My son came home from a three-month deployment aboard his submarine, and told me that one of the ways the sailors kept up morale was to make wooden cars out of kits and run derby races. “What do you do for a ramp?” I asked. “Don't need one,” he said. “We just put the cars on the floor and then tilt the sub.”
我兒子隨他的潛艇出海行動三個月,回到家中。他告訴我,水手們鼓舞士氣的一個辦法是用配套元件制作木頭汽車,然后舉行公開賽。我問他:“那么你們怎么做彎道呢?”他說:“不需要。我們只是把車都放在地上,而讓潛艇傾斜?!?