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Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. 2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
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历史上从来没有哪一个日子如此重要，对于不同的文化、宗教、科学家和政府来说都意味深长。影片《2012年》是一个发生在世界末日的史诗般的冒险故事，它讲述了面对全球性大灾难，幸存者们如何英勇地进行抗争。 |
| Things get rolling in 2009, as an Indian scientist has made a mysterious but alarming discovery: it seems that there have been usually severe storms on the surface of the sun, which are having a grave effect on earth. By 2010 the US President is aware of what is happening, and calls a private meeting with seven other prominent world leaders at the G8 summit in Spain. What he has to tell them is that the world’s top scientists have confirmed that the world will soon come to an end. |
事情的开端是在2009年。一位印度科学家发现了一个神秘却惊人的事实，太阳表面似乎经常爆发强烈的风暴，而这现象正对地球产生严重的影响。到了2010年，美国总统也获知这一事实。在西班牙召开八国集团峰会期间，他召集另外七个世界大国的领导人进行了一次私下会谈。他不得不告诉他们：世界顶尖的科学家们已经证实，世界即将毁灭。 |
| Finally we reach the titular year 2012. By now, signs of impending doom have been steadily accumulating. The west coast is beset with so-called “mini quakes,” and fissures randomly appear in the earth. Nevertheless, people are going about their daily lives as usual, oblivious to the doom in store. We are introduced to Jackson Curtis, chauffer and aspiring novelist, who is rushing to pick up his two young children from ex-wife’s house in Los Angeles so he can take them on a camping trip in Yellowstone National Park. |
时间终于来到片名所显示的2012年。到了这个时候，末日将临的征兆一个个浮现。美国西海岸频繁爆发所谓的“迷你地震”，毫无规律的地裂现象随处发生。尽管如此，人们的生活还是一如既往，他们对即将到来的末日一无所知。故事进展到这里，一个叫做Jackson Curtis的人物出现了。他是一个汽车司机，却雄心勃勃地坚持写小说。他正赶去位于洛杉矶的前妻家里接两个年幼的孩子到黄石国家公园露营。 |
| Jackson and the kids arrive at Yellowstone to discover that the military and teams of government scientists have taken over sections of the park for reasons they cannot fully reveal. |
在黄石公园，Jackson和孩子们发现，军队和一群为政府工作的科学家接管了公园的某些区域，原因不明。 |
| It appears that things are progressing faster than anyone anticipated, and we get our first inkling of what it is that world leaders are planning to do about it; they, along with select wealthy elite from across the globe, will board specially built ships that can weather nature’s wrath. Everyone else will be left to perish and the people from the ships will be left to rebuild civilization and repopulate the planet. |
形势发展的速度似乎超出所有人的预料，我们也模糊地察觉到了世界大国首脑们的如意算盘。他们打算和挑选出的全球财富精英们登上特制的舰船挺过这一次大自然的愤怒。其他所有人都将被留下面临毁灭，而船上的人则会幸存下来繁衍生息，重建文明。 |
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Jackson, of course, is not one of those chosen to be saved, but he doesn't know that so he does his best to convince his ex-wife, their two kids, and his ex-wife's new plastic surgeon boyfriend they need to get onboard a plane and get the heck out of Dodge.
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理所当然，Jackson并不在获救的人选之中，但是他自己并不知道这一点。因此他千方百计地说服他的前妻、他们的两个孩子，还有前妻那身为整形医师的新男友，他们需要登上一架飞机逃离这该死的骗局。
（China.org.cn 李潇 译）
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