2 A Robot, a Dream, and a Spitball

Chapter Two A Robot, a Dream, and a Spitball Finn, Abigail, Elias, and Vale were not just an explorer troop: they were also best friends. They had been since they were little, when they'd play hide-and-seek on the captain's bridge. Finn and Abigail liked to hide in the Marlowe's map room. Elias would sneak into the robot room to watch the engineers work. Vale would look all over for them, armed with a straw full of spitballs. As they got older, their parents saw that the four of them were a great team and put them together into Explorers Troop 301. They began training to explore the galaxy. Finn discovered that his love of puzzles could serve him well on an alien planet. Elias got to tinker with robots, and Vale discovered a love of battles. (Well, simulated

芬恩、阿比盖尔、伊莱亚斯和维尔不仅是一支探险队，他们也是最好的朋友。 他们从小就在一起，那时他们在船长的桥上玩捉迷藏。 芬恩和阿比盖尔喜欢躲在马洛的地图室里。 伊莱亚斯会偷偷溜进机器人室看工程师们工作。 维尔会拿着一根装满痰盂的吸管到处找他们。 随着年龄的增长，他们的父母发现他们四个是一个伟大的团队，并将他们组成了301探险队。 他们开始训练探索银河系。 芬恩发现，他对谜题的热爱在一个陌生的星球上也能派上用场。 伊莱亚斯开始摆弄机器人，瓦尔发现了对战斗的热爱。 (好吧,模拟

battles, like video games. He wasn't quite as brave on strange planets.) It was clear from the start that Abigail was their leader. She had the most courage, she had the most sense, and, unlike her friends, she could make a decision in less than twenty minutes. The four of them trained for hours together on the Marlowe. When they weren't practicing, they were playing practical jokes on each other (like the time Vale filled Finn's space helmet with mint jelly and told him it was alien slime). The biggest day for a kid on the Marlowe, though, was their eighth birthday, when they got their very own robot. Troop 301 hadn't been complete until Finn's eighth birthday, when he got a robot built especially for him: Foggy. Elias had helped his parents build Foggy, pulling the design from his overstuffed notebook of robot drawings. Foggy wasn't a high-speed, high-tech robot with laser cannons and supersonic jets. In fact, his head looked like a wedge of cheese balanced on top of a pencil. But he had something hardwired into him, something that no amount of plug-ins or add-ons could give him. Foggy had a love of adventure. Which was probably why, when those

战斗，就像电子游戏。 他在陌生的星球上就没那么勇敢了。)很明显从一开始阿比盖尔就是他们的领袖。 她最有勇气，最有见识，而且不像她的朋友，她能在不到二十分钟的时间内做出决定。 他们四个人在马洛号上一起训练了几个小时。 当他们不练习的时候，他们就会互相开玩笑（就像威尔在芬恩的太空头盔里装满薄荷果冻，告诉他那是外星人的黏液一样）。 对马洛河上的孩子来说，最重要的一天是他们的八岁生日，那天他们得到了自己的机器人。 直到芬恩八岁生日，301部队才完成，那时他得到了一个专门为他建造的机器人：福吉。 伊莱亚斯帮助他的父母建造了福吉，他从塞满机器人图纸的笔记本里抽出设计图。 福吉不是一个拥有激光炮和超音速喷气机的高速高科技机器人。 事实上，他的头看起来就像一支铅笔顶上的一块楔形奶酪。 但他身上有一种与生俱来的东西，这种东西是任何插件或附加组件都无法给他的。 福吉喜欢冒险。 这可能是为什么，当那些

three giant aliens charged at the kids and the four of them got ready to scatter, Foggy yelled, "Tallyho!" and flew straight at the monsters.

三个巨大的外星人冲向孩子们，他们四个准备散开，福吉喊道：“塔利霍！”然后径直向怪物飞去。

It wasn't his best idea.

这不是他的好主意。