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The World Without Us
没有我们的世界
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The last human disappears. 48 hours later, the power dies, the pumps stop, and New York's subway tunnels are flooded. The water starts rising into the streets of Manhattan. A couple of decades later, the streets are falling into the restored rivers.
最后一个人类消失。四十八小时之后，电力消失，水泵停止，纽约地铁隧道被淹。水开始漫入麦哈顿街道。 十几年之后，街道开始成为河流。
Buildings collapse, their foundations undermined by the water, and clearings are formed where seeds can take hold. New York City starts developing its own ecosystem.
建筑物倒塌。建筑物地基被水破坏，空地形成出现在种子能够固定的地方。纽约开始建立出自己的生态系统。
Alan Weisman is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, who started wondering what the earth would be like if the human race ceased to exist. The book that came out of his research, The World Without Us, is due out in July.
Alan Weisman是亚利桑那州新闻学副教授。他开始思考如果人类停止存在，世界将会是什么怎样子。 出自他进行研究的《没有我们的世界》这本书将于七月份推出。
"According to Weisman, large parts of our physical infrastructure would begin to crumble almost immediately. Without street cleaners and road crews, our grand boulevards and superhighways would start to crack and buckle in a matter of months. Over the following decades many houses and office buildings would collapse, but some ordinary items would resist decay for an extraordinarily long time."
"根据Weisman的说法，我们人类的物质下层建筑许多部分将会机会立即开始崩溃。没有街道清洁工，马路维护人员，我们神气的林荫大道、高速公路将不过短短数月后便开始出现裂缝，弯曲变形。接下来数十年当中，许许多多的房子和办公楼将会坍塌。不过一些普通的物体将持续相当抵挡腐烂相当长时间。
Weisman talked to engineers and maintenance people, but to get an idea what the world might have been like before us, and what it might return to without us, he traveled. He walked in an ancient forest on the border between Poland and Belarus. It had the luck to be the hunting preserve of a series of kings and czars, and became a national park after WWII. It's home to the last wild herd of European buffalo, as well as elk and wolves. The trees are 150 feet tall and 10 feet in diameter, a reminder of what forests once were like all over the earth.
Weisman和工程师和从事维护工作的人员谈话，但是为了去了解这个世界在我们人类以前可能是什么样子，而且在没有我们之后会恢复成什么样子，他去了旅行。他走进了位于波兰和白俄罗斯边境上的一个原始森林。那个地方有幸成为了一位位国王和沙皇的狩猎保留地，并且在二战后成为了一个国家公园。那里是欧洲河马，麋鹿和狼的最后野生群的家园。树木有150英尺高，直径为10英尺，成为了
给人们提醒着曾经遍布这个地球上的森林是什么样子。
The Korean DMZ is about 150 miles long and 2.5 miles wide, and it's become a wildlife preserve for flocks of cranes and species that might otherwise have become extinct. Politics has dictated that humans stay out of the Zone, and that let nature take over.
这个朝鲜非军事区约150英里长，2.5英里宽，成为了一群群鹤，以及不然便灭绝了的动物种类的一个野生动物保留地。 是政治命令了人类不得进入这个地区，而这让自然能够接管。
Weisman thinks that this way of looking at the earth might help us think more usefully about our impact and how we might modify it to avoid ecological catastrophe.
Weisman 认为这样的对地球审视的方法可能帮助我们对人类的影响，以及如何能改变它，避免生态灾难而进行更有益的思考，
He says "I raise the question, Wouldn’t it be a sad loss if humanity was extirpated from the planet? What about our greatest acts of art and expression? Our most beautiful sculpture? Our finest architecture? Will there be any signs of us at all that would indicate that we were here at one point? This is the second reaction that I always get from people. At first they think, This world would be beautiful without us. But then they think, Wouldn’t it be sad not to have us here? And I don’t think it’s necessary for us to all disappear for the earth to come back to a healthier state.”
他说：“我提出了问题，如果人类被从地球上消灭，难道不会是一个令人伤心的损失吗？我们的那些最伟大的艺术行为及表示行为怎么办？我们那些最美的雕塑怎么办？我们那些一流建筑怎么办？以后到底会不会有任何会表明人类曾几何时生活在这个地球上的迹象？这是我通常从人们那里得到的第二个反映。 开始他们想，这个世界没有我们将会变得美丽，可然后想，没有了我们难道不是一件令人悲伤的事情吗？我认为让我们统统在地球上消失，来让地球恢复成更健康的一个状态，没这个必要“
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