10 A Word That Glows

10 A WORD THAT GLOWS "Hi! You're back!" said Annie. The narwhal was about ten feet away. He was swimming near a sheet of ice that jutted out from the shore. His ivory tusk was pointed at them. "Is something wrong with him?" said Jack. "Why is he here?" "He wants to tell us something," said Annie. "How do you know?" said Jack. "I just know," said Annie. "I'm going out to him. I'll crawl on the ice." "No, don't!" said Jack. "It could crack." "Don't worry, it's really thick," said Annie. "It's probably been here for thousands of

一个会发出“嗨！”你回来了！”安妮说。 那头独角鲸离他大约有十英尺远。 他在岸边突出的一片冰层附近游泳。 他的象牙正对着他们。 “他怎么了？”杰克问。 “他为什么在这里？”“他想告诉我们一些事情，”安妮说。 “你怎么知道的？”杰克说。 “我就是知道，”安妮说。 “我要去找他。我要在冰上爬。” “不，不要！”杰克说。“它可能会破裂。” “别担心，它真的很厚，”安妮说。 “它可能已经在这里几千年了

years." Annie stepped out onto the packed ice. Then she got on her hands and knees and began crawling toward the narwhal. "Careful!" said Jack. "I got it," said Annie, reaching the edge of the ice. The narwhal raised his head above the water. "Hi, you! What's up?" said Annie, grinning. "Why did you come back?" The narwhal made noises that sounded like a door creaking. Then he tapped Annie's head with his unicorn horn.

年了。”安妮走到结冰的冰面上。 然后，她跪在地上，开始向独角鲸爬去。 “小心！”杰克说。“我明白了，”安妮说着，走到了冰的边缘。 独角鲸把头露出水面。 “嗨,你!怎么了？”安妮笑着说。 “你为什么回来？”独角鲸发出的声音听起来像门在吱吱作响。 然后他用独角兽的角轻敲安妮的头。

Annie laughed. "Thank you!" she said. The narwhal then turned and swam away. He soon disappeared under the water. Annie crawled back toward Jack. She stepped off the ice sheet onto the shore. "That was so cool," she said. "What happened?" said Jack. "Simple," said Annie. "He came back to thank us." "You're kidding," said Jack. "Nope," said Annie. "That's basically what he said: Thanks. And then I said thanks back." "That's all?" said Jack. "That's enough," said Annie. Jack took a deep breath. "Okay! Now we can leave!" He and Annie quickly walked over the slope. The tree house was still sitting on the pebbly shore. It was lit by the orange and red light of the Midnight Sun. Jack and

安妮笑了。“谢谢你！”她说。 独角鲸转身游走了。 他很快就消失在水下了。 安妮爬回杰克身边。 她从冰原上走到岸上。 “那太酷了，”她说。 “发生什么事了？”杰克问。 “很简单，”安妮说。“他回来感谢我们。” “你在开玩笑吧，”杰克说。 “不，”安妮说。他基本上就是这么说的：谢谢。 然后我说谢谢。” “就这些？”杰克说。“够了，”安妮说。 杰克深吸了一口气。“好吧!现在我们可以走了！”他和安妮很快地走过了斜坡。 树屋仍然坐落在铺满卵石的岸边。 它被午夜太阳的橙色和红色的光照亮了。 杰克和

Annie slipped through the window. Annie grabbed the Pennsylvania book that always took them home. She pointed to a photo of the Frog Creek woods. "I wish we could go there!" Nothing happened. The wind did not start to blow. "I wish we could go there!" Annie said again. The wind still did not start to blow. "Why aren't we leaving?" said Jack. "Let's look at our rhyme," said Annie, "at the last verse." Jack pulled the rhyme out of his bag. He read aloud: Explore different worlds. Show friends where to go. "Okay! We did that!" said Annie. "We showed our friends where to go—we gave Leif our map! And we showed the narwhal

安妮从窗户溜了出去。 安妮拿起那本宾夕法尼亚的书，它总是把他们带回家。 她指着一张青蛙溪树林的照片。 “我希望我们能去那儿！”什么也没有发生。 风没有开始刮。 “我希望我们能去那儿！”安妮又说。 风仍然没有起。 “我们为什么不走？”杰克说。 “让我们看看我们的押韵，”安妮说，“在最后一节。” 杰克从包里掏出押韵诗。 他大声朗读：探索不同的世界。 告诉朋友该去哪里。“好吧!我们做到了！”安妮说。 “我们告诉我们的朋友该去哪里——我们把地图给了雷夫！”我们展示了独角鲸

how to escape from the shallow water!" "Yeah, we did all that," said Jack. "And I wasn't even thinking about the rhyme!" "Read the rest," said Annie. Jack read the last two lines: Unite all these worlds With a word that will glow. "I forgot about those lines, too," said Jack. "What do they mean? What's the word?" "I don't know. But if it glows, it must be written down somewhere," said Annie. "Check your notebook." Jack pulled out his notebook, and he and Annie looked at it together. "Oh, man. I forgot to take any notes," said Jack. "What about our Greenland book?" He took out the Greenland book and thumbed through it. "Nothing glowing here." "Wait, what about our message to Leif's family?" said Annie.

怎么从浅水里逃出来！”“是的，我们都做了。”杰克说。 “我甚至都没想过押韵！”“读剩下的部分，”安妮说。 杰克读了最后两行：用一个发光的词联合所有的世界。 “我也忘了那些台词。”杰克说。 “这是什么意思？”怎么说来着？”“我不知道。 但是如果它会发光，那一定是写在什么地方了。”安妮说。 “检查你的笔记本。”杰克拿出笔记本，和安妮一起看了看。 “哦,人。我忘记做笔记了。”杰克说。 “那我们的格陵兰书呢？”他拿出那本格陵兰岛的书，翻了一遍。 “这里没有发光的东西。”“等等，我们给雷夫家的信怎么办？”安妮说。

Jack reached into his pocket and pulled out the crumpled note. He and Annie looked at it together. "Nothing," said Jack. "Hold on!" said Annie. "Look at the letter T!" Annie pointed at the letter T near the bottom of their note. The letter seemed a little brighter than the other letters. Then suddenly it glowed like it was on fire. Next to the T, the letter H grew brighter. Then A grew brighter. Then the next letter, N. One by one, the letters grew brighter— until T-H-A-N-K-S was all aglow. "Thanks!" cried Annie. "That's the word!" "Thanks?" said Jack. "Why thanks?" "I'll explain when we get back," said Annie. "We can go now." Annie pointed at the picture of Frog Creek again. "I wish we could go there!" The wind started to blow.

杰克把手伸进口袋，掏出那张皱巴巴的钞票。 他和安妮一起看了看。 “没什么，”杰克说。“坚持住！”安妮说。 “看字母T!”安妮指着纸条底部的字母T。 这封信似乎比其他的信更明亮一些。 突然，它像着火一样发光。 在T旁边，字母H变得更亮了。 然后A变亮了。然后是下一个字母N。 字母一个接一个地变亮了，直到T-H-A-N-K-S都亮了。 “谢谢！”安妮叫道。“就是这个词！”“谢谢？”杰克说。 “为什么感谢?”“我们回来后我会解释的，”安妮说。 “我们现在可以走了。”安妮又指着那张青蛙溪的照片。 “我希望我们能去那儿！”风开始起了。