1. Caught in San Francisco

FLAT STANLEY'S WORLDWIDE ADVENTURES 12 Escape to California

FLAT STANLEY的世界冒险逃到加利福尼亚

1 Caught in San Francisco The hills in San Francisco were so steep that all the parked cars looked as if they were going to roll away. Stanley Lambchop was climbing the sidewalk alongside his old friend Thomas Anthony Jeffrey, whom the Lambchops were visiting on their family vacation. "I can't believe how much has happened since the last time I saw you," Stanley said to Thomas as they walked with Stanley's parents and brother, Arthur, up the hill. "You had just moved to California, and it was my first time traveling by

被困在旧金山旧金山的山太陡了，所有停着的汽车看起来都像是要滚走似的。 斯坦利·兰博切和他的老朋友托马斯·安东尼·杰弗里一起爬上人行道，兰博切一家是来度假的。 “我不敢相信自从上次见到你以来发生了这么多事情，”斯坦利对托马斯说。他们和斯坦利的父母和哥哥阿瑟一起上山。 “你刚搬到加州，那是我第一次路过这里

mail. I hadn't even been flat long enough to get creased!" Thomas laughed. "I remember opening your envelope. You smelled like egg salad." Arthur shook his head. "I told you, Mom: Egg salad and milk in the mail is a bad idea!" "Are a bad idea," corrected Stanley's mother, who was a stickler for good grammar. "I didn't want Stanley to go hungry. After all, it was his first time away from home!" "I remember thinking, California, wow!" Stanley went on. "I'd never traveled so far away. And to think, now I've been all over the world." "You have had a lot of excitement," said Thomas. Then he added playfully, "Though you still kind of smell like egg salad." "I do not!" cried Stanley, cracking up. Since the bulletin board over Stanley's bed had fallen and flattened him, he had been to Egypt, Kenya, France, Australia, and lots of other places —but there was still something nice about exploring a city like San Francisco with his family and a good friend. Thomas had shown them Haight-Ashbury, where everyone seemed to be

邮件。我平躺的时间还不够长，还没被弄皱!”托马斯笑了。 “我记得打开过你的信封。 你闻起来像鸡蛋沙拉。” 阿瑟摇了摇头。“我告诉过你，妈妈:鸡蛋沙拉和牛奶在邮件里是一个坏主意!”“是一个坏主意，”斯坦利的母亲纠正道，她是一个坚持语法正确的人。 “我不想让斯坦利挨饿。 毕竟，这是他第一次离开家!”“我记得当时在想，加州，哇!”斯坦利接着说。 “我从来没有去过这么远的地方。 想想看，现在我已经走遍了世界。” “你有很多兴奋，”托马斯说。 然后他又开玩笑地说:“不过你身上还有点鸡蛋沙拉的味道。” “我不喜欢!”斯坦利大笑着叫道。 自从斯坦利床上的布告栏掉下来把他压扁之后，他去过埃及、肯尼亚、法国、澳大利亚和许多其他地方——但与家人和好朋友一起探索像旧金山这样的城市，仍然是一件美好的事情。 托马斯带他们去了海特-阿什伯里，那里似乎人人都在

wearing tie-dye T-shirts, and taken them on an old-fashioned-looking cable car to Union Square, where people in business suits hurried in and out of skyscrapers. Except for the moment at Fisherman's Wharf when a group of tourists had recognized Stanley and insisted on taking pictures with him, Stanley felt like a regular sightseer. Now they were heading to the Japantown district for dinner. As they came to the top of the hill, Stanley suddenly heard a scream. He spun around to see a girl in a wheelchair barreling down the middle of the street. "HELP!" the girl shrieked.

穿着扎染的t恤，带着他们乘坐老式的缆车来到联合广场，在那里，穿着西装的人们匆匆进出摩天大楼。 除了在渔人码头被一群游客认出并坚持要和他合影的那一刻，斯坦利觉得自己就像一个普通的观光客。 现在他们要去日本城区吃晚饭。 当他们来到山顶时，斯坦利突然听到一声尖叫。 他转过身来，看见一个坐在轮椅上的女孩从街道中央疾驰而过。 “救命!”女孩尖叫道。

Stanley leaped into action. "Thomas, throw me! Quick!"

斯坦利立即行动起来。 “托马斯，把我扔出去!”快!”

"What?" said Thomas, in shock. But then Arthur stepped up, took Stanley's hands, and launched him into the air like a boomerang. "Stanley, don't!" his father yelled after him. As the wheelchair zoomed past, Stanley caught the back of it with both arms. His body ballooned backward like a parachute, and the wheelchair slowed. "I have you!" Stanley reassured the girl. But then he felt a tug at his back. His father had caught up and grabbed Stanley's shirt. "Stanley!" Mr. Lambchop gasped. "It's not safe!" "Dad! Let go!" yelled Stanley. "I have this under control!"

“什么?”托马斯吃惊地说。 但这时阿瑟站了起来，抓住斯坦利的手，把他像回飞镖一样抛向空中。 “斯坦利，不要!”他父亲在他身后喊道。 当轮椅呼啸而过时，斯坦利用双臂抓住了它的后面。 他的身体像降落伞一样向后膨胀，轮椅也慢了下来。 “我有你!”斯坦利让女孩放心。 但就在这时，他感到有人在拉他的背。 父亲追上来，一把抓住斯坦利的衬衫。 “斯坦利!”兰博切倒吸了一口气。 “不安全!”“爸爸!放手!”斯坦利喊道。 “我已经控制住了!”