11 THE ROBOT SLEEPS

CHAPTER 11 THE ROBOT SLEEPS Roz stood on the peak and watched the sun sink behind the ocean. She watched shadows slowly spread over the island and up the mountainside. She watched the stars come out, one by one, until the sky was filled with a million points of light. It was the first night of the robot's life. She activated her headlights, and suddenly bright shafts of light were beaming out from her eyes and illuminating the whole mountaintop. Too bright. So she dimmed them. Then she turned them off and sat in darkness and listened to the chorus of nighttime chirps. After a while, our robot's computer brain decided it was a good time to conserve energy. So she sat and anchored her hands to the rocks, her nonessential programs switched off, and then, in her own way, the robot slept.

第十一章机器人睡着了罗兹站在山顶上，看着太阳落在海洋后面。 她看着阴影慢慢地在岛上和山坡上蔓延开来。 她看着星星一颗接一颗地冒出来，直到天空布满了一百万颗光点。 这是机器人生命中的第一个夜晚。 她打开车头灯，突然间，一道明亮的光线从她的眼睛里射出来，照亮了整个山顶。 太亮。于是她把它们调暗。 然后，她把它们关掉，坐在黑暗中，听着夜间啾啾的合唱。 过了一会儿，我们机器人的电脑大脑决定是时候节约能量了。 于是，她坐下来，双手固定在岩石上，关掉了那些无关紧要的程序，然后，机器人以她自己的方式睡着了。