【流浪地球】刹车时代(下)中英文对照(4)
这一切将在四百年内发生,现在已过了三百八十年。
It was all in occur in 400 years; since then, 380 years had passed.
太阳的灾变将炸毁好吞没太阳系所有适合居住的类地行星,并使所有类木行星完全改变形态和轨道。自第一次氦闪后,随着重元素在太阳中心的反复聚集,太阳氦闪将在一段时间内反复发生,这“一段时间”是相对于恒星演化来说的,其长度可能相当于上千个人类历史。所以,人类在以后的太阳系中已无法生存下去,唯一的生路是向外太空恒星际移民。而按照人类目前的技术力量,全人类移民唯一可行的目标是人马座比邻星,这是距我们最近的恒星,有四点三光年的路程。以上看法人们已达成共识,争论的焦点在移民方式上。
This stellar disaster would not only annihilate and consume every inhabitable telluric planet in the solar system, but it would also forever change the nature and orbits of the Jovian planets. After the primary helium flash, the heavy elements would re – accumulate in the core of the Sun and further helium flashes would repeatedly occur for a period of time. This was a “ period ” in the stellar sense, lasting many, many thousands of human lifetimes. All of this made it impossible for humanity to continue living in the solar system, leaving only one last report: the migration to another star. The technology of the time allowed for only one destination of this migration. That destination was Proxima Centaur, the star closest to ours, a mere 4.3 light – years away. But while it was easy to reach a consensus on the goal of the migration, the mean were far more controversial.