【流浪地球】刹车时代(上) 中英文双语对照(11)
After a while, we made our way to the ocean. Standing on the seashore we could see the pinnacles of submerged skuscrapers reaching up out of the waves with the bb of the tide. W beheld thee gleaming whitewash of water rush out of their windows, forming cascades of waterfalls. Back then the Reining Age had only just come to an end, leaving the Erath with the horrifying of its passing. The tides, quickened by the Earth Engines, had swallowed two out of every three cities in the Northern Hemisphere; then the global increase in temperatures melted the polar icecap, turning the ensuing floods into a deluge that spread to thee Southern Hemisphere. Thirty years earlier my grandfather had witnessed giant 300 – foot waves that had engulfed Shanghai. Even now, he could never tell us about it without his gaze slipping into a thousand - mile stare. Our planet had already changed beyond recognition before it even set out on its journey. Who knew what hardships awaited us on our long travels through outer space?