Chapter　4

第四章

 

On his way to his next class, Peter bumped into Gwen.

在去下一节课的路上，彼得碰到了格温。

 

“Peter!” she said, smiling at him.

“彼得！”她笑着对他说。

 

“Oh, hi, Gwen,” Peter responded, smiling back.

“哦，你好，格温。”彼得笑着回答。

 

“Hey, I just got an alert on my phone that says they have Wall Street blocked off. Some sort of thing going on at the stock exchange,” Gwen said, looking concerned.

“嘿，我刚接到电话提醒，说华尔街被封锁了。证券交易所发生了一些事情。”格温说，看起来很担心。

 

“My dad works down there,” she continued. “I hope he's okay. I texted him but haven't heard back yet.” Gwen's father was a captain in the New York City Police Department.

“我爸爸在那里工作，”她继续说，“我希望他没事。我给他发了短信，但还没收到回音。”格温的父亲是纽约市警察局的一名队长。

 

Peter's first thought was that he'd throw on his Spider-Man costume and swing down to the stock exchange to see what was up. He had actually almost moved to jump away from Gwen and up to the roof. Whenever he heard about trouble, his first thought was always to run off and check it out, and then help if he could.

彼得的第一个念头就是穿上蜘蛛侠制服，到证券交易所去看看发生了什么事。他差点就打算离开格温身边，跳上屋顶了。每当他听到出了麻烦，他的第一反应总是跑过去查探，然后看看自己能否帮上忙。

 

But he stopped himself this time. He was there at school to learn. He couldn't run off every time he heard something might be wrong.

但这次他克制住了。他还在学校里上课。他不能每次一听到有什么不对劲就跑掉。

 

“Did they say what was going on?” Peter asked.

彼得问道：“他们说发生什么事了吗？”

 

“Nope,” Gwen answered. “Just some news that blocks were roped off in the area.”

“没有，”温格回答，“只是有消息称那片区域有些地方被封锁了。”

 

Peter decided to wait until he had more information. After all, the city was protected by one of the world's top police forces. They could easily solve most of the city's problems. And if it seemed like they could use a hand, he'd be there as fast as possible.

彼得决定等他得到更多的消息后再做打算。毕竟，这座城市由世界上最好的警力保护着。他们可以很容易地解决这个城市的大部分问题。况且如果他们真的需要帮助，彼得也能尽快赶到。

 

“Well, let me know what's up,” Peter said.

“好吧，告诉我到底怎么回事。”彼得说。

 

“I'm sure everything's fine. You'll hear back from your dad soon. He's just got to be busy with everything that's going on down there.”

“我相信一切都安好。你很快就会收到你爸爸的回音。他在忙着处理那里发生的一切。”

 

“I hope so,” Gwen replied.

“希望如此。”格温回答。

 

For the next two hours, Peter couldn't keep himself focused on his schoolwork. He stared out windows, looking for police helicopters or other Super Heroes rushing toward downtown Manhattan. He fought the urge to go check out the scene. It was in his nature.

在接下来的两个小时里，彼得无法集中精力学习功课。他盯着窗外，寻找冲向曼哈顿市中心的警察直升机或是其他超级英雄。他抑制住了奔赴现场查探的冲动。这是他的本性。

 

Then, just before the dismissal bell rang, Peter heard two kids in his English class whispering about the scene downtown.

然后，就在下课铃响之前，彼得听到他英语班上的两个同学在低声谈论市中心正发生的情况。

 

“I heard it was another Super Hero scare down at the stock exchange.” One of them said.

其中一个说：“我听说在证券交易所又出了一起超级英雄恐吓事件。”

 

If there was any truth to that at all, Peter had to get involved.

如果那是真的话，彼得就得尽快参与进去。

 

Brrrrrrinnnnng! Brrrrrrinnnnng!

丁零！丁零！

 

Right after the bell rang Peter headed into Manhattan. He sneaked off the school grounds without anyone seeing him and swung quickly under the tracks of the elevated number 7 subway line on his way to downtown.

铃声一响，彼得就冲去了曼哈顿。他偷偷溜出学校操场，没人看见他。他挂在7号高架地铁的铁轨下，快速地一路荡去了市中心。

 

Before him was the New York Stock Exchange, and standing on top of it was his fellow Super Hero—and his good friend—Nova!

纽约证券交易所就在他的面前，只见顶上站着他的超级英雄伙伴——同时也是他的好朋友——新星！