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| 1 | 《三体》网友的聚会地点是一处僻静的小咖啡厅。 | The location for the Three Body players' meet-up was a small, out-of-the-way coffee shop. |
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| 2 | 在汪淼的印象中，这个时代的游戏网友聚会都是人数众多的热闹盛会，但这次来的连自己在内也只有七个人，而那六位，同自己一样，不论怎么看都不像游戏爱好者。 | Wang had always imagined game meet-ups would be lively events full of people, but this meet-up consisted of only seven players, including himself. Like Wang, the other six did not look like gaming enthusiasts. |
| 3 | 比较年轻的只有两位，另外五位，包括一位女士，都是中年人，还有一个老者，看上去有六七十岁了。 | Only two were relatively young. Another three, including a woman, were middle-aged. There was also an old man who appeared to be in his sixties or seventies. |
| 4 | 汪淼本以为大家一见面就会对《三体》展开热烈的讨论，但现在发现自己想错了。 | Wang had originally thought that as soon as they met they'd begin a lively discussion of Three Body, but he was wrong. |
| 5 | 《三体》那诡异而深远的内涵，已对其参与者产生了很深的心理影响，使得每个人，包括汪淼自己，都很难轻易谈起它。 | The profound but strange content of Three Body had had a psychological impact on the participants. All the players, including Wang himself, couldn't bring it up easily. |
| 6 | 大家只是简单地相互做了自我介绍，那位老者，掏出一把很精致的烟斗，装上烟丝抽了起来，踱到墙边去欣赏墙上的油画。 | They only made simple self-introductions. The old man took out a refined pipe, filled it with tobacco, and smoked as he strolled around, admiring the paintings on the walls. |
| 7 | 其他人则都坐着等待聚会组织者的到来，他们都来得早了。 | The others sat silently, waiting for the meet-up organizer to show up. They had all come early. |
| 8 | 其实这六个人中，汪淼有两个已经认识。 | Actually, of the six, Wang already knew two. |
| 9 | 那位鹤发童颜的老者，是一位著名学者，以给东方哲学赋予现代科学内涵而闻名。 | The old man was a famous scholar who had made his name by imbuing Eastern philosophy with the content of modern science. |
| 10 | 那位穿着怪异的女士，是著名作家，是少见的风格前卫却拥有众多读者的小说家，她写的书，从哪一页开始看都行。 | The strangely dressed woman was a famous writer, one of those rare novelists who wrote in an avant-garde style but still had many readers. You could start one of her books on any page. |
| 11 | 其他四位，两名中年人，一位是国内最大软件公司的副总裁（穿着朴素随意，丝毫看不出来），另一位是国家电力公司的高层领导。 | Of the two middle-aged men, one was a vice president at China's largest software company, plainly and casually dressed so that his status wasn't obvious at all; and the other was a high-level executive at the State Power Corporation. |
| 12 | 两名年轻人，一位是国内大媒体的记者，另一位是在读的理科博士生。 | Of the two young men, one was a reporter with a major media outlet, and the other was a doctoral student in the sciences. |
| 13 | 汪淼现在意识到，《三体》的玩家，可能相当一部分是他们这样的社会精英。 | Wang now realized that a considerable number of Three Body players were probably social elites like them. |
| 14 | 聚会的组织者很快来了，汪淼见到他，心跳骤然加快，这人竟是潘寒，杀死申玉菲的头号嫌疑人。 | The meet-up organizer showed up not long after. Wang's heart began to beat faster as soon as he saw the man: it was Pan Han, prime suspect for the murder of Shen Yufei. |
| 15 | 他悄悄掏出手机，在桌下给大史发短信。 | He took out his phone when no one was looking and texted Shi Qiang. |
| 16 | “呵呵，大家来得真早！” | Haha, everyone got here early! |
| 17 | 潘寒轻松地打招呼，似乎什么事都没有发生。 | Pan greeted them in a relaxed manner, as though nothing was wrong. |
| 18 | 汪淼的短信已经发出：见到潘寒，在西城区云河咖啡馆。 | Wang sent out his text: Spotted Pan Han. At Yunhe Coffee Shop in Xicheng District. |
| 19 | 包括汪淼在内的几位网友都连连点头。 | A few players nodded at this description, including Wang himself. |
| 20 | 这时汪淼收到了大史回的短信：我们也看到他了，没事，该干什么干什么。 | Wang received Da Shi's reply text: We also see him. No worries. Carry on. |
| 21 | 注意，在他们面前你要尽量表现得极端些，但不要太过了，那样装不像。 | Play the fanatic in front of them, but not so much that you can't pull it off. |
| 22 | “从文学角度看，《三体》也是卓越的，那二百零三轮文明的兴衰，真是一首首精美的史诗。” | I like the literary elements of Three Body. The rises and falls of two hundred and three civilizations evoke the qualities of epics in a new form. |
| 23 | 她提到二百零三轮文明，而汪淼经历的是一百九十一轮，这让汪淼再次确信了一点：《三体》对每个玩家都有一个独立的进程。 | She mentioned 203 civilizations, but Wang had only experienced 184. This told Wang that Three Body progressed independently for each player, possibly with different worlds. |
