While campus is closed, a team comprised mostly of Berkeley students is creating a virtual version of campus, including Doe Library and the Campanile, via the video game Minecraft.
虽然校园关闭了，但一个主要由伯克利学生组成的团队正在通过电子游戏《我的世界》(Minecraft)创建一个虚拟的校园，包括图书馆（Doe Library）和钟楼（Campanile）。
Imagine a place where social distancing isn’t necessary — where you can gather with friends and resume life as normal, as if COVID-19 and the chaos it has wrought were but a distant memory.
想象一个没有必要保持社交距离的地方——在那里你可以和朋友聚会，恢复正常的生活，就好像 COVID-19 和它造成的混乱只是一个遥远的记忆。
Enter the University of Berkeley, a student-led effort to build, one block at a time, the UC Berkeley campus on “Minecraft,” the wildly imaginative (and massively popular) video game. In the expertly crafted virtual world, you can walk through Sather Gate, gaze upon the iconic Campanile, encounter campus’s ubiquitous Kiwibots, and spot Berkeley’s famed peregrine falcons. And, even amid the closures, you can soak in the architectural glory of the campus’s libraries.
加州大学伯克利分校由学生牵头，以《我的世界》(Minecraft)为基础，一片一片地建造校园。《我的世界》是一款想象力丰富(也非常受欢迎)的视频游戏。在这个精心制作的虚拟世界里，你可以穿过萨瑟门（Sather Gate），凝视标志性的钟楼，遇到校园里无处不在的几维机器人，还可以看到伯克利著名的游隼。而且，即使是在图书馆关闭期间，你也可以沉浸在校园图书馆建筑的辉煌之中。
The effort to build the UC Berkeley campus started just weeks ago, in an age when each day feels like a year. Inspired by a Facebook comment suggesting someone build a campus on “Minecraft” where students could receive their diplomas virtually, Bjorn Lustic, on a break from his studies at Berkeley, started the server in mid-March and quickly got to work.
建设加州大学伯克利分校的努力几周前才开始，当时的每一天都像是一年。Facebook上的一条评论建议在《我的世界》(Minecraft)上建立一个校园，学生们可以在那里虚拟地获得学位，受此启发，Bjorn Lustic在伯克利(Berkeley)休学期间，于3月中旬启动了服务器，并迅速投入工作。
The effort humbly began as “a fun little thing to do,” Lustic said, with a small team that included his friend Hunter Hall ’20 (an astrophysics major) and their siblings. Just over a month later, the crew has expanded to nearly 100, all working toward the same goal: to build campus — or at least as much of it as possible — in time for its graduation day debut.
Lustic说，这项工作从一开始就是“一件有趣的小事”，他的团队很小，包括他20岁的朋友Hunter Hall (天体物理学专业学生)和他们的兄弟姐妹。仅仅一个多月后，工作人员已经扩大到近100人，他们都朝着同一个目标努力：在毕业日的首次亮相前建好校园——或者至少尽可能多地建设校园。
If you build it …
如果你建造 …
At the University of Berkeley, the libraries are reimagined in stunning detail — the kind that can only be borne from affection, or at least a deep familiarity.
伯克利大学对图书馆进行了令人惊叹的细致重绘——这种重绘只能来自对它的喜爱，或者至少是一种深深的熟悉。
Brian DeBisschop, a high school student who counts Berkeley as his top-choice school, has created more than 20 buildings in about three weeks of working on the project, including the exterior “shell” of Doe and Bancroft. Building Bancroft, DeBisschop said, was “surprisingly easy” — the dimensions translated well to “Minecraft” and the design is relatively straightforward. It took him less than an hour to get everything to his liking.
