2 A Little Mistake

A LITTLE MISTAKE "Cheese Louise!" It was Andrew's cousin Judy. meep… "Oody here!" Thudd squeaked. "Hiya, Oody!" "Ah… choof!" Judy sneezed. "What is all this stinky smoke?" "It's just my science project," Andrew said. He turned the Atom Sucker's power dial down to 0. "You said I could come over and work on it." "I said you could come over and use my printer!" Judy said. She stomped toward Andrew. Her long, frizzy hair bounced with every step. "I didn't say you could explode stuff in my backyard!" Woof!

“奶酪露易丝！”是安德鲁的表妹朱迪打来的。 “我在这儿！”Thudd发出“吱吱”的响声。 “你好,Oody !”“啊……choof !”朱迪打喷嚏。 “这些臭烟是怎么回事？”“这只是我的科学项目，”安德鲁说。 他把吸盘的能量刻度调到0。 “你说过我可以过来帮忙的。” “我说过你可以过来用我的打印机！”朱迪说。 她跺着脚朝安德鲁走去。 她那卷曲的长发随着每一步跳动。 “我可没说你可以在我家后院爆炸！”汪!

Harley the basset hound trotted over to them. Harley belonged to Judy's neighbor Mrs. Scuttle. But Harley followed Judy everywhere. "Nothing exploded… probably," Andrew said. Judy bent down to scratch Harley behind one of his long brown ears. "Ah… ah… ah… choof!" Judy sneezed again. "This smoke is awful for my allergies, and so is Harley."

巴吉特猎犬哈利小跑着向他们走来。 哈利是朱迪的邻居斯卡托太太的。 但是哈利到处跟着朱迪。 “大概没有爆炸，”安德鲁说。 朱迪弯下腰搔哈利一只棕色的长耳朵后面。 “啊……啊……啊……嗬！”朱迪又打了个喷嚏。 “这种烟对我的过敏很可怕，哈雷也是。”

Harley snuffled in the grass, then trotted away. "Listen, Andrew," said Judy. "Mom and Dad are teaching a skydiving class today. If I let you wreck things while they're gone, they'll never let me help with the tour to Hawaii. I'm supposed to teach people how to swim with dolphins!" "All I did was shrink a broken radio," Andrew said. "At least I think I shrunk it." Judy folded her arms across her chest. Judy was only an inch taller than Andrew. But sometimes she seemed a lot taller. "Mrs. Carmody assigned us a science report on ants," Andrew explained. "I figured if I could get inside an anthill, I could really understand them. So Thudd helped me build the Atom Sucker. It can shrink us down to any size." "Oh, please, Andrew!" said Judy. "Not another crazy invention!" "But this one is amazing!" said Andrew. "Yeah, right," said Judy. "That's what you said about the Aroma-Rama. Our house smelled like stinky feet for weeks!"

哈利在草丛里嗅了嗅，然后小跑着走开了。 “听着，安德鲁，”朱迪说。 “妈妈和爸爸今天要教跳伞课。 如果我让你在他们不在的时候破坏东西，他们就不会让我帮忙夏威夷之旅了。 我应该教人们如何和海豚一起游泳！”“我只是把一台坏了的收音机缩小了，”安德鲁说。 “至少我觉得我把它缩小了。” 朱迪双臂交叉在胸前。 朱迪只比安德鲁高一英寸。 但有时她看起来要高得多。 “卡莫迪太太给我们布置了一份关于蚂蚁的科学报告，”安德鲁解释道。 “我想，如果我能进入蚁丘，我就能真正理解它们。 所以泰德帮我造了原子吸盘。 它可以把我们缩小到任何尺寸。” “哦，拜托，安德鲁！”朱迪说。 “不是又一个疯狂的发明！”安德鲁说：“但这只太神奇了！” “是啊，没错，”朱迪说。“你也是这么说Aroma-Rama的。 我们家好几周都弥漫着臭脚味！”

Judy walked over to the Atom Sucker. The smoke was clearing away. "So how does this stupid thing work?" she asked. "Well," said Andrew, "atoms are almost all empty space. The Atom Sucker sucks the empty space out of atoms. When your atoms shrink, you shrink!" Woof! Harley ran over to Judy. He had a Frisbee in his mouth. Judy patted Harley and tossed the Frisbee toward the far end of the field. Harley bounded after it. "Help me find the radio," said Andrew. "It should be somewhere in front of the big pipe." meep… "Stay way from big pipe!" warned Thudd. "It's okay Thudd," Andrew said. "I turned the power off." Andrew got down on his hands and knees and started looking around in the grass. Judy did, too.

朱迪走向原子吸盘。 烟渐渐散去了。 “那么这个愚蠢的东西是怎么工作的呢？”她问。 “嗯，”安德鲁说，“原子几乎都是空的。 原子吸盘从原子中吸出真空。 当你的原子收缩时，你也会收缩！”汪!哈利跑向朱迪。 他嘴里叼着飞盘。 朱迪拍了拍哈利，把飞盘朝场地的另一端扔去。 哈利跟着它跳了起来。“帮我找到收音机，”安德鲁说。 “它应该在大管道前面的某个地方。” “离大烟斗远点！” “没事的，泰德。”安德鲁说。 “我把电源关了。”安德鲁趴在地上，开始在草丛中四处张望。 朱迪也这么做了。

meep… "There, Drewd!" Thudd said. He pointed toward a tree root. Andrew picked up the radio. It was the size of a matchbook. "Yes!" he shouted. "Let me see that," said Judy. She took the little radio from Andrew's hand. "Wow! It's perfect!" she said. "But how are you going to get it un-shrunk?" "I'll just set the Atom Sucker to UN-SHRINK," said Andrew. "It'll blow the radio right back up again."

“好了，德鲁！”Thudd说。 他指着一根树根。 安德鲁拿起收音机。 它有火柴盒那么大。 “是的！”他喊道。“让我看看，”朱迪说。 她从安德鲁手里拿过收音机。 “哇!太完美了！”她说。 “但你怎么才能让它不缩水呢？”“我要把原子吸盘调成不收缩状态。”安德鲁说。 “它会把收音机又炸起来的。”

Judy frowned. "I'm allergic to sentences with the words 'blow up' in them." "Just watch this," said Andrew. He hurried to the Atom Sucker's controls and turned the power dial up to 5. The skinny copper tubes twirled and whistled. The fat iron pipe started wagging. Andrew was about to push the red switch to UN- SHRINK when Thudd screamed. "Oody!" Andrew looked up. Judy was near the front of the Atom Sucker. She was in the middle of a sneeze. "Ah… ah… choof!"

朱迪皱起了眉头。“我对含有‘blow up’这个词的句子过敏。” “看这个，”安德鲁说。 他急忙走到原子吸盘的控制台前，把电源拨到5。 细细的铜管旋转着，发出呼啸声。 胖胖的铁管开始摇晃起来。 安德鲁正要按下红色的自动收缩开关，砰的一声尖叫起来。 “Oody !”安德鲁抬起头来。朱迪站在原子吸盘的前面。 她正在打个喷嚏。 “啊……啊……噗！”