《Let There be Darkness》中的设定的收集（2）(8)

（由1、2可知，米戈有一种细长的、银色的、手枪状的武器，这种武器能够发射麻痹射线。）
3. In its center, on a metal platform, rested a machine of curious intricacy whose main part consisted of a mirror-bright sphere about two feet in diameter inset with several glassy lenses and a short, antenna-like projection. Attached to this sphere was a small solar battery, and a complex, clicking device that seemed to be reeling in a fine filament of wire. The other end of the gleaming filament was coming from a second intricate machine, to which a squat cylinder of bright metal was attached.

在它的中心，在一个金属平台上，放着一台奇怪而复杂的机器，它的主要部分包括一个镜面般明亮的球体，直径约两英尺，镶嵌着几个玻璃透镜和一个短的天线状突起。附在这个球体上的是一个小型太阳能电池，以及一个复杂的、发出咔嗒声的装置，它似乎卷绕着一根细细的金属丝。闪闪发光的灯丝的另一端来自第二台复杂的机器，上面连接着一个由亮金属制成的矮圆筒。
4."I mean that I have taken away your humanity, and that I have made you immortal. There is no longer a single cell of your biological self left alive—but that does not matter, for your thoughts and perceptions live on and they will not pass the way of mortal flesh."
“我的意思是我夺走了你的人性，我让你永生。你的生物自我不再有一个细胞存活——但这没关系，因为你的思想和感知会继续存在，它们不会走凡人肉体之路。”