Chapter 10

10 THE EVENING BREEZE BENDS THE TALL GRASS AT THE BASE OF the chain-link fence surrounding the Midville Wind Farm. The wind picks up, stirs leaves, bends branches, and pushes the giant fiberglass blades of a twenty-five-meter-tall white wind turbine into spinning motion. The wind whips across the ridge above the Midville Woods and quickly sets the whole long line of windmill propellers spinning.

晚风吹弯了米德维尔风电场周围铁丝网栅栏底部的草。 风卷起叶子，搅动树叶，弯曲树枝，推动25米高的白色风力涡轮机的巨大玻璃纤维叶片旋转。 风掠过米德维尔森林上方的山脊，迅速地使整排风车的螺旋桨旋转起来。

The spinning blades turn the shafts in the generators. The turning shafts force electrons to move in an electric current. Just inside the Midville Wind Farm fence, Mr. Chimp belts himself into the driver's seat of his latest machine. It's his own invention, the DemoMonster—with crushing jaws on a boom neck, and two extendable hammer arms. Mr. Chimp signs to Edison: "You are such an old lady, with your seat belts and safety helmets," says Edison. But he buckles his seat belt. And it's a good thing he does. Because Mr.

旋转的叶片带动发电机的轴转动。 转动的轴迫使电子在电流中移动。 就在米德维尔风力发电场的围栏内，黑猩猩先生系好安全带，坐在他最新机器的驾驶座上。 这是他自己的发明，恶魔-在吊杆颈上有破碎的下巴，还有两个可伸缩的锤臂。 猩猩先生向爱迪生示意：“你真是个老太太，还系着安全带，戴着安全帽，”爱迪生说。 但他系好了安全带。 他这么做是件好事。 因为先生。

Chimp stomps on the gas, jams the crusher boom forward with a jolt, and crumples the first turbine shaft in its steel jaws with a shriek of ripping metal and crack of exploding concrete base. Edison holds on to the sides of his seat, riding it like a bucking bronco. "My goodness," says Edison.

“黑猩猩”猛踩油门，猛地把破碎机臂往前一挤，钢颚把第一根涡轮轴压得粉碎，发出金属撕裂的尖叫声和混凝土底座爆炸的裂缝声。 爱迪生紧紧抓住座位的两侧，骑着它就像一匹野马。 “我的天哪，”爱迪生说。

Mr. Chimp's DemoMonster chomps and hammers and smashes and crashes one wind turbine after another.

猩猩先生的恶魔在一个又一个的风力涡轮机上咬、敲、砸、撞。

Edison smiles more than he ever has. "Oh my, oh my. Such destruction. No more electricity from this wind farm. Now that's what I call Building Our Future." Mr. Chimp nods. Mr. Chimp hoots. Mr. Chimp sends another towering wind turbine crashing to earth.

爱迪生笑得比以往任何时候都多。 “天哪，天哪。这样的破坏。 这个风力发电场不再发电了。 这就是我所说的建设我们的未来。” 猩猩先生点点头。黑猩猩先生叫了起来。 黑猩猩先生将另一座高耸的风力涡轮机轰然坠地。