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Chapter 21 Team Kyle's bookmobile ride from Olympia Village to the Lemoncello Library was extremely quiet on the second morning of the competition. Finally, Akimi spoke up. "Wonder what kind of wacky games we can lose today." "Both of them," said Miguel. "And it'll probably be my fault again, too." Kyle was also feeling pretty low. But since he was still the team's captain, he decided he needed to give a pep talk. Maybe he could even convince himself that they still had a shot.

第21章比赛的第二天早上，凯尔队从奥林匹亚村到莱蒙切罗图书馆的图书流动车非常安静。 最后，明美开口了。“不知道我们今天会输掉什么样的古怪比赛。” “两个都是。”米格尔说。 “而且很可能又是我的错。” 凯尔的情绪也很低落。 但由于他仍然是球队的队长，他决定要给大家打气。 也许他甚至可以说服自己，他们还有机会。

"Take it easy, you guys," he said. "Look—if you were playing Mr. Lemoncello's Family Frenzy and the first and second time you rolled the dice, you landed on Sewer Repairs and Dog Pound, would you quit?" "Yes," said Akimi. "I'd consider it an omen." "I wouldn't," said Sierra. "Especially since you still have so many more turns to go before anyone wins." "Exactly," said Kyle. "Well, we've got ten more turns. Right now, the score is Pacific one, Midwest one. All we have to do is win one game and we're tied for first place." Miguel stroked his chin. "Hmm. When you put it like that…" "We're still currently tied for last place," said Akimi. "So is everybody else," said Kyle as the bookmobile pulled up to the front of the library. "So let's go in there and change that!" "Fine," said Akimi, who was pretty immune to pep talks. "Whatever."

“别紧张，伙计们，”他说。 “听着——如果你在玩莱蒙切罗先生的《疯狂家庭》，第一次和第二次掷骰子时，你选的是《下水道维修》和《狗窝》，你会退出吗?”“是的，”明美说。 “我认为这是一个预兆。” “我不会的，”西拉说。 “特别是在有人获胜之前，你还有很多回合要走。” “没错，”凯尔说。“好吧，我们还有十次机会。 现在的比分是太平洋一比中西部一比。 我们所要做的就是赢得一场比赛，然后我们就并列第一了。” 米格尔抚摸着自己的下巴。“嗯。 “我们目前仍然并列最后一名，”明美说。 “每个人都是这样，”凯尔说，这时移动图书车停到了图书馆前面。 “那就让我们进去改变这一切吧!”“很好，”明美说，她对鼓舞人心的话很免疫。 “不管”。

The setup in the Rotunda Reading Room was slightly different for the second day of the competition. The two circles of desks closest to the center of the room had been roped off to the crowd of spectators, many of whom were now upstairs on the second and third floors with the news cameras, peering down at the action from the upper decks. Kyle noticed that Mr. Peckleman, the motel owner, was in the crowd clustered at the remaining tables on the first floor. He was staring up at the Wonder Dome in awe. "Ah, the sandhill crane migration!" Kyle heard him exclaim to nobody in particular. "Isn't it marvelous?" The entire underbelly of the Wonder Dome had been transformed into a fluttering flock of birds, soaring across an unbelievably blue sky, swooping through a clay-colored desert landscape. "Welcome, bookworms!" Kyle looked up.

比赛第二天，圆形大厅阅览室的设置略有不同。 离房间中心最近的两圈桌子被用绳子隔开，供观众观看，其中许多人现在在二楼和三楼，拿着新闻摄像机，从楼上的甲板上俯视着下面的活动。 凯尔注意到，汽车旅馆的老板佩克曼先生也在一层剩下的几张桌子旁。 他敬畏地仰望着神奇巨蛋。 “啊，沙丘鹤迁徙了!”凯尔听到他对着一个人叫。 “这不是很奇妙吗?”神奇圆顶的整个下腹部都变成了一群飞翔的鸟儿，翱翔在令人难以置信的蓝天上，飞过一片粘土色的沙漠景观。 “欢迎,书呆子!”凯尔抬起头来。

Mr. Lemoncello had just climbed on top of the balcony railing outside his private suite—on the third floor! He was wearing a leather aviator helmet with goggles and had a pair of feathered wings strapped to his back. "Today," announced Mr. Lemoncello, "in our third and fourth games, you will use the library to help your imagination take flight, much as I am about to do." "No!" screamed Mrs. Lonni Gause, the frazzled holographic librarian, who popped into view behind the circulation desk. "Don't jump! You'll end up a heap of crumpled bones, just like the old library ended up a heap of crushed rubble! And they'll be back! The book haters with their bulldozers! They always come back! I hear them rumbling up Main Street now!" "Fear not, Mrs. Gause," cried Mr. Lemoncello. "If anyone should ever again threaten this library, I will fly to its aid, much as I should've flown to it all those years ago. But alas, I was too busy doing business in Beijing to come home and save my beloved library, leaving you to

