现在他已出版了《最初的弗兰肯斯坦》(又名《现代普罗米修斯》,玛丽雪莱和珀西雪莱所作)。
Now he has published The Original Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (with Percy Shelley).
今年正值玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦——现代普罗米修斯》出版两百周年。
This year marks exactly two centuries since the publication of "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," by Mary Shelley.
人们恐惧邪恶的、强大的、人造的智能机器的出现,这种恐惧已经被许多小说作品所强化,例如玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》和《终结者》系列电影。
Fears about the appearance of bad, powerful, man-made intelligent machines have been reinforced (强化) by many works of fiction—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Terminator film series, for example.
但是,玛丽•雪莱创作《佛兰肯斯坦》的灵感来自何方? 这一问题一直是个悬念。
许多科学家的反应则是对诸如此类的“科幻”故事深感悲哀,认为若不是玛丽·雪莱以及阿尔杜斯·赫胥利将自己的想象付诸文字,哪里会有这些麻烦。
The reaction of many scientists is to lament these "science fiction" stories, to imagine that if Mary Shelley and Aldous Huxley had never committed their imaginings to paper all would have been well.
这更接近于玛丽·雪莱的想象,而不同于今天英国干细胞研究人员的计划。
That is much closer to what Mary Shelley imagined than anything British stem-cell researchers are proposing today.
克莱尔和拜伦的孩子5岁的时候就过世了,只有玛丽和雪莱的四个孩子和波西活了下来。
Claire's daughter with Byron died at age 5, and only one of MaryShelley's four children with Percy survived.
比玛丽·雪莱晚些的科幻小说,迈克尔·克莱顿的《侏罗纪公园》,设想了恐龙的复活。
A more recent piece of science fiction than Shelley's, Michael Crichton's "Jurassic Park", conceived of the resurrection of dinosaurs.
正如玛丽·雪莱小说中的主人公一样,文特尔和史密斯需要一些死尸的肢体来让他们的生物活过来。
Like Shelley's protagonist, Dr Venter and Dr Smith needed some spare parts from dead bodies to make their creature work.
“这部小说是由玛丽·雪莱构思的,主要也是她写的,”罗宾逊在引言中写道,但是他估计珀西在整个72000字中至少写了4000到5000个字。
"The novel was conceived and mainly written by Mary Shelley," Robinson writes in his introduction, but he estimates that Percy wrote "at least" 4, 000 to 5, 000 words of the 72, 000 total.
但更加引人注目的是他对长生不老药的无尽的探求。 他在人类尸体身上做实验的传闻可能激发了玛丽·雪莱文学创作的灵感,在她的作品中那个传奇人物就用了城堡的名字。
Rumors of his experiments on human corpses may have inspired Mary Shelley's legendary character that bore the castle's name.
在这样的环境影响下,玛丽·雪莱年仅十八岁便写出了其第一部小说《弗兰肯斯坦,或现代普罗米修斯》。
Under such conditions, Mary Shelley, at the age of eighteen, wrote her first and the most famous novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.
“我没有心情和陌生人一起谈笑”(玛丽·渥斯通克拉夫特·雪莱)。
"I was in no mood to laugh and talk with strangers" (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley).
爱尔莎·兰切斯特一人分饰两角,出演“科学怪人”故事的原作者、小说家玛丽·雪莱,并同时扮演怪物的僵尸新娘。
Elsa Lanchester does delicious double duty as novelist Mary Shelley, who sets up the story, and as the Monster's reanimated Bride.
少女玛丽·葛德文(很快改姓成了玛丽·雪莱)在一个意大利别墅里度过了一次很受伤的假期,第一次动笔写《弗兰肯斯坦》,此时她脑子里的那个人物肯定在扮演上帝。
When the teenage Mary Godwin (soon to become Mary Shelley) first penned Frankenstein on a traumatic vacation in an Italian villa, she certainly had in mind that her character was playing God.
玛丽·雪莱是浪漫主义诗人珀西·雪莱(1792- 1822)的第二任妻子。
Mary Shelley was the second wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), the great Romantic poet.
在这部恐怖、现代版的玛丽·雪莱《科学怪人》重拍片中,一个神经外科医生着迷于研究死亡肌肉的复活,谋杀了他的病人,重新唤醒他的尸体。
In this horrifying modern retelling of Mary Shelley's frankenstein a neurosurgeon obsessed with the reanimation of dead flesh murders his patient and resurrects his corpse.
在这部哥特式科幻小说中,玛丽·雪莱创作了一位可爱、勇敢的阿拉伯女性莎菲。
At the beginning of her serious writing career and her life with Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley created a lovely and courageous Arabian woman, Safie in her well-known Gothic science fiction Frankenstein.
玛丽·雪莱知道有关孤独和遗弃的滋味。
Mary Shelley knew something about loneliness and abandonment.
在玛丽·雪莱的小说两百年后,才华横溢但疯狂的医生使他自己和他的怪物从两个世纪前的当初的实验一直幸存下来。
Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's novel the brilliant but mad Doctor (Thomas Kretschmann) has sustained his creature and himself over two centuries through genetic experimentation.
在玛丽·雪莱的小说两百年后,才华横溢但疯狂的医生使他自己和他的怪物从两个世纪前的当初的实验一直幸存下来。
Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's novel the brilliant but mad Doctor (Thomas Kretschmann) has sustained his creature and himself over two centuries through genetic experimentation.
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