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Woman: Same thing here. I can't get anybody on the phone, either. The phone seems to be dead.
女人：這兒也是。電話打不通，好像是壞了。
First Voice: Electricity's off.
第一個聲音：停電了。
Second Voice: Phone won't work.
第二個聲音：電話不通了。
Third Voice: Can't get a thing on the radio.
第三個聲音：收音機一個臺也收不到。
Fourth voice: My power mower won't move, won't work at all.
第四個聲音：我的電動割草機不動了，完全不轉了。
(PETE VAN HORN, a tall thin man, is seen standing in front of his house.)
（皮特·范·霍恩，一個又高又瘦的男人，站在他的房前。）
Van Horn: I'll cut through the back yard... see if the power's still on on Cherry Street. I'll be right back.
范?霍恩：我從后院抄近路……去櫻桃街看看那里是否有電。我一會兒就回來。
Steve: Doesn't make sense. Why should the power and the phone line go off all of a sudden?
史蒂夫：真是奇怪。怎么會突然停電，連電話也不通了呢？
Don: Maybe it's an electrical storm or something.
唐：也許是雷暴或其他什么原因吧。
Charlie: That doesn't seem likely. Sky's just as blue as anything. Not a cloud. No lightning. How could it be a storm?
查理：不大可能吧。天空藍汪汪的，連一片云都沒有。更別說閃電了，什么都沒有。怎么可能是雷暴呢？
Woman: I can't get a thing on the radio. Not even the portable.
女人：收音機一個臺都收不到。甚至連手提收音機也一樣。
Charlie: Well, why don't you go downtown and check with the police, though they'll probably think we're crazy or something. A little failure and right away we get all excited.
查理：那你為什么不到鎮上去問問警察呢？不過，他們也許會認為我們是瘋了或是怎么了。不過是一個小小的停電，我們就大驚小怪的。
Steve: It isn't just the power failure, Charlie. If it was, we'd still be able to get a broadcast on the portable.
史蒂夫：這可不是簡單的停電，查理。如果是的話，我們還是可以用手提收音機收聽到廣播的。
(There's a murmur of reaction to this. STEVE walks over to his car.)
（聽到這，人們議論紛紛。史蒂夫走向他的汽車。）
Steve: I'll run downtown. We'll get this all straightened out. (STEVE gets into his car, turns the key. The engine is dead. He then gets out of the car.)
史蒂夫：我去一趟鎮上。我們會讓一切恢復正常的。（史蒂夫鉆進車里，轉了一下車鑰匙。發動機卻沒有任何反應。他又從車里鉆出來。）
Steve: I don't understand it. It was working fine before—
史蒂夫：怎么回事？以前都是好好的——
Don: Out of gas?
唐：沒油了吧？
Steve: (shakes his head) I just had it filled up.
史蒂夫：（搖頭）我剛給車加滿油。
