双语漫威故事《钢铁侠》 第六章

Chapter　6

第六章

 

The room fell silent. The Avengers stared at the monster before them. No one said anything, but Tony knew what they were thinking: if he hadn't invented the Cosmic Bridge Generator, Tony and his teammates wouldn't be staring down the barrel of the end of the world.

房间陷入沉寂。复仇者们盯着眼前的怪兽。没有人说话，但是托尼知道大家在想什么：如果他没有发明宇宙连接生成器，托尼和队友就不会盯着这世界末日的危机。

 

I created the generator to do good, Tony thought. Now it's being turned into something terrible. All right, Mr. Guy-Who-Can-Fix- Anything. How do you fix this?

“我创造生成器是为了做好事。”托尼想，“现在却弄巧成拙。好吧，无所不能先生，现在怎么解决这件事呢？”

 

Before he could continue his thoughts, Tony heard a banging sound once more and what could have been a muffled cry for help. The S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists! Tony finally pieced together what had happened at Outpost 13. These creatures must have captured the scientists and kept them around in case anything went wrong with the generator. They're here somewhere!

托尼没能继续思考，他再一次听到敲打声，那种可能是闷声呼救的声音。神盾局科学家们！托尼终于拼凑出了在13号哨所发生的事。“这群生物一定抓了科学家们，扣住他们以防生成器出现什么问题。他们就在这附近。”

 

Tony turned to Black Widow and Falcon and with a nod motioned them to the slimy yellow-green beast's side. “Mind telling us what that sound is, gruesome? I'm betting it's the missing S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists. Be a good little monster and show us where they are.”

托尼转向黑寡妇和猎鹰，点头示意他们到黏糊糊的黄绿色野兽身边。“介意告诉我们这声音是什么吗，丑怪？我打赌是消失的神盾局科学家们。做一个善良的小怪物带我们找到他们吧。”

 

“It matters little,” sneered the creature as it folded two of its tentacles together. “You cannot stop us.”

“这无关紧要。”怪物讥笑着，它将两个触手折叠在一起，“你们无法阻止我们。”

 

“Yeah,” said Falcon. “We've heard that one before.”

“的确，”猎鹰说道，“我们以前也经常听到这句话。”

 

Black Widow and Falcon grabbed the hideous monster and pushed it into the hallway outside, demanding that it lead them toward the captured scientists.

黑寡妇和猎鹰抓住这个丑恶的怪物，将它推出走廊外，要求它带他们去找被抓住的科学家。

 

Iron Man stared at the smoldering ruins of the generator. “The more I think about it, there was no way the scientists and that creature could pull this off alone,” he mused. “They had to have had help. Someone good at sci crime, maybe.”

钢铁侠盯着生成器冒着烟的废墟。“我越想越觉得，科学家和那个生物不可能独自完成这个。”他沉思着，“他们必须得到帮助。也许是一个擅长sci犯罪的人。”

 

“Sci crime?” said Cap, puzzled.

“sci犯罪？”队长疑惑地问道。

 

“Short for science crime. Word games like that keep my mind . . .” Tony trailed off.

“‘科技犯罪’的缩写。这样的文字游戏让我……”托尼的声音逐渐变弱。

 

Cap looked at his friend and tilted his head. “What is it?” “Word games. H.P.T. . . . ‘opening new doors’ . . . Elton Traggeore,” Tony chattered, his words all jumbled. “I was at this super-boring charity party tonight thrown by Elton Traggeore. What if that's an anagram?

队长看着他的朋友，歪着头。“这是什么？”“文字游戏。H.P.T……‘打开新大门’…… 埃尔顿·特拉戈雷，”托尼念念有词，他的话语很混乱，“我今晚参加了由埃尔顿·特拉戈雷举办的超级无聊的慈善聚会。如果这是一个文字游戏呢？

 

“Rearrange the letters in Elton Traggeore and you get another name: George Tarleton. George Tarleton, as in . . .”

“重新排列Elton Traggeore的字母，你会得到另一个名字：George Tarleton. George Tarleton，好像是在……”

 

Cap and Iron Man looked at each other and spoke in unison: “M.O.D.O.K.”

队长和钢铁侠看向彼此，异口同声说：“魔多客。”

 

By the time Iron Man and Captain America caught up with Black Widow and Falcon, the two heroes had found and freed the missing S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists. Two of the scientists, Agent MacReady and Agent Childs, were prepping a cryo-containment unit to hold the creature. The unit—a sleek translucent tube with metal caps—would keep its occupant in a state of suspended animation: alive, asleep, and unable to do any damage.

