13 The Second Cipher

Chapter 13 The Second Cipher "Where were you kids?" Dr. McDonald asked anxiously when the twins came running back to the RV in the parking lot. "Your mother and I have been looking all over for you." Pep turned to her brother. "We were playing Frisbee," he explained. "Pep chucked it into the woods, and we had to go look for it. She totally can't throw." "You can't catch!" his sister complained. "Can too." "Can not." Dr. McDonald preferred to avoid arguments, especially the can too–can not variety. He opened his road atlas and flipped to the map of Nevada.

第十三章第二个密码“孩子们，你们去哪儿了？”博士。 当双胞胎跑回停车场的房车时，麦克唐纳焦急地问道。 “你妈妈和我一直在到处找你。” 佩普转向她的哥哥。 “我们在玩飞盘，”他解释说。 “佩普把它扔进了树林里，我们不得不去找它。 她完全不会扔。”“你抓不到！”他妹妹抱怨道。 “也可以。”“不能。”麦克唐纳博士更喜欢避免争论，尤其是“能-不能”的争论。 他打开他的道路地图，翻到内华达州的地图。

"Well, thank goodness you're safe!" Mrs. McDonald told the twins, reaching for her purse. "Five more minutes and we were going to call the police. Here, I bought you each a souvenir." "Let me guess," Coke said. "Yo-yos?" "How did you know?" Mrs. McDonald asked. "I'm a genius." Mrs. McDonald took two new yo-yos out of her purse: a red one for Coke and a blue one for Pep. "Awesome!" Coke said. "Wanna see me walk the dog?" "Maybe later," Mrs. McDonald replied. "Let's blow this pop stand." "Mom," Pep said, "I wish you wouldn't buy this stuff. You're wasting your hard-earned money." "Yeah, money doesn't grow on trees, Mom," Coke said as he tried to duplicate a yo-yo trick he had seen on the video. "But you've got to bring home souvenirs!"

“谢天谢地，你安全了！”麦克唐纳太太一边说，一边伸手去拿钱包。 “再过五分钟，我们就要报警了。 给，我给你们每人买了一个纪念品。” “让我猜猜，”可口可乐说。 “溜溜球吗?”“你怎么知道的？”麦克唐纳太太问。 “我是个天才。”麦当劳太太从钱包里拿出两个新的溜溜球：一个红色的是可口可乐，一个蓝色的是佩普。 “棒极了!”可口可乐表示。“想看我遛狗吗？”“也许以后再说吧，”麦克唐纳太太回答。 “我们来吹这个汽水摊吧。” “妈妈，”佩普说，“我希望你不要买这些东西。 你是在浪费你的血汗钱。” “是的，钱不是从树上长出来的，妈妈，”可口可乐一边说，一边试着模仿他在视频中看到的溜溜球把戏。 “但你必须带纪念品回家！”

Mrs. McDonald told them. "That's part of the fun of traveling!" She passed around sandwiches she had made while the twins were in the woods. Dr. McDonald started the RV and pulled out of the parking lot. After driving a little Honda for years, he wasn't used to such a big vehicle, and he backed out carefully. Go to Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/). Click Get Directions. In the A box, type Wendover UT. In the B box, type Evanston WY. Click Get Directions. As he pulled onto Route 70 South, he relaxed a bit and began humming the old Willie Nelson song "On the Road Again." It wasn't long before they had merged back onto I-80, heading east. "I was looking at the map," Dr. McDonald told the family after they had been on the road for a while. "Lake Tahoe is only about an hour from here. That might be a good place for us to

麦克唐纳太太告诉他们。“这就是旅行的乐趣之一！”她把双胞胎在树林里时做的三明治分发给大家。 麦克唐纳医生启动了房车，驶出了停车场。 他开了好几年的小本田，不习惯这么大的车，他小心翼翼地倒车。 进入谷歌Maps （http://maps.google.com/）。 点击“获取路线”。在A框中，输入wenddover UT。 在B框中，输入Evanston WY。 点击“获取路线”。当他把车开上70号南公路时，他放松了一下，开始哼唱威利·纳尔逊的老歌《再次上路》。 没过多久，他们就回到了80号州际公路上，向东行驶。 “我当时正在看地图。” 他们在路上走了一段时间后，麦克唐纳告诉这家人。 “太浩湖离这儿只有一个小时的路程。 那也许是我们去的好地方

stop for the night. Maybe we can even stay for a day or two. We could go swimming or kayaking. Have some fun, you know? Lake Tahoe is beautiful." "No!" Pep shouted. "We want to go see the largest ball of twine in the world!" shouted Coke. "Yeah," Pep added. "Lakes are a big bore." Mrs. McDonald turned around in the front seat. "Wait a minute," she said. "Yesterday everybody was making fun of me for wanting to go see the largest ball of twine in the world. And now you're all anxious to get there. What's going on?" "Yeah," Dr. McDonald said. "Why are you suddenly so interested in that silly ball of twine?" As usual, Pep looked to Coke for the answer. She wasn't about to tell her parents that there would be some sort of attack at the ball of twine and that they had to help stop it.

