9 Message Received

9 MESSAGE RECEIVED "Look! We found Rosie and her baby!" Annie shouted. She patted Rosie's thick gray hide. The rangers walked slowly and carefully toward Jack, Annie, and the two rhinos. "I named her baby Rosita," said Annie. "Ah, wonderful. She looks to be about a week old," said Shani. "Where did you find them?" asked Jomo. "They found us," said Jack. "They came out from the bushes." He pointed to the thicket. "And Rosie didn't bother you?" said Jomo. "No, not at all," said Annie. "We watched them take a mud bath. Then they followed us back here. And then… well, we all became good friends." "What happened to you?" Jack asked the rangers. "We went on a wild-goose chase," said Shani. "No sightings of a chopper near the West Gate. But

收到的信息“看！我们找到罗茜和她的孩子了！”安妮喊道。 她拍了拍罗西厚厚的灰色皮毛。 护林员们慢慢地小心翼翼地走向杰克、安妮和两只犀牛。 “我给她的孩子起名叫罗西塔，”安妮说。 “啊,好了。她看起来只有一个星期大。” “你在哪里找到的？”乔莫问。 “他们找到我们了。”杰克说。 “他们是从灌木丛里出来的。” 他指了指灌木丛。 “罗茜没有打扰你吗？”乔莫说。 “不，一点也不，”安妮说。 “我们看着他们洗泥浴。 然后他们跟着我们回来了。 然后……嗯，我们都成了好朋友。” “你怎么了？”杰克问护林员。 沙尼说：“我们进行了徒劳的追逐。 “在西门附近没有发现直升机。 但

we heard it was spotted over this area. Did you see it?" "Yes," Annie said simply. "You did?" said Shani. "What happened?" "It landed," said Jack. "Right here." "What? It landed here?" said Jomo. "Yep," Jack said. "Oh, my gosh! What happened?" asked Shani. "Did the poachers see Rosie?" "Yep. But we convinced them to leave her alone, and her baby, too," said Annie. "How—how in the world did you do that?" asked Shani. "Uh…well, we just shared some information with them," Jack said. He held up the booklet. "We taught them that the rhino family has been on earth for at least thirty million years," said Annie. "So basically rhinos have as much right to be here as we do." Jomo and Shani looked confused. "And—the poachers listened to you?" said Jomo. Jack shrugged. "Somehow they seemed to get the message," he said. "Yep. Message received," said Annie. "Now we just hope they'll tell other poachers what they learned

我们听说它是在这一带被发现的。 你看到了吗？”“是的，”安妮简单地说。 “是吗？”沙尼说。“发生什么事了?”“它着陆了。”杰克说。 “在这里。”“什么?它落在这里了？”乔莫说。 “是的，”杰克说。“哦，我的天哪！发生什么事了？”沙尼问。 “偷猎者看到罗茜了吗？”“是的。 但我们说服了他们不要再打扰她和她的孩子，”安妮说。 “你——你到底是怎么做到的？”沙尼问。 “嗯……嗯，我们只是和他们分享了一些信息，”杰克说。 他举起小册子。“我们告诉他们犀牛家族已经在地球上存在了至少3000万年，”安妮说。 “所以基本上犀牛和我们一样有权利生活在这里。” 乔莫和沙尼看起来很困惑。 “盗猎者听了你的话吗？”乔莫说。 杰克耸耸肩。“不知怎么的，他们似乎明白了这个意思，”他说。 “是的。我收到了。”安妮说。 “现在我们只希望他们能告诉其他偷猎者他们学到的东西

here." "I can't believe this," Jomo said, shaking his head. "It sounds like a miracle," said Shani. "It was, sort of," said Jack. "Oh, look. There's your bus," said Jomo, pointing down the road. The Safari Ride was bumping along the road in the distance. "Great. They've probably been very worried about you," said Shani. "Do you mind if we leave you here?" said Jomo. "We have to get a transport crew to help haul Rosie and her calf back to our camp." "Oh, no, we don't mind," said Jack. He was relieved. Now the rangers wouldn't find out they'd never been on the bus. "The other rangers will be overjoyed to see her," said Shani. "And her baby!" "Great," said Annie, "and don't forget to take Speedy with you!" "Oh, we won't!" said Shani. "We're sorry we left him behind. Thanks for taking good care of him." Annie gave the bush baby one last hug. She whispered in his ear.

