7 “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough”

Chapter 7 "DON'T STOP 'TIL YOU GET ENOUGH" Coke frantically pulled the T-shirt over his head and angrily stuffed it into a garbage can. "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" he muttered. "How could we have been so stupid as to trust that lady? Mrs. Higgins is insane. She always has been. I should have known!" "I really thought she had changed," Pep said as she put her Cubs shirt into the same trash can. "She seemed so sad when she was talking about Dr. Warsaw. And she sounded so sincere when she was telling us how unhappy she was working as a paid assassin." "Sincere?" Coke sputtered. "She played us for fools." "Do you think she was really in love with Dr.

第七章“欲罢不能”可口可乐疯狂地把t恤套在头上，愤怒地把它塞进垃圾桶。 “愚蠢!愚蠢的!愚蠢！”他喃喃地说。 “我们怎么那么愚蠢，竟然相信了那位女士呢？ 希金斯太太疯了。她一直都是。 我早该知道的！”“我真的以为她变了，”佩普一边说，一边把小熊队的球衣扔进了同一个垃圾桶。 “当她谈到博士的时候，她看起来很伤心。 华沙。当她告诉我们她作为一名受雇的刺客有多么不快乐时，她听起来是那么真诚。” “真诚?”可口可乐气急败坏的说。 “她把我们当傻子耍。” “你认为她真的爱上了约翰博士吗？

Warsaw? Do you think she was really going to marry him?" Pep asked. "Or was that a lie too?" "Who knows?" Coke replied. "The two of them were made for each other. They're both psychos." The twins debated whether or not Mrs. Higgins could be working together with Archie Clone, but they were interrupted when Coke's cell phone rang. As expected, it was their dad. "Are you kids okay?" Dr. McDonald asked urgently. "Why did you say there was a bomb in the Cubs dugout? Are you crazy?" "Yes, we're okay," Coke replied. "I don't know why we said there was a bomb in the Cubs dugout. Maybe we are crazy." Dr. McDonald instructed the twins to meet him at a parking lot on North Sheffield Avenue, and hung up abruptly. It took the twins awhile to retrace their steps and find the location. When they did, their father was leaning against the side of the RV, hands on hips. Never a good sign. "If it was so important for you to leave the game

华沙吗?你认为她真的要嫁给他吗？”Pep问道。 “或者这也是一个谎言？”“谁知道呢?”可口可乐答道。 “他们俩是天生一对。 他们俩都是疯子。”双胞胎争论着希金斯夫人是否会和阿奇·克隆在一起工作，但是当科克的手机响了，他们的争论被打断了。 不出所料，是他们的父亲。 “你们孩子还好吗？”麦克唐纳医生急切地问道。 “你为什么说小熊队的教练席里有炸弹？” 你疯了吗？”“是的，我们没事，”可口可乐回答。 “我不知道为什么我们说小熊队的教练席里有炸弹。 也许我们疯了。”麦克唐纳让这对双胞胎在北谢菲尔德大道的一个停车场等他，然后突然挂断了电话。 这对双胞胎花了一段时间才沿着原路折回，找到了那个地方。 当他们这样做的时候，他们的父亲正靠在房车的侧面，双手放在臀部。 这可不是什么好兆头。“如果你离开赛场这么重要的话

early, you could have just said so," Dr. McDonald said sternly. "You didn't have to have them evacuate the whole ballpark." "That wasn't it, Dad!" Pep replied. "Really! We would never do something like that." "Then why did you do it?" Pep looked at her brother, who was always better in situations like this. "Dad," he began, "would you believe me if I said our health teacher Mrs. Higgins works for the Cubs now, and she told us that singing the last line of 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game' would trigger a bomb in the Cubs dugout? Dad, she put a gun to our heads and forced us to sing it." "No," said Dr. McDonald. "I wouldn't believe that." "What if we told you it was a chocolate gun?" added Pep. "That was a very dangerous stunt!" their father scolded them. "People could have been killed running for the exits like that!" "But if there really was a bomb in the Cubs

