【流浪地球】刹车时代(下)中英文对照(2)
Then, finally we beheld that soul – chilling blaze. At first it was only a point of light on the horizon, but it quickly grew into an expanding arc. My breath caught in my throat as I felt myself falling into the clutches of terror. It felt as if the deck below my feet had disappeared. I imagined myself plummeting into the watery abyss below; and I fell…
Ling fell with me, her wispy frame clinging to my shaking body. The other children, everyone else – the entire world – all fell. And then I remembered the riddle. When I first heard it, I had asked my philosophy teacher what color the wall was. He had told me: “ It must be black.” The answer had seemed off to me. I always thought that a wall of death ought to shine. That was why I has remembered it when I saw the wall of plasma. In that era, death is no longer black; it was the glare of a flash, for it would be a final flash that would vaporize the world.