莱蒙切罗先生刚刚爬上了他私人套房外的阳台栏杆——在三楼!他戴着一顶带护目镜的皮革飞行员头盔，背上绑着一对羽毛翅膀。 “今天，”莱蒙塞罗先生宣布，“在我们的第三和第四场比赛中，你们将利用图书馆来放飞自己的想象力，就像我即将做的那样。” “不!”疲惫不堪的全息图书管理员朗尼·高斯夫人尖叫道，她突然出现在借阅台后面。 “别跳!你会变成一堆碎骨头，就像旧图书馆变成一堆碎石一样!他们会回来的!讨厌书的人和他们的推土机!他们总是会回来!我现在听见他们隆隆地驶上主街了!”“别害怕，高斯夫人，”莱蒙切罗先生喊道。 “如果再有人威胁这个图书馆，我会飞过去帮助它，就像多年前我飞过去帮助它一样。 可惜，我在北京忙着做生意，没时间回家拯救我心爱的图书馆，把你留给

ask, 'Where's Waldo?' even though my first name was, and still is, Luigi. Moving on. I'd like to quote the lyrics of Rodgers and Hammerstein— something that's extremely easy to do when you're in a library near 782.14 and all those magnificent Broadway show tunes—'I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly!' " Mr. Lemoncello leapt off the railing. Two thousand spectators gasped. Several hid their eyes. Too bad. They missed the whole thing. Mr. Lemoncello floated in a graceful arc, then soared up to join the migrating Canadian geese now flocking in a V formation on the Wonder Dome video screens. After leading the geese toward Montreal, Mr. Lemoncello drifted down to buzz and salute the statues perched atop the pillars at the base of the dome. The holographic heroes were different again. Kyle turned around so he could read all their names: Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Neil Armstrong, Bessie Coleman, Jimmy Doolittle, Howard Hughes, Sally Ride, Billy

问:“沃尔多在哪里?”尽管我的名字过去是，现在也是，路易吉。 在移动。我想引用罗杰斯和汉默斯坦(Rodgers and Hammerstein)的歌词——当你在782.14附近的图书馆和所有那些华丽的百老汇演出曲调时，这是非常容易做到的——“我飞翔，我漂浮，我迅速逃离，我飞翔!”’”莱蒙切罗从栏杆上跳了下来。 两千名观众倒抽了一口气。 有几个人藏起了眼睛。太糟糕了。 他们错过了整个过程。 莱蒙切罗以优美的弧线飘浮，然后飞起来，加入正在迁徙的加拿大鹅的行列。现在，在“奇迹巨蛋”(Wonder Dome)的大屏幕上，这些加拿大鹅正成群结队地排成V字形。 在领着大雁前往蒙特利尔之后，莱蒙塞罗慢慢地走下来，向圆顶底部柱子上的雕像嗡嗡作响，并向它们敬礼。 全息英雄们又变了。 凯尔转过身来，念出了所有人的名字:阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特、查尔斯·林德伯格、尼尔·阿姆斯特朗、贝西·科尔曼、吉米·杜立特、霍华德·休斯、莎莉·莱德、比利

Mitchell, the Tuskegee Airmen, and some kind of monk whose pedestal was labeled "Eilmer of Malmesbury." "They're all famous aviators," said Miguel as Mr. Lemoncello executed a tucked-knee roll and soared around the rotunda like Peter Pan. Actually, he flew exactly like the star of a touring production of Peter Pan that Kyle had seen at the civic center. Because now, in the shafts of sunlight streaming through the arched windows at the base of the dome, Kyle could see cables hooked to a harness under Mr. Lemoncello's wings. As he spread out his arms and fluttered toward the floor, the audience applauded wildly. "Thank you, thank you," said Mr. Lemoncello when his feet finally touched down. He slipped out of his flying harness, and his wings shot back up toward the ceiling. "Yowza! That's almost as much fun as the hover ladders. Almost. Teams, your first challenge

米切尔，塔斯基吉飞行员，还有某个神坛上写着"马姆斯伯里的艾尔默"的僧侣 “他们都是著名的飞行员，”米格尔说。莱蒙切罗蜷起膝盖，像彼得·潘(Peter Pan)一样在圆形大厅里盘旋。 事实上，他的飞行方式和凯尔在市政中心看到的彼得·潘巡回演出中的明星一模一样。 因为现在，从穹顶底部的拱形窗户射进来的缕缕阳光中，凯尔可以看到莱蒙切罗先生翅膀下的安全带上挂着电缆。 当他张开双臂，拍打着翅膀走向地板时，观众们疯狂地鼓掌。 “谢谢，谢谢，”莱蒙切罗的脚终于落地了，他说。 他从飞行吊带上滑了下来，他的翅膀猛地飞向天花板。 “Yowza !这几乎和悬停梯子一样有趣。 几乎。各队，你们的第一个挑战