译林版牛津高中英语(必修4):Unit3 Tomorrow's world-Project(4)

At first, I thought that the Elio had forced the Morlocks to do all of the work so that the Elio could play.

起初，我觉得是爱洛伊人强迫摩洛克人做所有的工作，这样他们才能玩乐。

However, later I came to see that I had the wrong impression: the Morlocks were the real masters.

事情并非如此，后来我发现我的初见是错误的：摩洛克人才是真正的主人。

They took care of the Eloi because they lived by killing¹ and eating them.

他们照顾爱洛伊人，因为要杀死、吃掉爱洛伊人，以此为生。

The Morclocks even tried to catch and kill me, but luckily I was able to use the Time Machine to escape.

摩洛克人甚至试图抓我、杀掉我，但我幸运地用时间机器逃脱了。

I then travelled 30 million years into the future.

后来我旅行了到了未来三千万年。

I was now on a beach with an ocean in front of me, but where was neither wind nor waves, and there seemed to be little life.

我现在海滩上，眼前一片大海，但是这里没有风，也没有波浪，这里似乎生命迹象也很少。

I went still further into the future, and the sun grew larger, redder and darker, and the Earth became cold and covered in frost².

我继续向更远的未来前进。此时的太阳更大、更红、更加暗淡。地球也变得寒冷，被霜笼罩着。

Everything was still--there was no life or movement at all.

一切都是静止不动的--毫无生命气息。

As the world turned to complete darkness, I pulled the other handle, and found myself back in my house in the present day.

当时周围的景象完全变暗，我拉动了另一只拉杆，发现自己回到了现在的家中。

Only three hours had passed.

时间只过去了三个小时。

1 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

2 frost   

n.霜，冰冻，冷漠；vt.覆着霜，冻结，结霜；vi.受冻，起霜

参考例句：

• A lot of crops were damaged by the frost.这次霜冻，受害的庄稼不少。
• Try to harvest the fruit before the first frost.在第一次霜冻以前要设法把水果收摘完。