| 词汇 | example_english_science-fiction |
| 释义 | Examples of science fictionThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. More difficult concepts with subjective overtones can be illuminated with the spotlight of sciencefiction. The feeling of estrangement that permeates sciencefiction is bound to the scientific worldview, and the alienating discovery of the new universe. This way of thinking about sciencefiction, as the human versus the non-human, is satisfyingly elegant and transparent. An idea often discussed is the teleportation machine of sciencefiction. The idea that a state, today or ever, could possess and effectively process this level of information is clearly in the realms of sciencefiction. Why distort and indeed mislead public education and discussion by confusing scientific fact and sciencefiction? It is not, like sciencefiction, speculative or utopian. Many players do, however, catch the game's references to forms of cybernetic sciencefiction from the past two decades. This may have been wild fantasy or at best sciencefiction in the opinion of many. The idea of routinely studying undergraduates rather than experts would have been seen as sciencefiction, and not very good sciencefiction at that. Their existence is therefore, by definition, sciencefiction at this time. A fanciful suggestion perhaps, but it is only a short time since a manned journey to the moon was considered to be mere sciencefiction. I agree with them that considering humans as utility maximisers is like entering the world of sciencefiction. In addition, sciencefiction would have remained marginalized were it not for the opening up of the genre to film and television. Does it simply fall silent, or does it emit a loud, high-pitched, non-stop screech evocative of alien invasions in sciencefiction movies? One might be able to come up with dozens of sciencefiction examples. It was only a matter of time before his speculations spilled over into sciencefiction. Predicting the future is, of course, more sciencefiction than linguistics. The capabilities of decision-assist programs are exciting and appear to be a tangible step toward the cybermedicine of sciencefiction lore. The sciencefiction genre, for example, underwent a tremendous expansion in the 1950s. Such has been the power of sciencefiction. In the secondary curriculum, narrative genres are increasingly differentiated, moving from simple narratives, to sciencefiction narrative, projective narrative, thematic narrative, and subversive narrative. I have read a few sciencefiction books this semester. It also became a pervasive theme in horror films and sciencefiction fantasies. Recent sciencefiction programming in film and on television uses sound design to play on this anxiety to create drama in a production. Before falling headlong into the evolutionary future of the post-human, it is worth looking at how sciencefiction operates. Famed for the maturity of its portrayal of mysterious, existential and elusive aliens, 2001 raised sciencefiction cinema to a new level. As these dystopias suggest, sciencefiction may characterize science as non-human and unnatural. The problem with this line of reasoning is that it requires a transgression from science into sciencefiction. The 1960s reinforced the initial flourishing of interest in alien and sciencefiction themes in popular culture that occurred in the 1950s. Systems of this description were once confined to sciencefiction but are now slowly becoming a reality. A number of sciencefiction stories are also premised on their possibility. In sciencefiction the man from outerspace inevitably has a body which in effect is some version of the human body. Interventions in such genes, and especially interventions in germ-line genes, on future individuals, would appear to belong still to the realm of sciencefiction. The notion "robot" has a negative image to some people and suggests an automatically working machine (sciencefiction). In this time, works of sciencefiction have provided a valuable, and often overlooked, reflection of the assumptions and attitudes held by society to such changes. For example, based on exposure to robots in sciencefiction films, the term robot may conjure up images of an autonomous android capable of almost any task. We shall see that, in the evolving debate of the existence of extraterrestrial life and intelligence, science and sciencefiction have benefited from an increasingly symbiotic relationship. These examples show that legged robots are no longer only futuristic elements for sciencefiction movies but that they will become a full part of technological evolution. These publications, along with a myriad of public lectures, scientific demonstrations, atlases, and even sciencefiction, provided hosts of learners with insights into the worlds of natural history. This article also relates developments in scientific space research and popular sciencefiction culture to corresponding uses of space and alien imagery in various forms of popular music. Thus, this assumption would also require a transgression into sciencefiction at the time of writing and it is not tenable according to the second part of the postulate. The ability to differentiate science from sciencefiction might be considered an essential quality in those who stand on their soapboxes to proclaim the virtues of particular therapies. Moreover, many of the items in the catalog of human cloning horrors - or of wonders, depending upon who is doing the cataloging - remain in the realm of sciencefiction. Mass death from biological agents, or diseases like the plague, appear by contrast to be part of 'ancient history' or sciencefiction. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English That was a great work of sciencefiction and this document is a great work of economic fiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Just 10 years ago that was impossible; in my father's time that would have been thought sciencefiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In those days all that seemed like sciencefiction, and too remote for anybody to know anything about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps it is that young people who enjoy sciencefiction find science facts tedious and dull. