Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose stared at Sammi. "Um, what do you mean, who's gonna dress you?" Dink asked. "In my country, my servants dress me and undress me," Sammi said.

第三章丁克、乔希和露丝·罗斯盯着萨米。 “嗯，你说谁给你穿衣服是什么意思?”丁克问道。 “在我的国家，我的仆人给我穿衣服，给我脱衣服，”萨米说。

"Yeah, right," Josh said, grinning. "And my servants do my homework for me!" "Do you really have servants?" Ruth Rose asked Sammi. Sammi nodded. "I have five servants of my own. My father has twenty!" "Twenty servants!" Josh yelled. "Are you guys rich?" Sammi sat on Dink's bed. "We are very rich," he said. "My father is…" Sammi didn't finish what he was going to say. Instead, he burst into tears. "Great, Josh, you made him cry!" Dink said. "I did not! I just asked him if he was rich!" Ruth Rose sat next to Sammi. "Why are you crying?" she asked. Sammi didn't answer. Big tears rolled down his cheeks. Dink tossed the sweat clothes onto the bed. Then he ran into his bathroom and came out with a wad of tissues. "Here," he said. Sammi took the tissues and wiped his eyes. "Do you miss your mom and dad?" Ruth Rose asked Sammi. "Is that why you're crying?"

“是啊，没错，”乔希笑着说。 “我的仆人帮我做作业!”“你真的有仆人吗?”露丝·罗斯问萨米。 三美点了点头。“我自己有五个仆人。 我爸爸有二十个!”“二十个仆人!”杰克喊道。 “你们有钱吗?”萨米坐在丁克的床上。 “我们非常富有，”他说。 “我爸爸是……”萨米没说完他想说的话。 相反，他哭了起来。 “太棒了，乔什，你把他弄哭了!”丁克说。 “我没有!”我只是问他是否富有!”露丝·罗斯坐在萨米旁边。 “你为什么哭?”她问。 萨米没有回答。大颗的眼泪顺着他的脸颊滚落下来。 丁克把汗衫扔到床上。 然后他跑进浴室，拿着一卷纸巾出来。 “给你，”他说。萨米拿起纸巾擦了擦眼睛。 “你想爸爸妈妈吗?”露丝·罗斯问萨米。 “这就是你哭的原因吗?”

Sammi took a deep breath and wiped at his tears. "I don't know where my parents are," he said. "They were kidnapped last week." "KIDNAPPED!" the three other kids yelled. Sammi nodded. "My father's enemies snuck into the palace and took him and my mother." "Palace?" Josh said. "You live in a palace? What are you, a prince or something?" Sammi nodded. "Yes. My father is the king of Costra. I am Prince Samir Bin Oz. I will be king someday." Sammi started crying again. No one said anything. Even Loretta stopped running around in her cage.

萨米深吸了一口气，擦了擦眼泪。 “我不知道我的父母在哪里，”他说。 “他们上周被绑架了。” “被绑架了!”另外三个孩子喊道。 三美点了点头。“我父亲的敌人潜入宫殿，带走了他和我母亲。” “宫?”杰克说。“你住在宫殿里?” 你是什么人，王子还是什么?”三美点了点头。 “是的。我父亲是科斯特拉的国王。 我是萨米尔·本·奥兹王子，总有一天我会成为国王。” 萨米又哭了起来。 没有人说什么。就连洛丽塔也不再在笼子里乱跑了。

Dink stared at Sammi. "You're a prince?" he finally asked. "Does my mom know all this, Sammi? I mean, about your folks being kidnapped and everything?" The boy shook his head. "Only my tutor knows," he said. "My parents were kidnapped at night. I was sleeping. The next day I was snuck out of the palace and sent here so I would be safe." "Safe from what?" Ruth Rose asked. Sammi looked at her. His eyes were red and his nose dripped. "From the kidnappers," he said. Just then, Pal started barking from the front porch. "They're here!" Sammi cried. He jumped off the bed and ran into the bathroom. Dink looked out the window. Pal was barking at a car. It was a taxi. Dink watched it turn the corner and disappear. "Come on out, Sammi," Dink said. "It was just your tutor leaving." Sammi stepped out of the bathroom. His eyes looked scared. "I am sorry," he whispered. "No problem," Dink said. "Why don't we go down and play?"

