18 The Spy Guy

Chapter 18 THE SPY GUY Cherry Hill Park is the closest—and the coolest—campground to Washington, D.C. It has two swimming pools, a hot tub, sauna, game room, miniature golf, and a playground. But after they checked in, none of the McDonalds wanted to hang around Cherry Hill Park. Everyone—and especially Pep—wanted to go into the city and spend the afternoon at the Spy Museum. The Washington subway system is called the Metro, and the Greenbelt stop at the end of the Green line is right near Cherry Hill Park. Dr. McDonald had been to Washington many times to do research, so he knew his way around. The family took the Metro ten stops and got out when the train reached Gallery Place–Chinatown. "This is the heart of Washington," Dr.

樱桃山公园是离华盛顿特区最近、也是最酷的露营地 它有两个游泳池，一个热水浴缸，桑拿房，游戏室，迷你高尔夫球场和一个操场。 但在他们入住后，没有一个麦当劳人愿意在樱桃山公园附近逗留。 每个人——尤其是佩普——都想进城，在间谍博物馆度过一个下午。 华盛顿的地铁系统被称为地铁，绿线末端的绿带站就在樱桃山公园附近。 麦克唐纳博士曾多次到华盛顿做研究，所以他熟悉那里的路。 这家人坐了十站地铁，当火车到达画廊广场-唐人街时下了车。 “这里是华盛顿的心脏。”

McDonald said as they emerged from the station. They walked a short way down Seventh Street and made a right on F Street. "The White House is about seven blocks that way. The Capitol is about seven blocks the other way. And Ford's Theatre is right around the corner from here. That's where Abraham Lincoln was shot, you know." "We know," said Coke, who knew just about everything, and didn't particularly enjoy hearing things he already knew. The Spy Museum is directly across the street from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. After they paid their admission, the McDonalds were taken by elevator—along with a bunch of other people—to a little room. There, they were instructed to choose a cover identity from a bunch of choices displayed on the walls. Just like real spies, the McDonalds had to memorize important details of their fake lives—like their names, where they were born, what they did for a living, and where they were going. After that, visitors were free to roam around the exhibits.

麦克唐纳说，当他们从车站出来。 他们沿着第七街走了一小段路，然后在F街右转。 白宫离这里大约有七个街区。 国会大厦在另外七个街区。 福特剧院就在这里的拐角处。 你知道，亚伯拉罕·林肯就是在那里被枪杀的。” “我们知道，”科克说，他几乎什么都知道，而且并不特别喜欢听到他已经知道的事情。 间谍博物馆就在史密森尼美国艺术博物馆的正对面。 付了入场费后，麦当劳夫妇和其他一些人一起被电梯带到一个小房间。 在那里，他们被要求从墙上展示的一堆选择中选择一个掩护身份。 就像真正的间谍一样，麦克唐纳夫妇必须记住他们虚假生活的重要细节，比如他们的名字、出生地、职业以及要去的地方。 在那之后，参观者可以自由地在展品周围漫步。

If you ever go to Washington, you have to go to the Spy Museum. It's the only public museum in the United States that is solely dedicated to espionage, and it covers the history of spying from biblical times to the present day. There are exhibits devoted to concealment devices, sabotage weapons, intelligence gathering, audio surveillance, threat analysis, maintaining one's cover, and dead drops. A dead drop is a place—like a hole in a tree—where a spy will leave something for another spy to pick up. That's as opposed to a live drop, in which two spies will pass something—like a briefcase—from one to the other in person. In the display cases, they have lots of cool stuff

如果你去华盛顿，你一定要去间谍博物馆。 这是美国唯一一家专门致力于间谍活动的公共博物馆，它涵盖了从圣经时代到现在的间谍活动历史。 展品包括隐蔽装置、破坏武器、情报收集、音频监视、威胁分析、掩护和情报传递点。 情报传递点是一个类似树洞的地方，间谍会在那里留下一些东西让另一个间谍捡到。 与此相反的是，两名间谍会亲自将公文包之类的东西从一个人传递给另一个人。 在展示柜里，他们有很多很酷的东西

like lipstick pistols, microdots, and cameras hidden in everything from pens to buttonholes. One room is devoted to hero pigeons, which were once used to carry secret messages. Before the days of satellite surveillance, pigeons even wore tiny cameras to take photos from the sky. There is also a section devoted to famous spies who led double lives. Some of them were caught, and sometimes executed. "Did you know that Julia Child, the French chef on TV, was a spy?" Pep asked her brother. "Sure I did," Coke replied. In fact, he had no idea that Julia Child was a spy. He didn't even know who Julia Child was. But he didn't like the idea of his sister—or anybody—knowing something he didn't. Pep, of course, knew a lot of this already, because espionage was one of her obsessions. (The other was the Donner Party, which you would know if you read The Genius Files: Mission Unstoppable.) But she enjoyed seeing all this stuff with her own eyes. It was like the museum had been built just for her.

