2、7500万美元。4.不过,如果认为我们目前仍然低估的只是那些突然间引人注目的风险,那是非常愚蠢的。Lesson 2 1 It is a cliché, as it is to talk of apocalypse and nightmare, but when something is beyond our experience, we reach for the points of reference we have. 说到世界末日和噩梦又是老生常谈,但是当事情超出我们的经验时,我们总会寻找现有的东西作为
3、参照。 2 Lest you should ever forget the smallness of being human, the iconic Mount Fuji, instantly recognisable yet somehow different on every viewing, is an extinct volcano. 唯恐你会忘记作为人类的渺小,标志性富士山,一眼即能认出但不知何故每次观看又呈现出不同景象,就是一座死火山。 3 It surprised me, over th
4、e following months that the gas attack seemed to dominate the national media coverage, whereas Kobe, after the initial weeks of horrifying footage, slipped somewhat into the background. 在随后的几个月里,让我吃惊的是毒气攻击似乎占据了国家媒体报道的主要内容,而阪神大地震经过了最初几周骇人听闻的电视报道后,已经退居次位了。
5、4 Rather than immersing ourselves in the language of horror films and the end of the world, when the time is right to try to glimpse this new territory, we might for thought reach for a book by Japan's most popular contemporary novelist. 我们不能沉浸在恐怖片和世界末日的语
6、言中,在适合的时间,如果想要了解这一新的领域,我们可以考虑看看日本最流行的现代小说家的一本书。 5 But we should resist the temptation to imagine panicking hordes buying up all the food and fleeing the capital as the next part of our horror narrative. 但是,我们不应该总想着成群结队恐慌的人们抢空所有食物,远离首都,把这些当初恐怖故事的下一个情节Lesso