英语科幻常见科技词汇单词

(

课程

)

语言

中。

Zero g

零重力

Zero

gravity

was

coined

by

Arthur

C.

Clarke

in

Sands

of

Mars, his first science-fiction novel. A year later, he coined the

term zero g, where g is short for "gravity," in his

novel Islands in the Sky. This concept of zero g became official

terminology of astronauts as the Space Race accelerated in the

1960s, and today, it's viewed more as a science term than

a sci-fi term. < /p>

亚瑟

;C;

克拉克在他的首部科幻小说< /p>

《火星之沙》

之中创造了零重

力这个词。 一年后，他又在小说《空中列岛》中创造了零重力的缩写

Zero g

< br>。

1960

年代，太空竞赛加速，零重力的概念成为了宇 航员的

官方术语。如今，它更多地被看作是科学术语而非科幻术语了。

< br>

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Droid

类人机器人

Droid, or a robot in human-like form, is a shortened form

of

android

which

was

used

as

early

as

the

1700s.

Droid

was

first

published

in the

1950s

in

magazines

like

If

that

printed

sci- fi short stories. The 1977 film franchise Star Wars brought

droid into mainstream usage.

Droid

是

andr oid

的简称，意为类人机器人。

Android

一词早

在

18

世纪就有，< /p>

droid

则是

1950

年代才在《

If

》等刊登科幻小说的

< br>杂志上出现。

1977

年的《星球大战》电影系列使类人 机器人这个词

开始被大量使用。

Warp speed

翘曲速度

If

you're

traveling

in

a

spacecraft

at

a

speed

faster

than light, you're moving at warp speed. The word warp

comes

from

the

Old

English

wearp

which

refers

to

threads

running over fabric. The first known usage of warp in relation

to

speed

was

in

a

1968

Star

Trek

script,

"All

Our

Yesterdays."

如果你在宇宙飞船里以 超光速飞行，你就是以翘曲速度在前进。

Warp

一词源自古英 语

wearp

，指织物上的线。

War p

首次表达跟速

度相关的用法是在

19 68

年的《星际迷航：原初》剧本中。

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Alien

外星人

Alien

comes

to

English

from

the

Latin

alienus

meaning

"belonging

to

another."

When

it

first

entered

English in the 1300s, it referred to an outsider, someone born

in another country, or someone who is unfamiliar. It was not

until

the

late

1920s

that

alien

took

on

its

sci-fi

meaning

of

"an

intelligent

being

from

another

planet."

Similarly, when earthling first entered English in the late-1500s,

it meant someone who lived on earth, not in heaven. Only in

the

mid-1800s

did

it

take

on

the

sci-fi

meaning

of

a

person

who is not an alien.

Alien

一词源自拉丁语的

alie nus

，意为“属于另一个的”

。

14

世纪进入英语时，

alien

指的是外 来者、生于其他国家的人或不熟悉

的人。直到

1920

年代，

alien

才有了科幻含义“外星人”< /p>

。同样，当

earthling

一词最早 进入英语时，指的是地上的人，而非天堂的人。

19

世纪中期， 它才有了科幻含义“地球人”

。

Nanotechnology

纳米技术

Nanites,

or

tiny

robots

built

on

the

small

scale,

were

a

concept first realized in science fiction and later researched by

scientists in the hopes of making these minute robots a reality.

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Sometimes

called

nanomachines,

nanorobots,

or

nanobots,

these

robots

will

one

day

have

many

real-life

applications.

Perhaps

one

of

the

first

science

fiction

writers

to

imagine

nanotechnology

was

Nikolai

Leskov,

whose

1881

story

described

imperceptible

robots,

requiring

5,000,000

times

magnification to be seen.

纳米 人，

或小尺寸微型机器人的概念最早出现在科幻小说中，

后

来被科学家所研究，

希望能将这一概念变为现实。

< br>这种机器人有时也

被称作

nanomachines

、

nanorobots

或

nanobots

，未来它们将在

生活中有很多应用。 首次畅想纳米技术的科幻作家可能是尼古拉

;

列

斯克夫，

他在

1881

年的一 个故事中曾描述过这种难以察觉的机器人，

需要放大

500

万倍才能看见。

Clone

克隆

When

clone

first

entered

English

in

1903,

it

was

used

in

the context of botany. It comes from the Greek klon meaning

"a

twig"

and

is

related

to

klados

meaning

"offshoot of a plant." Later, clone took on the sci-fi

sense of "artificially duplicated person" thanks to

Alvin Toffler's 1970 book Future Shock.

克 隆一词首次进入英语是在

1903

年，当时是植物用语，源自希

腊语的

klon

，意思是“嫩枝”

，它还和

klados

有关，这个词的意思

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