Brian DeBisschop是一名高中学生，他认为伯克利是他的首选学校，他在大约三周的时间里建造了20多座建筑，包括Doe和Bancroft的外壳。DeBisschop说，建造Bancroft“出奇的简单”——尺寸转换成“Minecraft”，设计相对简单。他不到一个小时就把一切都弄得称心如意了。
But Doe was a different story. To re-create the neoclassical building, which in real life was designed by architect John Galen Howard, DeBisschop had to spend some time planning in order to make sure the north and south facades — with their contrasting designs — were proportional to each other, with a scale as close to real life as possible. Pulling that off took several hours over the course of a few days, he said.
但Doe又是一个不同的故事。重新创建新古典主义建筑，这在现实生活中是由建筑师John Galen Howard设计的，DeBisschop不得不花一些时间来计划，以确保南北立面-和他们的对比设计互相成正比，与现实生活的规模尽可能接近。他说，为实现这一目标，在几天时间里，每天都要花好几个小时。
Hall, the astrophysics major, is currently at work on Morrison Library. “I love this library because of its contrast to the rest of the libraries on campus,” he said, citing its distinctive dark wood, seating, busts, and selection of books. Some of Hall’s favorite books of all time are housed at Morrison — specifically, on the second floor, surrounding the easternmost table. Hall had to use plugins — or add-ons for “Minecraft” servers — for some of the finer touches. As a nod to one of his favorite books, he laid “Out of My Later Years” by Albert Einstein on the table, its pages open, as if it were being read.
天体物理学专业的Hall目前正在莫里森图书馆（Morrison Library）工作。“我喜欢这座图书馆，因为它与校园里的其他图书馆形成了鲜明的对比，”他说。他指的是这座图书馆独特的深色木材、座位、半身像和藏书。Hall一直以来最喜欢的一些书都收藏在莫里森，具体地说，是在二楼，围绕着最东端的那张桌子。Hall不得不使用插件——或附加的《我的世界》服务器——为了更好的触摸。为了向他最喜欢的一本书致敬，他把Albert Einstein的《我的晚年》放在桌子上，书页敞开着，仿佛正在被阅读。
With majors including engineering, computer science, and astrophysics, the University of Berkeley’s builders exhibit an extreme attention to detail and laserlike precision. To generate Berkeley’s terrain, they relied on data from NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which in 2000 mapped nearly 80 percent of the Earth’s land surfaces from the space shuttle Endeavour. Builders have used Google Maps and Google Earth as reference tools and for measuring distances and altitudes.
除了工程学、计算机科学和天体物理学，伯克利大学的建造者们对细节和激光般的精确有着极高的要求。为了生成伯克利的地形，他们依赖于NASA的航天飞机雷达地形测绘任务，该任务在2000年从奋进号（Endeavour）航天飞机上绘制了近80%的地球表面。建造者使用谷歌地图（Google Maps）和谷歌地球（Google Earth）作为参考工具，并用于测量距离和高度。
But that exacting spirit is paired with an equal-sized dollop of outside-of-the-box thinking. After all, one block — the foundational building unit in “Minecraft” — is the equivalent of a cubic meter, an increment that doesn’t always translate to the real world, making flexibility and adaptability essential.
但是，这种严格的精神伴随着同等规模的创新思维。毕竟，一个积木——《我的世界》中的基础建筑单元——相当于一个立方米，这个增量并不总是转化为现实世界，这使得灵活性和适应性变得至关重要。
And then there are the materials: Although some building mediums are a no-brainer (in-game quartz is a good substitute for real-life marble, for example), sometimes builders have to get creative. To bring to life the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, with its shimmering bronze-lattice facade, builders had to overlay two types of materials — brown concrete and iron fencing. The result is uncanny.
此外还有一些材料：尽管有些建筑介质是无需动脑筋就能想到的(例如，游戏中的石英可以很好地替代现实生活中的大理石)，但有时建造者不得不发挥创造力。为了让斯塔尔东亚图书馆（C. V. Starr East Asian Library）焕发生机，建筑师必须覆盖两种类型的材料——棕色混凝土和铁栅栏。结果是不可思议的。
With the exteriors of buildings nearly finished, builders are turning inward. Moffitt Library was among the very first buildings to get a completed interior, “probably because most people know it like the back of their hand,” said Eli McAmis ’21, a chemical biology major who worked on parts of the undergraduate library.
