7 Chapter 7

Chapter 7 Early in the second week of January, each member of Team Kyle received a thick envelope in the mail. When they opened it, they found an engraved invitation:

在一月的第二个星期的早些时候，凯尔队的每个成员都收到了一封厚厚的信封。 当他们打开它时，发现了一张刻字的请柬:

SPLENDIFEROUS GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS! YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE HEREBY CHERRY CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF MY STUPENDOUS NEW NEWS. FRIDAY NIGHT SHALL WE SAY 7-ISH? THE ROTUNDA READING ROOM OF THE LEMONCELLO LIBRARY REFRESHMENTS SHALL BE SERVED, INCLUDING CHERRY CORDIALS. AND THERE WILL BE BALLOONS. REGARDS, LUIGI L. LEMONCELLO Friday evening, Kyle and his family piled into their minivan and drove downtown to the library. "Isn't this exciting?" said Kyle's mother. "I should've baked a cake."

热烈的问候和致敬!在此，我诚挚地邀请你和你的家人来宣布我的这个惊人的新消息。 星期五晚上7点怎么样? 圆形阅览室提供柠檬酒图书馆茶点，包括樱桃甜酒。 还会有气球。 星期五晚上，凯尔和他的家人挤进他们的小货车，开车去市中心的图书馆。 “这不是很令人兴奋吗?”凯尔的妈妈说。 “我应该烤个蛋糕的。”

"Any idea what the big announcement is?" asked his dad. "Not a clue," said Kyle. "But we're hoping Mr. Lemoncello is going to ask us to star in more TV commercials." "Please, no," moaned Kyle's brother Mike. "Your head's big enough already." Snowflakes swirled in the misty beams of light flooding the front of the domed building that used to be a bank until Mr. Lemoncello turned it into a library. Kyle noticed several TV news satellite trucks taking up the parking spaces along the curb. "You better get in there, Kyle," said his dad. "We'll go find a place to park." "Have fun!" added his mom. Kyle dashed up the marble steps and into the library's lobby. Miguel and Sierra were waiting for him near the life-size statue of Mr. Lemoncello perched atop a lily pad in a reflecting pool. The statue's head was tilted back so the bronze Mr.

“知道有什么重要的消息吗?”他爸爸问。 “不知道，”凯尔说。“但我们希望莱蒙塞罗先生会邀请我们出演更多的电视广告。” “求你了，不要，”凯尔的哥哥迈克呻吟道。 “你的头已经够大了。” 雪花在雾蒙蒙的光线中旋转，光线充斥着这座圆顶建筑的前部，这里曾经是一家银行，后来莱蒙切罗把它变成了一座图书馆。 凯尔注意到几辆电视新闻卫星车占据了路边的停车位。 “你最好进去，凯尔，”他爸爸说。 “我们去找个地方停车。” “玩得开心!”他妈妈补充道。 凯尔冲上大理石台阶，进入图书馆的大厅。 米格尔和西拉在真人大小的莱蒙塞罗先生雕像附近等着他。莱蒙塞罗先生雕像坐落在一个倒影池的睡莲花丛上。 雕像的头向后倾斜，所以青铜先生。

Lemoncello could squirt an arc of water out of his mouth like he was a human drinking fountain. His motto was chiseled into the statue's pedestal: KNOWLEDGE NOT SHARED REMAINS UNKNOWN. —LUIGI L. LEMONCELLO "Hey, Kyle!" exclaimed Miguel. "The place is packed. Everybody was invited! All twelve of the original players." "Including Charles Chiltington?" asked Kyle. "He's a no-show." "I hope Andrew Peckleman doesn't show up, either," said Sierra with a slight shiver. Peckleman had been Chiltington's ally in the escape game and had tricked Sierra out of her library card so he could spy on Team Kyle. "He was definitely invited," said Miguel. "But he won't be coming. Ever since he got kicked out of the game, Andrew doesn't really like

