雅思阅读材料之《星际穿越》

　　阅读材料的趣味性有时候会直接影响到阅读质量，对于那些科幻迷来说，近期上映的星际穿越给大家带来了一些惊喜，关于这部大片，不少人对此发表了见解，而这也恰好可以给雅思考友们带来不少阅读乐趣，我们来看一看雅思阅读材料之《星际穿越》。

　　After tons of hype, NASA-like secrecy and several elusive trailers, Interstellar, English-American director and producer Christopher Nolan’s latest sci-fi project, blasts off to infinity and beyond, along with this year’s award season hype.

　　在几支神秘莫测的预告片与铺天盖地的宣传之后，由英裔美国导演兼制作人克里斯托弗·诺兰执导的科幻新作《星际穿越》终于伴着今年颁奖季的宣传“点火升空”，登上大荧幕，“超越无极限”。

　　In Interstellar, Nolan takes this idea to the extreme. Big, bold and beautiful, Interstellar is a visually and audibly stunning film, with vast expanses of space, huge planets and tiny spaceships floating by to an incredible score from German composer Hans Zimmer.

　　在《星际穿越》中，诺兰也将这一理念发挥到：宏大的场面、大胆的想象、优美的背景，这都让《星际穿越》成为一场视觉与听觉的盛宴。而德国作曲家汉斯??季默更是为这部充斥着浩瀚宇宙、庞大行星以及飞行的渺小宇宙飞船的大片锦上添花。

　　In the near future Earth has been devastated by drought and famine, and humanity is facing extinction. A group of explorers embark on an interstellar voyage into the unknown in search of a planet that can sustain life. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), the pilot of the crew, must decide between seeing his children again and the future of the human race.

　　(影片中)近未来的地球饱受干旱与饥荒，人类濒临灭绝。一组探险人员因此开始星际航行，希望在未知的宇宙中找到一颗能让人类继续生存的星球。飞行员库珀(马修??麦康纳 饰)必须做出艰难抉择：是拯救人类的未来，还是与孩子们再相见。

　　So, as you might have guessed, the story is divided into two parts — one that takes place on Earth and another that takes place in space. Much of the outer space photography brings to mind Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity — spectral and spectacular — and even gives you a little bit of cinematic revelation from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Of course, everything looks so familiar that it feels a bit emulated and lacking in variation.

　　你也许已经猜到了，故事分成两部分：一部分发生在地球上，另一部分则发生在宇宙间。影片中很多外太空的影像都让我们想起阿方索??卡隆的《万有引力》——诡异而壮观——你甚至还会看到斯坦利??库布里克《2001太空漫游》的一些影子。当然，所有的这些似曾相识，都会给人些许效仿之感，让人觉得有些缺乏新意。

　　The film is at its strongest when it remains Earthbound (however ironic that may sound for a film about interstellar travel). When the focus is on tragedy — a loving father potentially leaving his children forever with no guarantee that his sacrifice won’t be in vain — Interstellar shows an emotional heft. Even when the film throws out typical sci-fi tropes (the nature of time and space, the place of humanity in the universe) for viewers to think about, Nolan explores these ideas in human terms.

　　影片最动人之处是主角们还在地球上时(虽然作为一部关于星际穿越的影片，这种评价听来有些讽刺)所面临的悲剧：一位慈爱的父亲将可能再也见不到自己的孩子，而这样的牺牲可能也只是徒劳。影片的情感份量不言而喻。虽然片中不乏典型的科幻概念(时空的性质、人类在宇宙中的位置)供观众思考，但是诺兰的解读却更侧重人文角度。

　　“We’ve forgotten who we are. Explorers, pioneers — not caretakers,” says McConaughey’s Cooper in Interstellar. That could be Nolan’s perspective about movies in this timid age of old genres endlessly repeating themselves. He’s the rare filmmaker with the ambition to make such bold statements, and even rarer one with the vision, skill and guts to realize them.

　　影片中，马修·麦康纳饰演的库珀曾说，“我们已经忘记了自己是谁。我们不是守护者，而是探索者，是先驱。”这也是诺兰在这个旧题材不断复制的年代里，对电影制作的观点。他是不多几个能有抱负说出如此大胆之语的导演，更是少之又少的有远见、有能力、也有勇气实现这句话的人。

　　看懂星际穿越，你得了解一些知识：

　　Every work of Christopher Nolan will puzzled theaudience too much, for instance, his previous filmInception. I don`t know my conclusion is correct ornot although I`ve seen the film for 4 times. TheInterstellar is no exception. The famous physicistKip Thorne is one creator of the team, and theproduction of this flim has a solid scientific theoryfoundation which is definitely obscure andabstract.

