【流浪地球】刹车时代(下)中英文对照(8)
“ We don’t want to wait for death with you Earth Faction fool! “ a couple of the Spaceship Faction kids immediately shouted in reponse.
“我们要坐飞船走!飞船万岁!“
“ We will build the spaceships! All hail the spaceships! “ they chanted.
小星老师按了一下手腕上的全息显示器,我们面前的空中立即显示出一幅全息图像,孩子们都注意力立刻被它吸引过去,暂时安静下来。那是一个晶莹透明的密封玻璃球,直径大约有十厘米,球里有三分之二充满了水,水中有一只小虾、一小枝珊瑚和一些绿色的藻类植物,小虾在水中悠然地游动着。小星老师说:“这是阿东自然课设计的一件作业,小球中除了这几样东西外,还有一些看不见的细菌。它们在密封的玻璃球中相互依赖,相互作用。小虾以海藻为食,从水中摄取氧气,然后排出含有机物质的粪便和二氧化碳废气,细菌将这些东西分解成无机物质和二氧化碳,然后海藻利用了这些无机物质于人造阳光进行光合作用,制造营养物质,进行生长和繁殖,同时放出氧气供小虾呼吸。这样的生态循环系统应该能使玻璃球中的生物在只有阳光的情况下生生不息。这是我见过的最好的课程设计,我知道,这里面凝聚了阿东和所有飞船派孩子的梦想,这就是你们梦中飞船的缩影啊!
阿东告诉我,他按照计算机中严格的数学模型,对球中每一样生物进行了基因设计,使它们的新陈代谢正好达到平衡。他坚信,球中的生命世界会长期活下去,直到小虾寿命的终点。老师们都很钟爱这件作业,我们把它放到所要求强度的人造阳光下,也坚信阿东的预测,默默地祝福他创造的整个小小的世界。但现在,时间只过去了十几天… …”
Ms.Xing pressed the holographic emitter on her wrist. Immediately, a holographic image appeared in air in front of us. We children stared at it in rapt attention and, at least for a moment, peace returned. Floating in front of us was the image of a glittering and translucent glass sphere. The hermetically sealed sphere was about four inches in diameter. Two – thirds of it was filled with water. A small shrimp, a small spring of coral and a bit of green algae swam in the water. The shrimp languidly moved about inside the sphere. Ms.Xing said, “ This is something Tung came up with for natural science class. There is more inside the small ball than meets the eye; it is also full of microscopic bacteria. All things inside it interact with and support one another. The shrimp eats thee algae and draws oxygen from water. It then discharges organic matter in its feces and it breathes out gaseous carbon dioxide. The bacteria further breakdown the discharge into inorganic matter and carbon dioxide. With the inorganic matter, the algae then use artificial sunlight to perform photosynthesis. “ We all gazed in awe as she explained to us the process. “ They thereby can manufacture nutrients, grow and reproduce, all while exuding oxygen for the shrimp to breathe, “ she told us. “ With nothing but sunlight, this ecological cycle should be infinitely elf – perpetuating. It was the best class work I had ever seen and I was well aware that it encapsulated Tung’s dreams, as well as the dreams of every other child of the Spaceship Faction, “ she said fairly. “ In essence, it is a miniature of the spaceship they so desire! Tung told me that he had designed it according to computation based on rigorous mathematical models and that he modified the genes of every life from thee sphere, ensuring that their metabolisms would achieve a perfect balance. He firmly believed that life within the sphere would endure, right down to the natural end of the shrimp’s life. All of us teachers loved the project and we provided it with artificial sunlight at the required intensity. Convinced by Tung’ calculations, we quietly wished that his little world would succeed. But today, just about a dozen days later... “