14 The Kinston Trio

Chapter 14 THE KINSTON TRIO Dr. McDonald was pushing the speed limit. It was still a long way to the Birthplace of Pepsi in New Bern. He liked driving fast, but an RV is not exactly built for speed. The dishes were rattling in the cabinets. "Do you ever wonder where your food goes after you eat it?" Mrs. McDonald asked the twins as she passed out the tuna sandwiches she had made for lunch. "I don't want to know," Pep said. "I'm sure it's gross." "Well, you're going to find out," her mother told her, "because we're going to continue on our theme of the human body. We're going to stop off and visit a giant digestive system at a

第十四章金士顿三人组 麦克唐纳超速了。 距离百事可乐的发源地新伯尔尼还有很长的路要走。 他喜欢开得快，但RV并不是为速度而造的。 碗碟在橱柜里格格作响。 “你有没有想过食物吃完后去了哪里？”麦克唐纳夫人一边把她做的金枪鱼三明治分发给双胞胎，一边问他们。 “我不想知道，”佩普说。 “我敢肯定这很恶心。”“好吧，你会知道的，”她妈妈告诉她，“因为我们要继续我们的人体主题。 我们要停下来参观一个巨大的消化系统

hospital in Kinston." "Yuck," Pep moaned. "Well, it's good that we're going to a hospital," Coke remarked, "just in case something else falls on Pep's head." "Very funny, jerk," said Pep as she punched him. Pep had quickly recovered from the gratitude she had been feeling for her brother after he had saved her life twice. "Don't call your brother a jerk," said Dr. McDonald. Kinston is a natural stopping point along Route 70 between Raleigh and New Bern. It's a small town, originally named Kingston after England's King George III. After the Revolution, the G was dropped in hopes that people would forget about the king. Go ahead and look it up if you don't believe me. Dr. McDonald pulled off the highway, and it was only a few blocks to the Lenoir Memorial Hospital Health & Science Museum. The McDonalds piled out of the RV. Or I should

在金斯顿的医院。”“呸，”佩普呻吟道。 “好吧，幸好我们要去医院，”可口可乐说，“以防别的东西砸到佩普的头上。” “很有趣，混蛋，”佩普说，她打了他一拳。 佩普很快就从哥哥两次救了她的命后她对他的感激中恢复过来了。 “别叫你弟弟混蛋。” 麦当劳。金斯顿是罗利和新伯尔尼之间70号公路沿线的天然停靠点。 这是一个小镇，最初以英国国王乔治三世的名字命名为金斯顿。 大革命后，为了让人们忘记国王，G被去掉了。 如果你不相信我，可以去查一下。 麦克唐纳医生把车停在高速公路上，离勒诺瓦纪念医院健康与科学博物馆只有几个街区了。 麦当劳的人从房车里挤了出来。 或者我应该

say, most of the McDonalds piled out of the RV. "Let's go, Pep," called Mrs. McDonald. "I think you're really going to like this." "You guys go ahead," Pep replied. "I'll stay here." "Don't be silly," said her father. "We do things as a family." Slowly, reluctantly, Pep emerged from the safety of the RV. She looked up in the air and around her nervously, convinced that an enormous intestine was going to fall out of the sky and on her head at any moment. There was nothing dangling above that could do her harm. As advertised, the hospital had a room with a replica of a digestive system that visitors could go through. The whole family entered through the mouth—naturally—and had to get down on their hands and knees to crawl through the throat, esophagus, stomach, and intestines. Along the way, they activated sensors that triggered audio descriptions of the functions of various parts of the digestive system. At the end,

