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 Ahh, science fiction – stories about an imagined future …well my favourite was and always will be ET: Extra Terrestrial, and you Finn?
额，科幻描绘的是想象中的未来世界，恩，我最爱的是《E.T.外星人》， 你呢？
Mine would probably be Blade Runner – the movie with Harrison Ford set in a dark, scary Los Angeles where he hunts robots called replicants. You know the one?
我的最爱是《银翼杀手》，就是那部，背景地是黑暗恐怖的洛杉矶，哈里森·福特主演的追踪消灭复制人的那部电影，你知道么？
I do – and come to think of it, lots of movies and stories about the future are quite dark and negative …
我懂。我发现，很多关于未来的电影都是黑暗负面的，
But perhaps this might change. A new project wants to use the power of science fiction to do something very different: to inspire people to create a better future. It sounds very grand. We’ll be discussing the project and learning some language to talk about the future in this programme.
这种趋势可能会有所改变。最近有个项目，希望通过科幻故事来改变世界：希望科幻能够激励人们创作更好的未来。听起来很厉害，今天我们就来讨论一下这个项目，介绍一些关于描述未来的词语。
But before we get too far into the future, I’m sure you have a question for me, Finn?
在我们开始讨论未来之前，来听听问题吧，Finn你肯定准备了对吧？
Yes indeed. It’s about the film Blade Runner. It’s set in the future – but in which year?a) 2000b) 2019c) 2056
是的，是关于《银翼杀手》的问题，这部电影描述的未来是哪一年呢？a）2000年b)2019年c）2059年
I think I’m gonna go for the far future, c) 2056.
我觉得选个最远的好了，C,2056年。
Well I’ll tell you if you’re right or wrong later in the not-too-distant future.
好的，我会在不远的未来告诉你你有没有猜对。
Very good. So, as we were saying: lots of science fiction is negative.
好啊，刚才我们说到，很多关于未来的科幻故事都是消极的。
Yes, there’s a word to describe the kind of future world which often appears in science fiction: dystopian.The noun ’dystopia’ means an imagined place where things are unpleasant or bad. The opposite is utopia and utopian.
是的，有一个词常常用来表述科幻故事中的未来世界：dystopian。这个词dystopian指的是非常糟糕的想象世界，反义词是utopia、utopia，（乌托邦，意指美好的未来世界）。
But why is so much science fiction dystopian? Dr Braden Allenby from Arizona State University.
为什么这么多科幻故事都是反乌托邦呢？来自美国亚利桑那州立大学的Braden Allenby博士为我们带来答案。
【Braden Allenby, Professor of Engineering and Ethics, Arizona State University】The downside of both of science fiction and movies is that they tend to be dystopian, they tend to be very negative, they tend to be very noir. Dystopian is easier to do. It’s easier to write a dystopian story than it is to write an optimistic story.

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