摘要
不到一个世纪之前，人们被商店里那小小的电视机的样子吓到了。许多人理解不了那屏幕上在上演什么，而其他人甚至还相信有小人儿生活在那些新奇的盒子里。在过去的几十年中，好莱坞电影制片人和科幻作家们放飞他们的想象力，提出了各种异乎寻常的概念和想法。到2017年，这些科幻的东西有些确实已经存在，而且对一些人来说，它们或许看起来还和很久以前的电视机一样可怕。
Less than a century ago,people were terrified by the appearance of thesmall TV set in stores.Many couldn't understand what was happening on thescreen,while others even believed that there were little people living in thosestrange,new boxes.In the past decades,Hollywood movie producers andscience-fiction writers let their imagination loose1),coming up with bizarre2)concepts and ideas.Some of these science-fiction things actually exist in2017,and to some,they might seem scary as the TV set was a long time ago.
