刘慈欣原著《流浪地球》英文版赏读

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随着刘慈欣同名中篇小说改编的电影《流浪地球》热映，中国科技馆宣布永久馆藏《流浪地球》电影，这是该馆首次收藏电影作品。

本期我们找来了《流浪地球》（The Wandering Earth）英文版的原著片段与大家分享：

我没见过黑夜，我没见过星星，我没见过春天、秋天和冬天。我出生在刹车时代结束的时候，那时地球刚刚停止转动。

I have never seen the night. I have never seen the stars. I have never seen spring， fall， or winter. I was born as the Braking Era ended， just as the Earth stopped turning.

地球自转刹车用了四十二年，比联合政府的计划长了三年。妈妈给我讲过我们全家看最后一个日落的情景：太阳落得很慢，仿佛在地平线上停住了，用了三天三夜才落下去。当然，以后没有“天”也没有“夜”了，东半球在相当长的一段时间里（有十几年吧）将处于永远的黄昏中，因为太阳在地平线下并没落深，还在半边天上映出它的光芒。就在那次漫长的日落中，我出生了。

It had taken forty-two years to halt Earths rotation， three years longer than the Coalition had planned. My mother told me about the time our family watched the last sunset. The sun sank very slowly， as if stuck on the horizon. It took three days and three nights to set all the way. Of course， afterward there was no more “day” or “night”. The Eastern hemisphere was shrouded in perpetual dusk for a long time， maybe a decade or so. The sun lay just below the horizon， and its glow filled half the sky. And during that endless sunset， I was born.

黄昏并不意味着昏暗，地球发动机把整个北半球照得通明。地球发动机安装在亚洲和美洲大陆上，因为只有这两个大陆完整坚实的板块结构才能承受发动机对地球巨大的推力。地球发动机共有一万两千台，分布在亚洲和美洲大陆的各个平原上。

Dusk did not mean darkness. The Earth Engines brightly illuminated the whole Northern hemisphere. They had been installed all across Asia and North America—only the solid plate structure of these two continents could withstand the enormous thrust they exerted. In total， there were 12，000 engines scattered across the Eurasian and North American plains.

翻譯：Elizabeth Hanlon

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