5 Ch5-The Scary, Dead Zombie Buffalo

Chapter 5 The Scary, Dead Zombie Buffalo Ms. Krup took a bunch of flashlights out of a box and gave one to each of us. Then we went off to search for the missing T. rex. Everybody was whispering and slinking around like secret agents. It was cool. Me and the guys pointed our flashlights up from our chins and made scary faces at the girls. "The first floor of the museum is where we keep most of our dioramas," said Ms. Krup. "I had diorama once," I told her. "My mom gave me some yucky pink medicine and it went away." "That's 'diarrhea,' dumbhead!" Andrea said. "You had diarrhea." "So does your face," I said. Those diorama things were cool. Each one was a little room with animal statues and scenery behind glass. We saw pandas, gorillas, monkeys, beavers, reindeer, bighorn sheep, polar bears, and a moose.

第五章可怕的僵尸水牛小姐。 克鲁普从一个盒子里拿出一堆手电筒，给了我们每人一个。 然后我们去寻找失踪的T。 雷克斯。每个人都像密探一样窃窃私语。 很酷。我和伙计们把手电从下巴往上照，对着姑娘们做鬼脸。 “博物馆的一楼是我们保存大部分立体模型的地方，”她说。 Krup。“我有一次做过透视画，”我告诉她。 “我妈妈给了我一些恶心的粉红色药，然后就好了。” “那是‘腹泻’，笨蛋!”安德里亚说。 “你拉肚子了。”“你的脸也是，”我说。 那些立体模型很酷。 每一个都是一个小房间，里面有动物雕像和玻璃后面的风景。 我们看到了熊猫、大猩猩、猴子、海狸、驯鹿、大角羊、北极熊和驼鹿。

The sign next to the moose said it weighs a half a ton and eats 20,000 leaves a day. That thing should definitely go to Weight Watchers. But next to the moose was a buffalo, and it was even bigger. We pressed our noses against the glass so we could see it better. "It looks so real," Andrea said. "It is real," Ms. Krup told us. "These animals aren't statues. They're the real thing." "That means they're... dead?" asked Michael. "That's right," said Ms. Krup. Just then I thought I heard scary music playing in the background. It was like a movie I saw once. Somebody said the word "dead" and scary music

驼鹿旁边的牌子上写着，它重半吨，每天吃2万片树叶。 这玩意儿绝对应该给慧俪轻体。 但在驼鹿旁边是一头水牛，它甚至更大。 我们把鼻子贴在玻璃上以便看得更清楚。 “看起来很真实，”安德里亚说。 “这是真的，”克鲁普告诉我们。 “这些动物不是雕像。 它们是货真价实的。”“这意味着他们…… 死了?”迈克尔问。“没错。” Krup。就在这时，我觉得我听到了可怕的背景音乐。 就像我看过的一部电影。 有人说了"死"这个词还有吓人的音乐

started playing. "I'm scared," said Emily. "If that thing was a zombie buffalo," I whispered, "it could jump out at us. And then we'd become zombies, too." "My uncle lives in Buffalo," said Neil the nude kid. "Your uncle lives in a buffalo?" I asked. "Why doesn't he live in a house like a normal person?" "It's Buffalo, New York!" said Andrea. "I knew that," I lied. It would be weird to live in a buffalo. "I know a song about buffaloes," Emily said. "Would you like to sing it for us asked Ms. Krup. Emily nodded and began to sing: "Oh give me a home Where the buffalo roam, Where the deer And the cantaloupe play...." Well, everybody just about died laughing. I slapped my head. "It's not 'cantaloupe,' dumbhead!" I told Emily. "It's 'ante lope.' Cantaloupes can't play. They're melons!" Emily started crying, of course. What a crybaby! I bet she would've run away, too, if there weren't scary dead animals all over the place.

