Chapter 16

16 SO WHERE ARE KLINK AND KLANK?" ASKS WATSON. "Here," says Frank, pointing to a spot on the Midville map hastily pinned above the workbench. He makes a red X over the outline of a single building at the southern edge of Midville, right next to Lake Genevieve. "And smelling a crushed ant leg told you this how...?"

那么klink和klank在哪里呢？”沃森问道。 “在这里，”弗兰克指着匆忙钉在工作台上的米德维尔地图上的一个点说。 他在米德维尔南部边缘的一栋建筑的轮廓上画了一个红色的X，就在吉纳维夫湖旁边。 “你是怎么闻到压碎的蚂蚁腿的？”

"No time to explain everything, Watson. But I am glad you didn't fall for that Edison pitch—" "Aw, come on, Frank. You know I'm a better friend than that. I got trampled, and I always freak out when—" "OK, OK. Good to know," Frank interrupts. "But what all this means is we need to get to Edison's place. Now. Before he realizes he should destroy the evidence." Watson smiles. "Good to know" is probably the nicest thing Frank has ever said about their friendship. He would like to hear more, but Frank is already busy marking a flurry of X's on the Midville map, seemingly at random. "What do you see?" Frank quizzes him. "I see that you marked up my dad's map that I told him I would take care of, and that now I'm already in trouble and we haven't even left your lab."

“没有时间解释一切了，华生。 不过我很高兴你没有相信爱迪生的说法——”“啊，得了吧，弗兰克。 你知道我是个好朋友。 我被人踩了，每次——”“好吧，好吧。 很高兴知道，”弗兰克打断了他。 “但这一切意味着我们需要去爱迪生的住处。 现在。在他意识到他应该销毁证据之前。” 沃森微笑。“很高兴知道”可能是弗兰克对他们的友谊说过的最好的话了。 他很想听到更多的消息，但弗兰克已经忙着在Midville的地图上胡乱标记了一堆X。 “你看到了什么？”弗兰克问他。 “我看到你在我爸爸的地图上做了记号，我告诉他我会保管的，现在我已经有麻烦了，我们还没离开你的实验室呢。”

"Connect the dots," says Frank. "All the properties that Edison's family has bought up over the past year... and kicked people out of... and this building, Grampa Al's..." Frank connects the X's. "A big red circle? So Edison is building a racetrack? A gigantic doughnut oven? I don't get it." Frank puts up another map right below the Midville map. It has an almost identical circle on it. "A map of CERN, the subatomic-particle physics lab buried under Switzerland and France. It's that place Grampa Al was telling us about, where some of his scientist pals work. The ring is part of a machine called the Large Hadron Collider."

“把这些点连起来，”弗兰克说。 “爱迪生家族在过去一年里买下的所有房产…… 把人们赶出…… 还有这幢房子，阿尔爷爷的……” 弗兰克把X连接起来。“一个大红圈？” 所以爱迪生要建一个赛马场？ 一个巨大的甜甜圈烤箱？我不明白。” 弗兰克在米德维尔地图的正下方放了另一张地图。 它上面有一个几乎相同的圆。 一张欧洲核子研究中心的地图，亚原子粒子物理实验室埋在瑞士和法国的地下。 就是阿尔爷爷跟我们说过的那个地方，他的一些科学家朋友在那里工作。 这个环是大型强子对撞机的一部分。”

"Right," says Watson. "Now I really have no idea what you're talking about." "It's the coolest thing," says Frank. "A seventeen-mile ring that speeds up subatomic particles to almost the speed of light and then smashes them together! Like racing two really, really small cars around a huge racetrack in opposite directions... and then smacking them perfectly head-on." "Really?" "Really." "Why?" "Why?" Frank points to the matter section on his Wall of Science. "To record what happens after the collisions and uncover the true nature of matter... and antimatter. Think of it as figuring out how those two really little race cars were built by looking at the pieces that come out after the crash." Watson scratches his head and nods. "So

“对，”沃森说。“现在我真的不知道你在说什么。” “这是最酷的事情，”弗兰克说。 “一个17英里长的环，可以把亚原子粒子加速到接近光速，然后把它们撞在一起！”就像两辆非常非常小的车在一个巨大的赛道上朝着相反的方向比赛…… 然后完美地迎头撞上它们。” “真的吗?”“真的。”“为什么?”“为什么?”弗兰克指着他的科学墙上的物质部分。 “为了记录碰撞后发生的事情，并揭示物质的真实本质…… 和反物质。你可以把它想象成通过观察碰撞后出来的碎片来弄清楚这两辆小赛车是如何制造出来的。” 华生挠挠头，点了点头。 “所以

Edison has been secretly building his own collider ring thing and trying to make antimatter all along?" "Exactly, Watson! And yesterday he somehow found out that I beat him to it. So last night he had Mr. Chimp robot-nap Klink and Klank so he could steal the secret of my Antimatter Motor from them." "Wow," says Watson. "So Edison is likely in this building"—Frank stabs an index finger at the Midville map —"right next to Lake Genevieve, for the water supply he needs to cool all the subatomic reactions. And he's probably hiding Klink and Klank there, too." Watson jumps up. "Oh, we know that building. It's the Big Black Cube. But that thing is built like a fortress! How are we ever going to get in there?" Frank studies the two maps. "May I please

爱迪生一直在秘密建造他自己的对撞机环，并试图制造反物质？”“到底,华生!昨天他不知怎么发现是我抢先了他一步。 所以昨天晚上他让猩猩机器人先生给克林克和兰克打了个盹，这样他就能从他们那里偷到我的反物质发动机的秘密。” “哇，”沃森说。“所以爱迪生很可能就在这栋楼里”——弗兰克用食指戳了戳米德维尔的地图——“就在吉纳维耶夫湖旁边，因为他需要水来冷却所有的亚原子反应。” 他可能也把克林克和克兰克藏在那里了。” 华生跳了起来。“哦，我们知道那栋楼。 它是黑色的大立方体。但那东西就像一座堡垒！我们怎么才能进去呢？”弗兰克研究了两张地图。 “我可以吗？”