随着建筑物的外观接近完工，建筑师们开始转向室内。莫菲特图书馆（Moffitt Library）是最早完成内部装修的建筑之一，“可能是因为大多数人对它了如指掌，”21岁的Eli McAmis说。
But aside from the buildings, the project has re-created a sense of campus camaraderie. About a month ago, most of the builders working on the project were perfect strangers — but the project has changed all that.
但除了这些建筑，该项目还重建了校园友情。大约一个月前，大多数参与这个项目的建筑师们都是完全的陌生人，但这个项目改变了这一切。
“Even though a lot of us are away from Berkeley, just hanging out with the other builders, talking with these guys, it kind of showed me that it’s really the students that make up campus life,” said Elliot Choi ’20, a senior on the team who is studying economics and data science. “Seeing that embodied in a virtual version of Berkeley is really amazing.”
“尽管我们很多人都不在伯克利，只是和其他建筑师们在一起，和他们聊天，这让我看到，这其实也是学生们的校园生活，”研究经济学和数据科学的大四学生，20岁的Elliot Choi 说道。“在伯克利的虚拟版本中看到这一点真的很神奇。”
‘Freedom to be yourself’
“做自己的自由”
Each day, virtual commencement gets closer to reality. The ceremony is slated for the same day as the real-life one was scheduled, May 16. Although the details are in the works, organizers plan to have an in-game ceremony as well as a livestream, so people without “Minecraft” can attend, from anywhere.
虚拟毕业典礼一天天的接近。颁奖典礼定于5月16日举行，与现实生活中相同。虽然细节还在制定中，但组织者计划举办一个游戏内仪式和一个直播，这样没有《我的世界》的人可以从任何地方参加。
“‘Minecraft’ is the perfect virtual space for this event because it gives you total freedom to be yourself,” said Lustic, who studied cognitive science and computer science at Berkeley. “We can see how these virtual spaces are almost as important as a physical space.”
“《我的世界》是举办这次活动的完美虚拟空间，因为它让你完全自由地做自己，”在伯克利学习认知科学和计算机科学的Lustic说。“我们可以看到，这些虚拟空间几乎和物理空间一样重要。”
As of April 22, more than 600 people said they are going to attend the commencement, and over 1,000 have expressed interest on Facebook.
截至4月22日，已有600多人表示要参加毕业典礼，超过1000人在Facebook上表达了兴趣。
Even with the uncertainty each day brings, the project provides some relief, and a sense of purpose. When visitors swing by the server to check things out, they often are taken aback by the work of the University of Berkeley team — by a building that carries special meaning to them, perhaps, or a detail that was replicated just right.
即使每天都有不确定性，这个项目仍提供了一些安慰，成为了一种使命。当访问者在服务器前来回走动，查看东西时，他们常常会被伯克利大学团队的工作吓一跳——也许是对他们有特殊意义的建筑，或者是恰到好处的复制细节。
“You can feel the amazement and happiness that people are experiencing because of it,” said Christian Nisperos ’23, a mechanical engineering major who has been working on the project since its early days. “I was scrolling through some of the comments on Facebook that were like, ‘I got a little teary-eyed looking at this building.’ …
23岁的Christian Nisperos是一名机械工程专业的学生，从项目一开始就参与其中。他说:“你可以感受到人们因为它产生的惊讶和快乐。”“我浏览了Facebook上的一些评论，像是‘我看到这座建筑时有点泪眼婆娑’。“…
“It’s very fulfilling hearing all of that, and it helps motivate us to build even more.”
“听到这一切让我很有成就感，这有助于激励我们建造更多。”