早的时候，你可以直接这么说。 麦克唐纳严厉地说。“你不必让他们疏散整个球场。” “不是这样的，爸爸！”Pep答道。 “真的!我们永远不会做那样的事情。” “那你为什么要这么做？”佩普看了看她的哥哥，他在这种情况下总是表现得更好。 “爸爸，”他开始说，“如果我说我们的健康老师希金斯夫人现在在小熊队工作，她告诉我们唱《带我出去看球赛》的最后一句会在小熊队的教练席上引爆炸弹，你会相信我吗？” 爸爸，她拿枪指着我们的头，逼我们唱。” “不，”麦克唐纳医生说。“我不相信。” “如果我们告诉你这是一支巧克力枪呢？”佩普补充道。 “那是一个非常危险的特技！”他们的父亲责备他们。 “那样往出口跑可能会送命的！”但如果小熊队真的有炸弹

dugout," Coke explained, "people really would have been killed!" "But there was no bomb in the dugout!" Dr. McDonald shouted. "You did it for no reason at all!" He shook his head and pinched the bridge of his nose between two fingers, which is what parents do for some reason when their kids do incomprehensibly dumb things. They climbed into the RV and headed downtown on Michigan Avenue, where Mrs. McDonald had arranged to meet them. She was waiting when they pulled over to the curb across the street from Millennium Park. "So how was the game?" Mrs. McDonald said cheerfully as she climbed into the front seat with a shopping bag. None of them, not even Dr. McDonald, particularly wanted to go over what had happened at Wrigley Field. "It was very exciting, Mom," Coke finally said. "That must have been cool, seeing your names up on the video screen," Mrs. McDonald said. "Was

科克解释说，“如果没有防空洞，人们真的会被杀的！”“但是在教练席上没有炸弹！”博士。 麦当劳喊道。“你毫无理由地这么做了！”他摇了摇头，用两根手指捏了捏鼻梁，这是父母在孩子做不可理解的蠢事时出于某种原因所做的。 他们爬上房车，沿着市中心的密歇根大道（Michigan Avenue）驶去，麦克唐纳夫人曾安排在那里与他们见面。 当他们把车停在千禧公园街对面的路边时，她正在等着。 “比赛怎么样？”麦克唐纳太太提着购物袋爬上前座，高兴地说。 他们都没有，甚至连博士都没有。 麦克唐纳特别想回顾一下在瑞格利球场发生的事情。 “太令人兴奋了，妈妈，”可口可乐最后说。 “看到你们的名字出现在电视屏幕上，那一定很酷，”麦克唐纳太太说。 ”

it fun singing 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game'? That was my idea." "It was a unique experience, Mom," Pep said diplomatically. Dr. McDonald shook his head slightly and snorted to himself as he put the RV into gear. The streets were busy, but he managed to merge onto Lake Shore Drive and the Chicago Skyway—Route 90. It was late afternoon by this time. Mrs. McDonald punched their location into the GPS. She did some rough calculations in her head as they left Chicago. It was June 26. They were about seven hundred miles from Washington, and they hoped to get there at least one day early to explore the capital before Aunt Judy's wedding on July Fourth. So they had about seven days to travel seven hundred miles. About a hundred miles a day. That was reasonable.

唱“带我出去看球赛”有趣吗？ 这是我的主意。”“那是一次独特的经历，妈妈，”佩普圆滑地说。 麦克唐纳博士轻轻地摇了摇头，对自己哼了一声，把房车装上了档。 街道很繁忙，但他还是设法驶入湖滨大道和芝加哥90号高架公路。 这时已经是傍晚了。 麦克唐纳太太把他们的位置输入全球定位系统。 当他们离开芝加哥时，她在脑子里做了一些粗略的计算。 那天是6月26日。他们离华盛顿大约有700英里，他们希望至少提前一天到达那里，在7月4日朱迪阿姨的婚礼之前游览一下首都。 所以他们有7天的时间走了700英里。 每天大约一百英里。 这是合理的。

Go to Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/). Click Get Directions. In the A box, type Chicago IL. In the B box, type Gary IN. Click Get Directions. They were making good time, and Dr. McDonald relaxed a little behind the wheel, brainstorming about his next book. Maybe I should write a biography, he said to himself. I've never done a biography. I could write about a historical figure. Maybe a president. People like to read biographies of presidents… Dr. and Mrs. McDonald were both thankful that up until this point, they hadn't encountered any of the typical road trip calamities—lost wallets, mechanical failures, kids getting poison ivy, and so on. (Little did they know that so far their children

进入谷歌Maps （http://maps.google.com/）。 点击“获取路线”。在A框中，输入芝加哥。 在B框中，输入Gary In。 点击“获取路线”。他们玩得很开心。 坐在驾驶座上的麦克唐纳稍微放松了一下，头脑风暴着他的下一本书。 也许我应该写一本传记，他对自己说。 我从来没写过传记。 我可以写一个历史人物。 也许是总统。人们喜欢读总统的传记。 和麦克唐纳太太都很庆幸，到目前为止，他们还没有遇到任何典型的公路旅行灾难——钱包丢失、机械故障、孩子被毒葛感染等等。 (他们一点也不知道，到目前为止，他们的孩子