The coachman coaxed them to a coalfield.

马车夫哄骗他们去田。

No, professor, but it needs electricity to run, batteries to generate its electricity, sodium to feed its batteries, coal to make its sodium, and coalfields from which to dig its coal.

是的，它需要停泊的地方，教授。但它需要电力发动，需要原料发电，需要钠产生电原料，需要制造钠，需要坑采掘炭。而是在这里，海水淹没了无数森林，这些森林在地质时期就埋人沙上了。

Thus were formed those immense coalfields, which nevertheless, are not inexhaustible, and which three centuries at the present accelerated rate of consumption will exhaust unless the industrial world will devise a remedy.

这样就形成了那些巨大的田，然而，这些田并是取尽竭的，而且按照目前加速的消费速度， 三世纪后， 除非工业世界能够想出补救办法， 否则这些田将会耗尽。

Precisely. These mines extend under the waves like the coalfields at Newcastle. Here, dressed in diving suits, pick and mattock in hand, my men go out and dig this carbon fuel for which I don't need a single mine on land.

是这样。这些矿藏摆在海水下面，像纽卡斯尔的媒坑样。就在这地方，穿上潜水衣，手拿锄和铲，我的人员去采，我因此着向地上的旷藏要。