开始玩。“我很害怕，”艾米丽说。 “如果那东西是一头僵尸水牛，”我低声说，“它可能会跳出来袭击我们。 然后我们也会变成僵尸。” “我叔叔住在布法罗，”裸体小孩尼尔说。 “你叔叔住在水牛里?”我问。 “他为什么不像正常人一样住在房子里呢?”“这是纽约的布法罗!”安德烈说。 “我知道。”我撒了个谎。住在水牛身上会很奇怪。 “我知道一首关于水牛的歌，”艾米丽说。 你愿意为我们唱一曲吗? Krup。艾米丽点点头，开始唱歌:“哦，给我一个家，在那里水牛漫步，在那里鹿和哈密瓜玩耍....” 嗯，每个人都笑死了。 我拍了拍我的头。“不是‘哈密瓜’，笨蛋!”我告诉了艾米丽。 “这是‘爱’。”哈密瓜不能玩。 它们是西瓜!”当然，艾米丽哭了起来。 真是个爱哭鬼!我打赌如果不是到处都是可怕的动物尸体，她也会逃跑的。

Ms. Krup made us tell Emily we were sorry. Next to the buffalo was another diorama with some skunks and an opossum in it. "These are nocturnal animals," Ms. Krup told us. "Does anybody know what 'nocturnal' means?" Needless to say, Miss Smarty-Pants-Know-It-All was waving her hand in the air. "Nocturnal animals sleep during the day and come out at night," Andrea said, all proud of herself. Why doesn't a nocturnal animal fall on her head? I hate her. "That's right, Andrea!" said Ms. Krup. "Some people claim that our nocturnal friends walk around the museum in the middle of the night." "That's scary!" Emily said. It is not. That girl thinks everything is scary. Ms. Krup showed us the rest of the dioramas on the first floor. But we never found the missing T. rex. "What's in that room, Ms. Krup?" Andrea asked when we passed a door next to the stairs. "Oh, that's a secret room," Ms. Krup replied. "Ooooh, what's in The Secret Room?" we all asked. "If I told you," said Ms. Krup, "then it wouldn't be secret." "PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE? PLEASE?" Any time a grown-up won't tell you something, just say "Please" until they can't stand it anymore. That's the first rule of being a kid.

克鲁普女士让我们向艾米丽道歉。 水牛旁边是另一幅立体模型，里面有几只臭鼬和一只负鼠。 “这些都是夜间活动的动物。” 克鲁普告诉我们的。“有人知道‘夜间活动’是什么意思吗?”不用说，自作聪明的万事通小姐在空中挥舞着她的手。 “夜行动物白天睡觉，晚上出来，”安德里亚说，为自己感到自豪。 为什么夜行动物不会头朝下摔下来? 我恨她。“对了，安德烈!” Krup。“有些人声称我们的夜行朋友在半夜里在博物馆里走来走去。” “太可怕了!”艾米丽说。 事实并非如此。那个女孩认为一切都很可怕。 克鲁普向我们展示了一楼其他的立体模型。 但我们一直没找到丢失的T。 雷克斯。“那房间里有什么?” Krup ?”当我们经过楼梯旁的一扇门时，安德里亚问道。 “哦，那是一间密室。” Krup答道。“哦，密室里有什么?”我们都问。 “如果我告诉了你，”克鲁普说，“那就不是秘密了。” “请吗?好吗?好吗?请?”任何时候，大人不告诉你什么，就说“请”，直到他们再也无法忍受为止。 这是当孩子的第一准则。

"Hmmm," Ms. Krup finally said. "Are you boys and girls really good at keeping secrets?" "Yes!" we all shouted. "Well," said Ms. Krup, "so am I." And she started climbing up the stairs to the second floor. Bummer in the summer!

“嗯，”克鲁普最后说。 “你们这些男孩和女孩真的擅长保守秘密吗?”“是的!”我们都喊道。 “嗯，”克鲁普女士说，“我也是。” 然后她开始爬上二楼。 夏天的流浪者!