当钢铁侠和美国队长赶上黑寡妇和猎鹰时，两位英雄已经找到并且解救了失踪的神盾局科学家们。其中两位科学家，特工麦克雷迪及特工蔡尔兹，正在准备冷冻装置来控制这个生物。这个带有金属帽和光滑半透明管的装置，会让身处其中者处于假死状态：仍活着但沉睡着，无法带来任何伤害。

 

The monster fixed its eyes on Agents Childs and MacReady. Tony approached from behind and opened his chest unibeam, which unleashed a blast that knocked the monster into the cryo-containment unit. The creature bounced back immediately, and Tony gulped. No one gets up from a full unibeam hit that fast. Not even Thor. “Pathetic earthling. Nothing you do can stop us. Nothing!”

怪物死死地盯着特工麦克雷迪及特工蔡尔兹。托尼从后面靠近，打开胸口的单束光炮，释放出一股冲击波，将怪物击入冷冻装置内。怪物立刻恢复过来，托尼倒吸了一口气。没人能从一个完整的单束光炮中那么快地爬起来，就连雷神也不行。“可怜的人类。你们无论做什么都阻止不了我们。无论什么！”

 

“Childs, MacReady, get this thing out of here!” said Tony.

“蔡尔兹，麦克雷迪，把这东西弄出去吧！”托尼说道。

 

“With pleasure,” Childs replied as she activated the cryo-containment unit. With a whoosh, the unit sealed itself, flash-freezing the monster inside. Anti-gravity discs beneath the unit turned on and the capsule hoverd just above the floor.

“是我的荣幸。”蔡尔兹一边回答，一边启动冷冻装置。嗖的一声，装置自行封闭，将怪物迅速冷冻。装置下的反重力盘开启，这个容器从地板上浮了起来。

 

“One alien on ice ready for transport,” said MacReady. He and Childs gave the unit a push and slowly maneuvered it out the door.

“囚禁的外星物体已经做好转移准备。”麦克雷迪说。他和蔡尔兹推了下装置，缓慢操纵，将其推出门外。

 

Tony's mind turned to M.O.D.O.K. The villain never worked alone.

托尼开始思考魔多客，这个恶棍从来不单独行动。

 

A.I.M. and M.O.D.O.K. Two of Iron Man's oldest enemies.

先锋科技和魔多客是钢铁侠的老对头了。

 

A.I.M. (Advanced Idea Mechanics) was a criminal organization that used science for evil. It was that science that had transformed a lowly A.I.M. agent named George Tarleton into M.O.D.O.K. He had then turned the tables on A.I.M., using his superintelligent brain to take over the organization. M.O.D.O.K.'s mind powers could be deadly, and everyone knew it. The A.I.M. agents obeyed his every order. Luckily, sensitive scanners in Iron Man's armor could locate M.O.D.O.K.'s energy signature and track him anywhere.

先锋科技是利用科技作恶的犯罪组织。就是这种科技将名为乔治·塔尔顿的低等先锋科技特工转化成了魔多客。接着他转变了先锋科技的局势，利用他智慧超常的大脑控制了该组织。大家都知道魔多客的脑力是致命的。先锋科技特工们听从他的每一个指令。幸运的是，钢铁侠盔甲上敏锐的扫描器可以定位魔多客的能量标志，在任何地方都可以追踪到他。

 

Tony paused and looked down at his armor-covered hands—the brilliant crimson gloves that could forge reality from dreams. But dreams could become nightmares. An unfamiliar feeling seized him: guilt.

托尼停了下来，看着他穿着盔甲的双手——那双明亮的深红色手套，它可以将梦想变成现实。但是梦想也会变成噩梦。一种不熟悉的感觉攫住了他:愧疚。

 

I invented the generator. And now the bad guys are going to use it to mess with the earth. This is all my fault. I have to fix this mess myself.

“是我发明了生成器。现在坏人们企图利用它去毁灭世界。这全是我的错。我必须要自己解决这件事。”

 

“All right, people,” Cap ordered. “We need a battle plan and—”

“好了，大家，”队长指挥着，“我们需要一个战斗计划以及……”

 

“Plan whatever you want,” said Tony, cutting off Captain America. “I'm taking M.O.D.O.K. down. Now.”

“你尽管计划好了，”托尼打断美国队长说，“但我现在就要去打倒魔多客。”

 

“This is too big for any one of us, Tony!” The high-pitched whine of Iron Man's boot jets kicked in, and Cap jumped back. He yelled over the sound of chemical thrust, “You can't defeat M.O.D.O.K. by yourself!”

“托尼，这对我们任何一个人来说都是件难事！”钢铁侠的靴子喷射器发出尖锐的声音，队长往后跳了跳。他对着化学推力的声音喊着：“你无法一个人打败魔多客！”

 

But Tony wasn't listening. The armored Avenger blasted off, arms outstretched, and used his repulsors to smash through the roof above.

但是托尼没有听到。这个身穿盔甲的复仇者飞向空中，伸开手臂，用他的冲击光束装置冲破了屋顶。

 

Iron Man was gone!

钢铁侠走了！