　　诺兰大神Christopher Nolan的作品每一次会让观众烧脑，上一部《盗梦空间》Inception看了四遍，最后也不知道自己得出的结论是否正确。这次的《星际穿越》也不例外。这部电影的主创团队中有真实的物理学家基普·索恩Kip Thorne，有着坚实的理论基础，而这些理论知识确实有些深奥抽象。

　　1、Murphy`s law

　　墨菲定律

　　The leading man`s daughter in the flim called Murphy, and she is always complaining about therelationship between her name and the unlucky Murphy`s law.

　　片中男主角的女儿名为墨菲，而她总在抱怨自己的名字与不吉利的墨菲定律的联系。

　　Murphy`s law is usually thought to be named after Captain Edward Murphy, a developmentengineer with the United States Air Force in the middle of the last century.Murphy`s law is anadage or epigram that is typically stated as: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

　　墨菲定律由上世纪中叶一名美国空军工程师爱德华·墨菲提出。墨菲定律是一个格言或警句,通常表示为：有可能出错的地方定会出错。

　　The plots of the film have embodied the correctness of murphy`s law for many times. It canlead tasks to a right direction except messing things up. The hero saved all the human beingswith the action of Murphy`s law. We can see from this perspective that the Murphy`s law is akind of interpretation of probability, and it doesn`t mean bless, good luck or disasters itself.

　　《星际穿越》的情节中多次体现了墨菲定律的正确性，但除了把事情搞砸，它也把任务引向好的方面，最后主角也在墨菲定律的作用下挽救了全人类。从这个角度来理解，墨菲定律是一种对概率的诠释，本身并不指代吉凶祸福。

　　2、Relativity、Relative Theory

　　相对论

　　The theory of relativity, or simply relativity in physics, usually encompasses two theories byAlbert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity.

　　相对论是关于时空和引力的理论，主要由爱因斯坦创立，依其研究对象的不同可分为狭义相对论和广义相对论。

　　3.Lazarus

　　拉撒路

　　Lazarus is the subject of a prominent miracle attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John, inwhich Jesus restores him to life four days after his death. The name Lazarus is often usedtoconnote apparent restoration to life.

　　在《圣经·约翰福音》记载的故事中，拉撒路是一个奇迹的主角，耶稣在他死后第四天把他唤醒。拉撒路这个名字通常用于意指恢复生命。

　　4、Wormhole

　　虫洞

　　A wormhole, officially known as an Einstein–Rosen bridge, is a hypothetical topological featureof spacetime that would fundamentally be a shortcut through spacetime.

　　虫洞这一名词诞生于上世纪50年代，是对“爱因斯坦-罗森桥”的一种通俗称呼，它指的是物理学中假想的一种天体，能从更高的维度连接两个遥远的空间点，因此可以使人类突破光速的临界，进行超远距离的宇宙航行。

　　5、Black Hole

　　黑洞

　　A black hole is a region of spacetime from which gravity prevents anything, including light, fromescaping. In many ways a black hole acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. Thetheory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime toform a black hole.

　　宇宙空间内存在的一种超高密度天体，由于类似热力学上它是完全不反射光线的黑体，故名为黑洞。黑洞最主要的影响就是其巨大的引力作用使包括光线在内的一切物质被吸引到起中心，而这巨大的引力也在这中心附近造成了时空的扭曲，也就是所谓的相对论。

　　6、Hyperspace

　　超空间

　　Hyperspace refers to reaching the other end of the universe fast through the multi-dimensional space(we live in 4-dimensional space). Hyperspace refers to the dimensionalspace which is more than four dimensions. String theory (M theory ) predicts that there shouldbe 11 hyperspatial dimensions.

　　超空间指的是通过多维度空间(我们生活在4维空间)，快速的到达宇宙的另一端。超空间是指超过四个维度的空间。弦理论(M理论)预言，应该有11个超空间维度。

　　7、The Slingshot Effect

　　引力弹弓

　　The slingshot effect is used to accelerate a spacecraft in a planetary flyby。NASA calls this agravity assist, and exploits it to save fuel in missions to outer planets such as Jupiter andSaturn.

　　弹弓效应用于加速飞船在星际间飞行。美国航空航天局称这是一个重力辅助，并利用它来节省执行去木星和土星等外行星的任务时消耗的燃料。

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