未来,什么能够取代饥荒、瘟疫和战争,成为人类的首要议程?作为地球上自封的上帝,人类会给自己带来了什么样的命运,又有什么样的任务要承担?从征服死亡到创造人工生命,《未来简史》探讨了塑造21世纪的愿景与梦魇。这本书提出了一些最基本的问题:人类要走向何方?手握毁灭性的力量,我们如何保卫这个脆弱的世界。
4. "Exit West" by Mohsin Hamid
《离开西部》(莫欣•哈米德)
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet— sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through.
在一个摇摇欲坠的国家,内战一触即发时,两个年轻人相遇了。感性而异常独立的纳迪娅与温和拘谨的赛义德开始偷偷相爱。不久后,整个城市陷入混乱,两个感情还不够成熟的恋人被困。战争爆发,曾经熟悉的街道支离破碎,四处散落着关卡和弹片,这对情侣听到人们私下议论一种任意门,它能瞬间将人送去往远方,但也可能遇到不可预知的危脸,并且付出一定代价。随着暴力冲突愈演愈烈,纳迪娅和赛义德觉得他们走投无路了。他们找到那扇任意门,迈出了第一步,从此离开了自己的祖国,告别了过去的生活。
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