《童话镇》第289期:一见钟情

 Oh, I'm so sorry. It just slipped out of my hand. I— 太对不起了 我手一滑没拿住

No problem at all. 没事

I really am so sorry. I was so busy trying to get the lights to work that I didn't realize I was about to knock it off the ladder. 真是抱歉 我一直在想办法让灯亮起来 都没注意到我要把梯子上的金粉弄洒了

Let me take a look at those lights for ya. 我帮你看看是怎么回事吧

Here's your problem. You're overloading¹ the transformer². 问题在这儿 变压器过载了

You kept messing around with these lights, the whole thing could've blown up on you. 你要是一直这么捣鼓这些灯泡 它们会爆炸的

Then I guess that makes you my hero. 这么说来  多谢英雄救命之恩

I'm nobody's hero, sister. 我不是什么英雄  小妹

You can just call me Astrid. 你叫我阿斯特丽德就好

I call everybody "sister". I'm Leroy. 我管所有人都叫"小妹" 我叫勒罗伊

How did you do that? Are you an electrician³? 你怎么做到的 你是电工吗

I'm in the custodial⁴ services game. 我是个看守

That's... wonderful. 那真是...  挺好的

No, it's not. 一点都不好

What I really wanted to do... was sail. 我真正喜爱的是航海

I even bought a boat. It's a real clunker. I was gonna fix it up, sail around the world, say good-bye to this hellhole. 我甚至连船都买好了 挺破旧的  我打算把它修好 航海环游世界  和这个鬼地方说再见

Oh, I'm sorry, sister. 抱歉耽误你了  小妹

It's okay.  没事

 

1 overloading   

过载，超载，过负载

参考例句：

• Enables multiple users to search the site without overloading the server. 使多个用户搜索网站，而无需超载的服务器上。
• The driver got stripped down again for overloading his trunk. 那位卡车司机因为超载又受到责备。

2 transformer   

n.变形金刚，变压器

参考例句：

• Keep away from the transformer.不要靠近那个变压器。
• The transformer is more expensive than the toy train.变形金刚比玩具火车贵得多。

3 electrician   

n.电工，电气技师

参考例句：

• She said she would find an electrician for us.她说她要给我们找一个电工技师。
• We need an electrician to mend the iron.我们要请电工修理熨斗。

4 custodial   

adj.监护的，照管的

参考例句：

• The teenagers were convicted of manslaughter and given a two-year custodial sentence. 这些青少年被判过失杀人罪，及二年的监禁（拘留）刑罚。
• This article interrogates the cultural experience of being a non custodial mother. 本文审视一位无监护权的母亲所感受到的文化体验。