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Design competitions frequently feature some out-of-this-world concepts, but that was just the idea behind a recent contest that asked participants to imagine a moon base for humans that would be habitable by the year 2069. |
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設計比賽經常會出現若干超乎現實的構想,不過這種想法正是近來一項比賽的基礎理念,比賽要求參賽者想像能夠讓人類在二○六九年之前居住的月球基地。 |
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The competition was sponsored by non-profit urban planning group SHIFTboston. |
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Participants managed to come up with several wildly creative ideas and graphic illustrations that depicted everything from lunar sports stadiums to Moon cemeteries. |
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這項競賽是由「波士頓變遷」這個非營利都市計畫組織主辦。參賽者想出了不少饒富創意的構想以及生動的插圖說明,描繪內容應有盡有,包括月球體育場乃至月球墓園。 |
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Imagining future colonies in space is nothing new. |
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Such flights of fancy have been fodder for science fiction literature and films for more than a century. |
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What is new about SHIFTboston's Moon Capital 2010 is it unites two disciplines that are often at odds, namely architecture and engineering. |