INCLUDEPICTURE "外刊撷英LLL.TIF" INCLUDEPICTURE "../../../外刊撷英LLL.TIF" \* MERGEFORMAT The Review About The Lost Cause Adapted from Strange Horizons 20240205 In his latest fiction, Doctorow seems to be trying to find an answer to a very problem: what do you do with people who are messing up① every good thing that you and your community might have achieved How do you with people who do not share your sense of reality, of the purpose of a society The Lost Cause is presented② as a science fiction novel, but it reads more like a thought experiment. At a plot③ level, the novel follows high school Brooks Palazzo as he navigates④ the world of Burbank, California, thirty years into the future. The effects of climate change are more in the United States by this time: weather patterns have changed, wildfires are rampant⑤ and unpredictable, and coastal cities across the country are at risk of being submerged⑥ due to the rising sea levels, all of which give rise to⑦ refugee⑧ populations moving across the country in search for more habitable places to live in. Brooks is the son of environmental activists⑨ who died fighting wildfires and was raised by his very conservative⑩ grandfather. Brooks often finds himself at odds with the views held by his grandfather. And this tension lies at the core of the book, in the conflict between progressive initiatives. Brooks had a very real chance of being a complicated person stuck between two conflicting movements, questioning each of their claims and outcomes. Instead, we see a young man with a firm belief in his —someone who, as a nineteen-year-old, has already considered every possible opposition to his arguments, and is sure that he would never change his mind, and neither would anyone else. Doubt, in the book, exists only fleetingly ， and is intended to underscore his commitments. This is not necessarily a bad thing. We do need people of steadfast ， unshakable idealism working to make the world a better place. I'd argue that this book's practical idealism is its greatest gift! This is a book of ideas, of real progressive and actionable ideas. The book shows us an to the doom and gloom that often accompanies the machinations of politics for most people today. That's where the book shines: it imagines a future worth fighting for and provides a solution to nihilism . eq \a\vs4\al() ①mess up 搞砸；弄乱 ②present v. 显示；展现 ③plot n. 情节 ④navigate v. 航行 ⑤rampant adj. 泛滥的 ⑥submerge v. 淹没 ⑦give rise to 造成；导致 ⑧refugee n. 避难者；逃亡者 ⑨activist n. 积极分子 ⑩conservative adj. 保守的 at odds with 与……不一致 tension n. 紧张 opposition n. 反对 fleetingly adv. 短暂地 underscore v. 强调 steadfast adj. 坚定的 doom n. 厄运；毁灭 gloom n. 黑暗；忧郁 machination n. 诡计；阴谋 nihilism n. 虚无主义 答案：1.latest 2.to coexist 3.as 4.effects 5.moving 6.was raised 7.held 8.but 9.working 10.an 1.contemporary adj. A.to exist together in the same place, especially in a peaceful way ... ...
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