You believe in little green men?

你相信有小绿人？

Tiny worms? Little green men? Or maybe a Roman god… ?

小虫子？小绿人？还是罗马的神？

If we don't find any little green men, we might decide to colonize it ourselves.

如果我们没有找到任何小绿人，我们可能会决定殖民这个星球。

In the first instance, we would be looking for plant life, rather than 'little green men'.

首先我们要寻找植物，而不是那种“小绿人”。

The little green man opened the door.

小绿人打开了门。

Little green men from another planet.

来自另一个星球的小绿人。

When we think of extraterrestrial life, we tend to think of aliens like funny little green men, not aliens as single-celled microbes.

当我们想到外星生命时，我们倾向于将外星人想象成有趣的小绿人， 而不是将外星人想象成单细胞微生物。

As Earth-dwellers, we always cherish the hope that we will be visited by little green men and that we will be able to communicate with them.

作为地球上的居民，我们总存有这样的希望：小绿人来拜访我们，而我们可以和他们交流。

It would be remarkable if the little green men had invented universities, funding committees, a tenure system and all the other accoutrements of modern academic life.

如果小绿人发明了大学、资助委员会、终身教职制度和现代学术生活的所有其他装备，那就太了不起了。

We’re not talking about an invasion by little green men here. Instead, how about the prospect of being hit by a gigantic meteorite, zapped by lethal cosmic rays or fried by the deadly energy of an erupting star?

我们这里不是在谈论小绿人的入侵。相反，被巨大的陨石击中、被致命的宇宙射线击中或被恒星爆发的致命能量炸毁的前景又如何呢？