hose were the years after the ice caps had melted…because of the greenhouse gases
当年温室效应日趋严重南北极冰山逐渐融化
and the oceans had risen to drown so many cities along all the shorelines of the world.
海水淹没全球沿海各大城市
Amsterdam, Venice, New York forever lost.
阿姆斯特丹、威尼斯、纽约…荡然无存
Millions of people were displaced.Climates became chaotic.
数百万人无家可归.天气瞬息万变
Hundreds of millions of people starved in poorer countries.
贫穷国家有亿万人民沦为饥民
Elsewhere, a high degree of prosperity survived…
少数的先进国家
when most governments in the developed world…
为了维持高度经济发展
introduced legal sanctions to strictly license pregnancies,
立法限制 怀孕必须经过法定程序
which was why robots,
所以机器人…
who are never hungry and who did not consume resources beyond those of their first manufacture,
一旦出厂以后.不会浪费资源和粮食
were so essential an economic link in the chain mail of society.
便成为社会架构中.重要的一环