Chapter 6

6 THE TWO-TON BALL OF BLACK FORGED STEEL ON THE END OF A chain swings away from the tall, striped, concrete smokestack next to the river. Inside the crane, a long, hairy ape hand pushes the swing control lever left. The thirty-meter boom of the crawler crane pivots left. The wrecking ball stops at the top of its arc... then swings back, following the boom, and

铁链末端的一个两吨重的黑色锻钢球从河边高大的、有条纹的混凝土烟囱上荡开。 在起重机内部，一只长长的、毛茸茸的猿手推着向左摆动的控制杆。 履带式起重机的30米臂向左转。 破坏球停在弧顶处。 然后随着繁荣的到来，然后

smashes into the last Midville Coal Plant smokestack with an earth-shaking thump! The smokestack wobbles, tilts, and —BOOM CRASH—collapses in a heap of brick and concrete and old coal dust.

砸向米德维尔燃煤电厂的最后一个烟囱，发出一声惊天动地的巨响！烟囱摇晃着，倾斜着，砰的一声，在一堆砖、混凝土和旧煤尘中倒塌了。

The entire Midville Coal Plant, which used to: burn coal to heat water into steam to spin turbines to run generators to produce electricity to send to transformers to transmit electricity to half of the houses in Midville...

整个米德维尔煤电厂，过去是：烧煤把水加热成蒸汽，旋转涡轮机，运行发电机发电，然后把电送到变压器，把电输送给米德维尔一半的家庭……

...is now a pile of rubble. Mr. Chimp pushes his bright yellow hard hat back onto his head. He slaps the dashboard of the crane's control cab and hoots a pleased "Hoo-hoo-hoo." T. Edison pulls a new notebook from the pocket of his orange safety vest and makes a very careful big black check mark.

…现在是一堆瓦砾。 猩猩先生把他那顶亮黄色的安全帽推回到头上。 他拍了拍起重机控制室的仪表板，高兴地叫了一声“呼-呼-呼”。 爱迪生从他的橙色安全背心口袋里掏出一本新的笔记本，仔细地在上面画了一个大大的黑色勾号。

"Midville Coal, done! Two more power plants left to smash. Then the only one working is my hydroelectric plant!" Mr. Chimp backs up the crawler crane and puts it into PARK. He drops the two-ton wrecking ball to its cradle on the ground. He then shuts off the engine and signs: Edison climbs down from the crane. "Our? What are you yapping about? Our what?"

“米德维尔煤矿，成交！”还有两家发电厂有待摧毁。 那么只有我的水力发电厂在工作！”猩猩先生把履带式起重机倒进公园。 他把两吨重的破球扔到地上的摇篮里。 然后他关掉引擎，示意：爱迪生从起重机上爬下来。 “我们?你在胡说些什么？ 我们的什么?”

Edison waves his hand at Mr. Chimp. Mr. Chimp does not like humans waving hands at him. He bark-screams a very loud "Ooo-ooo-AAAAHHHH-AHHH!" and slaps an open hand against his chest. "Oh, fine. I know, I know. Half the power plant is yours." Edison takes a rolled-up sign over to the fence surrounding the plant. "But this stroke of genius is all mine." Edison unrolls the sign and ties it to the fence. "We'll call it 'building,' but these idiots won't even understand that we are destroying everything except our power plant."

爱迪生向黑猩猩先生挥了挥手。 黑猩猩先生不喜欢人类对他挥手。 他大声地叫着：“呜——呜——啊——啊——啊！”然后张开一只手拍在胸口上。 “哦,好。我知道，我知道。 电厂的一半是你的。” 爱迪生拿着一个卷起来的牌子走到工厂周围的栅栏旁。 “但这一天才之举全是我的。” 爱迪生展开牌子，把它系在篱笆上。 “我们称之为‘建设’，但这些白痴根本不明白，除了我们的发电厂，我们正在摧毁一切。”