比如口红手枪，微缩点，还有藏在钢笔和纽扣孔里的摄像头。 其中一个房间专门用于英雄鸽子，它们曾被用来传递秘密信息。 在卫星监视之前，鸽子甚至戴着微型相机从空中拍照。 还有一个部分专门介绍过双重生活的著名间谍。 他们中的一些人被抓住，有时被处决。 “你知道电视上的法国厨师茱莉亚·查尔德是个间谍吗？”佩普问她的哥哥。 “当然，”可口可乐回答说。 事实上，他根本不知道茱莉亚·查尔德是个间谍。 他甚至不知道茱莉亚·查尔德是谁。 但是他不喜欢他的妹妹——或者任何人——知道一些他不知道的事情。 当然，佩普已经知道很多了，因为间谍活动是她的爱好之一。 （另一个是唐纳派对，如果你读过《天才档案：不可阻挡的任务》，你就会知道。）但她喜欢亲眼看到这一切。 仿佛这座博物馆就是为她而建的。

Coke and Pep were fascinated by spy paraphernalia, while their parents were more interested in cyberspying—how countries are using the internet to spy on one another and disrupt communications systems. The kids and grown-ups agreed to split up and meet in front of the museum when everybody was finished. "Hey, check this out," Coke told his sister after his parents left, "a dog doo transmitter!" In fact, it was for real. Inside a glass display case was a long lump of what looked to be either a Snickers bar or a dog poop. The plaque on the wall said that hidden inside it was an actual radio transmitter that the CIA used in 1970. Toward the end of the exhibits, off in a dark corner and leaning against a fake brick wall, was a statue of a man. He was tall, dressed up in a trench coat, dark glasses, black gloves, and a hat. He was carrying a briefcase. The statue looked just like a typical spy from an old movie. The twins walked up to it. "It looks so lifelike," Pep said. "But it's just a

可口可乐和佩普对间谍设备着迷，而他们的父母对网络间谍更感兴趣——国家如何利用互联网互相监视并破坏通信系统。 孩子们和大人们同意分开，等大家都讲完了，在博物馆门口见面。 “嘿，看看这个，”父母离开后，科克对妹妹说，“一个狗屎发射器！”事实上，这是真的。 在一个玻璃陈列柜里，有一大块长长的东西，看起来像是士力架或者狗屎。 墙上的牌匾上写着，里面藏着一个中情局在1970年使用过的无线电发射器。 在展览的最后，在一个黑暗的角落里，靠在一堵假砖墙上，有一座男人的雕像。 他个子很高，穿着一件风衣，戴着墨镜、黑色手套和一顶帽子。 他提着一个公文包。 这座雕像看起来就像一部老电影里典型的间谍。 双胞胎向它走去。 “它看起来很逼真，”佩普说。 “但这只是一个

dummy." Suddenly, the statue moved its hand and put it over Pep's mouth. She tried to scream, but the sound was muffled. "Who ya calling a dummy?" the "statue" asked. For a moment, Coke almost lost control of his bladder. "What the—," he said instead. "Shhhhhhhhhhh!" the guy in the trench coat said, removing his hand from Pep's mouth. "You'll blow my cover." "Are you a spy?" Pep asked, trembling. "Do I look like a spy?" the guy asked. "Yes." "Then I'm not a spy. Because if I was a spy and I looked like a spy, then I wouldn't be a very good spy, now would I?" "No, I guess not," Pep said. "A good spy wouldn't look at all like a spy." "Right, and because I look just like a spy, I couldn't possibly be one, could I?" "No."

假。”突然，雕像伸出手捂住了佩普的嘴。 她想尖叫，但声音被压住了。 “你叫谁傻瓜？”“雕像”问道。 有那么一瞬间，科克几乎控制不住自己的膀胱。 “什么——”他反而说。 “嘘——”那个穿风衣的家伙说，把手从佩普的嘴里拿开。 “你会暴露我的身份的。”“你是间谍吗？”佩普颤抖着问道。 “我看起来像间谍吗？”那人问。 “是的。”“那么我就不是间谍了。 因为如果我是个间谍，而且我看起来像个间谍，那我就不是一个很好的间谍，不是吗？”“不，我想没有，”佩普说。 “一个好的间谍看起来一点也不像间谍。” “对，因为我看起来就像个间谍，我不可能是间谍，对吧？”“没有。”