Chapter 2

Chapter 2 This Computer Lab Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us (And All of Our Computers, and a Pile of Experimental Technology). After school, everybody rushed to the new computer lab. They were eager to see Doc and maybe play some Minecraft. The lab was just a short walk away, connected to the library. Harper was the first to arrive. She waited outside for everybody else. "This is unacceptable!" A man's voice boomed from behind the door. Harper jumped. Theo turned the corner just in time to hear it, and his eyes widened in surprise.

第二章这个计算机实验室不够大，容不下我们两个人（以及我们所有的计算机和一堆实验技术）。 放学后，每个人都冲向新的计算机实验室。 他们渴望见到博士，也许还想玩一些《我的世界》。 实验室就在不远处，与图书馆相连。 哈珀是第一个到的。 她在外面等着其他人。 “这是不可接受的！”一个男人的声音从门后传来。 哈珀吓了一跳。西奥转过身来正好听到了，他惊讶地睁大了眼睛。

"It's inconceivable!" the man continued. "It's against the rules, it's irregular, and it's absolutely not correct!" "Who is that?" Harper whispered. Theo peeked through the door's window to see inside. "It's Principal Ferris," Theo explained. The man was standing in front of Doc Culpepper, his face red. He was much taller than Doc and wore a suit with a dark tie that looked as sharp as a blade. "I saw his picture on the website."

“不可思议！”那人接着说。 “这是违反规则的，是不规范的，绝对不正确的！”“那是谁？”哈珀低声说。 西奥从窗户往里偷看。 “是费里斯校长。”西奥解释道。 那人站在卡尔佩珀医生面前，脸涨得通红。 他比医生高得多，穿着西装，打着深色领带，看起来像刀刃一样锋利。 “我在网上看到了他的照片。”

"I welcomed you and your students to this school, but I draw the line at this… this junk." The principal was pointing at several piles of technology: Doc's inventions! In between the thingamajigs and whozawhatsits, Harper and Theo spotted a pair of their old VR goggles, one of the Stonesword Library's computer monitors, and the server that hosted their Minecraft world. It was all there!

“我欢迎你和你的学生来这所学校，但我和这种……这种垃圾划清界限。” 校长指着几堆技术：博士的发明！在这些乱七八糟的东西之间，哈珀和西奥发现了一副他们的旧VR眼镜，一个石碑图书馆的电脑显示器，以及托管他们的Minecraft世界的服务器。 全都在那儿！

"That's not junk!" Theo grumbled. "That's our stuff!" Doc Culpepper and Ms. Minerva had fought before about Doc's inventions, but Ms. Minerva had never seemed this mad. And Doc had never seemed this nervous before. Harper had looked up to Doc for a long time—she was Harper's favorite teacher, after all, and a brilliant scientist. If Doc had kept that stuff, then Theo was right. None of it was junk. But next to all the fancy, clean computers arranged in neat rows in the Ironsword computer lab, it did look like junk.

“那不是垃圾！”西奥抱怨。 “那是我们的东西！”卡尔佩珀医生和琼斯女士。 密涅瓦之前曾为博士的发明而争吵过。 密涅瓦从来没有像现在这样疯狂过。 医生从来没有像现在这样紧张过。 哈珀很长一段时间都很尊敬博士——毕竟，她是哈珀最喜欢的老师，也是一位才华横溢的科学家。 如果博士留着那些东西，那西奥是对的。 这些都不是垃圾。但与铁剑计算机实验室里一排排整齐排列的漂亮、干净的计算机相比，它确实看起来像垃圾。

"Every object here is part of various ongoing research projects and is highly important to Woodsword school business. We can't keep everything at Woodsword because my lab was damaged." Doc tugged at the goggles on her head in a nervous way. "And my house is already so full it could burst!" "Well, it all needs to be thrown out. This is not a storage unit, Dr. Culpepper. It's not a locker or a very large box. It's not the cloud, or a warehouse, or some kind of depot. This is a school computer lab." Theo frowned. "This guy really likes listing things." "We have to do something!" Harper didn't like to stand by if she could help someone with a problem. That was why she liked science: one of its core ideas was that there was always room for improvement—and always a way to help. Harper had an idea. She pushed the door open and led Theo inside with a big smile on her face.

“这里的每件物品都是各种正在进行的研究项目的一部分，对木剑学校的业务非常重要。 我们不能把所有的东西都留在木剑，因为我的实验室被毁了。” 医生紧张地拽着她头上的护目镜。 “而且我的房子已经太满了，快炸了！”“好吧，这一切都得扔掉。 这不是储藏间。 Culpepper。这不是一个储物柜，也不是一个很大的箱子。 它不是云，不是仓库，也不是什么仓库。 这是学校的计算机实验室。” 西奥皱起了眉头。“这家伙真的很喜欢罗列东西。” “我们必须做点什么！”如果她能帮助别人解决问题，哈珀是不会袖手旁观的。 这就是她喜欢科学的原因：科学的核心思想之一是，总是有改进的空间，总是有帮助的方法。 哈珀有了一个主意。她推开门，带着西奥进去，脸上带着灿烂的笑容。

"Doc! You saved my project!" She rushed past the arguing adults to the piles of inventions and picked up the goggles, holding them above her head proudly. "I thought it was destroyed in the storm!" Both Doc and the principal looked surprised to see her. Before anyone could say anything, Theo grabbed a random who-knows-what from the pile and held it up. "And mine!" he declared. Whatever it was started glowing.

“医生!你拯救了我的项目！”她从争吵的大人们身边冲过去，走到一堆发明发明跟前，拿起护目镜，骄傲地举过头顶。 “我还以为它在暴风雨中被毁了呢！”看到她，医生和校长都显得很惊讶。 大家还没来得及说话，西奥就从那堆东西里随便拿了一个谁知道是什么东西的东西举了起来。 “还有我的！”不管它是什么，它开始发光了。