Ch8-In the Red Dawn

CHAPTER EIGHT In the Red Dawn "Are you—are you okay?" Annie asked Jack. She was still holding the wand. Her pigtails blew in the bright wind. "Yeah, yeah, but what happened?" said Jack in a daze. He was freezing and out of breath. "Where are we?"

第八章《赤色黎明》你还好吗？安妮问杰克。 她仍然拿着魔杖。 她的辫子在明亮的风中飘动。 “是啊，是啊，但发生了什么事？”杰克发呆地说。 他冻得上气不接下气。 “我们在哪儿？”

"I don't know," whispered Annie. Jack shielded his eyes from the brilliant light of the red dawn and looked around. Pink clouds floated through the air like piles of cotton candy. Through a gap in the clouds, he saw hills shrouded in black smoke below. Beneath the smoke, flames rose from the city of Edo. "I think we're on Mount Fuji," said Annie. "Mount Fuji?" said Jack. "That's crazy! Why are we here?" He stopped to catch his breath. He felt dizzy and light

“我不知道，”安妮小声说。 杰克遮住眼睛，不让耀眼的红光照到他的眼睛，向四周看了看。 粉红色的云像一堆堆棉花糖一样在空中飘浮。 透过云层的缝隙，他看到山下被黑烟笼罩的群山。 烟雾之下，火焰从江户市升起。 “我想我们是在富士山上，”安妮说。 “富士山？”杰克说。“这太疯狂了!我们为什么在这里？”他停下来喘口气。 他感到头晕目眩

headed. "Edo's burning! We should be there!" "Maybe the wand didn't understand," said Annie. "Maybe it was trying to save us by taking us far away from the fire." Suddenly a great mass of thick clouds piled up, ringing the mountaintop like a wall. The clouds swirled and whirled and tumbled. They changed color, from rose to gold to gray to white. "What's going on?" cried Jack. The head of a gigantic monster rose from the bubbling clouds! "AHHH!" Jack and Annie screamed. They grabbed each other and crouched

领导。“江户燃烧!我们应该在那里！”“也许魔杖没听懂。”安妮说。 “也许它是想救我们，把我们带离火场。” 突然，一大片厚厚的云层堆积起来，像一堵墙一样环绕着山顶。 云在旋转，旋转，翻滚。 它们变色了，从玫瑰色到金色，再到灰色，再到白色。 “发生什么事了？”杰克叫道。 一个巨大怪物的头从冒泡的云层中升起！“啊!”杰克和安妮尖叫起来。 他们互相抓在一起蹲了下来

down on the rocky ledge. The monster had spiky eyebrows and long, curled whiskers. It had the horns of a deer, the forked tongue of a snake, and the fiery breath of a dragon. Through the swirling clouds, Jack and Annie could see the dragon's snake-like body curling through the clouds and down the mountainside. Its back was covered with shiny scales. Its spine had a row of shark-like fins. The dragon reached out its claws. They were like the claws of an eagle— only a thousand times bigger! The claws gripped the side of the mountain.

在岩壁上。那怪物长着尖尖的眉毛和卷曲的长胡须。 它有鹿的角，蛇的分叉的舌头，龙的火焰般的呼吸。 透过旋转的云层，杰克和安妮可以看到龙的蛇一样的身体在云层中蜿蜒而下。 它的背上覆盖着闪亮的鳞片。 它的脊椎上有一排鲨鱼一样的鳍。 龙伸出了爪子。 它们就像鹰的爪子——只是大一千倍！爪子抓住了山的一侧。

Jack made himself as small as he could. He covered his head. But Annie jumped to her feet. "I get it!" she cried. "I know what's happening! Thank you for coming!" "Annie, get down!" Jack shouted. "Jack, it's the Cloud Dragon!" said Annie. "The puppet show—remember? The wand sent her here!" "What? Why?" cried Jack. "She makes rain! Don't you remember? Rain!" cried Annie. "She commands the rain clouds!" The dragon lowered her giant head, stretching it over the mountain ledge.

杰克把自己缩得尽可能小。 他捂着头。但是安妮跳了起来。 “我明白了！”她叫道。“我知道发生了什么事！”谢谢你的到来！”“安妮，下来！”杰克喊道。 “杰克，是云龙！”安妮说。 “木偶戏——还记得吗？” 是魔杖把她送到这儿来的！”“什么? 为什么？”杰克叫道。“她会下雨！”你不记得了吗？ 下雨了！”安妮叫道。“她指挥着雨云！”巨龙低下巨大的头，伸到山崖上。

Her scales glittered honey-gold in the dawn light. She was still, very still, as if she were waiting for something. "Come on! We have to climb on her back!" shouted Annie. "Why?" cried Jack. "We have to go with her!" said Annie. "The wand brought us to the dragon! Now it's up to us to show her what to do!" "Okay! Okay!" said Jack. Annie climbed onto the back of the Cloud Dragon. She sat between two of the dragon's shark-like fins. Jack climbed on behind her. He gripped the

她的鳞片在晨光中闪闪发光。 她一动不动，一动也不动，好像在等待什么。 “来吧!我们必须爬到她的背上！”安妮喊道。 “为什么？”杰克叫道。“我们必须和她一起去！”安妮说。 “魔杖让我们找到了恶龙！”现在该由我们来教她怎么做了！”“好吧!好的！”杰克说。 安妮爬上了云龙的后座。 她坐在两条像鲨鱼一样的龙鳍之间。 杰克爬到她身后。 他紧紧抓住那只手。