2 I SEE LONDON, I SEE FRANCE

CHAPTER 2 I SEE LONDON, I SEE FRANCE Alexander hiked up his pants and looked in the fitting-room mirror. I look like a rodeo clown, thought Alexander. His dad peeked in through the curtain and smiled. "Now those are some snappy slacks!" Alexander groaned. "Can't we just buy the plain black suit?" "Sure, AI. Suit yourself!" said his dad. "I'll go pick out some ties."

第二章我看到了伦敦，我看到了法国亚历山大撩起裤子，对着试衣间的镜子照了照。 我看起来像个竞技小丑，亚历山大想。 他的爸爸透过窗帘向里面偷看，笑了。 “这裤子真时髦！”亚历山大呻吟着。 “我们就不能买那套普通的黑色西装吗？”“当然,人工智能。 随你便！”爸爸说。 “我去挑几条领带。”

Alexander closed the curtain. Then he froze. Something in the mirror had moved. A cold draft tickled his back, as if someone had forgotten to close the fridge. "Dad?" he asked, peeking over his shoulder. "Is that you?" The curtain was still closed. Alexander looked back at the mirror. His eyes were bugging out. His nose was twitching. And his mustache was drooping. Mustache? Alexander blinked. Wait... it was just a shadow under his nose. The shadow wiggled. It's swaying, he thought, like the tail of a he gasped a giant snake! The shadowy snake slithered across the mirror, ready to strike.

亚历山大拉上窗帘。 然后他僵住了。镜子里有什么东西动了。 一阵冷风使他的后背发痒，好像有人忘记关冰箱似的。 “爸爸？”他回过头来问。 “是你吗？”窗帘还关着。 亚历山大回头看了看镜子。 他的眼睛都凸出来了。 他的鼻子在抽动。他的胡子耷拉着。 胡子吗?亚历山大眨了眨眼睛。 等待……那只是他鼻子底下的一个影子。 影子在扭动。它在摇摆，他想，就像一条——他喘着粗气——巨蛇的尾巴！那条黑乎乎的蛇爬过镜子，随时准备攻击。

"Ack!" Alexander leaped backward, right out of his pants. And right out of the fitting room. He crashed into a rack of belts. "I found a tie," said Alexander's dad, strolling into view. He lowered an eyebrow. Alexander looked down. A bright yellow cartoon crane smiled up at him. He was wearing his Stanley the Steam Shovel underpants in the middle of the store. Alexander's knees wobbled. "I, um..."

“消!”亚历山大向后一跳，从裤子里跳出来。 从试衣间出来。 他撞上了一架皮带。 “我找到了一条领带，”亚历山大的爸爸一边说，一边慢悠悠地走了进来。 他垂下眉毛。亚历山大低下头。 一只亮黄色的卡通鹤朝他微笑。 他穿着“蒸汽铲斯坦利”的内裤站在商店中央。 亚历山大的膝盖颤抖着。 “我,呃……”

His dad chuckled as he pulled open the fitting-room curtain. "Let's get you back into your big-boy pants." Alexander slowly stepped back inside. There was no sign of the snake shadow. Did I see a monster? Alexander wondered. Or was that snake-thing just a trick of the light? Alexander got dressed and followed his dad to the checkout counter. "Snakes... eels... a leech, maybe?" He muttered to himself as he flipped through the monster notebook.

爸爸一边拉开试衣间的窗帘，一边咯咯地笑着。 “让你穿上你的大男孩裤吧。” 亚历山大慢慢地走回屋里。 没有蛇的影子。 我看到怪物了吗？亚历山大很好奇。 还是那条蛇只是光的把戏？ 亚历山大穿好衣服，跟着爸爸走到收银台。 “蛇…鳗鱼……也许是水蛭？”他一边翻看那本怪物笔记本，一边喃喃自语。

SCREECH LEECH A long purple three-eyed leech. HABITAT Found in closets. (They blend in with the belts and neckties.)

一条长长的紫色三眼水蛭。 栖息在壁橱里。（它们与腰带和领带融为一体。）

KOO- RAWWK! A screech leech's cry sounds like a duck playing a broken kazoo. DIET Chipmunks. Preferably with BBQ sauce. BEHAVIOR These bloodsuckers scream when they're hungry. WARNING! When you're near a closet, NEVER act like a chipmunk!

古——RAWWK !水蛭的叫声听起来就像一只鸭子在吹破的卡祖笛。 饮食花栗鼠。最好配上烧烤酱。 这些吸血动物饿了就会尖叫。 警告!当你靠近壁橱时，千万不要像花栗鼠一样！