15 Your Future Will Come

Chapter 15 YOUR FUTURE WILL COME "Woo hoo!" Coke hooted as the Ferrari crossed the border. "The Grand Canyon State, baby!" Outside, Arizona didn't look all that different from New Mexico. Mesas—or were they plateaus?—lined both sides of the road. A truck stop called Speedy's was quickly followed by the Tee Pee Trading Post and a line of other souvenir shops hawking cheap jewelry and moccasins. But even so, just crossing another state line made everyone feel like they were just a little bit closer to home. "How much farther do we have to go, Mom?" Pep called from the backseat. Mrs. McDonald looked it up on her laptop. "Nine hundred and fifty-eight miles," she reported. "A hop, skip, and a jump," said Dr.

第十五章你的未来将会到来！当法拉利越过边境时，可口可乐大叫起来。 “大峡谷之州，宝贝！”从外面看，亚利桑那州和新墨西哥州并没有什么不同。 是台地，还是高原？在路的两边排列着。 一个叫Speedy’s的卡车驿站之后，很快就有了Tee Pee Trading Post，还有一排兜售廉价珠宝和鹿皮鞋的纪念品商店。 但即便如此，跨越另一条州界让每个人都觉得自己离家更近了一点。 “妈妈，我们还要走多远？”佩普从后座喊道。 麦克唐纳夫人在她的笔记本电脑上查了一下。 “九百五十八英里，”她报告说。 “一跳，一跳，一跳，”医生说。

McDonald as he continued on I-40 West. Mrs. McDonald dropped her New Mexico guidebook in the trash and opened a new one— Arizona Arisin'. She flipped through the introduction "Let's see soaring mountains red- walled canyons vast deserts," she mumbled. "Hey, did you guys know that Arizona has more mountains than Switzerland and more golf courses than Scotland?" "I suppose you're going to tell us about all the oddball museums and weird stuff there is to see here, huh, Mom?" asked Coke. "Well, the official state neckwear is the bolo tie," Mrs. McDonald said. "In fact, there's a bolo tie museum close to Phoenix." "Please say we don't have to go there," Pep begged from the backseat. "Please?" "You guys are no fun," said Mrs. McDonald. "Hey, you want to go to London Bridge?" "Isn't London Bridge in London?" asked Coke.

麦克唐纳，他继续在I-40西。 麦克唐纳太太把她的新墨西哥旅游指南扔进了垃圾桶，打开了一本新的——《亚利桑那·阿里森》。 “让我们看看高耸的山脉，红墙的峡谷，广阔的沙漠，”她喃喃地说。 “嘿，你们知道亚利桑那州的山比瑞士多，高尔夫球场比苏格兰多吗？”“妈妈，我想你会给我们讲讲这里所有稀奇古怪的博物馆和稀奇古怪的东西吧？”科克问。 “嗯，官方的国家领带是polo领带，”麦克唐纳夫人说。 “事实上，凤凰城附近就有一个polo领带博物馆。” “请告诉我，我们不必去那里。”佩普在后座上恳求道。 “好吗?”“你们真没意思，”麦克唐纳太太说。 “嘿，你想去伦敦桥吗？”“伦敦桥不是在伦敦吗？”可口可乐问道。

Actually, it is and it isn't. There are several London Bridges. But one of them was sinking into the Thames River so England put it up for sale in 1967. An American bought it, and he had all 10,246 bricks shipped to Lake Havasu, Arizona, to be reassembled there. "London Bridge is on the other side of the state, five hours from here," said Mrs. McDonald. "I'm not driving five hours to see a bridge," said Dr. McDonald. "I want to see natural beauty. I want to see the Grand Canyon, the red sandstone at Sedona, Monument Valley "Forty minutes after crossing the state line, they were still arguing about what to see in Arizona. That's when they came to this sign.

