Chapter 5

5 T.EDISON CHARGES INTO MIDVILLE MENLO BASEBALL PARK. "All right! Who knocked this baseball into my lab, broke my roof, and wrecked my experiment?!" Mr. Chimp looks around the baseball diamond and sniffs. No one answers T. Edison because there is no one there. T. Edison walks around the pitcher's mound. "Fresh marks in the dirt," he observes. "Someone was just here." Mr. Chimp knuckle-walks his way into the

爱迪生冲进米德维尔门洛棒球场。 “好吧!谁把这个棒球砸进了我的实验室，砸坏了我的屋顶，毁了我的实验？！”猩猩先生环顾棒球场四周，嗅了嗅。 没有人回答爱迪生的问题，因为根本没有人。 爱迪生绕着投手丘走。 “泥土上有新的痕迹，”他观察到。 “刚才有人在这儿。”黑猩猩先生用指关节走路进入

visitors' dugout. He picks up a sunflower seed. He looks at it. He pinches it. He smells it. He pops it in his mouth. "Mmmmm," says Mr. Chimp, tasting the salt. T. Edison stomps around the infield, looking for clues. Mr. Chimp cracks the sunflower seed between his top and bottom premolars. He spits out the empty sunflower shell with a satisfying p-tuuu sound.

游客的独木舟。他捡起一颗葵花籽。 他看着它。他捏了一下。 他闻到了。他把它塞进嘴里。 “嗯，”猩猩先生说，尝了尝盐。 爱迪生在内场四处走动，寻找线索。 黑猩猩先生把葵花籽夹在他的上下前磨牙之间。 他吐出空空的向日葵壳，发出令人满意的p-tuuu声。

T. Edison crawls around home plate on his hands and knees. He holds a dirt-covered piece of bubble gum up in the light. "Aha! I can isolate the saliva from this gum, extract the DNA, match it to the DNA of everyone in Midville, and identify the glass- breaker!" Mr. Chimp leans back on the visitors' bench. He picks up another sunflower seed, pops it in his mouth, and shakes his head.

爱迪生用手和膝盖在本垒板上爬行。 他拿着一块沾满污垢的泡泡糖对着灯光。 “啊哈!我可以把口香糖上的唾液分离出来，提取DNA，和米德维尔所有人的DNA比对，然后找出打碎玻璃的人！”黑猩猩先生向后靠在参观长凳上。 他又捡起一颗葵花籽，把它塞进嘴里，摇了摇头。

"What?" fumes T. Edison. "Yes, I can! Every living organism has DNA. It is a molecule that carries the instructions for how every organism is formed. It is what every organism uses to reproduce." Mr. Chimp cracks the sunflower seed, this time using his incisors, and signs:

“什么？”爱迪生生气地说。“是的，我能！”每个生物体都有DNA。 它是一种分子，携带着每种生物如何形成的指令。 这是每个生物用来繁殖的东西。” 猩猩先生用门牙敲开葵花籽，示意道：

T. Edison smacks his forehead and rants some more. "And as much as I hate to admit it, ninety-eight percent of human DNA is the same as chimpanzee DNA." Mr. Chimp nods. T. Edison shakes the dirty gum at Mr. Chimp. "Stop saying that! If you know so much, why don't you explain how we catch the vandals who wrecked my invention?"

爱迪生拍了拍额头，又吼了几声。 “尽管我不愿承认，但98%的人类DNA与黑猩猩的DNA是相同的。” 猩猩先生点点头。爱迪生朝黑猩猩先生摇着脏口香糖。 “别再说了！”既然你知道这么多，为什么不解释一下我们是如何抓住破坏我发明的破坏者的呢？”

Mr. Chimp spits out the empty shell with another satisfying p-tuuu. He holds up a worn brown baseball glove he found under the bench. He turns the glove around to show T. Edison the name written on the back in big black letters:

猩猩先生吐出了空壳，心满意足地又吐了一声。 他举起在长凳下找到的一只破旧的棕色棒球手套。 他把手套转过来给T看。 爱迪生的名字用黑色的大字写在背面：