Chapter 1

1 STAND STILL, WATSON!" SAYS FRANK EINSTEIN. "THIS WON'T hurt... very much." "It's the 'very much' that worries me," answers Watson, trying not to flinch. Frank shuffles his feet on the wool rug. He raises his index finger until it's level with Watson's nose. Klink, plugged into an outlet in a corner of Frank's laboratory, looks up and says, without

我站着别动，华生！”弗兰克·爱因斯坦如是说。 “这不会有什么坏处……非常感谢。” “我担心的是‘非常’这个词，”沃森回答，尽量不退缩。 弗兰克在羊毛地毯上拖着脚。 他抬起食指，直到和华生的鼻子齐平。 Klink，插在弗兰克实验室角落里的插座上，抬起头说，没有

any excitement, "Oh, how exciting. I cannot guess what is going to happen." "Me either! Me either! Me either!" beeps Klank. Klink turns his single camera eye to Klank. "I know exactly what is going to happen." "What?" beeps Klank. "What?" says Watson. Frank moves his finger closer to Watson's face. A tiny bolt of electricity jumps from Frank's finger to Watson's nose. Bzzzzzzt! "Yow!" yells Watson. "Success!" cheers Frank. "Ha-ha-ha," beeps Klank. "And people call you a genius?" says Klink. Watson rubs his nose and sits back down at Frank's lab table. "What did you do that for?"

“哦，太令人兴奋了。 我猜不出会发生什么事。” “我!我不是!我也是！”克兰克嘟嘟地说。 Klink把他那单镜头的眼睛转向了Klank。 “我很清楚会发生什么。” “什么？”克兰克嘟嘟地问。“什么？”华生说。 弗兰克用手指靠近华生的脸。 一束微小的电流从弗兰克的手指跳到华生的鼻子上。 Bzzzzzzt !“哇！”华生大叫。 “成功！”弗兰克欢呼道。“哈哈哈，”克兰克嘟嘟地说。 “人们称你为天才？”Klink说。 华生揉了揉鼻子，又坐在弗兰克的实验桌旁。 “你为什么要那样做？”

Frank adds a drawing and a quick note to his lab notebook. "Energy. Static electricity. The same thing as lightning, just on a smaller scale." "So you lightning-bolted my nose?" "Yes." "Why?" "Why do we do anything, Watson?" Frank pins a photo of a lightning strike up on the Wall of Science under energy. "To find out how things work. To make our next invention. To get started on figuring out energy. But mostly to make you jump."

弗兰克在他的实验笔记本上添加了一幅画和一个简短的笔记。 “能量。静电。 和闪电一样，只是规模较小。” “所以你闪电般地打了我的鼻子？”“是的。” “为什么?”“我们为什么要做这些事呢，华生？”弗兰克把一张闪电的照片钉在“能源科学墙”上。 “去发现事物是如何运作的。 来做我们的下一个发明。 开始计算能量。 但主要是为了让你跳起来。”

Klink unplugs his recharged self and autowinds his cord. "Static electricity," Klink explains. "Free electrons gathered from rubbing the wool rug are negatively charged. They jumped to Watson's positively charged nose because the opposite charges attract." "Which is exactly like lightning," explains Frank. "Storm clouds become negatively charged on the bottom. The lightning is the electricity discharging to the positive ground. Opposite charges attracting." "So... great," says Watson. "You can make an invention to shock everyone's nose?"

克林克拔掉充电后的自己的插头，自动缠绕绳索。 “静电，”Klink解释道。 摩擦羊毛地毯时聚集的自由电子带负电荷。 它们跳到沃森带正电的鼻子上，因为相反的电荷相互吸引。” “这就像闪电一样，”弗兰克解释说。 “风暴云在底部带负电荷。 闪电是放电到正极的电。 相反的电荷相互吸引。” “所以……太好了，”沃森说。 “你可以发明一种能让每个人的鼻子都震动的东西？”

"Oh, no," says Frank. "This is about all energy! And energy for all. Energy is what makes everything in the world go. Without energy, nothing would happen."

“哦，不，”弗兰克说。“这是关于所有能源的！”为所有人提供能源。 能量是世界上一切事物运转的动力。 没有能量，什么都不会发生。”