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英國調查:假如地球只剩最后一小時?
What would you do before the end of the world?
[ 2007-10-12 16:17 ]

What would you do in your last 60 minutes?

An asteroid is on a collision course with the earth and you have one hour left to live. What would you do in your last 60 minutes?

Not surprisingly, the majority of Britons questioned in a survey -- 54 percent -- said they would like to spend it either with or on the phone to their loved ones.

But the survey revealed a strong hedonistic streak -- 13 percent would sit back, accept the inevitable and reach for a glass of champagne.

Sex appealed to only nine percent while just three percent would turn to prayer.

Two percent intriguingly said they would reach for some fatty food while another two percent decided, with just an hour's life to go, that it was time to start looting.

The survey was commissioned by Ziji Publishing to mark the release of "Cloud Cuckoo Land" by debut novelist Steven Sivell who "uses the classic premise of an impending meteorite collision as a metaphor for threats to the human race."

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(Agencies)

如果一顆小行星即將與地球相撞,人類只能存活最后一小時,在這最后的60分鐘里,你會做些什么呢?

不出所料,大多數受訪的英國人(54%)說他們會與自己所愛的人在一起,或是給他們打電話。

同時,調查也顯示了人們強烈的快樂主義傾向——13%的人說他們什么也不會做,只想喝杯香檳,等待最后時刻的到來。

只有9%的人表示會去做愛,而僅有3%的人稱他們會在最后時刻去做祈禱。

有意思的是,2%的受訪者說他們會去吃一些高脂肪的食物,另有2%的人決定在最后的一小時去搶劫。

該項由Ziji出版社委托開展的調查是為了慶祝小說家史蒂文?斯韋爾的處女作《陰云緊鎖的孤島》的出版。該科幻小說描寫了“隕星撞擊地球對人類構成的嚴重威脅”。

  (英語點津姍姍編輯)

 

Vocabulary: 

sit back:不采取行動;袖手旁觀

loot:to pillage; spoil(搶劫)

 

 
 
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