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Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

很多人建议我不要用AI翻译，所以我用中文回答，辛苦大家用一下翻译功能。 1.厂区里几乎所有人认识所有人，我爸妈饭桌上的话题就是同事八卦。这样的话整个社会氛围其实有点压抑，只要你做了任何出格的事，很快所有人都会知道。 2.我也觉得建一个动物园简直是疯了，文章第二部分有提到这个。我大伯是负责挑选动物的人，从全国各地运动物过去。可能维护成本太高吧，动物园里的孔雀慢慢没了，变成珍珠鸡，最后只有几只家养母鸡了。 3.可能最大的不同是我非常好奇，对一切都很好奇，至今仍然是这样，对所有事情都想问一下为什么。另外一个很大的影响是，我感觉自己没有根，在世界上飘。文章第二部分有提到，整个厂区搬迁了，我没故乡了。 4.那一代人是真的认为自己在nation-building，不计回报的付出。很多人都是从发达城市调过去的，他们家人很多年都不知道他们在做什么。很奇怪，这可能被认为是最严重的洗脑，但是当他们离开404反倒找不到生活的意义了。

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

这样确实可以避免AI味儿，但是可能阅读起来会体验很差，我最早就是用machine translation翻译，很多部分变得非常wordy，同时令人费解。

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/22190111 这里是原版的，我稍微修改了一些部分。

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

I hate that too, but my english writing is not good enough to write a long article, I edited this many times, I thought it's acceptable.Yes, I will try my best to learn english writing.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

I posted this in Chinese first.And use AI translated.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Yes，it is.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

确实，我自己也非常讨厌AI味的文字，很希望我的英文能和中文一样好。只是可能还要好几年时间吧。

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Sounds good.我会试着用中文回复，只是不知道在HN上面这样接受度高么？

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Yes it is, really sorry for it. I don't know how to delete it.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Yes, I will try my best.Thank you.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Thank you!

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Yes，English is not my first langue, I have to use AI translate for now.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

I'm using AI to translate comments, and it does sounds AI. My IELTS is 7.5, and writing band 6.0, so I have to rely on the tool currently.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Part 2 is the harsh part, including death and execution. And now I know how hard life was, but when I was a kid, I just feel 404 is the sweetest home.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Those pictures photoed by me and my parents,I did use LLM to translate, cause my english is not good enough to write a long article.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

My sincere apologies to everyone here. You caught me red-handed, and I feel terrible about it.

I promise that the story of 404 is my own, lived experience. Just as the whole article, they are translate by LLM.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

To be honest, growing up inside, we lived in a state of 'enforced innocence.' While Hanford and Mayak's histories are now well-documented in the West, 404’s specific records regarding accidents or contamination remain largely classified.I only heard some stories from my parents.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Yes，and I feel it's the sweetest home for many years.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

I think it's well known, cause that generation are still alive.In the Northern China, the situation was often more dire because the land is unforgiving. In the South, people at least had the chance to supplement their rations by fishing in the rivers.While the official term often points to 'natural disasters,'it is widely recognized as a man-made catastrophe.

I remember when I was 4 or 5 years old, my mother told me stories about those years. As a child, I didn't understand the historical context; I thought mass starvation was something that happened cyclically, like the seasons. I vividly remember asking her: 'Does this happen every few years? Should we start stockpiling food now just in case?'

Even today, you will see older Chinese people who cannot bear to see a single grain of rice left on a plate. It’s not just frugality; it’s a ghost from 1959.

A common criticism of Chinese people is that they 'eat everything,' but a major reason for this is that China has endured more famines than almost any other nation in human history.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Thank you! I will post the second part on Monday.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

I don't know the code system, for me they are random 3 numbers(like Plant 504 : A uranium enrichment facility.)Thank you liking it, I will post the second part on Monday.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Sorry I didn't，his Chinese name is 原公浦，you can search this and there and many articles about him.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

和目前的版本有一点出入，中文版没有“放射性沙发”这部分。

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

To be honest, for me, nuclear explosions only exist in the imagery of propaganda and documentaries. I am not a physicist; I don't understand nuclear physics on a technical level.

My perspective on 'the nuclear' is purely emotional and sensory—I simply find it terrifying. I resonate much more with the raw, human suffering described in Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl than I do with the scientific future of nuclear power.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

I can personally guarantee that this piece is 100% non-fiction.My course also focuses on narrative writing techniques.Does 'Storytelling' have to imply fiction?In Chinese "story(故事）" just things happened, it can be real or fiction .

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

I did write and publish this story in Chinese first.So I hope it's fine.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Yes，it's just a coincidence.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

That’s so kind of you!

I did write and publish this story in Chinese first. You don't need an AI translation for them; the original text exists and has been quite popular in the Chinese corner of the internet.You can search for it using the title:《我在404长大》

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

Yes, it's really like the small town in Oppenheimer.

Vincent_Yan404on Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

You caught me! Yes, I am using AI to assist with the translation.

My IELTS score is 7.5, but my writing band is 6.0.

I write my thoughts and comments in Chinese first and then use AI to translate them. The entire article was also translated from my original Chinese manuscript.