标题: 《Nightfall 》作者：- Asimov_ Isaac 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-13 13:02 标题: 《Nightfall 》作者：- Asimov_ Isaac 【EPUB】 Nightfall TO THE READER Kalgash is an alien world and it is not our intention to have you think that it is identical to Earth, even though we depict its people as speaking a language that you can understand, and using terms that are familiar to you. Those words should be understood as mere equivalents of alien terms-that is, a conventional set of equivalents of the same sort that a writer of novels uses when he has foreign characters speaking with each other in their own language but nevertheless transcribes their words in the language of the reader. So when the people of Kalgash speak of “miles,” or “hands,” or “cars,” or “computers,” they mean their own units of distance, their own grasping-organs, their own ground-transportation devices, their own information-processing machines, etc. The computers used on Kalgash are not necessarily compatible with the ones used in New York or London