建筑设计师文森特·卡勒博（Vincent Callebaut）最近公布了一个极为理想的计划，其中的建筑为一群悬在高空的、能够自给自足的飞行器；这些飞行器一半是飞艇城市，一半是能够产生氢气的悬浮农场。

Architect Vincent Callebaut recently unveiled a blue-sky plan for a high-flying fleet of self-sufficientaircraft that are one part zeppelin cities and one part hydrogen-generating floating farms.

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伦敦将成为类似于“泰晤士河上的格兰瑟姆”的城市(格兰瑟姆为撒切尔夫人的故乡，这里她形成了节约自足的信念)。

London will be a sort of Grantham-on-Thames (Grantham being the home town where Margaret Thatcher acquired her faith in thrifty self-sufficiency).

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据称，该城市将实现用水自足，能源自足，大范围的公园绿化，还将使用电动车以降低噪音，实现与自然的和谐共处。

The claims for it may be extravagant: the city will, it is said, be self-sufficient in energy and water, green with parks, silent with electric cars and utterly in harmony with nature.

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Agricultural villages will have existed all over the place in the late Stone Age, in the Neolithic Period, as it is known. But there is a difference and the critical difference is that a city contains a number of people who do not provide for their own support.

农业村庄在石器时代后期,以及新石器时代随处可见,但二者是有区别的,最重要的区别在于,城市能容纳,相当数量,无需自给自足的人口

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