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，华盛顿当地时间周四晚，中国科幻小说作家刘慈欣获得2018年克拉克想象力服务社会奖，颁奖典礼于华盛顿西德尼剧院举办。

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.

刘慈欣是著名科幻小说《三体》以及其他科幻作品的作者，同时是雨果奖和五次中国银河大奖的得主，此次被授予了该奖项(指亚瑟.C.克拉克奖)，他身表感激，并发表了英语演讲。

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, 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.

亚瑟.C.克拉克的想象力服务社会奖，成立始于2012年，每年颁发一次，并有两个奖项与它同期颁发。今年，索尔克研究所主席、高通联合创始人兼前董事长欧文.雅各布斯(Irwin Jacobs)，获得了克拉克终身成就奖”，天文学家吉尔.塔特(Jill Tarter)也凭借《我们孤独吗？》，获得了克拉克创新奖。

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

2017终身成就奖的获得者是理论物理学家、宇宙学家兼作家霍金。

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.

在克拉克奖项的官网上有这样一段声明：“克拉克奖授予那些世界上最卓越并最富创造力的思想家、科学家、作家、技术专家、商业领袖以及创新者。。”

（来源：爱语吧）