Chapter 10

CHAPTER 10 Meanwhile, Mr. Nemesis peeked down from his perch in the walnut tree, keeping an eye on Bob and Mary through the open window below. The cat's left paw rested over the knothole in the tree, still holding Larry hostage. "What's going on down there?" Larry asked. "Shhhhh!" Mr. Nemesis hushed him. "I can't hear them with you talking." Some fidgeting and scrabbling sounds came from inside the tree. "I really need to go to the bathroom," came Larry's voice. "Can you let me out for a sec?" "What?" Mr. Nemesis scowled. "Why don't you just go in the tree?" "Excuse me?" Larry replied, insulted. "I'm not a barbarian. Do you use the bathroom inside your home?" "As a matter of fact, I do," Mr. Nemesis said, recalling his litter box in the laundry room. "You're staying right where you are." Most common squirrels don't have a problem with peeing in their trees, but Larry was a bit of a neat freak, and he wasn't about to start doing it now. "Please let me out!" he begged. "Quiet!" the cat hissed.

与此同时，克星先生从胡桃树上的栖木上往下偷看，通过下面开着的窗户注视着鲍勃和玛丽。 猫的左爪放在树的节孔上，仍然抓着拉里。 “下面发生了什么事？”拉里问道。 “嘘!”Nemesis先生让他安静了下来。 “你说话我听不见。” 从树里面传来了一些坐立不安和抓东西的声音。 “我真的需要去一下洗手间。”拉里的声音传来。 “你能让我出去一会儿吗？”“什么?”克星先生皱起了眉头。 “你为什么不直接到树上去呢？”“对不起?”拉里回答道，受到了侮辱。 “我不是野蛮人。你在家里用厕所吗？”“事实上，我有，”涅梅西斯回忆起他在洗衣房的猫砂盆时说。 “你就待在原地。” 大多数普通的松鼠对在树上撒尿没有问题，但拉里有点洁癖，他现在不打算这么做。 “请放我出去吧！”他恳求道。 “安静！”猫嘶嘶地说。

If you've ever been in a place where you've really needed to go potty and couldn't, either because you were in a car stuck in traffic or in a department store where you couldn't find where the restrooms were hidden, you know how desperate Larry was starting to feel. "C'mon! It'll just take me a second!" Larry pleaded. "You are not going anywhere." Inside the tree, Larry looked around anxiously for possible alternate exits. Nothing. He could feel the sweat starting to bead on his forehead. He looked at the main exit, blocked by the soft, pink pads on Mr. Nemesis's paw. The cat was too strong for Larry to force his way through.

如果你曾经在一个地方，你真的很想上厕所，却不能，要么是因为你在堵车的车里，要么是因为在百货商店里，你找不到洗手间藏在哪里，你知道拉里开始感到多么绝望。 “来吧!我只需要一秒钟！”拉里承认。 “你哪儿也不能去。” 在树里面，拉里焦急地环顾四周，寻找可能的备用出口。 什么都没有。他感到额头上开始冒汗。 他看着主出口，被克星先生爪子上柔软的粉红色垫子挡住了。 那只猫太强壮了，拉里无法挤过去。

That's when he spotted it— a large, sharp splinter, about the size of a pencil, hanging off the side of his enclosure like a stalactite. Desperate times call for desperate measures, Larry thought as he snapped off the splinter. "I'm asking you one more time!" he called out. "And I'm telling you no one more time," Mr. Nemesis replied. "Okay," Larry said. "Sorry about this." "Sorry about whAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?!!!!!" The cat screamed as the splinter lanced his paw. Reeling backward, Mr. Nemesis lost his footing on the large branch where he stood. As his back claws slid off the branch, he tried to reach out with his front paws, but the stabbing pain from the splinter prevented him from being able to grab it. He fell.

就在这时，他发现了它——一个大而锋利的碎片，大约铅笔大小，像钟乳石一样挂在他的围栏的一侧。 绝望的时刻需要绝望的手段，拉里想，他折断了碎片。 “我再问你一次！”他喊道。 “我不会再告诉你了，”涅梅西斯回答说。 “好吧，”拉里说。“很抱歉。” “对不起，关于什么？！！！！！”碎片划破了猫的爪子，猫尖叫起来。 Nemesis先生站在一根大树枝上，踉跄着向后退去，失去了立脚。 当他的后爪从树枝上滑下来时，他试图用前爪伸出来，但碎片的刺痛使他无法抓住它。 他下降了。