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Chapter 35 Kyle dashed across the marble floor. So did Stephanie Youngerman, the girl from Boise. And Elliott Schilpp, the skinny genius from Maryland who had won the pizza-eating contest. Uh-oh, thought Kyle. The Mid-Atlantic team already has one medal. If they win this game, they actually have a shot at being crowned champions. Kyle ran faster. Fortunately, there were eight hover ladders, one for each team, lined up under the three-story-tall bookcases.

凯尔冲过大理石地板。 斯蒂芬妮·扬格曼也是，那个来自博伊西的女孩。 还有埃利奥特·席尔普(Elliott Schilpp)，这位来自马里兰州的瘦天才赢得了吃披萨比赛。 哦哦，凯尔想。中大西洋队已经获得了一枚奖牌。 如果他们赢了这场比赛，他们就有机会获得冠军。 凯尔跑得更快了。幸运的是，在三层楼高的书架下面，排列着八个悬停梯子，每个队一个。

"Only one ladder per team," announced Dr. Zinchenko. The instant she did, each of the other teams sent someone scurrying over to float up the fiction wall. Even if they didn't know what book they were looking for, they knew it wasn't in any of the Dewey decimal rooms now that the hover ladders had more or less been declared game pieces. Kyle reached for a hover ladder. But Marjory Muldauer grabbed its handles first. "Sorry, Keeley. This ride is taken." So were the next three down in either direction. Thanks to Marjory Muldauer, Kyle would have to dash to the very end of the line. He ran past Stephanie Youngerman, who was furiously tapping in the winning code on her hover ladder's control pad. Elliott Schilpp was jabbing in a number, too. Stephanie Youngerman lifted off first. By the time Kyle reached his hover ladder and typed in the book code and waited for the

“每队只有一个梯子。” Zinchenko。她一这么做，其他队伍都派了一个人跑过去，顺着小说墙往上漂。 即使他们不知道他们要找的是什么书，他们也知道它不在杜威十进制的房间里，因为盘旋的梯子或多或少被宣布为游戏棋子。 凯尔伸手去拿悬停梯子。 但马乔里·穆尔道尔先抓住了把手。 “对不起,基利。这趟车已经有人了。” 接下来的三个方向都是这样。 多亏了玛乔丽·穆尔道尔，凯尔才不得不冲到终点。 他跑过斯蒂芬妮·扬格曼(Stephanie Youngerman)，她正疯狂地在悬停梯的控制台上敲着获胜密码。 艾略特·席尔普也插进了一个数字。 斯蒂芬妮·扬格曼第一个起飞。 当凯尔到达他的悬停梯子，输入书的代码，等待

safety boots to clamp shut around his shins, three other teams were already floating up the wall: Mountain, Mid-Atlantic, and, of course, Marjory Muldauer for Midwest. Kyle's platform finally drifted up from the floor and set off on a diagonal tangent for the 2014 Newbery Medal winner—and a very possible midair collision with the three other players, who were all aiming for the same target. To his left, Kyle heard keys clacking. Marjory Muldauer was typing a different code into her pad. Her hover ladder stuttered to a stop, then shot sideways at a forty-five-degree angle. Kyle stayed on his direct trajectory to Flora and Ulysses, but within seconds, his hover ladder's infrared collision sensors picked up the approach of Marjory's platform. "Yield to traffic," cooed a computerized voice from the tiny speaker in Kyle's control panel. Marjory thumbed her red emergency stop button.

另外三支队伍已经上浮了:山地队、中大西洋队，当然还有中西部队的马乔里·穆尔道尔。 凯尔的跳台最终从地板上飘了起来，沿着2014年纽伯瑞奖得主的对角线出发，很可能与其他三名瞄准同一个目标的球员在半空中相撞。 在他的左边，凯尔听到了钥匙的咔嗒声。 玛乔丽·穆尔道尔在她的笔记本上输入了不同的密码。 她的悬停梯子磕磕绊绊地停了下来，然后以45度角向侧面倾斜。 凯尔继续沿着飞向弗洛拉和尤利西斯的航线飞行，但几秒钟后，他的悬停梯子的红外碰撞传感器就探测到了玛乔丽的平台。 “对交通让步。”凯尔控制面板上的小扬声器里传来一个电脑控制的声音。 玛乔丽按下了红色的紧急停止按钮。

Her hover ladder froze, right where it would block Kyle's ascent. "Yield to traffic." His hover ladder's safety features had put him in a lockdown mode. Marjory pretended to be studying the books in front of her. "That's not where the book we're looking for is and you know it!" Kyle shouted at her. Marjory didn't say a word. In fact, she looked a little airsick. Kyle twisted his body so he could see around Marjory's stalled ladder and watch the final seconds of the race to F.D545f 2013. Stephanie Youngerman's hover ladder screeched to a halt and she shot out her arm to grab the book. Then she started sliding books around on the shelf. Shoving them sideways. Looking behind them. "I'm here!" she shouted. "But the book isn't." The crowd of spectators gasped.

