7 Giant Paws

7 GIANT PAWS "What was that?" Jack said, frightened. "I must go!" said Tenzin. "Go where?" said Jack. "Back down?" But Tenzin leapt to his feet and started up the snow-covered slope again. "Wait, Tenzin! We'll come with you!" said Annie. "No, Annie! Stop!" said Jack. She stopped. "What was that scream?" Jack said. "I don't know! Stay here, and I'll come back and tell you!" said Annie. She hurried up the slope after Tenzin. Jack froze. His heart was pounding. Who screamed? The Gray Ghost? He wanted to hurry away from the scream, not toward it. Tenzin and Annie were about to climb out of sight. Jack didn't want anything bad to happen to either of them.

“那是什么？”杰克害怕地说。 “我得走了！”丹增说。“去哪儿？”杰克问。 “回去?”但丹增跳了起来，又爬上了白雪覆盖的山坡。 “等等,丹增!我们和你一起去！”安妮说。 “不,安妮!住手！”杰克说。 她停了下来。“那是什么叫声？”杰克说。 “我不知道！”呆在这儿，我会回来告诉你的！”安妮说。 她急忙跟着丹增上了坡。 杰克冻结。他的心怦怦直跳。 谁尖叫?灰鬼？ 他想赶紧远离那声尖叫，而不是朝它走去。 丹增和安妮正要爬到看不见的地方。 杰克不希望他们俩发生什么坏事。

"I'm coming! Wait!" he shouted. Annie waited. Jack scrambled over the rocks and caught up with her. "We've got to go back down!" he said. "Now!" "And leave Tenzin?" said Annie. "No, no! We can't leave him!" said Jack. "We have to catch up to him and convince him to come with us!" They looked up the snowy slope. "He's vanished again," said Annie. "How did he do that?" "He's an expert climber," said Jack. "But why is he chasing that scream? What was it?" "I—I'm not sure… the Gray Ghost?" said Annie. For once, she looked a little frightened. Jack took a deep breath. He knew he had to be brave, for Annie and for Tenzin. "Don't worry," he said. "We just have to find Tenzin. We'll be all right. Let's go." Jack and Annie started back up, their boots crunching over the snow. As they climbed, there was still no sign of Tenzin. "Whoa!" Annie said. "What?" said Jack. She pointed at the ground. There were footprints in the snow.

“我来了!等等！”他喊道。 安妮等。杰克爬过岩石，追上了她。 “我们必须下去！”他说。 “现在!”“然后离开丹增？”安妮说。 “不,不!我们不能丢下他！”杰克说。 “我们必须追上他，说服他跟我们一起去！”他们抬头望着雪坡。 “他又消失了，”安妮说。 “他是怎么做到的？”“他是个登山专家，”杰克说。 “但他为什么要追着那尖叫呢？” 那是什么？”“我——我不确定……那个灰鬼？”安妮说。 这一次，她显得有点害怕。 杰克深吸了一口气。他知道他必须勇敢，为了安妮，也为了丹增。 “别担心，”他说。“我们只需要找到丹增。 我们会没事的。我们走吧。” 杰克和安妮开始后退，他们的靴子踩在雪地上发出嘎吱嘎吱的声音。 当他们往上爬的时候，仍然没有丹增的迹象。 “哇!”安妮说。“什么？”杰克说。 她指着地面。 雪地上有脚印。

"Are those animal paws?" said Jack. "Yes," said Annie. "They're huge!" said Jack. "What kind of animal is that?" "Definitely some kind of a cat," Annie said. "But a really big cat, right?" said Jack. "Like a wild tiger or a lion?" "Not a lion—they only live in Africa," said Annie. "But a tiger… maybe." Jack took a deep breath. "Whatever it is, it's really, really big."

“那些是动物的爪子吗？”杰克说。 “是的，”安妮说。“好大啊！”杰克说。 “那是什么动物？”“肯定是某种猫，”安妮说。 “但是一只非常大的猫，对吗？”杰克说。 “像野老虎还是狮子？”“不是狮子——它们只生活在非洲，”安妮说。 “但是老虎……也许吧。”杰克深吸了一口气。 “不管它是什么，它真的非常非常大。”

"Big cats can be dangerous to humans," Annie said. "What if it finds Tenzin before we do?" A part of Jack wanted to race back down the mountain. But now he was more worried for Tenzin than himself. "We have to find him before the big cat does," he said. "Right," said Annie. They kept hiking up the snow-covered slope. "Look—more tracks!" Annie said. "They lead that way!" They turned to the right. "And more prints there!" said Jack. "Where?" said Annie. "Going that way!" said Jack. They kept following the tracks. Annie came to a sudden stop. "Oh, wow!" she breathed. Jack studied the ground for more tracks. "I don't believe it!" Annie said in a hushed voice. "What? More tracks?" Jack asked. "You don't see it?" said Annie. Jack looked all around. He didn't see anything special. Just boulders, smaller rocks, and snow. "No. What? Where?" he asked. "There! Tenzin!" She pointed.

“大型猫科动物对人类来说可能很危险，”安妮说。 “万一它比我们先找到丹增怎么办？”杰克有点想跑下山去。 但现在他更担心丹增，而不是自己。 “我们必须赶在那只大猫之前找到他，”他说。 “好的，”安妮说。他们继续向白雪覆盖的山坡徒步。 “看起来更跟踪!”安妮说。 “他们走那条路！”他们向右转。 “还有更多的指纹！”杰克说。 “在哪儿？”安妮问。“往那边走！”杰克说。 他们继续追踪这些痕迹。 安妮突然停了下来。 “哦，哇！”杰克仔细察看地面，寻找更多的踪迹。 “我不相信！”安妮小声说。 “什么?更多的跟踪?”杰克问。 “你没看到吗？”安妮说。 杰克环顾四周。他没有看到什么特别的东西。 只有大石、小石块和雪。 “没有。怎么啦？在哪儿？”他问。 “有!丹增!”她指出。

"Where? Where?" he said. "You're looking right at them!" said Annie. "Them?" said Jack. At that moment, something moved and growled softly. A very big cat was peering at Jack and Annie. The cat was hiding in plain sight. Its spotted white-and-gray fur blended perfectly with the white-gray mountain rocks. The cat had a large head and big paws. It had a huge furry tail, nearly as long as its body. The huge tail was tucked around Tenzin.

“在哪里?在哪儿？”他说。“你正看着他们呢！”安妮说。 “他们？”杰克说。就在这时，有什么东西动了起来，轻轻地咆哮着。 一只非常大的猫正盯着杰克和安妮。 那只猫躲在显眼的地方。 它斑驳的白灰色皮毛与白灰色的山岩完美地融合在一起。 这只猫有一个大脑袋和大爪子。 它有一条毛茸茸的大尾巴，几乎和它的身体一样长。 那条巨大的尾巴夹在丹增的周围。