第1683期:Finding your doppelganger

What is the likelihood of you having someone who looks just like you? Would it be a good thing? And if you did have one, would you want to meet them?你有一个长得像你的人的可能性有多大？这会是一件好事吗？如果你有，你想见见他们吗？Consider how often your facial features are used to identify you. Your passport, ID card and driving licence all bare your face. To enter your workplace, you likely need to be recognisable. You may need your face to unlock your smartphone and possibly even need it to exclude you from being present at a crime scene.考虑使用您的面部特征来识别您的频率。你的护照、身份证、驾照都露出你的脸。要进入您的工作场所，您可能需要被认出。你可能需要你的脸来解锁你的智能手机，甚至可能需要它来阻止你出现在犯罪现场。The word ‘doppelganger’ refers to a person who looks the same as you, essentially sharing your features; those that you thought were unique to you and your identity. Not an identical twin, as a doppelganger has no relation to you. The idea originated in German folklore. A doppelganger was said to be a spirit-double that replicated every human and beast on earth.“doppelganger”这个词指的是一个和你长得一样的人，本质上和你有相同的特征；那些你认为对你和你的身份来说是独一无二的。不是同卵双胞胎，因为分身与您无关。这个想法起源于德国民间传说。分身据说是复制了地球上所有人类和野兽的灵魂替身。So, let’s get real. What are the chances of you having one in the first place? There’s said to be a one in 135 chance of an absolute dead ringer for you existing anywhere in the world, so the chances are pretty low, despite folk wisdom promising you otherwise. And the chances of meeting? The mathematical certainty of finding this particular person is supposedly less than one in a trillion!所以，让我们变得真实。您首先拥有一个的机会有多大？据说世界上任何地方都有 135 分之一的机会存在绝对死机，所以这种机会非常低，尽管民间智慧向你保证并非如此。和见面的机会？据推测，找到这个特定人物的数学确定性小于万亿分之一！That said, these statistics may be a good thing. Historically, having a double hasn’t always been a positive. Back in 1999, an innocent American man, indistinguishable from the real criminal, was sent to prison for robbery, where he stayed for 19 years. In the end, it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. In a different case, a woman in New York was accused of trying to poison her doppelganger with deadly cheesecake so that she could steal her identity!也就是说，这些统计数据可能是一件好事。从历史上看，有双胞胎并不总是积极的。时间回到1999年，一名与真凶难分伯仲的无辜美国男子因抢劫罪被送进监狱，并在那里待了19年。到头来，竟然是认错人的案子。在另一起案件中，纽约的一名妇女被指控试图用致命的芝士蛋糕毒死她的分身，以便窃取她的身份！And, why are people interested in finding their possible doppelganger anyway? It may be helpful to look to the past when facial resemblance indicated kinship.而且，为什么人们有兴趣找到他们可能的二重身呢？当面部相似表明亲属关系时，回顾过去可能会有所帮助。Maybe one day you’ll meet your lookalike, but we understand that, after this, you possibly don’t want to!也许有一天您会遇到相似的人，但我们知道，在此之后，您可能不想再遇到了！词汇表facial features 面部特征recognisable 可认出的exclude 排除…，认为…不可能unique 独一无二的identity 身份identical twin 同卵双胞胎folklore 民间传说replicate 复制a dead ringer 酷似…的人，相像之人/物mathematical certainty 数学准确性a double 一模一样的人indistinguishable 难以分辨的，无法识别的mistaken identity 认错人，身份错认resemblance 相似kinship 亲属关系lookalike 长得极像…的人