The future is dark, yet Lauren stays cheerful and Patrick has a quiet confidence that he'll beat the disease.

未来是暗淡的，但劳伦保持着安静乐观的心态，帕特里克也十分有信心战胜疾病。

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Instead, he was upset about the world his generation is turning over to mine — a world he fears has a dark and difficult future, if it has a future at all.

相反，爸爸烦心的是他这一代留给我这一代的世界，他担心即使这个世界有未来，也只是一个黑暗艰难的未来。

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Steampunk is a kind of speculative fiction that usually takes place in urban Settings where the future meets the past: Victorian era inventions clash with often dark alternate realities.

“蒸汽朋克”是推想性小说的一种类型，这类故事的发生背景通常设定为过去与未来相结合的城市：维多利亚时代的发明创造出现在一个黑暗的异世界里。

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For one of the newer Black Library writers, Annandale is clearly comfortable with both the grim, dark future and the style necessary for such offerings.

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