Chapter 9

9 FRANK FLIPS KLANK'S SKULL SHUT. HE TIGHTENS THE LATCH BOLT, locks the brain panel closed, and flips Klank's keyboard RHYTHM BEATS power switch on. Klank's Casio keyboard heart motor starts with a small bing. Klank's HugMeMonkey! brain revs. Zzzzzzzzimmmmm.

frank把klank的头骨关上。 他拉紧门闩，把脑板锁上，打开Klank的键盘RHYTHM BEATS电源开关。 Klank的卡西欧键盘心脏马达从一个小的bing开始。 Klank HugMeMonkey !大脑的转速。 Zzzzzzzzimmmmm。

Klank lights up—left eye, right eye, antenna. Frank shines his flashlight into Klank's neck vent, checking the action of his spinning-disc brain. He moves one finger back and forth in front of Klank's eye lens to test its tracking. "Klank, can you hear me?" "Can I hear you? Why should I hear you?" asks Klank. "Why do bees hum?" "Uh-oh," says Watson. "I think we really messed him up." Klink searches his own memory for BEES HUM, then reports: "Bees flap a forewing and a hind wing at two hundred thirty beats per second. Muscles attached directly to the wings. Stroking in a variety of patterns to fly, dive, and hover. Vibration of the wings creates the humming sound." "Nope," says Klank. "Bees hum because

克兰克亮起了灯——左眼，右眼，天线。 弗兰克把手电筒照进克兰克脖子上的通风口，检查他旋转的圆盘状大脑的活动。 他在Klank的眼球前来回移动一根手指来测试它的追踪。 “克兰克，你能听到我说话吗？”“我能听到你说话吗？” 我为什么要听你说话？”克兰克问道。 “蜜蜂为什么嗡嗡叫？”“哦哦，”沃森说。 “我觉得我们真的把他搞砸了。” Klink在自己的记忆中搜索蜜蜂的嗡嗡声，然后报告说：“蜜蜂拍打前翅和后翅的速度为每秒230次。 直接附着在翅膀上的肌肉。 以各种形式的抚摸飞行，潜水和悬停。 翅膀的振动产生嗡嗡声。” “不，”克兰克说。“蜜蜂嗡嗡叫是因为

they do not know the words." "Rrrrrrrrrr," growls Klink. "That is not true. Recalculating. Recalculating." "Ha-ha-ha. Ha-ha-ha." "OK," says Frank. "He's fine. Let's get back to work." Frank folds his arms and stares at his Wall of Science. He looks over the wonderful mess of pictures, information, ideas, quotes. He thinks. Klank lumbers to his feet. Klink resets his recalculating GPS brain. Watson sorts through a stack of papers and finds the one he is looking for. "Hey, Frank, what do we want—" Electrical impulses in Frank's brain cells connect, multiply, form a pattern, make an idea. "That's it!" says Frank. "Exactly, Watson. What do we want? And we work back from

他们不知道歌词。” “呜——呜——呜——呜。” “这不是真的。重新计算。 重新计算。”“哈哈哈。 哈哈哈。”“好的，”弗兰克说。 “他很好。让我们回去工作吧。” 弗兰克抱起双臂，盯着他的科学墙。 他浏览着那些乱七八糟的图片、信息、想法和引言。 他认为。克兰克笨拙地站了起来。 link重置了他重新计算GPS的大脑。 华生整理了一叠文件，找到了他要找的那一份。 “嘿，弗兰克，我们想要什么”弗兰克脑细胞中的电脉冲连接，繁殖，形成一个模式，产生一个想法。 “就是这样！”弗兰克说。“正是,华生。 我们想要什么？我们从

there." Frank starts pacing again. "First, obviously, win the Midville Science Prize. But more importantly— master all science. The word comes from the Latin for knowledge. We want all science. All knowledge. Klink and Klank, your robot brains make this possible." "Obviously," says Klink. "Doo-bee-doo-bee-doo," hums Klank. Frank points to a picture on his Wall of Science. "Like this guy, Aristotle. He wanted the science of everything." Watson answers, "No—" "You're right, Watson," says Frank. "It's not

在那里。”弗兰克又开始踱步。 “首先，很明显，赢得米德维尔科学奖。 但更重要的是，掌握所有的科学。 这个词来自拉丁语，意思是知识。 我们需要所有的科学。所有的知识。 Klink和Klank，你们的机器人大脑让这一切成为可能。” “显然，”Klink说。“嘟-嘟-嘟-嘟-嘟，”克兰克哼哼着。 弗兰克指着他的科学墙上的一幅画。 “比如这个人，亚里士多德。 他想要一切事物的科学。” “你说得对，华生，”弗兰克说。 “这不是

about Aristotle. Let's divide all of science into six areas. Then, with Klink and Klank, we study each area, and we learn everything!" Frank pins a symbol to the top left corner of the Wall. "First, matter. Atoms, molecules, elements, compounds. States of matter. What atoms are made of—protons, neutrons, electrons. And antimatter." Watson holds up one hand. "Yeah, but—" "But what about energy?" asks Frank. "Exactly. That's next, Watson." Frank pins a

关于亚里士多德。让我们把所有的科学分成六个领域。 然后，有了Klink和Klank，我们研究每个领域，我们学到了一切！”弗兰克把一个符号别在长城的左上角。 “首先,。原子，分子，元素，化合物。 物质的状态。原子是由质子，中子，电子组成的。 和反物质。”华生举起一只手。 “是的，但是——”“但是能量呢？”弗兰克问。 “没错。这是下一个，华生。” 弗兰克戳了一下。

second symbol to the top of the Wall, next to the first. "Energy. It's what makes all life possible. We are alive because energy from the sun is converted into food... that we convert back to energy to run everything in our bodies. And there's light, sound, motion, magnetism, electricity—all different kinds of energy. Then there are Forces, Laws of Motion. All stuff we know from Sir Isaac Newton!" Klank hears the name Newton and chimes in: "There once was a fellow named Newton, whose beans gave him trouble with tootin'—" "Stop that limerick right there," says Klink. "That is not true." "So—" begins Watson. "So what about humans? Perfect, Watson. That should be next. Frank pins up a third symbol. "Humans. How the human body works. All its different

第二个符号在长城顶上，紧挨着第一个符号。 “能量。它使所有的生命成为可能。 我们之所以活着，是因为来自太阳的能量被转化为食物。 我们将其转化为能量来运行我们体内的一切。 还有光、声、运动、磁、电——所有不同种类的能量。 然后是力，运动定律。 这些都是我们从艾萨克·牛顿爵士那里知道的！”克兰克听到牛顿这个名字，插话说：“从前有个叫牛顿的家伙，他的豆子让他在嘟嘟声上有麻烦——”“别再打油诗了，”克林克说。 “那不是真的。”“那么——”华生开始说。 “那么人类呢？”完美,华生。 这应该是下一个。弗兰克钉上了第三个符号。 “人类。人体是如何工作的。 一切都不一样