7 Ch7-Rappy the Raptor Is Cool

Chapter 7 Rappy the Raptor Is Cool Miss Suki opened the mystery box and took out a big bird. It let out a loud SQUAWK! This, she announced, is Rappy. He's my inspiration for The Fearless Falcon. Wow! we all said. Now that really was interesting.

苏琪小姐打开神秘的盒子，拿出一只大鸟。 它发出一声响亮的叫声!她宣布，这就是拉皮。 他是我创作《无畏的猎鹰》的灵感来源。 哇!我们都说。这真的很有趣。

I found him on the ground outside a building that was covered with windows, Miss Suki told us as the bird perched on her finger. Rappy must have seen his reflection and rammed into the glass, trying to attack it. His parents were nowhere to be found, so I brought him home with me. Poor Rappy nearly died. That's what gave me the idea for my book. Miss Suki started crying again. I turned around. Some of the kids looked like they were gonna cry too. Sheesh, get a grip! I mean, the bird was still alive. Rappy showed off his feathers. He must have been four feet from wing to wing. Squawk! Squawk! squawked Rappy.

“我是在一栋满是窗户的建筑物外面的地上发现它的，”苏琪小姐告诉我们，这时这只鸟停在她的手指上。 拉皮一定是看到了自己的倒影，然后撞到玻璃上，试图攻击它。 他的父母无处可寻，所以我把他带回家了。 可怜的拉皮差点死了。这给了我写书的灵感。 苏琪小姐又哭了起来。 我转过身来。有些孩子看起来也要哭了。 嘿，控制一下!我是说，那只鸟还活着。 拉皮炫耀他的羽毛。 他从一个翅膀到另一个翅膀一定有四英尺高。 诉苦!诉苦!Rappy大发牢骚。

He's intimidating! whispered Andrea, who likes to show off by saying big words. And scary! whispered Emily. They had raptors in that movie Jurassic Park, I whispered to the girls. One of them ripped some guy's head off while he was sitting on a toilet bowl. Stop trying to scare Emily, whispered Andrea. Rappy is my baby, Miss Suki said, and she gave Rappy a kiss on his beak. Isn't he beautiful? People who kiss birds are weird. Miss Suki told us that Rappy's talons Boys can't be beautiful. Boys can be handsome. Girls are beautiful. Especially girls like Mrs. Cooney, our school nurse. But not girls like Andrea.

他的恐吓!喜欢用大话来炫耀的安德里亚小声说。 和可怕的!艾米丽低声说。 电影《侏罗纪公园》里有猛禽，我小声对女孩们说。 其中一个把一个坐在马桶上的人的头扯下来了。 “别吓唬艾米丽了，”安德里亚低声说。 拉皮是我的孩子，苏琪小姐说，她在拉皮的嘴上吻了一下。 他是不是很漂亮?亲鸟的人很奇怪。 苏琪老师告诉我们拉皮的爪子男孩不可能漂亮。 男孩也可以很帅。女孩是美丽的。 尤其是像库尼太太这样的女孩，我们学校的护士。 但不是像安德里亚这样的女孩。

are four inches long and as sharp as carving knives. If he wanted to, he could kill a lion, said Miss Suki. Wow! Michael shouted. Did you bring a lion, too? Yeah, Ryan said, we want to see Rappy kill it! Oh, Rappy is harmless, Miss Suki told us. He wouldn't hurt a fly. I wasn't worried about Rappy hurting flies. I was worried about Rappy flying away from Miss Suki's hand and using those talons to rip my head off. I'm sure he wouldn't hurt any of our students, said Mrs. Roopy. Until recently, peregrine falcons were

有四英寸长，像切肉刀一样锋利。 如果他愿意，他可以杀死一头狮子，苏琪小姐说。 哇!迈克尔喊道。你也带狮子来了吗? 是啊，瑞恩说，我们要看拉皮干掉它!“哦，拉皮是无害的，”苏琪小姐告诉我们。 他连一只苍蝇都不会伤害。我不担心拉皮会伤害苍蝇。 我担心拉皮会从苏琪小姐手中飞走，用爪子把我的头扯下来。 “我相信他不会伤害我们的学生。”鲁比太太说。 直到最近，游隼都是

an endangered species, Miss Suki told us. Does anyone know what endangered means? Andrea's hand shot up in the air, of course. Any time anybody asks anything, Andrea's hand is always the first one to go up. Endangered means there aren't many of them left, Andrea said when she got called on. She was all proud of herself. Big deal. Any dumbhead knows what endangered means. That's right, said Miss Suki. Peregrine falcons almost became extinct in the 1960s. Does anybody know what extinct means?

一种濒临灭绝的物种，苏琪小姐告诉我们。 有人知道濒危是什么意思吗? 当然，安德里亚的手猛地举了起来。 无论什么时候有人问什么问题，安德里亚总是第一个举手。 接到电话时，安德里亚说，濒危意味着它们已经所剩无几了。 她为自己感到骄傲。 大不了的。傻瓜都知道濒危是什么意思。 是的，苏琪小姐说。 游隼在20世纪60年代几乎灭绝。 有人知道灭绝是什么意思吗?