18 Hoover Dam

Chapter 18 HOOVER DAM A shiver went down Pep's back. She was angry, frightened, and just a little freaked out that some creep had broken into their car while the family had been hiking in the canyon. Not only that, but he—or she—had been sitting in her seat, writing in her private notepad, and possibly messing around with her other stuff. What if somebody put a bomb in their car? She looked through her backpack to make sure that nothing had been disturbed. "I have a bad feeling about this," Pep told her brother. But she didn't mention anything to her parents. Dr. McDonald pulled out of the Grand Canyon Village parking lot and got back on the highway. There aren't a lot of roads leading into or out

第十八章胡佛水坝佩普打了个寒战。 她很生气，很害怕，而且有点害怕，因为有个变态在他们一家在峡谷徒步旅行的时候闯进了他们的车。 不仅如此，他（或她）还一直坐在她的座位上，在她的私人笔记本上写字，可能还在摆弄她的其他东西。 如果有人在他们车里放了炸弹怎么办？ 她翻遍了背包，以确保没有东西被打扰。 “我有一种不好的预感，”佩普告诉她的哥哥。 但她对父母只字未提。 麦克唐纳医生把车开出了大峡谷村的停车场，回到了高速公路上。 进出的路并不多

of Grand Canyon National Park. To continue heading west, you have to drive south on Route 180 for 50 miles, and then get on I-40. For a while, Dr. McDonald veered off onto historic Route 66 for a change of scenery, but then got back on I-40 at the town of Kingman. From there, he took Route 93, which goes out to the tip of Arizona. If you look on the map, he drove in a big U shape. It was a long drive, more than three hours, and there wasn't a whole lot to look at along the way. Spectacular mountains were in the distance and there was something beautiful about the desert. But everybody was starting to feel like they just wanted to get home. Dear reader, in the course of this series, I fear that perhaps I haven't conveyed the mind- numbing boredom that goes with sitting in a car for a 3,000-mile trip across the United States and back again. Needless to say, for most travelers, it's not a nonstop thrill ride of visiting goofy tourist traps, solving indecipherable

大峡谷国家公园。 要继续向西行驶，你必须沿着180号公路向南行驶50英里，然后上I-40。 有一段时间，麦克唐纳博士转向历史悠久的66号公路，想换个风景，但后来又回到了金曼镇的I-40公路上。 从那里，他走上93号公路，这条公路通往亚利桑那州的尽头。 如果你看地图，他开的是U型车。 这是一个很长的车程，超过三个小时，一路上没有太多的东西可看。 壮观的山脉在远处，沙漠有一种美丽的东西。 但每个人都开始觉得他们只想回家。 亲爱的读者们，在这个系列的过程中，我担心我可能没有传达出一种麻木的无聊，这种无聊是坐在一辆车里穿越美国3000英里然后再回来的。 不用说，对于大多数旅行者来说，这并不是一个不间断的刺激之旅，参观愚蠢的旅游陷阱，解决难以破解的问题

ciphers, and getting attacked by crazed bad guys every few days. A real cross-country trip involves a lot of staring out the window for hours and wondering how long it will be until "we're there." I've taken the liberty of leaving out the boring parts to spare you the drudgery of reading a book that would be as dull as an actual cross-country drive. You're welcome! To pass the time, Pep examined the strange new handwriting in her notepad. She stared at it for a long time, trying to figure out what it could possibly mean... ATLEDOEMORAHPLAAMILAMILMRO FINUOVARB None of her usual intricate strategies seemed to work on this one. After an hour or so, Pep found her eyes feeling heavy, and soon she dozed off, her notepad dropping to her feet. Coke picked it up and looked at the cipher. Just for the heck of it, he wrote it out backward, something his sister usually tried but had neglected to do this time...

