8 STICKY SITUATION

CHAPTER 8 STICKY SITUATION AI! You're home!" said Alexander's dad. He was on the front porch, reading the latest issue of Captain Cuspid. "How did everything go with your ant farm. "Ant farm?" Alexander asked, looking over his shoulder. "Oh! I forgot about that." "Really?!" said his dad. "What could make you forget something so important! I bet your ant farm was a big smash!"

第八章棘手的情况ai ！你回来了！”亚历山大的爸爸说。 他在前廊上读着最新一期的《库斯皮德船长》。 “你的蚂蚁农场怎么样了？” “蚂蚁农场吗?”亚历山大回过头问。 “哦!我都忘了。” “真的吗？！”爸爸说。“是什么让你忘记这么重要的事情！”我敢打赌你的蚂蚁农场一定大获成功！”

"Uh, yeah," said Alexander, "you could say that." His eyes darted to the swaying treetops across the street. Alexander gulped. "Dad, uh, can we go inside now?" "Sure thing, AI!" his dad said. "Just as soon as you get that paper off your shoe." Alexander blinked. "Not again!" he said. He pulled the strip of paper from the bottom of his shoe. This time, the paper was bright green, and covered in sticky purple goo. This isn't toilet paper, he thought.

“嗯，是的，”亚历山大说，“你可以这么说。” 他的目光投向街对面摇曳的树梢。 亚历山大一饮而尽。“爸爸，我们现在能进去了吗？”“当然可以，AI!”他爸爸说。 “只要你把鞋上的纸拿掉就行。” 亚历山大眨了眨眼睛。“别再这样了！”他说。 他从鞋底抽出那张纸条。 这一次，纸是亮绿色的，上面覆盖着紫色的粘稠物。 这不是卫生纸，他想。

He touched the goo and gave it a sniff: sour grape. Taffy. he thought. More candy! This must be connected to the dino-monster... but how? Alexander looked at his sticky, purple finger. He gasped. Purple thumbprints! He dashed upstairs to his room. He opened the notebook to the trample hamster pages. Purple thumbprints ran along one side. He sniffed. The page smelled grapey. The next two pages were stuck together by purple taffy! He carefully peeled the sticky pages apart. "Aha!" he shouted.

他摸了摸那粘稠的东西，闻了闻：酸葡萄。 太妃糖。他想。更多的糖果!这肯定和恐龙怪物有关… 但如何?亚历山大看着他那黏糊糊的、发紫的手指。 他气喘吁吁地说。紫色的手指!他冲上楼回到自己的房间。 他打开笔记本，看到践踏仓鼠的那几页。 紫色的指纹印在一侧。 他闻了闻。书页上有一股葡萄味。 接下来的两页是用紫色太妃糖粘在一起的！他小心地把粘页撕开。 “啊哈！”

P-REX (Piñata-saurus Rex) The P stands for "piñata," like the colorful paper container you bust open at your cousin's birthday party. Except this piñata is the size of a T-rex.

P- Rex （Piñata-saurus雷克斯）P代表“piñata”，就像你在表弟的生日聚会上打开的彩色纸盒。 除了这个piñata和霸王龙一样大。

HOWDY! P-rexes are friendly to smaller piñata monsters. HABITAT Outdoors. They're way too big to come inside. DIET They don't eat anything. That's because they're full of candy! BEHAVIOR P-rexes love smashing things. The bigger, the smarter! WARNING! Whack a P-rex before it whacks you! Here's how: 1. Wear a blindfold and spin around three times. 2. Wallop the P-rex with a stick. 3. watch it break open! (PSSST! SWEET SURPRISE INSIDE!)

你好!p -rex对较小的piñata怪物很友好。 栖息地的户外活动。它们太大了，进不去。 他们什么都不吃。 那是因为它们都是糖果！霸王龙喜欢砸东西。 越大越聪明！警告!在霸王龙打你之前打它！方法如下： 戴上眼罩，转三圈。 2. 用棍子击打P-rex。 3. 看着它裂开！(嘿,里面有甜蜜的惊喜！)

Alexander closed the notebook. Everything made sense now: the giant footprints, the piles of candy, the smashed buildings— even the paper stuck to his shoe. He couldn't wait to tell Rip and Nikki!

亚历山大合上笔记本。 现在一切都明白了：巨大的脚印、成堆的糖果、被砸碎的建筑物——甚至连粘在他鞋子上的纸都明白了。 他迫不及待地想告诉里普和妮基！