5 SEARCHING FOR GHOSTS

CHAPTER 5 SEARCHING FOR GHOSTS The fourth floor was creepy. There were no outside windows. Not where Kaz was, anyway. No bookshelves, either. Just a narrow, dimly lit hallway that circled the floor. The walls, floor, and ceiling were all painted a deep, dark red. "Hello? Are there any other ghosts on this floor?" Kaz called as he drifted in and out of meeting rooms. He didn't see any ghosts on the fourth floor.

第五章寻鬼四楼令人毛骨悚然。 外面没有窗户。 反正卡兹不在那里。 也没有书架。只有一条狭窄、灯光昏暗的走廊环绕着地板。 墙壁、地板和天花板都被漆成了深红色。 “喂?这层楼里还有别的鬼吗？”卡兹一边在会议室进进出出一边喊。 他没看见四楼有鬼。

He came to another set of stairs and swam down to the third floor. This floor was a lot brighter than the fourth floor. The ceiling and slanted glass walls went up, up, up to the top floor of the library. There was another outside entrance to the library on this floor. And another checkout desk... an information desk... bookshelves... a store that sold cards and bags and a bunch of other stuff... a planter with real plants... and lots of places for solid people to sit and read. Words on a concrete wall told Kaz he was in a living room. There was a living room in the library back home, but that one was just for Claire and her family. It was in their apartment above the library. This living room looked like it was for everyone. Kaz wafted past the living room, through a section marked Teen Area, and up over a wall. There were several librarians working at desks back here. But no ghosts.

他来到另一段楼梯，游到了三楼。 这层楼比四楼明亮得多。 天花板和倾斜的玻璃墙一直上升，一直上升，一直上升到图书馆的顶层。 这层楼还有一个通往图书馆的外部入口。 还有另一个收银台…… 问讯处……书架…… 一家卖卡片、包和一堆其他东西的商店…… 一个种植真正植物的花盆…… 还有很多地方可以让人坐下来阅读。 水泥墙上的文字告诉卡兹他在客厅里。 家里的图书馆里有一间客厅，但那是克莱尔和她家人的房间。 在他们图书馆楼上的公寓里。 这个客厅看起来是为所有人准备的。 和子飘过客厅，穿过一个标有“青少年区”的区域，越过一堵墙。 后面有几个图书管理员在办公桌旁工作。 但是没有鬼。

Kaz went all the way to the end of the office area and returned to the main part of the library. He wafted past the checkout desk and saw a bright yellow escalator going down. He followed it, expecting to come out on the second floor. But somehow he was back on the first floor now. The door where they had come in was right in front of him. The elevators and children's center were to his right. And the checkout and returns were to his left. Where is the second floor? Kaz wondered. Well, he hadn't searched this floor yet. Maybe he'd find another escalator that led to the second floor somewhere on this floor. He continued past the checkout and returns area... past the reserves... and into the world languages area. There was writing on the wood floor here. Kaz couldn't read any of it because it was written backward. Some of it was even in other languages.

和子一直走到办公区的尽头，然后回到图书馆的主要部分。 他飘飘然走过收银台，看到一辆明黄色的自动扶梯正在往下开。 他跟着走，期待着能在二楼出来。 但不知怎么的，他现在又回到了一楼。 他们进来的那扇门就在他面前。 电梯和儿童中心在他的右边。 结账和退货都在他的左边。 第二层在哪里？ Kaz很好奇。他还没搜过这层楼。 也许他会在这层的某个地方找到另一个通往二楼的自动扶梯。 他继续走过结账和退货区…… 越过储备金……进入世界语言领域。 这里的木地板上有字。 卡兹一点也看不懂，因为是倒着写的。 有些甚至是用其他语言写的。

He drifted in and out of small storage rooms, in and out of restrooms, and through a dark auditorium beside the children's center. Still no ghosts. No secret escalator to the second floor, either. Kaz glanced over at the checkout and returns area. He stared at the strange machine that carried books up through an opening in the ceiling. Wait. Maddie said that books were sorted on the second floor. Maybe you could get to the second floor by following that machine. Kaz swam over. He sailed up, up, up along the conveyor belt and through the ceiling. Aha! This was a new part of the library. This must be the second floor. Kaz watched books move along several conveyor belts. Sometimes the books fell into bins. Sometimes they rode the conveyor belt to another bin. How do the books know where to go? Kaz wondered.

他在小储藏室里进进出出，在卫生间里进进出出，穿过儿童中心旁边一个黑暗的礼堂。 还是没有鬼。也没有通往二楼的秘密自动扶梯。 卡兹扫了一眼收银台和退货区。 他盯着那台奇怪的机器，它把书从天花板上的一个开口送上去。 等待。麦蒂说书是在二楼分类的。 也许你可以顺着机器走到二楼。 卡兹游了过去。他沿着传送带向上，向上，向上，穿过天花板。 啊哈!这是图书馆的新部分。 这一定是二楼。 和子看着书沿着几条传送带移动。 有时书会掉到箱子里。 有时他们会乘坐传送带到另一个垃圾箱。 书是怎么知道去哪里的？ Kaz很好奇。

There were several solid people in here who watched computer screens, pushed buttons on machines, and wheeled carts in and out of the room. Kaz followed one of those people to some sort of loading area. There was a big garage door that was open to the Outside. Kaz quickly backstroked out of there. He didn't want to get blown into the Outside. He searched the rest of the second floor. There were no ghosts here, either. "Hi, Kaz!" Little John waved from the back of the children's center. "Did you find any ghosts?" "No," Kaz replied. "Did you?" "No. But I found a secret room," Little John said. "It's in there." He pointed at a slanted mustard-colored wall below him. Kaz hadn't noticed that room before. But as he wafted over, he realized it wasn't totally secret. Not like the secret room in the library back home.

这里有几个结实的人，他们看着电脑屏幕，按机器上的按钮，推着手推车进出房间。 卡兹跟着其中一个人去了某个装货区。 有一扇大大的车库门是开着的。 卡兹很快仰泳离开了那里。 他不想被吹到外面去。 他搜遍了二楼的其他地方。 这里也没有鬼。 “嗨,Kaz !”小约翰在儿童中心后面挥手。 “你找到鬼了吗？”“不，”卡兹回答。 “你呢?”“没有。但我发现了一个秘密房间，”小约翰说。 “就在里面。”他指着下面一堵倾斜的芥末色墙。 卡兹以前没有注意到那个房间。 但当他飘过去时，他意识到这并不完全是秘密。 不像我们家图书馆的密室。