Ch6-The Dragon Wakes

The Dragon Wakes Jack put on his brakes and jumped off his bike. Annie did the same. A huge boulder crashed down the mountain slope beside them. The boulder slammed onto the road right in front of them. They looked around wildly. Rocks were sliding and tumbling. Trees were whipping back and forth and then breaking apart. Branches, rocks, and dirt cascaded down the slope. As Jack tried to figure out what to do, another boulder tumbled down—and then another! Jack pulled Annie off the road. They scrambled into a rocky crevice and huddled down. Clods of dirt hit their bike helmets. The ground finally stopped shaking and rumbling. For a moment, neither Jack nor Annie said anything. Then Jack uttered one word: "Earthquake."

杰克踩刹车，从自行车上跳了下来。 安妮也这样做了。一块巨石从他们旁边的山坡上滚落下来。 巨石砰地一声落在他们面前的路上。 他们疯狂地环顾四周。 岩石在滑动和翻滚。 树在前后摇晃，然后就断了。 树枝、岩石和泥土如瀑布般顺坡而下。 正当杰克想要弄清楚该怎么办时，又一块巨石滚了下来——接着又是一块！杰克把安妮拉下了马路。 他们爬进一个岩石缝，缩成一团。 土块打在他们的自行车头盔上。 地面终于停止了震动和隆隆声。 有那么一会儿，杰克和安妮什么也没说。 然后杰克说出了一个词：“地震。”

"I know," Annie said hoarsely. "Like—like that earthquake we lived through in San Francisco." "Except there, buildings crumbled around us," said Jack. "Here, it's mountains." "I think it's stopped," said Annie. "Let's look." Annie started to stand up, but Jack pulled her back down. "Wait!" The ground had started shaking again. "Aftershock!" he said. "Watch out —more stuff might fall." No sooner had Jack said that than another enormous boulder crashed to the ground. Then another one tumbled down. The earth stopped trembling again, but the air was so thick with dust and grit that it made Jack's eyes burn. "I wonder if the pandas are all right," said Annie. "Oh, man!" said Jack. "Bing-Bing!" He pictured the giant panda in her yard, trapped under a rock or a tree! "We've got to go back!" said Annie. "I know!" said Jack. They both scrambled out to the road. "Where are our bikes?" Jack and Annie looked around. As the dust settled, they saw massive damage up and down the

“我知道，”安妮沙哑地说。 “就像我们在旧金山经历的那场地震一样。” “除了那里，我们周围的建筑都倒塌了，”杰克说。 “这里是山。”“我想它停了，”安妮说。 “让我们看看。”安妮想站起来，但杰克把她拉了回去。 “等等!”地面又开始震动了。 “余震！”他说。“小心——可能会有更多的东西掉下来。” 杰克刚说完，又有一块巨石坠落到地上。 接着又有一个人倒下了。 大地又停止了颤抖，但空气中弥漫着厚厚的灰尘和沙砾，杰克的眼睛灼痛。 “我想知道熊猫们是否还好，”安妮说。 “哦，天哪！”杰克说。“兵兵!”他想象着那只大熊猫被困在她家院子里的石头或树下！“我们得回去！”安妮说。 “我知道！”杰克说。他们俩急忙跑到马路上。 “我们的自行车呢？”杰克和安妮环顾四周。 当尘埃落定时，他们看到山上到处都是巨大的破坏

highway. Fallen rocks, mud, and trees blocked both the way to Wolong Town and the way back to the panda center. A boulder the size of a car had crushed both their bikes. Jack and Annie took off their helmets and dropped them to the ground. "We can't go back to the panda center now," said Annie. "We can't go to town. We can't go anywhere." "No kidding," said Jack. "You'd have to be King Kong to get over this stuff." "King Kong," Annie repeated. Then she looked at Jack and grinned. "What?" he said. "King Kong. No problem," she said. "We can do it." "Do what?" said Jack. "Turn into King Kongs!" said Annie. "Well, not quite as big as King Kong, maybe, but we could be five times bigger than we are now." "Ohhhh," said Jack. He'd forgotten all about their magic potion! "It's perfect," said Annie. "It's the only way we can get out of here."

