07 The Grumblebees

CHAPTER 7 THE GRUMBLEBEES "The next piece of the Ember Stone has to be here somewhere!" Tag said. Blaze hopped around, searching beneath rocks at the base of the tree. Skyla climbed up to search among the higher branches. Tag flew overhead, searching the highest branches.

第七章牢骚蜂“下一块灰烬之石一定就在这里的某个地方！”泰格说。 火焰跳来跳去，在树下的岩石下寻找。 斯凯拉爬上去，在更高的树枝间寻找。 泰格从头顶飞过，搜寻最高的树枝。

Suddenly, something caught Tag's attention. He could hear a low buzzing sound near his ear. He shook his head, but the sound continued. Tag swooped to the ground and hooted at his friends. Skyla scrambled down the tree trunk. Blaze hopped over, tilting her head to one side. Tag held his wing to his ear. "Do you hear that?" The friends listened carefully. Tag thought it might just be the breeze blowing the leaves, but the noise grew. It sounded like a whisper on the winds, becoming louder and louder.

突然，有什么东西引起了泰格的注意。 他听到耳边有嗡嗡的声音。 他摇了摇头，但声音仍在继续。 泰格猛扑到地上，对他的朋友们大喊大叫。 斯凯拉爬下树干。 Blaze跳了过来，把头歪向一边。 泰格把翅膀凑近耳朵。 “你听到了吗？”朋友们仔细地听着。 泰格以为可能是微风吹树叶的声音，但声音越来越大。 它听起来就像风中的低语，越来越响。

Skyla's eyes widened. "Is the tree... talking?!" she asked. The buzzing sound grew louder, until Tag could almost make out words. "Maybe it is...," he said. "After all, it is called the Whispering Oak." Tag jumped as a tiny voice shouted right by his ear: "Go away!" The same thing must have happened to Skyla and Blaze, too, because they both jumped at the same time. "Who's there?" Skyla cried, pulling back an acorn in her slingshot.

斯凯拉睁大了眼睛。“那棵树…… 说话？！”她问。嗡嗡的声音越来越大，直到泰格几乎听得出话来。 “也许是……他说。 “毕竟，它叫‘低语橡树’。” 泰格吓了一跳，一个小小的声音在他耳边喊道：“走开！”斯凯拉和布雷兹肯定也发生了同样的事，因为他们同时跳下去了。 “谁在那里?”斯凯拉叫道，用弹弓拉回一颗橡子。

Tag felt something buzz past his face to land on a branch. He flew closer to see a small bee sitting on the branch. It was waving one of its legs at him. The branch moved and he saw another bee. Tag couldn't believe he hadn't noticed it before: The tree wasn't covered in leaves after all—it was covered in bees! But these were not normal bees. They were striped dark green and brown, and they had long, sharp stingers.

泰格觉得有什么东西从他面前飞过，落在了树枝上。 他飞近了，看到一只小蜜蜂坐在树枝上。 它正朝他挥舞着一条腿。 树枝动了，他看到了另一只蜜蜂。 泰格简直不敢相信他之前竟然没有注意到这一点：这棵树并没有被树叶覆盖，而是被蜜蜂覆盖了！但这些不是普通的蜜蜂。 它们身上有深绿色和棕色的条纹，有又长又尖的毒刺。

"What are you?" Tag asked. "They might be Thorn's spies," Skyla whispered. "We're not spies!" a small bee shouted. "We're grumblebees. Now get away from our tree!" "But—" Skyla protested. The grumblebees buzzed louder. One by one, they flew from the branches until the oak tree was bare. They swirled in the air like a green-and-brown storm. cloud. "Peep!" Blaze called out to get the grumblebees' attention. They only buzzed louder. "Careful!" Skyla warned. "They might sting."

“你是什么？”泰格要求。 “他们可能是索恩的间谍。”斯凯拉小声说。 “我们不是间谍！”一只小蜜蜂喊道。 “我们grumblebees。现在离我们的树远点！”“可是——”斯盖拉抗议道。 牢骚蜂的嗡嗡声更大了。 它们一个接一个地从树枝上飞下来，直到橡树光秃秃的。 它们在空中盘旋，像一场绿棕相间的风暴。 云。“偷看!”Blaze大声叫着要引起牢骚蜂的注意。 它们的嗡嗡声更大了。“小心!”Skyla警告说。 “它们可能会蜇人。”

As the bees swarmed around Tag's head, he could hear hundreds of tiny voices shouting at the same time. They were all yelling over one another so the voices didn't make sense. "I can't understand what you are saying!" Tag shouted at the grumblebees. The grumblebees stopped shouting. They hovered in the air. Then, in a single voice so loud that it almost made Tag fall over, they shouted: "GO AWAY!"

当蜜蜂在塔格的头顶上盘旋时，他可以听到数百个微小的声音同时在喊叫。 他们都在互相吼叫，所以声音听不清楚。 “我听不懂你在说什么！”泰格对着牢骚蜂大吼。 牢骚蜂们停止了叫喊。 它们在空中盘旋。然后，他们用一个响亮的声音喊道：“走开！”