《星球之战》atwarwiththe-planet原文及翻译复习过程.pdfVIP

《星 球 之 战 》 At - Wa r - wi t h - t h e - Pl a n et 原 文 及 翻 译 1. People live in two worlds. Like all living things, we inhabit this natural world, created over the Earths 5-billion-year history by physical, chemical, and biological processes. The other world is our own creation: homes, cars, farms, factories, laboratories, food, clothing, books, paintings, music, poetry. We accept responsibility for events in our own world, but not for what occurs in the natural one. Its storms, droughts, and floods are acts of God, free of human control and exempt8 from our responsibility. 人类生活在两个世界中。和所有的生物一样，我们生存在这个经过 50 多亿年物理、化 学、生物变化所形成的地球上，即自然世界。另外一个世界则源于人类的创造，如家 庭、汽车、农场、工厂、实验室、食物、服装、书籍、绘画、音乐、诗歌等。我们为 人类世界所发生的一切承担责任，却对自然世界的变化无能为力。风暴、干旱、洪水 等都是上帝的“手笔”，人类无法控制，也无须负责。 2. Now, on a planetary scale, this division has been breached. With the appearance of a continent-sized hole in the Earths protective ozone layer and the threat of global warming, even droughts, floods, and heat waves may become unwitting acts of man. 但如今，从全球的角度看，这个界限已被打破。对地球起保护作用的臭氧层出现空 洞，全球变暖威胁人类，甚至干旱、洪水、热电波等都可能是人类的无心之过。 3. Like the Creation, the portending global events are cosmic: they change the relationship between the planet Earth and its star, the sun. The suns powerful influence on the Earth is exerted by two forces: gravity and solar radiation. Gravity is a nearly steady force that fixes the planets path around the sun. Solar radiation —largely visible and ultraviolet light —is a vast stream of energy that bathes the Earths surface, fluctuating from day to night and season to season. Solar energy fuels the energy- requiring processes of life; it creates the planets climate and governs the gradual evolution and the current behavior of its huge and varied population of living t