3 My Mother is a Zombie

My Mother is a ZOMBIE ONE NIGHT, a terrible STORM ravaged the Earth- then the unthinkable happened. All around the world the dead rose from their graves, AND ZOMBIES STALKED THE EARTH!

一天晚上，一场可怕的风暴席卷了地球——然后不可思议的事情发生了。 世界各地的死者从坟墓中复活，僵尸在地球上徘徊！

Every village, every town, every city, every country was swarming with these monsters. Zombies were easy to spot. HOW TO SPOT A ZOMBIE Red eyes Pale skin Specks of blood Outstretched arms Jerky movements Unruly hair Dazed expression No words, just grunts Filthy clothes Whiff of mouldy Spam I know that sounds a bit like your teenage brother or sister, but, no, these were definitely zombies! The zombies had just one desire: to eat the living. Once someone had been bitten by a zombie, they became a zombie too. So the number of zombies grew and grew. If you saw one, you had to run, run, run for your life! One lady was not so lucky. Her name was Maria. She became a ZOMBIE!

每个村庄，每个城镇，每个城市，每个国家都挤满了这些怪物。 僵尸很容易被发现。 如何发现僵尸红眼睛苍白的皮肤血迹伸出手臂抽搐的动作不受控制的头发茫然的表情不说话，只是咕哝肮脏的衣服闻起来像发霉的午餐肉我知道这听起来有点像你十几岁的弟弟或妹妹，但是，不，这些绝对是僵尸！僵尸只有一个愿望：吃活人。 一旦有人被僵尸咬了，他们也会变成僵尸。 所以僵尸的数量越来越多。 如果你看到一个，你必须跑，跑，跑你的生命！有一位女士就没这么幸运了。 她的名字叫玛丽亚。她变成了僵尸！

Let me take you back to the time before that. Now, Maria was a single mother, and the kindest, most caring parent any child could ever wish for. Her son, Bruno, was a very lucky boy, as she showered him with the love of not one parent, not two, but three! since the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, the mother and son had been hiding out in a caravan in a forest. Nearby was a tiny rural village named Arcadia that had yet to be swarmed by zombies. Zombies tended to stick to the cities rather than the countryside. There were far more humans to eat in built-up areas. Once a week, Maria and Bruno would cycle into Arcadia to get some supplies. The peculiar thing about the village was that all the villagers were old ladies. Every single one. Whenever the mother and son came

让我带你回到那之前。 现在，玛丽亚是一位单身母亲，她是任何孩子都希望得到的最善良、最有爱心的母亲。 她的儿子布鲁诺是一个非常幸运的男孩，因为她给了他不止一个父母，也不是两个父母，而是三个父母的爱！自从“僵尸启示录”以来，这对母子一直躲在森林里的一辆大篷车里。 附近是一个名叫阿卡迪亚的小村庄，那里还没有被僵尸占领。 僵尸倾向于待在城市而不是乡村。 在建筑密集区有更多的人可以吃。 每周，玛丽亚和布鲁诺都会骑车去阿卡迪亚买一些补给品。 这个村子的奇特之处在于所有的村民都是老妇人。 每一个。每当母亲和儿子来

into the village, the old ladies kept their distance from the pair, whispered about them behind their backs and looked at them with a deep, dark suspicion. Often it sounded as if they were speaking another language, one that Bruno could never place. Sometimes, the old ladies would all squeeze into the village's mobile-library van, which had a strange habit of disappearing and reappearing in the most unlikely places. Strangest of all was that sometimes at night they would stand still all over the village, staring up at the stars. Just as Maria and Bruno were packing up their caravan to move to another village, the inevitable happened. A siren sounded. WHOO! WHOO! WHOO! "ZOMBIES!" shouted Bruno over the noise. "WE HAVE TO FLEE! NOW!" So the pair leaped on Maria's bicycle. She pedalled and Bruno sat on the handlebars. "Where are we going?" asked Bruno.

进了村子，老太太们和他们俩保持着距离，在背后议论他们，带着深深的、阴暗的怀疑看着他们。 听起来他们好像在说另一种语言，一种布鲁诺永远无法理解的语言。 有时，老太太们会挤进村里的移动图书馆车，这种车有一种奇怪的习惯，总是在最不可能出现的地方消失又出现。 最奇怪的是，有时在晚上，他们会站在整个村庄，盯着天上的星星。 就在玛丽亚和布鲁诺收拾他们的大篷车准备搬到另一个村庄时，不可避免的事情发生了。 汽笛响了。哇!哇!哇!“僵尸！”布鲁诺在喧闹声中喊道。 “我们必须逃跑！”现在!”于是两人跳上了玛丽亚的自行车。 她踩着踏板，布鲁诺坐在车把上。 “我们去哪儿？”布鲁诺问。

"The village train station! Then we can get as far away from this place as possible!" "But where will we go?" "I don't know yet! Somewhere where there are no zombies!" Together they raced through Arcadia. Everywhere they looked there were zombies, zombies and more zombies! Zombies at the post office Zombies on the bowling green Zombies at the PUB Zombies in the churchyard Zombies splashing about in the pond "MUM! ZOMBIE!" shouted Bruno. A zombie had stumbled into their path, his arms outstretched to grab them.

“村里的火车站！”然后我们就可以离这个地方越远越好！”“但是我们要去哪里呢？”“我还不知道！”找个没有僵尸的地方！”他们一起穿过阿卡迪亚。 他们放眼望去，到处都是僵尸，僵尸，还有更多的僵尸！邮局里的僵尸保龄球场上的僵尸酒吧里的僵尸墓地里的僵尸池塘里戏水的僵尸“妈妈！僵尸！”布鲁诺喊道。 一个僵尸跌跌撞撞地来到他们面前，伸出双臂要抓住他们。