她的悬停梯子冻结了，正好在阻挡凯尔上升的地方。 “服从交通。”他的悬停梯子的安全功能使他处于锁定模式。 玛乔丽假装在研究她面前的书。 “我们要找的书不在那儿，你知道的!”凯尔对她大喊大叫。 玛乔丽一句话也没说。 事实上，她看起来有点晕机。 凯尔扭了扭身子，这样他就能看到玛乔丽那架停了的梯子周围的情况，并观看前往F.D545f 2013的最后几秒比赛。 斯蒂芬妮·扬格曼的悬停梯子嘎吱一声停了下来，她伸出手臂去抓书。 然后她开始在书架上滑动书。 把他们推到一边。看看他们身后。 “我在这儿!”她喊道。“但这本书不是。” 观众们倒吸了一口气。

Mr. Lemoncello surprised all the floaters by swinging open a window-sized door cut into the bookcases. He poked his head out maybe three feet away from where Flora and Ulysses was supposed to be shelved. "I beg your pardon?" "Flora and Ulysses," said Stephanie Youngerman. "The 2014 Newbery winner. It's not here. Kate DiCamillo's other books are. Because of Winn-Dixie. The Tale of Despereaux. But there's only an empty gap where Flora and Ulysses is supposed to be." "But this is impossible," said Mr. Lemoncello. "Dr. Zinchenko? Don't we have two dozen copies of that book?" "Three, sir," said Dr. Zinchenko after popping open another window in the bookcase. "They are all checked out. That was our last copy." "This is preposterous!" declared Mrs. Chiltington, striding forward to the front of the viewer gallery on the first floor. Her son Charles and a group of well-dressed ladies and one

莱蒙切罗打开了一扇插在书架上的窗户大小的门，出乎所有人的意料。 他从离《弗洛拉和尤利西斯》应该摆放的地方大概三英尺远的地方探出头来。 “你说什么?”“弗洛拉和尤利西斯，”斯蒂芬妮·扬格曼说。 2014年纽伯瑞奖得主。不在这里。 凯特·迪卡米洛的其他书是。 因为温-迪克西。Despereaux的故事。 但是弗洛拉和尤利西斯应该在的地方只有一个空白。” “但这是不可能的，”莱蒙切罗说。 “Zinchenko博士?我们不是有二十多本这本书吗?”“三个，先生。” 津琴科打开了书架上的另一扇窗户。 “他们都结帐了。 那是我们的最后一份。”“这太荒谬了!”齐廷顿夫人大声说着，大步走到一楼观景廊的前面。 她的儿子查尔斯和一群穿着考究的女士还有一个

gentleman in a bow tie pushed their way forward with her. "Missing books? Silly dinosaur video games? Money wasted on talking statues and holograms and secret panels in bookcases that could've been more wisely spent on extra copies of popular children's books?" Mrs. Chiltington propped her hands on her hips and scowled up at Mr. Lemoncello. "This library is a disgrace, sir. An absolute disgrace!" "Perhaps you are right, Contessa Chiltington," said Mr. Lemoncello, sounding extremely sad—something Kyle had never heard him sound before. "A library without books? That is, indeed, a disgrace. An absolute disgrace."

打领结的绅士们推着她往前走。 “丢失的书吗?愚蠢的恐龙电子游戏? 把钱浪费在会说话的雕像、全息图和书架上的秘密嵌板上，这些钱本可以更明智地花在多买几本流行儿童读物上?”奇廷顿夫人双手叉腰，怒视着莱蒙切罗先生。 “这个图书室真丢人，先生。 真是丢人现眼!”“也许你是对的，奇尔廷顿伯爵夫人，”莱蒙切罗先生说，声音听起来非常悲伤——凯尔以前从来没有听过他这样说过。 “没有书的图书馆?”这的确是一种耻辱。 这绝对是耻辱。”