On Friday, Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin won 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society from the Clarke Foundation at the Sidney Harman Hall in Washington DC (local time Thursday evening).

　　周五在华盛顿特区西德尼哈曼大厅(当地时间周四晚)，中国科幻小说作家刘慈欣获得了2018年克拉克想象力服务社会奖

　　Introduced as "acclaimed author of The Three Body Problem and other science fiction works, winner of the Hugo and five Chinese Galaxy Awards", Liu received the award and delivered a speech in English.

　　被介绍为“由于出品三体和其他科幻作品而成为深受欢迎的作家，并且获得了雨果奖和五届银河奖得主”刘慈欣接受奖项并且用英文发布了演讲

　　Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society was started in 2012 and is presented annually. There are two other awards given together with it. For this year, Irwin Jacobs, chairman of the Salk Institute, co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm, co-developer of CDMA, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Lifetime Achievement, and Jill Tarter, astronomer and seeker of the answer to "Are we alone?", won the Innovator Award.

　　克拉克想象力服务社会奖是于2012年首次颁发并成为奖项.同时还颁发了另外两个奖项.今年身为索尔生物研究室总裁，美国高通前任董事长并身为创始人之一，码分多址联合研发人欧文雅各布斯获得了克拉克终身成就奖，给予“我们孤独吗”答案的天文学家兼探索家吉尔塔特获得了创新奖

　　The winner for the 2017 Award for Lifetime Achievement is late theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author Stephen Hawking.

　　2017年获得终身成就奖的是已故的物理学家，宇宙论者兼作家史蒂芬霍金

　　"The Clarke Awards recognize and celebrate the world's most illustrious and creative thinkers, scientists, writers, technologists, business leaders and innovators," a statement on its official website said.

　　在官网上一段陈述写到“克拉克奖奖颁给全球最卓越最具创新的思想家，科学家，作家，技术专家，商业领袖和创新者”

　　Sheldon Brown, director of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, University of California, San Diego, said in the awarding speech that human society faces new challenges in the 21st century, and science fiction helps to extend human knowledge. The Three Body trilogy helps us to see our problems.

　　谢尔顿布朗克拉克人类想象力研究中心主任，加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校教授在获奖仪式上发布演讲称：人类社会在21世纪面临着新的挑战，科幻可以帮助人们拓展知识.三体系列帮助我们看到了自身的问题

　　It's an honor for Liu that he got the award under the name of his favorite sci-fi master. Liu said in his reception speech that Clarke was the one that led him into sci-fi world and ignited his imagination ever since the 1980s.

　　对于刘慈欣来说以他最喜爱的科幻大师的名字授奖是崇高的荣誉.刘慈欣称在他的获奖演讲中称：自1980年后就是克拉克引领他走向科幻世界并且点燃了他的想象力

艾德英语——雅思阅读双译：刘慈欣获得克拉克想象力服务社会奖【哈尔滨雅思培训】