14 The Old Hopi

Chapter 14 THE OLD HOPI Coke and Pep ran. They just ran. They didn't know where. It didn't matter. Anywhere. Away from that lunatic, John Pain. "That guy was nuts!" Pep said after a couple of blocks. She stopped to catch her breath. "I can't believe you killed the snake!" Coke said. "I can't believe you tried to feed it freeze- dried ice cream!" Across the street, a lady was pushing a stroller. Coke jogged over to ask her how to get back to Albuquerque's Old Town section. She pointed out the direction, and from there it wasn't hard for the twins to find the Rattlesnake Museum. Their parents were standing out front, looking worried. "Where's your shirt?" asked an exasperated

第十四章老霍皮人可乐和佩普跑了。 他们只是跑了。他们不知道在哪里。 没关系。任何地方。 远离那个疯子，约翰·潘。 “那家伙疯了！”佩普说过了几个街区。 她停下来喘口气。 “我真不敢相信你杀了那条蛇！”可口可乐表示。 “我真不敢相信你居然要喂它吃冻干的冰淇淋！”街对面，一位女士推着婴儿车。 可口可乐跑过来问她怎么回阿尔伯克基的老城区。 她指了指方向，双胞胎从那里就不难找到响尾蛇博物馆了。 他们的父母站在门口，看起来很担心。 “你的衬衫呢？”一个恼怒的人问道

Mrs. McDonald as soon as she saw her son. Not Where have you been? or Are you okay? His mother's overriding concern was with what happened to Coke's shirt. "Funny you should ask, Mom," he replied. "Pep wrapped it around a rattlesnake's head so she could beat it to death." "Very funny," said Dr. McDonald. "It's true," Pep insisted. "You don't have to believe him if you don't want to." Mrs. McDonald simply shook her head, counting how many perfectly good T-shirts Coke had ruined on the trip so far. Five? Six? She had finally reached the point where she wasn't going to fight about it anymore. There was no use. The boy was a T-shirt-wrecking machine. She made a mental note to buy him only cheap T-shirts from now on. Go to Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/).

麦克唐纳夫人一看到儿子就哭了。 不是你去哪儿了？或者Are you okay？ 他的母亲最关心的是可口可乐的衬衫发生了什么。 “妈妈，你问得真有意思，”他回答说。 佩普把它缠在了一条响尾蛇的头上这样她就可以把它打死了 “很有趣，”麦克唐纳博士说。 “这是真的，”佩普坚持说。 “如果你不想相信他，你不必相信。” 麦克唐纳夫人只是摇了摇头，数着到目前为止可口可乐毁掉了多少件完美的t恤。 五个?六个?她终于到了不想再为这件事争吵的地步。 这是没有用的。那男孩是个破坏t恤的机器。 她心里记着从今以后只给他买便宜的t恤。 进入谷歌Maps （http://maps.google.com/）。

Click Get Directions. In the A box, type Albuquerque NM. In the B box, type Lupton AZ. Click Get Directions. The McDonalds had a quick dinner and checked into the Econo Lodge West for the night. It was just a few blocks from Coronado Freeway—also known as I-40—which was the main road heading west out of Albuquerque. In the morning, the family got on the road early. It would be a long day, in more ways than one. Almost immediately, the highway flattened out. The stores and gas stations became few and far between. Pep worried silently, trying to figure out where Dr. Warsaw might decide to set off his nuclear bomb, and what they could do to stop it. Coke daydreamed, thinking about John Pain and the last thing he'd said to them: "You two ain't seen the last of me, I promise

点击“获取路线”。在A框中，输入Albuquerque NM。 在B框中，输入Lupton AZ。 点击“获取路线”。麦当劳一家匆匆吃完饭，就住进了西经济旅馆过夜。 它离科罗纳多高速公路只有几个街区，也被称为i -40，这是阿尔伯克基向西的主要道路。 早上，一家人早早地上路了。 这将是漫长的一天，在很多方面都是如此。 高速公路几乎立刻就变平了。 商店和加油站变得越来越少。 佩普默默地担心着，试图弄清楚博士在哪里。 华沙可能会决定引爆他的核弹，以及他们能做些什么来阻止它。 可口可乐做着白日梦，想着约翰·潘和他对他们说的最后一句话：“我保证，你们俩不会再见我的。

you that." There wasn't much to look at out the window, except for the occasional billboard, announcing things like INDIAN VILLAGE and MOCCASINS FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY! "Ooh, can we go?" Pep asked. "Those places aren't real Indian villages," Mrs. McDonald told them. "It says in the guidebook that they're just tacky souvenir shops." "Ooh, can we go?" Coke asked. About an hour from Albuquerque, the speed limit slowed down to 35 miles per hour and a few stores popped up here and there. And then this appeared at the side of the road

你这。”窗外没有什么可看的，除了偶尔的广告牌，上面写着“印第安村庄”和“全家穿鹿皮鞋”之类的东西！“哦，我们能去吗？”Pep问道。 “那些地方不是真正的印第安村庄，”麦克唐纳太太告诉他们。 “旅游指南上说它们只是些俗气的纪念品商店。” “哦，我们能去吗？”可口可乐问道。 从阿尔伯克基出发约一小时，车速限制降至每小时35英里，到处都冒出了几家商店。 然后这个出现在路边

"That's right!" Dr. McDonald said, slapping his forehead. "I forgot all about it. This is the Great Divide!" Dear reader, if you recall The Genius Files: Mission Unstoppable, you know the McDonalds first crossed the Continental Divide heading east through Utah. It's an imaginary boundary line that begins in Alaska and continues all the way down through South America. Now they were crossing it again, heading west. "Rivers on the west side of this line flow into the Pacific Ocean," Dr. McDonald reminded the others, "and the rivers on the east side of the line

“没错!”麦克唐纳医生拍着额头说。 “我全忘了。这就是大分裂！”亲爱的读者，如果你还记得《天才档案：不可阻挡的使命》，你就会知道麦当劳第一次跨过大陆分水岭，向东穿过犹他州。 这是一条假想的边界线，从阿拉斯加开始一直延伸到南美洲。 现在他们又要穿过它，向西走。 “这条线西边的河流流入太平洋。” 麦克唐纳提醒其他人，“还有线东侧的河流

flow into the Atlantic Ocean." "That's cool," Pep said. "I read somewhere," said her brother, "that when you flush a toilet in the northern hemisphere, the water swirls in the opposite direction than a toilet flushed in the southern hemisphere." "That's one of those urban legends," his father told him. "It's totally not true." "It sounds like it could be true." "Trust me, it's not." "Who cares which direction toilet water

流入大西洋。” “太酷了，”佩普说。“我在什么地方读到过，”她哥哥说，“北半球冲马桶时，水的漩涡方向与南半球冲马桶的方向相反。” “那是一个都市传说，”他父亲告诉他。 “这完全不是真的。”“听起来可能是真的。” “相信我，不是的。”“谁在乎花露水往哪个方向流。