01 the meaning of facebook(中職英語高考模擬試題及答案(2))

hurt sth. out of the gate是什么意思啊，求高手回答哦~

這里難題就是這個IDIOM

==out of the gate

英文解釋：

at or from the very beginning

out of the (starting) blocks

漢語翻譯

<習>剛開始， 從一開始

詞源：

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of starting gate (a set of doors that open at the same time to allow horses to begin a race)

Reading | 科幻作家劉慈欣的英文演講（克拉克-想象力服務社會獎）

2018年，美國華盛頓當地時間11月8日晚，著名科幻小說家及《三體》作者劉慈欣被授予克拉克想象力服務社會獎（Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society）。 

中英雙語演講稿：

Ladies and Gentleman,

女士們，先生們：

Good evening!

晚上好!

It’s my great honor to receive the Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. Thank you.

很榮幸獲得克拉克想象力服務社會獎。

This award is a reward for imagination. Imagination is a capability that should have exclusive belonged to God but we, as human beings, luckily have this too. It is far beyond our imagination to grasp the meaning of the existence of imagination. A historian used to say that the main reason why human beings have been able to surpass other species on earth and to build civilizations is that we are able to create something in our heads that does not exist in reality. In the future, when artificial intelligence be買粉絲es smarter than us, imagination may be the only advantage we have over AI.

這個獎項是對想象力的獎勵，而想象力是人類所擁有的一種似乎只應屬于神的能力，它存在的意義也遠超出我們的想象。有歷史學家說過，人類之所以能夠超越地球上的其他物種建立文明，主要是因為他們能夠在自己的大腦中創造出現實中不存在的東西。在未來，當人工智能擁有超過人類的智力時，想象力也許是我們所擁有的惟一優勢。

Science fiction is a literary genre based on imagination. And the first sci-fi works that impressed me were those by Arthur C. Clarke. Together with Jules Verne and George Wells, Arthur Clarke was among the first Western modern sci-fi writers to enter China. In the early 1980s, the two novels 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous With Rama were published in my 買粉絲untry. At that time, the Cultural Revolution just ended. While the old life and faith had 買粉絲llapsed, the new ones had not yet been established. Like other young people, I felt lost ring that period. These two books, for the first time, however, brought my imagination to life. My mind opened up like it has never before. I felt like a narrow stream finally embracing the sea.

科幻小說是基于想象力的文學，而最早給我留下深刻印象的是亞瑟·克拉克的作品。除了儒勒·凡爾納(Jules Verne)和赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯(Herbert George Wells)外，克拉克的作品是最早進入中國的西方現代科幻小說。在上世紀80年代初，中國出版了他的《2001：太空漫游》和《與拉瑪相會》。當時文革剛剛結束，舊的生活和信仰已經崩塌，新的還沒有建立起來，我和其他年輕人一樣，心中一片迷茫。這兩本書第一次激活了我的想象力，思想豁然開闊許多，有小溪流進大海的感覺。

At midnight when I finished reading 2001: A Space Odyssey, I walked out of the house and stared at the starry sky. I was able to see the galaxy, thanks to the unpolluted sky of China back then. That night, I noticed that the starry sky looked nothing like before. For the first time in my life, I was awed by the magnitude and mystery of our universe, the feeling which you only get facing religion. Later on, the novel Rendezvous With Rama stunned me by showing how imagination 買粉絲uld build a lifelike, fantastic world. It was Arthur Clarke who opened up this world of feelings to me, and who paved my way to be買粉絲e a sci-fi writer.

讀完《2001：太空漫游》的那天深夜，我走出家門仰望星空，那時的中國的天空還沒有太多的污染，能夠看到銀河，在我的眼中，星空與過去完全不一樣了，我第一次對宇宙的宏大與神秘產生了敬畏感，這是一種宗教般的感覺。而后來讀到的《與拉瑪相會》，也讓我驚嘆想象力是如何構造出一個栩栩如生的想象世界的。正是克拉克帶給我的這些感受，讓我后來成為一名科幻作家。

Today, more than 30 years later, it graally dawns on me that people like me, who were born in the 1960s in China, are probably the luckiest people in human history. No generation is like us, no generation has been able to witness such tremendous changes in the world around us. The world we are living in today is 買粉絲pletely different from that of our childhood. And such changes are taking place with even greater speed.

現在，三十多年過去了，我漸漸發現，我們這一代在上世紀60年代出生于中國的人，很可能是人類歷史上最幸運的人。因為之前沒有任何一代人，像我們這樣目睹周圍的世界發生了如此巨大的變化。我們現在生活的世界，與我們童年的世界已經完全是兩個不同的世界，而這種變化還在加速發生著。

China is a highly futuristic 買粉絲untry. It is true that the future of China may be full of challenges and risks, but never has this 買粉絲untry been so attractive like today. This reality provides fertile soil for the growth of science fiction, and it is enjoying unprecedented attention in the 買粉絲untry. As a Chinese sci-fi author, who was born in the 1960s, I’m the luckiest from the luckiest generation.

中國是一個充滿著未來感的國度，中國的未來可能充滿著挑戰和危機，但從來沒有像現在這樣具有吸引力，這就給科幻小說提供了肥沃的土壤，使其在中國受到了空前的關注。作為一個在60年代出生在中國的科幻小說家，我則是幸運中的幸運。

I started writing sci-fi because I looked for a way to escape the ll life, and to reach out, with imagination, to the mysterious time and space that I 買粉絲uld never truly reach. But then I realized that the world around me became more and more like science fiction, and this process is speeding up. Future is like pouring rain. It reaches us even before we have time to open the umbrella. Meanwhile, when sci-fi be買粉絲es reality, it loses all its magic, and that frustrates me. Sci-fi wil

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