek可能是世界上最出名的博学之士，1988年达斯汀·霍夫曼的电影《雨人》就是以他为原型的。这部电影引发了关于Peek成百上千的新闻报道和档案记录，科学家们说他跟常人比起来力所不及的事情犹如汪洋大海，而他的才能就像这海中的孤岛一样闪耀，让人印象深刻。
According to his father, Peek suffered a heart attack Saturday at his home in Murray, Utah. He was 58.
据他父亲所说，Peek周六在犹他州的家中心脏病发，享年58岁。
Kim Peek couldn't operate a light switch or button his shirt. But his memory was so vast and deep and exact, he was compared to a computer. In fact, some called him "Kim-puter."
Kim Peek不会开灯关灯，也不会系衬衫纽扣。但是他的记忆力强大而精确，被比作电脑，一些人把他叫做Kim-puter。
"He had a bottomless memory," recalls Daniel Christensen, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Utah's Neuropsychiatric Institute. During the past 20 years, Christensen examined, tested and traveled with Peek.
犹他大学神经研究所精神病学临床教授Daniel Christensen回忆说，“他的记忆是个无底洞”。在过去20年中，Christensen一直在为Peek做检查和测试，和他一起周游各地。
Peek had the ability to recall facts and patterns about history, mathematics, music and geography but, adds Christensen, "the ability to take those things ... and use them, to reason with them, make sense of them, to know the implications, to make judgments based on them, that's a very different thing. And that's sort of where his mental abilities ended."
Peek有回忆历史、数学和地理的事实和模型的才能，但是，Christensen 说，把这些东西利用起来，搞明白原因、讲出道理、理解其中的意义、根据这些事情做出判断，这是完全的两码事，这也是Peek的心智无法达到的地方。
Christensen discovered a rare birth defect, known as agenesis of the corpus callosum, during a brain scan in the 1980s. Peek was missing the thick bundle of millions of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain. But a precise explanation for Peek's mix of abilities and disabilities remained elusive.
在20世纪80年代进行的一次脑扫描中，Christensen 发现了Peek患有一种被称作胼胝体发育不全的罕见的先天缺陷，他的左右脑连接的纤维束缺失了。但是对于他才能和行为能力缺失的混合现象仍然没有科学的解释。
"No one knows to this day why, exactly why, people can do things like Kim could do," Christensen says.
Christensen说，“直到今天也没有人知道，确切的知道为什么人们能做Kim做到的事情。”
After Rain Man, Peek traveled the world as "the real Rain Man," amazing audiences and visitors with his ability to recall dates and facts deep into history. He memorized every road, place and distance on maps. Sing a tune, and he'd name the composer, the composer's birth date and the circumstances surrounding the composition of the piece. He reportedly memorized almost every word in thousands of books.
在《雨人》这部片子之后，Peek作为真正的雨人环游世界，用他唤起历史深处的事实和日期的能力震惊了观众和来访者。他能记住地图上的每一条路、每一个地方和每一段距离。随便哼一段曲调，他能说出作曲者的名字、生日和作曲时的周边环境。据报告，他能记住上千本书中的每一个词。
In 1984, Peek met screenwriter Barry Morrow, who was so inspired by the savant he wrote Rain Man, a film about a man with similar characteristics. The film won four Academy Awards, including a Best Actor Oscar for Dustin Hoffman, who played the character based on Peek. Peek later traveled with an Oscar statuette.
1984年，Peek遇到了编剧Barry Morrow，Barry就是在Peek身上得到了灵感写出了《雨人》，片中人物和Peek的特点很相似，这部影片拿到了四个奥斯卡奖，扮演根据Peek塑造的人物的达斯汀·霍夫曼拿到了最佳男演员奖。后来，Peek和一个奥斯卡小金人一起继续环游。
Christensen considers Peek unique among savants. Most, he says, have had a single remarkable skill, such as music or mathematics or mechanics.
Christensen 认为Peek在博学的人中也是独一无二的。他说大部分人只有一种突出的才能，比如音乐或者数学或者机械。
"In comparison, Kim could do almost anything," Christensen says.
“比较起来，Kim能做任何事情。”
In a German documentary, Peek is shown with a group of American students who test his memory. Their teacher tells him she was born on Aug. 5, 1947.
在德国的一个纪录片中，Peek和一群测试他记忆力的美国学生一同出现，他们的老师告诉他自己出生于1947年8月5日。
"It was a Tuesday," Peek responds. "And this year, it's a Friday. And you retire in 2012 on a Sunday." He's then asked the name of the film winning the Academy Award for Best Picture when the teacher was 15. "Lawrence of Arabia," Kim says, without hesitation. "That's right!" the teacher replies.
Peek回答说，“那是个周二，今年的8月5日是星期五，你会在2012年退休，那年的8月5日是星期天。”然后他又被问到在老师15岁那年获得奥斯卡最佳电影的是哪部片子，他毫不迟疑的说“《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》”，老师回答说，“太对了！”
Peek and his father, Fran, used Kim's notoriety to campaign for the disabled. They produced a book called The Life and Message of the Real Rain Man.
Peek和他的爸爸Fran利用Peek的名声为残疾人发起了一场活动，他们写了一本书叫真实的雨人的生活和消息。
"I think it'll be a long time before we have another Kim," Christensen says. "I don't think there has been anyone like Kim in recorded history."
Christensen说，“我觉得再有一个 Kim 需要很长时间，有史以来就没有过这样的人”。
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