专业硕士英语课文翻译 顾明远主编

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1、Unit1Text1What’stheBigIdea?Nokiasponsorsawiderangeofeducational,culturalandotheractivities.Oneofthemostunusualactivitieswasthesponsoringof“FutureHistories”,acollectionofstoriesbyprominentwritersofsciencefiction.Whyshouldatelecommunicationscompanybecomeinvolvedwithliterature?It

2、couldbecalled“research”.诺基亚公司举办了一系列有关教育文化的的意义活动。其中最不寻常的一项活动是举办“未来的历史”，由科幻小说作家们收集的小说故事系列。为什么一个通讯公司变得与文学有牵涉，它就是所谓的“科学研究”。Scienceandliteraturehavetraditionallybeenhostiletoeachother.Writershaveregardedscientistsasdullcreatureswhotakepleasureindestroyinggreatwordsoftheimaginationw

3、ithboringfacts.Scientistshavethoughtofwritersasfrivolouspeoplewithnorespectfortherulesofevidence.Attheheartoftheirmutualsuspicionisthequestionofwhoownsthetruth.Doessomethingbecomerealwhenitisimaginedorwhenitisphysicallycreated?科学和文学传统上就相互敌对。文学作家认为：科学家们是一群愚蠢的生物，他们总是破坏人类伟大的想象取乐。

4、科学家则认为：文人作家们是轻浮的，没有尊循事实依据，两者相猜疑的中心交点在于：到底是谁拥有真理事实，是先有想像后来成成真呢？还是实际设计出变成真的？Sciencefictionistheoneareawherethesetowopposinggroupshavemetandexchangedideas.Asitsnamesuggests,sciencefictionisliteraturewhichpredictsthetechnologyofthefutureandtheeffectthiswillhaveonhumansociety.Overt

5、heyearsmanyoftheirspeculationshavebeenremarkablyaccurate.Spacetravel,communicationssatellites,nuclearpower,robotics,cloningandmobiletelephonyhaveallappearedinbooksbeforetheyappearedinreality.科幻小说是两大对立集团相互邂逅并交流思想的公共领域。顾名思义，科学小学是预测未来科技和如何影响人类社会的文学作品。近年来，许多想象推测早己变成了现实，如太空旅行，通讯卫星，

6、原子核能，机器人，克隆技术和移动电话，它们都是先出现在作品中然后才变成现实的。Yetsometimesthewritershavegotitwrong.Nobodypredictedtheemergenceofpersonalcomputers,forinstance.Andcontactwithalienbeingsfromotherplanetsstillseemsalongwayoff,despitebeingacommonsubjectofsciencefiction.有时，科幻作家们也会搞错。从来没有人能预言个人电脑的出现，反之，尽管外星

7、人早己成为科幻作品的描述对象，但到现在，与外星人的联系还有很长一段距离要走。Overtheyears,thetimebetweenthepredictionofnewtechnologyinsciencefictionanditsactualdiscoveryhasbecomeshorter.Ittook100yearsbeforethemoonlandingspredictedbytheFrenchwriterJulesVerneactuallytookplace.Theideaofrobotsfirstemergedinthe1920s.The

8、firstrobotswerebuiltinthe1970s.Andinthe1940s,Arthur.C.Clarkep