that said 表让步
    moonshot登月计划
    there’s a stigma(羞耻,耻辱) when you have brain surgery
    It wasn’t the grey matter, but it was the gooey part dead center, that makes key hormones and neurotransmitters(神经质地)
    I’m an experimentalist at heart(打心底里)
    optimal最优
    blow away留下深刻印象,有惊讶的意思
    maybe kind of toned-down(稍缓和的) versions of that
    What I was trying to do, with tuning(为乐器调音,此处引申为调整) these hormoned and neurotransmitters and so forth
    and so forth = and so on
    idea flow
    metric衡量标准
    tune up 为乐器调音,定弦
    sophistication 高水平,复杂巧妙
    backbone脊梁骨
    the remainit bottleneck(瓶颈) in being able of to do this is…..
    FMRI functional magnetic resonance imaging
    substract sth. from sth.
    next to nothing
    decode brain waves into recognizable visual fields
    sequence 一系列,一连串
    This is the jaw-dropper这真是让人惊掉了下巴(原翻译为让人印象深刻) jaw下巴下颌
    up the resolution提高分辨率
    thousanfold 千倍地
    conventional wisdom says that…传统观念认为
    holographic-like类似全息图的
    ingenious 巧妙的,新颖精巧的
    dump idea directly to digital media
    leapfrog跳背游戏