羊毛战记 Part 5 The Stranded 68

　　68,　　• Silo 18 •,　　“Hello? Solo? Please say something. ”,　　There was no mistaking that voice, even through the small speakers in the dismantled ¹ headset. Itechoed bodiless in the control room, the same control room that had housed that very voice for somany years. The location was what nailed it for Shirly; she stared at the tiny speakers spliced ² into themagical radio, knowing it couldn’t be anyone else.,　　Neither she nor Walker dared breathe. They waited what felt like forever before she finally brokethe silence.,　　“That was Juliette,” she whispered. “How can we … ? Is her voice trapped down here? In the air?,　　Shirly didn’t understand how any of the science worked; it was all beyond her pay grade. Walkercontinued to stare at the headset, unmoving, not saying a word, tears shining in his beard.,　　“Are these … these ripples ³ we’re grabbing with the antenna ⁵, are they just bouncing around downhere?
”,　　She wondered if the same was true of all the voices they’d heard. Maybe they were simplypicking up conversations from the past. Was that possible? Like some kind of electrical echo?,　　Somehow, this seemed far less shocking than the alternative.,　　Walker turned to her, a strange expression on his face. His mouth hung partway open, but therewas a curl at the edges of his lips, a curl that began to rise.,The Japanese empire was quickly dismantled. 日本帝国很快被打垮了 。,He spliced the two lengths of film together. 他把两段胶卷粘接起来。 来自《简明英汉词典》