核心畫面

Plant here is not anything green. In English, a plant can be a set of big machines put in one place to do one job, and often the building wrapped around them. A power plant is that set of machines when the job is making power. Now change the size and nothing else. City-sized, it is the building at the far end of the wires that lights a whole town. Shrunk to what sits under the hood of a car or behind a panel on a bus, it is the engine and everything working with it.

這裡的 plant 不是植物。英文的 plant 可以想成「為了做一件事而裝在一起的一整套大機器」,而且常常連包著它更多收起這裡的 plant 不是植物。英文的 plant 可以想成「為了做一件事而裝在一起的一整套大機器」,而且常常連包著它的廠房一起算。power plant 就是這套機器的工作剛好是「產生動力」。接下來只要改變尺寸,別的都不用改:放大到一座城市的規模,它就是電線另一端、撐著整個城鎮用電的那棟建築;縮小到車蓋底下或公車後面那塊板子裡,它就是引擎和跟著它一起運作的所有東西。