Chapter 6

Chapter Six Quint wakes me up and I groan. "Dude, I was in the middle of a dream! I was in a big field and I was riding Rover and I was swinging the Louisville Slicer and it was warm and I had a cool mustache. Can you just let me go back to sleep?"

第六章昆特唤醒了我，我呻吟着。 “老兄，我刚刚还在做梦呢！”我在一片大田野里，我骑着罗孚，摇着路易斯维尔切片机，天气很暖和，我留着很酷的胡子。 你能让我继续睡觉吗？”

But Quint says, "I think I know how to find the Villainess." "SAY WHAT?" I instantly leap to my feet. Quint smiles and holds up the card that the Villainess dropped. I completely forgot about it! "It's a library card!" Quint says. "We can get her name at the library! And maybe her address!" "And that'll lead us to her. And to the Louisville Slicer!" I say. "LET'S DO THIS." I try to gather the squad—but they're busy. June is plotting how best to explain Christmas to the monsters. "I don't want it to be lousy like the fishing or the snowmen or ice skating," she explains. "I want to introduce them to Christmas so perfectly that they have to love it." Meanwhile, Dirk is working on Big Mama. Who knows why he's bothering. We already know it can't make it all the way to New York until the snow passes. Maybe he's polishing it or putting on some cool spinning rims or something. It's all good, though, 'cause now it'll be a... CLASSIC QUINT & JACK DUO ESCAPADE!

但昆特说：“我想我知道如何找到恶女。” “你说什么?”我立刻跳了起来。 昆特笑了笑，举起了恶女掉落的卡片。 我完全忘了！“这是一张借书证！”五度音说。 “我们可以在图书馆找到她的名字！”也许还有她的地址！”“这样我们就能找到她了。 为路易斯维尔切片机干杯！”我说。 “我们开始吧。”我试着召集小队——但他们很忙。 琼正在策划如何最好地向怪物们解释圣诞节。 “我不希望它像钓鱼、堆雪人或滑冰那样糟糕，”她解释道。 “我想把他们完美地介绍给圣诞节，让他们爱上它。” 与此同时，德克正在为“大妈”工作。 谁知道他为什么来烦我。 我们已经知道，在雪过去之前，它不可能一直运到纽约。 也许他在擦亮车或者装上一些很酷的旋转轮圈什么的。 不过一切都很好，因为现在它会… 经典的昆特和杰克二人冒险！

Quint has invented a way for us to get there. See, Rover does not like the snow. He's got sensitive paws or something. So Quint reveals... The winter HOVERBOARD! It's super rad. But I don't know why these things are called hoverboards. There is ZERO HOVERING. I've seen Back to the Future Part II and I know that a hoverboard is supposed to legit hover. This is a rolling balance thing. But, regardless—it's pretty awesome. Only problem, despite Quint's winterizing modifications, it's still a little slippery...

昆特发明了一种方法让我们到达那里。 你看，罗孚不喜欢雪。 他的爪子很敏感什么的。 所以昆特揭示了……冬季悬浮滑板！太棒了。 但我不知道为什么这些东西被称为悬浮滑板。 有零在盘旋。我看过《回到未来2》，我知道悬浮滑板应该是合法悬浮的。 这是一个滚动平衡。 但是，不管怎样，它还是非常棒的。 唯一的问题是，尽管昆特做了防寒改造，它还是有点滑……

—We arrive bruised and cold—and not eager to use hoverboards again. The library is an old building that's awesome, but also creepy. It was built in, like, the 1800s. I

我们遍体鳞伤，浑身冰凉，再也不想使用悬浮滑板了。 图书馆是一座很棒的老建筑，但也令人毛骨悚然。 大概建于19世纪吧。 我

don't know if you're good with dates and stuff like I am—but that's a long time ago. I scan for danger. I see none. I hear none. But I'm a post-apocalyptic action hero, so I know that doesn't mean there is none. "Steel yourself, Quint," I growl, as we roll toward the entrance. "Probably all manner of terror awaiting us." BAM. ALL right. Undead librarians. Zombie old folks trying to figure out the internet and monster-sized bookworms-Prepare to meet our fists or not,

我不知道你是否像我一样擅长约会，但那是很久以前的事了。 我扫描危险。我没有看到。 我没有听到。但我是一个后世界末日的动作英雄，所以我知道这并不意味着没有。 “打起精神来，昆特。”我们朝入口滚去，我吼道。 “可能有各种各样的恐怖在等着我们。” BAM。好吧。不死的图书馆员。 僵尸老人们试图弄清楚互联网和怪物大小的书呆子-准备好迎接我们的拳头吗？

We are greeted by zero undead librarians, no zombie old folks attempting to "surf the web," and no monster-sized bookworms, snakes, caterpillars, or Wormungulouses. "The coast is clear," Quint says. "So I'm getting to work!" He hops off his hoverboard and quickly goes behind the front desk. "I can't believe I'm getting a peek behind the library counter!" he says giddily. "It's a dream come true!" This is the stuff that gets my buddy excited. See, before I moved to Wakefield, Quint had zero friends. After I moved to Wakefield, he had one friend. (That friend was me, in case you were having trouble following the math.) But during those years where Quint had zero friends—he spent his time at the library. Libraries are awesome like that. They should have that Statue of Liberty sign out front—y'know, give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to read graphic novels. Libraries rule because everyone's welcome!

迎接我们的没有不死的图书管理员，没有试图“上网冲浪”的僵尸老人，也没有怪物大小的书虫、蛇、毛毛虫或虫虫。 昆特说：“形势已经明朗。 “所以我要开始工作了！”他跳下悬浮滑板，迅速走到前台后面。 “我真不敢相信我能看到图书馆柜台后面的东西！”他得意地说。 “梦想成真了！”这是让我哥们兴奋的东西。 在我搬到维克菲尔德之前，昆特一个朋友都没有。 我搬到韦克菲尔德后，他只有一个朋友。 （那个朋友就是我，以防你在数学上有困难。）但在昆特没有朋友的那些年里，他把时间都花在了图书馆里。 图书馆真是太棒了。 他们应该在门口挂个自由女神像的牌子——我知道，给我们你那些疲惫、贫穷、蜷缩在一起渴望阅读漫画小说的人们。 图书馆的统治是因为每个人都受欢迎！