Chapter 18

CHAPTER 18 As Merle got close to the back of the hotel, he spotted a window on the third floor with the window cracked open and the shades drawn. Most of the windows he'd seen were closed with the shades wide open.

第十八章莫尔走到旅馆后面时，看见三楼有一扇窗户，窗户开着一条缝，窗帘也拉着。 他看到的大多数窗户都关着，窗帘大开着。

What do we have here? Merle wondered. He bounced from windowsill to tree branch to windowsill until he reached the room near the very back. Squirrels are quite agile and can fit through very small openings, so Merle had no problem squeezing in through the cracked-open window. Once inside the room, he poked his nose though the curtains. It took his eyes a moment to adjust to the darkened room, but soon he was able to make out a cage on top of a desk. Inside sat... Pearl! "PSSSSST! Pearl!" Merle whispered loudly. "Merle!" Pearl jumped up. "You found me! Thank goodness!" "It wasn't easy!" Merle said as he leaped over to the cage. "Actually, come to think of it, it wasn't that bad." He unlatched the cage and swung the door open. Pearl jumped into Merle's arms. "My hero!" she said. No sooner had the words left her mouth than the room door swung open— revealing the man in the suit and sunglasses! The next word out of Pearl's mouth was...

这是什么？默尔很好奇。 他在窗台上跳来跳去，在树枝上跳，在窗台上跳，直到他到达了最后面的房间。 松鼠非常敏捷，可以从非常小的开口钻进去，所以梅尔毫不费力地从有裂缝的窗户挤进去。 一进房间，他就从窗帘里探出鼻子来。 他的眼睛花了一会儿才适应黑暗的房间，但很快他就能辨认出桌子上有一个笼子。 里面坐着……珠儿!“PSSSSST !珠儿!”莫尔大声耳语道。 “默尔!”珠儿跳了起来。“你找到我了！”谢天谢地!”“这可不容易！”莫尔边说边跳到笼子边。 “实际上，仔细想想，也没那么糟糕。” 他打开笼子的门闩，把门打开。 珠儿跳进梅尔的怀里。 “我的英雄！”她说。话刚说完，房间的门就打开了——露出了那个穿着西装、戴着太阳镜的男人！珠儿说的下一句话是……

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" In the hall, Michael recognized Pearl's scream and sprang into action! He jumped up and pushed the cleaning cart into the room. As the man in the suit and sunglasses came toward the terrified squirrels, a cleaning cart appeared in the doorway behind him. "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Michael yelled as he barreled the cart into the man's back, sending him flying face-first onto the bed. Thinking fast, Merle and Pearl jumped onto the cleaning cart and each grabbed a dirty sheet. With the speed of a spider wrapping a fly in silk, the two squirrels covered the squirrelnapper's head in used bedding. "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" yelled the man in the suit, sunglasses, and dirty-sheet helmet. "Let's get out of here!" Merle yelled. As the man struggled to free his head, Merle and Pearl leaped out the window, and Michael took off running down the hall toward the stairs.

“AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH ! !”在大厅里，迈克尔听出了珠儿的尖叫，立即行动起来！他跳起来，推着清洁车进了房间。 当那个穿着西装、戴着墨镜的人走向受惊的松鼠时，一辆清洁车出现在他身后的门口。 “AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH ! !”迈克尔喊道，一边把马车猛撞在那个人的背上，把他撞得脸朝下倒在床上。 梅尔和珀尔想得很快，跳上了清洁车，每人抓了一张脏床单。 两只松鼠以蜘蛛用丝包裹苍蝇的速度，用用过的被褥盖住了松鼠的头。 “AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH ! !”喊西装革履的男子,太阳镜,dirty-sheet头盔。 “我们离开这里吧！”默尔喊道。 当那人挣扎着想把头伸开时，莫尔和珠儿跳出了窗户，迈克尔跑下大厅朝楼梯跑去。