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Chapter 31 "Surprise!" cried Mr. Lemoncello. Marjory was standing on one side of the motel's swimming pool with the other contestants and their coaches. The blithering buffoon, Mr. Lemoncello, and his head librarian, Dr. Zinchenko, were standing on the other. "As a library reaches out to the community surrounding it," said the bizarro billionaire, "so do the games of the first Library Olympiad! "So we're, like, gonna be playing game number nine right here?" said the blond boy from

“惊喜!”莱蒙切罗先生叫道。 玛乔丽站在汽车旅馆游泳池的一边，和其他选手以及他们的教练站在一起。 喋喋不休的小丑莱蒙切罗先生和他的图书管理员主管。 津琴科站在另一边。 这位古怪的亿万富翁说:“当图书馆向周围的社区伸出援手时，第一届图书馆奥林匹克运动会也会这样做!“所以我们要在这里玩第9个游戏了?

California, whom Marjory had already decided was an idiot. "Tonight?" "Absolutamundo," said Mr. Lemoncello. "And although it's not easy being bad, this next game is. Easy, not bad. Then again, I already know all the answers, which makes any quiz easier, wouldn't you agree?" Dr. Zinchenko tapped a switch box with the toe of her red high-heeled shoe. An electric air pump varoomed to life to inflate an enormous movie screen that rose beside her like a giant gorilla balloon outside a used-car lot. "Our ninth game," said Dr. Zinchenko, "is inspired by the Dewey decimal classification 510." "Mathematics!" shouted Marjory a half second before anybody else. "Correct," said the librarian. "Solve two of these mathematically inspired picture puzzles before any of the other teams and you will earn our ninth medal, the Rebus!" "Remember," said Mr. Lemoncello, "you only need two to win, which means we need at

加州，玛乔丽已经认定他是个白痴了。 “今晚?”“绝对正确，”莱蒙切罗说。 “虽然做坏人并不容易，但下一场比赛却很容易。 很简单，还不错。再说一次，我已经知道所有的答案了，这让任何测验都更容易了，你同意吗?”博士。 津琴科用她的红色高跟鞋的脚趾敲了敲开关箱。 一个电动气泵启动了，给她身边的一个巨大的电影屏幕充气，就像二手车市场外的一个巨大的大猩猩气球。 “我们的第九场比赛。” 灵感来自杜威十进分类法510 “数学!”马乔里比其他人早半秒喊道。 “对，”图书管理员说。 “在其他队伍之前，先解决其中两个以数学为灵感的图片谜题，你将获得我们的第九枚奖牌——雷布斯!”“记住，”莱蒙塞罗先生说，“你只需要两个就能赢，这意味着我们需要两个

least nine puzzles. I think. I'll have to ask Morris. the moose. He's good with math. Anyway, here it is, your first puzzle! Dr. Zinchenko?" She read from a stack of yellow note cards. "Name this fortress of intellectual freedom fighters." Mr. Lemoncello snapped his fingers and the fully inflated video screen displayed an equation made up of pictures: Marjory thought the game was absurd, but her mind went to work anyway. It was like a math equation. LION plus BEAR plus GUY WITH STACK OF BOOKS minus ONE minus CAR equaled what? No. Wait. The third symbol had to be just one word, like all the others. The guy was carrying the

至少九个谜题。我认为。 我得问问莫里斯。麋鹿。 他数学很好。不管怎样，这就是你的第一个谜题!博士。 Zinchenko ?”她读着一叠黄色的卡片。 “说出这座知识分子自由战士的堡垒。” 莱蒙切罗打了个响指，膨胀的视频屏幕显示了一个由图片组成的方程式:马乔里觉得这个游戏很荒谬，但她的大脑还是开始工作了。 这就像一个数学方程式。 狮子+熊+带着一摞书的人减去一减去汽车等于什么? 不。等待。第三个符号必须像其他符号一样只有一个单词。 那家伙拿着

books. CARRY? Marjory added and subtracted the letters as quickly as she could. She mashed the letters all together: LIONBEARCARRY minus ONECAR. That left L, I, B, A, R, R, Y. An extremely easy word jumble. "A library!" she shouted an instant before Kyle Keeley shouted it, too. "I heard Miss Muldauer first," said Mr. Lemoncello. "That's one for the Midwest, America's heartland, home of all this great nation's Valentine's Day decorations. Well done!" Marjory smirked. If she could figure out one more puzzle, she'd win this game and, once again, be tied for first place. She no longer needed to win Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics for the scholarship money. But since she was already in the game, she wouldn't mind crushing Kyle Keeley.

书。携带吗?玛乔丽尽可能快地加减字母。 她把这些字母混在一起:LIONBEARCARRY减去ONECAR。 剩下L I B A R R Y。 一个极其简单的单词混乱。 “图书馆!”在凯尔·基利也喊出来之前，她喊了一声。 “我是先听穆尔道尔小姐说的，”莱蒙切罗先生说。 这是给中西部的，美国的心脏地带，这个伟大国家所有情人节装饰品的发源地。 做得好!”玛乔丽傻笑。 如果她能再解出一个谜题，她就会赢得这场游戏，再一次并列第一。 她不再需要为了奖学金而赢得莱蒙切罗先生的图书馆奥林匹克。 但既然她已经在比赛中了，她不介意打败凯尔·基利。