1 THE CITY

THE WILD ROBOT ESCAPES

狂野的机器人逃跑了

CHAPTER 1 THE CITY Our story begins in a city, with buildings and streets and bridges and parks. Humans were strolling, automobiles were driving, airships were flying, robots were hard at work. Weaving through the city streets was a delivery truck. The truck knew where to go, and how to get there, all by itself. It pulled up to a construction site and automatically unloaded some crates. A few more turns and it unloaded more crates down at the docks. The truck zigged and zagged across the city, delivering crates as it went, and then it merged onto a highway. Cars and buses and trucks were cruising along the highway together. But as the delivery truck

第一章城市我们的故事从一座城市开始，那里有楼房、街道、桥梁和公园。 人类在散步，汽车在行驶，飞艇在飞行，机器人在努力工作。 一辆送货卡车在城市街道上穿行。 卡车知道要去哪里，怎么去，全靠它自己。 它停在一个建筑工地，自动卸下了一些板条箱。 又转了几个弯，它在码头卸下了更多的板条箱。 卡车弯弯曲曲地穿过城市，边开边运着板条箱，然后驶入一条高速公路。 汽车、公共汽车和卡车一起在高速公路上行驶。 而是作为送货卡车

continued, the traffic became lighter, the buildings became smaller, and the landscape became greener. With nothing but open road ahead, the truck accelerated to its top speed. The landscape outside was now just a green blur, occasionally broken by a flicker of gray as a town flew past. On and on the delivery truck went, racing over long bridges, shooting through mountain tunnels, gliding down straight stretches of highway, until it started to slow. It drifted from the fast lane to the exit lane, and then it rolled down a ramp and into farm country. Clouds of dust billowed up behind the truck as it drove past fields and fences. In the hazy distance, enormous barns loomed above the plains. The air was thick with the smells of soil and livestock. Robot crews methodically worked the crops and fed the animals and operated the massive farm machines. A hill gradually climbed into view. The hill was crowned with trees and white buildings. Another farm. But this one was smaller and shabbier than the rest. Out front was a crooked sign that read Hilltop Farm. Wheels crunched on gravel as the delivery truck rolled onto the driveway and up to the top of the hill.

接着，交通变得更轻了，建筑变得更小了，景观变得更绿了。 前方只有开阔的道路，卡车加速到最高速度。 外面的风景现在只是一片模糊的绿色，偶尔会有一个城镇飞过时的灰色闪烁。 送货卡车开啊开啊，在长长的桥梁上飞驰，在山间隧道里飞驰，在笔直的高速公路上滑行，直到它开始慢下来。 它从快车道滑到出口车道，然后滚下斜坡，进入农场。 卡车驶过田地和栅栏时，后面扬起滚滚灰尘。 在朦胧的远处，巨大的谷仓隐约出现在平原上。 空气中弥漫着泥土和牲畜的气味。 机器人工作人员有条不紊地种植庄稼，喂养动物，操作大型农业机械。 一座小山逐渐映入眼帘。 那座小山被树木和白色的建筑物覆盖着。 另一个农场。但这个比其他的都小，都破旧。 门口有一块歪歪扭扭的牌子，上面写着“山顶农场”。 送货卡车开上车道，开上山顶，车轮嘎吱嘎吱地踩在砾石上。

It stopped beside the front porch of the farmhouse and dropped its last crate to the ground. Then the truck drove away. Reader, can you guess what was tightly packed inside that crate? If you guessed a robot, you're correct. But this was no ordinary robot. It was ROZZUM unit 7134. You might remember her old life on a remote, wild island. Well, Roz's new life was just about to begin.

它停在农舍的前廊旁，把最后一个板条箱扔在地上。 然后卡车开走了。 读者，你能猜到那个板条箱里紧紧地装着什么吗？ 如果你猜的是机器人，你猜对了。 但这不是一个普通的机器人。 这是ROZZUM 7134单元。你可能还记得她过去在一个偏僻荒岛上的生活。 罗兹的新生活就要开始了。