丁克盯着萨米。“你是王子?”他最后问道。 “我妈妈知道这一切吗，萨米?” 我是说，关于你父母被绑架之类的事?”男孩摇了摇头。 “只有我的导师知道，”他说。 “我的父母是在晚上被绑架的。 我在睡觉。第二天，我被偷偷带出宫殿，送到这里，这样我就安全了。” “什么安全?”露丝·罗斯问。 萨米看着她。他的眼睛通红，鼻子淌着水。 “从绑架者那里，”他说。 就在这时，帕尔从前廊开始叫。 “他们来了!”三美哭了。 他跳下床，跑进浴室。 丁克向窗外望去。 朋友在对着一辆车狂吠。那是一辆出租车。 丁克看着它拐过弯消失了。 “出来吧，萨米，”丁克说。 “只是你的导师离开了。” 萨米走出浴室。 他的眼睛看起来很害怕。“对不起，”他低声说。 “没问题，”丁克说。“我们为什么不下去玩呢?”

He pointed to the sweat clothes on the bed. "Do you really need help getting dressed?" Sammi took a deep breath and grinned. "No. I am in America now. I will learn to dress myself." While Sammi changed, the other kids went outside and tossed the Nerf ball in Dink's backyard. "It must be so cool to be a prince!" Josh said. "Just imagine ordering all those servants around!" Dink bopped him with the Nerf ball. "Josh, Sammi doesn't care about all that stuff," he said. "He misses his parents." "I know," Josh said, "but still, just think. He could get ice cream in the middle of the night by snapping his fingers!" Sammi came out dressed in Dink's sweat clothes. Pal, tied to a tree, tried to lick Sammi's foot as he walked by. Sammi jumped out of reach. "Is he trying to bite me?" he asked. Josh laughed. "Naw, he's just saying hi," he said. "Pal wouldn't hurt a flea. Go ahead, pet him."

他指着床上的汗衫。 “你真的需要我帮你穿衣服吗?”萨米深吸一口气，咧嘴一笑。 “没有。我现在在美国。我要学会自己穿衣服。” 当萨米换衣服的时候，其他的孩子们出去在丁克家的后院扔Nerf球。 “当王子一定很酷吧!”杰克说。 “想象一下，你把那么多仆人派来派去!”丁克用Nerf球打了他一下。 “乔希，萨米不在乎那些事，”他说。 “他想念他的父母。”“我知道，”乔希说，“不过，想想看。 他可以在半夜打个响指就能吃到冰淇淋!”萨米穿着丁克的运动服走了出来。 被绑在树上的帕尔试图在萨米走过时舔他的脚。 萨米跳到了够不着的地方。 “他想咬我吗?”他问。 杰克笑了。“现在，他只是在打招呼，”他说。 “伙计连跳蚤都不会伤害。 来吧，抚摸它。”

Sammi stepped closer and gave Pal a pat on his head. Then he sneezed. "I like him," Sammi said. "But I am still allergic." The kids taught Sammi the rules of touch football. They played until Dink's mother called them in to eat. Promising to come over the next morning, Josh untied Pal and headed for home. "Bye, Sammi!" Ruth Rose said. She cut through the hedge to her house next door. "Your friends are nice," Sammi said. "Do you play together every day?" "Sure," Dink said. "Don't you play with your friends in Co… in that place you come from?" Sammi shook his head. "I have no friends. I stay in the palace and study with my tutors." No friends? Dink stared at Sammi. He couldn't imagine not having Josh and Ruth Rose to hang out with. "We better go wash up," Dink said, looking at his dirty hands. "I hope you like burgers and fries." "Burgersandfries?" Sammi said. "What is burgersandfries?"

萨米走近一点，拍了拍帕尔的头。 然后他打了个喷嚏。“我喜欢他，”萨米说。 “但我还是过敏。” 孩子们教萨米玩触身式橄榄球的规则。 他们一直玩到丁克的妈妈叫他们进来吃饭。 乔希答应第二天早上过来，解开了帕尔的绳子，朝家走去。 “再见,三美!”露丝·罗斯说。 她抄近路穿过树篱来到她隔壁的房子。 “你的朋友都很好，”萨米说。 “你们每天都在一起玩吗?”“当然，”丁克说。 “你不跟你的朋友在……在你来的那个地方玩吗?”萨米摇了摇头。 “我没有朋友。我待在王宫里，跟我的导师学习。” 没有朋友吗?丁克盯着萨米。 他无法想象没有乔什和露丝·罗斯一起玩的情景。 “我们最好去洗洗手，”丁克看着自己的脏手说。 “我希望你喜欢汉堡和薯条。” “Burgersandfries ?”三美说。 “汉堡和薯条是什么?”