Backup generators should have come on already.

备用发电机早该启动了
- Maybe it just needs a minute. - It doesn't just need a minute.

-也许需要等一会儿 -根本不需要等
It's an emergency generator that's supposed to make a seamless handoff

应急发电机本该无缝切换
so if this happens during a show.

以防在直播时停电
- Herb? - Power's out in the whole building.

-赫布 -整栋楼都停电了
It's been explained to me 19 different ways

他们用19种方式向我解释过
how we can never lose power in the studio.

演播室里绝不会停电
What about all the redundancies?

冗余电源呢
There was a round of budget cuts before you got here.

你来之前台里刚削减了预算