密码，每隔几天就会被疯狂的坏人攻击。 真正的越野旅行包括盯着窗外几个小时，想知道还要多久才能“到达目的地”。 我冒昧地删去了无聊的部分，这样你就不用苦读这本书了，因为它就像一次真正的越野驾驶一样无聊。 欢迎你!为了打发时间，佩普检查了她笔记本上奇怪的新笔迹。 她盯着它看了很长时间，试图弄明白它可能意味着什么…… 她通常采用的那些复杂的策略似乎都对这只猫不起作用。 大约过了一个小时，佩普发现她的眼睛发沉，很快她就睡着了，笔记本掉在脚上。 可乐把它捡起来，看了看密码。 为了好玩，他把它倒着写了出来，这是他妹妹通常会做的，但这次却忘记了……

BRAVOUNIFORMLIMALIMA ALPHAROMEODELTA Coke's eye widened. Wait a minute! There were words in there! He drew slashes in the obvious places. BRAVO/UNIFORM/LIMA/LIMA/ALPHA/ROM Then he poked his sister awake. "I got it!" he whispered after she opened her eyes. "Look! There are words in there. And Alpha Romeo is a kind of car. Just like Volkswagen." Pep took the notepad to see what he had written. "It's not the car, you dope!" she said. "This is the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet." "The what?" A -ALPHA B -BRAVO C -CHARLIE D -DELTA E -ECHO F -FOXTROT G -GOLF H -HOTEL

可口可乐睁大了眼睛。 等一下！里面有文字！他在明显的地方画了斜杠。 然后他把妹妹捅醒。 “我明白了！”她睁开眼睛后，他低声说。 “看!里面有文字。 阿尔法罗密欧是一种汽车。 就像大众一样。”佩普拿起记事本，想看看自己写了些什么。 “不是车的问题，你这个笨蛋！”她说。 “这是国际无线电话拼写字母表。” “什么?”A -alpha b -bravo c -charlie d -delta e -echo f -foxtrot g -golf h -hotel

I -INDIA J -JULIETT K -KILO L -LIMA M -MIKE N -NOVEMBER O -OSCAR P -PAPA Q -QUEBEC R -ROMEO S -SIERRA T -TANGO U -UNIFORM V -VICTOR W -WHISKEY X -X-RAY Y -YANKEE Z -ZULU "It's a simple code the military uses so they can relay messages clearly," Pep told him. "You know how in war movies they're always talking into headsets and saying, 'alpha,' 'bravo,' 'charlie,' and stuff like that? They're using words to represent letters to make sure the person at the other end is hearing them right." "How do you know that?" Coke asked. "Everybody knows that," Pep replied. "I didn't know that," Coke said. "So you're saying that BRAVO means B, and UNIFORM

佩普告诉他：“这是军方使用的一种简单的密码，这样他们就可以清楚地传递信息。” “你知道在战争电影里，他们总是对着耳机说‘阿尔法’、‘好’、‘查理’之类的话吗？” 他们用单词来代表字母，以确保另一端的人听对了。” “你怎么知道的？”可口可乐问道。 “每个人都知道，”佩普回答。 “我不知道，”可口可乐说。 “所以你是说‘B’意味着‘B’和‘制服’

means U "Right," Pep said. "And LIMA means L. ALPHA means A. ROMEO means R. And DELTA means D. So BRAVO UNIFORM LIMA LIMA ALPHA ROMEO DELTA is B-U-L-L-A-R-D." "Are you sure that's right?" Coke asked. "BULLARD?" "That's what it says," his sister replied. "Now all we need to do is find out what BULLARD means." "Google it," Coke said. "Mom!" Mrs. McDonald handed her laptop back to the twins. "I'm so pleased to see you kids working hard on your summer homework assignments," she said. Coke and Pep rolled their eyes at each other. Their parents were hopeless. Coke did a search for BULLARD. It turned up a company that makes protective equipment,

“对，”佩普说。 LIMA的意思是l， ALPHA的意思是A。 ROMEO代表r， DELTA代表D。 所以b队制服LIMA LIMA ALPHA ROMEO DELTA是B-U-L-L-A-R-D。” “你确定那是对的吗？”可口可乐问道。 “布拉德?”“上面是这么说的，”他妹妹回答。 “现在我们要做的就是弄清楚BULLARD是什么意思。” “听着，”可口可乐说。“妈妈!”麦克唐纳太太把她的笔记本电脑还给了双胞胎。 “我很高兴看到你们在努力做暑假作业，”她说。 可口可乐和佩普互相翻了个白眼。 他们的父母无可救药。 可口可乐搜索了BULLARD。 它找到了一家生产防护设备的公司，