Unit 2 外刊拓展阅读课讲义 -2022-2023学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第一册

流浪地球 2—— 中国人自己的科幻巨作 The Wandering Earth 2 is a science fiction action-adventure film directed and co-written by Guo Fan. The film is a prequel to the 2019 film The Wandering Earth, which is based on the short story of the same name by Liu Cixin. 《流浪地球 2》是一部科幻动作冒险电影,由郭帆执导。这部电影是 2019 年的《流浪地球》 的前传,改编自刘慈欣的同名短篇小说。 prequel [ˈpriːkwəl] n [C] (故事或电影的) 前篇 Plot 情节 As the Sun becomes an expanding red giant and threatens to engulf the Earth in 100 years, the United Earth Government (UEG) decides to carry out the Moving Mountain Project, a pilot program to build thousands of gigantic ion engines that can propel the Earth out ofthe Solar System towards another habitable star system. In doing so, the UEG shuts down and bans the Digital Life Project (DLP), a radical group who believe humanity’s future is in digital immortality by storing human’s consciousness online. 随着太阳成为一颗不断膨胀的红巨星,并有可能在一百年内吞没地球,联合地球政府决定继 续推进 “移山计划”,这是一个建造数千台巨大离子发动机的试点计划, 可以将地球推出太 阳系,驶向另一个宜居的星系。在这样做的过程中,联合地球政府关闭并禁止了数字生命计 划,这是一个激进组织,他们认为人类未来是通过将人的意识存储在线上来实现数字上的永 生。 engulf [ɪn'ɡʌlf] vt 吞没; 包围 carry out 实施; 进行 gigantic [dʒaɪˈɡæntɪk] adj 巨大的 ion [ˈaɪən] n [C] 离子 propel [prəˈpel] vt 推动; 驱动 habitable [ˈhæbɪtəbl] adj 适宜居住的 shut down 关闭 radical [ˈrædɪkl] adj 激进的 immortality [ˌɪmɔːˈtæləti] n [U] 永生; 长存 consciousness [ˈkɒnʃəsnəs] n [C] & [U] 意识;思想 The first phase of the Moving Mountain Project is to build and test an ion engine on the Moon. However, a series of terrorist attacks by well-armed DLP supporters fall on the UEG facilities in 2044, with the aim of destroying the Ark Space Station supplying the lunar operation. Although trainee astronaut Liu Peiqiang and his fellow trainees manage to defeat the hijackers, both the space elevator and Ark station are critically damaged and crash down to Earth. To restore public faith in the Moving Mountain Project, the UEG engineers work tirelessly to successfully activate and test the lunar engine, followed by the first engine on Earth. “移山计划”的第一阶段是在月球上建造并测试离子发动机。 但是在 2044 年,装备精良