5 On the Case

5 ON THE CASE THE NEXT DAY AT LUNCH, Harris and Zeke tried to figure out who Zeke's mystery valentine was. "What if you got each girl a gift?" Harris suggested. "That would show that you like them. Then, maybe whoever it is will let you know that she was the one who left the candygram!"

第二天午餐时，哈里斯和齐克试图弄清楚齐克的神秘情人是谁。 “如果你给每个女孩一份礼物呢？”哈里斯表示。 “那就表明你喜欢他们。 然后，也许不管是谁，都会告诉你是她留下了糖果图！”

"I like that idea," Zeke said. "I guess I'll give it a try!" Zeke had soccer practice the next day after school. He decided that he would give the first gift to Nancy Nash, his friend on the team. But what should I give her?

“我喜欢这个主意，”齐克说。 “我想我要试一试！”第二天放学后，齐克进行了足球训练。 他决定把第一份礼物送给他在队里的朋友南希·纳什。 但我该给她什么呢？

Sitting in his room that evening, Zeke used a piece of alien technology. He put a blinking helmet on his head and watched some Mem-Vids from his life on Tragas. The Mem-Vid helmet took actual memories from Zeke's mind and projected them on a screen as videos. As he watched, Zeke realized that as happy as he was living on Earth, there were still times that he missed Tragas.

那天晚上，齐克坐在自己的房间里，使用了一种外星科技。 他戴上了一顶会闪烁的头盔，看了一些他在特拉加斯生活的视频。 memvid头盔从齐克的脑海中提取真实的记忆，并以视频的形式投射到屏幕上。 看着这一切，齐克意识到，尽管他在地球上生活得很快乐，但他有时还是会想念特拉加斯。

A Mem-Vid appeared, showing a party on Tragas for his mom's birthday. Zeke watched and smiled as Xad handed Quar a bucket of squiggly, squirmy Tragas zeniworms. "This is perfect!" Quar said in the video. "Zeniworms help keep my tentacles soft." Zeke watched as his mother let the worms crawl all over her tentacles. She smiled with delight.

一个Mem-Vid出现了，显示了在Tragas为他妈妈的生日举办的派对。 齐克看着扎德递给夸尔一桶歪歪扭扭的特拉加斯蚯蚓，笑了。 “这太完美了！”夸尔在视频中说道。 “泽尼虫帮助我保持触手柔软。” 齐克看着妈妈让虫子爬满她的触手。 她高兴地笑了。

"That's it!" Zeke cried out loud. "I'll get Nancy a bucket of worms to keep her tenta... I mean hands, smooth. This will be the perfect Valentine's Day gift!"

“就是这样!”齐克大声叫道。 “我去给南希拿一桶虫子来保存她的帐篷…… 我是说手，光滑。这将是完美的情人节礼物！”

The next morning before school, Zeke spent an hour in his backyard. He took a large metal bucket and filled it up with every worm he could find crawling in the grass. This is a great idea, Zeke thought. I'm going to give Nancy the worms after soccer practice today. If she's happy about it, then that will prove that she's the one who gave me the valentine!

第二天早上上学前，齐克在后院待了一个小时。 他拿了一个大金属桶，里面装满了他能找到的在草地上爬行的虫子。 齐克想，这是个好主意。 今天足球训练结束后，我打算让南希吃虫子。 如果她对此感到高兴，那就证明是她送了我情人节贺卡！