(单词翻译:单击)
Sales of portable generators were headed toward $3 billion a year globally, and growing fast.
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。
If you converted even some of that to solar—particularly if you were first to market—you could become very rich.
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。
By late 2008, Watson’s associates had loaned Carpoff $368,200 and formed a company, Pure Power Distribution, to market his invention.
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。
Hollywood was a chief target.
好莱坞是主要目标。
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.
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。
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.)
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。)
They were the perfect replacement for the diesel generators that powered on-location trailers for actors and makeup artists.
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。
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.
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。
DiCaprio, an environmentalist, posted photos on Facebook.
环保主义者迪卡普里奥在脸书上发布了照片。
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).
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)。
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.
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。
The agent thought at once of a former client named Heidi Gliboff, a well-connected businesswoman in New York.
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。
When Gliboff saw schematics for Carpoff’s generators, “fireworks were going out of my head,” Gliboff told me.
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。”
The idea of making solar mobile was “so unbelievably intriguing” that Gliboff soon offered to market the devices on commission.
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。
In September 2010, she invited Carpoff to a Long Island City hotel to meet some finance professionals.
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。
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.
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。
(Carpoff’s family told me that the story lacked even a kernel of truth.)
(卡波夫的家人告诉我，这个故事连一点真实的成分都没有。)
If DC Solar succeeded, Carpoff swore, he’d buy them all Harleys.
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。