事实上，它是，它不是。 伦敦有几座桥。 但其中一艘正在沉入泰晤士河，因此英国在1967年将其出售。 一个美国人买下了它，他把10246块砖全部运到亚利桑那州的哈瓦苏湖，在那里重新组装。 “伦敦桥在州的另一边，离这里有五个小时的路程，”麦克唐纳太太说。 “我不会开5个小时的车去看一座桥。” 麦当劳。“我想看自然美。 我想去看大峡谷、塞多纳的红砂岩、纪念碑谷。”过了州界40分钟后，他们还在争论亚利桑那州该看什么。 这时他们来到了这个标志。

Dr. McDonald pulled into the parking lot at the visitors' center. It was at least a hundred degrees outside, and Mrs. McDonald made sure everyone had a bottle of water and was covered by sunglasses, hats, and sunscreen. A park ranger was just starting a short walking tour, so the McDonalds rushed to catch up. The Petrified Forest isn't a "forest" in the common use of the word. It's more of a rock garden, with spectacular colors. That's why part of the Petrified Forest is called the Painted Desert. "I don't get it," Pep said to the ranger. "If this is a forest, where are the trees?" "We get that question all the time," said the

麦克唐纳医生把车开进了游客中心的停车场。 外面至少有华氏100度，麦克唐纳太太确保每个人都带了一瓶水，并戴上太阳镜、帽子和防晒霜。 一位公园管理员刚刚开始短途徒步旅行，所以麦当劳的人赶紧追了上去。 石化森林不是“森林”这个词的常用用法。 它更像是一个岩石花园，有着壮观的色彩。 这就是为什么石化森林的一部分被称为彩绘沙漠。 “我不明白，”佩普对护林员说。 “如果这是森林，树在哪里？”“我们总是被问到这个问题。

ranger, a tall man with blond hair. "Usually when a tree falls, it decays over time. But these trees fell into rivers and were buried in water, minerals, and volcanic ash. So they remained intact and became fossilized. That is, they turned to stone. Some of them are two hundred and twenty-five million years old." Mrs. McDonald took some notes for Amazing but True. After a short walk, the ranger stopped and knelt down to point out a flat rock that had a picture of an eye carved into it. "Graffiti?" somebody asked. "You might say that," said the ranger. "These pictures are called petroglyphs. Prehistoric people made them over eight thousand years ago." Everyone got down on their hands and knees to examine the petroglyph. There were others depicting a squatting man, a caterpillar, a ladder, and a spoked wheel. "What do they mean?" Pep asked.

护林员，一个金发高个男人。 “通常当一棵树倒下时，它会随着时间的推移而腐烂。 但这些树木落入河流，被埋在水、矿物质和火山灰中。 所以它们完好无损，变成了化石。 也就是说，它们变成了石头。 其中一些已经有2.25亿年的历史了。” 麦克唐纳夫人为《神奇但真实》做了一些笔记。 走了一小段路后，护林员停了下来，跪下来指着一块平坦的石头，上面刻着一只眼睛的图案。 “涂鸦？”有人问。 “你可以这么说，”护林员说。 “这些画被称为岩画。 史前人类在8000多年前就制造了它们。” 每个人都跪下来仔细观察这幅岩画。 还有一些画的是蹲着的人、毛毛虫、梯子和辐条轮。 “它们是什么意思？”Pep问道。

"There are lots of theories," the ranger told her. "They might have been primitive maps, or astronomical markers. Or maybe they were religious symbols, or boundaries between different tribes. We really don't know for sure." Pep, always interested in codes and secret messages, was fascinated by the petroglyphs. Her brother—he of the short attention span— had wandered a short distance away from the group. He happened to look down to see a large gray rock with these letters written on it. EDIWEFER Coke called his sister over. "Look at this," he said. "The ancient people couldn't have known English, could they?" "Of course not." Pep knelt down and touched one of the letters with one finger. It rubbed off. The message appeared to be written in chalk. Clearly, it was recent. A good rain would have washed those letters away.

“有很多理论，”护林员告诉她。 “它们可能是原始地图，或者天文标记。 或者它们是宗教符号，或者是不同部落之间的边界。 我们真的不确定。” 佩普一直对密码和秘密信息很感兴趣，他被这些岩画迷住了。 她的哥哥——他的注意力持续时间很短——已经离开了人群一小段距离。 他碰巧往下看，看到一块灰色的大石头，上面写着这些字母。 艾迪韦弗·科克把妹妹叫了过来。 “看看这个，”他说。“古人不可能懂英语，对吧？”“当然不是。” 佩普跪下来，用一根手指碰了碰其中的一个字母。 它被擦掉了。这句话似乎是用粉笔写的。 很明显，这是最近的事。一场大雨就会把那些信件冲走。