And it lay precisely in that insatiable curiosity, that irrepressible desire to know, no matter what the subject, no matter what the cost, even at a time when the keepers of the Doomsday Clock are willing to bet even money that the human race won't be around to imagine anything in the year 2100, a scant 93 years from now.
那就是他们永不满足的好奇心、 难以揭制的求知欲--对任何事物， 无论要付出什么， 世界末日钟的看守者大概在93年前就 人们不可能预知 2100年的世界是个什么样子。