Chapter 13

Chapter 13 Meanwhile, inside the ice cream van, the Holts were strangling each other. Madison was on Hamilton's back, hitting him over the head with a box of Fudgesicles. Their mother, Mary-Todd, was trying to pull them apart. Reagan and Arnold, the pit bull, were playing tug-of-war with a package of Eskimo Pies. Eisenhower, the weary leader of the family, bellowed, "Stop it! Company, FALL IN!" Hamilton and Madison separated and snapped to attention, dropping the Fudgesicles. Mary-Todd brushed herself off, glared at her children, then fell into line. Reagan held the Eskimo Pies in present arms stance. Arnold rolled over and played dead. "Right!" Eisenhower growled. "I will not have

与此同时，在冰淇淋车里，霍尔特一家正在互相掐死对方。 麦迪逊站在汉密尔顿的背上，用一盒软糖打他的头。 他们的母亲玛丽-托德试图拆散他们。 里根和比特犬阿诺德正在拿着一包爱斯基摩派玩拔河比赛。 艾森豪威尔，这个疲惫不堪的家庭领袖，吼道：“住手！大家集合！”汉密尔顿和麦迪逊分开了，猛地立正，软糖掉在地上。 玛丽-托德掸了掸身上的毛，怒视着她的孩子们，然后排队。 里根举着爱斯基摩派，摆出现在的姿势。 阿诺德翻了个身装死。 “没错!”艾森豪威尔咆哮道。 “我不会的

this family killing each other over frozen dairy products!" Reagan said, "But, Dad—" "Silence! I said you'd get ice cream after we finish the mission. And we are not finished until I get a report!" Madison saluted. "Dad, permission to report!" "Go ahead." "The surveillance microphone worked." "Excellent. Did the brats take the book?" Madison shifted uncomfortably. "I don't know, sir. But they're going to 23 Rue des Jardins, Ile St-Louis." "If you got the number right this time," Hamilton griped. Madison's face turned bright red. "That wasn't my fault!" "We drove the rental car into the Seine!" "Oh, and you have all the great ideas, Hammy. Like that stupid explosion that hit the wrong team in the museum! Or burning down Grace's mansion!" "Stop yelling!" Mary-Todd yelled. "Children, we can't keep arguing with each other. It hurts

这个家庭为了冷冻乳制品互相残杀！”里根说：“可是，爸爸——”“安静！我说过任务完成后你可以吃冰淇淋。 直到我收到报告，我们才结束！”麦迪逊敬礼。 “爸爸，允许我报告！”“去吧。” “监控麦克风起作用了。” “太好了。孩子们把书拿走了吗？”麦迪逊不安地换了个姿势。 “我不知道，先生。不过他们要去圣路易岛花园街23号。” “如果你这次选对了号码，”汉密尔顿抱怨道。 麦迪逊的脸变红了。 “那不是我的错！”“我们把租来的车开进了塞纳河！”“哦，哈米，你有所有的好主意。 就像博物馆里那次愚蠢的爆炸击中了错误的队伍！或者烧掉格蕾丝的豪宅！”“别嚷!”玛丽托德喊道。 “孩子们，我们不能一直争吵下去。 这很伤我的心

team morale." "Your mother is right," Eisenhower said. "The fire at the mansion and the museum bomb were both bad ideas. We should've pulverized the Cahill brats in person!" Arnold barked excitedly and tried to bite Eisenhower's nose. Reagan knit her eyebrows. She shifted uncomfortably from foot to foot. "But, um, Dad …" "Problem, Reagan?" "Well, the explosion … I mean, it could've killed them, right?" Madison rolled her eyes. "Oh, here we go again! You're going soft, Reagan!" Reagan's face turned bright red. "Am not!" "Are too!" "Quiet!" Eisenhower bellowed. "Now look, everybody. We're going to have to use some drastic measures to win this contest. I can't have anybody going soft! Understood?" He glared at Reagan, who stared glumly at the floor. "Yessir." "We know Dan and Amy were Grace's