在这里。”“我真不敢相信，”乔莫摇着头说。 “这听起来像个奇迹，”沙尼说。 “算是吧，”杰克说。 “哦,看。你的车来了。”乔莫指着路说。 远处的游猎车在路上颠簸。 “好了。他们可能非常担心你，”沙尼说。 “你介意我们把你留在这里吗？”乔莫说。 “我们得找个运输队把罗西和她的幼崽拖回我们的营地。” “哦，不，我们不介意，”杰克说。 他松了一口气。这样护林员就不会发现他们根本没上过车。 “其他护林员看到她会非常高兴，”沙尼说。 “还有她的孩子！”“太好了，”安妮说，“别忘了带上飞毛腿！”“哦，我们不会！”沙尼说。 “我们很抱歉把他留下了。 谢谢你对他的照顾。” 安妮给了灌木丛宝宝最后一个拥抱。 她在他耳边低语。

Speedy jabbered softly to her. Annie whispered again. Speedy jabbered again. "Sorry, guys. We should hurry," said Jomo. "Oh, sure. Bye, Speedy," said Annie. She gave the bush baby to Shani. "Thanks for… well, for whatever you said to the poachers," said Shani. "I can hardly believe they just left," said Jomo. "We hardly believe it ourselves," said Jack. "Well, thank you," said Shani. She and Jomo walked back to their jeep and climbed inside. The jeep started up. It wheeled around and bounced away over the dirt road.

斯皮蒂轻声对她说。 安妮又低声说。斯皮迪又含糊地说。 “对不起,伙计们。我们应该快点，”乔莫说。 “哦,当然。再见，斯皮迪，”安妮说。 她把灌木丛里的孩子给了莎妮。 “谢谢你……谢谢你对偷猎者说的话，”沙尼说。 “我简直不敢相信他们就这么走了，”乔莫说。 “我们自己也很难相信。”杰克说。 “嗯，谢谢你，”沙尼说。 她和乔莫走回吉普车，爬了进去。 吉普车启动了。它转过身，在土路上弹开了。

Jack looked over his shoulder. "The bus is getting close," he said to Annie. He put the booklet into his pocket. "We have to go home." "Bye, Rosita," said Annie. She put her arms around the baby rhino and gave her a hug. "Be a good girl." The baby looked as if she was smiling at Annie. "Bye, Mama," Annie said to Rosie. "Your baby is beautiful. Congratulations. Wait right here for the transport team. They'll take you to your friends at the camp." "Bye, Rosie and Rosita," said Jack. Then he surprised himself. He leaned over and kissed Rosie on the side of her leathery gray head. "I hope you live a long, happy life," he murmured. The rhino grunted, but in a warm, friendly way. Jack felt tears come to his eyes. "Okay, let's go!" Jack said, clearing his throat. "We have to hurry!" Jack and Annie turned away from the rhinos and started running in the opposite direction from the bus. They ran down the dirt road. They dashed through the tall yellow grass.

杰克回头看了看。 “公共汽车越来越近了，”他对安妮说。 他把小册子放进口袋里。 “我们得回家了。”“再见，罗西塔，”安妮说。 她搂着小犀牛，给了她一个拥抱。 “做个好女孩。”那婴儿看起来好像在对安妮微笑。 “再见，妈妈，”安妮对罗茜说。 “你的孩子很漂亮。祝贺你。 在这里等运输队。 他们会把你带到营地的朋友那里。” “再见，罗西和罗西塔，”杰克说。 然后他自己也大吃一惊。 他俯下身来，吻了吻罗茜粗糙的白发。 “我希望你长寿，幸福的生活，”他低声说。 犀牛咕噜了一声，但语气温暖而友好。 杰克感到泪水涌上了他的眼睛。 “好吧，我们走吧！”杰克清了清嗓子说。 “我们得快点了！”杰克和安妮转身离开犀牛，开始向与公共汽车相反的方向跑去。 他们沿着土路跑下去。 他们冲过高高的黄草。

They ran to the rope ladder. Annie climbed up first. Jack followed. Inside the tree house, they looked out the window. The Safari Ride had stopped not far from Rosie and her baby. From the open-air bus, tourists were taking pictures of the two rhinos. Jack heard cries of wonder, oohs and aahs. "That's how it should be," said Annie. "All humans should love rhinos and tell their friends to love rhinos, too." "Yep," said Jack. "I hope that keeps happening for a long time." "Like thirty million more years," said Annie. "At least," said Jack. "Ready?" He picked up the Pennsylvania book. He pointed at the picture of the Frog Creek woods. "I wish we could go there!" he said. The wind started to blow. The tree house started to spin. It spun faster and faster. Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

他们跑向绳梯。 安妮第一个爬上去。杰克跟着。 在树屋里，他们向窗外望去。 游猎之旅停在离罗西和她的孩子不远的地方。 在露天巴士上，游客们正在给两只犀牛拍照。 杰克听到了惊叫声，“啊”和“啊”。 “应该是这样的，”安妮说。 “所有人都应该爱犀牛，并告诉他们的朋友也要爱犀牛。” “是的，”杰克说。“我希望这种情况能持续很长时间。” “大概再过三千万年吧，”安妮说。 “至少，”杰克说。“准备好了吗?”他拿起那本宾夕法尼亚的书。 他指着青蛙溪树林的照片。 “我希望我们能去那儿！”他说。 风开始起了。树屋开始旋转。 它转得越来越快。 然后一切都静止了。 绝对静止。