8 Good-bye!

Chapter 8 GOOD-BYE! The beam glinted off something shiny and brown. Andrew made out a sandwich-sized head with long, twitchy antennas. Below them, sharp jaws opened like scissors. Lots of spiny legs stuck out from a long, armored body. The beam of light made the creature zigzag quickly toward the back of the log. "Yowzers!" said Andrew. Beeper grinned. "It's a gigunda centipede," he said. "He's six feet long! Isn't he beautiful? Did you see those fangs? He's real venomous!

第八章再会！光束照出了一个棕色的发亮的东西。 安德鲁认出了一个三明治大小的脑袋，上面有长长的、颤动的触角。 在它们下面，锋利的下颚像剪刀一样张开。 许多带刺的腿从它长而有盔甲的身体上伸出来。 那束光使那个生物迅速地向圆木的后面拐去。 “尤尔斯！”安德鲁说。蜂鸣器咧嘴一笑。 “这是一条巨大的蜈蚣，”他说。 “他有六英尺长！”他是不是很漂亮？ 你看到那些尖牙了吗？他真恶毒！

"But I don't have a cage for him. You've gotta help me carry this log back to your time machine." "No way!" said Judy. "You can't just take these things back to our time! What if they got loose?" meep… "Our time not good for them," said Thudd. "Food different. Air different. Future time got less oxygen." Beeper looked at his collection of cages. "Gee," he said. "I don't want them to get sick or anything. But can't I take something back? How about a couple of cockroaches?" "Oh great!" said Judy. "Wouldn't those be nice in the kitchen?" Andrew smiled. "Remember when that cockroach dragged us up through the kitchen

“但是我没有给他准备笼子。 你得帮我把这根木头带回你的时间机器。” “不可能！”朱迪说。“你不能把这些东西带回我们的时代！”“我们的时间对他们不利。”泰德说。 “食物不同。空气不同。 未来时间的氧气会更少。” Beeper看着他收集的笼子。 “哎呀，”他说。“我不想让他们生病或发生任何事情。 但我不能拿回去吗？ 来两只蟑螂怎么样？”“哦，太好了！”朱迪说。 “放在厨房里不是很好吗？”安德鲁笑了。 “还记得那只蟑螂把我们从厨房拖上来吗

drain?" "What?" said Beeper. "Puh-leeeze!" said Judy, kicking a tree. "I'm still trying to forget it. These cockroaches are so big, you could hitch them up like sled dogs!" meep… "Mother cockroach lay fifty eggs every month," said Thudd. "In one year, mother cockroach and her babies make thirty thousand cockroaches." Judy shuddered. "Beeper," she said, "it's you or your zoo. You can come with us or you can stay with them." "Tum tee dum tee dum," muttered Beeper, walking up to the scorpion cage. "My uncle never told me how to take care of these guys. The scorpion looks kinda hungry." Andrew nodded. "So let them go, and come with us." Beeper tapped the centipede's log and looked inside. "I guess it's good-bye, big guy," he said. "Finally!" said Judy. "But before you let them out, give us a head start. I don't want to be around

下水道?”“什么？” “嘘——嘘！”朱迪一边踢着一棵树一边说。 “我还在努力忘记它。 蟑螂太大了，你可以把它们像雪橇狗一样拴起来！”“蟑螂妈妈每个月产50个蛋，”萨德说。 “一年内，蟑螂妈妈和她的孩子们会产下3万只蟑螂。” 朱迪战栗。“哔哔，”她说，“是你还是你的动物园。 你可以和我们一起去，也可以和他们住在一起。” “转，转，转，转，转，转，转。”Beeper嘟囔着，向蝎子笼走去。 “我叔叔从来没有告诉我如何照顾这些家伙。 蝎子看起来有点饿。” 安德鲁点点头。“让他们去吧，跟我们一起去吧。” Beeper敲了敲蜈蚣的木头，往里面看。 “我想是再见了，大个子，”他说。 “终于！”朱迪说。“但在你让他们出去之前，让我们先开始吧。 我不想待在你身边

