6 The hunt

Chapter 6 The hunt "It was DeLay," gasped Sarah. "The first guy in the blazer and the straw hat!" Luke was furious with himself for not figuring it out sooner. They had to get back that part so Tesla could do his demonstration!

“是迪莱干的，”萨拉喘着气说。 “第一个穿西装戴草帽的家伙！”卢克对自己没有早点弄明白这件事很生气。 他们必须把那个部件拿回来，这样特斯拉才能做他的演示！

Tesla pointed at Thomas Edison. "It was YOU!" he thundered. "YOU sabotaged me! You and your silly blazer striped like a child's lollipop!" Thomas Edison looked confounded. "Have we met?" he said. Tesla was working himself up into a terrible rage. "You pretend not to know me because you are jealous of my genius!"

特斯拉指着托马斯·爱迪生。 “是你！”他吼道。 “你给我捣乱！”你和你那愚蠢的运动上衣条纹像个孩子的棒棒糖！”托马斯·爱迪生看起来很困惑。 “我们见过面吗？”他说。特斯拉勃然大怒。 “你假装不认识我，因为你嫉妒我的天才！”

Susan B. Anthony looked very pale. No wonder, thought Luke. The smoke in the room was still thick, and ladies wore their corsets very tight in the 1890s. "Enough, Mr. Tesla!" said J. P. Morgan, swelling up like a big-bellied toad. "I demand that you leave at once!" Bessie tried to calm things down. "I'm so sorry, Mr. Morgan, he gets very upset you see..." Tesla was almost purple with fury. "No, Bessie! I have had enough. You have won, Mr. Edison. I am going back to Europe, where I will get a job at a telephone exchange and lead a quiet life away from you ALL!" "Don't speak like that, Mr. Tesla," said Sarah anxiously.

苏珊·b·安东尼脸色苍白。 难怪，卢克想。房间里的烟仍然很浓，19世纪90年代，女士们的紧身胸衣穿得很紧。 “够了，特斯拉先生！” p·摩根，肿得像个大肚子蟾蜍。 “我要求你马上离开！”贝茜试图使事态平静下来。 “我很抱歉，摩根先生，他很生气……” 特斯拉气得脸都紫了。 “不,贝西!我已经受够了。 你赢了，爱迪生先生。我要回欧洲去，在电话局找份工作，远离你们大家过平静的生活！”“别这么说，特斯拉先生。”萨拉焦急地说。

"We're going to fix this!" Luke promised. "We know who broke your machine, and we're going to find him and make it right!" "Cuckoo!" cried Tempo from her perch on a large bronze figure standing in the corner of the room. She shot toward the giant front door in a flurry of striped feathers. "Bessie, try to keep Mr. Tesla from doing anything he might regret," said Luke. "We're going to fix this."

“我们会解决这个问题的！”路加福音承诺。 “我们知道是谁弄坏了你的机器，我们会找到他，把它修好的！”“杜鹃！”天宝站在房间角落里一个巨大的铜像上叫道。 她飞快地朝巨大的前门冲去，羽毛上布满了条纹。 “贝茜，别让特斯拉先生做任何让他后悔的事。”卢克说。 “我们会解决这个问题的。”

Luke and Sarah ran past the footman and through the great front door, following Tempo. "DeLay can't have gone far," said Luke. "He was inside only a few minutes ago." "Cuckoo!" shouted Tempo, zooming away up Madison Avenue. "Cuckoo!" Luke glimpsed a striped blazer among the crowds on the Madison Avenue sidewalk. "I can see him!" he said. "Let's go!"

卢克和萨拉跟着Tempo跑过仆人，穿过大门。 “耽搁不了多久。”卢克说。 “他几分钟前还在里面。” “咕咕！”泰普喊道，飞快地沿着麦迪逊大街飞驰而去。 “杜鹃!”卢克在麦迪逊大道人行道上的人群中瞥见了一件条纹西装外套。 “我看见他了！”他说。“我们走吧!”

It was difficult to dodge all the crowds. The chase was made harder by the long skirts that the ladies wore, which billowed and tangled around Luke and Sarah's legs. Every now and then, they had to jump into the street-being especially careful to avoid the bicycle messengers who darted around in all directions. "Yuck!" groaned Luke, as he slipped in a pile of horse muck left by one of the trolley-car horses. DeLay kept his head down. Luckily, his striped blazer was hard to miss. "Hey!" someone objected as Luke shoved past. "Watch where you're going, kid!" said someone else.

要避开人群是很困难的。 女士们穿的长裙使追逐变得更加困难，裙子在卢克和萨拉的腿上翻腾着，缠在一起。 时不时地，他们不得不跳到街上，特别小心地避开四面八方跑来跑去的自行车送信人。 “恶心！”卢克呻吟道，他滑进了一堆拉电车的马粪里。 迪莱一直低着头。幸运的是，他的条纹西装很难被忽视。 “嘿！”卢克挤过去时，有人反对道。 “看路，孩子！”另一个人说。