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Doomsday Conspiracy 世界会有末日吗？外星人是什么样的？在91年的作品里，老谢开始了最美好的探索。闲话不说，一如既往地关注其中中国元素。
这书一开始就来了个chinese curse,但我想了半天也没有头绪。坛子里大虾这么多，给说说如何翻译？老外活在中国的curse里？
May you live in interesting times.
—ancient Chinese curse
而这里，对很多国家人民而言，做出了某种评价。对我们中国人的是 clever and patient. 对日本人的是polite , sly。哈哈，我是有多爱国啊。
“And when he has found the witnesses?” The Chinese. Clever. Patient.
但总体而言，这个故事讲这样的一个故事：
一个旅游团目睹了weather ballon 坠落在瑞士山中，海军情报署中校Robert奉命追查该旅游团每一个成员的身份和地址。
commander Robert 是参加越战时，最好的战友和他一起濒临死神威胁，战友的父亲Admire是一个高层人士。战友死了，他被护士Susan救活。后来Admire把他当作干儿子，而他和Susan人结婚，但因为Robert作为Spy,问题莫名其妙出现和消失，工作的事情也无法和Susan分享。
描述Susan向他提出离婚的时候，描写让人不忍细看。看后不禁热泪盈眶。到了这个年龄，见不得这种情节描述。Every word was a knife stabbing into him.
逐渐的，他知道这不是weather ballon, 而是一个UFO。 他用非凡的智慧不让用任何外来帮助的情况下，找到了每个人。但后来他发现了每个witness都死了。
他明白了，他亦是必死。于是他开始逃亡生活。他曾救过的中国人李波，LI PO,He heard Francesco Cesar’s voice saying: “I’ve heard you’ve made a deal with the Chinese.”
He knew that Li Po would help him because Li had once saved Robert’s life, and according to ancient Chinese tradition, he had become responsible for Robert. It was a matter of win yu—“honor.”
李波会帮他，因为古中国有传统，救过一个人就有义务帮这个人一辈子？ winyu ????what's that? 再次呼叫大虾解答。
后来，从李波口里，他知道了背后的原由。
“A group of powerful men from twelve countries got together—top industrialists from the United States, Japan, Russia, China…A man with the code name of Janus organized intelligence agencies around the world to collaborate in Operation Doomsday to stop the aliens.” He turned to Robert. “You’ve heard of SDI?”
“Star Wars. The satellite system to shoot down Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles.”
Li shook his head. “No. That was a cover. SDI was not created to fight the Russians. It is being designed for the specific purpose of knocking down UFOs. It’s the only chance there is of stopping them.”
而李波就是这个巨大团伙中的中国人。李波向他开枪时，正好打了一个雷，因此他没有打到心脏而是打到了肩膀……
而雨拯救了at large的那位外星人，她无法喝地球上已经被污染的水，只有雨水能使她恢复能量 。
Robert去求救医生，医生因为满世界的通缉令报警……而Rober最终在失去知觉后被外星人救了。之后和外星人联合，发现了背后那个代号Janus的头号人物竟然是干爹Admiral同志。然后剧情大反转，admiral被外星人带走。 一切恶梦结束。而Susan也出现在他的面前……
外星人只是让我们不要再污染地球，因为那样会给宇宙带来垃圾和灾难。有一段好玄幻。
Their heads turned toward the sky. There was an enormous white cloud overhead, and as they stared up at it, it changed before their eyes. They were looking at a vision of a polar ice cap, and as they watched, it began to melt, and the water came pouring through the rivers and oceans of the world, flooding London and Los Angeles, New York and Tokyo, and coastal cities around the world in a dizzying montage. The vision changed to an enormous vista of desolate farmlands, with crops burnt to cinders under a broiling, merciless sun, and the corpses of dead animals strewn across the landscape. The scene before their eyes changed again, and they saw riots in China, and famines in India, and a devastating nuclear war, and finally, people living in caves. The vision slowly disappeared.
老谢，多少年后的今天，有了云计算，云存储，云影像，你可知否知否？
坛友们，哪位能普及一下chinese curse的问题？多谢多谢~
顺便可否给上篇打个广告， 天使的愤怒，是目前在喜马拉听里能找到老谢的唯一作品。它在中国曾经是那么红火。来吧，哪里不好可以提出来，不要不看啊…雪地跪谢啦,拉拉拉 |
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