Dennis Linden didn't think so.

丹尼斯·林登不这么想。

Dennis Linden wanted to scream.

丹尼斯·林登想要惊声尖叫。

Dennis Linden was nobody's fool.

丹尼斯·林登不是那么好骗的。

"We wouldn't have love," Linden says.

“我们也不会有浪漫的爱情，”林登说。

So Linden Lab lost money in the real world.

所以菩提树货币在现实中损失了金钱。

You have any proof of this, Mr. Linden?

对此你可有证据，林登先生？

But this utopia extends only to the borders of Linden Lab.

但是这个乌托邦只是会受到到菩提树实验室研究结果的限制。

And Dennis Linden understood that all his fears were true.

和丹尼斯·林登明白他所有的恐惧都是真实的。

The volume of new Linden dollars available for purchase can also be adjusted.

能用来购买东西的新林登元的数量也是能够被调整。

Life, but the faithful are spending more time and money than ever inside linden.

但那些忠实用户将花费比以前更多的时间和金钱在林登实验室的虚拟世界。

Linden hasn't been able to realize the potential of the platform or to make it easy.

林登一直没有意识到平台的潜在力量，也没有让其操作更加简便。

It takes 20 years before all the circuits are laid out and connected up, Linden says.

需要20年才能完成全部线路排布和连接，林登说。

Today Linden announced the first statewide roll out of a virtual learning environment.

今天，林登实验室宣布了第一个州级虚拟教学环境。

He has been an adviser to Linden Lab, the makers of "Second Life", an online virtual world.

他还做过林顿公司的顾问，林顿公司是网络虚拟世界“第二人生”的制造商。

To make it easy, she listed the parcel for one Linden dollar, and told her friend to buy it.

为了操作方便，她把那片土地以1L$的价格挂牌，并告诉她的朋友去买它。

But you won't find any Linden dollars, Eve ISK or Facebook credits down the back of the couch.

但是你不会在沙发后面发现林登元(Linden dollars)、Eve ISK和Facebook信用值。

But Linden says these adaptations turn out to have some surprising payoffs, like romantic love.

但林登说，这些进化也有一些令人吃惊的回报：比如说，浪漫的人类爱情。

Linden says getting a simple message from our feet to our brain can take a remarkably long time.

林登说，从我们的脚下把一个简单的信息传递给大脑要花很长时间。

These shoes were commonly made from Birch bark, but they could also be made from linden or lime-tree bark.

这些鞋通常是用桦树皮制作，不过菩提树或者椴树树皮也能做。

The boost in concurrency, according to Nino, reflects improvements by Linden to Second Life’s servers.

根据尼诺的解释，这种并发性的增加反映了林顿实验室对Second Life服务器的改进。

It is also unusual in that Linden Labs recently announced the release of its client software as open source.

另外一点与众不同的是：Linden Labs最近宣布这个客户机软件以开源的形式发布。

The brainchild of American company Linden Lab, Second Life players can create a virtual alter ego, an avatar.

第二人生是美国公司Linden实验室开发的一款游戏玩家可以创造一个虚拟的另一个我也就是一个化身。

Virtual worlds: I attended the Linden Labs party, the crew that has created the online world called Second Life.

虚拟世界：我加入了Linden Labs党，成员们建立了一个网络世界叫第二次生命（Second Life）。

SIEBEN LINDEN, a Hamlet in former East Germany, half-way between Hamburg and Berlin, looks deceptively normal.

Sieben Linden是前东德一个小村庄，坐落于汉堡和柏林之间，表面看来不过是个普通的村庄。

Linden says it's because we're still using a communication system developed 600 million years ago by jellyfish.

林登说，这是因为我们仍在使用600万年前水母制定的通讯系统。

When it first launched, the tech and business worlds were transfixed on Linden Labs' Second Life as a new marketplace.

当林登实验室(Linden Labs)推出第二人生(Second Life)时，科技界和商界被这个新市场惊呆了。

"Here's where we found our dream," says Brian Linden, who sold the couple's home in the U.S. to bankroll the renovation.

“这是我们找到梦想的地方”，布莱恩·林登说，他把他们夫妇在美国的房子卖了来为这次的翻修提供资金。

Linden Lab USES several controls to keep the exchange rate in Second Life relatively stable at about 265 to the us dollar.

林登实验室采取措施控制《第二人生》中的兑换率，使其相对稳定在265林登元兑换1美元。

In Second Life, US dollars can be converted into Linden dollars and vice versa through channels in the virtual environment.

在《第二人生》(Second Life)中，美元和林登元可以通过虚拟环境中的渠道互相兑换。