when you open those cages." "Fraidy-cat!" chuckled Beeper, pulling up the latch on the scorpion's cage. "Don't you dare!" said Judy. "You're no fun," said Beeper. "But I'll count to twenty before I let them go." "I'll stay with Beeper and help him," said Andrew. "One… two… three…," counted Beeper. Judy clambered off through the muck. By the time Beeper got to twenty, Judy was waving at them from a rock on the edge of the pond. Andrew opened the dragonfly cage. In a moment, their rainbow wings were flitting above the pond. Beeper opened the cockroach cage. The cockroaches didn't seem to know they were free. "We'll have to pick them up and take them out," said Beeper. He reached in and grabbed the biggest one. Its legs scrambled madly in the air.

当你打开那些笼子的时候。” “亲爱的猫！”哔哔咯咯地笑着，拉开了蝎子笼子的门闩。 “你敢！”朱迪说。 “你真没意思，”Beeper说。 “但我要数到二十才放他们走。” “我陪着哔哔，帮他。”安德鲁说。 “一……二……三……” 朱迪从淤泥中爬了出去。 当哔哔数到20的时候，朱迪站在池塘边的一块石头上向他们挥手。 安德鲁打开了蜻蜓笼。 不一会儿，他们的彩虹翅膀在池塘上空飞舞。 蜂鸣器打开了蟑螂笼。 蟑螂似乎不知道它们是自由的。 “我们得把它们捡起来拿出来，”Beeper说。 他伸手抓住了最大的一条。 它的腿在空中疯狂地乱蹬。

Andrew wrapped both hands around the next biggest one. It felt like plastic. He put it down on the mossy ground and it scuttled away. The last two cockroaches skittered out on their own. Beeper went to the scorpion cage. "I'd better do this myself," said Beeper. "She trusts me."

安德鲁用双手抓住了下一个最大的。 摸起来像塑料。他把它放在长满青苔的地上，它飞快地跑开了。 最后两只蟑螂自己跑出去了。 传呼机去了蝎子笼。 “我还是自己来吧，”Beeper说。 “她信任我。”

Beeper lifted the door. "Good-bye, girl!" he said. "Good luck." As the mother scorpion crawled away, two of the scorpion babies fell off her back. Andrew and Beeper gently picked them up and put them back on. The scorpion crept off into the forest. Next, Beeper jumped on top of the giant centipede's log. "Better get up here," said Beeper to Andrew. "I don't know what this guy will do." Andrew hopped up behind Beeper. When Beeper pulled up the screen, the centipede waggled out—and started to creep onto the log! Beeper reached behind him. There was a backpack on the ground. He grabbed it and shoved it between him and the centipede. The centipede skittered off in the opposite direction. "Bye, guys!" shouted Beeper. "Maybe some of you will turn into fossils and I'll find you someday!" Beeper hitched his backpack over his shoulder. He and Andrew sloshed along the muddy edge of

传呼机打开了门。“再见，姑娘！”他说。 “祝你好运”。当蝎子妈妈爬走的时候，两个蝎子宝宝从她的背上掉了下来。 安德鲁和贝珀轻轻地把它们捡起来，重新戴上。 蝎子爬进了森林。 接着，哔哔跳到大蜈蚣的木头上。 “最好上来。”Beeper对Andrew说。 “我不知道这家伙会做什么。” 安德鲁跳上了哔哔的车。 当哔哔拉起屏幕时，蜈蚣摇了出来，开始爬上圆木！传呼机伸到他身后。 地上有个背包。 他抓住它，把它塞到他和蜈蚣之间。 蜈蚣飞快地朝相反的方向跑去了。 “再见，伙计们！” “也许你们中的一些人会变成化石，有一天我会找到你们！”Beeper把背包挂在肩上。 他和安德鲁沿着泥泞的边缘淌着水