Chapter 19

19 WATSON POUNDS THE STEERING WHEEL OF THE JET SPEEDBOAT. "Are you kidding me?" "I couldn't tell you before, because then you wouldn't have been convincing," says Frank from the passenger seat. "You know you are a terrible actor. And you can't keep a secret."

沃森猛敲着喷气快艇的方向盘。 “你在开玩笑吧？”“我之前不能告诉你，因为那样你就不会有说服力了，”坐在副驾驶座上的弗兰克说。 “你知道你是个糟糕的演员。 你是守不住秘密的。”

Watson looks straight ahead. He knows Frank is right. "Well, yeah. So?" Watson sulks. "But you were amazing in there. You got Edison to talk. And you really whaled on Mr. Chimp. At least for a minute or two." Watson perks up. "That first karate chop was pretty impressive. So what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Frank checks the position of the sun in the sky. "Not yet." Because Frank and Watson aren't going anywhere. They are not racing across Lake Genevieve at fifty miles per hour, skipping over the choppy waves like Edison thinks they are. They are not throwing up a rooster tail of spray from the back jet nozzle. They are not peering through the dying light of dusk. They are not running to Junkyard Dog's, hoping they are in time to save Klink and Klank from

华生直视前方。 他知道弗兰克是对的。“嗯,是的。 所以呢?”沃森生闷气。“但你在那里太棒了。 你让爱迪生开口了。你还真把猩猩先生给甩了。 至少有一两分钟。” 华生振作起来了。“那第一个空手道劈真是让人印象深刻。 那我们还在等什么？ 我们走吧!”弗兰克检查了太阳在天空中的位置。 “还没有。”因为弗兰克和华生哪也去不了。 它们并不是像爱迪生想象的那样，以每小时50英里的速度在吉纳维夫湖上飞驰，跳过波涛汹涌的海浪。 他们没有从后面的喷嘴喷出鸡尾巴状的喷雾。 他们没有透过黄昏的微光窥视。 他们不会跑去垃圾场狗狗店，希望他们能及时把Klink和Klank从

being smashed into tiny cubes by the car crusher. They are hiding in a boat, dry-docked on a trailer, just a short walk down the shore from the Big Black Cube. The setting sun lights up the dramatically cloudspeckled sky in fiery reds and oranges. Frank leans back in his cushioned seat, hands behind his head. "Beautiful, isn't it, Watson?" Watson and Frank quietly admire the sunset. "Even more beautiful," Frank continues,

被汽车粉碎机碾成小方块。 他们躲在一艘船里，停泊在一辆拖车上，离大黑立方不远。 落日把布满云的天空照亮成火红和橙色。 弗兰克靠在他的坐垫上，双手放在脑后。 “很漂亮，是不是，华生？”华生和弗兰克静静地欣赏日落。 “更美，”弗兰克继续说，

"when you know that it's caused by the sunlight rays traveling through more air molecules at sunset. And the short-wavelength blue and green light getting scattered out, leaving the longer-wavelength reds and oranges." Watson stares at Frank. "Yeah. Just what I

当你知道这是由于阳光在日落时穿过更多的空气分子造成的。 短波长的蓝光和绿光被散射出去，留下长波长的红光和橙光。” 华生盯着弗兰克。“是的。 就像我

wasn't thinking." The last of the sunlight, all wavelengths, disappears. The darkness of night covers the waterfront. Frank and Watson climb out of their jet-boat hiding place and sneak quickly and quietly back to the side of the Big Black Cube where, not that long ago, they were being tossed out by a chimp. Frank feels along the smooth side of the Cube. His fingertips find exactly what he is looking for—a small, sticky lump. He pulls out his tiniest, thinnest screwdriver, wedges it in the almost-invisible crack, and eases open a door, its auto-lock mechanism stuck flat and useless by one very sticky wad of Watson's Universal-Strength Peanut Butter Bubble Gum. Frank motions for Watson to follow him. Silently they glide down the dimly lit hallway that Frank measured as he was being dragged out. They slip inside an inner door

不是思考。”最后的阳光，所有的波长，都消失了。 夜幕笼罩着海滨。 弗兰克和沃森从他们的快艇藏身之处爬出来，迅速而安静地溜回大黑立方的一侧，就在不久之前，他们还被一只黑猩猩扔了出去。 弗兰克沿着立方体光滑的一面摸索。 他的指尖找到了他要找的东西——一个小而黏的肿块。 他拿出最小、最薄的螺丝刀，把它塞进几乎看不见的裂缝里，轻轻打开了一扇门，门上的自动锁定装置被一团黏糊糊的沃森万能花生酱泡泡糖卡住了。 弗兰克示意华生跟他走。 他们悄无声息地滑过灯光昏暗的走廊，弗兰克在被拖出去的时候量了量。 他们溜进了内门

where Frank heard the mechanical and rumba sounds coming from. And they are suddenly inside a gigantic factory filled with massive machines built of magnets and wires and metal panels and computers. "Whoaaaaa," whispers Watson. "What the heck is this?" "Just what we thought. Edison's Large Atomic Particle Collider." "So why did Edison need Klink and Klank and the Antimatter Motor if he has this?" Frank looks around. "Because my Antimatter Motor is faster and cheaper and better at powering that." Frank points to the far end of the factory, against a brick wall, where the emergency-exit lights outline the shape of what has to be the world's biggest, and most electromagnetic, pink Antimatter Squirt Gun...

弗兰克从那里听到了机械和伦巴的声音。 他们突然进入了一个巨大的工厂，里面摆满了由磁铁、电线、金属板和电脑组成的巨大机器。 “哇……”华生低声说。 “这是什么鬼东西？”“和我们想的一样。 爱迪生的大型原子粒子对撞机。” “那么，如果爱迪生有这个，他为什么还需要Klink、Klank和反物质发动机呢？”弗兰克环顾四周。 “因为我的反物质马达更快、更便宜，而且能更好地为它提供动力。” 弗兰克指着工厂另一端的砖墙，那里的紧急出口灯勾勒出了世界上最大、最具电磁性的粉红色反物质水枪的形状……