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Then came the Asbestos Clothes. In one year humanity made enough suits to last for ever and ever. That, of course, could never have been if it hadn't been connected with the revolt of women and the fall of Fashion."
“這以后就是石棉服了。就一年的時(shí)間，人類就做了足夠多的這種衣服，永遠(yuǎn)也穿不完。當(dāng)然這與婦女的造反運(yùn)動(dòng)和時(shí)尚的衰落緊密相關(guān)，不然，這是永遠(yuǎn)不可能的。”
"Have the fashions gone," I asked, "that insane, extravagant idea of—?" I was about to launch into one of my old-time harangues about the sheer vanity of decorative dress, when my eyes rested on the moving figures in asbestos, and I stopped.
“現(xiàn)在人們不講時(shí)髦了，”我問道，“不講那種愚蠢的荒謬的——？”我當(dāng)時(shí)正想再講一遍反對那種純粹為了虛榮追求時(shí)髦的老話，但我突然看到那些正在走動(dòng)的穿著石棉服的人，我就 講不下去了。
"All gone," said the Man in Asbestos. "Then next to that we killed the change of climate. I don't think that in your day you properly understood how much of your work was due to the shifts of what you called the weather. It meant the need of all kinds of special clothes and houses and shelters, a wilderness of work. How dreadful it must have been in your day—wind and storms, clouds flying through the air, the ocean tossed and tom by the wind, snow thrown all over everything."
“都沒有了，”那個(gè)穿石棉衣服的人說，“在那之后，我們把氣候變化也給消滅了。我相信在你們那個(gè)時(shí)候，你們并不知道你們有多少工作是和你們所謂的氣候變化有關(guān)的。它意味著需要各種各樣特別的衣服和能擋風(fēng)霜雨雪的房屋建筑，那真是一大堆令人頭昏目眩的工作。 你們那時(shí)候日子肯定是夠可怕的——不是狂風(fēng)就是暴雨，空中烏云亂飛，海洋給風(fēng)攪得白浪滔 天，地上的一切都讓冰雪蓋得嚴(yán)嚴(yán)實(shí)實(shí)。”
"So," I said, "the Conquest of Nature meant that presently there was no more work to do?"
“這么說來，”我說，“‘征服了自然’的意思是現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)沒事情要做了？”
"Exactly," he said, "nothing left."
“一點(diǎn)兒也不錯(cuò)，”他說，“無事可做了。”
"Food enough for all?"
“人人都有飯吃？”
"Too much," he answered.
“根本吃不完，”他回答說。
"Houses and clothes?"
“房子和衣服？”
"All you like."
“要多少有多少。”
