Its hero, a young scientist, travels 800,000 years into the future and discovers a dying earth populated by two strange humanoid species: the brutal Morlocks and the gentle but nearly helpless Eloi.

这部书的男主人公，一个年轻的科学家，来到了八十万年后的未来，探索一个濒临灭绝的地球，地球上居住着两种奇怪的类人生物：野蛮的莫洛克人和温和的几近无能的伊洛依人。

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Lives are crying because it's not clean. Earth is dying because it's not green.

生命在哭泣，因为它不再干净。地球在死亡，因为它失去了绿色。

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Some have vanished from the face of the earth, others are dying slowly, but all have undergone changes as they have come into contact with an expanding machine civilization.

一些已经从地球表面消失了，其他的正在慢慢地死亡，但所有的都经历了变化，因为它们已经接触到一个不断扩张的机器文明。

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" Even the barren Moon is essential: "Without the Moon's steadying influence, the Earth would wobble like a dying top.... The Moon's steady gravitational influence keeps the Earth spinning at the right speed and angle to provide the sort of stability necessary for the long and successful development of life.

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" Even the barren Moon is essential: "Without the Moon's steadying influence, the Earth would wobble like a dying top ...

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When the enemy broke through and the combat was hand-to-hand, he carried on -- comforting the injured and the dying, offering some measure of peace as they left this Earth.

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