莱蒙塞洛可以从嘴里喷出一道弧形的水，就像一个人类饮水器一样。 他的座右铭被刻在雕像的基座上:不分享的知识仍然未知。 --路易·莱蒙塞洛：“嘿，凯尔！”米格尔喊道。 “这个地方挤满了人。每个人都被邀请了!全部十二名最初的球员。” “包括查尔斯·齐廷顿吗?”凯尔问。 “他没来。”“我也希望安德鲁·佩克曼不要出现。”西拉微微打了个寒颤。 佩克曼在逃跑游戏中是奇廷顿的盟友，他骗走了西拉的借书证，这样他就可以监视凯尔队了。 “他肯定被邀请了，”米格尔说。 “但是他不会来了。自从被踢出比赛后，安德鲁就不怎么喜欢

libraries. He even quit being a library aide at school." "That's sad," said Sierra. "You guys," said Akimi, coming in from the Rotunda Reading Room, "there's all sorts of TV news crews inside. Including that reporter from CNN." "Which one?" "The guy with the hair." "And there's food in the Book Nook Café," said Miguel. "Tons of it." "So why are we hanging out here?" said Kyle. "Let's go." The four friends hurried under the arch that led into the vast Rotunda Reading Room. The rotunda was packed. Clusters of brightly colored balloons were tethered to the green-shaded lamps on the reading desks. Hidden surround-sound speakers blasted a brassy, heroic fanfare. Overhead, the Wonder Dome was a fluttering display of fifty state flags flapping against a cloudless blue sky, where, for whatever reason, a

库。他甚至辞去了学校图书馆助理的工作。” “太悲哀了，”塞拉说。 “伙计们，”明美从圆形阅览室走了进来，说道，“里面有各种各样的电视新闻工作人员。 包括CNN的那个记者。” “哪一个?”“那个有头发的家伙。” 米格尔说:“书店里也有吃的。” “很多。”“那我们为什么在这里闲逛呢?”凯尔说。 “我们走吧。”四个朋友匆匆走过拱门，走进宽敞的圆形大厅阅览室。 圆形大厅里挤满了人。一串串色彩鲜艳的气球系在阅读桌上的绿罩灯上。 隐藏的环绕立体声扬声器轰鸣着铜管般的英雄号角。 头顶上，“神奇穹顶”上飘扬着五十个州的国旗，在万里无云的蓝天上飘扬

very muscular couple in ancient robes rode a chariot back and forth across the curved ceiling like it was a horse-drawn comet. They reminded Kyle of a Greek god and goddess straight out of the Percy Jackson books. "Wow," said Miguel. "Do you think Rick Riordan's going to be here? That would be so awesome!" All the animated action was displayed on ten wedge-shaped high-definition video screens—as luminous as any sports arena's scoreboard. They lined the underbelly of the building's colossal cathedral ceiling like glowing slices of pie. Each screen could showcase individual images or join with the other nine to create one spectacular presentation. "Whoa," said Akimi. "Check out the statues. They're hardly wearing any clothes." "And," Sierra said, "they look like they're made out of marble." "Right," said Akimi. "See-through marble." Tucked beneath the ten Wonder Dome screens in arched niches were ten 3-D statues

穿着古代长袍的一对肌肉发达的夫妇骑着战车在弯曲的天花板上来回穿梭，就像一颗由马牵引的彗星。 他们让凯尔想起了珀西·杰克逊书里的希腊神和女神。 “哇，”米格尔说。“你觉得里克·赖尔登会来吗?” 那太棒了!”所有的动画动作都显示在十个楔形的高清视频屏幕上——和任何体育场馆的记分牌一样明亮。 它们排列在大楼巨大的大教堂天花板的下腹部，就像发光的馅饼。 每个屏幕可以显示单独的图像，也可以与其他九个屏幕一起创建一个壮观的展示。 “哇，”明美说。“看看这些雕像。 他们几乎没穿衣服。” “而且，”塞拉说，“它们看起来像大理石做的。” “对，”明美说。“透明的大理石。” 在“奇迹穹顶”的十个拱形壁龛屏幕下面，藏着十个3d雕像