在这里过夜。也许我们可以在这里待一两天。 我们可以去游泳或划皮艇。 玩得开心点，知道吗？太浩湖很美。” “不!”Pep喊道。“我们想去看世界上最大的麻线球！”可口可乐喊道。 “是的，”佩普补充道。“湖泊是个大麻烦。” 麦克唐纳太太在前座转过身来。 “等一下，”她说。 “昨天大家都取笑我想去看世界上最大的麻线球。 现在你们都急着去那里。 发生了什么事？”“是的,”Dr。 麦克唐纳说。“你怎么突然对那个傻线球这么感兴趣了？”像往常一样，佩普向可口可乐寻求答案。 她不打算告诉她的父母，在线球那里会有某种攻击，他们必须帮助阻止它。

Coke thought fast. "We're twins," he announced. "And twine is twin with an e at the end. So we want to see it." "That's ridiculous!" Dr. McDonald sputtered. "So instead of swimming and kayaking on a beautiful lake, you want to go look at a ball of twine because it has an E in it?" "Yes!" the twins agreed. "You wouldn't understand," Pep said. "You're not a twin." "Well, I'm pleased to see you kids are getting into the spirit of the trip," Mrs. McDonald said. "The twine ball is in Cawker City, Kansas." "Then that's where we want to go," Coke declared. "We hate swimming and kayaking." "Since when?" his father asked. "You used to love swimming and kayaking when you were little." "Please, please, please, please?" begged Pep. Dr. McDonald could not resist a child with puppy dog eyes, especially when it was his own. He sighed when the exit for Lake Tahoe

科克思维敏捷。“我们是双胞胎，”他宣布。 twine是twin，末尾有个e。 所以我们希望看到它。”“这简直是可笑!”博士。 麦当劳气急败坏的说。“所以你不想在美丽的湖上游泳和划皮艇，而是想去看一团线，因为它里面有个E ?”“是的！”双胞胎同意了。 “你不会明白的，”佩普说。 “你不是双胞胎。”“嗯，我很高兴看到你们这些孩子已经融入了这次旅行的精神，”麦克唐纳太太说。 “麻线球在堪萨斯州的考克城。” “那就是我们要去的地方，”可口可乐宣称。 “我们讨厌游泳和皮划艇。” “从什么时候开始的？”父亲问。 “你小时候喜欢游泳和划皮划艇。” “求你了，求你了，求你了，求你了？” 麦克唐纳医生无法抗拒一个长着小狗眼睛的孩子，尤其是当这个孩子是他自己的时候。 他叹了口气，驶往太浩湖

appeared on the side of the road, and he drove right by it. Mrs. McDonald passed her laptop back to the kids so they could see the route to Kansas. The McDonalds would have to drive along I-80 all the way across Nevada, through the top of Utah, across the southern part of Wyoming, and halfway across Nebraska before detouring south into Kansas. "It says Cawker City is 1,414 miles from here," Mrs. McDonald informed the family, "and today is June nineteenth. It should take us a few days to get there, depending on how often we stop." "Speaking of which, I'm beat," Dr. McDonald announced. "Let's start looking for a campground." About ten miles from the Nevada border,

出现在路边，他就从旁边开过去了。 麦克唐纳太太把笔记本电脑递给孩子们，让他们看看去堪萨斯的路线。 麦当劳一家必须沿着80号州际公路行驶，穿过内华达州，穿过犹他州的顶部，穿过怀俄明州的南部，穿过内布拉斯加州的一半，然后向南绕道进入堪萨斯州。 “上面说考克城离这儿有一千四百一十四英里，”麦克唐纳太太告诉一家人，“今天是六月十九日。 我们应该要花几天时间才能到那里，这取决于我们停留的频率。” “说到这个，我累坏了。” 麦当劳宣布。“我们开始找露营地吧。” 距离内华达边境大约10英里，