经济学人双语精读｜推理小说：黑喑之首

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点击文章末端“ 阅读原文 ” 获取完整电子版 （ PDF + Word + MP3音频） 每天分享一篇经济学人双语精读 全文翻译+全文注释+长难句分析 背景知识+写作技巧+短语+段落大意+词汇精析 本期同步音频 01 经济学人原文 Speculative fiction ： Head of darkness 【 1 】 The most  unnerving dystopian fiction  is set in a future that feels  imminent . In the  unnamed  but New York-like city of “Hum” the water tastes like  chemicals , and the air feels hot and eye- stingingly  polluted, made worse by the  smoke billowing  from distant fires. Digital devices are  distractingly ubiquitous ; they include bracelets that  track  the  whereabouts  of children and life-size “wooms” for personalised virtual-reality experiences. Many recently  employed  people are out of work, displaced by a new class of intelligent robots called “hums”. 【 2 】 This sounds  bleak —and  plausibly  so. But Helen Phillips, an ………………………………