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Sales of portable generators were headed toward $3 billion a year globally, and growing fast.[qh]
便携式发电机的全球年销售额接近30亿美元，而且还在快速增长。[qh]
If you converted even some of that to solar—particularly if you were first to market—you could become very rich.[qh]
如果你把其中的一部分转化为太阳能——特别是如果你是第一个进入市场的——你就会变得非常富有。[qh]
By late 2008, Watson’s associates had loaned Carpoff $368,200 and formed a company, Pure Power Distribution, to market his invention. [qh]
到2008年底，沃森的同事借给卡波夫36.82万美元，成立了一家名为Pure Power Distribution的公司，用于推销他的发明。[qh]
Hollywood was a chief target. [qh]
好莱坞是主要目标。[qh]
Just a year earlier, the comedy Evan Almighty had been celebrated as the first carbon-neutral production by a major studio, and Al Gore’s landmark climate-change documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, had won two Academy Awards.[qh]
就在一年前，喜剧《冒牌天神》被大型电影公司誉为首部碳中和作品，阿尔·戈尔里程碑式的气候变化纪录片《难以忽视的真相》斩获了两项奥斯卡奖。[qh]
Carpoff’s invention could help the entertainment industry “lead the world in making ‘sustainable’ the standard,” declared the actor Hart Bochner, who promoted the devices. (Bochner is best known for playing a coked-up businessman in Die Hard.) [qh]
推广这种设备的演员哈特·博什纳说，卡波夫的发明可以帮助娱乐业“引领世界，让‘可持续’成为标准。” (博什纳最出名的角色是在《虎胆龙威》中饰演一位吸毒的商人。)[qh]
They were the perfect replacement for the diesel generators that powered on-location trailers for actors and makeup artists.[qh]
这种设备是柴油发电机的完美替代品，而柴油发电机为演员和化妆师的现场拖车提供动力。[qh]
The base camps of a few major movies—Inception (starring Leonardo DiCaprio), Valentine’s Day (Julia Roberts), Bad Words (Jason Bateman)—were willing to give them a shot. [qh]
几部重要电影的大本营——《盗梦空间》(由莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥主演)、《情人节》(由朱莉娅·罗伯茨主演)、《脏话》(由杰森·贝特曼主演)——都愿意给这种设备一个机会。[qh]
DiCaprio, an environmentalist, posted photos on Facebook.[qh]
环保主义者迪卡普里奥在脸书上发布了照片。[qh]
Carpoff, meanwhile, traveled to the motorsports mecca of Daytona Beach, Florida, where he contacted a high-end real-estate agent and presented himself as a wealthy entrepreneur in the market for a mansion (in truth, he was close to broke).[qh]
与此同时，卡波夫前往赛车运动圣地佛罗里达州的代托纳海滩。在那里，他联系到了一位高端房地产经纪人，他把自己装扮成一个想买豪宅的富有企业家(事实上，他已经接近破产)。[qh]
Over drinks by the pool at one home, he asked her if anyone in her world might want to invest in a revolutionary solar product.[qh]
在一个家庭泳池边喝酒时，他问她，在她那个圈子是否有人愿意投资一种革命性的太阳能产品。[qh]
The agent thought at once of a former client named Heidi Gliboff, a well-connected businesswoman in New York. [qh]
这位经纪人立刻想到了一位名叫海蒂·格里伯夫的前客户，她是纽约一位人脉很广的女商人。[qh]
When Gliboff saw schematics for Carpoff’s generators, “fireworks were going out of my head,” Gliboff told me. [qh]
当格里伯夫看到卡波夫发电机的原理图时，他告诉我: “我的脑子里顿时迸出了火花。”[qh]
The idea of making solar mobile was “so unbelievably intriguing” that Gliboff soon offered to market the devices on commission.[qh]
制造太阳能汽车的想法“极其引人入胜”，以至于格里伯夫很快主动提出销售这些设备以赚取佣金。[qh]
In September 2010, she invited Carpoff to a Long Island City hotel to meet some finance professionals. [qh]
2010年9月，她邀请卡波夫到长岛市的一家酒店与一些金融专业人士会面。[qh]
Carpoff played the underdog, telling tales about growing up in a trailer park with a mom whose Hell’s Angels boyfriend put a gun to his face. [qh]
卡波夫扮演了一个弱者的角色，讲述了他与母亲在拖车公园长大，他的母亲被地狱天使(摩托车帮会)的男友用枪指着脸的故事。[qh]
(Carpoff’s family told me that the story lacked even a kernel of truth.) [qh]
(卡波夫的家人告诉我，这个故事连一点真实的成分都没有。)[qh]
If DC Solar succeeded, Carpoff swore, he’d buy them all Harleys.[qh]
卡波夫发誓，如果“DC太阳能”公司获得成功，他会给所有人买哈雷摩托车。[qh]
