趣味英语第100期:用时空机器回到过去还是去未来

Time Travel 222-ooh, time travel!

时空旅行222—哦，时空旅行！

"I just built a time machine, but I can only choose one way to travel. Should I go to the past or to the future, and why?"

“我刚建了一个时空机器，不过我只能选择一种时空穿梭的方式。我应该回到过去还是应该去未来，原因又是什么呢？”

Are you Doctor Who? And if you are, can I join you?

你是神秘博士吗？如果是，我可以和你一起吗？

To the past because you could be, like, the coolest person there 'cause you have all this futuristic stuff¹.

回到过去，因为你可以成为最酷的人，因为你拥有所有来自未来的装备。

I would go to the past, honestly. I love period² pieces. I love the way they dressed.

说实话，我会选择回到过去。我喜欢看年代剧。我喜欢他们的穿着。

I think you should go to the future.

我想你应该去未来看看。

Definitely³ go to the future.

一定要去未来。

Future, duh!

当然是去未来了！

Go to the future. Don't even worry about it. Because as the technology continues to advance⁴, you are going to see very cool things.

去未来。不用担心。因为科技在不断发展，你会看到非常酷炫的东西。

Definitely go to the future because the past, you already know what's going on.

一定要去未来，因为你已经知道过去发生过什么了。

Maybe go the future because if you go to the past you could mess⁵ up some things.

也许应该去未来，因为如果你回到过去，你可能会搞砸一些事情。

Future! If you go the past and if you change something, wrong things will happen. But if you go to the future, you don't have to worry about it.

未来！如果你回到过去，你可能会改变一些事情，继而导致错事发生。但是如果你去未来，你就不用为此担心了。

I'd go to the future because there's less of a chance that you could kill somebody important.

我会去未来，因为这样一来，你可能杀死重要人物的机率会更小一些。

I'm not sure why you want to travel to either the past or the future. What the heck is wrong with your present?

我不明白你为什么想回到过去或是去未来。你现在的生活有什么问题？

I think that you shouldn't time travel at all. I think that you should stay in the present because that's all that matters right now. The past will be the past and the future will be the future. It's not up to us to decide what it will be like.

我认为你完全不应该进行时空旅行。我认为你应该留在现在，因为现在是最重要的。过去已经过去了，而未来是未来。不应该由我们来决定那是什么样子。

1 stuff   

n.原料，材料，东西；vt.填满；吃饱

参考例句：

• We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
• He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。

2 period   

n.学时，课时；一段时间，时期，周期；句点

参考例句：

• Trade is always good over the Christmas period.圣诞节期间生意一向很好。
• He nursed the company through a difficult period.他帮助公司渡过了一段困难时期。

3 definitely   

adv.一定地，肯定地；明确地，确切地

参考例句：

• The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛，这个队肯定会输。
• I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前，我一定回家。

4 advance   

n.前进，预付 vi.前进，进展 vt.促进，推进

参考例句：

• The booking office sells tickets 3 days in advance.售票处预售3天的票。
• She walked 2 yards in advance of her husband.她走在她丈夫前面两码远的地方。

5 mess   

vt.将…弄糟，混乱，妨碍，使紊乱；n.食堂，伙食，用膳，一份食品，混乱，乱七八糟，困境

参考例句：

• Don't mess up my homework.不要弄乱我的家庭作业。
• You'll mess up my hair.你会把我的头发弄乱.