| 24 | “是吗？” | Really? |
| 25 | 潘寒很有兴趣地插问一句。 | Pan asked, interested. |
| 26 | “我知道是什么，不过你问吧。” | I know what it is. But you might as well ask. |
| 27 | 潘寒说。 | |
| 28 | “《三体》仅仅是个游戏吗？” | Is Three Body only a game? |
| 29 | 网友们纷纷点头，显然这也是他们急切想问的。 | The other players nodded. Clearly the question was also on their minds. |
| 30 | “首先，在很多轮文明中，三体人的脱水功能是真实的，为了应对变幻莫测的自然环境，他们随时可以将自己体内的水分完全排出，变成干燥的纤维状物体，以躲过完全不适合生存的恶劣气候。” | First, the ability of Trisolarans to dehydrate through its many cycles of civilization is real. In order to adapt to the unpredictable natural environment and avoid extreme environmental conditions unsuitable for life, they can completely expel the water in their bodies and turn into dry, fibrous objects. |
| 31 | “三体人是什么样子的？” | What do Trisolarans look like? |
| 32 | 你们刚才问过三体人的外形，据一些迹象推测，构成人列计算机的三体人，外表可能覆盖着一层全反射镜面，这种镜面可能是为了在恶劣的日照条件下生存而进化出来的，镜面可以变化出各种形状，他们之间就通过镜面聚焦的光线来交流，这种光线语言信息传输的速度是很快的，这就是人列计算机得以存在的基础。 | You asked about the appearance of the Trisolarans just now. According to some signs, the bodies of the Trisolarans who formed the computer were covered by a purely reflective surface, which probably evolved as a response to survival under extreme conditions of sunlight. The mirrorlike surface could be deformed into any shape, and they communicated with each other by focusing light with their bodies. This kind of light-speech could transmit information extremely rapidly and was the foundation of the Trisolaran-formation computer. 当然，这仍是一台效率很低的机器，但确实能够完成人类手工力不能及的运算。 Of course, this was still a very inefficient machine, but it was capable of completing calculations that were too difficult to be performed manually. 计算机在三体世界首先确实是以人列形式出现，然后才是机械式和电子式的。” The computer did in fact make its first appearance in Trisolaris as formations of people, before becoming mechanical and then electronic. |
| 33 | 潘寒站起来，围着网友们的背后踱步： | Pan stood up and paced behind the players. |
| 34 | “我现在能告诉大家的只是：作为一个游戏，《三体》只是借用人类的背景来模拟三体世界的发展，这样做只是为游戏者提供一个熟悉的环境，真实的三体世界与游戏中的差别很大，但其中三颗太阳的存在是真实的，这是三体世界自然结构的基础。” | As a game, Three Body only borrows the background of human society to simulate the development of Trisolaris. This is done to give players a familiar environment. The real Trisolaris is very different from the world of the game, but the existence of the three suns is real. They're the foundation of the Trisolaran environment. |
| 35 | “什么志和什么道呢？” | What ideals do we have in common, exactly? |
| 36 | 汪淼问，但旋即有些后悔，仔细想着自己的问题是否露出了些许的敌意。 | Wang immediately regretted the question. He wondered whether asking it sounded hostile. |
| 37 | 多么丑恶的东西，我上半生一直在用文学这把解剖刀来揭露这种丑恶，现在连这种揭露都厌倦了。 | The human race is hideous. I've spent the first half of my life unveiling this ugliness with the scalpel of literature, but now I'm even sick of the work of dissection. 我向往着三体文明能把真正的美带到这个世界上来。” I yearn for Trisolaran civilization to bring real beauty to this world. |
| 38 | 潘寒没有说话，那种兴奋的光芒又在双眼中亮起来。 | Pan said nothing. That glint of excitement appeared in his eyes again. |
| 39 | “就算如此，他们至少制止了下面事情的发生：阿兹特克无限制地发展，把美洲变成一个血腥和黑暗的庞大帝国，那时美洲和全人类的民主和文明时代就要更晚些到来，甚至根本就不会出现。 | Even so, at least they prevented the Aztecs from developing without bound, turning the Americas into a bloody, dark great empire. Then civilization as we know it wouldn't have appeared in the Americas, and democracy wouldn't have thrived until much later. Indeed, maybe they wouldn't have appeared at all. 这就是问题的关键之处——不管三体文明是什么样子，它们的到来对病入膏育的人类文明总是个福音。” This is the key to the question: No matter what the Trisolarans are like, their arrival will be good news for the terminally ill human race. |
| 40 | 言多必失，他只是简单地答这一句。 | He kept his answer simple. The less said the better. |
| 41 | 你们的ID将被注销，下面请你们离开。 | Your IDs will be deleted. Please leave now. |
| 42 | 两人站起身来对视一下，又困惑地看看周围，转身走出门去。 | The two stood up and looked at each other; then glanced around, confused, and left. |
| 43 | 潘寒向剩下的五个人伸出手来，挨个与他们紧紧握手。 | Pan held out his hand to the remaining five, shaking each person's hand in turn. |