Chapter 15

CHAPTER 15 Michael's bedroom window slid open, and Merle sailed outside. He zipped high above the houses and treetops, looking down on the world below. He had never been this high up! "Whoa— this is amazing!" he shouted. Bob, Mary, and Larry heard the buzz of the drone and Merle's shout and came out of their tree houses to investigate.

迈克尔卧室的窗户开了，梅尔走了出去。 他掠过房屋和树梢，俯视着下面的世界。 他从来没有坐过这么高的位置！“哇——太神奇了！”他喊道。 鲍勃、玛丽和拉里听到了无人机的嗡嗡声和莫尔的叫声，从他们的树屋里出来查看。

"I didn't know you were a flying squirrel, Merle!" Larry hollered. "My cousin can fly too!" Larry did, in fact, have a flying squirrel cousin in North Carolina. "Technically, that's more of a glide! This is flying!" Merle boasted as he performed a giant loop the loop, followed by a climbing corkscrew and a two-point roll. The three Tennessee squirrels cheered and applauded Merle's aerobatics. Pearl popped her head out of the window. "Merle! Be careful!" she called out. "Don't worry, Pearl!" Merle called back. "I'm fine! This couldn't get any better!"

“我不知道你是一只鼯鼠，莫尔！”拉里大声喊道。 “我表弟也会飞！”事实上，拉里在北卡罗来纳州有个飞鼠表亲。 “从技术上讲，这更像是滑翔！”这就是飞行！”梅尔一边吹嘘着，一边表演了一个巨大的回旋，接着是一个爬升的开塞钻和一个两点滚。 三只田纳西松鼠为梅尔的特技表演欢呼喝彩。 珠儿把头探出窗外。 “默尔!小心！”她喊道。 “别担心，珠儿！”莫尔回话了。 “我很好!这真是再好不过了！”

It turns out that Merle was only partly correct. He was right that things couldn't get any better— because they got immediately worse! But he was very wrong about being fine! Merle suddenly lost control over the drone. When he tried to zip left, he somehow moved right. "Huh?" he uttered as he tried to move left again but kept going straight. "Where you goin', Merle?!" Bob yelled. "I'm trying to—" Merle paused in horror at the sight below him. About a half mile in the distance stood the man in the suit and sunglasses beside his white car. He was operating a remote that seemed to be overriding Merle's, controlling the drone! Merle was like a helpless fish being reeled in to shore after taking the bait!

事实证明，梅尔只是部分正确。 他说得对，情况不可能再好转了——因为情况立刻变得更糟了！但是他说自己很好是大错特错了！莫尔突然失去了对无人机的控制。 当他试图向左滑的时候，他不知怎么地向右移动了。 “嗯？”他说着，试图再次向左转，但还是一直往前走。 “你上哪儿去，莫尔？！”鲍勃喊道。 “我正在努力——”莫尔看到下面的情景，惊恐地停了下来。 大约半英里远的地方，那个穿西装戴墨镜的男人站在他的白色汽车旁边。 他在操作一个遥控器，似乎凌驾于莫尔的遥控器之上，控制着无人机！莫尔就像一条无助的鱼，上钩后被拖到岸边！

Because she was close to the ground, Pearl couldn't see what Merle saw. "What's happening?!" she called up to Bob. "HELP!!!" Merle cried.

因为离地面很近，珠儿看不到莫尔看到的东西。 “发生什么事了？！”她朝鲍勃喊道。 “救命! !”默尔哭了。