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He declared that this, along with "other sciencefiction", would be outlawed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After all, cross species infection is not a figment of sciencefiction imagination. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In our everyday lives we are aware of things which would have seemed no more than sciencefiction even a few years ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have been interested in this subject for the past 10 years, during which time many forecasts have developed from sciencefiction to reality. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will higher fees be chargeable for copying historical or scientific works than for copying sciencefiction? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some coverage does not help by referring to absurd examples that owe more to sciencefiction than science fact. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Claims that the regulations will lead to human reproductive cloning are based in sciencefiction, not in law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A computer became the bad guy of every piece of sciencefiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another piece of military sciencefiction is the suggestion that nuclear power plants would be prime targets in a third world war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can only describe that in two words—sciencefiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But that sciencefiction should not blind us to this turning into a considerably threatening reality. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Ten years ago, such procedures were sciencefiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is just seen as some gigantic sciencefiction octopus grasping the nation in its tentacles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shall not go into all the 1980 sciencefiction horrors which could flow from that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I thought that these were pages of sciencefiction coming to life before our eyes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What kind of 1980 sciencefiction is this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are the sort of activities which have for long been regarded in sciencefiction as the natural occupation for the citizen of the future. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The boundary between sciencefiction and fact in nuclear matters is very fine. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I agree that the word "engineering" should be left out, because it has something of cloning or sciencefiction about it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sciencefiction of yesterday is the common practice of today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are in the realms of sciencefiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is rather unfortunate that we have to use the word cloning, which has been given such a bad press by sciencefiction writers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they were in a piece of sciencefiction, they would not stop growing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the time, human cloning was the equivalent of sciencefiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not sciencefiction, but a real necessity. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We must distinguish between fiction, such as sciencefiction and thrillers, and the description of fact. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Now that it is upon us, people are still regarding it as a rather jolly piece of sciencefiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even sciencefiction writers were cagey about bringing in anything to do with rockets for their aerial flights. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Signals transmitted by laser lights are almost out of sciencefiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nothing in the whole range of sciencefiction could be found to equal that nonsense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You opened a trapdoor and there was a world which existed only in sciencefiction films. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not sciencefiction; they are engines that are essential to scientific, technological and, in our knowledge-driven economy, economic success. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we look at the ideas that have been suggested for getting rid of the nuclear waste we enter the world of high sciencefiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Certainly it was not an adventure in the realm of sciencefiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would, however, say that that concept is at present far nearer to the realm of sciencefiction than to reality. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For many, the very expression 'genetically modified organism', is a concept lifted directly from sciencefiction. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It is not sciencefiction any more to think in these terms. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When we think coldly and logically about their possible development it leads us straight into sciencefiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may well be that the concept of the "cyber society", even the "corporate nation", are the stuff of sciencefiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For a long time, lasers have been regarded as sciencefiction, but that is no longer the case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Cloning could become a reality, not a piece of sciencefiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The second development—which has even more of an air of sciencefiction about it—is tile possibility of cloning. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I myself am doubtful of the value of long-term planning of the sciencefiction kind which looks twenty, thirty or fifty years ahead. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I once watched a sciencefiction film about a man who was made in a laboratory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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