Chapter 2

2 HE HUMAN BODY IS WEAK," SAYS T. EDISON, TO MR. CHIMP, IN THE middle of his fancy new T. Edison Laboratories building on Menlo Street, connecting the final electrical power wire to the stem of an enormous glass brain. Mr. Chimp looks up from his crossword puzzle and nods in agreement. T. Edison connects the wire. "Human body parts wear out, fall apart, and die." Mr. Chimp taps his pencil.

“人的身体是脆弱的，”他说。 爱迪生，致黑猩猩先生，在他华丽的新T恤衫中间。 门洛街的爱迪生实验室大楼，将最后一根电线连接到一个巨大的玻璃大脑的主干上。 黑猩猩先生从填字游戏中抬起头，点头表示同意。 爱迪生接上电线。 “人的身体部位会磨损，分解，然后死亡。” 猩猩先生轻敲他的铅笔。

"So you know what I am doing?" asks T. Edison. Mr. Chimp taps his pencil again and pretends he is thinking. He rolls his eyes, shakes his head, and signs: "Of course you have no idea. Because I am the genius inventor and I have all the ideas." T. Edison turns his invention a bit to set it firmly in its base. "I am making a brain that is faster, more powerful, and better than any human brain." T. Edison flips the power switch. The glass brain glows with lines and pulses of colored light. "I am making a brain that will not weaken

“所以你知道我在做什么？”T问。 爱迪生。猩猩先生又敲了敲铅笔，假装在思考。 他转了转眼珠，摇了摇头，示意：“你当然不知道。 因为我是天才发明家，我有所有的想法。” 爱迪生把他的发明稍微转动了一下，使它牢固地固定在底座上。 “我正在制造一个比任何人类大脑都更快、更强大、更好的大脑。” 爱迪生拨动电源开关。 玻璃大脑发出彩色光的线条和脉冲。 “我正在制造一个不会变弱的大脑

or fall apart. A brain that will allow me to control other brains..." T. Edison spreads his arms out and yells in his squeaky voice. "I give you—the T. Edison SuperBrain!" T. Edison and Mr. Chimp watch the SuperBrain flash with lights, tracing the workings of every part of the brain. "Yes!" crows T. Edison. "I am the Wizard of Mid—" Tsssssssh! A section of the glass roof shatters into a hundred pieces. A shower of glass and one scuffed-up baseball rains down into the room.

或者崩溃。一个能让我控制别人大脑的大脑……” 爱迪生张开双臂，用他那尖细的声音喊道。 “我给你——爱迪生的超级大脑！”T。 爱迪生和黑猩猩先生看着“超级大脑”闪烁的灯光，追踪大脑每个部分的活动。 “是的！”爱迪生喊道。“我是中部巫师——”玻璃屋顶的一部分碎成了一百块碎片。 一阵玻璃雨点和一个磨损的棒球像雨点一样落进了房间。

The baseball hits the T. Edison SuperBrain. The SuperBrain explodes in a starburst of colored sparks and wires and broken brain glass. "Noooooooooooooo!" yells T. Edison. "My SuperBrain! My SuperBrain is destroyed! Who did this?" Mr. Chimp holds up the baseball as an obvious clue. T. Edison stomps around in circles, raging. "Who? Who? Who?" Mr. Chimp ponders a six-letter word for "very intelligent." He tosses the baseball from hand to hand. T. Edison's brain works out loud. And he finally gets it. "Baseball... baseball diamond... that's it!" yells T. Edison. "Come on, Mr. Chimp! We're going to the Midville baseball diamond to catch the idiot who wrecked my invention!" Mr. Chimp fills in 7-Down on his crossword

棒球击中了爱迪生的超级大脑。 “超级大脑”在彩色火花、电线和破碎的大脑玻璃的星光中爆炸。 “不，不，不，不！” 爱迪生。“我的SuperBrain !我的超级大脑被毁了！这是谁干的？”黑猩猩先生举着棒球作为一个明显的线索。 爱迪生怒气冲冲地绕着圈子跺脚。 “谁?谁?谁?”猩猩先生在思考一个代表“非常聪明”的六个字母的单词。 他用手不停地掷棒球。 爱迪生的大脑在大声工作。 他终于得到了。“棒球… 棒球内场……就是这样！”T喊道。 爱迪生。“加油，黑猩猩先生！”我们要去米德维尔棒球场抓那个毁了我发明的白痴！”黑猩猩先生在填字游戏里填7-Down

puzzle with G-E-N-I-U-S, then follows the still-fuming T. Edison out the laboratory door.

G-E-N-I-U-S的字谜，然后紧跟着仍在燃烧的T。 爱迪生走出了实验室的门。