第一章：世界末日（5）(3)

鼠群此时也开始四处逃窜。人类在武器军备上的天赋击溃了鼠群盲目进攻的策略。在杀戮这方面恐怕没有其他生物能够胜过人类。
The rats retreated. Their blind will had been broken by one of the last inventions of human military genius. Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.
鼠群如退潮的水流一般迅速地向他们巢穴退去，没有人知道他们的领地究竟有多大。那些迷宫横卧在这地铁深坑中，如树根般盘根错节，神秘莫测，似乎对地铁的运行毫无作用。就在这一问题上，尽管曾有各种权威人士出面保证，这种结构是出自普通的地铁建造商之手，可依然让人怀疑其真实性。
The rats flowed backwards and returned to their enormous kingdom, whose true dimensions were known to no one. All of these labyrinths, lying at incredible depth, were so mysterious and, it seemed, completed useless for the functioning of the metro. It was hard to believe, despite the assurances of various persons of authority on the the matter, that all of this was bulit by ordinary metro-builders.