高速公路。掉落的岩石、泥土和树木挡住了通往卧龙镇和返回大熊猫中心的路。 一块汽车大小的巨石压碎了他们的自行车。 杰克和安妮摘下头盔，把它们扔到地上。 “我们现在不能回熊猫中心了，”安妮说。 “我们不能进城。我们哪儿也去不了。” “别开玩笑了，”杰克说。“你必须是金刚才能克服这些东西。” “金刚，”安妮重复道。 然后她看着杰克，咧嘴一笑。 “什么？”他说。”金刚。 没问题，”她说。“我们能做到。” “做什么？”杰克说。“变成金刚！”安妮说。 “嗯，也许没有金刚那么大，但我们可以比现在大五倍。” “哦，”杰克说。他把魔药忘得一干二净！“太完美了，”安妮说。 “这是我们离开这里的唯一办法。”

"Yeah…," said Jack, letting out a long breath. He reached into his backpack and took out the small bottle that held the potion. "Five times our size," said Annie. "You're almost five feet tall. So you'll be almost twentyfive feet tall. And I'll be just a little shorter." "Right," said Jack. "But we can only use it once," said Annie. "And we only have an hour. And we have to choose which way to go: back to Wolong Town or back to the panda center. If we go to town, we can keep looking for the special food to save Penny—if the restaurants are still standing." "Plus we can leave in the tree house whenever we're ready," said Jack. "Right," said Annie. "But we'd have to leave Bing-Bing and the rest of the pandas behind. And we wouldn't know what happened to them, and we wouldn't be able to help." Jack stared at the bottle. It was a terrible choice. Then he thought of something. "Remember on our last mission, you said that when we do the right thing, it feels like it somehow helps Penny—even if it seems to take us away from our goal?"

“是啊……”杰克说，深深地吸了一口气。 他把手伸进背包，拿出装药水的小瓶子。 “是我们的五倍大，”安妮说。 “你差不多有五英尺高了。 所以你差不多有25英尺高了。 我会再矮一点。” “好的，”杰克说。“但我们只能用一次，”安妮说。 “我们只有一个小时。 我们必须选择走哪条路：回到卧龙镇还是回到熊猫中心。 如果我们去城里，我们可以继续寻找特别的食物来救佩妮——如果餐馆还在的话。” “另外，只要我们准备好了，我们就可以离开树屋。”杰克说。 “好的，”安妮说。“但是我们必须留下冰冰和其他的熊猫。 我们不知道他们发生了什么事，我们也无法提供帮助。” 杰克盯着瓶子。 这是一个糟糕的选择。然后他想到了一件事。 “还记得我们上次执行任务时，你说过，当我们做正确的事时，感觉就好像在帮助佩妮——即使这似乎会让我们偏离目标？”

Annie smiled. "Yep, and everything worked out on that mission, didn't it?" Jack nodded. "Panda center!" they said together. "You take a sip first," said Annie. Jack popped the tiny cork out of the bottle. He tilted his head back and took a quick sip. He licked his lips, then held the bottle out to Annie. Just as Annie took the bottle from Jack, the ground trembled with another aftershock. Jack started to shake. "Yikes!" cried Annie. The aftershock ended, and the ground stopped trembling. But Jack kept shaking. Annie yelled something, but Jack couldn't understand what she was saying. His body was still quaking. He had started to grow!

安妮笑了。“是的，那次任务一切顺利，不是吗？”杰克点了点头。 “熊猫中心！”他们一起说。 “你先喝一口，”安妮说。 杰克把小软木塞从瓶子里弹了出来。 他歪着头，喝了一小口。 他舔了舔嘴唇，然后把奶瓶递给安妮。 就在安妮从杰克手里接过瓶子的时候，地面又发生了余震。 杰克开始发抖。“哎呀！”安妮叫道。 余震结束了，地面停止了颤抖。 但杰克一直在发抖。安妮喊了些什么，但杰克听不懂她在说什么。 他的身体还在颤抖。 他已经开始长大了！