His dark, often shocking fiction predicted the melting of the ice caps, the rise of Ronald Reagan, terrorism against tourists and the alienation of a society obsessed with new technology.
他的阴暗、时常令人战栗的小说预见到了冰山融化,罗纳德·里根遇刺,针对旅游者的恐怖行为,以及对新技术的迷恋造成社会的乖离。
The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of the ice that performed the cooling.
人们认为最好的冰箱应该防止冰的融化,而这样一个在当时非常普遍的观点显然是错误的,因为正是冰的融化起到了制冷作用。
Few people need convincing that the destruction of rain forests, the mass extinction of species and the melting of the ice sheets in Greenland would all be very bad things.
大多数的人都相信,热带雨林的破坏、物种的大量灭绝以及格陵兰冰层的融化全部都将是非常糟糕的事情。
The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of the ice that performed the cooling.
认为最好的冰箱应该防止冰的融化这样一个普遍的观点显然是错误的,因为正是冰的融化起了制冷作用。
And yet the accelerated melting of the ice has consequences on our lives thousands of miles away, from our seasonal crop cycle to our basic water usage.
而冰雪加速融化会影响距离我们几千里远的事,如我们每一季的农作物的收成,至到我们日常的饮用水等。