来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：资本主义：成功、危机与改革第4集第4集》

Yale didn't fully give up

耶鲁大学在直到1985年前
on direct current technology until about 1985.

都没有完全放弃直流电技术
There were dorm rooms where the lights

曾经有宿舍的灯泡
were actually run on direct current generated in a plant

通过直流电照明而这些直流电是由
over near where the swing dorms are now.

原来位于旋转宿舍附近的工厂供应的
I'll leave it to sections for you to parse this out

我会留着这部分让你们讨论
because it's actually a very interesting story.

因为这的确是个耐人寻味的故事
The advantage of direct current electricity is

直流电的优势是
it can't kill you.

没有致命性
It doesn't matter how much, it's not going to kill you.

电流量多大都没关系因为它不会伤人
The disadvantage of direct current electricity is that

直流电的缺点是
as you put it through a long transmission wire,

当它流经一段长的输电导线时