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Pt
Platinum
195.08

Platinum Blonde
铂发女郎

She was singing in a smoky little dive on Bourbon Street when I first met her. Her third album had just gone platinum. But there wasn’t much of a crowd. That’s because there was a lot of her to go around.
我第一次见到她时，她正在一个波本威士忌街上一间烟熏雾燎的小洒馆里唱着歌。她的第三张专辑刚刚达到了白金销量。不过当时人并不多，因为里面周围有很多个她在走来走去。

“Can I buy you a drink?” I asked between sets. She favored me with a cool glance, then shook out that fabulous platinum hair and nodded.
“我能请你喝上一杯吗？”在她刚刚唱完一首歌时，我问。她冷瞥了我一眼，晃了晃那头耀眼的铂发，点点头。

I ordered two aperitif glasses of oil—the good stuff, not the house thirty-weight—and said, “My name’s Dan Steel. What’s yours, doll?”
我点了两杯开胃油——好油，跟家里的30W的那种根本不一样——然后说：“我的名字是钢蛋。你呢，洋娃娃？”

“Platinum. We’re all named Platinum.”
“白金。我们都叫白金。”

“It’s a crying shame they made such a large production run of you. With pipes like those, you should be rich.”
“他们造了这么多你的型号？真他妈的不要脸。有这么多管在这儿，你应该很有钱才是。”

She studied me through the thin platinum film over her eyes. “Well, that’s the music industry for you. Tell me about yourself, Mr. Steel. What do you do?”
她抬起眼睛上那薄薄的铂金片，仔细打量了我一遍：“好吧，您对音乐产业的看法我已经知道了。请和我介绍下您自己吧，钢先生。您是做什么的？”

“I work as a riveter. I play a little piano. I collect antique video games. I fall in love with angels.”
“我是铆钉工。我弹小钢琴。我收集古董电子游戏。我刚刚爱上了一群天使。”

She threw her head back and laughed, and the light bounced off her platinum skin, and I was lost forever.
她低下头笑了，铂金的皮肤上反映着光，我永远陷进去了。

That night, I took her back to my place and we made love.
那天晚上我把她带回了家，我们做了爱。

Afterwards, Platinum lay alongside me, naked and shiny and beautiful. “We’re a permanent thing now, aren’t we?” she said.
事了之后，白金躺在我的身旁，一丝不挂，闪闪发光，美丽动人。“我们现在是永久的东西，对吧？”她说。

“You’re fast on the uptake.”
“你领会得很快。”

“I have platinum contacts.”
“我的触点是铂金的。”

Platinum is of course a noble metal and thus conducts electricity at a greater speed than do, say, copper or aluminum. Silver and gold wires are only marginally slower. But for maximum efficiency, platinum is best. So of course a CPU with platinum contacts is going to be superior to a silver-contact brain like my own. I put my forehead against hers. I could hear her thoughts sparking away.
铂金当然是一种贵金属，正因如此它的导电速度比铜或铝更高。银和金的电线稍慢一些。但是如果要获得最高效率的话，最好还是选铂金。因此，铂金触点的CPU当然要比我的银触点大脑更好。我把额头靠在她的额头上。我听见她的思想闪闪发亮。

She drew away from me, and stared moodily out the window. There was nothing out there but neon and brick and a sad old moon afloat in a sky that was far too big for it. “You’re a tough guy,” Platinum said. “I’ll bet that stainless steel skin of yours is a quarter-inch thick. But platinum’s expensive. All I’ve got is electroplate over tin. Twenty years from now, I’ll be all dings and scuff marks. I’ll be ugly and you won’t be able to bear looking at me!”
她从我身边挪开，眼神忧郁地望着窗外。那儿什么都没有，只有霓虹灯和砖头，还有一个悲伤的古老月亮在天空中漂着，这月亮实在太大了。 “你是个硬汉，”白金说， “我敢打赌，你们的不锈钢皮肤肯定有四分之一英寸厚。但是铂金很贵。我的皮肤是只是锡上的电镀。二十年之后，我的全身都将会是凹痕和划痕的。我会丑得让你无法直视的！”

She began to cry. Glycerine tears glistened down her cheeks.
她哭了起来。甘油眼泪从她的脸颊上闪闪滴下。

I put my arms around her and drew her close. “Baby,” I said, “you’ll always look like a million to me.”
我双手环住她，将她拉近。“宝贝，”我说，“对我来说，你永远看起来像一百万。”