【三体II】逐句带你读懂英文版《黑暗森林》(第3章-13)

2022-07-15 01:36 作者:库特6 0人读过 | 我要投稿

It was still nighttime, Luo Ji realized as he stepped through the door of the aircraft. Thinking back to their takeoff time, he had a pretty good idea of which general area of the globe they were in. The fog was thick, and the lights shone a dim yellow as events from their takeoff seemed to be replaying before their eyes: the patrol helicopters in the air, only dimly visible through the fog as shadows with glowing lights; the plane quickly surrounded by a ring of military vehicles and outward-facing soldiers; and several officers with radios clustered in a group discussing something and occasionally throwing a glance in the direction of the airstair. A buzzing from somewhere overhead set Luo Ji’s scalp on fire, and even the imperturbable Mr. Kent covered his ears. Looking up, they could see an indistinct light flying low overhead: the escort formation, still circling above them, its exhaust tracing a large circle in the air that was hazily visible through the fog, as if a cosmic giant had tagged the Earth with chalk at this very spot.

罗辑走出舱门时，看到外面仍是黑夜，想到起飞时的时间，他由此可以大概知道自己处于地球上的什么位置了。雾很大，灯光在雾中照出一片昏黄，眼前的一切似乎是起飞时情景的重现：空中有巡逻的直升机，在雾中只能隐约看到亮灯的影子；飞机周围很快围上了一圈军车和士兵，他们都面朝外围，几名拿着步话机的军官聚成一堆商量着什么，不时抬头朝舷梯这边看看。罗辑听到上方传来一阵让人头皮发炸的轰鸣声，连稳重的坎特都捂起耳朵，抬头一看，正见一排模糊的亮点从低空飞速掠过，是护航的歼击机编队，它们仍在上方盘旋，尾迹在空中划出了一个在雾里也隐约可见的大圆圈，仿佛一个宇宙巨人用粉笔对世界的这一块进行了标注。

The four of them boarded an obviously bulletproofed car waiting at the end of the airstair and sped off. The window curtains were drawn, but judging from the light that came in, Luo Ji knew that they were smack in the middle of a convoy. Silence reigned on the ride, a road to the ultimate unknown. Although it took only forty minutes, this part of the journey felt terribly long.

罗辑他们一行四人登上了一辆等在舷梯尽头的显然也经过防弹加固的轿车，车很快开了。车窗的窗帘都拉上了，但从外面的灯光判断，罗辑知道他们也是夹在一个车队中间的。一路上大家都沉默着，罗辑知道，他正在走向那个最后的未知。感觉中这段路很长，其实只走了四十多分钟。

When Kent said they had arrived, Luo Ji could make out a shape through the curtains, backlit by the even light from the building to its rear that cast its silhouette onto the curtain. He could never mistake such a distinctive shape: a giant revolver with a knot tied in its barrel. Luo Ji knew exactly where he was: the United Nations building in New York.

当坎特说已经到达时，罗辑注意到了透过车窗的帘子看到的一个形状，由于那个东西后面建筑物的一片均匀的灯光，它的剪影才能透过窗帘被看到。罗辑不会认错那东西的，因为它的形状太鲜明也太特殊了：那是一把巨大的左轮手枪，但枪管被打了个结。除非世界上还有第二个这样的雕塑，罗辑现在已经知道自己身在何处了。

He was surrounded as soon as he got out by people who seemed like security personnel: they were tall, and many of them wore dark glasses despite the night. He couldn’t make out his surroundings, but was pushed forward by the cluster, squeezed with such force that his feet practically left the ground, the scraping of footsteps the only sound that broke the silence. Just as the bizarre tension had pushed him almost to the breaking point, the men in front of him gave way. Light flashed before his eyes, and then the rest of them halted in their steps, leaving him, Shi Qiang, and Kent to continue forward. They were walking in a large quiet hall, empty but for a few black-clothed guards who spoke quietly into a handheld radio each time the three of them passed one of them. They crossed a hanging balcony in the direction of a stained-glass panel whose riot of colors and intricate lines described the distorted shapes of humans and animals. Turning left, they entered a small room. After the door closed, Kent and Shi Qiang exchanged a smile, and a look of relief came over them.

一下车，罗辑就被一群人围起来，这些人都像是保卫人员，他们身材高大，相当一部分在这夜里也戴着墨镜。罗辑没能看清周围的环境，就被这些人簇拥着向前走，在他们有力的围挤下双脚几乎离地，周围是一片沉默，只有众人脚步的沙沙声。就在这种诡异的紧张气氛令罗辑的神经几乎崩溃之际，他前面的几名大汉让开了，眼前豁然一亮，接着其余的人也停住了脚步，只让他和史强、坎特三人继续前行。他们行走在一间安静的大厅中，这里很空荡，仅有的人是几名拿着步话机的黑衣警卫，他们每走过一人，那人就在步话机上低声说一句。三人经过了一个悬空的阳台，迎面看到一张色彩斑斓的玻璃板，上面充满了纷繁的线条，有变形的人和动物形象夹杂在线条之中。向右拐，他们进入了一个不大的房间。坎特在关上门后与史强相视一笑，两人一副如释重负的样子。

Luo Ji glanced around him and discovered that the room was fairly peculiar. The wall at one end was entirely covered by an abstract painting made up of yellow, white, blue, and black geometric shapes, which overlapped randomly and seemed suspended atop an ocean of pure blue. But the strangest thing was the large stone in the shape of a rectangular prism sitting right in the center of the room and illuminated by several weak lamps. A closer look revealed that the stone before rust lines. The abstract painting and the stone were the only furnishings, and apart from them the room was empty.

罗辑四下打量了一下，发现这是个多少有些怪异的房间，它尽头的一面墙被一幅由黄、白、蓝、黑四色几何形状构成的抽象画占满，这些形状相互间随意交叠，并共同悬浮于一片类似于海洋的纯蓝色之上；最奇怪的是房间中央一块呈长方体的大石头，被几盏光线不亮的聚光灯照着，仔细看看，石头上有铁锈色的纹路。抽象画和方石，是这里仅有的两件摆设，除此之外，小房间里什么都没有。

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have an idea of sth. 对……有所了解;有一个……的想法

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dim： adj.暗淡的;昏暗的;微弱的;不明亮的;光线暗淡的

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patrol：

v.巡逻;巡查;(尤指威胁性地)逛荡，闲逛

n.巡逻;巡查;巡逻队

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cluster：

n.(同类物丛生或聚集的)簇，团，束，串;(人或动物的)群，组

vi.群聚;聚集