2. Amisi

2 Amisi The journey was very long—much, much longer than his trip to California. At last he arrived, and just in time. "Let me out, please," he cried. "I'm broiling in here!" "Sorry," came an official-sounding voice. "An envelope can be opened only by the person to whom it is addressed. Whoever you are, you will have to wait

这次旅行很长——比他去加利福尼亚的旅行长得多。 他终于来了，而且来得正是时候。 “请放我出去，”他叫道。 “我在这儿热死了!”“对不起，”一个官方的声音传来。 信封只能由收信人打开。 不管你是谁，你都得等着

until you are delivered tomorrow." Just then, Stanley heard another voice... the voice of a young girl. "That package is flat!" the voice said. Then it came closer. "You in there!" it demanded. "Do you happen to be... Stanley Lambchop of America?" "I am!" Stanley cried in astonish-ment. "But how do you know...?" "Open this package," the girl said to the postmaster. "I will take full responsibility. I will hand deliver the contents to its destination... it's an antiquities bazaar, right across from my father's office." As soon as the flap was opened, Stanley burst out from the envelope to

直到你明天被送来。” 就在这时，斯坦利听到了另一个声音…… 一个年轻女孩的声音。 “那个包裹是平的!”那个声音说。 然后它靠近了。“你在里面!” “你是不是碰巧是……美国的斯坦利·兰切普?”“我!”斯坦利吃惊地叫了起来。 “可是你怎么知道……?”“打开这个包裹，”女孩对邮政局长说。 “我将承担全部责任。 我会亲手把里面的东西送到目的地。 这是一个古董集市，就在我父亲办公室的对面。” 信封一打开，斯坦利就从信封里冲了出来

greet his liberator. "Hello! My name is Amisi," the girl said, smiling. "I am very

欢迎他的解放者。“你好!我叫阿米西，”女孩笑着说。 “我很高兴。

pleased to meet you, Stanley." "But how do you know who I am?" Amisi smiled even more broadly. "My father is the curator of the National Historical Museum. He is also a member of the Museum Curators' Worldwide Pen Pal Club. His pen pal is—" "Mr. O. Jay Dart!" Stanley guessed, delighted. Mr. O. Jay Dart was Stanley's upstairs neighbor. He was also the curator of the Famous Museum, and not long ago Stanley had helped him out with a certain predicament involving sneak thieves. "Right!" Amisi agreed. "When Mr. Dart wrote to him about what you did,

很高兴见到你，斯坦利。” “但你怎么知道我是谁?”阿米西笑得更开心了。 “我父亲是国家历史博物馆的馆长。 他也是博物馆馆长世界笔友俱乐部的成员。 他的笔友是——”“欧先生。 Jay镖!”斯坦利猜了猜，高兴极了。 o·杰伊·达特先生是斯坦利的楼上邻居。 他同时也是著名博物馆的馆长，不久前斯坦利还帮他解决了一起涉及小偷的困境。 “没错!”Amisi同意了。"达特先生写信告诉他你的所作所为时，

my father couldn't stop talking about you. He said he wished Egypt had a flat kid who would help out like that in a museum. A kid like that could come in handy, he said. He hung a bulletin board over my bed hoping that something might happen, but my mother made him take it down again." "That's good," Stanley said. "Being flat is more trouble than some people imagine it to be."

我父亲一直在说你。 他说他希望埃及的博物馆里也有一个像他这样的扁孩子。 他说，这样的孩子迟早会派上用场的。 他在我的床上挂了一块布告栏，希望发生什么事，但我妈妈又让他把它取下来了。” “那很好，”斯坦利说。 “变平比一些人想象的要麻烦得多。”