团队士气。”“你妈妈是对的，”艾森豪威尔说。 “大厦失火和博物馆爆炸都是糟糕的主意。 我们应该亲自把卡荷尔家的小兔崽子干掉！”阿诺德兴奋地叫着，想咬艾森豪威尔的鼻子。 里根皱了皱眉。她很不舒服地换着脚。 “但是，嗯，爸爸……”“有问题吗，里根？”“嗯，爆炸……我的意思是，它可能会杀死他们，对吧？”麦迪逊翻了个白眼。 “啊，我们又来了！”你太软弱了，里根！”里根的脸一下子变红了。 “我不是!”“太!”“安静!”艾森豪威尔大声。 “大家听着。为了赢得这场比赛，我们必须采取一些激烈的措施。 我不能让任何人心软！理解吗?”他怒视着里根，里根阴沉地盯着地板。 “。”“我们知道丹和艾米是格蕾丝的

favorites," Eisenhower continued. "Old McIntyre is probably giving them inside information. Now they've beat us inside the Lucian stronghold while we were trying to do surveillance, which was also a bad idea! Are we going to tolerate any more bad ideas?" "No, sir!" the kids shouted. "They think we're not clever," Eisenhower said. "They think all we can do is flex our muscles. Well, they're about to find out we can do more than that!" Eisenhower flexed his muscles. "Teamwork!" Mary-Todd cried. "Right, children?" "Yessir! Teamwork!" "Arff!" Arnold said. "Now," Eisenhower said. "We have to get that book. We've got to assume those brats have it, or they know what's in it. We need to get to the Ile St-Louis, without driving the ice cream van into the river! Who's with me?" The kids and Mary-Todd cheered. Then they remembered the ice cream, and the kids went back to strangling each other. Eisenhower grunted. He decided he'd let them

艾森豪威尔继续说道。 “老麦金太尔可能在给他们提供内部消息。 现在他们在卢西恩的据点内打败了我们而我们正试图进行监视，这也是个坏主意！我们还能容忍更多的坏主意吗？”“不，先生！”孩子们喊道。 “他们认为我们不聪明，”艾森豪威尔说。 “他们认为我们所能做的就是秀肌肉。 好吧，他们马上就会发现我们能做的不止这些！”艾森豪威尔展示了他的实力。 “团队精神!”玛丽托德哭了。 “孩子?”“Yessir !团队合作!”“飞机救援消防!”阿诺德说。 “现在，”艾森豪威尔说。“我们必须得到那本书。 我们得假设那帮小鬼拿到了，或者他们知道里面有什么。 我们得去圣路易岛，别把冰淇淋车开到河里去！谁跟我一起？”孩子们和玛丽-托德欢呼起来。 然后他们想起了冰淇淋，孩子们又开始互相掐对方的脖子。 艾森豪威尔哼了一声。他决定让他们去

wrestle for a while. Maybe it would build character. All his life, people had laughed behind Eisenhower's back. They'd laughed when he flunked out of West Point. They'd laughed when he failed the entrance exam for the FBI. They'd even laughed the time he was working as a security guard, when he'd chased a shoplifter and accidentally Tasered himself in the rear end. A simple mistake. Anyone could've made it. Once he won this contest, he would become the most powerful Cahill of all time. No one would ever laugh at him again. He pounded his fist into the van's cash register. Those Cahill kids were starting to get on his nerves. They were too much like their parents, Arthur and Hope. Eisenhower had known them all too well. He had an old score to settle with the Cahills. Soon, Amy and Dan Cahill would pay.

摔跤一会儿。也许这能塑造你的性格。 在艾森豪威尔的一生中，人们一直在背后嘲笑他。 当他被西点军校开除时，他们嘲笑他。 当他没有通过联邦调查局的入学考试时，他们都笑了。 有一次，他在做保安的时候，追赶一个商店扒手，不小心用泰瑟电击了自己的屁股，他们甚至嘲笑他。 一个简单的错误。任何人都可以做到。 一旦他赢得了这场比赛，他将成为有史以来最强大的卡希尔。 再也没有人嘲笑他了。 他用拳头猛击货车的收银机。 卡荷尔家的孩子开始让他心烦了。 他们太像他们的父母了，阿瑟和霍普。 艾森豪威尔对他们太了解了。 他和卡希尔家有旧账要算。 很快，艾米和丹·卡希尔就要付出代价了。