比如说，大部分的麦当劳都从房车里堆了出来。 “我们走吧，佩普，”麦克唐纳太太喊道。 “我想你会喜欢这个的。” “你们去吧，”佩普回答。 “我要留在这里。”“别傻了，”她父亲说。 “我们像一家人一样做事。” 佩普慢慢地、不情愿地从安全的房车里出来。 她紧张地向空中和周围看了看，确信一个巨大的肠子随时会从天上掉下来砸在她头上。 上面没有任何东西能伤害她。 正如广告所说，这家医院有一个房间，里面有一个消化系统的复制品，游客可以通过。 全家人都从口腔进入——很自然——他们必须跪在地上爬过喉咙、食道、胃和肠道。 在这个过程中，他们激活了传感器，触发了消化系统各个部分功能的音频描述。 最后，

well, they crawled out the exit. They didn't spend a lot of time at the hospital, which also featured a crawl-through model of a blood vessel, a planetarium, and other exhibits. Pep was on her guard the whole time, still convinced that something else would fall on her head. As they walked back to the RV, Pep was cautiously looking up in the sky when— "Watch out!" Coke yelled. Pep hadn't noticed, but directly in front of her was a pit, camouflaged by a thin layer of leaves. She tumbled into it with a shriek, landing on her face. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" The pit was about six feet deep and appeared to have been constructed like a trap that would be used by a survivalist to catch animals. Fortunately there were no pointed sticks poking up from the bottom. "Get me outta here!" Pep yelled. "Are you okay?" Dr. McDonald asked as he

他们爬出了出口。 他们没有在医院呆太长时间，医院里还有一个血管爬行模型、一个天文馆和其他展品。 佩普一直在提防着她，仍然相信会有别的什么东西砸到她头上。 当他们走回房车时，佩普小心翼翼地抬头望着天空，“小心！”可口可乐喊道。 佩普没有注意到，但在她的正前方有一个坑，被一层薄薄的树叶掩盖着。 她尖叫着摔了进去，脸朝下摔了下来。 “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !”这个坑大约有六英尺深，看起来像是一个生存主义者用来捕捉动物的陷阱。 幸运的是，没有尖尖的木棍从底部伸出来。 “把我弄出去！”Pep喊道。 “你还好吗？”麦克唐纳医生问道

helped Pep climb out of the hole. "I think so." "Why is there a hole in the ground here?" Mrs. McDonald complained. "It serves no purpose." "They should at least put a sheet of plywood over this," Dr. McDonald said. "Somebody could get hurt, and the hospital would have a big lawsuit on their hands. Maybe we should go back and issue a formal complaint." "Forget about it, Dad," Pep said. "Let's just blow this pop stand." She seemed to be okay, except for the humiliation that comes from falling into a hole. Coke stifled a laugh, and Pep slapped him. "This isn't funny!" she whispered to him. "Somebody's out to get me. It's probably Mrs. Higgins or those bowler dudes." "You're just paranoid," Coke said. "All you did was fall into a hole." "I fell into a hole after a chest of drawers and a giant brain fell on me," Pep told him. "Three

帮助佩普爬出了洞。 “我想是的。”“为什么这里的地上有个洞？”麦克唐纳太太抱怨道。 “这没有任何意义。”“他们至少应该在这上面盖上一层胶合板。” 麦克唐纳说。“有人可能会受伤，医院将面临一场大官司。 也许我们应该回去正式投诉。” “忘了它吧，爸爸，”佩普说。 “我们把这个汽水摊吹了吧。” 她似乎很好，除了掉进洞里的羞辱。 可口可乐忍住笑，佩普打了他一巴掌。 “这一点都不好笑！”她低声对他说。 “有人要抓我。 可能是希金斯太太或那些打保龄球的家伙。” “你只是偏执狂，”科克说。 “你只是掉进了一个洞里。” “一个五斗橱和一个巨大的大脑砸在我身上，我掉进了一个洞里，”佩普告诉他。 “三

things like that don't just happen to anybody. Those weren't coincidences." Go to Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/). Click Get Directions. In the A box, type Kinston NC. In the B box, type New Bern NC. Click Get Directions.

这种事不会发生在任何人身上。 这不是巧合。” 进入谷歌Maps （http://maps.google.com/）。 点击“获取路线”。在A框中，输入Kinston NC。 在B框中，输入New Bern NC。 点击“获取路线”。