海底兩萬里 第176期 第12章 一切都用電(9)

There, even more powerful and obedient than gas, electricity did most of the cooking. Arriving under the stoves, wires transmitted to platinum griddles a heat that was distributed and sustained with perfect consistency.

在廚房里，一切烹任工作都利用電氣，電氣比煤氣更有效更方便。電線接到爐子下面，把熱力傳給白金片，熱力分配到各處，保持一定的、規(guī)律的溫度。

It also heated a distilling mechanism that, via evaporation, supplied excellent drinking water.

電又燒熱蒸餾器，可以供給人清潔的飲水。

Next to this galley was a bathroom, conveniently laid out, with faucets supplying hot or cold water at will.After the galley came the crew's quarters, 5 meters long.

挨著廚房，有一個浴室，布置得很舒適，室內(nèi)的水龍頭可以隨人的意思供應冷水或熱水。連著廚房的便是船員的工作室，長五米。

But the door was closed and I couldn't see its accommodations, which might have told me the number of men it took to operate the Nautilus.

房門關著，我看不見內(nèi)部的布置，但是我似乎覺得它是根據(jù)駕駛諾第留斯號需要的人數(shù)來決定的。

At the far end stood a fourth watertight bulkhead, separating the crew's quarters from the engine room.

里面，第四道防水板把這個工作室和機器間隔開。

A door opened, and I stood in the compartment where Captain Nemo, indisputably a world-class engineer, had set up his locomotive equipment.

門打開了，我走進了一間房子，里面尼摩船長，他無疑是第一流的工程師，裝置著各種駕駛船的機器。

Brightly lit, the engine room measured at least 20 meters in length. It was divided, by function, into two parts.

這個機器間，照得通明，有二十多米長。內(nèi)部很自然地分成兩部分。

The first contained the cells for generating electricity, the second that mechanism transmitting movement to the propeller.

第一部分放著生產(chǎn)電力的原料，第二部分裝著轉(zhuǎn)動螺旋槳的機器。

Right off, I detected an odor permeating the compartment that was sui generis.Captain Nemo noticed the negative impression it made on me.

我一進去，由于滿屋子有一種說不出是什么的氣味，感到不習慣。

Latin: in a class by itself. Ed.

尼摩船長看出我的神情，他說：

That, he told me, is a gaseous discharge caused by our use of sodium, but it's only a mild inconvenience.

這是鈉分解出來的氣體;就這一點美中不足。

In any event, every morning we sanitize the ship by ventilating it in the open air.

我們每天早晨總要把船露出水面通一次風，清除這種氣體。