Chapter 7

7 The Book Butterflies began to beat their wings. The leaves rustled, filling the air with their papery smell. The mixed-up letters on the tree started to quiver. Then, one by one, they peeled off the leaves and the branches. Suddenly the sky was full

蝴蝶开始拍打翅膀。 树叶沙沙作响，空气中充满了树叶的气味。 树上那些混在一起的字母开始颤抖。 然后，他们一个接一个地剥下树叶和树枝。 突然间，天空一片晴朗

of strange letters—a whole book's worth! The letters quivered in the air. The Book Butterflies looked puzzled. "The words should have settled on the pages of The Forest Book. They must have a spell on them!" said the red butterfly. "Of course! That's why we can't read the writing!" exclaimed the blue butterfly. Mei and her friends studied the mysterious letters hanging in the air above them. Mei was

奇怪的信——有一本书那么多!字母在空中颤抖。 书蝴蝶看起来很困惑。 这句话应该写在《禁林之书》的书页上。 它们一定是被咒语迷住了!”红蝴蝶说。 “当然!这就是为什么我们看不懂这些字!”蓝蝴蝶惊叫道。 梅和她的朋友们仔细研究着悬挂在空中的神秘字母。 美是

desperate to undo the spell so she could read all the Magic Forest's secrets. Usually reading was the last thing Mei wanted to do. But she wanted to read this book more than anything in the world! Mom would be proud, she thought. Mei flapped her wings and rose into the air. She reached out and touched the strange letters. They swayed like branches in the wind. Mei started rearranging the letters closest to her, turning them the right way up and trying them in a different order to make words. It was fun, hovering in the air and rearranging letters. Like playing Scrabble, but in the sky! Soon the three Dragon Girls were flying around, calling out ideas and bumping into one another to reach different letters. But whenever they switched around the order of the letters—or turned them the right way up—the letters simply jumped back to where they'd been. Mei was feeling very frustrated. "Argh!" she roared, letting out a puff of ruby-colored smoke

不顾一切地想解除咒语，这样她就能读到魔法森林的所有秘密。 读书通常是梅最不愿意做的事。 但她最想读的是这本书!她想，妈妈会为她感到骄傲的。 梅拍打着翅膀飞到了空中。 她伸出手，摸了摸那些奇怪的字母。 他们像风中的树枝一样摇摆。 梅开始重新排列离她最近的字母，把它们朝上翻过来，用不同的顺序试着拼单词。 在空中盘旋，重新排列字母，这很有趣。 就像玩拼字游戏，只不过是在天上!很快，三个龙女就飞来飞去，喊出各种想法，互相碰撞，以达到不同的字母。 但是，每当他们改变字母的顺序——或者把它们向上翻转——字母就会跳回到原来的位置。 梅感到非常沮丧。 “啊!”她吼道，喷出一股红宝石色的烟

and flopping onto the grass below for a break. "It's no good." "Look!" Quinn gasped. The word FOREST hung in the air. "You did that!" Aisha whooped. "I did?" Mei was confused. "Well, your roar did," Quinn explained. "When that puff of smoke touched the letters, they changed."

然后跳到下面的草地上休息。 “不行。”“看!”奎因气喘吁吁地说。 “森林”这个词悬在空中。 “是你干的!”艾莎欢呼。 “我吗?”梅很困惑。 “嗯，是你的咆哮引起了我的注意，”奎因解释道。 “当那股烟碰到那些字母时，它们就变了。”

"Quick, do it again!" Aisha said, her brown eyes flashing. Mei shot into the air, fizzing with energy again. She took a deep breath and roared loudly. Sure enough, when her ruby smoke flowed across the letters, they moved around into words she could read: Welcome to The Forest Book! Come, my reader, please take a look. Inside are all our secrets true… But the rest of the words were still enchanted. This was going to take a lot of roaring if each roar only worked on a few lines! Unless… "Guys, what if it's not my roar that breaks the spell," Mei said to her friends. "But rather, our roars that do? On the count of three, let's do our biggest roars ever. Okay?" Aisha and Quinn nodded, as Mei shouted, "One, two, THREE!" The Treasure Dragons rose high into the air and roared as one. The sound was so powerful, it

“快，再来一次!”艾莎说，棕色的眼睛闪闪发光。 梅猛地蹿到空中，再次发出嘶嘶声。 她深吸了一口气，大声吼了起来。 果然，当她那股红宝石色的烟雾掠过那些字母时，它们四处移动，变成了她能读懂的字:欢迎来到森林之书!来吧，我的读者，请看一看。 里面是我们所有的秘密，但其余的文字仍然是迷人的。 如果每次咆哮只对几行起作用，这将需要很多咆哮!除非……“伙计们，如果不是我的咆哮打破了魔咒怎么办，”梅对她的朋友们说。 “但是，我们的吼声呢?” 我数到三，让我们来一次最大的咆哮。 没事吧?”艾莎和奎因点了点头，梅喊道:“一、二、三!”宝龙们高高地飞向空中，齐声咆哮。 那声音太强大了，它

swayed the trees and made the air shimmer. Red, green, and blue flames swirled in a glorious twist of light that got brighter as it spun closer to Mei. Then… Wham! The wall of light and sound slammed against Mei, knocking her sideways. Suddenly, she was spinning through the air. She couldn't tell up from down. What is happening? Where are the others? Mei tried to open her eyes, but the flashes of light blinded her. Her vision cleared just in time to see The Forest Book… tumbling through the air! Mei reached out to grab it, but instead crashed into the tree at the edge of the cliff. Mei was dizzy from the crash, and her wings felt all crumpled. Then she saw something terrible: The Forest Book was tumbling over the cliff's edge. There's a river down there! There was NO WAY she was going to let the book be destroyed. Mei flapped with all her might and rose into the air. The Forest Book had already disappeared from

摇动树木，使空气闪烁。 红、绿、蓝三色的火焰旋转着，形成一团绚丽的光，越靠近梅，越亮。 然后……哇!光和声的墙撞在梅身上，把她撞到一边。 突然，她在空中旋转起来。 她分不清上下。 发生了什么?其他人呢? 梅想睁开眼睛，但闪光使她睁不开眼睛。 她的视线清晰了，正好看见那本森林之书……在空中翻滚!梅伸手去抓，却撞在悬崖边上的树上。 梅被撞得头晕目眩，她的翅膀都皱了。 接着，她看到了可怕的一幕:《禁林之书》从悬崖边上滚了下来。 下面有条河!她绝不可能让这本书被毁掉。 梅使劲拍打着翅膀，飞到了空中。 《禁林之书》已经从